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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913.
LAWS WHICH ARE NOT ENFOR-.
CED.
With the National Congress in ses
sion three-fourths of every year, and
with forty-eight state legislatures
making laws, it is not astonishing that
the people of the United States are
the subjects of more laws than any
other population in the world. If the
ordinances of the various towns and
cities are added there was never be
fore such a mass of legislation in the
world.
A recent writer has stated that on
an average 200 new laws went into
effect every clay in the year, and yet
who knows what is the law? Hun
dreds of courts are every day engag
ed in explaining, interpreting and de
ciding what is the law, and yet among
the civilized countries of the world
there is not one other in which, in
proportion to the population there are
so many homicides, so many crimes
of all sorts, so many divorces from
wedlock, and so many disputes about
property, as in our grand republic.
It all shows that it is not the en
actment of laws, but their enforce
ment that is the test of public order,
of protection to life, rights and prop
erty and public decency and morals.
By this test our showing is not very
admirable.—Ex.
trying^FcTfool THE CLOCK.
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The Vancouver Board of Trade re
cently went' on record as approving a
petition to the provincial legislature
for a change in the standard time of
British Columbia. It was recommend
ed that all clocks be advanced one
hour from the first Sunday in April
to the third Sunday in October. The
petitioners argued that during the ■
summer months people slept three j
hours of daylight, while if the time j
were advanced one hour the sixty |
minutes would be added to the recre
ation period in the evening.
You can take a pencil, paper and ;
an almanac and figure this out and |
find proof of the argument of the !
Vancouverites. There’s no tiuestion [
about the facts, but the experiment is j
not new in Vancouver. It was tried ’
in London and New York several j
years ago. Statisticians showed ap
proximately what would be saved—
and the total ran into millions—in the ;
matter of gas and other lighting bills,
if we would only perform the simple
task of adjusting our sleeping and
working hours to the changing sea
sons. It is true that we sleep away j
many glorious morning hours—at |
least we are told so—when we ought j
to be out on our way to work, wel
coming the march of the dawn over j
yon high Eastern hills, listening to j
the lark and the milkman and the |
other early ris rs, but the fact is
that we do not do anything of the j
kind and do not wish to do so. We |
have heard ail about that “early to j
bed and early to rise” adage and!
fully believe in it—for the other fel- !
low—but we know full well that we ;
can not fool ourselves about it by the ;
simple expedient of turning the clock j
back.
It all simmers down to the indi
vidual, his tastes and his necessities.
If we can find enjoyment in sitting
on the porch and watching the sun
and the milkcart doing a joint mara
thon on the horizon, let him do it
and got his fill of it. If he finds more
comfort in trying to convince himself
that the clock is a few minutes fast,
and he doesn’t really need a shave
this morning anyway, and maybe the
cook is a little slower than usual with
the breakfast, and tnis is the morning j
the boss usually is late, why let him
have his way about it, too. If he gets
to his work on time, satisfied with
his breakfast and wnistles as be hangs
up his office coat, he is just as fit
for service as h's neighbor who tells
him what he missed by not seeing
the sun flirting around the snowcaps
On Mount Tacoma, 'a little after 5
o’clock.” Getting up an hourearlier
Is no more an indication of progress
than being in an everlasting hurry
is a sign of thoroughness and effi
ciency. When It is all simmered down
and totaled up the value of each hour
of the day is measured by your util
ization of it. You can not fool your
self by fooling with the clock.—Ex.
A WIRELESS STORY.
Call From tho Pacific That Waa Heard
In the Gulf of Mexico.
It wns “eight hells" on a-ship lying
at anchor down in the gulf of Mexico.
The men had retired for the night to
their bunks uud hummocks, and the
wireless operator, ulone In his watch
fulness. wns “listening in” at the head
phones.
Suddenly, out of the pitchy darkness
of the sea, a message that curdled the
blood in his veins leaped down the an
tenna and hummed Its fearful contents.
“S. O. S.—S. O. S.—S. O. S.” And a few
minutes later, in response to the cus
tomary reply. “What is your position?”
the nnswer flashed back, "125 degrees
27 minutes 37 seconds west. 47 degrees
33 minutes 10 seconds north.
That meant that out on the Pacific
ocean 140 miles west of Senttle. Wash.
-2.S50 miles away—a vessel was call
ing for help.
The call of the Pacific! The operator
hardly believed it. With tremulous
fingers he repented the call to the sta
tion nearest to the vessel in distress.
Rut already the wireless watchers
along the western coast had caught
the message, and relief was on its way.
Clear across the entire North American
continent, over land and sea and moun
tain ranges, the ship’s cry had been
heard.—World’s Work.
BARREN PALESTINE.
Its Forests Are Gone and the Jordan It
Now a Feeble Stream.
One of the most remarkable Illustra
tions in all history of the ill effects of
the disappearance of forests may bo
observed in Palestine. In the days
when Joshua conquered the promised
land Palestine was a wonderfully fer
tile country, a land flowing with milk
and honey. The Lebanon mountains
were heavily wooded, and a large pop- |
ulatton was supported in comfort.
The general devastation of the for- :
ests brought about, however, a grad
ual deterioration of the country. The
hills of Galilee, which had long served
as pasture lands for large herds of cat
tle and sheep, are now sterile. The
Jordan has become an insignificant
stream, and several smaller rivers are
now completely dried up throughout
the greater part of the year. Some few
valleys In which fertile earth washed
down from the hills has been deposited
have retained their old fertility. The
land today supports only one-sixth the
population of the time of Solomon.—
Christian Ilerali}.
Table Manners In the Old Days.
Modern table manners compare fa- j
vorably with those of the past. Mrs. i
Hannah Woolley, author of “The Gen
tlewoman’s Companion.” the standard
seventeenth century book on etiquette,
found it necessary thus to warn her
renders: “Gentlewomen, discover not
by any ravenous gesture your angry
appetite nor fix your eyes too greedily
on the meat before you. as if you
would devour more that way than your
throat would swallow. * * * In
carving avoid clapping your fingers in
your mouth and licking them after you
have burned them. Close your Ups
when you eat and do not smack like a
pig. Mil not your mouth so full that
your cheeks shall swell like a pair of j
Scotch bagpipes. It is very uncomely
to drink so large a draft that your
breath is almost gone and you are
forced to blow strongly to recover |
yourself.”
Historic Hyde Park.
Hyde park has seen not only inagni- i
fleient reviews, from Stuart times on- j
ward, but has witnessed also military :
musters with it more warlike intent.
Here during the commonwealth were
encamped the Roundhead armies of i
Essex and Lambert, and here Crom
well reviewed his Ironsides. The de- j
fenses which were at that time raised j
in I he park have left their mark on !
Mayfair’s street nomenclature, for
Mount street. Grosvenor square, com- |
memorates Oliver's mount, as it was
called, part of the line of fortifications j
drawn around London by order of the i
parliament in 1C43. Even the women.
Butler tolls us in "Hudibras.’’ helped
in I he defensive work, and
From ladies down to oyster wenches
Labor'd like pioneers In trenches.
—London Standard.
Extraordinary. Seed.
A farmer who mainly out of curios
ity had grown a crop of flax had a
tablecloth made out of it. Some time
later he remarked to a lady visitor at
dinner, "I grew this tablecloth myself,"
"bid you really?" she said, apparently I
much astonished. "How did you man- I
age it?” It was plain from her tone |
that she had no idea how tablecloths .
came into existence, so the farmer low- !
ered his voice mysteriously as he re
plied, "Tf you’ll promise not to tell any
one I’ll tell you.’’. The lady promised.
•‘Well.’’ proceeded the farmer still In
the same mysterious tone. “I planted
a napkin!”
,. ■
8ido Light on History.
Socrates was about to quaff the hem
lock. i
“This.” he said, “is the cup that
neither cheers nor inebriates.”
Making a sort of wry face, just the
game, be hastened to bring the Incident
to a close.—Chicago Tribnne.
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How to. Bo 8trong.
Mnn Is strong, only by union, bappy
only by peace. Be firm, not obstinate:
courageous, not turbulent: free, not
undisciplined: prompt, not precipitate.
—Comte de Mlrabean.
The good workman doesn’t say.
“There, that will do.” but aiwaya.
"There, that Is it-lt will last always.”
—Emerson
FATHER GREAT PIPE.
Eccentric Will of the Famous Dutch
8moker, Von Klaes.
la • Elolliiud of the Dutch" Demet
rius Boulger tells the story of the fa
mous Van Klaes of Rotterdam, who
was known as "Father Great Pipe.”
Van Klaes smoked about half. a
pound of tobacco a day and to save
himself trouble used an enormous pipe,
hence his nickname. He built a man
sion in Rotterdam, with a fortune
umassed In the Indies, and turned it
Into n museum for pipes nnd antique
instruments used~by primitive man for
burning hemp or weeds long before the
discovery of tobacco. No man who
visited his curios went away without
a gift of choice cignrs. He lived to be
ninety-eight and made, while smok
ing. an eccentric will, which began by
inviting all smokers in the country to
his funeral.
Each person who attended was t«
receive ten pounds of tobacco and two
pipes bearing the name of the donor,
his arms nnd the date of his death,
but he imposed the condition that they
should smoke without interruption dur
ing the funeral ceremony. Finally his
coBin was to be lined with the wood
of his old cigar boxes, and beside
him were to be placed his favorite
pipe, a supply of tobacco nnd a box
of matches, for. as the will senten
tlously sets forth, no one knows what
may happen.
WHISTLER’S ODD WAYS.
A Portrait That Wat Slashed as Soon
as It Was Painted.
Lord Redesdale once gave a descrip
tion of Whistler's methods to a meet
ing in London in support of a memo
rial to the great artist. The eccentric
master was painting, he said, a por
trait of a lady.
Whistler took up Ills position at one
end of the room with Ills sitter and
the canvas at the other end. For a
long time he stood looking at his
model, holding in his hand a huge
brush full of color, such a brush as a
man would use to whitewash a house
Then he rushed forward and smashed
the brush full of color Into the canvas.
Then he ran back, and forty or fifty
times he repeated this. At the end of
that time there stood out on the can
vas a space which exactly indicated
the figure, the form and the expression
of tbe sitter.
There was a pathetic story attached
to the picture. Tbe bailiffs were In the
house when tbe picture was finished.
That was quite a common occurrence,
and Whistler only laughed, but he
went around ills studio with a knife
and deliberately destroyed all his can
vases. including this picture, which
was to have been his (Lord Redes
dale's).—Dundee Advertiser.
Banquets In Elizabeth’s Time.
In Queen Elizabeth’s time tbe first
course of a banquet is given as wlieat
en flummery, stewed broth or spinach
broth, or smallage, gruel or botch pot.
The second consisted of fish, among
which are lampreys, poor John, stock
fish and sturgeon, with side dishes of
porpoise. The third course comprised
quaker puddings, black puddings, bag
puddings, white puddings and marrow
puddings. Then came veal, beef, ca
pons. humble pie. mutton, marrow pas
ties. Scotch collops. wild fowl and
game. In tbe fifth course all kinds of
sweets, creams in all their varieties,
custards, cheese cakes, jellies, warden
pies, sockets, sillibubs and so on. to
he followed perhaps by white cheese
and tansy cake; for drinks, ale. beer,
wine, sack and numerous varieties of
mead or metlieglin.
Her Only Thought.
The late Duke of Sutherland, who
was the largest landowner in Europe,
bad at Duurobtn castle a small private
railway line and often amused him
self by driving the engine.
There is a little story that illustrates
tbe reverence in which Ills highland
tenants held the duke.
He was driving bis little train one
afternoon when be ran down an old
woman. She was not seriously hurt—
the amateur engineer never went very
fast—and after ten or fifteen minutes
she <ame to
Her first words were these:
“Is tile duke very angry?”
Answered.
"Do you dance on your toes. Miss
Quiekwlt?"
“Never. Mr Cluiusey. Other people
do that for me."
And he didn't know just what she
meant until he tried to get another
dance with her.
Financial Rabies.
"Your husband, my dear woman, has
financial rabies.”
"But. doctor, be has never, so far as
I know, been bitten by a dog. I don’t
understand yon.”
"He’s money mad.”-Detroit Free
Press. _'
She Speaks Out
“You aren’t earning very much.”
"But. my, darling, two can Uve as
cheaply aa one.”
”1 don’t yearn to live cheaply, young
iiian.”—St. I.ou1s Republic. -
Belated Remarks.
BIx—Doesn’t'your wife say anything
when you go out evenings? Dlx—Not
much: she reserves the bulk of her re
marks for uie when I get home—Bos
ton Transcript
Pew Knows Everything.
Willie Paw. wb.v <l» they say that
all iin- world Is a stage? Paw—Be
rlin-..- in.we who can’t get in the spot
light a.-i -i.* critics, my s<n.-Cincinnati
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