Saturday mirror, 8 mars 1913, samedi 8 mars 1913

[" : AS STE SIN ~ The Satvrday Mirror; 275 Craig Street Vol 1 No.6.Published by THE MONTREAL PUBLISHING Co.Limited, est, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1913 (16 Pages] Five Cents.Is the Country in the Mood for English Financial Houses in Plot to Boycott Woodrow Wilson Starts Off Canadian Securities.The True Inwardness of the Revulsion of Sentiment ;,.i.\u2019 ie of the \u201cfree tolls\u201d provision of the Among British Investors in Regard to Canada.Another Election ?APPARENTLY the leaders of the Liberal party believe that an election, precipitated at the present moment, upon the naval issue, would result in a popular majority against the Government proposals.There is nothing to prevent a Canadian politician from believing anything about an unfought election.A gambier is entitled to believe that the long-odds horse will come in first.A litigant is entitled to believe that the plea which has been rejected by five consecutive courts in Canada will be accepted by the Privy Council.A political leader is entitled to believe that his party will win.All three of them will have to pay the price if they act on that belief and lose.The price, to the Liberal party in the present instance, is likely to be pretty heavy.It is a very serious matter to throw the country into the turmoil of an election upon a false alarm.It is particularly serious at the present moment, because Canada is in the midst of à period of grave financial difficulties, due to her urgent need for money for a continuance of development work and to the dead set which is being made in the financial centres of the Old World against her getting it.It is serious, because for over two years now the proper legislative work of the Dominion has been held up, first by the obstructive conflict over the reciprocity proposals, then by a year of time- marking on the part of the new Government and blockading tactics on the part of the Senate, and now finally by the long and bitter debate on the naval proposals.lt is serious, finally, because it introduces into the very middle of the political arena a question which we believe the great majority of Canadians would much prefer to keep out of politics altogether\u2014 the question of our relations with the great Empire to which we owe allegiance.If the Liberals can prove in a general election that the Government is acting in the naval matter contrary to the wishes of the people of Canada, they will be justified in taking this serious step: but if they fail they will pay a tremendous price.What The Liberals Might Gain.O the impartial observer in this part of Canada, it must necessarily seem that the chance they are taking is a very long one, the risk disproportionately great.There are one or two cogent reasons why Liberal leaders should desire to put their fortunes to the test at an early date and on an issue of their own making, but do they outweigh the objections ?There must inevitably in the near future be a change of leadership in the Liberal party, by which the present widely-known and honored chieftain will be replaced by a man of comparatively small calibre, probably amidst a good deal of heartburning and faction rivalry.It would be much better for the party if the transfer could be postponed until the Liberals are in power with three or four years before them in which to habituate the country to the new ruler.Further, a second election, if successful, would obliterate the fatal mistake of Reciprocity from the public mind, and give the party a new start.These reasons make an early contest highly desirable from the Liberal point of view\u2014always supposing that there is a reasonable hope of Liberal success.But is there such a hope ?Upsetting Business Conditions.UTSIDE of the columns of the militant party newspapers, the fight against the Borden naval proposals has failed, so far as we have been able to perceive, to evoke the slightest response in the country.Certain elements in the Prairie Provinces, which lost most heavily by the defeat of Reciprocity and are therefore still resentful against the party which effected that defeat, have passed resolutions against the Borden proposals, but their opposition is as purely partisan as that of the Manitoba Free Press and the Toronto Globe, and represents no change from the electoral situation as shown at the last election.We have the utmost faith in the \u201cnational spirit\u201d of Canada, but we do not believe that that spirit demands the immediate establishment of a Canadian Navy on the scale embodied in the Liberal counter-proposal, or objects to the granting of Canadian financial support to the British Admiralty upon a temporary or \u201c emergency\u2019 arrangement.The French-speaking electorate must necessarily be left cold and disinterested in any contest between the three-battleships policy of Borden and the \u201cmanned and maintained\u201d policy of Laurier.Finally, the country is in a state of general prosperity which will not be impaired for some time to come, so far as the man in the street is concerned, even by the continuance of the money stringency, and in Canada the party which is attacking the status quo has a poor time of it except in bad times.Even if the Liberal politicians are convinced of the advisability of a general election, it may still be necessary to convince the financiers who support that party, for general elections are not carried on in this country by \u201cpopular contributions.\u201d This is where the hard-headed business man comes in.Is he going to think it worth while ?¢¢ ADRIANOPLE May Resist Three Weeks.'-Headline in daily paper.Every other community that we kaow of succumbed to it.but the effects are not lasting.OR about eight months Canada has been made the vietim of what is beginning to amount to a boycott on the part of the great financial interests in England which have hitherto made large profits hy introducing Canadian securities to the British publie.The extraordinary revulsion of feeling in Great Britain concerning Canadian securities has been generally ascribed to natural eauses\u2014to the fickleness of the British investor, to the rise of rival bidders for British money, to a genuine belief that it is possible for a nation to be too prosperous and that Canada has heen approaching that dangerous pinnacle of success.But the Sarurpay Mirron today makes the statement, with the most positive convietion of its truth, that the prevalent excess of impoits over export= a perfeetlv natural phenomenon in a country which is attracting new population wd new money in enormous quantities was Just ax marked then ws itis now, and had been going on for almost us long, sceing that it began with the dawn of the century.The campaigners xelected their moment very wiselv.In proportion as the pressure resulting from the Balkan War increased the diffieulty of floating any kind of financial proposition and compelled Canadians in seareh of money to accept more and more onerous terms, the campalgners pointed to these concessions as evidence of an alleged publie distrust of Canadian offerings, when as a matter of fact the public was imply indi-posed to advance monev for present \u201cWELL!\u201d diswust of Canada among British investors has been deliberately brought about-\u2014cr at the best has been dexterously played upon, exaggerated and turned to service\u2014by a number of leading financial houses whose motive is simply the serving of their own business cnds.Campaign Artfully Planned.I¥ the British investor ad been left to himself, if he had not heen plied with hints and suggestions and innuendoes, as to the terrible results of an excess of imports over exports, and the extravagant pace at which Canada was using up money.by his chief financial advisers in the press and in high positions in the business world.he would be taking exactly the same view of Canadian developments and prospects as he war a year ago.The campaign against \u2018Canadian over-borrow- ing\u2019 has been most carefully and delicately worked up.Fight months ago there was hardly a whisper of it.The any purpose whatever, Canadian or otherwise.Canadian standard securities gradually went down in price, in company with the standard securities of every other class listed on the London Stock xchange; but it was the Canadians alone at whom the finger of scorn was pointed, and the campaigners invariably omitted to mention that the recession in our securities was accompanied hy an almost equal recession in many other classes.And all the while our critics, or the more responsible of them at any rate, safeguarded them- wives by constantly admitting that the \u2018fundamentals,\u201d the \u2018basic position,\u201d of Canadian finance were sound and proper; in other words, Canada would eventually do all right with the money she already had, but she must not be allowed to have any more.The needs of suspicion were sown in season aad out of season, at first through the lighter financial papers, gradually CONTINUED ON PAGR 2.Like a Statesman.RESIDENT WILSON is credited (unofficially as vet but on good authority) with a strong desire Panama Canal Bill.If the report be correct\u2014and it tullies well with what we know of the character of the new President\u2014ne will be giving better evidence of true presidential quality than President Taft gave in the entire four vears of his office.That Mr.Taft would never personally have been guilty of such a piece of shurp practice as that famous evasion of treaty responsibilities is pretty certain; but his pliability, his openness of mind und his general disinclination to take a definite stand of his own resulted in the Presideney being prostituted during his term to serve the ends of politicians and business mer of the baser sort.Whatever mistakes President Wilson makes, they will not be those of inaction or indetermination.President Wilson's attitude is described by the Republican press as a repudiation of the Democratic platform upon which he was elected.If that is so, one can only conclude that it is at times an admirable thing for the United States to have a ruler with the courage to repudiate some of the absurd promises which party conventions make in their anxiety to outhid one-another for office.No party platform can be considered half us important as the honor of the nation, and the honor of the American people is at issue in the question whether the Canal Treaty shall be construed in the sense in which an impartial outsider would have readit or in the sense which could only be assigned to it bv selfishly-interested parties.Mr.Taft's proposal to have the American reading passed upon by a tribunal specially hand-picked to suit the American claims was ludicrous and unworthy of the chief magistrate of a great nation.If President Wilson is unable to effect the elimination of the free-tolls clause from the hill, it is to be hoped that he will at least succeed in having it submitted to a genuine arbitration.Hats Off to Col.Hughes, Who Has a Mind of His Own ! ERE'S a militury salute to Minister of Militia, Colonel, the Honorable Sam Hughes, M.P., for being a commanding officer who knows how to com- \"mand! There was no subtle political hedging about \u201chis remarks last week on the subject of the canteen.\"There is no canteen under his command, and there never will be any canteen under his command, and that\u2019s the end of it.There have been ministers of militia who appeared to be looking around for some- \u2018body to tell them what to do, but that is not our Colonel the Honorable Sum Hughes.He knows what he doesn\u2019t want and he doesn't want it.On all considerations of efficiency he is perfectly right.The idea that a man fights better on a glass of beer or *\u2018three fingers\u201d of whiskey is as obsolete as the British military tactics of the carly days of the Boer war.Colonel Sam Hughes had no hesitation in telling the tacticlans just how obsolete they were in those days, just as he has no hesitation in chucking the canteeners out of the Canadian army now.He is a more thoroughly pleasant spectacle now than he was then, for now he is in a position to which the attitude of command is becoming and appropriate, whereas in 1900 he was a subordinate officer and as such was expected by the Empire not merely to \u201cdo and die\u201d \u2014for which he was always ready- -but a'so \u201cnot to reason why,\u201d a species of restraint which was far beyond his powers.If the camp and other military operations conducted by the Canadian forces were a species of picnic or pleasure-party there might perhaps be something to be said for the policy of allowing the participants to pursue their ordinary habits in regard to the purchase of stimulants.But they are not.They are organized for the training of men in the habits and accomplishments of soldiers, and the nearer they get to real soldiering the better they will do their work.The physiological effect of alcohol ir detrimental to accuracy in shooting, to endurance, to watchfulness and to esprit de corps.We tolerate alcohol, under as many restrictions as we dare place upon it, in our ordinary lives because it seema that it cannot be entirely eliminated; but there is no reason why we should make it part of the official provisions for the camps in which our young men are trained to habits of self-control and submission to duty.The object of Col.Hughes is to give Canada the best militia force possible, and for that object the suppression of the canteen is a wise and proper measure.Is the Status of a Wife in this Province That of a Chattel ?ONE of these Jays either the Government at Quebec in going to wake up to twentieth century ideals, or a band of militant suffragettes will wake them up with a rude shock.Women suffer from many disabilities in all countries, but in no civilised country on earth does the law place them so low in the social scale as in this, the largest province in what we proudly claim to be the most progressive country within the 2 British Empire.Dean Walton, of McGill University, is doing a service to the whole community by his repeated exposures of the defects of the law as applied to the married women of the province.I remember perfectly well when he started out in a tentative way to point out how unfair it was that if a man should die without a will in this province his relatives might step in and carry off not only possessions that rightly should belong to the wife, but actually the wife's property as well.Since that time he has delivered many public addresses on the subject, and each time he brings forward new phases of the subject more amazing than the last, and more than ever indicative that we white people here in the Province of Quebec used to regard woman not so much as a helpmate as a chattel.The world has travelled a long way since the time when woman on the North American continent was merely a squaw to do the chores, and man her lordly master and possessor.It has also travelled a long way since the barbarians invaded France, and brought with them to that country the law of community which the French later brought to Canada.Under that law of community the possessions of husband and wife were looked upon as really belonging to the male line only.They were the legitimate spoils of the husband\u2019s relatives upon his death.The wife counted not, for she was not his wife as we understand that sweet and noble word.She was his woman.The distinctioh sums up the whole difference between savagery and THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 8, 1913.civilization.For civilization begins with the elevation | of woman from a possession to a helpmate.| x # #% ILL anybody say that the women of Montreal are behind the women of any other part of the | world in character and intelligence ?Would any husband in Montreal think of referring to his wife as | his woman\u2014let alone dare to do so?Theidea is more .than absurd.It is repugnant.Yet the laws relating to our mothers, our wives and our daughters are the laws that men established before the race had emerged from barbarism\u2014the laws that degraded woman; that made her merely a possession ; that regarded her simply as a useful and necessary appendage of tribal man.Therefore, Montreal is alone among the great cities of the world, and Quebec Province alone among civilized countries: in refusing to recognize the sanctity of the family life upon the death of the husband.Just as the men of savage tribes used to squabble and fight for the possessions of u dead member of the tribe, including his women, so a horde of people here in Quebec are legally entitled to invade a home and divide the spoils of a dead man.The wife's claims amount to practically nothing.When a man dies, in the eyes of the law his wife is not the legal head of the familv\u2014she is a cast-off possession of the dead manx OH OH HAT.in effect,is the degrading position to which the wife and mother is relegated by law in the Province of Quebec.You do not believe it?I do not doubt you.But ask any member of the Canadian Club who heard Dean Walton's address last Monday, if, after hearing it, he could come to any other conclusion than the one I have stated.One instance that Dean Walton gave impressed itself upon my mind particularly.Said he: * A wife has no right of succession to her husband if he leaves relations within the twelfth degree, So far as | know, Quebec is in the proud position of being the only civilized country which lays down this great principle, The marriage contract may give the wife something, but in many cases it is not much, because, fortunately, people marry young.when they have not much to give.Suppose two young people marry who have very little money.All that the hushand feels able to do by way of provision for his wife is to insure his life for $3,000.Later on he becomes rich and at his death he leaves a million dollars.If he has made no will the wife will get 85,000.and the husband's nearest relation will get $995,000.Within the twelfth degree is down to fifth cousins.Yet the law says they are more nearly related to you than vour wife.It is time you began to look them up.\u201d x HO # # PRETTY stiff that, eh ?If that were only one instance one might be temped to think this was only a bit of absentmindedness on the part of the original Inw-makers.But it is only one among scores of disabilities and indignities and cruel injustices which are forced upon women by law in this enlightened province.Take another illustration quoted by Dean Walton: \u2018The capable wife of an incapable hushand starts a shop and employs her husband to smoke his pipe at the door.After twenty years the husband dies without a will.The wife has then saved 810,000.She must hand over 85,000, half of her own earnings, to her hushand's heirs.\" mme \u2014\u2014 Sold Out! Last week the entire edition of the Saturday Mirror was sold out before Room on Saturday.Several thousand additional copies could have been sold had they been available.Owing to the high grade character of the Mirror the paper has to go to press early in the week, and for this reason it is impossible to increase the number to meet late demands.We are printing several thousand mere copies this week than last.In order to make sure of getting a copy, however, readers should place a stand- img order with their newsdealers.= \"unless the husband is obliging enough to hLeep FOR SALE THOUS GUERIN J 7 PE Et \u2014 a One Reason Why Civic Conditions in Montreal are Bad.Here are two down-town churches\u2014the Dominion Square Methodist church (on the left) and the Stanley Street Presbyterian church (on the right).them for a price very greatly in excess of their cost.tive purposes.of taxes.church on the left is assessed at $271,750.of where tax-exempt property is held for speculation.religious edifices \u201cSaturday Mirror\u2019\u2019 the assessed value of Yet another illustration showing how our laws deliberate.y degrade woman from her rightful posicion even while her husband is alive: \u2018The husband and wife live happily together for some years and save a little money.Then the husband takes to drink or forms an attachment for another woman.In this latter rase the wife cannot get a judicial separation is con- eubine in the same house as his wife.\u2018But what man in his senses does this \u201d The husband, whether drunken or unfaithful or both, proceeds to sell the house, to pawn the furniture and to squander every cent which the wife by years of self denial has helped to save.She can do nothing.Reduced to want she goes out to work hy the day.When she comes home at night her husband has the legal right to take her earnings from her and spend them if he chooses on drink or on the wife's successor in his affections.\u201d | x % % # HUS, whichever way you turn, our laws deliberately | proclaim one thing, and that is that the wife is the possession and not the equal of her husband.At! whatever point the law touches her interest, it empha-' sizes not her rights but her disabilities.The other day I was in one of our banks, and a woman of refine- menu and intelligence came in to deposit some money.The bank manager could not allow her to do ro, because her account would be swelled to the fabulous total of $500.\u201cYou must get vour husband's signature permitting vou to deposit any sum of 8500 and above,\u201d said the bank manager.\u201cbut I don't want my husband to know I have the money,\u201d said the woman., ** He\u2014he will spend it.\u201d \u201cIt can\u2019t be helped,\u201d said the manager.\u201cThe law requires his signature giving permission,\u201d I asked the manager about this afterwards.\u2018There are only two places in the world where such a law obtains,\u201d he said.\u201cThey are the Province of Quebec and Cuba.\u201d #* OH 2 OW supposing woman suffrage prevailed in Quebec, would such unjust and insulting laws ax these be allowed to stand any longer on the statute books ?I think of these things when I hear men deerving suffragettes and their militant methods.And it oceurs to me that some day, not so very far in the future, if we men do not insist on the Legislature wiping out these relies of barbarism, our womenfolk will rise in their might and demand equal rights under the law.And if those equal rights are ignored, would 1 for one moment decry militant methods as bold and «lartling ax those of the suffragettes in Eugland ?! would not.Rather would I cheer them on in a fight which in that case would be a fight for civilization and liberty.It may be answered that most of the evils I have quoted might be partly remedied by marriage contracts and by every husband making a will ax to the disposition of property.I answer that these things are not the true remedies, People should not have to make special legal contracts $0 protect themselves from the law of the State.It is the duty of the State to protect them.not to legalize robbery - and worse.® ox ER THE out and out hex which are being so solemnly pus on record in the investigation by a Commission into the property-juggling scandal which has so worked up the Catholie School Board, form a sad commentary upon the state of the public morals.There wax a time- at least, I like to think there was when to take his oath upon the Word of God wax a very solemn and binding thing upon a man.Nowadays, all the solemnity of the act seems to have passed away.A man will kiss the Book an a sign before God that he will tell the truth and nothing but the truth.or hold up his hand and «wear before the Almighty that he will do it.and then will utter the most brasen lies.Why is it that so many men no longer seem to fear the perpetration of such blasphemy\u201d The only anawer The speculators are thus enabled to hold them for a rise in price and to escape tax-paying.Its real value is very much higher.Both have been sold by the congregations which built Both are now in the market and are held for specula- As they are still used as churches theycontribute nothing to the city treasury in the way The These are but two instances The down-town streets of Montreal are dotted with ecorated with **For Sale\u2019 signs of the real estate dealers.As already pointed out by the roperty in Montreal which escapes taxation amounts to $131,- 690,564, or one fifth of the entire assessable value of the city.that I can see is that the tendency coincides with the decay of religion as an active force in everyday life.It is a sad thing to confess, but religion appears to be losing \u2018ts force upon the masses.Old faiths and creeds are toppling, and nothing is replacing them.While Christendom is a theatre of warring creeds, and parsons are quarrelling over such petty things as whether church canons have been violated hecause a preacher speaks the word of God under a roof built by people not professing the Athanasian Creed\u2014while these things are happening, men are reverting to Paganism.There is a mighty work for national righteousness to be done, aiid the churches are not keeping up with that work.¥%\u2019 CADILLAC.CAN YOU MAKE A MIRRORGRAM?Here is a pleasant, interesting, and profitable occupation for your unoccupied evenings.À simple, amusing task, which may bring you a reward altogether out of proportion to the expenditure of They are simple, time and trouble involved.Below are printed six words.everyday nouns of not more than eight letters, Can you take one of these words, the one which suits your fancy hest and make a sentence or phrase.the initial letter of each word of which is a etter in the word you chose, using the letters in the order in which they appear in that word, and the sentence having some bearing upon the meaning of the word chosen?Simple, isn't it?Say, for instance, you take the word \u2018Women.\u2019 From it vou can construet the following sentence: \u201cWorld's Oldest Mystery, Excepting Nothing.\u201d Or: \u201cWhimsical Often, Many Exceptions Notwithstanding.\u201d Of course you could make à much better Mirrorgram than that out of \u2018Women.\u2019 Try one, and see what you can do with it.For the bes & Mirrorgram constructed out of any one of the six words given below the SATURDAY Mirror will give a prize of ten dollars.To the next best a prize of five dollars, and to the ten next in line a consolation prize of one dollar each.The best replies will be published in next week's SATURDAY MIRROR.With your Mirrorgram, you must send the coupon below, on which the words for this week are printed.You may send as many Mirrorgrams as you please provided only that you send a coupon with each attempt.The Editor is the mole judge of your efforts.His decision is final.Now.choose your words, get out the dictionary and make your Mirrorgram.Ask vour friends about it.MIRRORGRAM COUPON.To the Editor of the Satvrpay Mirror.I enclose my entry for the Mirro m Competition.I agree to accept the decision of the Editor of the SATURDAY MiRROR as final.Name Address This Week's Six.Women Money Winter Hockey Lover Brains LAST WEEK'S PRIZE WINNERS.The missing letter in last week's competition was the letter \u201cN° from the word \u2018Front.\u2019 on Page 11, column 3 and line 108.The prize-winners, according to the order in which the answers were received, were as follows: First Prize 810 Miss M.Badeau, Three Rivers, Que.Second Prize 85- Alice Adams.659 Belmont avenue.Westmount.Que.Consolation Prizes $1 each Mra.William Pitta, 1534 Park avenu .Montreal; T.O.Murray.87 Hutchison street Montreal, Herbert Kennedy, 27 Sixteenth avenue.Lachine; Edith Galletly, 193 Anh avenue.Montreal; Mra.J.Marsden, 1453 8t.Urbain street, Montreal; A.M.FEi- wards, Sherbrooke, Que; M.H.Grey, 5% Universite street, Montreal; A.M.King, 180 Grenadier Road, Toronto, Ont; Mra.Sills 211% Haplanade avenue, Montreal: Robert Car-w.2518 Park avenu +, Montreal.English Financial Houses in | Plot to Boycott Canada.(Continued from Page 1.) \u2018through even the most conservative, until at the present time it seems to be more difficult to sell a gilt-edged Canadian offering in London than the most precarious security from the Malay States or the Argentine.Financial Press is Hostile.HE SATURDAY MIRROR makes the statement without hesitation, that this condition of affairs is largely due to deliberate hostility on the part of leading financial interests towards Canadian business.That hostility is reflected in a [arge part of the press of the United Kingdom.The frivolous and insincere character of the criticisms of that press is manifest from their attitude towards successive municipal issues from this country.When we seek a low rate of interest we are persistently told that we have no business to expect to get our money so cheaply, and when we bow to the English demand and offer a higher rate we are told that there must be something rotten in the state of Canada or we should not be willing to pay so much.Equally insincere is the holding up for public execration of such flotations as Dominion Sawmills and Alberta Lands as typical Canadian promotions; the writers of these articles know as well as Canadians do that these companies were controlled by London directors, and that in any event these lamentable blunders are only an infinitesimal proportion in the long list of successes by : which Canada has enriched the English investor.| Dislike Canadian Competition.THE hostility of English financiers, which has inspired this campaign, is due very largely to their discovery that Canadian financial institutions have been setting up branches in Great Britain and have become serious competitors in the business of purveying securities to the British public.There was a time when all Can- .adian securities had to be \u201cplaced\u201d in the British - market by one or other of à group of high-class British security houses, but with the growth of this country and the increasing realization of its investment oppor- i tunities it has become possible for Canadians to dispense with this rather costly assistance and dispose of their own securities direct to the British buyer.The British houses which formerly handled these securities thus find .themselves at the same time deprived of an excellent \u2018source of supply for the commodity which they sell, \u2018and also confronted by a new competition in the selling.To replace the Canadian issues which they can no longer handle, they have been forced to look elsewhere for securities which cannot reach the British market without their aid; and to hamper their Canadian competitors in the security-selling business as much as possible they are carrying on an organized campaign for the decrying of all Canadian offerings.A case in point is this; one of the largest London houses with Canadian connections \u2014a firm which has a Canadian in its partnership, and which has formerly done some of the most important work in placing Canadian offerings in England\u2014has absolutely boycotted Canadian issues for several months past, and has turned its entire attention to United States public-service corporations.Of course business is business, and we have no right to complain of them for picking up or dropping (Canadian securities whenever they like; but it is houses like this which are now busy casting =uspicion upon Canadian offerings and seeking thereby to create a diversion in favor of the Argentine Republie, the United States, Mexico, South Afriea and Australia.Canada Wants Only Fair Play.THE MIRROR is fully aware of certain unfavorable factors in the Canadian situation for the moment, but in the case of our municipal bond: there is no precedent and sane argument which can be brought forward for treating them ax anything but an absolutely safe and gilt-edged security.What Canada wants today is fair play at the hands of the British press.English financial writers claim to have a greater and more accurate knowledge of (Canada than Canadians have; they assure us that their perspective is improved by distance and is unwarped by enthusiasm.Unfortunately, it may be warped by something else, such ax a desire on the part of the more influential London financiers to steer the publie demand into channels more profitable to themselves, An eminent British banker, member of the Board of the biggest bank in Scotland, a hard-headed business man, came to Canada lately with an admitted prejudice against ux on account of our tremendous development, which he said was unprecedented and must be due to boom conditions.He toured Eastern and Western Canada thoroughly, and when he returned to Montreal he said to the friends who asked his impressions: \u201cGentlemen, you have the greatest heritage that was ever conceived since the world began.1 came out here with a strong distrust of C'anada, but I find that the natural resources and the market advantages of the country justify everything that has been claimed for it.On my return to London I intend recommending that every member of every board of directors on which I have a seat should make a personal visit to your country on the ground that it is impossible to judge of the prospects it offers by simply sitting at home reading reports and statistics in the light of ancient economic theories.\u201d Here was a man who had tried both the \u201c London perspective\u201d and the Canadian close-at-hand view of the situation, and found that the latter was the only trustworthy one.If the eritien in London would only accept the opinions of Canadian bankers and financiers, who are thoroughly in touch with conditions here, instead of taking their views from armchair theorists with or without an axe to grind) at home, they would come to very different conclusions. bi Kicks and Da pence Some Opinions of Our Readers\u2014 Flattering and Otherwise.I am certainly interested in your paper and am delighted with the graceful style of writing which re- | mindsmeof '\u201cT.P.\u2019s Weekly.\u201d My only | objection is to the spelling.Having received my schooling in Scotland I feel I shall never get used to the Yankee style of dropping the u in such words as \u2018honour\u2019 and dropping | the me at the end of programme,etec., | All papers which I have read here use | such terms as \u2018Back of\u201d instead of | \u201cAt the back of\u2019\u2019 and announce that a | certain person will leave for the West .Tuesday\u2019 instead of \u2018on Tuesday.\" : Of course for all I know there may be | a West Tuesday and an Fast Tues- ; ay.Ï am certain your paper will be | a big success if you maintain your present standard.1 will continue to | read it and have already recommended | it to my friends.; THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 8, 1913.The Week in the World Montreal.A foreigner named Marchtrium died of typhoid fever in the Montreal jail without having been examined by a medical man.He was arrested on a charge of loitering and appeared before the Recorder while dying, the facts not being discovered until after he had died.Proceedings at the Royal Commission enquiry into the Longue Pointe school site graft charges become quite interesting.The witnesses contradict each other, making perjury self-evident.The City of Montreal succeeds in floating a permanent loan of $7,000,000 in spite of the fact that other attempted flotations have lately fallen flat.Claiming that he owns the land as far as the center of the earth, Mr.H.B.Rainville seeks to prohibit the C.N.Rfrom tunneling under his property.Following the charges made by Mr.J.H.Roberts that the Frisco Soda Water Co.were acting as brewery agents without a licence, officers of the Inland Revenue Department raided the premises and seized a large quantity of eer.Fire destroyed the three storey building of the C.H.Catelli Company in the north end, the loss amounting to $70,000.Chief Tremblay said the water pressure was a disgrace.The Quebec Board of Censors of moving picture films intense interest in Europe throughout the past month, resulted in the conviction of eighteen of the twenty-two | accused, four of them being sentenced to death.; The Moroccan revolt against Spanish rule is being \u2018 ° fostered by Mussulman priests, necessitating the increase ° - of Spanish forces in Moroceo.I he dreadnought Koenig, launched at Wilhelmshaven, |.Germany, in the presence of the Emperor William, is the , first warship to carry fourteen-inch guns.| Bitter feeling between the Socialistic and Church elements of the Austrian Reichsrath resulted in a general fight in which a dozen deputies were injured, five so seriously that they may die., Russia and Great Britain are reported to have entered | into a secret agreement regarding Thibet and Mongolia similar to the agreement which resulted in the partition of Persia.» Sixty-four of the crew of the German torpedo boat destroyer S 178 were drowned when the vessel was rammed and sunk by the cruiser York off Heligoland.France has announced that the Government will support Turkey's protests against paying the $3,000,000,00 indemnity, objecting to the heavy drain upon Turkish finances because of the vast amount of French capital in- | vested in Turkish securities.| The Deadlock in Parliament.WALTER B.McLEAN, \u2018held their first meeting.They will inspec i ge ; Ne > .y will inspect and sanction 2386 Mance street, Mont.| à | films shown in the Provincex HO The Westmount Council passes a by-law which extends second reading of the Naval Bill foreshadowed ob- **1 am going to give you a few simple truths, and let the people of Montreal think for themselves.You said that your paper would be a civic paper, now, your civic news takes up a very small space.No doubt it is made of extra good paper, but in the subject matter I fail to find anything extraordinary.It is largely made up of theatrical news and stories.There may be some good plays, but there are 80 many frivolous ones, and life is too short to take chances.1 could buy some far better Mirrors in Toronto, for less than yours.If you would print less theatrical news, more civic news, and a good sermon every week, I am sure you would be more likely to Hop- | obtain a good class of readers.ing your paper will improve,\u201d G.HALL, 40 Sullivan Street, Toronto, Ont.: * \u2018Why, oh! why, in your first issue, too, had you to antagonize many by * giving at least a quarter of the first page to a picture of Mrs.Pankhurst.If you must have pictures, please give the area in which apartment houses and stores may be erected.The withdrawal of deposit accounts from the City and District Bank, after a week in the incipient stage, developed into a run on the bank.Canada.The Government is making arrangements for elaborate te: minals at Le Pas, Sask., in connection with the Hudson Bay Railway consisting of car shops, repair shops,round houses and trackage.Twenty-three suffragettes, including twelve of the male specie : from Toronto took part in the great Washington suffragette parade on Inauguration Day.The complete immigration figures for January jus} PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON.struction on the part of the Opposition, when the Hon.Chat.Murphy demanded an explanation in regard to the | differences between the Premier and the Hon.F.D.Monk, | declaring that the Bill would not be allowed to pass until such explanations had been made.The Hon.Frank THE closing hours of the debate on the passage of the | | Oliver also went on the warpath, renewing his demand for AND EXTEND TO YOU A Announce Their Spring Style Exposition MONDAY, MARCH 10th ver also pa | redistribution and a plebiscite.Nevertheless, the vote 5 MOST CORDIAL INVITATION i took place at the close of the following session.when the : Government carried their measure by a majority of thirty.| The amendment of Mr.J.P.O.Guilbault, proposing that '.the measure should be submitted to the people on a ple-! | biscite, and that of Mr.J.G.Turriff, declaring for redistribution and an appeal to the people, were first disposed of by division, the former being defeated by the startling TO BE PRESENT.WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.BOY SCOUT EXHIBIT.One of the most significant move- ' ments of the day will be brought into \u2018some prominence on Saturday, March 8th, when the Boy Scout Exhibition us those of men and women we want ! to see, or at least can respect.Mrs.Personal Pankhurst in the Windsor Hall, and ! Mrs.Pankhurst in London, are, 1 assure you as different as Dr.Jekill and Mr.Hyde.\u201d WESTMOUNTER.x % \u2018I desire to congratulate you upon Mention.Miss Emily Shirley, entertained a the tea hour on Saturday March 1st, will be opened at The Victoria Hall, Westmount.The Boy Scout movement brings t the rising masculine generation into line with modern life, developing in the the highly successful launching of this boys order, method and punetualit very important journalistic enter- { prise.Judging from the style, makeup and general literary excellence of the paper it will certainly do what all journalistic ventures of the kind are oped by their sponsors to do.\u2018fill a long-felt want.\u2019 \u201d A.M.SUTHERLAND, Ottawa.* HO # \u2018There is room in this city for a new weekly and Montrealers should encourage a home production of this kind.venture will need and energy.Inaugurated as Twenty-eighth President of the United tenacity and spirit of a Captain Scott.\u201d States.A.M.STEELE, Montreal.\u2014 - ~ Cee = : x # # issued show the year to have made a good beginning.They majority of 176.The division followed a strong debate in \u201cThe Saturday Mirror is a very show an increase of 2,024 in arrivals at ocean ports and 687 | which both leaders spoke the final word on their party's d one, and much like the English from the U.8, being 53 and 13 per cent.respectively over | policy, regarding Canada\u2019s assistance to Imperial defence.lustrated newspapers, which | feel those of last year.Sir Wilfrid Laurier, after outlining his policy, challenged sure will appeal to all your readers.Father Giroux, a Jesuit missionary-colonizer, arrived in | the verdict of the people, a challenge which was answered It is a paper that has been needed.\u201d Winnipeg with the advance guard of 2.000 settlers who are hy the Premier in the following words which concluded 3 ; to take up home: in thePeacs River distriet.ls speech:\u2014 \u2018 ; : EL (MRS) MADGE RILEY, to take up home to bo Paper Mills in Merrition, Ont.| \"We have the confident belief that the great voice of the Me Louis Chandler of in honor of | acted a principal hostesses.Blackpool, England.| À ) 1 .caused damage to the extent of $150,000.Canadian people is behind the proposals which we have | * # # Nova Scotia introduces legislation to aid in combating : submitted to this Parliament, and we intend to press these Cards were played at fre table ower | HisMajesty sTheat at the residence of her sister Mrs.V.and furnishing them with the idea Bertram Whittle, on Old Orchard without which all life is dry and im- .8 i perfect.Avenue.The hostess was wearing There are some 40,000 boy scouts a handsome gown of blue charmeuse in Canada and only 1.800 of these are satin, trimmed with lace, and a lovely in Quebec, but a though Quebec is corsage bouquet of orchids und lilies far behind her sister province of Ontaof the valley.She was assisted in .rio, where there are over 8,000 scouts, receiving by her sister, Mrs.Whittle, in point of numbers, this province has who was gowned in pink with a beauti- a summer camp, Tamaracouta, in the ful overdress of silver chiffon, and Laurentian Mountains which is the wore American beauty roses.Masses only scout camp in Canadaof red carnations were used to decorate the drawing room, while large double 1.» - » .yellow jonquils and purple sweet ST.PAUL'S GIRLS® CLUB.eas were used in the dining room.The S8t.Paul's Girls\u2019 Club was Clarence Pumaresq and Mrs.opened on Thursday night by an the tea and inaugural tea in the fine rooms under- [ M St.Paul\u2019s Presbyterian Churchoung ladies assisting After the tea there was a programme iss Kathleen Trihey of music.There was a good attend- and Miss Eva Poirier.ance of club members.who received Mrs.G.Boardman Layton gave an a hearty welcome from the president, informal \u2018Five Hundred\" party oni Mrs.Wellington Dixon and the vice- : Monday, March 4th, at her home in president, Mrs.Bruce Taylor, who Secretary of State in the new United States Cabinet.Mrs.Te George Driscoll poured I coffee, while the ices were cut by Miss , neat Shirley.The to serve were \u201c1 have carefully read over the first tuberculosis.Municipa sanatoria and clin cs are to be | proposals hard, firmly, and confidently to a conclusion in n, established throughout the Province, all being under the this, House and in the country.\u201d devel ni Avenue, who has been visiting her 2 supervision of a Public Healt cer.e first day in committee did not develop any thing be à field in Montreal for such à paper | P Declaring that there would be fewer accidents to steam serious.After seven hours talk, during which the Premier Saranac Lake, has returned to town.among the English speaking people.\u201d ships if a high standard of vision was maintained among | quoted figures to prove that the plan of two fleet units * *¥ * Miss Ethel Morgan, who has been D.M.GILMOUR.Montreal.' St Lawrence river pilots a Quebec oculist told of cases: would cost sixty-eight million dollars, the first sections of x x * where men had obtained certificates after his rejection\u2019 the Bill were allowed to pass.The talk-fest began in the |in town for some weeks, the guest of \u201c1 thi ; .\"and that nothing was done when the matter was reported.| following session.After five hours discussion of private | Mrs.Garnet Retallack, and Mrs.I think fixing the price at five.Fire at Palmerston, Ont., destroyed that branch of the | bills, the Naval Bill was reached and discussed foracoupleof .Spaidat left this week for her home in cents was & master stroke of policy.Canada Malting Company, doing damage to the amount of ' hours.Sir Wilfrid then rose and suggested adjournment.| Ottawathree numbers of your publication and \u2018brother Mr.C.L.P.Hayden, at am pleased with it.here ought to Miss Horniman's Company This Afternoon and Evening At a dime, the Mirror\u2014tn some\u2014 might be a luxury.In exchange fora nickel it is a necessity to all.\u201d EDWARD L.WOOD, 127 Bayle Street, Montreal.* x» \"The Baby's Blue Eyes is a story much below what we expected from our paper.Perhaps you did not see it.Let us hope not.NO NAME, Westmount.The United States Navy De ' head torpedoes from the British factory.President Wilson Inaugurated.Miss Pauline Laurier has returned | Tuuesx * 0% Keir Hardie was mobbed by the students of Manchester from Ottawa where she has been visit- | mwg.- THE SILVER BOX \u20181 have the h:ghe«t admirat'on for your paper.It is a great literary ; 1 ; treat, and 1 have taken it si the | Sir Edw i lai i respectively, of the United States, in Washington, on ; Friday 3 tres ; and ve taken it since the | re Grey will proclaim the annexation of Egypt March ath, with the customary ceremonies, Fhe new pr he, mori, 6th, for a \"= What the Public Wants R.McDONALD, Montreal., King George and Queen Mary gave a small dance at President, in his inaugur ress, outlining his program, WC.J.Hall, of bee.wh , ki > .d bei nt.made the following statement : Mra.W.C.J.Hall, of Quebec, who | Saterday Buckingham Palace.only four hundred being present \u201cWe have itemized with some degree of particularity has been the guest of Mrs.Macince | NAN \u201c # # I am quite pleased with your paper al find dt both inatructive and entertaining.1 predict for it a large cireulation.J.A.DAWSON, 623 Victoria avenue, Westmount $100,000.British.Sir William H.White, the celebrated naval architect, ! died suddenly at » London hotel.| apprentice in the Devonpo d i be chief designer to the British Admiralty.| For the first time in its history, a woman will act as | president at a British Association meeting when Ethel Rargent, a leading botanist, presides over the botanical section meeting at Birmingham.Department order 275 White- University and forced to abandon his meeting.It is believed in Constantinople and in London that ; What is said to be the severest earthquake ever felt in New Zealand occurred around the city of Wellington.Chimneys were demolished and many houses damaged, .while many people were injured by falling debris.; It is said the battleship New Zealand will be selected {an the flagship of the Pacific fleet to be maintained by Australasia.\u2018Mr.Borden expressed a desire that progress should be He started life as an ort naval dockyards and rose to Mrs.J.B.Persse, with her daughter Miss Lorna Persse, who have n spending some weeks in town visiti Mrs.A.J.Brown and Mrs.R.E.Thorne, left for Winnipeg on T urs- day, March 6th.Vire.Waiter Dorion, who has been visiting in Ottawa has returned to town.Mr.Colin C.Doran, who has been Sir Wilfrid argued, but Mr.Borden was not to be \u201cWe had better make some progress,\u201d he said.* was Sir Wilfrid's made.moved.\u201cVery well, then, let us make progress, answer, and he sat down determinedly.Since then, the House has been in continuous session.The Liberals have the floor to themselves, their speakers delivering lengthy speeches and quotations, both relevant and irrelevant to the subject, which nobody listens to, while the (Government maintain a quorum.has returned to Montreal.OODROW WILSON and Thomas R.Marshall were as President and Vice-President, inaupurated ing her aunt, Lady Laurier he Misses Cors and Ruth Baillie the thingn that ought to be altered and here are some of the (ockburn, Cedar avenue, fof some chief items: A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation, snd makes the government a facile instrument in the hands of private interests; a banking and currence system based upon the necessity of the government to sell its honds fifty years ago and perfectly adapted to concen- Lansdowne avenue, Westmountx # # Mr.and Mrs.Horace Joseph and from New York, and Mise Sybil visiting for some weeks in Nassau, weeks, is now visiting Mrs.P.P.Hall, | Miss Marguerite Joseph have returned | \u201c * ! .?! ! : ; Your Mirror in splendid.1t isa The Senate ae int t of Irwin B trating cash and Te ren a ari ara Tel he has heen Yims : e Senate confirm e appointment of Irwin B.| which, take it on all its rides, financial as well as administra- Philadelphia, has also return to treat to sev such good things come Laughlin as first secretary of the United States Embassy | tive, holds capital in leading strings, restricts the liberties town.P from a Canadian newspaper office.\u201d CO.E.BILLINGS, Ottawa.» x x ; \u201cThe Saturday Mirror is without doubt of high order and certain! merits the support of all Montrealers.\u2019 LILYAN BULLING, 112 St.Luke Street, Montreal.\u201c x # } am particularly pleased with the stand the Mirror is taking on the question of women's suffrage.B.M.AUSTIN, 117 Drummond street, Montat London.He is a Taft nominee but the appointment has been held up, along with 2,000 others, by the deadlock between Republicans and Democrats, It is believed that twenty people lost their lives in the fire which destroyed the Dewey Hotel at Omaha, Neb, which did property damage to the amount of $1.000,000.President Taft presented to Captain Rostron the gold medal authorized by Congress for his courage and gallantry in rescuing the survivors of the Titanic disaster.i Mrs.Mabel Mills, wife of Texan banker, was beaten snd robbed of $45,000 in cash on a main street of a Chicago \u2018 suburb.| District Attorney Whitman estimates that the police t collected in New York city amounts to about $12,- Miss Maud Macdonald left last week for New York, where she will spend some.time, Lady Chapleau and her niece, Miss Chapleau, of Ottawa.left on Sunday, March 2nd.for Naples.Before leavin and limits the opportunities of lahor, and exploits without renewing or conserving the natural resources of the country; a body of agricultural activities never yet given the efficiency of great business undertakings or served as it should be through the instrumentality of science taken directly to the farm, or afforded the facilities of credit beat suited to its practical needs; watercourses undeveloped.waste Lady Chapleau engaged à suite o places unreciaimed, forests untended, fast disappearing rooms at La Corona Hotel, where she without plan or prospect of renewal, unregard waste will reside upon her return.heaps at every mine.\u201d Miss Edna O'Malley, who is at pres- he new cabinet is aa follows: ; ent in New York, attended the mid- Secretary of State\u2014 William Jennings Bryan.of Nebraska; Secretary of the Treasury -William (3.MeAdoo, of New York: Secretary of War- - Lindley M.Garrison, of New Jersey; Attorney-General \u2014James McReynolds, of thedral Club, given on Thursday evening February 27th, and was also a est at the danoe of the Quakers in Lenten musicale of the Brooklyn Ca- { S00 yearly.\u201c # » | The monster suffragette parade in Washington received | Tennessee; Post master-Cieneral \u2014 Representative Albert Hotel St.George.Brooklyn, on Tues- I like your paper very much and | .such unsympathetic treatment from the authorities and A Burleson, of Texan; Secretary of t Navy \u2014Josephus day, evening.At the ball Miss y pepe y populace that the women who took part declared them- | Daniels.of North Carolina; Secretary of the Interior\u2014 0 Malley wore a bandsome gown of | want to go in for every contest you have, wim or lose.FISIE WEBB, 70 Walker avenue, Bt.Henry.\u201c ## « nti .| explosion of » heavy ch of powder hurled many tons | born in Prince E ! Te oY atin om I have is ver) of stones among the assembled spectators, killing 8fty and | ia California, however, and practised law there.He was à (he less money & man has the quicker | poor ve injuring nearly two hundred.candidate for Governor on the Democratie ticket in that à doctor will cure him.\u2014 timore A.KICKER, Montreal.| \"The trial of the auto bandits in Paris, which has created | State, and received the vote of his party for Remator.American.4 ' selves to be ashamed of the National Capitol.Europe.Instead of demolishing a large mass of reck ia cotner- tion with harbor improvements at Gijon, Spain, the Franklin K.Lane, of Californias; Secretary of Agriculture \u2014 David F.Houston, nf Missouri; Secretary of Commerce-\u2014 Representative William C.Redfield,of New York; Seeretary of Labor -William B.Wilson, of Prnnsyivania.Franklin Knight Lane is a native of Canada.He was Award Island, in 1564.He was educated and pretty silver em pink charmeuse veiled in rhinestone THE SHORT CUT.| Money may represeat power, but | Ske Stoops to Conquer Repertoire for last week of Season.Mon.Bveand wise.| SheStoopsteConquer = No?One twenty-five then, who'll give one and a quarter ?| 1 don\u2019t know which part you're bid- | ding on but it all goes together.One twenty-five, six, thank you.Now who'l One-fifty is seventy-five ?give one rey?hank you.bid.rho\u2019ll give one old.| \u201cI'll say this.Anybody as buys: this set for ten dollars and you don\u2019t want it, leave it in the store.That's ail.All genu-wine Nat-suma hand ! painted with the Gre-shaw gel decoration and all inlaid in gold.Won't wash off nor wear off, and every piece signed by the artist, and I am bid one seventy-five.Going at one seventy- five.\u2018ho\u2018il give two ?Who\u2019ll give one-eighty.ould you, sir?Would rou give more than one seventy-five or this fine set.You wouldn't.Well all right.But you'll be sorry, mind.i ** All right, sold for one seventy- five.This gentleman here with the green tie.Not sold, but given away.Now what's the next thing 1 can give away to these people here ?x # # \u201cHa' Well, well, well, here's some- ! thing particularly nice, now.This is a vase of the well known peach bloom china with a daffydill, or a somethin like that.à flower on it.This is off high class goods, you know.You're i that in.This is no apprentice work you know.All done by the famous Japanese artist Kishy-tishy.Now, how mueh?Two dollars?No?One dollar ?seventy-five cents, fifty cents?Thank you.I would, too.Gentleman bids fifty cents on this fine piece of peach bloom china by the great artist Kishy-tishy.Fifty cents.hat\u2019s ten cents for each of the legs and ten cents for each of the handles.Nothing at all for the vase itself.You know the legs go with it.Oh, yes the legs go with it.\u201cNow then, who'll give seventy- five?You know, I'll only say one thing to you people here.You take it home and if mother doesn't say you've got & bargain bring it back and we'll give you your money back.Seventy-five cents.Thank you, sev- enty-five cents is bid for this peach bloom vase by the great Japanese artist Kishy-tishy.Who'll give eighty?Eighty cents.Huh?You'll give eighty?Thank you.I would myself.Eighty cents, going at eighty.Vho'll give ninety?Eighty cents, eighty cents bid.Sold.All right, wrap it up for the gentleman here with the coon coat on.Not sold but given AWAY.A % \u2018Now then.You people try my patience so I'm going to try your rockets.Here's something in this ittle green box.Now what Il you give for what's in this box, before you see it 7\" Silence.\u201cCome now, who'll give five cents for it ?You will.Thank you young man, you've got courage.hank you.Five cents, who'll give ten?en cents, who'll give fifteen ?Fifteen.Who'll give a quarter ?Twenty-five cents, who'll give it for what's in this little green box ?Who'll give twenty- five cents?All right, who'll give twenty cents ?Twenty cents, thank you, going for twenty cents.Who'll give à quarter?You will.Thank ou.Why wouldn't you give it be- ore .Twenty-five cents.You shall have it.Sold at twenty-five cents to that Joung man there.Now then everybody come around and see what this young man got.»* * .\u2018*Ha-O-O-ah! Just sec what's here.Six little Japanese spiders with wiry legs.You know you can have a lot of fun with these little things.Oh, yes.You see you tie a piece of string round the middle of \u2018em and dangle \u2018em up and down.They're useful too.Oh, yes.You know I've got a lot of these things hanging up in my house at home, and in the summer when the flien come around, yuo know they see these big spiders and they fly away in.Oh, yes.\u201d \u201cWhat, you don't want \u2018em ?Hey, bidding on the real stuff when you 4 .¢ go away now, that's all right \u2019 3 buy here.You know you can't get this stuff at the five.ten, fifteen cent stores.No, air!\u201d \u201cHow much for this fine vise, do to put flowers in in your droring room ?All peach bloom work stamped and signed.You know this is very expensive china.You see, first of all the artist colors the whole of the background in that delicate yellow tint except the flowers and then he shades i has shown to be really effective: and when we realize that future citizens: will look back on us with just the same eomethi unbelieving horror as that with which ' sorry.Yes, you'll be sorry.Don't go sway mad, that's all.Nowwhat d'you think of that.Anybody else want these six for a quarter.You know the right price is a quarter each.Nobody want \u2018em ?All right.Put \u2018em back, but mind you, you'll be * \u201cWell, what'll I give away now.If you see saything fou want, you know, int it out, and I'll put it up for you.a! What have we here?My word, what a beauty, what a beauty.Here's somethi nice now.Here's out of the ordinary.\u201cA Sat-auma tea set, six cupe we now look back at the times of and sx saucers to matoh, maling \u2018\u2019Rizpah:\u201d do we not begin to realize that it is time for us to view life from a new standpoint?{ Rizpah wails to-day for her mur | dered child: will you comfort her by the assuraues that you have no time | twelve pieces in all.Al the very finest goods, and ab-eolutely the last one in the collection.All hand painted and inlaid in gold and every pi signed by the artist.Ho f this be-au-ti-ful set.Start Tt where for fads, or will you stop the murder?| you like, your prices ismine.\"\u201d MP.8.Ra a The Saturday Mirror EDITED BY EDWARD BECK.| THE SATURDAY MIRROR is published every Saturday at 275 Craig Street West, Montreal.Telephone Main 8150 all departments.SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $2.50 per year in Canada or Great Britain ; Elsewhere $3.50.THE MONTREAL PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED.T.KELLY DICKINSON, - President EDWARD BECK, Secretary-Treasurer.SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1913.Our Influential Press.THis Tramways muddle is somewhat of an eye-opener, if you stop to think about it.The Herald has been demanding justice up and down the scale for something like four months, now.The Star has been demanding justice, tempered with mercy enough to make it clear that it is the Star's justice and not the Herald's that it wants, for rather less than the same period of time.And now behold the Witness, heseeching the Tramways Company and the Civie authorities to \u2018* Get Together\u2018, which is shocking language for the Witness to use.Moreover, the Herald has appointed an \u2018\u2018expert\u2019 and the Star has appointed an \u2018expert\u2019, and both papers have hurled scornful insinuations at each other's *\u2018experts\u2019\u2019 ever since the appointments were announced.The Witness, being a little late dn the \u2018expert\u2019 game, is denouncing both papers for appointing \u2018experts\u2019.So there you are.And in the meantime the Annexite, the Westmounter, THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 8, 1913.Canada in London: A Weekly Causerie.(From Our Own Correspondent.) LoNDoN, MARCH 1sT.THE news that the Canadian Government is prepared to share in the sacred responsibility imposed upon their countrymen by the dead heroes of the Antarctic has been received with every acclamation of enthusiasm.It is felt that that bare interchange of consolatory telegrams which takes place between countries at times of national disaster has been supplemented by a very concrete expression of sympathy.Though the average Englishman knows nothing of Canadian politics and is very little concerned whether Sir Wilfred Laurier or Mr.Borden holds the reins of office, he will tell you that Canada is giving three Dreadnoughts to the navy.He understands that and will remember it as a direct act of confidence and friendliness.He may pay little attention to the courtesies of kings and politicians, but now he is telling his neighbor that Canada is \u201cstumping up\u2019 to help the widows and children of four brave men.deeds.; There is no doubt that \u2018n London many generous hands have so far been withheld by an uncertainty as to the action of the Government in the matter.Mr.Asquith explicitly stated that the responsibility lay with the country and that the country as a whole must bear it, but no definite announcement has yet been made.The result, as Mr.J.M.Barrie pointed out in a letter which the Outremonter, and the East Ender, not to mention the Point St.Charles man or the Verdunite, still sway penduously, something after the style of faded morning | glories, from their respeetive straps, poking their respee- tive papers into their neighbor's respective eyes and mak- | ing vain attempts to keep their respective pedal extremities from beneath those of their fellow sufferers.Now, how much influence do the daily papers in Montreal possess, anyway, if all this mountain of hullaballoo can | with such terrific labor produce so non-existent a mouse?A Disgraceful Incident.Rattle his bones Over the stones, He's only a pauper Whom nobody owns.\u2014 Hoodstory of a man in needy circumstances who was arrested as a vagrant and lodged in jail.As he seemed ill it was | taken for granted that he was either shamming or drunk.] In point of fact.he was actually at an advanced stage of | typhoid and he died four days after his admittance into prison, having received no proper nursing and the doctor who examined him not having recognized his malady.The report also says that every effort was made to find information about this man.Was there ever such a triumph of red tape over ordinary human intelligence.The man was ill and in agony in front of these officials ; and, whilst they hunted for statistics, he died.Accidents | recently appeared in the London press, is that the sub- seriptions from private persons have not represented the feeling of real admiration and sympathy which is widespread throughout the country.x HK FX R.BECKLES WILLSON, the well known writer on Canada, has this week published a new book on Quebec which is sure to attract considerable attention.' Mr.Willson, who now resides at Westerham, General , Wolfe's native village, in Quebec House, Wolfe's birth- | place, does not adopt an altogether uncritical attitude to Canada and Canadians.In a chapter headed ** Montreal Characteristics\u2019 he writes as follows: \u2018\u2019There are a few secular institutions whose head- : quarters are in Montreal, which in their potency, their pervasiveness and their wealth almost rival the church.Of these are the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Grand Trunk Railway and the Bank of Montreal.The magnates of these institutions (which by the way are housed in FEW nights ago the Montreal papers recorded, in! monster edifices su gesting public departments) move plain language and almost without a comment, the ! like pontiffs and cardinals, from club to office, from office to racecourse or hotel, their every movement followed by the rapt attention of the whole community.Rumors of their plans, their \u2018\u2019deals\u2019\u2019, their daily increasing personal wealth.form in many English-speaking circles the current staple of conversation.One is sometimes in despair at the rank materialism which such preoccupation indices.One feels how spiritually and intellectually narrowing it must be to cling to ideas so exclusively commercial: and more than once have I turned with relief to the company of men who have quite openly and frankly ceased to worship at the shrine of the great god Success, : or to that other and larger and yet more difficult society in the eastern part of the city who have never (as yet) worshipped there at all.Yet there has always been a fraternity of scholars and poets of both races in Montreal, ' HE , he put down on the seat.The practical touches his heart and he feels a natural respect for a country which follows words with FAMILIAR INCIDENTS IV.-4#lp Unknown Friend By S +++ TEPHEN B.LEACOCK stepped into the smoking compartment of the Pullman where I was sitting alone.He had on a long fur-lined coat and he carried a fifty dollar suitcase that Then he saw me.\u2018* Well, well! !\u2019 he said, and recognition broke out all over his face like morning sunlight.\u201cWell, well,\u201d I repeated.\u201cBy Jove,\u201d he said, shaking hands vigorously, \u2018who would have thought of seeing you?\u201d Who indeed, I thought to myself.He looked at me more closely.\u201cYou haven't changed a bit,\u201d he said.\u201cNeither have you,\u201d said I heartily.\u201cYou may be a little stouter,\u201d he went on critically.; \u201cYes,\u201d I said, \u201ca little, but you're | touter yourself.\u201d This of course would help to ex-| That was something to build on.¥* # ¥* Presently he began again.**Yes,\u201d he said, \u2018I sometimes meet some of the old boys and they begin to talk of you and wonder what you're doing.\u201d \u2018Poor things,\u201d I thought, but I didn\u2019t say it.I knew it was time now to play a bold stroke; so I used the method that I always employ.1 struck in with great animation.\u2018Say!\u2019 I said, \u2018\u2018 Where\u2019s Billy?Do vou ever hear anything of Billy now?\u201d This is really a very safe line.Every old gang has a Billy in it.\u201cYes,\u201d said my friend, \u2018\u2019sure\u2014 Billy is ranching out in Montana.I saw him in Chicago last spring\u2014 weighed about two hundred pounds\u2014 you wouldn\u2019t know him.\u201d No, I certainly wouldn't, I mured to myself.mur- Many Things *\u201cThe time has come,\u2019 the Walrus said, \u2018to talk of many things.\u2019 \u201d , A° you may be aware, the Senate of | Canada is now sitting.The Senate is of course, a very important section of our political machinery, and without the Senate the whole fabric of our great and glorious Dominion would crumble, totter and very quickly fall to earth in disintegration and decay.If you think I am exaggerating the matter, all you have to do is ask the nearest Senator.Any Senator will do, irrespective of party, for whatever cataclysmic political upheavals may | rend the Senator from time to time, no | Senator has yet been found so base, so utterly beyond redemption, as to suggest that the Senate is anything but the cornerstone of our Constitution, the only prop and stay of representative Government in this country.! x WH ¥ SUCH being the case you may be- | lieve that I was amazed, shocked, not to say astounded to learn in the course of a casual perusal of the Sen- \u2018ate Hansard the other day, on no less authority than that of the Hon.Senator Pope, that \u201c\u2018in the opinion of the Senate, the apartments at its disposal for the accommodation of its committees and its members are entirely inadequate to its wants.\u201d The Hon.Senator Pope was very positive on the point, indeed he even went so far as to move a resolution on the matter, although I am sure it must have grieved him sorely to think that so bitter a tas} as the condemnation of the Chambers in which the Senate of Canada sits, should have devolved upon his shoulders.Speaking in support of his motion, the Hon.Senator Pope made the following solemn announcement\u2019 \u201cWe have no accommodation now for ladies in this end of the building.Some eight or nine additional Senators will be coming in soon, and in view of .these facts some enlargement of this end of the building should be made.\u201d FH OW it seems to me that this is one of the most enormous, most serious crises that the country has ever faced.I call upon the men of this fair Dominion to be calm in the face of this tremendous impending calamity.For if the Senate of Canada has not sufficient room for its deliberations, why, then it is obvious that its deliberations will be curtailed.If its activities have not the space needed for their proper accomplishment it seems terribly likely that its activities will be lessened.In this tremendous { moment when the very life of the Sen- \u2018ate of Canada is endangered, we need big, brave, men, who will come to our aid, unthinking of danger and recking naught of private ends, remembering happen and the best of men are sometimes mistaken in wom 1 have always thoug et as solacing themselves in, So :me it is verv their engulfed state by reading each other's books an their judgments, at the same time it is very hard to | boems, while waiting for the waters of materialism to realize how any who take their duties seriously can | subside.Perhaps after the present real estate * boom only that the cornerstone of our national existence is threatened with collapse, that the Senate of Canada, in have allowed such a horrible thing to happen.Sticking to a Good Name.H T bearing the name of \u201cGraham,\u201d has gone back to its original nomenclature.Sioux tribe, the whole institution of lookouts, and finally , the Hon.George P.Graham, who is at present sufficiently | young and energetic to attend to his own commemorating.| The process of sticking the names of living persons, who are too close at hand to be viewed in perspective, upon towna and villages and rural municipalities which have done nothing to deserve it is becoming far too common in Canada.We have, in fact, 80 many new places to name that when this commemoration policy is adopted there are not enough commemorable persons to go round, and quite a number of settlements in the West appear to have heen named after the first Pullman-ear porter who climbed off the train to arrange a step for the debarcation of the passengers.Let Sioux Lookout eling tight to its present appellation, for fear that somebody may re-baptise it from the list of names in the dead-letter office.Our Inadequate Speech.HE Women's Press Club of Teronto entertained some of the artists of the Montreal Opera Company the other afternoon.It seems that a lack of French on the part of the English-npeaking hostesses and of English on the part of the kings and queens of song caused a slight hitch in the proceedings.It is not evervone who has a sufficiently agile play of facial expression to entertain and be entertained wit aout the use of the voice.Why is so little attention paid to foreign languages in our system of education ?The English and the French are the worst offenders in this respect.Germans, on the contrary, take infinite pains to speak fluently at least one tongue hesides their native one.The polyglot facilities of Russians and Greeks are well known.It is possible to go into shops in country villages in Norway and Sweden and be served by a man or woman who talks excellent English.Even if Chaucer's prioress could not speak the \u2018\u2019Frenche of Parys\u2018\u2019 she got along quite well conversationally with the French of \u2018\u2018Btratford-atte-Bowe.\u2019 It was better than nothing.The Sins of the Children.[PUNISH parents for the depredations of their children, says Mrs.Charles B.Stover, Park Commissioner of New York.This is very nice but it puts a terrible power into the hands of the naughty boy.and it puts the peremts in a most embarrassing position.If they spare the rod, the youngster may depredate and they will suffer for his depredations.If they threaten to chastise him, he replies: \u2018\u2018 All right, give me a licking and I will do a depredation;\u201d then when you say \u201cit really hurts you more than it does me,\u2019 you will be telling the truth for once.Songless Singers.HEN the Welsh Church Disestablishmeat Bill was passed the Welsh members who had voted for it, tried to sing \u2018\u2018Land of Our Fathers\u2019 in the language of their fathers.A sympathetic London weekly admits that \u2018as a musical effort the effect was ludicrous.\u201d Perhaps it was something of this kind prevented Fraak Oliver from trying to sing \u2018God Save the King.\u2019 When à man doesn't know the words.doesn't know the music and dossn't know how to sing.be should confne himerif to \u201cSoags Never Bung.\u201d We congratulate the town, the |gqpiration to the Province of generation in Montreal will settle has had its day, the risin | flectual sobriety and the aesthetic [itself and cultivate inte amenities of life.\u201d | Mr Willson regrets the absence of a .\u2019 \u2018worthy theatre\u2019 E town of Sioux Lookout, after a brief experience of | in Montreal and remarks it as astonishing that the city \u2018great public library.\u201d It is only fair illson's book abounds in tributes of uebee and its capital.Another critic of Canada, Miss Ella C.Sykes, whose book \u2018A Home Help in Canada\u2019 was based on her own actual experiences, is to lecture at the Royal Society of Arts on Feb, 25th on Openings for Educated Women in Canada.\u201d Earl Grey, the former Governor-General is to be in the chair.* OH kX A YOUNG Canadian violinist of exceptional calibre, who has made her appearance in London before, is again heard here in recital.Miss Rhoda Simpson, who has secured the direct patronage of Lord and Lady Strathecna and Mr.and Mrs.J.Norton Griffiths, was educated at St.Mary's Catholic Academy in Winnipeg.She studied her instrument at Liege.Belgium and at Leipzig.' here she appeared with great success at a concert of the Philharmonic Orchestra.The Landgraf of Hesse, who heard her play in Dresden, took a great interest in her.and asked her to his castle of Holstein, At her first recital in London on June 4th of last vear she was very well received by the erities and every success is looked for in her second appearance.Miss Simpson owes a great deal to the encouragement of her Canadian friends who, besides Lord and Lady Strathcona, include Mrs.Robert Rogers of Winnipeg.Speaking of Lord Strathcona,it is interesting to notice that that veteran representative is to be supported by Prince Alexander of Teck when he takes the chair at the Festival Dinner of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic to be held at the Hotel Metropole on April 16th.A Canadian born who has lately received preferment is the Rev.Prebendary Storrs who till recently was Vicar of that venue of the fashionable wedding, St.Peter's, \"Eaton Square.Prebendary Storrs has been appointed to the vacant Deanery of Rochester, the position once held by that famous horticultural cleric Dean Hole.\"He was born at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, and educated at the Collegiate School at Windsor.before taking up his residence, at Pembroke College, Cambridge.I : x x Xx x AATHER items of social intelligence are\u2014that two grandsons of the late Sir Hugh Allan, Sir George Houston-Boswall, Bart., and Capt.H.H.Gribbon are ! shortly to be married, the first to Miss Anstey.a daughter of Col.Anstey.and the second to Miss Marjorie Bruce, a daughter of the late Capt.Bruce, R.N.of Waterlooville, | Hants.Sir George Houston-Boswall is to be married (at Brompton Parish Church on Wednesday Feb.26th, | and Capt.Gribbon at Denmead, Hampshire on March 5th.i Mra.F.J.W.Heubach of Winnipeg and Miss Heubach \"have arrived in London and are staying at the Carlton \u2018Hotel.Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, manager in Lon- | don of the Bank of Montreal, with Lady Williams-Taylor and Miss Brenda Williams-Taylor have left London for \u2018Cannes.where they are to join Mr.and Mrs.James Ross on their yacht Glencairn R.Y.8.for à cruise in the Mediterranean.| The I : tribution of Toronto.Mr.and Mrs.Norton Griffiths have left London for the ~ontinent for a few weeks as have also Mr.and Mrs.Donald Macmaster.Mr.C.D.H.Macpherson of Winnipeg is staying at the | Hotel Ruseell.Mr.H.Gagnier, of the \u2018Saturday N ie in London.A SUIT for dissolution of partnership in New York has | brought to light the meanest rombimation yet in restraint of trade.Nothing less than a cemetery trust, | formed to get possession of cemeteries in different States | foreclosure sales and if not profitable enough to turn them into building lote.should possess no to state that Mrmperia] Moriety of Knights has received a con- £500 from Benator Sir Lyman Melvin-Jones ght \u2018 Toronto, MAYFAIR.\u201cWell, Well,\u2019 he said, and recognition broke out all over his face like morning sunlight.\u201d plain away any undue stoutness on | my part.| **No,\"\u201d I continued, boldly and firmly, \u201cyou look just about the same as ever.\u201d | And all the time I was wondering who he was.I didn't know him from Adem: | couldn't recall him a bit.1 don't mean that my memory is weak.On the contrary, it is singularly tenacious.True, I find it very hard to remember people's names; very often too it is hard for me to recall a face; and frequently 1 fail to recall a person's appearance; and of course clothes are a thing one doesn\u2019t notice But apart from these details, 1 never forget anybody and I am proud of it.But when it does happen that a name or face escapes me, | never lose my presence of mind.1 know just how to deal with the situation.It only needs coolness and intellect and it all comes right.My friend sat down.% # *# It's a long time since we met,\u2019 he said.\u201cA long time,\u201d | repeated with something of a note of sadness.1 wanted him to feel that I too had suffered from it.\u2018\u2018But it has gone very quickly.\" \u2018Like «à flash,\u201d | assented cheerfully.\u201cStrange,\u201d he said, \u2018'how life gocs | on and we lose track of people, and things alter.I often think about it.I sometimes wonder,\u201d he continued, \u2018where ail the old gang are gone to.\u201d \u2018Bo do 1,\u201d I said.In fact | was wondering about it at the very moment.! always find in circumstances like these that a man begina sooner or later to talk of the | \u2018old gang\u2019 or \u2018the boys\u2019 or \u2018the crowd.\u2019 ! That's where the opportunity comes in to gather who he is.! \u2018Do you ever go back to the old place?\u2019 he asked.\u201cNever,\u201d | said, firmly and flatly.This had to be absolute.| felt that once and for ail the \u2018old place\u2019 must be ruled out of the discussion till 1 could | discover where it was.! \u201cNo,\u201d he went on, \u201c| suppose you'd ! hardly care to.\u201d | \u2018Not now,\u201d ! said very genUs.\u2018\u2018l'underatand.I beg your pardon.\u201d | he said, and there was silence for a few moments.: So far J had ncored the first point.i There was evideotly an old place, \u2018And where's Pete?\u201d I said.This was safe ground.There is always a Pete.\u201cYou mean Billy's brother,\u201d he said.\u201cYes, yes, Billy's brother Peteoften think of him.\u201d \u2018\u201cOh,\u201d answered the unknown man, \u201cold Pete's quite changed\u2014-settled down altogether\u201d- here he began to chuckle-\u2014 why Pete's married!\" I started to laugh too.Under these circumstances it is always supposed to be very funny if a man hasgot married.The notion of old Peter (whoever he in) being married ix presumed to be simply killing.[| kept on ehuckling away quietly at the mere idea of it.| was hoping that 1 might manage to keep on laughing till the train stopped.I had only fifty miles more to go.It's not hard to laugh for fifty miles if you know how.But my friend wouldn't he content with it.I À % \u201c1 often meant to write to you,\u201d he ' said, his voice falling to a confidential ' tone, \u2018especially when ! heard of your loss.\u201d I remained quiet.What had I lost?Was it money?And if so, how much?And why had | lost it?1 wondered if it had ruined me or only partly ruined me.\u2018*One can never get over a loss like that\u201d \u2014he continued solemnly.Evidently I was plumb ruined.But I said nothing and remained under cover waiting to draw his fire.\u2018Yes,\u2019 the man went on, '\u2018death is always sad.\u201d Death! Oh, that was it, was it?I easy.Handling a case of death in these conversations in simplicity itself.One has only to sit quiet and wait to find out who is dead.\u2018Yes, \"I! murmured, \u2018\u2018very sad.But it has its other side too.\u2018 \u201cVery true, especially, of course, at that age.\u2019 \u201cAs you say, at that age, and after such a life.\u2018 \u201cStrong and bright to the last | suppose,\u2019 he continued.very sympathetically.\u201cYes,\u201d I! said.falling on sure ground, \u201cable to sit up in bed and smoke within a few days of the end.\u201cWhat,\u201d he said perplexed, \u2018did your grandmother -\u2014 \u2018\u2019 My grandmother\u2019 That was it, was somewhere to which | would hardiy | ic?care to ga (Centinued os page 13) fact, is going to the demnition bowwows, becauseit hasnoaccommodation for ladies, in its end of the building.¥* x AR be it from me to pose as a jingo or an alarmist.The frightful assertions of the anti-reciproeity gentlemen, who so gallantly saved the Dominion from annexation by the greedy hordes of the United States, left me comparatively unmoved, and the front page despatches stating that the Ger man Emperor and a couple of aides- de-camp were planning a motor hoat trip to Brighton with the idea of turning the great industries of the United Kingdom into interior fillings for German wienerwursts, caused me no more than a slight shiver of alarm, but with so frightful a calamity as the curtailing of the Dominion Senate's facilities for the entertainment of its lady friends facing us, 1 feel that something must be done, and done quickly.As I said, I have no desire to pose as a jingo, or an alarmist.Still, | feel that it would be a eruel kindness to conceal any of the ghastly details of this impending tragedy from my readers, and so 1 am impelled to go on to a speech made in this connection hy the Hon.; Senator Power, who very properly express \u20188 his regrets \u201cthat the Divorce Committee, which is à very important committee, and one that sits very often, should be obliged to sit in the basement.\u201d Oh! shame! shame! What possible dignity can there be attached to a divorce decree issued by a committee which meets in the basement! Signed probably by a chairman ; whose seat was an upturned trunk, and whose dais was the coal bin.| Again I say, Shame! * + JFURTHERMORE, do not let us allow our grief at this horrible disclosure to cause us to overlook that other vital factor in this frightful | emergency, the fact that some eight or nine additional senators will be coming in soon.This appeals to me as one of the most pitiful issues in the whole affair.Here the Government, | blinded in its arrogance, and pursuing j its reckless headlong course to perdition regardless of expense, goes and shoves another eight or nine Senators in a building which already has no accommodation for the entertainment \u2018almost hiccoughed with joy.That was of ladies, and in which its most im- , portant committee is reduced to sit- iting in the hasement.Such a ste cannot too heartily be condemned.!' The electors of Canada, upon whom the ultimcte responsibility for this i frightful state of affairs rests, should arise in their might and demand a referendum, or a recall, or something, quickly, before those other eight or nine Senators encroach on the already {overcrowded confines of the Senate ' Buildings.As things are at present, there is no accommodstionforladiesin that end of the building.What will happen when the eight or nine new Senators plant their massive forms inside those sacred portals\u2019 Perhape even there will be no accommodation for Senators! Awful thought! They might abolish the Senate for want of room and put someting useful in ite Perdition! In the event of such aa upbeaval what should we do for whiskers?F.B.EK. THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 8, 1913.> Plays and Players By BERNARD K.SANDWELL THE Manchester Players will enter the last week of their five-weeks stay at His Majesty's on Monday next, and the programme which they will render during the week will be found elsewhere in this issue.The Princess Theatre has no engagement for next week, so far as is known at the moment of writing this column, owing to the cancellation of the Marie Dressler booking.The engagement of Miss Maud Fealy and her company in \u201cThe Right Princess\u201d at the Princess Theatre did not open until Tuesday, and a review of the performance will be found on another page.x A KK HAVE still been unable to summon up any great enthusiasm for the English Georgian comedy as presented by the Manchester Players.Since, however, both *\u2018The Rivals\u201d and \u201cThe School for Scandal\u2019 seem to have received a large measure of appreciation from the local publie, I am constrained to admit that some at least of that appreciation is probably due to merit in the performances.nfortunately the public did not show any materially eater appreciation for the performances of \u2018\u2018Twelft Night,\u201d a comedy written by one who is surely as definitely established in the temple of the accepted elassies (whie even a respectable Montrealer may properly patronise) as Sheridan, and performed with an extraordinary degree of beauty and poetic sympathy.The Horniman performances of Sheridan and Goldsmith could, I am confident, have been duplicated by any well-picked organization of competent players.The orniman performances of \u201cTwelfth Night\u201d were a revelation of the Shakespearian spirit, understood and interpreted by people who know and love it as few modern actors have done.LIE J IT requires no genius to overcome the difficulties of presenting Sheridan on the modern stage, because that stage is in essentials the same as in his day.To present Shakespeare on the modern stage\u2014to cater to the modern demand for a certain degree of pictorial effect, without sacrificing the rapidity of movement and freedom of imagination which are essential\u2014calls for something so near genius that it is hard to tell them apart.The Manchester \u201cTwelfth Night\u201d was produced by Lewis Casson, while not the best actor of the group which visited us last season was certainly the inspiring and directing mind of most of the fine work then done by the company.He has adopted a system of employing one full stage-setting in each act, representing the most important and \u201c\u2018atmospheric\u2019\u2019 scene in the act, and rendering that scene with great solidity, depth and richness of color, thus satisfying the modern need for the visible betokenment of high life and luxury and fantastic heauty, which to Shakespeare's contemporary audience were sufficiently conveyed by the imagery of his language.When the action of the piece moves away from this principal spot in each act, the change is effected without disturbing the set-scene, by the simple process of drawing curtains of neutral tint in front of it, the line of this new curtain background receding from the proscenium to a considerable distance back in the centre of the stage, and by the use of a few slight and suggestive roperties, such as the prison-door in the scene of Malvofos final humiliation.By this method and this disposition of the stage, all interruption of the rapid current of the play is avoided.and we move from scene to scene without the least break in the illusion, just as Shakespeare intended his audience to move, instead of being recalled to prose and actuality every few minutes by a long interval for scene-shifting.The same rapidity and continuity can of course be obtained by the use of drop-scenes; but in that case all illusion is destroyed by the flatness of the background and the bas-relief effect of the players, whereas the curtain device allows of the use of a considerable depth of stage and puts the actors into their proper position in a space of three dimensions.A feature which facilitates this handling of the stage is the erection of two very plain and inconspicuous doorways, one on each side of the stage immediately next to the proscenium arch, which fit equally into a full-set stage or a shallow street-scene or interior.* HH Xx THE getting for the main scene in each act was most artistic.Without the slightest obtrusion, the least distraction of the attention, these scenes created just that impression of opulence and splendor which is proper to the rich and lavish life pictured by the dramatist.Sunny, green gardens, with balustraded walks and backgrounds of towering poplars, amid which parade gay revellers and plotters in the most sumptuous of Klizabethan costumes, of coloring somewhat primitive and in no wise Parisian but eminently proper to a sea-coast town in llyria.To Mr.Casson also was probably due not a little of the spirit of infectious and enterprising gaiety with which the whole piece was carried out.Half at least of the compan may have played it with him in Manchester.They revelled through it,like dancers executing a step they love.To see Milton Rosmer in the high poetic-pathetic comedy of the deceived and self-deceived Malvolio, and Irene Rooke in the light-hearted masquerading of Viola is to gain some idea of what acting is, in comparison with the little one-role players to whom we have to iisten most of our time.Rosmer was very refined, almost too dignified throughout in the foolishness of Malvolio, but it was the digmty of a ceremonial servant, and not the inappropriate digity of a tragic character which Sothern read into the par! when it was last presented here.The Olivia of Christie Laws was hardly adequate, but it is a thankless part anyhow, and the difficulty of making her rather blue-stocking speeches carry across the footlights and at the same time of avoiding the ridiculous in her furting herself at \u2018\u2018 Cesario's'\u2019 head is enough to puzzle a more eminent actress.x # # # HEN these notable players first came into our midst we were entertained with a lot of unmitigated rubbish about the horrible mixture of voices and acoents in the average American touring company, and the sublime homogeneity of the Muncastrians.The first part of the text had some truth in it, but if we thought we were goin to be relieved of all conflict of tongues by the arrival of Miss Horniman's players we must have been sadly disa pointed.The company now playing at His Majesty's, which as we have seen can perform Shakespeare with splendid poetic effect, is as heterogeneous a mixture of accents as could be accumulated hy ransacking the British Isles.It includes London, several varieties of North of England, a pronounced and charming Irish, and several minor varieties\u2014 all of which does not in the least prevent its performances from being harmonious and beautiful.The fact ia that provided a man speaks English without vulgarity and in a manner to show that he has mixed with people of refinement, the mere local qualities in his speech are no disfigurement, any more than the hereditary lineaments with which nature has adorned his face.Of course, tocalisms that have not heen modified by education or culture, that are so pronounced (or mispronounced) as to make it impossible to imagine that the player really is the character which he represents, or that he is anything but a native of Connecticut or South Carolina or Toronto, are debarred from this charitable estimate.There was one New England damsel in the New Theatre Company's performance of Pinero's ** Thunderbolt\u201d who moved the whole scène from the North of England to Bridgeport, Conn, every time she spoke.x * ® 0» ¢6*T HE Silver Box,\u201d which was revived by the Manchester Players on Saturday and for the first balf of this week, has fost none of its power to shock and to worry us.Perhaps Irene Rooke has not quite that appalling submissiveness that marked the Mrs.Jones of Ada King.and certainly some of the minor characters were less accurate: we had not, for instance, that unsurpassable sketch of the lady from Piceadilly by Muriel Pratt, and Violet Voriey was far from being a M.P.'s wife.But the main thread of the piece moved with the same horrible precision and fatality to its predestined end the erushing of a helpless soul, and the effect on the audience (which ie by now P\" | mond and Marie as \u2018\u201cClamille.\u201d better acquainted with the aim of Galsworthy than it was when the play was first shown here) was just as intense.x KX The Manchester Players have only one more week in Montreal, after which they move on to convince Toronto, Chicago and Boston of the high calling of the repertory theatre.In & way Montreal has had the small end of the stick in this engagement.The company ,which had never played together in its entirety although more than half of its members were old stock-fellows, was not allowed A VERSATILE CHARACTER ACTOR.Mr.Edward Landor, of the Manchester Players, who has given a remarkable exhibition of varied powers of comedy in a wide range of characters.time for a single rehearsal other than those on board ship before opening here, and ever since they arrived they have been busy \u2018\u2018licking into shape\u2019 a series of performances which will be infinitely more smoothly done in the later-visited cities than they have been here.The amount of work which is being imposed upon the abler members is such as would effectually ruin the repertory- theatre idea if it were made a general practice, for it would rob its actors of all time for relaxation, social intercourse and study.Mr.Rosmer had a leading role in every one of the eight performances of last week, besides the responsibilities of manager of the tour and of producer of one of the heaviest produetions.Nothing of that kind could have occurred last year, when the company was well enough supplied with experienced players to ive everybody a rest at least a third of the time.So ar as the present engagement is concerned, the Manchester Players are not much better off than the players of a twelve-show-a-week stock company such as the : the booking of each other's att i carry dramatic productions and which AMUSEMENTS.! T E situation created by the agree- | ment between the Shuberts and | the Klaw & Erlanger group is being | gradually illuminated.The generally | accepted theory in New York is that the theatres dropped from the list of high-grade bookings will be filled by a | gigantic moving-picture organization, now in process of formation, in which \u2018 Klaw & Erlanger will be the moving .Power, having separated himself from The idea apparently is that | Mr.Faversham because he did not ap- spirits, picture versions of notable plays and spectacles will form the staple of the bill at these houses, and it is already reported that Daniel Frohman is to contribute a picture-record of \u2018The Prisoner of Zenda' and that Charles Frohman is going to submit Maude Adams's ** Peter Pan\u2019 to the camera.The Shuberts, through their associates Reinach and Cox, are believed to be associated with the same plan.This report is of the highest interest to Montreal, where there is every reason to suppose that under the new agreement one of the existing high- grade houses will be promptly withdrawn from the regular dramatic booking list and occupied by motion- pictures.The almost universal conclusion that that house would necessarily be His Majesty's does not seem : to be an absolute foregone certainty, | if the agreement between the two parties is sufficiently close to permit of | factions i in each other's theatres; for if it were absolutely free and unfettered choice as to which of the two theatres should should eater to the picture public there are many reasons in favor of leaving the drama to the west-end playhouse.But if each party is still to be unable to book its shows at the other party\u2019s theatre there can be very little doubt which of the two would be first to abandon Montreal as a dramatic field, and it would not be the booking- office which controls the newer and more central theatre.It should be noted that the new organization intends to present only the iggest dramatic hits of the last five or ten years.The theaters will be devoted exclusively to this new type of entertainment.It is hoped that such plays in picture form will attract an entirely new clientele, quite distinet from that upon which \u2018\u2018movie\u201d M.A.A.A.RINK-BAND FIXTURES 25, KNOWLES Will be in Attendance\u2014Weather Permitting Tuesday and Thursday Evenings and Saturday Afternoon MILITARY BAND FFootlight Gossip HE question of Tyrone Power and | Cassius\u2019 face will not down.Mr.prove of the lineaments of Mr.Keenan, impersonator of Cassius in that organ- | 1zation, is now forming a *\u2018Julius Caesar\u2019 company of his own, which we venture to predict will be a very Power-ful company.He has already | started rehearsals, and will open short- | ly at Halifax, N.S.As yet no word has come forth concerning the identity | of the actor whose face pleases Mr.Power so much better than Mr.Keenan's did that he is willing to mingle his tears with its owner's in the tent scene.Meanwhile, whether Mr.Power has got another Cassius or not, Mr.Faversham has got another Brutus in the person of R.D.Maclean.late of the MacLean-Hanford-Tyler-Drofnah company which has been giving Shakespearian performances, said to be of considerable distinction, in the middle West.* kx At the Shaftesbury Theater, London, a scene in \u201cOh! Oh! Delphine!\" .was hooted when produced Feb.18, and Robert Courtneidge, lessee of the theater, was greeted with shouts of \u2018\u2018where\u2019's the censor?\u2019 when he attempted to speak.But the criticism, generally speaking, is favorable and a | run is predicted for the piece by the .Telegraph.: x # Xx | \u201cValue Received,\u201d a new comedy by Augustin MacHugh, author of \u201cOfficer 666,\u201d under the direction of William A.Brady, is already in rehearsal at the Playhouse for early produc- | tion.Cyril Scott has the leading role.| * % #% \u201cThe Geisha is to be revived by | Mr.Arthur Hammerstein in New | York.The production will be made at Weber & Field's Theater upon the conclusion of the engagement there of \u2018The Man With Three Wives.\u201d The latter production goes to Boston March managers depend for patronage in other houses.she Re HE Gilbert and Sullivan Festival Company did considerably better work at the Princess Theatre in thelat- ter part of last week than they did in ; Student\u201d : : t\u201d by Milloekerthe earlier part, and demonstrated \\zation, however, will still be known as that their vocal deficiencies in \u2018\u2018 The Mikado\u2019 were largely the result of temporary indisposition.Pirates of Penzance\u2019 is a charming opera and not at all difficult to perform, and the Ruth of Miss Kate Con don was a remarkably satisfyin of work.The company shoul have undertaken to present tience, \u201d and their perforamnce of that delicately satiric opera was one of the piece Orpheum accommodates every summer.* OK Fk Kx H® MAJESTY'S make some announcements for the dates following the Manchester engagement, which are interesting, if they are to be realized.For the first week (opening a week from Monday) we are offered \u2018Officer 666°, an American farce which, according to the testimony of all who saw it in New York, is capable of being excessively amusing if well handled.There are a ood many companies on the road presenting it.It will w followed by ** The Old Homestead\u2019, and that in turn : by ** The Quaker Girl\u201d (one of the few really meritorious English musical shows in America this season, already heard here at the beginning of the season) and by Alice Lloyd in *\u2018 The Rose Maid.\u201d Hitcheoek in \u201cThe Red Widow\" and Henry Miller in \u2018The Rainbow\u201d.* NH NH x 66 I N the Barracks\u201d, the latest miniature musical comedy prepared for the vaudeville stage by Jesse Lasky, will be the headline attraction at the rpheum next week.It comes from the combined pens of Cecil De Mille, Robert Hood Bowers and Grant Stewart.The cast contains three players of prominence\u2014Myles MeCarthy, Nellie Brewster and Frank Rushbrooke\u2014and a large supply of military uniforms and pretty girls.Further entertainment will be provided by the Apollo Trio, hand-to-hand balancers; Tony Hunting and Corinne Francis in a comedy skit entitled \u201cThe Love Lozenge''; Charles Drew and company in \u201cMr.Flynn from Lynn\u2019; Eddy Ross, the lone minstrel, and other turns.\u201c # # ¥ THE chief and most excellent reason why we shall not have the pleasure of seeing Marie Dressler and her players at the Princess next week is that they are very successfully appearing at the West End Theatre, New York.What they are presenting appears to he even more of a vaudeville show and less of a \u2018\u2018piece\u2019\u2019 than Miss Dreasler's usual programme.Among other things they rform two acts of \u201cCamille,\u201d with Miss Dressler as rudence.After they are through with doing it seriousl they give a burlesque of it, with Jefl de Angelis as *\u2018Al- It sounds like a mixture of grand opera and George Cohan, and if there were anybody left in the world who cared what happened to \u2018La Dame aux Camelins\u2019\u2019 one can imagine his fseling some resentment about it.It is one thing to burlesque a work which somebody else is putting before the public attention, but to resurrect it yourself for the sole pur of making it ridiculous seems a trifle brutal.Robert Drouet, once leading man in the local stock company when His Majesty's Theatre was Proctor\u2019s, is the Armand of the serious ormance.The evening's entertainment is eked out by a number of other vaudeville turns and dancing specialties.Montreal may have missed some amusement but not, I should judge, much art.We are evidently getting into the season of the lighter shows in New York, although it is only March, The only other novelty of last week was May Irwin in \u2018' Widow by xy.'' It is needless to attempt to convey any idea this piece to those who know Miss Irwin's style and great abilities as a faresur.and prions to those who do not.NE of the most dangerous tendencies of the modern stage\u2014and indeed of the modern novel and several other forms of art\u2014is indicated in the following observations of the New York Dremotic Mirror upon & certain scene in '\u2018 The Bridal Path,\u201d a scene to which reference was made in this column last week, as being a natural development of the successful audacity showa by the writer of \u2018\u2018Bought and Paid For.\u201d Says the Dramatic Mirror.\u2018The comedy is designedly build up with a view to sensational effects and to appeal to the taste for prurient developments.It frankly discusses problems of parental and domestic intimacies, but falling from the lips of chaste maidenhood they are roughly charged to the account of tolerated modernisms, eugenics at the head of them.\u201d Which may be a trifly obscure as English, but is emineatly truthful as a statement of faet.; tional Later bookings are Raymond - saddest things ever witnessed on a' pany is to make a slight departure | \u201cThe | P8NY and it is alread _ | cities.24th, and will likely remain there until the finish of the season.* x % The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Comrom its usual custom.This Spring will be \u2018\u2018The Beggar The organ- the revival the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Comannounced that after this revival, the company will begin its third tour of the principal More time, however, will he ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK \u201cIN THE BARRACKS\u201d Jesse L.Laaky's latest and most pretentious minature musical comedies with MYLES McCARTHY.APOLLO TRIO Wonderful European hand to hand Balancers.TONY HUNTING AND CORINNE FRANCIS In the clever comedy skit '\u2018The love lozenge.\" CHAS.DREW & COMPANY In the laughable comedy sketch *Mr.Flynn from Lynn.\u2019 EDDIE ROSS The lone minstrel with the banjo.LOUGHLIN\u2019S DOGS A very amusing and Interesting trained animal act.WEEKLY GRAPHIC\u2014Showing the news of the world.OTHERS Up 3948\u2014Telephones\u2014Up 74.7 Sy On ST.PATRICK'S NIGHT March 17th The Dramatic Section of the Young Irishmen\u2019s L.& B.Association will present \u2018My Geraldine\u2019 The Romantic five-act Drama of Irish Lite, By BARTLEY CAMPBELL.The Princess Theatre has been secured for this production, and the Ticket Kale gpens to-day at Mulcair Rros., Tailors, \\ Notre Dame West.J of to-day.The setting was most effective and the procession of Eastern princes, Roman guards, monks and people of different nationalities was very picturesque.Miss Ruth Gower showed the true dramatic instinet in spent in the east and south the coming season.never.x x | Phillips Sousa has succeeded Harry Lauder at the Broadway Theatre, ' Montreal stage; Mr.Hopper, after New York.This piece was originally courageously refraining from gagging \u2018 \u201cThe Glass Blowersany of his other roles (beyond an addi- verse about suffragettes in \u201cThe Policeman's lot is not a happy one,\u201d\u2019) brought the \u2018\u2018greenery-yallery young man\u201d song up to date wit AT THE ORPHEUM.Myles McCarthy, who sings in Lasky's | test Musical Comedy, \u2018\u2018 In Barplaygoers.\" de x It is announced that the managers of the new Princess Theatre in New York, William A.Brady and Lee Shubert, will ** discourage the presence of persons under 18 years of age, not because of the intention to present salacious plays, which will not be included in the offerings, but because it is believed that many of the short plays written by well known authors contain dramatic presentation of modern topice not suitable to younger It would be nice to now whether this announcement is made from a desire to save the morals of the young or to attract the dissolute among the old, and also why, if this is the sort of a playhouse it is to be, it was endowed with the youthful and innocent title of \u2018\u2018Princess\u2019\u2019.Some ides of the programme is given by the list of plays to be! produced soon under the management of Holbrook Blinn, the clever English : actor remembered here for his Napoleon in the musical version of \u2018\u2018Sans Gene\u2019; it will include \u2018\u2018 Fancy Free\u2019, ! a light comedy in one act by Stanley Houghton; \u2018\u201cFear\u2019\u2019, which ran fori 300 nights at the Grand Guignol in | Paris; ** The Switchboard\u2019, a comedy in one act by Edgar Wallace, and *\u201cAny Night\", a melodrama by Edwin Ellis, which had its original produo- tion at a Lambs\u2019 gambol.\u2018 ALLEGORICAL PLAY AT STANLEY HALL.The dramatic talent for which the Jewish nation has ever been famous racks,\u201d at the Orpheum next week.| Las well exemplified in the interesting | allegorical play performed on Febsome peculiarly choice and apposite { 25th, st the Stanley Hall by the Montrally Broadway slang, and gene troduced into the aesthetic atmosphere of the mid-Victorian piece a large quantit finesse of Weber and Fields.# # * HE New York Dramatic Mirror is ' ¥ in-, real Daughters of Zionhel, the frost French tragic actress, Bernardt, most famous of stars of the of the subtlety and modern stage are only two of the | dramatic geniuses who owe their in to the race.\u201cThe Dream of Bath Zion,\" is de- very anxious to have the Horni- 'seriptive of the history of the Jews mans in New Yorkuires, \u2018cannot our numerous New The four scenes ork drama leagues, amidst all their Romans taking activities of recommendation, censor- | lem victories, \u2018 Why,\u201d it en- | since their expulsion from Palestinedisplayed in turn, | Jews into exile, Moe- | ewish persecution and | ing and discussion, find time to unite \u2018 lastly the rebuilding of the walls of on the very useful ject of inviting Miss Horniman's anchester company to come to New York?Ia the recent statement of a progressive manager that New York really wants nothing artistic, true?We can hard! believe it.Unadvertised.the Iris Players are steadily increasing the patron at Wallack\u2019s.Annie Rus sell's mirabhle venture of reviving some of the old English comedies met with modest financial success.Normaa McKinnel in Rutherford and Son was warmly and sincerely liked.If Miss Horniman's company does not come to New York, we are optimistie enough to believe that the opportunity to have them here will have nu miss ed, not through laek of interest, but through lack of knowiedge.Jerusalem by the settlers (Zionists) | \u2018\u2018Miss Horniman'e Manchester eom- | pany is now in America, and will visit ; some Canadien cities and Chieago.Boston is alreedy planning to give them the very modest guarantee which they require before visiting a qu New York can easily do as much.It is hardly necessary to speak of the artistio worth of this excellent repertoire company.Even in England, the Mas-; chester players have made something of a stir.Their asturalness, simplicity snd vigor make their performance of such a play as Galsworthy's Sii ver Bex a delight to the discriminating.It would be, indeed, a pity if New ork | should miss these players.\u201d her rendering of the part of the i heroine, Bath Zion.The same re- ! mark applies to Mr.Ralph Groner, who played \u2018\u2018Ben Judah\u2019\u2019, the repre- # \u201cThe American Maid\u201d by John entative of the Jewish people.Miss L.Wetstein, under whose direction the piece was produced and staged, received well deserved congratulations and was presented with & bouquet of pink roses.An enjoyable dance followed the play andfwas kept up until a late hour.THE CREATOR OF NAN.Miss Irene Rooke, the admirable actress of the Manchester Company who has given Montreal its first view of several of the most important characters in modern English drama.THE MAGIC SENTENCE.Jerome S.McWade, a wealthy sociologist, has recently been making a scientific study of salesmanship.\u2018\u2018\u2019The one important point about salesmanship.\u201d he said at a salesman's banquet, \u2018\u2018is to win, with your first sentence, the liking and esteem and admiration of the buyer.Isn't that \u201cHear, hear.\u201d the salesmen assented, tapping the table with their knives.\u201cAnd there is one ic sentence,\u2019 Mr.McWade continued, \u201cwhich will win from every buyer this liking aad esteem and admiration, sad will open ap» splendid opportinuty for large \u201cThe sentence must be spokea in .tone of sincere and reverent admonition.It is this: \u201c\"You work too hard.\u201d AMBMTIOUS.\u201cHas husbaad ambition say special \u201cYes, indeed.He's liviag in eom- stant hope that some day he ll own à for shares of stock is a eorporation ana eute à molon.\u2018\u2019-\u2014 Detreé Free Press.y ¢ IS MP oil 10 THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 8, 1913.Counsel for the Defense SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS.Dr.West.superintendent of the Westville Munict received two thousand dollars in return for insta taining the money is found on him, of having wotks.An envelope con that he chose the Acme filter because it was the envelope contained a mnch smaller sum dona Arnol ted to the town hospital Bruce, editor of the Westville Express, bitver] ter Katherine, returns from Vassar where she has stu \u2018Waterworks, is arre sted an Acme Filter in the water- ut his answer to the charge is beat offered, and that he understood that the Jin which he is interested.attacks West in his paper.West's daugh- ied law,to Westville, and at once undertakes her father's defence, while she conceives a bitter hatred of Bruce on account of his flay - ins of ht fathec .n tao Express.She strug.es no headway, until two day's before the trial paper to the Express, publ t ater works which have been steadily dete ratin ny This inspires her with an idea that i com un hopelessly throu ut the summer making commences, when the Clarion, an opposition es an editorial demanding that the city abandon its attempt to all summer and sell out to à private e whole graft charge is a plot to get her father out of the way, and disgust the citizens of Westville with municipal ownership of the terworks, in order that some corporation may ste Enthused with the new idea she rushes out to consult ville, on this new aspect of the case.She rushed down-stairs.But she did bave to lose a second, and many of them, for when she called up Mr.Blake's office on the telephone, the answer came back that Mr.Blake was in the capital of the State, and would not return till the following day on the one-forty-five.; It occured to Katherine to advise with Old Hosie Hollingsworth, for during the long summer her blind, childish shrinking had changed to warm liking of the dry old lawyer.She had discovered, too, that the horrifying heresies which it had been his delight to utter a generation be- fore\u2014and on which he still prided himself\u2014were now part of the belief of many an orthodox divine.But she decided against conferring with Old Hosie; her adviser and leader must be a man mere actively in tl e current of modern affairs.No, Mr.Blake was her great hope, and precious and few as were the hours before the trial, there was nothing for it but to wait for his return.She went up to her room, and her excited mind, now half inspired, went feverishly over the situation and all who were in any wise concerned in it.When she came to Bruce, her hands clenched the arms of her wicker rocker.In a flash, the whole man was plain to her, and her second great discovery of the day was made.; Bruce was an agent of the hidden corporation! .; he motive behind his fierce desire to injure her father was at last ap- parent\u2014to destroy Dr.West was his part in the conspiracy.As for his rabid advocacy of municipal ownership, and all his fine talk about the city's betterment, that was mere sham\u2014 merely the virtuous front behind which he eould work out his purpose unsuspected.No one could quote the scripture of civie improvement for his purpose more loudly than the civic despoiler.She always had distrusted Bruce; now she knew him.Many a time through the night her mind flashed | have found t back to him from other matters, and she thrilled with a vengeful joy at the thought of tearing aside his mask.It wae a long and feverish night to Katherine, an morning.At a quarter to two o'cloc she was in Mr.Blake's office; and a few minutes later the lawyer came in.He had not been *old that she was waiting, and at sight of her sitting beside the window, he came to & sudden pause; but the next instant he had orossed the room and was shaking her hand.For that first instant Katherine\u2019 eyes and mind, which during twenty- four hours had had an almost more than mortal clearness, had an impression that Blake was strangely agitated; but the moment over, the impression was gone, | + | | 1 a long and feverish ain.in and buy the plant at à ba est- r.Blake, the leading lawyer in He did not at once reply, but sat staring at her.\u201cDon't you see?\u2019 she cried.\u2018T\u2014T see.\u201d \u201cWhy, it would turn your chance for the Senate into a certainty! It would\u2014but, Mr.Blake, what's the matter?\u201d \u201cMatter?\u201d he repeated huskily.\u201cWhy \u2014 why, nothing.\u201d She gazed at him with deep concern.\u201cBut you look almost sick!\u201d In his eyes there struggled a wild look.Her gaze became fixed upon h.; face, so strangely changed.In her present high-wrought state, ail her senses were excited to their most intense keenness.There was a moment of silence, her eyes gazing into his.Then she stood slowly up, and one hand reached slowly out and clutched his arm.\u201cMr.Blake!\u201d she whispered in an awed and terrified tone.She continued to stare into his eyes, \u2018\u2018Mr.Blake!\u201d she repeated.She felt a tensing of his body, as of a man who seeks to master himself with a mighty effort.He tried to smile, though his greenish pallor did not leave him.\u201cIt is my turn,\u201d he said, \u201cto ask what is the matter with you, Katherine!\u201d \u201cMr.Blake!\u201d .She loosed her hold upon his armand shrank away.He rose.\u201cWhat is the matter?\u201d be repeated.\u201cYou seem upset.I suppose it is the nervous strain of to-morrow\u2019s trial.\u201d In her face was stupefied horror.\u201cIt is what\u2014what 1 have discovered!\" \u201cYour discovery?What you call your discovery would be most valuable, if true; but it is a dream, Katherine\u2014a crazy, crazy dream.\u201d She still was looking straight into his eyes.\u201cMr.Blake, it is true,\u201d she said slowly, almost breathlessly.\u2018For 1 he man behind the plan\u2018 \u201cIndeed! And who is he?\u201d wo] think you know him, Mr.Blake.\u201d \u201cBetter than any one else.\u201d His smile had left him.\u201cWho?\u201d She continued to stare at him for a moment in silence.Then she slowly raised her arm and pointed at him.The silence continued for several | moments, each gazing at the other.He | | | He placed à chair for her at the corner of his.desk, and himself sat down, his dark, strong, handsome face fixed on hers.\u201cNow, how can I serve you, Katherine?\u201d There were rings about her eyes, but excitement gave her color.\u201cYou know that to-morrow is father's trial?\u201d \u201cYes.You must have a hard, hard fight before you.\" \u201cPerhaps not so hard as you may! think.\u201d She tried hard to keep her tugging excitement in leash.\u201c1 hope not,\u201d said he.\u201cI think it may prove easy, if you will help me.\u201d \u201cHelp you?\u201d \u201cYes.| have come to ask you that ain.\u201d \u201cWell-you see\u2014as I told you\u2014\u201d \u2018But the situation has changed \u201c since I first came to you,\u201d she put in uiekly, not quite able to restrain a little laugh.\u2018I! have found out something!\u201d He started.\u201cYou have found out, you say\u2014\" *] have found out something!\u201d She smiled at him happily, triumphantly.\u2018And that?\u2018 said be.She leaned forward.\u201cI do pot need to tell you, for you know it, that the big corporations bave discovered à new gold-mine\u2014 or rather, thousands of little goldmines; that all over the country they have gained control, and are working to gain control, of the street-car lines, works, and other public utilities in the amaller cities.\u201d \"Well?\" She spoke excitedly, putting the case more definitely than it really was, to better the chance of winning bis aid.\u201cWell, J have just discovered that there is à plan on foot, directed hy a hidden some one.to size the water- worka of Weatville.J have disco vered that my father is not guilty.He is the victim of a trick to ruin the water-works snd make the people willing to sell.The first thing to do is to find the man behind the scheme.1 want you to help me find m.A nish pallor had overspread Blake's features.\u201cAnd you waat me\u2014to find the man\u201d he said.\u201cYes.| kmow you will take this up, simply because of your interest ia the city.But there is another reason\u2014 it would belp you im your lorger ambition.If you could dis close the scheme.seve the sity, become the hero s great popular gratitude, think bow fe would help your ial chances!\u201d his face! bad put one hand upon bis desk, and was leaning heavily upon it.He looked like a man sick unto death.But 4 soon a shiver ran through him; he swallowed, [ripped himself in a stron, control.and smiled again his strained, unnatural smile.\u201cKatherine, Katherine,\u201d he tried to say reprovingly and indulgently\u2014 but there was a quaver in his voice\u2014 \u201cyou have gone quite out of your head!\u201d \u201cIt is true'\u2019 she eried.\u2018All unintentionally I have followed one of ths oldest of police expedients.I have suddenly confronted the unsuspecting criminal with his erime, and | have surprised his guilt upoa \u201cWhat you say is absurd! I can explain it only on the theory that you are not yourself.\u201d \u201cNever before was I so much myself!\" In this moment, when Katherine felt that the hidden enemy who she had striven so long to find was at last revealed to her, she experienced more of anguish than of triumph.\u201cOh, how could you do such a thing, Mr.Blake?\u2019 she burst out.\u2018How could you do it?\u201d He shooked his head and tried to smile at her perversity\u2014but the smile was a wan failure.\u201cI see\u2014I1 mee!\u201d she eried.just the old story.A good man rises to power as the champion of tha people \u2014and, once in power, the opportunities, the temptation, are too much for him.But | never\u2014 no, never thought that such a thing would happen with you!\u201d He atrove for the injured air of the misjudged old friend.\u201cAgain I must say that [ can only explain your charges by supposin that you are not in your right mind.\u201d \u201cHere in Westville you believe it is not & woman's business to think about polities.\u201d Katherine went on.\u2018But eould not help thinking about them, and watching them.[| have lost my faith in the old parties, but 1 had kept my trust in some of their leaders, I lieved some of them honest, devoted, indomitable.And of them all the one whom | admired most, ranked \u201cIt is highest.was you.And now and now oh, Mr.Blake! -to learn that you-\" _ Katherine\u2019 Katherine! He raised his hands with the manner of exasperated, yet indulgent, helplessness.\u2018Mr.Blake\u2019 Mr.Blake! You know you are now only playing a part! And you know that | know it\u201d\u2019 She moved \u201cListen to me,\" up to him eagerly.she pleaded rapidly.\u2018You have only started on this \u2014 you bave not gone too far to turn back.You have done no real wrong as yet, save to my father and | know that he will forgive you.Drop your plan\u2014 let my father be honorably cleared-\u2014-end everything will be just as before\u201d For a space he seemed shakem by her words.She watched him, breathless, awaiting the owreoms of the battle which she feit was waging within him, \u201cDro the plan\u2014drop it, 1 beg \u201cyou!\u201d she cried.| His dark face twitched; a quivering ;ran through his body.Then by a mighty effort he partially regained \u2018his self-mastery.; \u2018There is no plan for me to drop,\u201d , he said huskily.\u2018\u2018Your charges are | so absurd that it would be foolish to tdeny them.They are merely the | ravings of a hysterical woman.\u2019 | \u2018And this\u2014is your answer?\u201d \u201cThat is my answer.\u201d She gazed at him for a long moment.Then she sighed.*\u2018I'm so sorry!\u201d she said; and she turned away and moved toward the door.She gave him a parting look as he stood, pale, quivering, yet controlled, i behind his desk.In this last moment she remembered the gallant fight this man had made against Blind Charlie Peck; she remembered that fragrant, far-distant night of June when he had asked her to marry him; and she felt as if she were gazing for the last time upon a dear dead face.\u2018l\u2019m sorry\u2014oh, so sorry!\u201d she said tremulously.*\u2018Good-by!\u2019 Turning, she walked with bowed head out of his office.VIII KATHE RINE stumbled down into the hot and dusty glare of Main Street.She was still awed and dumfounded by her discovery: she could not as yet realize its full significance and whither it would lead; but her mind flashed with thoughts that were unfinished and questions that did not await reply.She felt a sickening amazement at this new revelation of Blake's character and development.She marveled how a man once so splendid had come to sell his soul for money or ambition.She speculated on what Westville would think and do\u2014Westville that worshiped him\u2014if it but knew the truth.She wondered how she was to give battle to an antagonist so able in himself, so powerfully supported by the publie.She reflected upon the strange caprice of fate that had given her, as the man whom she must fight, her former idol, her former lover.Shaken with emotion, her mind shot through with these fragmentary thoughts, she turned into a side street.But she had walked beneath its drought-withered trees no more than a block or two when her largest immediate problem, her father\u2019s trial on the morrow, thrust itself into her consciousness, and the pressing need of further action drove all this spasmodic speculation from her mind.She began to think upon what she should next do.Almost instantly she thought of the man whom she had definitely connected with the plot against her father, Arnold Bruce, and she turned back for the square, afire with a new idea.She had made a great advance, as she believed, by suddenly confronting Blake with knowledge of his guilt; might she not make some further advance, gain some new clue, by re-confronting Bruce in like manner?Ten minutes after she had left Blake's office Katherine entered the Express Building.From the first floor sounded a deep and continuous thunder-\u2014that afternoon's issue was coming from the press.She lifted her skirts and gingerly mounted the stairway, over which an office-boy was occasionally seen to make incantations with the stub of an un- disturbing broom.At the head of the stairway a door stood open.This she entered and found herself in the general editorial room, ankle-deep with dirt and paper.In one corner a telegraph-receiver chattered away unheeded.In the center, at a long table, typewriters before them, sat thre shirt-sleeved young men reading copies of the Express, which had just been t rought up from the nether regions, moist with the black spittle of the beast that there roared and rumbled.At sight of her tall, fresh figure in the doorway, a red spot in her either cheek, defiance in her brown eyes, Billy Harper, quicker than the rest sprang up and crossed the room, \u201cMiss Went, I believe,\u201d he said.\u2018Can I do anything for vou, \u201cJ wish to speak with Mr.Bruce,\u201d was her cold reply.\u201cThis wav,\u201d and Billy led her across the deep carpet of proofs, discarded copy, and old newspapers, to à door henide the stairway that led down into the press-room.\u201cGo right in,\u201d he said.She entered.Bruoe, his shirt-sleeves rolled up and his bared forearms grimy, sat glancing through the Æzpress.with his feet crossed on his ittered desk, a black pipe hangin from one corner of his mouth.He did not look up, but turned another e.\u201cWell, what's the matter?\u2019 grunted between his teeth.\u201cI'd like à few words with you,\u201d said Katherine.\u2018FEh'\u2019 His head twisted about.\u201cMisa West!\" His feet suddenly dropped to the floor; he stood up and laid the pipe on his desk.For the moment he was uncertain how to receive her, but the §* bright, hard look ia her eyes fixed his attitude.\u201cCertainly,\u201d he said in a brusk, business-like tone.He placed the atlas-bottomed chair before his own.\u201cBe seated.\u201d She sat down, and he took his own chair.\u2018I am at yowr \"said he.Her chooks slowly gathered a higher Copyright, 1911, by Frank A.Munsey Co.A Story of Love, Law and Politics By LeROY SCOTT, Author of \u201cTo Him That Hath,\u201d Ete.Al} Rights Reserved.color, her eyes gleamed with a triumphant fire, and she looked straight into his square and rather massive face.Over Blake she had felt an infinity of regret and pain; for this man i she felt only boundless hatred, and she thrilled with a vengeful, exultant joy that she was about to unmask im\u2014that later she might crush him utterly.i \u201cIam at your service,\u201d he repeated.She slowly wet her lips and gathered herself to strike, alert to watch the effects of her blow.\u201cI have called, Mr.Bruce,\u201d she said with slow distinctness, \u2018\u2018to let you know that I know there is a conspiracy under way to steal the water-works, and to let you know that :I know you are near its center!\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d he cried.Her devouring gaze did not lore a change of feature, not so much as the shifting in the pupil of his eye.\u201cOh, I know your plot!\u201d she went on rapidly.\u201cI know every detail! The first step was to ruin the waterworks, so that the city would sell and sell cheap.The first step toward ruining the system was to get my father out of the way.And so this charge against my father was trumped up to ruin him.The leader of the whole plot is Mr.Blake; his right-hand man yourself.Oh, I know every detail of your infamous scheme!\" He stared at her; his lips had slowly parted.You Mr.\u201cWhat?\u201d .Blake\u2014\" \u201cOh, you're trying to play your part of innocence well, but you eannot deceive me!\u201d she cried with fierce say that contempt.\u201cYes, Mr.Blake is the head of it.I just eame from his office.There's not a doubt in the world of his guilt\u2014he has admitted it.Oh\u2014\" \u2018Admitted it?\u201d \u201cYes, admitted it! Oh, it was a fine and easy way to make a fortune\u2014 to trick the city into selling at a fraction of its value a business which run privately, will pay a large and growing profit!\u201d He had stood up, and was scratching his bristling hair.Katherine also rose, \u201cAnd you!\u201d she cried, glaring at him, her voice rising to a climax of scorn.\u201cYou! Don't walk the room\u2019\u2019 \u2014he had begun to do so\u2014'but look into my eyes.To think how you have attacked my father, maligned him, covered him with dishonor! And for what?To help Jou carry through a dirty trick to rob the city! Oh, I wish I had the words to tell you\u2014\"\u201d But he had begun again to pace the little room, scratching his head, his eyes gleaming behind the heavy glasses.\u201cListen to me!\" she commanded.\u201cOh, let me have it\u2014all you want to!\" he cried out.\u201cOnly don't ask me to listen to you!\u201d He paused abruptly before her, and | his eyes, half closed, stared piercingly \u2018into her face.As she returned his i stare, it began to dawn upon her that he did not seem much taken aback.At least his guilt bore no near likeness to that of Mr.Blake.Suddenly he made a lunge for the door, jerked it open, and his voice descended the stairway, out-thunder- ing the press.\u2018Jake! Oh, Jake!\" A lesser roar ascended: \u201cYes!\u201d \u201cStop the press! Rip open the forms! Get the men at the linotypes! soul of you! You, Billy Harper, I'll want you here in two minutes!\u201d He slammed the door, and turned on Katherine.She had looked upon excitement before, but never such excitement as was flaming in his face.\u201cNow give me all the details!\u201d he cried.She it was that was taken ahack.\u201cJ\u20141 don\u2019t understand,\u201d she said.\u201cNo time to explain now.I've been all wrong about your father\u2014 perhaps a little wrong about you\u2014 \u2014and perhaps you've been a little wrong about me.Let it go at that.Now for the details-\u2014quiek!\" \u201cBut -but what are you going to do?\u201d \u201cGoing to get out an extra! It's the hottest story that ever came down the pike! It'll make the Erpress, and\u201d-he seized her hand in his grimy ones, his eves blazed, and an exultant laugh leaped from his deep chest \u201cand we'll simply rip this old town wide open!\u201d Katherine stared at Bruce in bewilderment.\u201cOh, won't this wake the town up?\u201d he murmured to himself.He dropped into his chair.jerked some Pree copy-paper toward him, and seized a pencil.\u201cNow, quick\u2014the details!\" \u201cYou mean\u2014you are going to print this?\" she breathed.\u201cDidn't I say so?\u201d editor answered sharply.\u201cThen you really had nothing to do with Mr.Blake's \u2018Oh, rot\u2019 I beg your pardon.But this is no time for explanations.Come, come -\u2014he rapped his desk with his kouckles \u2014\u2018don\u2019t you know what ting out an extra is?Every second ia worth half your lifetime! Out with the story!\u201d Katherine sank weakly into her chair, beginning to ses new things in this face that she had so lately loathed.\u201cThe fact of the matter is, she eon- the fonsed, \u2018'[ fear | stated my information a littio\u2014e little more itely than it really is.Be alive down there, every \u2018You mean you haven't the facts?\" \u201cI'm afraid not\u2014not yet.\u201d \u201cNothing definite that I could hinge à story on?\u201d She shook her head.things to take this turn.It would publie before 1 had my case worked thing doing, Billy,\u201d he ca led to Harper, who that instant opened the door; \u2018go on back with you.\u201d He began to walk up and down the little office, scowling, his hands clenched in his trousers-pockets.After a moat Katherine newspaper man to have a big story laid in his hands and then suddenly jerked out?\u201d disappointment.\u2019 \u201cDisappointment!\u201d The word came out half groan, half sneer.\u2018\u2018Disappointment! If you were waiting in church, and the bridegroom didn\u2019t show up; if\u2014oh, I can\u2019t make you understand the feeling!\u201d He dropped back into his chair and scratched viciously at the copy-paper.\u2018She watched him in a sort of fascination till he abruptly looked up.Suspicion glinted behind the heavy glasses.\u201cAre you sure, Miss West,\u201d he asked slowly, \u201cthat this whole affair isn\u2019t just a little game?\u201d \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d \u201cThat your whole story is nothing but a hoax?Nothing but a trick to get out of a tight hole by calling another man a thief?\u201d Her eyes flashed.\u201cYou mean that I am telling a lie?\u2019 ! \u201cNo.You lawyers doubtless have | a better-tasting word for it.You would call it, say, a \u2018professional expedient.\u201d She was still not sufficiently recovered from her astonishment to be angry.Besides she felt herself by an unexpected turn put in the wrong regarding Bruce.|\" \u201cWhat I have said to you is the \u2018absolute truth,\u201d she declared de- \u2018 fiantly.\u2018Here is the situation\u2014believe me or not, just as you please.I ask you, for the moment, to accept the | proposition that my father is the | vietim of a plot to steal the waterworks, and then see how everything fits in with that theory.Bear in mind, as an item worth considering, my father\u2019s long and honorable career \u2014never a dishonoring word against him till thiz charge came.\u201d | She went on and outlined the reason- | ing that had led her to her conclusion.\u201cNow, does not that sound possible?\u2019\u201d she demanded.He had watched her with keen, half-closed eyes.| \u201cH'm! You reason well,\u201d he con- , ; ceded.; \u2018\u201cThat\u2019s a lawyer's business,\u201d she \"retorted.\u2018\u2019So much for theory; now for facts.\u201d She gave him her experience of half an hour before in Harrison Blake's office.The editor's boring gaze was fixed on her all the while, \u2018And now I ask you this question\u2014 is it likely that even a pyor water system could fail so quickly and so completely as ours has done, unless \u2018some powerful person was secretly working to make it fail?Do you not see it never could?We all should have seen it, but we've all been too busy, too blind, and thought too well of our town, to suspect such a thing.\u201d His eyes were still boring into her.\u2018But how about Dr.Sherman?\u201d he asked.\u201cI believe that Dr.Sherman is an innocent tool of the conspiracy, just as my father is its innocent victim,\u201d she answered promptly.: Bruce sat with the same fixed look, ; and made no reply.;, \u201cI have stated my theory, and I | have stated my facts,\u201d said Katherine.\u201cI have no court evidence, but I am oing to have it.efore, you can believe what I have said, or not believe it.It's all the same to me.\u201d She stood up.\u2018I wish you good afternoon.\u201d He quickly rose.\u201cHold on there!\u201d he said.she paused at the door.He strode to and fro across the little office scowling with thought; then he paused at the window and looked out.\u201cWell?\u201d she demanded.He wheeled about.\u201cIt sounds plausible.\u201d \u201cThank you,\u201d she said crisply.\u201cI could hardly expect a man who has been the champion of error to admit that he has heen wrong and accept the truth.Good afternoon!\u201d Again she turned away and reached for the door-knob.\u201cWait!\u201d he cried.There was a ring of resentment in his voice, but his square face, which had been grudgingly non-committal, was now aglow with excitement.\u201cI believe you're right!\u201d he cried.\u2018There's an infernal ronspiracy! Now, what can I do to help?\u201d Help?\u201d she anked blankly.\u201cHelp work up the evidence?Help reveal the conspiracy?\u201d She had not yet quite got her bearings concerning this new Bruce.\u201cBut why should you help?Ob, 1 see,\u2019 she said coldly; \u2018it would make à nice sensational story for your paper.\u201d He flushed at her cutting words, and his square jaws set.\u201cI suppose I might follow your example of a minute ago, and say that I don't care what you think; but I don't mind telling you a few things and giving you a chance to understand me if you want vo.| wae ons Chios go newspaper, an a place that was growing bigger.I could ve sold the zpr , when my uncle left it to me, and stayed there; but I saw a chance, as owner of a paper, to try out some of my own ideas, 50 | came to Westville.My idea of a nowe- paper is that its funetion is to serve the peopie\u2014to make them think\u2014 | \u201cI didn\u2019t come prepared for\u2014for \u201cThen there's no extra!\u201d He flung down his pencil and sprang up.\u2018\u2018No- !to tell the truth in the h ment he: stopped short, and looked alf savagely.\u2018\u2018I suppose | you don\u2019t know what it means to a \u201cI suppose it is something of a: As 1 remarked .to bring them new ideas\u2014to be ever watching their interests.Of course, I want to make money\u2014I\u2019ve got to, or go to smash; but I'd rather run a | candy-store than run a sleepy, a po- logetic,afraid-of-a-mouse, mere money making sheet like the Clarion, that spoil everything to have this made | would never breathe à word against the devil's fair name s0 long as he carried a half-inch ad.You ealled me a yellow journalist yesterday.Well, if est way I know how, to tell it so that it will hit i people square between the eyes and ; make \u2019em sit up and look around \u2019em ;\u2014if that is yellow, then I'm eertainly a yellow journalist, and I thank God for inventing the breed!\u201d As Katherine listened to his snappy, vibrant words, as she looked at his powerful, dominant figure and into his \u201cdetermined face with its flashing eyes, she felt a reluetant warmth creep through her being.\u201cPerhaps\u2014I may have been mis- | taken about you,\u201d she said.i Perhaps Jou may!\u201d he returned grimly.\u2018\u2018Perhaps about as much as I | was about your father.And, speak- ,ing of your father, I don\u2019t mind addin, \u2018something more.Ever since I too charge of the Express, I've advocated | municipal ownership of every public j utility.The water-works, which were ;apparently so satisfactory, were a ; good start; and I used them constant= | y as a text for working up municipal ownership sentiment.The franchises of the Westville Traction Company expire next year, and I had been making a campaign against renewing the franchises, and in favor of the [city taking over the system and run- | ning it.Opinion ran igh in favor of | the scheme ;but this wretched scandal ' completely killed the municipal ownership idea.That was my pet, and if |I was bitter toward your father\u2014well, 1 couldn\u2019t help it.And now,\u201d he added rather bruskly, \u2018I\u2019ve explained myself to you.To repeat your words, jeu can believe me or not, just as you ike.There was no resisting the impression of the man\u2019s sincerity.i \u201cI suppose,\u201d said Katherine, \u201cthat \"1 should apologize for\u2014for the things \u2018I've called you.My only excuse is that your mistake about my father : helped cause my mistake about you.\u201d | \u201cAnd I,\u201d returned he, \u201cam willing | not only to take back publicly, in my | paper.what I have said against your \u2018father, but also to print your atate- ment about\u2014\u201d \u201cYou must not print a word,\u201d she ut in quickly, *\u2018till I get my evidence, inting it prematurely might spoil my case.\u201d : \u201cVery well.And as for what I have said about you, I take back everything, except\u2014'' he paused; she saw disapprobation in his eyes\u2014 \u2018except the plain truth I told you that being a lawyer is no work for a woman.\u201d \u201cYou are very dogmatic!\u201d she said hotly.| \u201c1 am very right,\u201d he firmly re- ' turned.\u2018Excuse my saying it, but | you appear to have too many good qualities as & woman to spoil it by going out of your sphere and trying\u2014\"\u201d \u201cWhy\u2014why\u2014\"\" She stood gasping.\u201cDo you know what your uncle told me about vou?\u201d \u201cOld Hosie?\u201d He shrugged his shoulders.\u2018\u2018Hosie's an old fool\u201d \u2018He said that the trouble with you was that you had not been thrashed enough as a boy.And he was right, too!\u2019 She turned quickly to the door, but he stepped before her.\u201cDon\u2019t get mad because of a little Iain truth.Remember, I want to elp you.\u201d \u201cI think, said she, \u2018that we're better suited to fight each other than to help each other.I'm not so sure that I want your assistance.\u201d \u201cI'm not so sure that you can help taking it,\u201d he returned coolly.\u2018This isn't your father's case alone, It's the city's case too; and I've got a right to mix in.Now, do you want me?\u2019 She looked at him a moment.\u201cI'll think it over.For the prosent, good afternoon.\u201d He hesitated, then held out his hand.She hesitated, then took it.After which, he opened the door for her and bowed her out.(To be continued.) THE NEWEST LEVIATHAN.Great secrecy has been preserved (says the London \u2018\u2018Evening Stand - ard\u2019) with regard to the details of the mammoth Cunard liner Aquitania, which is to he launched on the Clyde towards the end of April, the idea, of course.being to prevent foreign rivale gaining any knowledge that they might turn to their own advantage.The Aquitania will be the largest boat in the British mercantile marine.Her length exceeds YOU feet, and she is 50, 00U tons burden.Over a million cubie vards of material will be removed from the river to permit of the Aquitania being taken out to the open sea.The equipment of the vessel ia to be on à most luxurious scale.and Atiantio voyagers will find that in every minute detail their comfort and convenience have been studied.Accommodation is provided for 4,000 passengers and a orew of 1.100).The giant liner is practically an eleven-storied floating palace.The decks are connected by three olevators, and the first-class saloons on the upper deck have \u20ac length of HU feet.On the saloon deck there are a ladies\u2019 drawing room, a smoking room, à Ritz restaurant, and a large winter garden, which will be filled with fountains and plants.HIS AVERAGE.First Wife\u2014 What is your husbaad's average income, Mrs.Smith?Beocond Wife \u2014Oh, about midnight.\u2014Judge KEPT BUSY.wii man who sen laugh at trouble opt pretty busy laughing.\u2014Meomphie Commercial open.rN Ww THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 8, 1913.A WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE LATEST THINGS IN WEARING APPAREL The Blass of Fashion + + ++ Reflections from the Fashion Centres of Europe and America Neckwear, The Transformer.Collarlees Net Guimpes For Wear With Silk Blouses\u2014 The Shoulder-Point Collar of Lace Or Embroidery Gives a New Line.\u2014 Narrow Neckties Are Attached To Pleated Frills\u2014 Fluffy Bows of Lace And Tulle For Spring\u2019 Days.[NECKWEAR plays such an important part in costume now that the woman who ignores it makes a grievous mistake.The simple frock of inconspicuous color, smartened by a modern and effective bit of neckwear is infinitely better style than an elaborate costume of expensive stuff wrongly finished at the neck, or having attached to it an untidy lace yoke and collar, or one showing signs of wear because its incorporation with the bodice has made it hard to remove for freshening.Indeed, few bodices are now made with hard and fast neck-finishings.There is usually a way of ripping out a lace yoke or of removing a collar and of basting in the same after it has been treated to a sample cleaning process.Most trotteur frocks are accompanied by separate yokes and stock collars of sheer net, or by turned down collars of lace embroidery, the latter sort being just now the more fashionable sort.And, by-the-bye, these separate lingerie collars have a new line which is important for smartness.They are neither round nor square but combine the two dimensions, the back of the collar falling only an inch or two below the top of the bodice while at the sides it extends outward in deep points over the shoulders.From the tip of the shoulder-point the collar slopes inward in an oblique Many a plain face is made prettier by a flufly tulle bow beneath line Lo the front of the neck, where is set a gay little bow it to soften the contours; and the full tulle ruche is even better than of picot ribbon, usually heading a graceful jabot.Picot | the tulle bow.The ruche pictured here is of pale gray malines and .; .accompanies à matinee frock of night bl fr ribbon is another new neckwear note and is a bit smarter | pec and trimmed with Jet.The hat is rt lc ck rd just now than velvet or silk, although bows of moire ostrich wreath in shaded blues, and the charming costume is com- - pleted by trim boots of patent leather with buttoned tops of gray ribbon are seen on well dressed women.The neck bow is somewhat larger than it was last season and is tied \u2014 TULLE 1S ALWAYS BECOMING UNDER THE CHIN.suede.naturally instead of being made in pump style, the long | qith a lilac four-in-hand and a blue and white striped | loops and ends being pulled out at either side, one over | matched by a blue Barathea tie.These neat outing the other, so that the bow makes a straight line across Shirts will accompany short skirts of white serge, a dark the top of the jabot.Sometimes a long jabot pin is set gray Mackinaw coat, stitched cloth outing hat and low across the bow to keep the oops and ends in place.th i heeled golfing boots of the washable tan leather which The neckbow may be black, navy blue, or some other muddy links will not stain with ugly dark marks.dark color matching the hat trimming; but Dutch blue The collarless guimpe of net is a dainty accessory pow are cho fi ny aden blue eyes Pale pink ! which may be slipped on under bodices rounded out at ue, or other light pastel s 8, ÿ \u201c thet bl havi i bows by modishly dressed women with tailored street op, or blouses having very open, Robespierre collars.THE marriage ceremony, more so perhaps than any other, is surrounded by customs and ideas the products of old time superstitions and beliefs, most of which center on the ring.A whole book could be written on wedding rings and the varying ideas concerning them which exist in different countries.For inatance the Anglo-Saxon custom is now to wear the golden symbol of matrimony on the third finger of the left hand, the reason for which is due to an old superstition that a vein connected it with the heart.This, however, is quite a fallacy, but a much more poetical reason for the selection of this finger is the fact that it is more dependent on the next or middle finger than on the others, and cannot be raised\u2014or moved\u2014 iindependently as can the other fingers of the hand.Then, too, with regard to the choice of the left hand, it must be remembered that it is usually less active a member of the body than the right, and, therefore, a safer for the ring which is to be worn through life.The left hand, however, is not always chosen.In Germany, Belgium and France, the third finger of the right hand is usually selected as the \u2018wedding finger,\u201d ; and in these countries the same ring frequently serves as a betrothal and nuptial ring, the only difference being that it is worn\u2014during the engagement\u2014on the third finger of the \u201c\u2018left\u2019\u201d hand, where it is placed at the \u2018\u2018exchange of rings\u2019 which forms an important and binding part of the betrothal ceremony, and is transferred to the corresponding fingers of the right hand at marriage.The wedding-ring has not, however, always been worn on its present finger in this eountry, and at one time found a home on the lady's thumb! ater on, at the nuptial ceremony, it was successively put to each of the \u2014with the formula: \u2018\u2018In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost''\u2014which brought it to its final resting-place on the third finger.In the time of George I.it was removed to the thumb after the ceremony.The wedding-ring is \u2018\u2018as old as the hills,\u201d an old Latin work ascribing its invention to Tubal Cain, and the meaning of the circlet in the following quaint words: \u201cThe form of the ring being circular, that is, round, without end, importeth this much, that mutual love and hearty affection should roundly flow from one to another, as in a circle, and that is, continually and for ever.\u201d But it has not always been the plain circlet we now know, nor has it always been of gold, iron having been used by the Romans.Various other substances have composed it in the course of ages since then, whilst key and curtain rings have done duty on more than one occasion in its history.Ornamental Wedding Rings.In the time of Queen Mary Tudor plain rings were evidently only indulged in by the lower classes, as she elected that the rin which sealed her unfortunate espousal with Philip II.of Spain should be the same as that worn by her meaner subjects, That of Mary Stuart and Darnley was red.Sir Thomas Gresham\u2019s wedding ring\u2014in the time of Queen Elizabeth-\u2014was a very beautiful affair, and was made to open and reveal a beautifully- worked figure of a child.A certain ring of French design the writer has in mind is also a beautiful symbol of the union of two in matrimony.It is a plain affair, the circlet divided into tw», in the manner of the old \u2018\u2018gimmel\u201d\u2019\u2019 rings, one portion costumes.À new idea is the narrow band of ribbon encircling the neck and tied at the front in a little bow, a wide pleating of lace being attached to the lower edge ) of this narrow ribbon band and lying flat on the bodice.Such a neck dressing, if smart and modern, is extremely trying to the face and should only be worn by young girls and women having fresh contours and perfect throats.With the tailored suit of serge or mohair, having an ordinary type of coat with mannish collar and lapels, the high boned stock looks neatest and trimmest, although some women seem to be able to wear collarless blouses successfully with such coats.The smartness of the stock this year depends on its height.It must be very tall at the back, at least, and must fit with exquisite precision.It may be made of shadow lace, of net or of lace veiled with net, and well dressed women have tiny buttons and loops or invisible hooks and eyes at the back of such | stocks, the easy fastening by means of metal collar pins | not now being tolerated by Dame Fashion.At the front of the stock may be hung a pleated jabot, topped by a pert bow of ribbon, or the collar may be finished with a fluffy bow of lace or of malines.The airy malines neck bow is back in favor, and nothing gives the springlike touch to a tailored costume like one of these fluffy, soft | tulle bows beneath the chin.If the stock and yoke.below it are to be of net, it will be better to use two layers | of very fine net, running the collar stays at back and sides\u2019 between the net sections with tiny hand stitches.Shadow lace veiled with fine net makes a soft and becoming stock and one that has a surprising amount of durability.The tub silk blouse with its open, rolling collar, or its high, mannish collar demands a special sort of necktie.With the mannish collar may be worn a narrow four-in- band tie of dark silk, and be sure and select a tie long orn, as pictured, over & little trotteur frock of blue mohair.is enough to reach from the collar almost to the waistline.The \u2018 really intended as & trimming for & luxurious negliges or & summer ., .; se evening wrap of light silken stuff.The embroidery ls In 8 creamy short four-in-hand tie reaching to the bust is a feminine ' tone rather than pure white.makeshift\u2014usually indulged in because of the cheaper .price of such ties\u2014which inevitably spoils the trig look | These net guimpes are, of co sleeveless.and at the of a mannish shirtwaist.Tub silk blouses striped in | lower edge an elastic is run which holds the guimpe firmly delicate pastel colors may he matched with ties in the same .color as le stripes.y | in place, just below the bust.The edge of the net, around For example, a young woman going | ., , LL .south for the late winter season, has provided herself the neok-oponing 1s finished with dainty soalloping or with three smart golfing shirts; a white one with a dark | buttonholing and sometimes a touc of embroidery 18 red knitted silk four-in-hand tic, a lilac and white shirt sdded below.Net jabots have also this fine machine ! scalloping at the edge of deep Vandyke points and though such neckwear does not launder as sturdily as more firmly finished material, it is exceedingly dainty and COLLAR OF THE NRW LACEK-LIKE EMBROIDERY.Machine embroidery effects In imitations of handsome laces are $mong the novelties in collar wear this spring.The collar pictured here is a St.Gall embroidery imitation of Venise lace and though being worn by each of the two lovers during their short betrothal.At the marriage, however, the two portions | were locked together to form one ring\u2014on which the date | yas Joscribed, and which was worn by the wife till her \u2018 death.| Then, too, \u2018\u2018posy\u2019\u2019 rings must not be forgotten, and | there are many of these in existence in private collections, | as well as in the British and South Kensington museums, : some of which have very quaint \u2018\u2018posies\u2019 inscribed on them.Jewish wedding rings are wonderfully elaborate affairs, in most cases being ornamented with beautifull Men and Wedding Rings.other fingers of the left hand\u2014beginning with the thumb wrought | little temples and other objects, in highly-raised orna- | days, were written and were read, but a book was the pro- { mentation, which, in not a few cases, project at least | duct of a rare mind.half-an-inch from the band, which is of the same width.| contents were studied and discussed at leisure.| These are only used during the celebration of the ceremony.11 U | | i Ht - i _\u2014 Q > R = 4 | ~~ à ho 5 0s dil A SMART, BATHER THAN PICTURESQUE, JABOT.For certain types of costume these stiff and dignified frills of pleated net are very well adapted.The pleated jabot pictured here gives just the right touch of freshness and modernness to a simple _ trotteur frock of sage green mohair and worsted mixture.At the top of the jabot is set à flat bow of green silk and the tall collar of silk matches the bow.The inner side of this collar is of white satin and three crystal buttons hold back the turned over points against the green collar The Burden of Books, And How To Bear It.BY F.T.DALTON.B the course of last year there were published in Great Britain (according to figures given in the **Bookseller\u2019\u2019) just under 13,000 books.This is, no doubt, under the i mark, for many books do not appear in the publishers lists, and escape calculation.e can safely say that, Sundays apart, on an average, nearly fifty new books come to the birth daily, and each new book means anything from 50 to 1,000 copies.Every day of the year, then, the number of books which the public is expected to read is i increasing by thousands; every day the brain of the readin, .class is pelted with an unceasing blinding storm of printe words; every day new thoughts or new expressions of old thoughts are added in incalculable profusion to the mental house of the world.One thing is certain\u2014that the more rapidly and profuse- I, that storehouse is filled up, the less valuable do its contents become.One is almost inclined to think that the greatest disaster the civilised world has ever suffered was the invention of printing.Certainly it is arguable, with less suspicion of paradox, that the amazing developments in the way of rapid printing, and in the facilities for the distribution of printed matter, are by no means an unmixed good.Is it consistent with any true ideal of | eulture?Does it make any culture worth having easier i for the individual to attain, or more dificult?Cast the i minds back two thousand years, and in the groves of classical Athens, or, later, among the literary circles of Auustan Rome, you will find the meaning of culture far etter understuod than it is to-day.Books, even in those Its advent was hailed as an event il ite e thoughtful men and women of the Platonic or the Ciceron- \u2018ian circle, if they woke in a world where fifty new books | a day were offered for their perusal, would, we fancy, very ,_ It is now becoming more and more the fashion in | soon have come to regard literature as one of the idols of | England for men to wear wedding rings, one which has | the market-place, and the habit of indiscriminate reading much to commend it, though in Europe it is the custom | for married men to do so.! but a reversion to a ver | story or legend of the | ring, when playing at ball, during the wedding feast, and | placed it on the hand of the statue of Venus.The lady, owever, according to the legend, took a fancy to the | outward symbol of marriage\u2014which she had dispensed with in her various entanglomenta\u2014and declined to give it up, claiming him as her husband.It was only through the efforts of a necromancer that she was induced to { waive her claim to give up the ring to its rightful owner.CONCERNING BAGS.The newest models of the silver link cordeliere from the Rue de la Paix are hung from white gros rain moire ribbon, | not over a quarter of an inch in width.\u2018hen, as is usuall i the case, the bag is studded with diamonds, the ribbon is i attached to the bar by diamond clasps, and is provided with circular slides of diamonds by means of which it can be shortened or lengthened at will.Very smart among the plainer bags are those of black moire made with metal mountings and clasp covered with the silk.These as well as the silver mesh bags are hung from moire ribbons, about an inch in width and just long enough to slip over the arm.Plain black velvet bags are studded with rhinestones or with real brilliants; in fact, the vogue of the pailiette in gowns and accessories is at its height.The small change purses made from seed pearls are now enriched by copious sprinklings of diamonds among the meshes.hese purses are mounted on plain bars of platinum, which close by small clasps headed by a single pearl or a single diamond.Machine embroideries in the new lacy St.Gall patterns | | are a feature of spring neckwear and wondrous are the | effects, and the numbers of effects, that have been | | achieved with these embroideries.Sometimes lace is, j combined with the embroidery, or touches of gay silk in | tiny revers, pipings and covered buttons will make the | neck dressing very chic and modish.The fichu motif is observed in various modifications.A trotteur frock ' of dark blue lansdowne, worn the other day at a fashionable ' restaurant luncheon was graced by a charming fichu of St.Gall embroidery in a Carrickmacross pattern, croffsed | | over an inner vest or chemisette of tucked net, a blue picot .' ribbon bow being set at the crossing of the embroidery | | which fell in a soft cascade.| + | | pretty in character.THE BEST EMERALDS.The finest emeralds are found n the Republic of Co- ! lombia, at the famous Muzo mines in the department of ' Boyaos, seventy miles north by west of Bogota, which have been worked since 1558.The Spaniards mined there in the | middle of the sixteenth century, but withdrew after a time, owing to continual fighting with the Indians; with the result that for a while the locality of the mines was unkrown.They are now worked by an English company, in partæer- ship with the government.The emeralds at Muso ocour \u2018in calcite veins running through black carboniferous lime- i stone in all directions and at all angles.Often the lime- | stone is covered with earth, in which bushes and trees are growing: this has to be cleared before prospecting is possi- TAILORED TRIMNESHS ABOUT THIS NECK PRESSING.e.\u2018hen calcite veins have been located, the side of the hill is dug away in \u201cbanks,\u201d urually by Indians, whose chief Hitle collar with its peat suggestion is accom in this Ty ong, marrow jahot which touches moulins.204 the tool is a steel bar forged to a point at one end.The pieces case by à .sect Bas comrhow Lee trimncss of à nes ppenneil Lait of oaleite vein are examined superficially for emeralds, and ae 4 v me are then set aside for oon veyance to the sorting-shed, where | and the ered jabot ie of white er the trotteur of pruse red fa dou , sk worsted wa Ruch a detailed examination is made, aad the emeralds are | pring.aot vided into Aftesa according to color, transpareney, | ample enor a rie Le row.ek sise, freedom from flaws, aad 0 on.! THIS EMBROIDERY COLLAR NAS A NEW LIVE The shape of thie coliar sugnate the hroadly i Robe fore mith fas Jano f ho points bi ei side; but machine embrot whole collar je made one marvelous hacd looms of Switasriaad which uce work.For example.the border pattern ra ras prisme à trotteur frock worsted and moheir miscure, ané the turned back méchine embreidery im 4 lacy pettern.In any ~ase, however, it is old one, as is evidenced by the ' oman youth, who removed his one proper to the crowd of meaner intelligences and baser minds.Rn KH Or pass to an age nearer our own\u2014the age of the Revival of Learning.The human mind was richer by centuries | of thought and history than it had been in the day of an- \u2018cient Rome and Athens.Books were many, literature | flourished, and it was the period of great imaginative \u2018 éreations.Above all, it was the period of intense interest in intellectual things, and of minds enriched and chastened .by reading, thought, and learning.But what would its ' finer spirits\u2014 Erasmus, More, Colet, Sidney \u2014have thought of à world smothered, as we are, by an unceasing avalanche of new hooks, the good lust to sight amongst the bad, and none ahle to ensure the leisurely attention which alone can do justice to a work of merit?They also would have thought, it is to be feared, that the proper training of the mind was hard to come by in such a world.Yet the wide dissemination of literary matter, inevitable | as it has become, need not make us despair.The burden of ; books has to be borne; it may even be welcemed as a blessing if we know how to bear it.And the secret must be , learnt from the humanists of those old days which we have , just recalled.There were fewer books then, and they got the best out of them by two methods: first, the leisurely ; and careful perusal of a single well-chosen book or a single ' subject, and, secondly, by a practice, which was the chief | means of education to the Greeks of old\u2014the practice of | thrashing a subject out with a friend, and bringing one | mind to test and strengthen another.Both plans may | seem difficult for the solitary reader anxiously seeking to ! know something of the riches of literature, of the bearings | of the great problems of thought or history, of the stran | and beautiful things in the world of nature, but, at the same time, groping his way helplessly in the vast maze of | printed matter, with no guide to put him on the right path or like-minded friend with whom to compare notes of { progress.But his plight is not irremediable.\u201c x OW OW In the ocean of print which is engulfing the world there \u2018is only one way of keeping the head above water\u2014only one way, to change the metaphor, of keeping the mind a i healthy instrument and of deriving true enjoyment and | real profit from reading.The one thing needful is to be ! systematio\u2014not to weaken the faculty of attention and fritter away the power of thought by reading nothing but .periodicals and an occasional chance novel, but to re- , recognise that reading is an art which must be acquired; i and to learn an art it is necessary, at any rate, for most people, to put oneself under a master, confident that the more guidance one has in setting out the more profitable and the more engrossing will the practice of the art become, | So only can the burden of books be borne\u2014not only withe | out fatigue, but with willing effort that will never fail to | brace and invigorate the mind.ANNA PAVLOVA\u2019S BOOK.| | Madame Paviova is too busy dancing just now to think of turning author.She has in her possessio:s, however, saye \u2018The Bouk Monthly,\u201d à serious of letters te which some day i she will probably give publicity.They are letters written | to her by young English admirers of her beauiful dancing, \u2018 children, girls and boys.The opisties were addressed to her as a sort of fairy godmother who dues nothing but dance and dance, and s0 they have almost the note of a fairy book.Madame Paviova values them greatly, puts them amo her most treasured possessions, and would not part wi them for anything.Ladies\u2019 Tailor and Habit Maker A.Brodfubrer & Co.61 METCALF STREET Uptown S008 Ou.St.Cpthertne Spring Goods Now Rendy ler Inapoction Es ~~ 12 THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 8, 1913.Chapters From the Classics.IV ~The Princess Who Preferred a Conbent To a Court.From \u201cJOSEPH BALSAMO,\u201d by Alexandre Dumas.CHAPTERS XXVII.MME LOUISE OF FRANCE.THE King\u2019s eldest daughter awaited him in the great gallery of Lebrun, the same in which Louis XIV, in 1683, had received the Doge Imperiali and the four Genoese senators sent to implore pardon for therepublic.At the further end of the gallery, opposite the door by which the king must enter, were three or four ladies of honor, who seemed in the utmost consternation.Louis arrived just at the moment when groups began to form in the vestibule, for the resolution which the princess had taken only that morning was now spreading on all sides through the palace.The Princess Louise possessed a majestic figure, and a truly regal style of beauty, yet a secret sadness had left its lines on her fair forehead.Her austere practise of every virtue, and her respect for the great powers of the state\u2014powers which for the last fifty vears had only obtained a semblance of respect from interest or from fear\u2014had caused her to be regarded with veneration by the court.We must add that she was loved even by the people, although a feeling of disaffection toward their masters was now general.The word tyrants had not yet been heard.; She was loved because her virtue was not stern.She was not loudly talked of, but all knew that she had a heart.She manifested this every day by works of charity, while others only showed it by shameless self- indulgence.Louis XV.feared this daughter for the simple reason that he esteemed her.There were even times when he went so far as to be proud of her; and she was the only one of his children whom he spared in his sharp raillery or his silly familiarities.He called her madame, while the Princesses Adelaide, Victoire, and Sophie he named Loque, Chiffe, and Graille.* Since the eriod when Marshal Saxe carried with him to the tomb the soul of the Turennes and the Condes, and with the Queen Maria Lezinska passed away the governing mind of a Maria Theresa, all became mean and worthless around the throne of France.The Princess Louise, whose character was truly regal, and, compared with those around her, seemed even heroic, alone remained to adorn the crown, like a pearl of rice amid false stones and tinsel.'e should be wrong in concluding from this that Louis XV.loved his daughter.Louis, it is well known, loved no one but himself; we only affirm that he preferred her to all his other children.When he entered, he found the rincess in the center of the gallery, eaning on a table laid with crimson jasper and lapis lazuli.She was dressed entirely in black, and her beautiful hair, which was without powder, was covered by a double roll of lace.A deeper shade of sadness than usual rested on her brow.She looked at no one in the apartment, but from time to time her melancholy gaze wandered over the portraits of the kings of Europe, which ornamented the gallery, at the head of whom were those of her ancestors, the kings of France.The black dress which she wore was the usual traveling costume of princesses.It concealed large poek- ets, still worn as in the time of the ood house-wife-like queens, and the Princess Louise, imitating them in that, also, had the numerous keys of her chests and wardrobs suspended at her waist by à gold chain.The king's face assumed a serious expression when he saw how silent all in the gallery were, and how attentively they awaited the result of the interview hetween him and bis daughter.But the gailery was so long that the spectators at either end might see but they could not hear what passed; they had à right to see it was their duty not to hear.he princess advanced a few steps to meet the king, and taking his hand, she kissed it respectfully.\u201cThey tell me you are setting out on a journey, madame,\u201d said he, \u201care you going into Picardy?\u201d \u201cNo, sire, she replied.\u201cThen, 1 presume,\u201d said he, in a louder voire, \u2018that you are anout to make a pilgrimage to Noirmoutiers?\u201d \u201cNo, sire.| am going to retire to the convent of the Carmelites at St.Denis, of which you know | have the right to be abhess.\u201d The king started, but he preserved his countenance unmoved, although in reality his heart was troubled.\u201cOh, no, no, my daughter!\u201d he said; \u201cyou will not leave me.It is impossible you can leave me!\u201d \u201cMy dear father, it is long since | decided on abandoning the world.Your majesty permitted me to make that decision; do not now, | entreat you, my dear father, oppose my wishes.\u2019 \u201cYen, certainly, you wrung from me the permission of which you speak.1 gave it, but still hoped that when the moment of departure came, your heart would fail you.You ougit not to bury yourself in a cloister; by act- IRE so, you forget what is due to your rank.It is grief or want of fortune which makes the convent besought ae a refuge.The daughter of the King of France is certainly not poor; sad, if she be unbappy, the worl ° ht not to know it.he king's thoughts, and even his , seemed to become more elevated as he entered more and more into the part he was called on to lay \u2014that of a king and a father.his i indeed, a part never played ill, 4 pride and regret inspire the aotor.\u201cire,\u201d à the princess, per- evévi her father's emotion, aad fearful that it might aflest her more deeply thaa she at that mo- meat, \u2018sire, do net, by your tender- * Tag, rag, and serap.sorcerer on whose shoulders Dumas figures as the Count of Cagliostrodownfall of her family.the Carmelites at St.Dents.\\ ALEXANDRE DUMAS LEXANDER DUMAS, France's greatest novelist, is perhaps best known to English readers through \u2018The Three Musketeers\u2019 and the companion novels of that splendid series of war and adventure.wonderfully simple desciptions of life in the time of the Louis, XV and X V1, show nowhere to better advantage than in the Marie Antoinette series, which faithfully portray the life of the unfortunate Queen of France, from the time she enteren France from the Court at Vienna as the affianced bride of the Dauphin, to the day of her tragic death.Of these books, \u2018Joseph Balsamo\u2019 is the first.overthrow of the monarchy in France is introduced under the name from which the novel takes its title, although in the later books of the series he The chapter which we have chosen to re produce has no vital bearing on the plot, but is remarkable for the beautifully tragic language with which Dumas makes Louise, the eldest daughter of the vacillating, spineless, pleasure seeking King, foretell the destruction of the monarchy and the When the chapter opens, Louis has just been summoned to his daughter's side.She, disgusted with the Dubarry regime, and the frivolity and hollowness of Court life, has finally decided to retire to the Convent of ™N Yet his In this novel, the lays the whole responsibility for the J ness for me, weaken my resolution; my grief is no vulgar grief, therefore, my resolution to retire from the world is not in accordance with the usual customs of our day.\u201d \u201cYour grief?\" exclaimed the king, as if from a real impulse of feeling.*Have vou, then, sorrows, my poor child?\u201d \u201cHeavy, heavy sorrows, sire.\u201d \u201cWhy did you not confide them to me, my dearest daughter?\u201d **Becaus ?they are sorrows not to be assuaged by any mortal hand.\u201d \u201cNot by that of à king?\u201d \u2018Ah, no, sire!\u201d \u201cNot by a father's hand?\u201d \u201cNo, sire, no!\u201d \u201cBut you are religious, Louise; does not religion give vou strength?\u201d \u201cNot sufficient strength yet, sire; therefore 1 retire to a cloister in order to obtain more.In silence God speaks to the heart of man\u2014in solitude man communes with God.\u201d \u201cBut, in acting thus, you are making a sacrifice for which nothing can compensate, The throne of France casts a majestic shadow over the children of its kings.Ought not this reflected greatness to be sufficient for you\u2019 ; \u2018The shadow of the cell is better, sire; it refreshes the weary spirit; soothes the strong as well as the proud \u2014the high as well as the low.\u201d \u201cDo you fear any danger by remaining ?In that case, Louise, cannot the king defend you?\" \u201cSire, may God, in the first place, defend the king: \u201c1 repeat, Louise.that mistaken zeal leads you astray.It is good to pray, but not to pray always\u2014\u2014and you so good, so pious! can you require such constant prayers\u201d \u201cOh, my father! never can | offer up prayers enough to avert from us the woes which threaten us.If God has | given me a portion of goodness\u2014if for twenty years my only effort has been to purify my soul-1 fear, alas! that I am yet far from having attained the goodness and the purity necessary or an expiatory sacrifice.\u201d The king started back and gazed at the princess with surprise.\u201cNever have 1 heard you speak thus before, my dear child,\u201d said he; \u2018your asceticlifeis making your reason wander.\u201d **Qh, sire, do not speak thus of a devotion the truest that ever subject offered to a king, or daughter to a father, in a time of need.Sire, that throne, of which you but now so proudly spoke as lending a protecting shade to your children that throne totters.You feel not the blows which are dealt at its foundations, but I have seen them.Silently a dee abyss is preparing, which will ingulf the monarchy! Sire, has any one ever told vou the truth?\u201d The princess looked around to discover whether the attendants were far enough to be out of hearing of her words, then she resumed: \u201cWell, sire, I know the truth.Too often have | heard the groans which the wretched send forth, when, as a Sister of Merey, 1 visited the dark, narrow streets, the filthy lanes, the dismal garrets of the poor.In those streets, those lanes, those garrets, | have seen human beings dying of cold and hunger in winter, of heat and thirst in summer.You see not, sire, what the country is -vou go merely from Versailles to Marly, and from Marly to Versailles.But in the country there is no grain | do not say to feed the people, but even to sow for a pew! harvest for the land, cursed by some adverse power, has received, but has given nothing back.The le wanting bread, are filled with dis content.The air is filled in the twilight and at night with voices telling them of weapons, of chains, of prisons, of tyranny.and at these voices they awake, cease to complain, and commence to threaten.The parliements demand the right of remonatrance- that is, the right to say to you openly what they whisper in private, \u2018\u2019 King, you are running the kingdom save it, or we shall save: it ourselves.\u201d The soldiers with their idie swords furrow the land in which the philosophers have scattered the seeds of liberty.Men now see things whieh they formerly saw not, for our writers have laid all open to them; they know all that we do, and frown whenever their masters pass by.Your majesty's successor is soon to he married.When Anne of Austria's son was married, the city of Paris made presenta to the new queen; Bow | it ia not only silent, and offers nothing.but you have been obliged to use force to ooliert the taxes to pay the expense of bringing the daughter of Caesar to the of the son of ft.Louis.The sory have long ceased to pray | te God; but, sesing the lands given | | which we live.away, privileges exhausted, coffers empty, they have begun again to pray for what they call the happiness of the people.And then, sire, must I tell you what you know so well\u2014 what you have seen with so much bitterness, although you have spoken of it to none?The kings, your brothers, who formerly envied us.now turn | amuse themselves without us; or, | rather, when we appear in the midst of their pleasures, they become dull.Alas!\u201d continued the princess, her eyes swimming with tears, \u2018\u2018alas! poor young men, affectionate youn women! love, sing, forget, be happy! \u2018 Here, when I went among you, I only disturbed your happiness.Yonder i in my eloister, I shall serve you.Here, ; you hid your giad smiles in my pre- i sence, for fear of displeasing me.: There, I shall pray\u2014oh, God! with all my soul\u2014for my king, for my sisters, for my nephews, for the people of France\u2014for all whom I love with the energy of a heart which no earthly passion has exhausted.\u201d \u201cMy daughter,\u201d said the king, after a melancholy silence, *'1 entreat you not to leave me\u2014not at this moment, at least; you will break my heart.\u201d The princess seized his hand, and fixing her eyes, full of love, on his Loble features, \u2018No,\u2019 said she, \u2018\u2019no, my father\u2014not another hour in this alace! No; it is time for me to pray.feel in myself strength to redeem, by my tears, those pleasures for which vou sigh\u2014you, who are yet young.You are the kindest of fathers, you are ever ready to pardon!\u201d \u201cStay with us, Louise\u2014stay with us!\u201d said the king, pressing her to his heart.The princess shook her head.\u201cMy kingdom is not of this world,\u201d said she, disengaging herself from her father\u2019s embrace.Farewell, my fath- cr! | have told you to-day what for ten vears has lain heavy on my heart.The burden became too great.Farewell! I am satisfied\u2014see, I can smile; 1 am now, at length, happy\u2014I regret nothing.\u201d \u201cNot even me, my daughter?\u201d \u2018Ah, I should regret you, were I never to see you again, but you will sometimes come to St.Denis?You will not quite forget vour child?\u201d \u2018\u2019Oh, never, never!\u201d \u2018Do not, my dear father, allow yourself to he affected.Let it not appear that this separation is to be a lasting one.My sisters, 1 believe, know nothing of it yet; my women alone have been my confidantes.For 1 AFTER 100 YEARS.te me Ze ur L, 6g Miss 1813 (left) meets Miss 1913 (right) to discover that nothing has changed in a century\u2014so far as clothes are concerned! away from us.Your four daughters, sire, the princesses of France, have not found husbands, and there are twenty princes in Germany, three in England, sixteen in the States of the North, without naming our relations, the Bourbons of Spain and Naples, who forget us, or turn away from us like the others.Perhaps the Turk would have taken us had we not been daughters of his most Christian majesty.Not for myself, my father, do | care for this, or complain of it.Mine in a happy state, since it leaves me free, since | am not necessary to any oe of my family, and may retire from the world in meditation and in poverty pray to God to avert from your head, and from my nephew's, the awful storm |] see gathering on the horizon of the future.\u201d **My child, my daughter! it is your fears which make the future appear so dreadful.\u201d \u2018Mire, sire, remember that princess of antiquity, that royal prophetess.She foretold to her father and to her brothers war, destruction, conflagration, and her predictions were laughed at -they called her mad.Do not treat me as she was treated.Take care, oh, my father! reflect, my King!\u2019 Louis XV.folded his arma, and his head sunk on his bosom.'My daughter.said he, \u2018you speak very severely.Are those woes which you announce caused by me?\u201d \u201c(od forbid that I should think so! They are the fruit of the times in You are whirled oa in the career of events as we are all.Only listen, sire, to the applause in the theater which follows any allusion nat royalty.See, in the evenings, what joyous rrowds descend t narrow stairs of the galleries, while the grand marble staircase is deserted.Sire, both the peopie and the courtiers have made for themselves pleasures quite apart from our pleasures.They \u2014The Bystander.| eight days I have heen making all my preparations; and ! wish the report of my departure should only be spread when the great doors of St.Denis \u201cshall have closed on me; their heavy sound will prevent me from hearing i any other.\u2019 he king read in his daughter's eyes that her resolution was irrevocable.He wished, therefore, that she should go without disturbance.If she feared that sobs might shake her resolution, he feared them still more for hin nerves.Besides, he wished to go to Marly that day, and too much grief at Versailles might have obliged him to put off his journey.He reflected, also, that, when issuing from some orgies unfit both for a king and a father, he should never more meet that grave, sad face, which seemed always to reproach him for the careless.worthless existence which he led; and this thought was not disagreeable to him.\u201cBe it then, as you wish, my child,\u201d said he; \u201cbut at least receive, before you go, the blessing of a father whom you have always made perfectly py.ER e me your hand only, sire, and let me kins it.Bestow your precious blessing on me in thought.To those who knew the decision of the princess, it was a solemn spectacle to see her at every ste | vancing.yet in life, to the tombs of her :ancestors those ancestors who, from their golden frames, seemed to thank her that she hastened to rejoin them.At the door of the gallery the king bowed, and returned without utter a word.The court.according to eti- | quette, followed him.WORK.| Better a day of strife ! Than a century of sleep; | Give me instead of a long stream of life The tempests and tears of the deep.| -Standard Times.p she made ad- : Montreal THomens Club.Lady Drummond Leads in Discussion on Social Service and Common Sense.LAPY DRUMMOND was the first of the three speakers who ad- | dressed the Women\u2019s Club on Social | Service on Moaday afternoon.In : pleasant and distinct tones that | warmed as the speaker touched on some point that especially awoke her | enthusiasm or her sympathy, Lady | Drummond spoke\u2019 very beautifully on organized charity; a subject that on the surface appears dull but that develops manifold aspects of interest in the hands of sincere workers.Charity organization, said Lady i Drummond, was one of the subjects that run to platitudes.So was Wo- | \"man; but Woman, as a subject, was | at least, poetic whereas Charity | \"Organization was to all appearances unpoetical and uninteresting.Yet the two first great promoters of Organized \"Charity were among the most interest- | ling and delightful of women, Octavia \"Hill, who died mlich beloved a few months ago, and Josephine Shaw Lowell, a strong, sweet character, -whose memory is venerated in New York, as the city\u2019s saint, x # x To be successful the organization of ;charity must not be a men\u2019s or a \u2018women's movement only.It must work by the combined efforts of both | sexes.Oue of the first organized | effort, which was made in 1830, was | made by the men only and protestants ; only.his soon expired as the results | were unsatisfactory.The first at- [tempts to administer charity in a ; systematic and desirable manner were made in Scotland.This was the { Society for the Suppression of Beggars.It was not associated with any ! particular form of religious thought and it did some good work.In 1833 there was a closer approximation to | modern methods in the large parish of |St.Cuthbert's Edinburgh, which was | divided into six sections, each section being subdivided into ten distriets with a manager for each distriet.The work was voluntary and the arrangement didn't run at all smoothly.The general conclusion to which the results of this work pointed were that workers should be paid and properly trained, rather than that a society be dependent on voluntary untrained efforts.x # At the time of the formation of the reat Scotch and English Societies or the Organization of Charity workers in this cause were much influenced by certain famous men, such as Dr.Chalmers, Dean Stanley and Kingsley.John Stuart Mill in his \u2018Principles of i Political Economy\u2019 drew attention to , the ethics that should govern the laws lof giving.Such ideas were entirely | novel to & generation that had im- ! bibed the principles of charity in- { euleated in Miss Ldgeworth\u2019s novels, {in which, it will be remembered, good children were always urged to give | pennies to beggars.But a new way of studying this problem wow began and those who considered the needs of the poor looked at the consequences of assistance\u2018and at the consequences of relying on assistance.The poor were to be taught to develop their active energies, encouraged to labour, to exercise self-control, rather than to be ever willing to accept alms.Not only should men who have money i :helpfu give to those who have none; it is \u2018even more desirable that men who | have character give to those who have | none by making them self-reliant.| Under the influence of this school of thought charity organization gradually developed.The aim in administering relief is not so much to ive as to show the person who is to ¢ helped how to overcome difficulties.As a well-known writer says \u2018What is life for but to overcome difficulties?\u2019 | »* x A certain science of social help has developed, the scheme of whic in- | cludes enquiry concerning the nature of the case, relief based on knowledge and records for reference.There are committees for wide social questions | and for particular problems.Schools | of social sceince have grown up and chairs for the study of sociology have t been founded in Universities.The new methods soon crossed the sea.y The first Charity Organization Societv in the States was founded at Buffalo.In New York sociology made rapid strides in the work of Mrs.Shaw Lowell who, left a widow at twenty, spent the remaining forty years of her life in alleviating human misery, labouring without fear or self-con- sciousness and seeking no honour for herself.Mrs.Lowell was swift to see that alms-giving families tended to congregate together, and that relief as often given tended to harm those who received it.that disorganized charity often did harm where it was meant to do good.Goethe said There is nothing so terrible as active ignorance.\u2019 It might equally be said, \u2018There is nothing so as the love that knows.\u2019 Miss Helen Reid spoke on \u2018Applied i Charity,\u2019 giving some interesting information on the work of the Victorian Order of Nurses.She spoke of the necessity of cooperationamongst charitable societies, so that the one might step in just where another could not be made use of at the time.Miss Reid pleaded for a special committee to deal with the removal of tuberculosis cases and related cases to prove the great danger from an infected person to other members of the family.x OX The Rev.J.Lochheid spoke on sociology, as applied to hospital and described the work of the paid social worker in hospitals whose use was to find out the cireumstances of the patient and follow up his needs and so prevent the advice of the doctor from being wasted because the patient\u201d means made it impossible to follow the treatment needed.Amongst those present were Mrs.Renouf, Mrs.A.Ross Grafton, Mrs.Minden Cole, Mme Fortier, Mrs.Coates, Miss McDonald (of Quebec) Mrs.Cahan, Mrs, Walton, Mrs.Hayes, Mrs.Garrow, Mrs.Walter Lyman and Mrs.Alfred Hadeill.Miss Watson was in the chair.THE VICTORIAN ORDER.**Not one mother has died in the past five years,\u201d was the re-assuring statement made hy Dr.T.G.Roddick, president of the Victorian Order, at the fifteenth annual meeting held on Feb.27th at the Y M.C.A.Mrs.Walton, in giving the general report, mentioned that the work was among twenty different nationalities, a fact which says much for the diff- culties with which the nurses have to contend and the tact which is needful in their work, The sixty-one nurses on the local staff paid 90,955 visits during 1912 and responded to 4,414 night calls, which is no mean record.t is becoming diffeult to get board and lodging for nurses and the home in Point St.Charles will soon bave to be enlarged.Miss Helen Reid, in reporting on the special work, related how 227 poor families had received help in different useful channels.Coal, food and clothing had been supplied and employment found.Mr.A.A.Crombie in giving the financial statement, reported a deficit of $2,411.63.This would be made up by the proceeds of the collecting box campaign.Miss MeKenzie of Ottawa, the superintendent of Canada for the Order, presented medals to sixteen graduating nurses: Misses Bessie right, Laura Merant, Ella Tate, Margaret Tate, Florence Dougherty, Margaret L.Cullen, Mary F.Campbell, Maude Davies, Olive M.Gauvreau, Joaquina Mathieu, Eva Bates, Eliz.A.Munroe, E.A.Bishop, Eva MeKee, M.P.Wrayton and Clo Greta Carter.Among those present were Lady Drummond, Mrs.Graham Drinkwater, Dr.J.D.Duncan, Mra.Thomas Fessenden, Dr.J.J.Guerin, Mrs.J.B.Learmont, Mrs.F.P.Walton, Mrs.Arth.Whitney and Dr.Robt.Wilson.My Unknown Friend.| \u2018Pardon me,\u201d 1 said provoked at ny own stupidity \u2018When I say ,Amoked, I! mean able to sit up and be | smoked to, - a habit she had-\u2014being | read to, and being smoked to\u2014only | thing that seemed to compose her-\u2014\"\" | As I said this I could hear the rattle | and clatter of the train running past! the seinaphores and switch points and | slacking to a stop.My friend looked quickly out of the window.! His face wan agitated., \u2018*Great heavens!\" he said, \u2018that's \u2018 i the junction.l've missed my stop.I \"should have got out at the last station.Say, porter, \u2018\u2018he called out into the alley way, \u2018how long do we stop here?\u2019 \u201cJust two minutes, sah,\u201d called a \u2018voice back.\u2018\u2018She\u2019s late now, she's makin\u2019 up tahme!\"\u2019 | My friend had hopped up now and \"had pulled out a bunch of keys and | was fumbling at the lock of the suit \u201cI'll have to wire hack or something,\u201d he gasped, \u2018\u2018confound this lock - my money's in the suitease.\u201d\u2019 \"My one fear now was that he would fail to get off., \u2018Here,\u2019 Î said, pulling some money out of my pocket, \u2018don't bother with the lock.Here's money.\u201d | \u201cThanks,\u201d he said grabbing the roil \u2018of money out of my band,\u2014im his exeitement he took all that ! had\u2014 \u201cI'N just have time.\u201d He sprang from the train.| saw him through the window, moving towards the waiting room.He didn't seem going very fast.LEE JER I waited.The porters were calling, \u201cAll ahbawd! All abawd.\u201d\u201d There was the clang of a hell, a hiss of steam, and in a second the train was off.Idiot!\u20141 thought\u2014he's missed it; and there was his fifty dollar suit case lying on the seat.I waited, looking out of the window and wandering who the man was anyway.Then presently I heard the porter\u2019s voice again.He evidently was guiding some one through the car.*\u2018Ah looked all through the cyar for it, sah,\u201d he was saying.\u2018\u201cI let it in the seat in the car there behind my wife,\u2019 said the angry voice of a stranger, \u2014a well dressed man who put his head into the door of the compartment.Then his face too beamed all at once with recognition.But it was not for me.It was for the fifty dollar valise.**Ah, there it is,\u201d\u2019 he oried, seising it and carrying it off.I sank back in dismay.The \u2018old gang\u2019! Pete's marriage! My grandmother's death! (ireat heavens! And my money! I saw it all; the other man was \u2018making talk\u2019 too, and making it with a purpose.Stung! And next time that I fall into talk with a casual straager in a car, | shall not try to be quite so infernally,oxtre- ordinarily clever.STEPHEN LEACOCK. HEPARTS CLUB of Montreal had an auspicious opening of its new rooms, 51 Victoria street, Saturday evening.The club is a new one and is designed to bring artists, writers, musicians and others closer together anddto foster a spirit of Bohemian friendship among them.The existence , of the club is largely due to the interest of Mr.W.S.Maxwell, A.R.C.A., one of the two talented brothers who designed the Art Gallery, and if environment can inspire aesthetic endeavor, there shuuld be no lack of it in those who will frequent the Club, whose furnishings and decorations were also designed by Mr.Maxwell.THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 8, 1913.terson, R.C.A., Mr.David Shennan, Mr.Sidney Carter, Col.T.P.Butler, Dean Walton, Mr.W.C.Languedoc, Mr.A.Wilkie Kilgour, Mr.Paul Caron, Mr.Bernard K.Sandwell, Mr.E.Eldon Deane, Mr.J.C.Simpson, Dr.J.Douglas Morgan, Mr.John Edward Hoare, Mr.Warich Chipman, Mr.J.B.Fitzmaurice, Mr.Herbert Raine, Mr.H.Mortimer Lamb, Mr.Edwin J.Cox, Mr.G.Godfrey Burr, Mr.B.8S.Burland, Professor Ludlow, Mr.Herbert T.Shaw, Mr.L.T.Kilpin, Mr.P.Henderson, Mr.Arthur; E.Anderson, Mr.K.R.Macpherson, K.C., Mr.Francis E.Lloyd, Mr.F.Cleveland Morgan, Mr Arthur V.Mr.H.W.Mr.In Musical Circles.IEUTENANT-COL.MEIGHEN | the programme.However, the pro- has characterised as \u2018\u2019rumors, | ceeding enchanted the gallery.largely exaggerated,\u201d the various Mr.Mau:ice Lafarge was an ideal statements which have been made in | accompanist and also performed two the publie press during the past week | piano solos most agreeably.as to the possibility of the total dis- | ¥*¥* leontinuance of the Montreal Opera.The next star pianist to come to Company as we know it.\u201cThe Montreal will be Leopold Godowsky, whole thing is a matter yet to be famed especially for his very marvel- decided,\u201d he said to Tur Mirror !lous technique.To display this ex- \u2018and not until the directors get to- eeptional power he has arranged piano gether and discuss the situation can! studies in a particular manner.For any announcement he made as to the instance, he has combined the future.We have now had three! Etudes\u2019 of Chopin in such a manner years\u2019 experience, and know exactly | as to play always two of them at the ! what public response we may expect; ! same time.He does this without in \"how we will act in the face of that any sense violating the artistic spirit \u2018knowledge is a matter yet to be de- | of the original, whilst at the same time cided.\u201d I'he surrounds them with incredible dif- | To outsiders it would seem that! ficulty.This is the outlet that Mr.\u201cthe publie response has on the whole Godowsky chooses for the extraordi- been remarkably good, and that the | nary over-measure of speed, facility and \u2018main difficulty against which the | power with which he 1s endowed.13 £ kw YORK, March 3, 1913.\u2014 Just off Fifth Avenue, inTwenty- Ninth Street, is the Little Church around the Corner.Directly across from this is the Leopold Godowsky was born in| Rosaire, Ashley, George G.Fox, Mr.D.5S.Walker, Mr.Jas.A.Baylis, Dr.Andrew Macphail, Mr.A.F.Byers, Mr.Fred G.Robb, Mr.R.J.Wadsworth, Mr.G.Portex OX ¥ P The exterior of the building is Spanish in character with rough cast .cement walls; the cornice is of the awning type and covered with green glazed Spanish tiles, the ground floor being utilized as a showroom for .objects of a select nature.But the exterior does not give any idea of the beauty of what is inside.* OK The main room is for exhibition | purposes, where it is planued to hold shows of the different members\u2019 work | every three weeks, the display of | paintings, etchings, black and white work, Japanese prints and other results of artistic endeavor which | only occasionally are shown in larger galleries.In design itis an adaptation to modern conditions of an old Elizabethan hall.From vertical walls the | ceiling is splayed to the flat roof.The | plaster work is carried out in the style of the same period, one of the features | of the room being a huge carved mantel and large fireplace.The door and window openings are of stone with deep reveals,as is customary of that period, while the walls are hung | with Japanese golden grass cloth whic gives a background of soft rich gold color, showing the pictures to splendid advantage.The lig ting of the a art- ment by day is by means of a arge north-light studio window, ten feet ! wide and fourteen feet high, there being a large Jacobean bench beneath it.he light from the window is supplemented by a skylight which makes ventilation perfect.At night the pictures are lighted by six reflector lights, there being no light in the eyes of the visitors.For ordinary purposes table lights wita old Italian carved wood columns with Japanese silk shades, are utilized, in addition to which there are two sixteenth century German wrought iron cranes, converted into electric light fixtures.The furniture consists of Davenport sofas, easy chairs with verdure tapestry upholsterings, and in the centre of the room there is a massive carved Elizabethan refectory table, while Windsor chairs complete the character of the room.On the floor are Persian rugs deep in tone and while | rich in effect do not compete with the coloring in the pictures.| This main club-room is entered.through a small exhibition corridor 7 oT 777 draped with grey fabrikona cloth, the tending to exhibit at the thirtieth Wall lighting being of the indirect ' annual spring exhibition of the Art type.Over the entrance door and | Association of Montreal was incorrect.window in the same wall there are two The date given for the private view painted lunettes one by Mr.Maurice | was March 20th and the formal open- Cullen, R.C.A., vice-president of the 'ing on the following day.As Varclub, and another by Mr.Clarence nishing Day fell on Holy Thursday Gagnon, A.R.C.A,, the latter subject and the public opening on Good being a winter scene at Baie St.Paul.Friday, it has hecn decided to post- Over the mantel there is à texnporary pone the private view until Easter panel to be replaced later by a decora- Monday following whieh the show tion from the brush of Mr.William will remain open until April 12th, Brymner, President of the Royal This advancing of the opening date, Canadian Academy.however, does not allow intending In the front of the building, there exhibitors additional delay in sending is a billiard room, with samod in thelr works, for judging commences ceiling, the walls being covered with March Sthgre rasa cloth.ibis room b day x Re % is lighted by & window o° \u2018cadec gas The exhibition of oils and water- draped with tapestr curtains, On the colors by Mr.Randolph Hewton and same floor is an office, a cloak room Mr.Alex.Y.Jackson clowed on Satur- \u2019 ay.1e attendance 1n the lecture The officers of the club sidi Mr.W.hall of the art gallery where the pic- 8.Maxwell, lon R oR oo rosie tures were shown was good and a few Maurice ¥ cle land Mor co sales were made.Both these youn ent; ; M Ge eve u Fox VS easurer artists had work hung in the inaugura retary: iL purge o.il: Me.Willians | exhibition of the Arts Club and will be and the fo PRE AN at offre | represented at the coming annual Brymner, PR.D vla M.Gill Me, spring show.It is their intention to Porteous, Mr.aM Herbert D.York for some months in this country Guy Brock, an F.lHerber * before returning to Europew Rainex #* * LU, The opening was sans ceremonie.| One of the most encouraging signs The invitations read \u201cinformal\u201d It of local artistic times was manifested was essentially a free-and-easy \u2018\u2018drop at the annual meeting of the Art Assoin\u2019 affair and the amusement and | ciation of Montreal when the vice- fraternizing commenced as soon as president, Mr.H.V.Meredith, who G.Furlong, Mr.L.R.Green and Mr.St.George Burgoynex % ¥ ORTUNATELY, before the invitations had been printed the discovery was made that the date set in the printed circular sent to artists in- club and is its first president.new quarters of the Montreal Arts Club last Saturday evening._ | presided, announced that the efforts the guests arrived.There wore ex made by the council of that body to ;obtain immunity from taxation promised to bear fruit\u2014the Board of : Control having been most sympathetic | in the reception of the state of affairs | explained by himself, Mr.©.J.Fleet, \"K.C., and Mr.J.B.Abbott, secretary \"of the association.The other encouraging note was the report of the building committee which indicated that while the balance re- | quired to provide for authorized expenditure, in connection with the new a 1 cellent pictures to look at, \u2018\u2018cliurch wardens\u2019 to smoke, while a big log fire roared in the grate.There was a large turn out of the members of the Pen and Pencil Club, its president, Mr.John KE.Logan, congratulating those responsible for the founding of the Arts club upon their labors.During the course of the evening the president Mr.W.8.Maxwell outlined the objects of the club and citing conversations he had held with members of the Arts and Letters Club, in Toronto, had learned that the majority of its members would willingly sacrifice anything but their membership in it.The guests and members provided the entertainment dur- i che evening & stand-up supper being available in the billiard room.x # # those present at the inaugural gathering were, Mr.William Brymner, P.R.C.A., Mr.W.8, Maxwell, A.R.C.A., Mr.Robert Harris, C.M.G.; R.C.A., Mr.Maurice (1.Cullem, R.C.A., Mr.G.Horne-Russell, R.C.A., Mr.A.F.Dunlop, vice-presi- dent of the Royal Canadian academy.Mr.W.H.Clapp, A.R.C.A., Mr.Alfred laliberte, A.R.C.A., Mr.A.Suzor-Cote, A.R.C.A, Mr.J.C.Franchere, A.R.C.A, M.H.de Haan, Austrian consul; Mr.David MeGill, Mr.John E.Logan, Mr.G.M.Brock, Mr.Walter Stenhouse, jr.; Mr.Paul B.Earle, Mr.D.H.Mac- Farlane, Mr.Frederick G.Todd, Professor H.F.Armstrong, Mr.J.8.lewis.Mr.Paul T.Sise, Dr.H.J.Stuart Nishol, Mr.A.Dickson Pat Amon | natives bei llory, to December 31st last, was .$164,136.32, that the balance had \u2018 since been reduced to $5,336, and this, in view of the enormity of the under- , taking, quite warranted Mr.Mere- ! dith's remark when he said the build- | ing was virtually free of debt.| he other items in the report were \"equally encouraging - that Their ; Royal Highnesses the Duke and i Duchess of Connaught had graciously | consented to become trons of the association; that the efforts taken to ; obtain relief from taxation have result- \u2018ed in a remission of the taxes paid on the new building for 1911 and that with further leniency in this reapect \u2018the association will be enabl to open its doors on certain days during ju Srperk free of charge ! The membership list now totals -1,755, and Mr.if V.Meredith in ; touching on the unavoidable increased | ! cost of maintenance of the new build- | ing pointed out that this would have to be provided for, the possible altering the increase of membership or an advanee in the membership foes, though the latter means could | | Company has had to contend, both | lhere, and during its Toronto visit, lis the lack of a sufficiently large i theatre to accommodate a paying \u2018house.If that is so, then the way I'talked of Opera House in Montreal, | provided other publie-spirited millionaires are prepared to join with Col.Meighen in the scheme.If there are other considerations besides the one mentioned militating against financial success, then the best we can hope for Mrossibly a restricted company.The atter would be a great pity, for the Montreal Opera Company, on this past season's ambitious scale, was a great factor in the social life of the city, and a remarkable educating influence.Nn NK SEATS were placed on the stage to take the overflow of the audience at Edmond Clement's concert at the Princess Theatre on Monday night, and there was some \u2018\u2018guying by the \u201cgods\u201d when rather after the hour when the concert should have begun, the curtain rose to show some nearly empty benches decorated here and there with a few persons who straightway hecame a target for the wit of \u201cLe Paradis.\u201d Edmond Clement was warmly received by the Montrealers who had often enjoyed his singing the winter before last.The French tenor is at his best in light and florid music of which there were several examples in the interesting programme selected.There were occasional traces of fatigue and a certain hardness was audible in , the sustained notes in the middle register, as for instance when singing Rognon\u2019s \u201cChant de Paques.\u201d\u201d Monsieur Clement was at his best when singing some melodious old French songs.This came in the last part of the programme and the singer was attired in eighteenth century dress, which was appropriate to some of the ballads but unsuitable to others such as troubadour songs.Mile.Odette Carlyle used her melodious soprano with skill and charm and fully deserved the warm ap pisuse that fel! to her share.She was heard to the fullest advantage in Alexandre (George's ** Hymne au Soleil.\u201d Both artistes sang admirably in Schumann's \u2018\u2018 Sous la Fenetre,\u201d and in Godard\u2019s \u2018\u2018 Duo de Dante.\u201d 1t is questionable however whether the methods of the stage are suitable for the concert platform.When a gentleman in ordinary evening dress sings a love song with a lady it is surely better taste for him not to walk off the platform with his arm round her waist, as happened in the early part of not be utilised at present as the old rates now prevail and the subscriptions for the current year have been id.The officers were re-elected as follows: \u2014 President.Mr.James Ross: vice-president, Mr.H.V.Meredith; honorary treasurer, Mr.C.J.Fleet, The following councillors were elected for two years: -Mr.R.B.Angus, Mr.A.Baumgartena, Mr.Guy M.Drummond.Mr, C.B.Gordon, Mr.K.B.Greenshields, Mr.C.R.Hosmer, Mr.Morrice, Mr.H.Montagu Allan, Sir William Vaa Horne.or one H Paton, Dr.W.Gardner, Dr.F.J.She herd, Mr.J.R.Wilson, Mr.D.A.Watt, Mr.J.B.Learmont, Mr.H.8.Holt and Mr.W.R.Miller.8.30 p.m.ear Mr.Herbert Molson, Mr.\u2019 : 1870 and at the age of fifteen made an | Americanstour in the course of which his reputation as one of the first \" pianists of the age was made.lle has ous, Mr.Wilfrid M.Barnes, Mr.: seems clear for the building of the long- | been composing since he was seven years of age.One of his most enthusiastic admirers is the aged Emeror of Austria, who has appointed \u2018him head of the Master School for Piano at the Imperial Royal Academy at Vienna.This is a very important government post and carries with it a Little Bookshop.around the Corner.In this shop, more suggest- of Broadway, Le \u2014_ iveof Bond street than may he seen many a celebrity and bouk-lover browsing along thecrowded counters and shelves.The owner and guiding spirit of this shop is Mitchell Kennerley.The shop is his toy.His real profession is that of a publisher.\u2018And among New York publishers there is no more interesting ersonality than that of this same Mitchell Kennerley.He is a clean-cut young Englishman who came from London a number of years ago to show America that she has no monopoly AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW ARTS CLUB ON VICTORIA STREET.arrangement with the Austrian Gov- \"ernment Mr.Godowsky is permitted to travel where and when he wishes without special permission from his + government.LIE % Rostand\u2019s tragedy of \u2018Cyrano de : Bergerac \u2018\u2019 has lately been made into an opera by Walter Damrosch and produced at the Metropolitan Opera ouse, Nbw York.Considerable : liberty has been taken with the original plot in order to gain compactness.The death of Cyrano, for instance, which is delayed in the original until fifteen yoars after the death of the handsome but brainless Christian, .takes place in the opera almost at the same time.It will be remembered | that in the book Roxane, the winning, romantic heroine, unable to endure absence from her lover, Christian, follows him to the battlefield, where he is shot.Roxane retires to a convent and is visited daily by Cyrano and is killed in her presence by a missile flun by a hidden enemy.The author o the libretto gives him a hero's death just after the battlefield, also in toxanc'« presence whose eyes are opened to the truth, The New York critica seem to agree that Damrosch\u2019s music reveals much technical skill but lacks originality.It is permeated with suggestions of | Wagnere performance was remarkable for spirit and finish.Mr.Amato, who \u2018took the title role was especially successful in the last act and sang the death music with much pathos.Madame Alda sang and acted splendidly as Roxane.* x ¥ Madame Enid Martin Hanson will five a concert at the Ritz-Carlton {otel on Wednesday March 12th, at She will be assisted by Madame Marguerite Froelich, Mr.Fellowes Hanson and Mr.Georges Brewer.»* ww The famous contralto, Julie Culp, will sing at the entertainment to iven on Tuesday, March 11, at His ajosty's Theatre in aid of the Montreal Foundling and Baby Hospital.Miss Cuip, who has created a furore in Paris and in New York, where she is hailed as the greatest lieder singer of the day, is the possessor of a mezzo- contralto voice of very wide range, which she uses to display a wonderful variety of expression.8he is a Dutchwoman who sings in four languages besides her own, Italian, French, German and English.She is es- ially succesful with the songs of hubert, Schumann, Brabms and Beethoven.The accompenist with Miss Cul will be Conrad Van Bos, who, it wi be remembered, played for Dr.Wurrner, when he sang in Montreal two years ago.\u201cThe man who would do anything im this world must first deposit his heart in the baok of som: woman's keeping.\u2019 \u2014The Antagonists, by EK.Temple Thurston.From a flashlight photograph of the group of painters, writers, musicians and \u2018\u2018good fellows\u201d generally who were present at the opening of the W.A.Maxwell, seen in the foreground, was the prime mover in organizing the (ARTHUR STRINGERS ORIG ETTER | | | 1 First you stir up your soul.Then you take the lid off.Then you paint what's in your soul, as you see it, after being stirred up.In some instances, apparently, you get a human face that \u2018looks like a fried egg.At another time you get a nude lady descending ia stairway, with the general effect ! exactly like that of a bunch of British- | Columbia pine-shingles being scat- i of sugar.seems to be a restricted season amd very big salary, but by a special on energy.He is a man of wealth, but what is more important, he is a man of culture.Among his personal friends are practically all of the active writers in English belles lettres of the dav from Yeats and Bliss Carman to Arnold Bennett and Arthur Symons.| Kennerley has another Mitehell toy besides the Little Bookshop, and that is The Forum, which he edits and publishes.He is also the of \u201cThe Lyric Year,\u201d and to say that he brings out more good verse than any other publisher in) {he In fact Kennerley has a personal weakness for poetry.If he consid it good poetry, he will publish it, whether he thinks it is going to pay or not.Very often, I'm afraid, 1 doesn\u2019t pay.In fact, when I was talking with Mitchell Kennerley the America or England today.Mitehell other day, | was astonished to hear | And ublisher venture tered by a windstorm.Or you get a meditative lady, like Braneusi\u2019s \u2018Mlle.Pogany,\u201d whose head luuks like a hard-boiled egg balanced on a lum Or you get landscapes, as heard one well-known novelist exclaim, \u201clooking as though they had been crocheted by his grandmother in colored wool.\u201d * HK % BUT behind all this seeming madness there is a vitality, à youthful and courageous animalism, a stampeding fight back to reality, that combine to lift even aberration out of the ridiculous.Monet, thirty years agu, startled Paris with the smae madness.Today, the world has devoured what was truth in Monet, made it their own, and rejected the trivial falsisies the same as a hungry man rejects the seed from his raisin pie.There is much of Cezanne, Cauguin, Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso that the twentieth century will have to hurt its teeth on before the newer impressionistic movement can be swallowed.But in the meantime all New York is swarming to see their canvases and sculptures, and after the pale insipid- ities of the usual art exhibition is being shocked into fresh and disturbing appreciation of the fact that painting, like any other product of man\u2019s spirit, changes and grows.And the key-note of the present exhibition, it seems to me, may be epitomized in the statement that it represents an eager struggle of intellectualized sensation.That sounds rather highfalutin\u2019 and high-brow, I'm afraid, but I'll try to make it plainer by reverting to Brancusi's goggle-eyed lady who looks so much like a hard-boiled egg.x #% % HAT has the artist done here?He's shaped a woman's head and left it almost as round and bald as a hen\u2019s egg.He has tried to simplify a human being into an idea.Geometrically, the head of this human being might be called an elliptical sphere.his sphere is attached to the neck by an external line which seems both a tangent to and a prolongation of the head-curve, though ! they could possibly be in any the line itself presents a flat curve, balanced on the other side of the face by still fuller curves.Enlarged and elliptical eyes interrupt the geometrical convexity of the face, with brows arching downward at a tangent to the curve of the head-dome.In other words, Brancusi had reduced a woman's head and neck and forearms to the simplest terms of geometry.He had gone the Greeks one better.Even Aristotle and Plato expounded the structural basis of all form as being geometrical.But our new Futurist, accepting | this, has also stripped away the dis- | guise of what may be called the ac- | cidental elements of nature, unified a human face into a rhythmio and harmonious whole, making everything subservient to that frantic, and at first startling, struggle for unification.That he has made the eyes, for instance, several times larger than human uturist, To head, is, according to our prerogative of the artist.1 | accentuate certain features of à com- | position at the ex ers | ! | eamera.nse of the others 1s what personalizes his product, differentiating his soul (always with the lid off) from the mere lens of the It is all very interesting, | and in the meantime it is all leading to reams and reams of discussion., incidentally, it is acquainting him declare that in the United States Americans with the fact that they at present there were just about one have a number of great artists of their hundred and twenty-five habitual supporters and lovers of serious verse.\u201cBy that,\u201d said the publisher from over the water, \u2018I mean that throughout the United States 1 may count on about one hundred and twenty-five versons purchasing a book of poetry cause it is good poetry and not because their attention has n drawn to it through press-agenting or factitious advertising.At first the list was only about a hundred strong.It has taken several years to build up that extra twenty-five.It has also taken some money.Practically all ple, of course, love poetry in some form or another.But most ple, oddly enough, expeet to get it for nothing.There is à certain kind they al ways can et for nothing.But it is not always air to the poet to take it that way.Conditions are changing, however although they are changing slowly.i have a number of younger poets who are building up clienteles of their own.They are not growing wealthy on royalties in the meantime, but who ever expected a poet to be wealthy?w\u201c # # NE of the most important art exhibitions ever held in America is now taking place in this city.It is called \u201cThe International Exhibition of Modern Art\u201d and is daily being visited by thousands and thousands of spectators in the Lexington avenue, Armoury.This exhibition, it is true, has given rise to & chorus of derision from a certain portion of the press.But it has stimulated talk and aroused the ht about contemporaneous art, an before approached.This exhibition flares and glooms with the work of Cubists and Futuriste and Post-Impressionista.But it is a lust v if still somewhat raucous chorus, these New Spirit canvases shouting for recognition.Many of the motes are false.many are shrill, many are pathetie, touched with the pathos of crushed and half-obliterated apirite forlornly intemt on articulation.The recipe for doing the Futuriet canvas, it seems to me, is quite simple ; own, although a few of the younger | spirits may still betray the labor- as done ro in & manner never | pains of a new movement-birth.* Xx * TILL another attempt at Grand Opera in English has met with onl qualified success, if not, indeed, with slightly saddening failure.Walter Damrosch's operatic adaption of \u2018Cyrano\u2019, which was put on at the Metropolitan the other night, has not exactly set the Hudson on fire.The stage settings were truly beautiful, the book was conscientiously evolved, the cast was a capable one, inoluding Amato, Alda, Riccardo Martin and iss, and the conductor for the occasion was Hertz himself.But the music, on the whole, while rich in orchestral coloring, seemed wanting in distinction and lamentably undistinguished by charm.Unfortunately, too, there was a fourth act that was dull\u2014and weak last-acts make strong food for storage warehouses.As for the English book, it might as well have been Italian or French or German.The sheer richness of the orchestration and the size of the auditorium combined to swallow up any lingering ghost of the native tongue as it reached the house from those Latin throats.Martin, it is true.is à native born American from Kentucky.But ten years of study in Italy has so denationalized that blue-grass singer that when ! heard him give Tosti« \u2018\u2018Good-bye\u2019 in English at a Metropolitan Sunday Conoert he was unable even to articulate the word food-bye, but made it \u2018\u2019Guud-e-bye! (Guud-a-bye'\u201d ARTHUR STRINGER.The Pleture Pesteard Here.\u201cThe man who invented picture postoards ought to have his statue on the top of the Eiffel Tower.The millions of headaches he has saved! People go to places now not 10 exhaust t ves by eee them, but to buy Jloture rt s of them.\u201d The ou, veatures of Aristide Pujol, by W.J.Locke.SAT A SR AE. 14 THE SATURDAY MIRROR, MONTREAL, MARCH 8, 1913.Some \u201cSpirits\u201d Delight in Playing Practical Jokes on Would-Be \u201cInvestigators\u2019 Give Messages from Persons who Have Not Yet \u201cPassed Over\u201d and Indulge in Other Senseless Antics \u2014 Holding Conversation Through the Means of a Moving Table\u2014 Spirits Who Want to Know about Mundane Affairs.(By John Fisher Russell.) IY my last article I told of my introduction into the kindergarten stage of Spiritualism, and of the frank bewilderment of myself and friends at the strange antics which we ourselves were able to make a table perform.What those antics had to do with Spiritualism, I must confess, 1 was unable to see, but then, as my friend the Spiritualist explained, you have to learn to walk before you can run, and you have to learn the alphabet before you can write.On another evening he undertook to demonstrate the next stage in Spiritualism to us.A plain oak table two feet six inches square was se.ected as the instrument of communication beween us and the spirit world.This table was standing on a rug, and before we sat down for our seance.the Spiritualist had the rug removed He explained that while it was not impossible for the table to be \u2018\u2018moved\u201d while standing on a rug, it was better for it to stand upon the wooden floor, as \u2018\u2019communication\u2019\u2019 could be established much more easily with the table standing on wood.One of the party remarked that this looked as though the real influence moving the table was the setting up of some form of electricity.There was a party of half a dozen of us in the room, and there was nothing at all of mystery about the way in which the Spiritualist started to make his demonstration.No lights were lowered; no silence was enjoined; no ban was put on laughter or even half-jesting remarks about the spirits.Four of us sat down at the table, not because four only were necessary to the experiment, but because if the six of us had sat down we would have been crowded.\u201cLay the palms of your hands flat upon the table.Let them rest there of their own weight,\u201d were all the instructions we got from the Spiritualist.We put our hands upon the table.Aimost immediately one of our number announced that his hands had grown stone cold.Another remarked that he could feel what seemed to be cold waves of air beating upon his hands and arms.\u2018You often feel that when the influence is strong,\u201d remarked the Spiritualist.\u2018It is one of the signs.\u201d A Message from the Spirits.WHILE we were sitting there looking at each other's hands and discussing the cold feeling of which two of our number complained, the table suddenly began to move.It began a circular sliding motion, almost as though a swaying hand were moving it.\u2018Now I'm goin something that will astonish you,\u201d said the Spiritualist.\u2018I'm goin to get à message from the spirit world.1 will ask some questions, and if the answer is \u2018Yes\u2019, the table will tap three times on the floor.If the answer is \u2018No\u2019, it will tap only once.\u201d His face became very serious as he looked at the table and asked, \u2018ls anybody here?\u201d I thought at first that the question referred to us, but I quickly realized that what in reality the Spiritualist was asking was, *'Is there somebody in the room with us who is invisible to us?\u2019 It seemed to me a ridiculous thing for a grown man, apparently in his sound senses, to address such a uestion to a mere, ordinary.every- table, ut look! One side of the table was slowly rising.It rose about an inch, and then fell back to the floor.This it repeated three times, the legs making three distinet raps on the floor.That's not loud enough,\u201d said he Spiritualist.** Rap louder!\u201d The table immediately became more ener- getie.It thumped the floor three times like 8 hammer.\u201cThere's somebody here,\u201d said the Spiritualist.\u201cNow I'm going to axk some questions, and the answers will be given by the table spelling out the words by raps on the floor.Thus one rap will mean A\u201d, tworaps *B\u201d, three raps °C and so on throughout the alphabet.\u201d \u201cWho is here?\u2019 asked the Spiritualist.The table rapped on the door thirteen times we saying one letter of the alphabet after each rap.The thirteenth letter of the alphabet in .Therefore the first letter of the first word of the message was * M\u201d After a short pause the table began to show you again.It rapped fifteen times before it stopped.That meant \u201cO\u201d.Then it rapped twenty times.That meant \u2018TT.So it went on till the word * Mother\u201d was apelt out.\u2018\u2019Whose mother is 11?\u2018 asked the Spiritualiat.The table spelt out the name of the Spiritualist himself.\u201cDo yow want to speak to me?\u201d asked the Spiritualist.No table rapped three times for \u201ca en.\u2026 \u201cThat's funny.ssid the Hpiritualist, looking very serious.\u2018\u2018 As far as 1 know my mother is alive.I have never know her to come to me in thisway.It is usually those who have \u2018passed over\u2019 who come with Then he addressed the table again, \u2018Give your message.\u2019 he said.Are You Pooling?ALL this time we were sitting with our heads on the table, for only in this way could whatever power moved the table be exerted.The table began rapping the floor again.It rapped out a disjointed series of letters, something like ttjkrmybtng .he Spiritualist looked angry.\u2018It's some spirit fooling,\u201d he said.\u2018\u2018Are you fooling?\" he asked of the table\u2014 or of the influence that was moving the table.he table thumped three times\u2014 \u2018Yes\u2019.** Then clear out! Get out of this!\u201d said the Spiritualist, harshly.After that the table did not respond to his questions.There was no more movement in the table that night.i The Spiritualist explained that there | were good and bad spirits, that some! were full of mischief and pranks and | were always trying to play off jokes, on people.Others were distinetly ! evil spirits.It was dangerous to have anything to do with either mischievous or evil spirits.Some ple attracted nothing but evil, influences from the spirit world; in- \u201cDoes anybody here know anyone named Sam Brown?timacy with such people, or seances in their company.were things to be shunned.An Inquisitive Spirit.NEEDLESS to say.| was not very much impressed with the results of this seance.Another evening the Spiritualist and myself happened to meet at a friend's house, and we had another seance.At this there was present a young man whom the Spiritualist had never seen before.his young man joined in with those who laid cheir hands on the table.The rapping of the table began, in answer to the Spiritualist's questions, in just as easy and apparently natural a manner as before.This time when the Spiritualist asked who it was that was moving the table, it spelled out the name of a man.As this is à true story, | cannot give the real name, so | will say that 1t answered \u2018Sam Brown.\u201d The Spiritualist looked around at us inquiringly.\u201cDoes anybody here know anybody named Sam Brown ?\u201d he asked.The young man previously referred to had hecome verv pale.and was ners ously biting his lip.\u201cYes, | do,\u201d he replied.the rest of us did.The Spiritualist asked the table if it had a me e for the young man.It rapped he floor three times -\u2018* Yes.\u201d \u201c(Go ahead, then.\u201d said the Spiritualist.The table then rapped out the following startling question.** Did Tom Jones \u2018this Was not the real name it mentioned, get drowned at the same time an | did >\" We were all genuinely interested now.Here was momething like a question from the spirit world.\u2018Do you know anything about a drowning ?asked the Spiritualist of the young man.\u201cYes,\u201d he replied.\u2018It was two vears agn.There were four of us in a canoe.It got upset.Two of them were drowned.One of them was Sam Brown.The other was Tom Jones.\u201d None of \u201cYeu.\u201d said the Spiritualist.addressing the table.\u2018Tom Jones was drowned.\u201d \u201c1 thought so.\" rap back the table.\u201cI've beea looking for him everywhere on thin side, but | can't find him.\u201d Mark the significance of that sen- temnce \u2014\u2018\u2018on this side.J) i Then inquiries came for other friends | whieh, of those who were present in the room, only the young man knew.It was an intimate personal little chat, about how so-and-so was doing, and who had taken Sam Brown's place in various little social organizations, and i 80 on.Our friend the young man was deeply affected.There were tears in was over\u2014because it brought home to \u201chim so intimately the tragedy.The \u2018talk\u2019 had been a gossipy one about various people known to the dead Sam Brown and the young man, and the latter said certain things were mentioned in the talk which the table the dead Sam Brown knewof.Too Intimate for Comfort.AFTER the \u2018\u2019spirit\u2019 above referred to had rapped out \u2018\u2018Good bye\u201d another one came.\u2018This time it was the dead sister of one of our number, and the message was \u2018\u2018 Don\u2019t grieve about me.! am happy here.Tell Robert when you see him (Robert was her brother) that ! want to speak to im.\u201d This was getting altogether too intimate and personal to be comfortable.What all of us\u2014with the exception of the Spiritualist\u2014had started out with in a spirit of fun suddenly seemed to be bordering on the sacrilegious.We stopped by mututal consent.For my own part, mystified as 1 was by the fact of the table moving and rapping, | had an idea that hypnotic influence, or some form of magnetism, or some natural phenomena of that kind were r:sponsible for the moving of the table.As for the fact of its rapping, it seemed to me that if four persons willed a table to rap it was ten chances to one that unconscious) they would exert the power whie would accomplish it.Similarly it seemed to me that after the first letter of a \u2018message\u2019 had been rapped out, the concentrated minds of those with their bands on the table would automatically add other letters, and by a species of thought transference there would Le joint action in making the table rap and stop rapping, thus piecing out message.\u201d But if that is so, how came it that at the seance ! have described a \u2018\u2019ronversation * took place about wople that only one of our number Knew?Did his thoughts, at the suggestion of something supernatural at work on the table, naturally revert to the figures in the greatest tragedy in his life, and were his thoughts so intense that they imposed themselves upon our mindu and caused us automatically to join him in arking ques tions and mak\u2018ng remarks such as would naturally come to his mind if he himself had already had imposed upon him by another mind the thought that somebody who was dead wanted to «peak to him?What's the Esplanation?N other words, does the fact of a certain number of people laving their hands on a table.and holding their minds in a receptive and expert- ant condition, naturally cause the thoughts that would come welling up out of one\u2019s inner consciousness to he transferred from onc mind to the other, with the result that the most vivid become predominant, and are given tangible expres