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«Don‘t be discouraged about that prizeâ€"speaking, Fred," he said. "Go ahead with it. Put it through. Never mind the gestures. They‘re only a useless ornament anyway. â€" Why, you knowâ€"what‘s his namelâ€"that great orator, you remember; he fnever used Parmenter turned savagely toward the wall, and winced with the pain the movement caused him ; but he said nothing, _ After a litéle, Lee reverted to the prizeâ€"speaking contest. He had been thinking about it all the time. For a minute Lee was at a loss for an answer. He also was a candidate for the prize stage. They had agreed that each was to strive to obtain the honor to the best of his ability ; but the rivalry was so friendly that neither would have accepted an appointment at the expense of the other. At the same time, it would have been & great pleasure to either to have the other carry off the prize. "‘That was a cowardly thing for Van Loan to do, wasn‘t it? Dangerous too. "Why, just think of it ! _ It nAight have eracked your skull !" «Pity it hadn‘t!‘ growled Parmenâ€" ter. "Then there‘d have been no question about my being an idiot. As it isâ€"well, I‘ve two years in which to get even with him. Ithink I can manage to make it up in that time." "Every one of ‘em," said Lee. "They all went down town last night after the row, and what canes they couldn‘t raise money enough to buy, they begged or borrowed. . They‘re â€" tremendously proud and joyous this morningâ€"espeâ€" eially Van Loan. He thinks he‘s the biggest toad in the puddle now, sure." im ce oc e B m es en ce ntven ds ove in hls harcion So After a minute he added, "Did the freshies carry sticks this morning, Charley 1" "«Bah! You know better than that, Charley. I‘m out, that‘ all. There‘s only one redeemingfeature in the whole business, and that is that you‘ll carry off first prize now for all the trouble I shall give vou." After awhile Lee said, casting his eyes down on his friend‘s bandaged shoulder and plastered head : «You might learn to use your left arm," suggesâ€"ted Lee, as a forlorn hope. Parmenter was excited. He felt that hitherto his success on the platâ€" form hbad been largely due to the training he had in what is called "presâ€" ence" and his skill in gesture. That effect would now be totally destroyed. My voice! What good is that to me? Can I make gestures with my voice? How can a man do anything with his armfin a sling and his shoul: ders bound up as if he were a mummy?" "‘\Vhy, the prize stage ! _ The doctor says I can‘t use my arm for a month, and herve‘s the trial speaking coming on next Friday !‘ "I hadn‘t thorght of that," replied Lee, sinking into the chair.. "It‘s a bad business, that‘s so." â€" After a minâ€" ute he added, "But your voice will be all right, Fred ; you can have that as clear as a bell." At Concord College one evening of Commencement week was devoted to the delivery of orations by Juniors and Sophomores in competition for prizes. Six competitors were selected from each class at a trial contest held «@wbout three months before Commenveâ€" ment. To be appointed to the prize stage was a marked honor, and one which Parmenter greatly coveted. He had worked for it for months. The trial speaking was to take place in the college chapel on the following Friday, and here he was, and would be for weeks, with a broken collarâ€"bone, and his right arm in a sling ! When Lee came back from â€" breakâ€" fast, Parmenter exclaimed with a groan : "It‘s all up, Charley !" "What‘s all up ?" asked Lee, advanc ing in alarm to the bed. Parmenter‘s face fell. ‘Three or four weeks! His injury might have been of no great consequence from the surâ€" geon‘s point of view, but to him it was a serious matter,. It was likely to ‘block his way to the prize stage. _"Oh, three or four weeks," was the reply. â€" "These simple fractures of the elavicle are of no great consequence. They heal up very quickly." "How long will it be, doctor, before I shall have the free use of my arm ?" Next morning Parmenter awoke, refreshed and comfortable. By and by the doctor came. Parmenter gave him hardly time to take off his overcoat before he enquired : When the bathing and nandaging and plastering had been done, the injured man was thoroughly exhausted and weak from loss of blood. His bosom friend, Charley Lee, remained to care for him througch the night. There was also a deep seilp wound where Parmenter‘s head had struck on a sharp edge of the stone pavement; and this required stitching and dress ing. Parmenter recovered consciousness soon after he was carried to his room, after being thrown viciously by Van Loan ; but when the college physician came he declared that there was a fracture of the right clavicle. W HISPERING TONGUES. A STORY OF COLLEGE LIFE, The Gamma Questers BY HOMER CREEAE. Crarrer II onl l oe n Wie t ho Cave d .eUrgeon in readiness to wait on ‘em when he got through ‘with ‘em.. Said he should particularly enjoy meeting his friend Parmenter under such auspices." «Said he‘d be pleased to see ‘em Said he‘d make it interesting for ‘em Said they‘d better have a surgcon in "Some fellow told him the other day," added ancther member of the group, "that unless he stopped his everâ€" lasting boasting, the Gamma Questers might do him the honor to call on him." «"What did he say to that ?" asked Robinson. "He thinks he won the fight," said one of the young men. "He takes all the credit to himself, every bit of it. Brags about it without ceasing. You couldn‘t touch him with a tenâ€"foot pole before the rush; the Atlantic cable wouldn‘t reach to him now." _ Lee executed a breakdown very skilfully, landing [finally on Parmenâ€" ter‘s table, from which elevation he proceeded to deliver a mock oration. The noise and confusion drew three or four other Sophomores into the room, and when Lee had baen dragged down and quieted, the conversation turned from the prize stage to Parmenâ€" ter‘s shoulder, and from Parmenter‘s shoulder to Freshman Van Loan. He picked up his hat, took his friend‘s arm, and they started to leave the room ; but at the threshcld they met Robinson, also one of the appointâ€" ees, who told them that Lee‘s name was on the list. Then there were general rejoicings and congratulations, "Come," he said, quietly, "let‘s go over and see about the name of Charles Lee. Tt high time for someone to take an interest in that." _ Parmenter grasped Lee‘s hand again and tears came into his eyes. It was seldom he displayed so much emotion! but his friend‘s unselfishness touched him deeply. Well you are theâ€"Charley Lee, your‘re the best fellow in the worldâ€" positively the very best !" "Forgot to look! _ Why, you saw my name! You couldn‘t have helped seeing yours if it had been there." «©Yes, butâ€"but you see I wasn‘t looking for mineâ€"I didn tâ€"" «Well, that‘s one on me," he said, finally, as if partly ashamed of his remissness toward himself. "I forgot to look." «"Bah! Stop right there Well, I‘m ready to recover now. I‘m readyâ€" say, Charley, look here! What about yourself? You took an appointment, too, didn‘t you ? Your name‘s on the list, isn‘6 it 1" Lee stood for a moment without answering, the look of puzzled surprise on his handsome face breaking into one of amusement and ending in a broad smile. Your name is there ! I saw it with my own eyes;‘these eyes that otherâ€". wise had wept most bitter tears of vain regret, and poured theirâ€"" "Oh, bother the swelling tide! I‘m obliged to you for the news, though. Here, take the other hand ; that‘s it. I thought I could convince ‘em that a man can speak sometimes with his right arm strapped fast to his ribs. You‘re sure there‘s no mistake about it, Charley ?" "Fred, forgive ie ! Did I hart you! No# In the joyful exuberance of my emotion the swelling tide of feeling overran its bounds and cameâ€"" "Oh, hold ! halt ! fire! murder! Hang it man, that‘s my cracked shoulder !" exclaimed Parmenter, backing away. «©Your nameâ€"on the bulletin â€"prize speakingâ€"no right armâ€"great Yictory â€"whoop !_ Give us your hand !" Lee made a dash for his friend‘s rignt haod, and in another second would have given it a vigorous shake. "What‘s there ?‘ answered Parmenâ€" ter, gruffly. Lee caught sight of it first, and looking no further in the list, started at a full run across the campus to deâ€" liver the news to his friend. . "Fred, it‘s there !" he cried, bursting into Parmenter‘s room like a whirlâ€" wind. On Saturday morning the list conâ€" taining the names of the fortunate six was posted on the bulletin board near the chapel entrance. _ Parmenter‘s name was upon it. i It was awkward to Parmenter at first to deliver his most telling sentences with his right hand bound to his side, so instinctive had gesturing become to him; but diligent study, persiatent practice, and the judicious advice of his friendly critic helped him to overâ€" come to a great extent that one diffiâ€" culty. _ When, on the following Friday, he took his place before the judges, it was with no small degree of confidence in his success. He resumed the private rehearsals of his oration. He and Lee always rehearsed together, profiting by each other‘s friendly criticism; but now Lee redoubled his efforts to. make his friend‘s work perfect and successful. Parmenter had no great faith in the possibility of successful oratory withâ€" out gestures, but Lee‘s idea struck him as worth coasidering, after all ; and the more he thought of it, the more he was inclined toward it. them ; he disdained ‘em ; laid himself out on voice and express 0 1, you know, and swayed the hearts of multitudes by his eloquent and thrillingâ€"" "Oh, tell that to the marines! Here, I want to get up. Give me a lift, will you, Charley, and help me on with my clothes ?" At tke end of half a mile they came to a shallow cave in the face of a ledge of rocks. . A brawling brook ran by it, and overarching trees helped shut it in. Here they halted and made preâ€" parations for what was to follow. _ After a few moments the victim‘s eyes and mouth were unbandaged. Tt was a grotesque sight that he looked upon.â€" The masks and costumes of the hazers were both ludicrous and hideous. The victim was hurried across the rear campus and into the projecting darkness of the college grove. Here torches were lighted, and in single file the party marched through the woods, across the corner of an open field, and then into the thicker forest beyond. They took him from his bed, dressed him, blindâ€"folded him, bound his wrists together, and led him downâ€" stairs and outâ€"ofâ€"doors. It was all done so quickly and noiselessly that the slumbers of men in the adjoining rooms were not disturbed. A few nights later, Van Loan was waked at midnight by a movement at his side. He opened his eyes, to see indistinct figures standing about him. He knew in an instant what it meant; but before he could raise his head from the pillow, his hands were gripped and held, and his mouth closed with a bandage so that he could not call. There was a moment of unavailing struggling on his part ; then, realizing the uselessness of his attempt, he quietly submitted to the will of his captors. And he did go. Against his better judgment and _ truer instinet, he yielded to the logic of his friend and the force of his own inclination and joined the party. Lee was silent for a minute, turning the matter over in his unstable mind. "«Well," he said finally, "I don‘t know ; maybe I‘ll go after all. Tll see." "I can‘t see what objection there is," interrupted Parmenter, "to give such a fellow as Van Loan a little piece of humble pie to eat. _ His insufâ€" ferable conduct has passed all bounds, and there‘s no other effective way of letting him know it. We don‘t propose to hurt him physically, you underâ€" stand, and the fellow can‘t be hurt mentally. _ But we can humiliate him, and he deserves it. You can get out of it if you want to, but you‘ll miss the fun, and I think after it‘s all over you will wish you‘d gone." ©Of course, T‘d hate plans of the boys," said ingly, "and I wouldn‘t for «"Why, no ; but he might find it out afterward." "I see no necessity for his doing so." «Well, I believe I‘d about half as soon he knew it, as to feel guilty every time he looked at me." "Oh, well, do as you choose, of course. . Perhaps you‘d better go out. But if you do, Henderson will back out, and Brace, and the whole thing will fizzle out before it‘s fairly becun." Do you propose to let your father know youre in it," asked Parmenter, half in sarcasm. "It‘s about that Van Loan business, ‘ he exclaimed. "I‘m half sorry I agreed to go into it. â€" You know how strongly father is set against everything of this sort." Under the excitement and impulse of the moment Lee was the readiest to advocate this form of retribution, and the most fertile in devising plans to carry it out. But a few days later he came to Parmenter with a cloud. on his face and a burden on his mind. Yet there was no doubt that a chapâ€" ter of the Gamma Quester‘s was organâ€" ized that day in Parmenter‘s room ; neither is there a doubt that it selected Freshmau Van Loan as an unwilling candidate for admission and initiation. The time was when the raids of the Gamma Questers, as hazing parties were called at Concord College, were of frequent occurrence. But under the severely repressive. policy of the faculty, aided by a growing feeling among upper classmen against the barbarous and unmanly custom, the practice had nearly died out. There were scarcely a dozen young men in the college who remembered the last instance of it. What took place behind that closed and locked door none but the seven who were there, and the seven who were afterward taken into the company, ever knew. Parmenter did not at once reply. He rose, went to the door and locked it, closed the ventilator over the door, and returned and sat down. Then he said, "Go on with the story." «Boys, if there‘s anyone here who don‘t believe in hazing under proper cireumstances, will he have the goodâ€" ness to retire ?" No one stirred. "Excuse me, Parmenter," continued Robinson, "we don‘t want to drive you from your room ; we will go elseâ€" where if you. wish it." Oh, he‘s dead set against you, Par menter," cried another. He hasn‘t forgiven nor forgotten that mudâ€"bath yet. â€" He says the collarâ€"bone business was only part payment, and that the remaining instalments will be fully as delightful as the first one was." For a minute no one spoke. _ Robinâ€" son was looking round the room, scanâ€" ning intently each man‘s face. _ Finally he said : to spoil the Lee, hesitatâ€" if it weren‘b Wateâ€"lco County Chrcnicle. Animal Intelligence. 1 Wattsâ€"I tell you, old man, I saw the most remarkable exhibition of aniâ€" mal intelligence toâ€"day that could be imagined, Pottsâ€"What was it ? Wattsâ€"A bridal party started from the house across the street from where I live and one of the horses attached to the carriage threw a shoe. . Now, what do you think of that ? The worst cases of Chronic Catarrh in the Head yield to Dr. Sage‘s Cararrh Remedy. So certain is it that its makers offer $500 reward for an incurâ€" able case. Mich Living. if you keep atit, is apt to tell upon the liver. The things to prevent this are Dr. Pierce‘s Pleasant Pellets. Take one of these little Pellets for a correctâ€" ive or gentle Jaxativeâ€"three for a Cathartic. They‘re the â€"smallest, easiest to take, pleasantest and most natural in the way they act. They do permanent good. . Constipation, Indiâ€" gestion‘ Bilious Attacks, Sick or Biliâ€" ous Headache, and all derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels, are prevented, relieved and cured. _ They‘re guaranteed to give satisfacâ€" tion in every case, or your money is returned. Seeing that it was useless for him to contend against so many, he had decided from the first to obey the will of the hazers while in their power, mentally reserving to himself liberty to violate at pleasure any promise or agreement he might make under such hard conditions.â€"The Youth‘s Com:â€" panion, "Ithought as much," was Van Loan‘s wiet comment ; now go on with the 5 8 ceremony." The Grand Scribe Jlifted his robe slightly, preparatory to some mock ceremony of initiation ; but whatever his intention was, he never carried it out. In that instant, Van Loan, who had deftly slipped his hand from the bandage that bound his wrists, reached out and tore the mask completely from the face of the blackâ€"robed hazer. It was done in a second ; and there, under the glare of the torchlight, stood Parmenter, fully, distinctly revealed. Van Loan stood quietly looking on, his face pale with anger and "exciteâ€" ment, and under his eyes dark rings indicative of suppressed passion. Yet, burning as he was with rage, he was still calm enough to note with deep interest the apparent inflexibility of the right arm and shoulder of the person who approached him. "They are," came the reply in hollow tones from a blackâ€"robed figure at the extremity of the cave. He sat under a torchlight, His black mask hideously splashed with red, an immense vyolums spread out before him, and in his haud a huge, longâ€"handled pen. «Then advance and give the candi date sign A, of rite number one." The person in the black robe arose, laid down his pen, and advanced to within five feet of the vietim. «I will,‘" was the final response. "Most Grand and Worthy Scribe, are the candidate‘s answers duly recorded ?" | say ‘yes.‘" ] «Yes," replied Van Loan without hesitation. "Is it your fond and earnest desire to be initiated in the grand and illusâ€" trious order of Gamma Questers withâ€" out which honor you feel that life is not worth living ? ~The answer is ‘yes. Say ‘yes.‘ Yes," responded Van Loan, quietly. «Do you desire any part of the initiation ceremonies to be omitted, however painful, disagreeable or surâ€" prising they may prove to be? The answer is, ‘No, I do not.‘ Say so." Van Loan said so. Do you :wknuwledge yourself to be wholly unfit and unworthy to enter into fraternal relations with brethren so exalted as ourselves, and do you humbly implore us to oveclook your thousand faults and follies, and receive you into fellowship? The ans <er is : T do.‘ "I do," said Van Loan. "Finally, will you always strive to uphold the dignity and further the aims of our most noble order, to endeaâ€" vor, so much as in your feeble intellect lies, to induce the president and memâ€" bers of the faculty of Concord College to become members hereof, and forgetâ€" ting your unworthy, dishonorable and utterly idiotic past, press on to the coveted goal that awaits all true Gamma Questers? The answer is : ‘I will? ? | _ Before we proceed to the graver and more intense portion of the initiation,"‘ ‘ he said, "the candidate is ‘requested to ; reply to certain questions, which, being satisfactorily answered, will entitle . him to pose for the first degree. _ The | first question is : Do you admire our | personal appearance ? And the answer |is: ‘Yes.‘ The candidate will please hollow They ar cire‘e abou Their huge menacinely the cave. The Grand ] ward, floarishin â€"of wood. â€" Hi rey arranged themselves in a semi e ahout the candidate _ At their s were the mysterious shadows of (To be continued.) mock wea 1 Inquisitor stepped forâ€" iing a mighty broadsword His voice was deep and uS w SW UI =NOTES ABOUT THE INSANE. It is difficult to specify the causes of insanity in Canada in the same comâ€" prehensive way, but analysis of returns by our best analysts indicates that in Canada heredity is responsible for at As to causes of insanity, the average returns for England France, Denmark and the United States combined give this result: Heredity .7 . 0im. c ree raecieaen ce nerine on +1 B4 Drin ienss Aeinp en slsc on on n ael P AL Oe 94 Businegss 0s o ue .t o0 armmierends eherraisee un 19 Boss of friends2 20e ceee fneane neacazaneld Sicknoss 3. . aossoreraaeaiccen icuraatinr 10 Vartone. s s en asoresan css . 19 In the United States, in the states of New York, Obio, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi and both the Dakotas the principle of state care has been established as against that of county care. New York after long years of trial of it abolished the county care system, and enacted in 1890 "The State Care "act. With the exception of Nova Scotia and Quebec, the principle adopted in the Dominion is state care, and even in the case of the two exceptions the institutions are subject to the supervisâ€" ion of government inspectors. Ontarjo has adopted the cottage systâ€" em at Mimico. _ Nova Scotia and Queâ€" bee have the farmingâ€"out system, the first in part and the second altogether. The average expenditure on account of the insane amounts to about $121 per head per annum, according to the public accounts. In the province of Ontario the yearly cost per patient is about §$142. British Columbia, from 74 per cent in asylums in 1881 to 90 in 1891 ; Nova Scotia, from 30% percent in asyâ€" lums in 1881 to 37 in 1891; Manitoba, from none in asylums in 1881 to 25 in 1891 ; Ontario, from 63 per cent in asylums in 1881 to 58 in 1891 ; Prince Edward Island, from 30 per cent in asylums in 1881 to 38 in 1891 ; Queâ€" bee, from 35 per cent in asylums in 1881 to 50 in 1891, All the provinces, with the excepâ€" tion of Ontario, have made great ad vances in this respect to providing for the care of the insane, British Columbia has 130 insane within her borders, all in the provincâ€" ial asylum except 13. Manitoba has 49 in asylum and 147 not in. New Brunswick bas 465 in asylum and 421 not in any public institution. Ontario has 3,450 in her five public institutions and 2,405 outside. Nova Scotia has 506 in asylums and 867 outside. There are about 100 housed in the county poor farms, already referred to. Prince Edward Island has 128 in asylums and 205 outside. Quebec has 2,254 in her asylums _ and 2,296 outside. The Northwest Territories have 32 insane in all, but no public asylum. THE RETURNs or 1881. The returns of 1881 gave a total of 9,889 insane in Canada, of whom 4,â€" 655 were returned as inmates of asyâ€" lums. Thus, in 1881 there was 47.1 per cent of the total number within asylums and over 52 per cent in 1891. This indicates progress in the duty of caring for the insane on the part of several of the provinces. Taken by provinces, the changes finâ€" dicating progress or otherwise are : The province of British Columbia stands ut the head of all the provinces, baving in asylums 90 per cent of the total number of insane reported in the province. _ Ontario comes next with 59 per cent in asylums. New Brunswick comes third with 52 per cent of its inâ€" sane sheltered and cared for in the proâ€" vincial asylum. Quebec is fourth with just 50 per cent in asylums. Prince Edward Island has 38 per cent in asyâ€" lums. _ Nova Scotia has 37 per cent in asylams, if we include only those in provincial asylum and those who are in four of the county asylums, which seem to be specially appropriate for insane, or 44 per cent if we include those in the other eight county poor farms. Maniâ€" toba has 25 per cent of its insane housed and protected in its provincial asylum. Mr. Johnson says of the 13,355 inâ€" sane persons reported by census enumâ€" erators as to the number in the Doâ€" minion of Canada in April, 1891, there were 7,029 who were reported as in mates of asylums.. Thus over 52 per cent or somewhat more tkan oneâ€"half are sheltered, cared for, and supplied with medical attendance within the thir teen or more asylums provided for their reception. I say ‘or more‘ asylums. There are really thirteen worthy of the nameâ€"the province of Nova Scotia having one,Zbut having in addition a systom of country retreats paitially inâ€" tended for the poor and partially for the insane and idiotic. Ottawn, Aug. 15.â€"There are many points connected with the census which «re not of sufficient importance to be made the subject of a special bulletin. Mr. Johnson, therefore proposes to give them to the public through the newspapers. _ This intimation, will, doubtless, lead those interested to save these gleanings, as without such intimâ€" ation they might neglect to do so, expecting later on to be able to procure a bulletin. Nearty Oneâ€"Zalf of the emented People in the Country Can Find No Room in the Institwbonsâ€"The â€" Percentages in the Different Provincesâ€"The Causes of Their Afliction. THE ANNUAL EXPENDITURE THE CAUSES, __ We will add another condition which makes the efforts of Mr. Smith still more effective as a means of education He writes out and prints the result of his investigations and the Bovina farâ€" mers read them. _ Tf he kept his knowâ€" ledge to himself and every farmer in that town shut himself away from knowledge concerning his neighbor‘s work there would be but little progress or practical advance. There is a wonâ€" _ Nearly every dairy farmer in the town is a reading, thinking man. â€" We call attention however to what Mr. Tweedieâ€"himself one of the dairymen of Delaware countyâ€"says in another place as to the valuable education goâ€" ing on among the dairy farmers there through the efforts of Mr. J. D. Smith in visiting the dairies and testing the cows, etc, In this way the Bovina farmers are putting themselves along side the best conclusions of modern dairy judgment, and thus they are reaping large profits from it. Here is a community of farmers who have alâ€" ready learned valuable lessons that others are ignorant of, finding themâ€" selves learning still more, and every lesson an advance in the road towards profitable dairying. We do not believe there is a dairy community in the United States that is the superior of Bovina, Delaware county, N. Y., in what may be called practical dairy intelligence, The metal passes through the heatâ€" ing tube into the chilling bath without exposure to the air, the intervening space between the tube and the chilling medium being covered by a second tube with an airâ€"tight connection, which forms a muffle. In this way there is secured a ribbon of steel withâ€" out cracks on its edges or scales on its surface. perfectly even and straight and of uniform temper. As the wire is heated by radiation and has no opâ€" portunity to become oxydized, "pitting" is <altogether prevented. _ Experts speak highly of this new process, and it would seem as if the days of the perâ€" fect watchspring were near at hand. As the thickness of a mainspring is between .008 and .009 of an inch, the degree of heat at which this bit of steel will take a proper temper is a fine point. To secure the even temperaâ€" ture required, a clever electrical appa ratus has been invented. A vertical metal tube, thorougbly packed by asâ€" bestos to prevent its being affected by the outer air, is heated by means of an electric current, which is governed by a rheostat to regulate the temperature An opening at the top of this tube is just large enough to admit the steel to be tempered. At the lower end of the heating tube is placed the chilling bath, which is supplied with oil from a pipe, the floor being steady and even. By an ingenious arrangement, the oil is fed to the bath on both sides of the moving ribbon of steel at the same time, thus subjecting every part of the wire to a uniform chilling temperaâ€" ture. Thin sheet steel called to a suitable thickness for the manufacture of the desired spring is spit into ribkons, conâ€" siderably wider than the finished spring. They are then carefully and solidly wound on arbors against a face plate, so that they resemble solid disks. The face plates are then placed upon a lathe and the edges of the spring ground until all cracks, no matter how minute, have been removed, leaving the wound ribbon a perfectly smooth and polished disk of metal. The other side is trsated in the same way, and the result is a ribbon of thin steel perâ€" fectly solid on its edges and the same thickness throughout. Ifow The Little Steel Bands are Made Unâ€" breakable, For some time past an Tllinois conâ€" eern has been engaged in a serics of experiments in tempering mainsprings with a view to reducing the defects in their manufacture to a minimum. As a result of these experiments, a new process has been devised which is said to make these small springs almost perâ€" fect. Wpotoe s comncoon eeeeneiennene e en ine a F1 NYatioustal ... oo oc no t wan‘s We have not the means of discoverâ€" ing the relative frequency if congenital and acquired insanity in Canada, nor are we wble to tell how many persons given as insine by the enumerators were aments and how many dements. Investigation leads me to the conclusâ€" ion that some of those given in the census returns as lunatics ought rather to be classed as idiots. This seems to be the case in the province of Quebec, where the idiots in the establishment at St Ferdinand d‘Halifax, numbering 124, have been for three census takings entered as insane. â€"This would reduce the insane in Quebec from 4,550 to 4,â€" 426, leaving, however, the percentauge of increase for the past twenty years at 37.7 per cent. least 35 per cent of the insanity, and drink for about four per cent. Sickâ€" ness produced about 11 per cent of the insanity in Canada. Drink has comâ€" paratively little « fFect as a factor in the development of insanity in Canada. Business.. .. .. Loss of friends Sickness. ... . Various ... .. The‘correspondiug table for Canada is as follows : Meredity. . .. ul soss se ons ]BFIM Innanncton ns emnia aeet sb a g TEMPERING MAINSPRINGS Opening Their Eyes. er cent of the ink has comâ€" a factor in the 3.8 5.0 0 Hold hard there, Bill ! There‘s our tackle and grub gone overboard !" "It‘3 all that young cub‘s fault. I can‘t get him to keep the boat balanced." So great is the influence of a sweetâ€" minded woman on those around her that it is almost boundless. It is to her thas friends come in seasons of sorâ€" row and sickness{for help and comfort; one soothing touch of her kindly hands works wonders in the feverish child; a few words let fall from her lips in the ear of » sorrow stricken sister do much to raise the load of grief that is bowing its victim down to the dust in anguish. The husband comes home worn out with the pressure of business and feelâ€" ing irritable with the world in general; but when he enters the cosy sittingâ€" room and sees the blazs of fire and meets his wife‘s smiling face, be sucâ€" cumbs in a moment to the soothing inâ€" fluences which act as the balm of Giâ€" lead to bis wounded spirits that are wearied with the stern realities of life. The rough schoolâ€"boy fles in a rage from the taunts of his companions to find solace in his mother‘s smile; the little one, full of grief with her large trouble, finds a haven of rest on her motherâ€"s breast; and ove night go on with instance after instance of tue inâ€" fluence that a sweetâ€"minded woman has in the social life with which she is connected. Beauty is an insignificant power when compared with hers, Why do they not understand the profit to them of keeping posted, just as well as the Bovina farmers? The Bovina dairymen are imaking money rapidly in these Aard fimes by getting to the front of the procession. It is not the soil, nor the climate, nor the water, that makes them what they are, It is the men themselves _ Any townâ€" ship in any dairy state has the same chance. Yet. strange to say, with all they know about their business, the Bovina farmers are willing to spend dollars to learn more, where others would not pay a cent. 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