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NEW OCCUPATION FOR WOMAN. The Complicated But Remunerative Busi- ness of Home-Making. A new occupation has been added to an already extensive list of what is politely termed woman's work. It is the complicated but remunerative busi- ness of home-making. None of the sentimental domestic train your chil- dren and the hired girl as they should go business, but a combination of the talents of interior decorator, art col- lector, and past mistress in the refine- ments of housekeeping. The idea, like inventions, began with the mother of necessity. A woman who was known among her friends as having ‘such a knack” in arranging her little home was forced by ill-fortune to give it up. She lived, not in a shoe, but in a flat of minute dimensions, and it was the’ most fascinating spot in the ‘big, over- powering city which must here be nameless. Whoever saw the flat was enraptured with it. But its occupant had to give it up and store or sell all the treasures, and dissipate the evi- dences of taste which made it home in the best sense of that abused word. Friends said, “Let the place fur- nished,” but one day somebody came along and said, “Sell it out to me. I'll pay you what you ask and take the lease. Everything here suits me down to the ground!’ This transaction gave birth to the “idea.” Another individual, who wanted to set up a cosey little apartment, hearing of this clever labor- saving scheme, also engaged the woman to seek out another flat and to furnish it precisely ‘“to suit herself.” No suggestions were offered, but a suit- able sum fixed on, with the request that the place might be ready for the few owner’s occupancy on such and such a date. From this tiny commis- sion others followed, and now this home-maker declares she is in her ele- ment, and only one part of her busi- ness distresses her. For, as soon as the home is exactly as she wants it, with all the dainty touches laid on to her satisfaction, she must abandon it, and her client steps in and reaps all the benefits. Surely an original means of carning a livelihood.—Boston Herald. Self-Defense For Women. ‘A Pennsylvania girl of nineteen re- cently gave a tramp a lesson which is likely to last him for some time. He attempted to rob her while she was en- joying a rest by the roadside ‘after a ride on her wheel, and she told him to depart. He treated the proposal with scorn and started to seize her, when she caught his hand and gave it a twist that enlightened him. . She then delivered a blow on the point of the chin which landed him om the grass, and he was only too glad to get away. It is an unfortunate fact that most country places are not as safe .for lone women as they were a generation ago, and for many of these it is some- thing of a problem to know what to do about it. This particular girl had taken lessons in boxing from her brother, and stud- ied the science of self-defense. Such knowledge is a fairly good substitute for strength when one is obliged to enter into a physical argument with an antagonist who has only: brute force and no brains behind it. Of course, the experience of this girl might have had a very different termination had she encountered a rufian with both science and strength, but as it was she gave her assailant the surprise of his life, and undoubtedly saved herself from an attack which would have been intensely disagreeable. it is not likely that any woman will rashly take such risks, but it might be a good thing if more of them were pre- pared to defend themselves. In such cases the surprise is half the’ battle. Stray scoundrels do not expect a woman to understand boxing, though they are not wholly unprepared to see her pull out a pistol. One woman en- gaged in philanthropic work, which took her into some dangerous places, carried a paper of red pepper in her pocket, and on one occasion flung it in the face of an assailant. Before he could recover from his surprise she had escaped.—New York News. The Average Mother is Unselfish,’ ‘While it is a common theory that, no matter what the .father and: husband may be, the mother and wife must rise superior to her environments, the fact remains that the home is as much the man’s as the woman's, and he is re- lieved of none of his responsibilities because society assigns it to her as her special province. No man has a right to shirk his duty to his children because, perchance, he has a good wife and they have a good mother. The wife and mother rules by love, if she rule at all; the father and husband may rule by authority as well as love. The wife and mother who finds that her love is loging its influence over her children requires, but is too often de- nied, the disciplinary authority of the husband and father. The wrecks of children may be traced oftener to the failure of the husband to come to the assistance of the wife than to any fault of the latter. Too much, we believe, is said of the shortcomings of women in these days. Those mothers and wives who are neg- Bectful of their homes constitute the inority. The average American is serious, unselfish and loving. If this were not the case we should not have, as we have to-day, a higher aver- age of young manhood than any other country on earth. The assumption that wives and mothers are mainly to blame for the waywardness of children is neither reasonable nor fair. It is due usually to a few exceptional cases which, because of their exceptional character, deeply impress the observ- er. In general woman’s devotion and love do not change as the child grows old, save for the better.—Chicago In. ter-Ocean. Children and Kissing. Children should be carefully instruct- ed and have it early impressed upon their minds to give and receive kisses only to and from those they love and who love them. Even then some re- straint is obligatory upon adults who are not perfectly well and in the case of a man who uses tobacco. Children and adults are alike subject to contagious and infectious diseases from kissing, and this possibility should be a caution against the fashion of promiscuous kissing. Several cases of smallpox resulted from this indis- criminate kissing of a lady who was thought to be only slightly ailing. Do not express your sympathy for the sick by kissing. Parents should never allow their children to be kissed by strangers, and children should be prohibited from kissing each other. Influenza or the epidemic form of catarrhal fever is undoubtedly trans- ferred from one child to another often- times by the comtact of kissing. Scar- let fever, measles, chickenpox, whoop- ing cough, mumps and diphtheria are often communicated in this way. Squares and Diamonds, While discs and medallions will un- doubtedly hold good, they will find strong rivals in the newer squares and diamonds. These will be in cloth, heavy met and velvet, adorned with braid, embroidery, appliques or stitch- ing. They are set on tight together or in designs in which only the corners meet. A lovely new dress of grcen cloth shows them in white cloth, edged in black cross stitch scrolls and a dainty sprinkling of French dots. One in mode more on suit lines, has a row of velvet diamonds two shades deeper. One of these serves to catch each pleat of the skirt at about the knees. They may figure very well on fragile costumes. As seen in a frame of ap- plique they are decidedly graceful. Simulated squares and diamonds will be seen, too. A collar of velvet is marked off in these shapes Ly means of strapping or braids Chains of Sea Shells, Far Western women have adopted a new fashion —the wearing of shell necklaces and chains. The shells are tiny and iridescent, and come from the South Sea Islands. The San Francisco jewelers, who are directly responsible for the fad, say that the delicately formed’ shells suitable for my lady's neck are extremely rare, and that na- tives grovel in the sands for days to obtain a small handful. In California and the arid States the shell chains ‘have become popular instantly, even without the approval of New York fashionables, and they may reach here by autumn.—New York Press, A Dainty Stock, A certain pretty girl has made for herself one of the prettiest stock col- lars! And it is one which any girl who is at all clever with her: needle can, copy. The material used was white liberty satin. . Around the top were two rows of-Krench dots in black, then a row of baby ribbon, of a dainty pink, edged with black. Just below these are two more rows of dots, then an- other double row of dots, making three double rows of dots and two of ribbon, The decoration comes a little below the middle of the stock. It is both dressy, becoming and: dainty, THINGS TO WEAR /| Semi-blind embroideries have super- seded all other kinds in favor. Filet lace, both black and white, is the popular fancy of the hour. Stock collars with a decided down- ward point in front are very popular. Veil beads of jet sewed on bias folds of black satin make very effective gar- niture. Henry VII. and Mary Tudor are two of the coming shapes in cool weather -headgear. A line of braid an inch wide at each seam of the skirt is quite fashionable at present. White cotton fringe is the extremely novel yet chic trimming used on the side of a beige linen blouse. Taffeta costumes are favorites for autumn and are made comfortable by a cloth or knitted waistcoat. Hats of soft white felt trimmed in wings and scarfs in black and white are to be the popular autumn head- gear. Garlands of small artificial flowers held together with bebe velvet ribbon effectively trim mousseline evening gowns, The double veil effect—that is two veils in one—one to wear over the face and one over the hat, has only had very moderate success. The effect of slenderness that is rather counteracted by the universal basque is given to the autumn jackets by strapping the seams in the back with bias bands of the material. The exceedingly loose coats, a sort of combination of cloak and coat, that were considered too extreme in the spring ‘are now in high favor, since Milady has become more accustomped to them. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED THE DEVIL. The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman Treats a Forbidden Subject in a Novel Manner —Why Men Are Disposed to Laugh at the Prince of Darkness. New York Crry.—The following reada- ble and helpful sermon is by the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. the best known evan- gelist in the country and one of the most popular pulpit orators of New York. It is entitled “The Devil,” and was preached from the text “And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” Job 1: 7. This is a forbidden subject. We gener- ally speak of him who is the subject of my sermon with a smile, and yet it is a sub- ject with which one ought certainly to be perfectly familiar. We have all had some experience with him who is the author of our distress, and who is responsible for every cloud though it be no larger than a man’s hand that has cast itself upon the sky of our life, and yet I doubt not that .there are very many of us that could. not give a very accurate explanation of our views. There are very many who scout the idea of a personal devil at all, and this view is much more general than we think. f can quite understand how it should be so, for Satan’s master stroke of policy is to direct our minds from inquiry concern- ing his true character and the methods by which he governs his kingdom. Some- times for the unregenerate he employs the vehicle of darkness that he may blind the minds of those who do not believe lest the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ should dawn upon them and they should believe. ‘In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which be- lieve not, lest the light of the glorious Gos- pel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” 2 Corinthians : 4. And sometimes to those who do be- lieve he transforms himself into an angel of light that he may delude them by his snares. ‘““And no marvel; for Satan him- self is transformed into an angel of light.” 2 Corinthians 11: 14. « The late Dr. James H. Brooks, of St. Louis, one of the greatest Bible teachers in our country, said that it used to be his custom in his family worship to read the New Testament through consecutively un- til he came to Revelation, and then he would always turn back to Matthew and read again to the Revelation, and then back to Matthew once more, until one day sitting alone in his study he began to ques- tion himself as to why this was his habit, and it occurred to kim as he read the Rev- elation through that it must be because this is the only book in the New Testa- ment which tells of the doom of Satan, and it is quite easy to understand why he would turn the mind away from that book which tells of his defeat. ‘Men don’t believe in a devil now, As their fathers used to do; They’ve forced the door of the broadest creed, To let his form pass through. ‘There 1sn’t a print of his cloven foot, Or a fiery dart from his bow, To be found in earth or air to-day, For the world has voted so. “But who is mixing the fatal draught That palsies heart and brain, ‘And loads the bier of each passing year With ten hundred thousand slain? ‘Who blights the bloom of the land to-day ‘With the fiery breath of hell? If the devil isn’t, and never was, Won’t somebody rise and tell? “Who clogs the steps of the toiling saint, And digg the pits for his feet? ‘Who sows the tares in the fields of time, Wherever God sows His wheat? The devil is voted not to be, And, of course, the thing is true; But who is doing the kind of work The devil alone should do? “We are told he does not go around Like a roaring lion now; But whom shall we hold responsible For the everlasting row To be heard in home, in church and state, To the earth’s remotest bound, If the devil, by a unanimous vote, Is nowhere to be found? Went ensioly step to the front forth- with, And make his bow, and show How the frauds and crimes, of-a;single=day Spring up? ‘We want to know. The devil is fairly voted out, And of course the devil's gone, But simple folks would like to know ‘Who carries his business on.’ The other day in Brookiyn a woman threw herself out of the window of a five- story building to escape the brutal tor- tures of her drunken husband. She left her little boy matherless and “worse than fatherless. That husband was in the clutch of the one of whom I speak at this time. Would you make light of such a fae as this. © The opening chapters of Genesis give us a picture of a happy pair in Eden, peace, purity, perfection and beauty every- where prevailed. God looked upon it and said that it was very good, when suddenly all was changed. here is a marvelous transformation; sin appears; the curse is everywhere; trouble begins and rolls high like the mighty waves of the sea, until the world is engulfed in the blackness of the darkness of despair. No wonder that we feel like crying out again and again in the words of the text, “And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” It is of such an adversary that I speak, and he is not a subject for jesting. I have for the past ten years been laboring in the interests of men, but somehow during the past three months they have been upon me as a spe- cial burden. I have listened to their heart -breaking cries and their sobs of despair, and it is with the memory of these tears that have run like rivers, and the cry of many a man who feels himself to be lost as he said, “Is there any hope,” that I bring to my readers this message. The devil is certainly not a myth. 1 shall give his names in a little while and call your attention to the fact that they are all found in the New Testament, so this is not an Old Testament delusion car- ried down to the present time, as some would have us believe, for almost all the information concerning him we are de- pendent upon the New Testament Serip- tures. The Old Testament is strangely si- lent. I call your attention to this fact that if you read in the Old Testament the ac- count of the temptation and fall in Eden, then the trouble of Job, then the number- ing of Israel by David, and finally the vis- ion of Joshua, the high priest, and Satan contending with him, you have the four places where Satan is definitely mentioned and his work particularly described. The evidences of his existence are everywhere to be seen in the Old Testament, but these are not in direct statements. This does away with the position of ‘many people who are disposed to say a good deal about the Satan myth, which had its rise in the infancy of our race, when the human mind was exceedingly childish and ecredulous. The devil is the author of evil, the fount- ain of weakness, the adversary of the truth, the corrupter of the world. He planteth snares, soweth error, nourisheth contention, disturbeth peace and scatter- eth affliction. I am sure there is never greater glee in hell than when a church gaara 13 engendered, nor when peace is riven away from heart and home in the face of a storm of contention. This is a word picture of him, but we must have more. something; It is quite plain that Satan had some connection with the earth before man ap- peared. He is now supposed to be a fal- len angel. if this supposition is true then the New Testament references would seem to indicate that pride and envy were the cause of his fall. When God said, “Let us make man, and let him have do- minion over everything that we have made,” the envy began, and as another has suggested this seems to be the true fact when we notice the devil's position in the temptation of ‘Christ. Matthew 4: 89, “Again the devil taketh Him up-into an exceedingly hizh mountain, and showeth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. and saith unto Him, All these things will 1 give Thee if Thou wiit fall down and worship me.” It is as if he were making one last great effort to over- throw the Master and rule the world. Certain direct statements are made con- cerning him by our Master. No stronger one can be found than that which is re- corded in John 8: 44, “Ye are of your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it.” He is a terrific foe, and in the interests of all young men who desire to be*ffue and like Chaast I lift up my voice against him. 11. The Rev. W. G. Moorhead, D. D.. has given us a list of his names as recorded in the New Testament Scriptures. Thiu list is as follows: Abaddon—Revelation 9: 11. Accuser—Revelation 12: 10. Adversary—1 Peter 5: 8. Angel of the Abyss—Revelation 2: 11. Apoliyon—Revelation 9: il. Beelzebub—Mark 3: 22. Belial—2 Corinthians 6: 15. Devil—Matthew 4: 1. Dragon—DRevelation 20: 2. Great Red Dragon—Revelation 12: 3. Evil One—Matthew 13: 19. Enemy—Matthew 13: 3 Father of Lics—John 8: 44. God of This World—2 Corinthians 4: 4. Tiar—John 8: 44. Murderer—John 8: 44. Prince of Devils—~Marl: 3: 22. Prince of This World—John 3: 21. Prince of<the Power of the Air-—aphe- sians 2: 2, Satan, Serpent—2 Corinthians 11: 3. Strong One—Lulke 11: 21. Spirit of Evil Working—Ephesians 2: 2. Tempter—1 Thessalonians £: 5. Notorious criminals have » certain nuw- ber of aliases by which they are known to their partners in ccime. They rear cer- tain names because they have committed certain things, so all the Ames mean as they ied to the devil each name is descripiive of his dis: position, energy and power. e is Apollvon because he is a destrover. He is Abaddon recause he is destruction itself. The Man Murderer because he is the as- sassin of the Race. The Great Red Dragon because of his bloodthirstiness. The Serpent because of his craftiness. The Tempter because he is a deceiver. Some years ago in the city of I’hiladel- phia there stood outsid2 of one of the sa- lcons a woman clad in rags, whe once had lived in one of the hest homes in that city. She had a little baby in her arins and an older child was tugging at her skirts. She rapped upon the door and when it was opened she said, ‘IT want my husband.” The husband was called cut. He had once been of areat reputation. a man of real talen%, had provided for his wife’ and children all that money could buy, and, now he is shorn of everything except the merest semblance of manhood. “What do you want?’ he said, with an oath, and she answared, “I want you to come home; the children have had nothing to eat and they are erying, and I want vou,” and the man who had sworn to love and care for her drew back his fist and struck her. The baby fell from her arms, the elder child ran shrieking from her side. Is he not a destroyer with such a picture as this in your mind, and this is but one of the multitude. His vames are enough to terrify us, so that we would, while we may, escape from sin. TIT. His Personality. I know it is true that very many people scout the idea of a per- sonal devil, but the following statement has been made by a most distinguished Bible scholar, namely, “Every attitude, quality, action, walk and sign which can in- icate personality has been predicated of the devil and cannot be explained away. The argument that would rob the -devil of his personality would rob God of His, and if as men say, these attributes simply mean the principle of evil then on the same ground of interpretation the Bible may mean anything or nothing.” © Just 2 word or two about his work. He begins in a very slow way and his influ- ence is most insidious. As a fisherman, when he has a great fish on his hook, lets out the line, so that the fish may swallow down the hook, and be more surely caught, even so the devil, when he has a poor sinner upon his hook, does not, at the first, treat him roughly, but stretches out his rod, line and all, that he may make the surer of him, and hold him the faster. Not long ago in the Tombs a man who had been a brilliant lawyer awoke from a stupor of days, and shaking the door de- manded of those who came to answer his summons why he was there. They told him on the charge of murder. “For God’s sake,” he said, “do not send the word home; at least, do not let my wife know, for it will kill her,” and they told him that it was his wife he had killed. I have written these few words concerning one who can take a man with brightest future and greatest reputation, and make him a murderer of his own home's joy. This is his work. ¥. His Doom. He may be oyercome in the | New Testament. © We read, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Jesus did this and when the devil tempted Him He said, “It is written,” and then, “It is written again.” There is but one weapon that can make him afraid, and that is the Sod of the Spirit, which is the sword of od. There is a legend of Luther that duringa serious illness the evil one seemed to enter his sick room, and looking at him with a triumphant smile unrolled a vast roll which he carried in his arms. As the fiend threw one end of it on the floor and it unwound itself with the impetus he had given it Luther's eyes were fixed on it, and to his consternation he read there the long and fearful record of his own sins, clearly and distinctly enumerated. That stout heart quailed before that ghastly roll. Suddenly it flashed into his mind that there was something not writ- ten there. He said aloud, “One thing you have forgotten; the rest is all true, but one thing you have forgotten, ‘The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” ” As he said this the ““Accuser of the brethren” and his heavy roll of “la- mentation and mourning and woe” disap- peared together. If you would know his final doom you have but to turn to Revelation the 20th chapter and read the first three verses. “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled, and after that he must be loosed a little season.” From such a foe as this may God deliver us new, FAIRY STORIES. Ah, how we used to like the dear Old fairy tales our mothers told; Although we knew they ne'er were true, We used to gladly hear them through: We loved the gentle Princesses And Princes brave and bold— We heard them o’er and o’er, but still The stories ne'er grew old. Ah, how we like to hear the dear Old fairy tales sweet women tell; Although we know they can’t be true, Btill, still ‘they thrill us through through— A pretty woman's flattery Still makes man’s bosom swell; He knows tis but a fairy tale, But oh, he likes it well. —Chicago Record-Herald. and HUMOROUS. “Her face is her -fortune.” “Well, the wouldn't be very rich if she were two-fuced.” “She ran into -my arms once in a darxX hallway.” “The hallway must kave been dark.” Little Girl (after seeing many queer beasts at the Zoo)—“But there aren’t really such animals, nurse, are there?” “Do you really believe that all men are born free and equal?” “Well, yes; except that some grow up to be equal to a hundred others.” “What do you expect to be when you become of age, my little man?” asked the visitor. ‘Twenty-one, sir,” was the bright one's reply. Tommy—Did you cver hear of a cam- el going through the eye of a needle? Bessie—Yes, an’ I bet he got caught half way an’ that’s what made the hump. “Well, why don’t you say some- thing?” asked the angry woman, after her long harangue. ‘My dear,” replied her husband, meekly, “nothing remains to be said.” Interviewer—How do you account for your love cf music? Drum Major—Well, when me father was young he was a furniture remover, and wan day a pianny fell on him. Kind Lady—And you consider that you were born lucky? How can you think that when you can never find work? Breezy Bean—That is the very reason why I think so. “This necktie,” said the salesman, “speaks for itseli.” “Speaks for it- self?” repeated the customer as he took in the loudness of the design: “I say that it positively yells.” “He was around trying to collect his bill again, I hear.” “Yes, and I tcld him he could take it out in trade.” “And wouldn't he do that?” “Not ex- actly; he seemed to prefer taking it out in tirade.” Jack—I was cunning enough to liber- ate a mouse before kissing her. Tom —A mouse?’ Jack-——Yes, because I knew she was goinz to scream and when her father rushed in I pointed | cut the mouse. “Bridget,” said the absent-minded author, “I can’t have that cat in the room if it continues to yell so. Chase it out.” “Yes, sof; but ye’ll hov to help me, sor.” ‘Why, where is it?” “Ye’re sittin’ on it, sor.” : “So Jack deliberatcly kissed you last nignt,” commenizd Miss Antique se- verely.” “Well, I'd just like to see any man try to kiss me.” “Why not se- lect a near-sighted man and wear a veil,” naively suggested the sweet young thing.” Pa—How did you get yourself in this condition? Fighting again? Willie— Yes, sir. “Didn’t I tell you not to fight any more when I caught you fighting with little Tommy Green?’ “No, sir; you told me not to fight with a boy smaller than myself.” “Do you see that man with the brown beard?” whispered the girl in the ping-pong tie. “Well, he fills me with bitterness.” “Ah, an old flame?” spoke her dearest friend. ‘No, he is our family physician, and since we moved in the suburbs he forces me to take quinine.” The Choice of Two Evils. An omnious silence greeted Bobby’s entrance. There was a wild look in his eye; his clothes were disarranged, and there was just a suggestion of blood about his mouth. Mamma frowned severely, and papa hid him- self behind his paper. “Ahem!” began mama. Bobby squared his shoulders, and prepared for the coming attack. “Ahem! Don’t you know, Bobby, that it’s very wrong of little boys to fight?” Bobby pretended to find a point of interest in the pattern of the hearth Tug. “Haven't I told you, Bobby, that it’s very wicked to fight?” demanded his mamma, in a tone that was meant to be sorrowful. ; Thus challenged, Bobby fell back on argument. “He hit me first, mama,” he pleaded. “Ah. but that doesn’t make any dif- ference. Nobody loves little boys who fight.” Bobby pondered for a few moments and then his face brightened. “Is that so?” he asked. “Yes, my dear, nobody will love you if you are always fighting. And look at your clothes.” “Well,” said Bobby, with slow de- liberation, “then, mamma, I thinks it’s better to be unloved.” Something between a shriek and a laugh escaped from papa as he fled from the room.—London Judy. India’s Many Holidays. Cawnpore has the proud satisfac- tion (or otherwise) of knowing that it has more bank holidays than any other big town in India. Omitting Sundays, Cawnpore last year had 33, Bombay 26, Calcutta 24 and Madras 20 official holidays. The amount, as far as Cawnpore is concerned, is thought excessive by many, for busi- ness reasons.—The Bangkok Times. SOUTH AFRICA UNATTRACTIVE. Not Many British Workmen Likely to Go There. The workingman does not willingly go to a country where a colored and depeendent race do the work, unless he is called to a position to supervise and direct them. There is thus next to no scecpe for agricultural laborers in South Africa, and even mine workers go there as captains and leaders, and not as mere laborers. The progress of Natal is a most strik- ing illustration of the unattractiveness of South Africa, since it differs from the innér table lands in naturally ad- mitting a more varied agriculture and, being mainly a British colony, pre- sents none of the difficulties which confront a British emigrant on enter- ing among the Dutch-speaking people, with Dutch habits and Dutch customs. Yet Natal draws few immigrants from the United Kingdom, the total white population numbering only about 65,000, being less than the immigrants from British India who have come as traders as well as farm laborers, and again less than a twelfth part of the Zulu population, which has increased under our rule to an extent provoking some anxiety respecting the future. It may be remembered in passing that the Natal whites themselves are jealous of the Indian immigrants. They have taken effective steps to prevent any further addition to their numbers. All this goes to show that, except so far as immigrants are drawn to the mining centers of the Rand, we must not expect any movement changing the character of the white population of South Africa.—North American Re- view. Six Miles of Fish. Yearly, as the ducks and geese hur- ry South, leaving freshly frozen rivers and lakes in their wake, we read of the farmer who goes early to the slough on his farm to break the ice that the cattle may drink. How that farmer notices the lake dotted with clumps of feathers, which on closer ‘investigation turn out to be mallards and canvasbacks, frozen sol- id in the ice. And when he has chop- ped them all free his two-horse wag- on load is all the team can haul. But down near New Orleans eman- ates the following with all the ear- marks of truth: The high tides filled the sloughs with salt water and drove the buifalo fish into the freshwater canal. _.ad there been a few of them only things would have gone well, but as it was, the canal was literally choked with them and the breathing room in the water giving out myriads of them turned belly up. +he pilot of the steamboat travers- ing the canal plaughed his way through the dead and living fish alike choking his paddle wheels and finally running aground upon a solid mass of dead and alive fish. The suffocating fish died. Darkies were hired to pitchfork them out upon the bank as they would throw hay, and lime was sprinkled on them. But this was slow and unsatisfactory, be- cause they were six solid miles of fish in that canal. Something had to be done, and it was proposed to cut 100 feet of levee and let in sufficient water to sweep the fish into the Gulf. Another proposition was to station a number of large tugs in the river near the locks and flush the canal by pump- ing. I understand this latter plan was followed.—Forest and Stream. New York Manners Surprise Londoner. The ordinary Londoner who has not had the good fortune to cross the At- lantic is wont to picture his American cousin wearing a goatee and a victim to the constant chewing of tobacco and liberal expectoration. On arriv- ing in New York he is amazed to dis- cover that the goatee is conspicuous by its absence, tobacco chewing un- noticeable and expectoration practical- ly unknown. In this respect he finds the New Yorker far more cleanly in his habits than the Londoner, more especially on public cars and in pub- lic places. The unrestrained indul- gence of spitting on and off the tops of ’buses and in railway trains, and the random chewing and smoking of tobacco in and around London are simply odious, and make traveling in- tolerable and ofttimes disgusting even to a smoker, Here the stringent pro- hibition against spitting in public places and the sensible regulation as to smoking are so thoroughly observed that traveling becomes a pleasure. If London would only copy the most ad- mirable example existing in New York in this respect the English metropolis would soon be rid of a most unwarrant- able and filthy habit. Paradise for Hunters. To one who knows what tlie vast solitudes of northern Canada really means the dread of game extermina- tion seems rather unfounded. The last census of Labrador gives it a population of one man to every 35 square miles. This can hardly becailed an inconvenientcrowding. Thereareals most as many persons in a strange East Side New York block as there are in the whole of Labrador. Why should game become extinct in this region? I must confess I can see no reason why the caribou and the bear and the other animals should not live out their lives just as they have al- ways done. The numbers killed by man must surely be quite insignifi- cant. The same conditions obtain in northern Ontario, the greater part of the Northwest territories, and a very large part of British Columbia. The date is far distant when there will not be sufficient game and to spare for the sportsman who is content to take the vitter with the sweet and to leave be- hind the luxuriousness of the fashion- able rescrt.—Grand Rapids Herald.
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