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J T fl Ike Lure Brazil. . Only the Monroe Doctrine Prevents ita Exploitation by Germany. I3y Alexander Del Xlar, President of tlie Latin-American Chamber of Commerce. HE German retort to Count von Bernstorff's assurance of peace Is too significant to pass without notice. South America, so far as natural resources are concerned. is the richest continent en the globe, Brazil is the most exten sive country on that continent, its area exceeding that of the United States proper. I lived in Brazil a considerable period and am fairly well acquainted with the country and the people. Barring the strictly equatorial region, its climate is genial and healthful. The country is well watered and the soil highly productive. There ore no dangers to apprehend either from man or beast. Yet Brazil is .but sparsely populated, and except in the cities and among the immigrant colonies the African race predominates in numbers, the legacy of a slave system which was swept away only thirty or forty years ago. These people are mostly very poor, very peaceful and wholly destitute of military organization or instinct. Not only are they without arms, thev would not know how to use any aggressive weapon more highly developed than a cheese knife. As for guns, tools, engines, etc., they are pitiably innocent of them. The little German army that with the permission of its allies devastated China ten years ago might dance cotillons for a while all the way from Tijuca to the Andes. "Whether they could hope to get back is quite another matter. Such an expedition instead of injuring might prove a Messing in disguise, since It would unite all America, North and South. ' " In comparison with Brazil Germany is a petty principality, bursting with C5, 000,000 of hardy, energetic and somewhat pugnacious people who sadly need mere space, but who. owing to the like need of other Europeans, have 'been stopped in Asia and limited to an arid and worthless region in western Africa that is to say, comparatively worthless, because although it will yield noth ing to agriculture and next to nothing from mines it happens to be directly east from and in the same latitude as Brazil. Any one of the great German steamers could make the voyage in a week or ten days. What prevents them from making that voyage? The belligerent Bismarck regarded the Monroe Doctrine as a most incredible American impertinence, an opinion largely shared by his countrymen. Nevertheless it seems to hold; and Count von Bernstorff's peaceful assurances must be accepted in the same frank and cor dial spirit which doubtless animates them. The colonizing vigor of the Ham burger Nachrichten might find something more eligible and nearer home than Brazil. oneraployment Insurance. Scheme in England Parliament May he Colled on the Consider. Byjolin L. Qrjffitns. VW. nnoctiftn nf Incnrnnpn nn-olnct nrm-orrmlnvmprit nncl whf'the? T or not to make it compulsory as to certain industries by parlia I nwntaly enactment, is now receiving much attention in England. The proposed legislation will have three cardinal features, in that it will be compulsory, contributory and specialized as to different groups of trade. Inasmuch as the trades of building, shipbuilding, engineering, construction work generally, and ve hicle making have been subject to the most serious fluctuations in the past, it is as to these trades that insurance against unemployment, will first be made applicable. Contributions from .both employer and the employe are regarded as essential to secure permanence and stability to the undertaking, backed by the belief that if the wage-earner has assurance that he will be provided for in case of misfortune and distress, there will be less inclination to engage in strikes. In this way a larger measure of peace in the industrial world is hoped for. The contributions required from the state, the employer and the employe will be 5 ccnt3 each weekly, the amount paid by the wage-earner to be stamped weekly on his insurance card. If the wage-earner is out of work he is re quired to report to the nearest labor exchange. He will receive no bene fits the first week, but an effort will be made to find employment for him. This employment he is forced to accept unless he can show a good reason for not doing so, the validity of the excuse to be passed on by a committee repre senting the employers and employes. If employment can not be found, then he is to receive ordinarily S1.9S benefit a week for fifteen weeks, in no case to exceed twenty -weeks. The original period during which the w-age-earner must contribute to the insurance fund will likelv be eight months, and if he applies for insurance a second or a third time, the time for receiving benefits will be lengthened proportionately. The insurance scheme is not intended for men habitually or chronically out of work, but for the steady and industrious wage-earner who temporarily has no employment. The scheme has only been suggested, and it has not been called up for parliamentary action. It has met with a varying reception from employers and from trade unions, some approving and others condemn ing, but still there ds as yet no indication of organized and general opposition. m m The Railroad Conductor. Many Duties That Come To Him Before He is "It." By Edward Hungerford. 3 a conductor he will probably begin in the freight service. His caboose will be a traveling office and more than that, it will carry all the gcsslp of the division up and down the line. It may be a homely little car, 'but it is just as sure to be a homelike place. From its elevated outlook he may command a good view of the train away ahead to the engine, and he will be supposed to know all the while that the brakemen are attending to their duties; that the train is in good order, particularly that there are no hot-boxes smoking away and in imminent danger of setting fire to the train and its valuable contents. There is a deal of bookkeeping to be accomplished in that traveling office. The conductor will receive the way bills of the cars of his train and their content?, and he is held responsible for their safe deliveries to their destination or the junction points where they are to be delivered to other lines. When he comes to the passensrer service there will be still more book keeping to confront him, and he will have to be a man of good mental attain ments to handle all the many, many varieties of local and through tickets, mileage books, passes and other forms cf transportation contracts that come to him, to detect the good from the ibad, to throw out the counterfeits that are constantly ueing onerea to n?m. He will nave to carry quite a money account for cash affairs, and he knows that mistakes will have to be paid for "tit of his own pocket. -n.u iiuil is uiii.v t piictse oi nis nusnipss. tie is responsime ior tne care safe conduct of his train, equally responsible in the last respect with the Ver. He also receives and signs for certain orders, and he is required Y in mind every detail of the train's progress over the line. He will have assortment of questions to answer at everv stage of the journey, and ye expected to maintain the discipline of the railroad upon its trains. v mean in tne one instance the ejectment of a passenger who re- ay his fare and still he must not involve the road in any big dam- ir in nnotner. th subjugation of some ganr of drunken lcafprs. The r of it is that so many conductors come as near as they do to tho lan standards. Outing Magazine. Aj We Coincidence. ofeiohral Man's Experience With an A mateur l3e, 1 mint. I Bv Jame O'Neill. fears ago I was at Asbury Park, where I met a young Irish Yvho was reading the palms of the guests of the hotel. She Lion and she informed me that in the early part of the tig year I would meet with a sever accident and would narrow escape from death. liled. On March 4 of the next year I was struck by a nod almost fatal injuries. a mere coincidence, but I have met manv trustworthy ilio extraordinary things told them bv palmists, both as I have never had any other experience with palm- tan any one give us an explanation? I know tal telepathy or though suggestion, for I have fre- .idjoining room write a word or a sentence thought iiome of the words would occasionally be spelled and not very credulous, but these things amaze 4 by a dozen or more witnesses. s ! 1 1 Viistens wishes .own it le. New Great llrain has 500,000 horses available foi the purposes of war Great Britain hav 500,000 horses available for the purpose of warfare. V; wmm . ' xv To" r 'r-v ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS FOR 1910. Being the Second Alter Bissextile, or Leap Year; mid Until July 4th, the 134th Year of the Independence of the United States. ECMPSKS FOB THE YEAB 1010. In the year 1910 there will be four eclipses, two of the Sun and two of the Moon. I. A total eclipse of the Sun, May 8-9, visible in Taosmania as total and in Australia as a partial eclipse. II. A total eclipse of the Moon, May 23-24. visible in United States. Moon enters total shadow, May 23, 10 h 46 m. F. M. Middle of eclipse, May 24, 0 h. 34 m. A. M. Moon leaves total shadow, May 24, 2 h. 22 m. A. M. Magnitude of the eclipse, 1.10 of the Moon's diameter. III. A partial eclipse of the Sun, November 1. Visible in Siberia, Japan and Korea. IV. A total eclipse of the Moon, November 1G, visible in the United States. Moon enters total shadow. November 16, f h. 44 m. P. M. Middle of eclipse, November 16, 7 h. 21 m. P. M. Moon leaves total shadow, November 16, S h. 5S in. P. M. Magnitude of eclipse, 1.13 of the Moon's diameter. REIGNING PLANET. Jupiter is the reigning planet this year. ii CARDINAL POINTS. Vernal Equinox, entrance of the Sun into Aries, March 21, at 7 o'clock In the morning. " , Summer Solstice, entrance of the Sun Into Cancer, June 22, at 3 o clock in the morning. Autumnal Equinox, entrance of the Sun into Libra, September 23, at & o'clock in the afternoon. Winter Solstice, entrance of the Sun into Capricorn.December 22, at l- o'clock 15 m. at noon. EVENING AND "MORNING STARS. Venus will be evening stas (setting after the Sun) until February 124 then morning star (rising before the Sun) until December 5, then evening star until the end of the year. Mars will be evening star until September 22, then morning star until the end of the year. Jupiter will be morning star until April 1, then evening star until Oc tober lfi.JJien morning star until the end of the year. SatuPt will be evening star until April 17, then morning star until Oc tober 24, then evening star until the end of the year. THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASONS. Winter Solstice, 1909, beginning of Winter, December 22, 6 h A. M. Vernal Equinox, 1910, beginning of Spring, March 21, 7 h. A. M. Summer Solstice, 1910, beginning of Summer, June 22, 3 h. A. M. Autumnal Equinox, 1910. beginning of Autumn, September 23, 5 h. P. M. Winter Solstice, 1910, beginning of Winter, December 22, 0 h. A. M. DURATION OF THE SEASONS. Sun in Winter Signs, 89 d. 1 h. Sun in Spring Signs, 92 d. 20 h. Sun in Summer Siens. 93 d. 14 h. Sun in Autumn Signs, 89 d. 19 h. Tropical Year, 263 d. 6 h. Sun North Equator, 186 d. 10 h. Sun South Equator, 17S d. 20 h. Difference, 7 d. 14 h. FIXED AND MOVABLE Fi New Year's Day, January 1. Conversion of St. Paul, January 25. Septuagesima Sunday, January 23. Sexagesima Sunday, January 30. Purification B. V. M., February 2. Quinquagesima Sunday, February 6. Shrove Tuesday, February 8. Ash Wednesdyy (Lent begins), Feb ruary 9. Quadragesimi Sunday, February 13. St. Valentine, February 14. Mid-Lent Sunday, March 6. St. Patrick's Day, March 17. Palm Sunday, March 20. Good Friday, March 25. Easter Sunday, March 27. Low Sunday, April 3. St. George, April 23. St. Mark, April 25. Saints Philips and James, May 1. Rogation Sunday, May 1. Ascension (Holy) Thursday, May 5. EASTS OR CHURCH DAYS. Whit Sunday (Pentecost), May 15. Trinity Sunday, May 22. Corpus Christi, May 26. St. Barnabas, June 11. St. John the Baptist, June 24. Saints Peter tnd Paul, June 29. St. James, July 25. Transfiguration, August 6. St. Bartholomew, August 2 4. St. Matthew, September 21. Michaelmas (St. John and Angels), September 29. St. Luke. October 18. Saints Simon and Jude, October 28. Thonboirivlntr nn v Nnvpmhpr 24. ! Advent Sunday, November 27. St. Andrew, November di). St. Thomas, December 21. Christmas Day, December 25. St. Stephen, December 25. St. John the Evangelist, December 26. Holy Innocents, December 28. CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES FOR 1910. Dominical Letter B Golden Number ' 11 Epact (Moon's age, Jan. 1).... 19 Solar Cycle. 15 Age of the word Julian Period 6023 Roman Indication 8 Year Jewish Era, Oct. 3 5671 Mohammedan Era. Jan 13 1328 (Mosaic), 5903. HALLEY'S COVET APPEARS. It seems that Dr. Wolf, of Heidelberg, was the first astronomer to photo graph the reappearance of Halley's Conici in 190 9. His telegram stated that he found it Sunday, September 12, just within the confines of the constella tion Gemini, near the boundary of Orion; and that it was of the sixteenth magnitude. By some this is believed to have been the "Star of Bethlehem." Its reappearings since the thirteenth century seem to have been coincident with many disastrous events, which has tended to increase the superstitious belief in the malign influence of comets. This comet should be an interesting celestial object well into 1910, rising at first before the Sun, on May 8, about 2 p. ni. It will pass near Pollux in Gemini June !, after its conjunction with th3 Sun, when it ought to be at its greatest brilliancy as an evening star, Eetting about 2 bours 30 minutes after the Sun, at about the close of evening twilight. A HAPPr NEW-YIiAR. Dy Anna M. Prart. from Oregon to Tc?aj, Jrom Florida "fro fiaitte, The pleasant Hevy.caty peexpj oxcjXy'mb UKe the bird?;.:. And if can remember AH meir meaning, Hit Veeetnber XjejhaWjM the dayj ujth Kindly deed? and loving,, thought- v-JJ 9- o;6 oo O'OO o ortheChiidrqiiJg, THE RAIN. A million little fairy feet all dancing over head Oh, don't I love t" hear it when I'm snuggled ur in bed! When mother takes the light away and savg, "Now, go to sier," And I lie there und listen to the fairies' little feet! I think nf all the thirsty things out in the field and wood. And how they drink the raindrops in oh, it must feel so good! And how the tiny blades of grass come stretching up to see Where all the patter comes from and what ever it can be. I think of mother's rain-barrel nnd of the waterspout. And how the water rushes in and tumbles to get out. And how the birds out in the woods must snucgle down to keep Their baby-birdies warm and dry beneath their breasts asleep. I think cf all the puddles there'll be out in the rain. And of my brand-now rubber boots just purpose for the rain. And there I lie and listen to the fairies overhead t Oh. don't vou love to hear them when you're snuggled up in bed? Harriet Crocker LeKcy, in Youth's Com panion. BOB'S PUMPKIN PARTY. Bob's father was driving; Eob sat next to him and Dorothy on the other side of Bob. She could be on the out side end of the seat because she was seven years old now. Bob wasn't yet quite five, but he was going on five. They drove along sunny roads. It was a morning when most of the leaves on the trees were yellow and red; and in a field, now and then, Dorothy saw yellow pumpkins. "Every now and then," she said, "I see pumpkins, lots and lots of them." They drove along and along. Pretty soon Bob said, "What are pumpkins good for, daddy "Good to eat pumpkin pics, don't you know?" "Oh!" said Bob. Mr. Mason hugged Eob up to him. "They don't let you eat pies, do they, Bob? Well, maybe, later." "Don't they do anything else with pumpkins?" asked Bob. "Why, yes; why, to be sure they do jack-o'-lanterns don't you know jack-o'-lanterns ? " "Yes," said Eob, "I thought so! Doffie, you and I have some those that Cousin Jim gave us last year, I guess it was little ones, cardboard." "M-m," said Doffie; "cardboard, with funny faces." "Yes," said their father; "but those are only cardboard. Ought to see the real things! You've never had any never had any jack-o'-lanterns? Poor little children!" and he laughed at Bob and Dorothy. "Let's get some," said Bob. "Ycu buy us some, daddy." "Buy some! you goosie! Why, you want to make them don't want to buy them! the making's half the fun!" ''But you haven't any pumpkins, said Dorothy. I con t think we have any at home." Oh, well, said her father, "we may have to buy the pumpkins to Etart with." "I'd rather have pumpkins right out of a field," said Bob. "Yes, daddy wouldn't they let us take some of those?" asked Dorothy, "Oh, dear no mustn't take any body's pumpkins. They don't grow wild, they belong to people: they were planted and the farmers are go. ing to gather them up and sell them I'll tell you, your friend, Mr. Bell, will give you some, and be glad to." So they drove along and along. At last they came to Mr. Bell's farm, and turned in at the gate. "Lots of pump kins in Mr. Bell's yard," said Bob. "Just see that pile down by the big gest barn!" "Oh-h m-m-m!" said Dorothy. And their father did not forget to tell Mr. Bell that the children wanted to beg some pumpkins. "For jack-o'- lanterns," said Bob "only just two or three pumpkins good for jack-o'- lanterns." "Well," said Mr. Bell, smiling at Dorothy and Bob, "you may have all the pumpkins that you will roll over to your wagon from the heap there by the barn!" What a funny time they had roll ing 1 them! Pumpkins are heavy, quite heavy, and they are not really round, you know, but rather flat on two sides, and on one side they have a short, stiff stem: they don't roll very easily. Dorothy and Eob had to work pretty hard, bending over and pushing and turning and tugging those fat pumpkins fun! "Want anybody to help you?" called Mr. Bell. "No, no, thank you!" said the chil dren. At last they had three pumpkins ready to start for home one for Dorothy, one for Bob and one for their friend, Bob Bascom. "He would be lonely if he didn't have one," Dorothy said. "Yes, he would," said Bob. The grown-up men had to lift those pumpkins into the wagon, of course. How proudly Dorothy nnd Bob looked down at the jolly yellow things when they were once more driving along with their father. Hard tugs they had had getting those three pump kins over from the pile to the wagon a pretty good lot of work they liked to think of it. But you'd say they would like even better to think of it after they found what fun It'wuS to have a jack-o'-lantern party. You see, Mr. Mason showed them how to make the lanterns. He did the hardest parts with his big knife. but they all worked together, cutting out a round piece like a cover with the nice, stiff stem in the middle for a handle; then getting out all the soft inside, with the seeds; and then making the comical faces holes for the eyes, nose and smiling, grinning teeth. They fixed a candle in the middle of each; and, oh, how special ly funny those lanterns were when, about five o'clock, Dorothy and Bob and Bob Bascom had them, all lighted up, on the veranda in tho dark! Mrs. Mason and Mr. Mason were there, and pretty soon what should they all see but some more jack-o'-lanterns coming up the path! "A party! a party!" screamed Bob; "a pumpkin party!" "O mamma, a pumpkin party!" shouted Doffie. It was the three Kips May, San born and Bradford and Mx Blow was with them everybody with a lantern; why, that made seven in all! -a fine ring of them ifvhen they were all set down on the piazza in a cir cle! Around this ring the children capered and danced, looking at it from all sides and laughing at the jack-oMantern smiles and shadows and lights that they made. Each jack was so fixed that he could be carried around by a string,, and so could take part in processions. Lovely parades they had on the ver anda and down on the paths under the trees. They kept it up an hour, and more than an hour! And when Dorothy was going to bed she told her mother that she had never had such a good time before in all her whole life; and Bob called out: "That's because you never had one single pumpkin party before this one!" Susan P. Peckham, in the Christian Register. CUSTOMS. A new game is being played by the Hunt children which they nvmed, "Customs," and this is how it came about: They had been traveling in Europe all summer with their mother and fa ther, and among the numerous things to Interest them were the custom of ficers, who investigated their bag gage for goods on which to charge duty. When they came back to America they were detained a long time in the Cristom House waiting for an officer to examine their trunks. Tt was great fun for the children to fol low the officers about, and hear what the people had to say, and how much money they had to pay for the dress goods and jewels and everything they had brought from abroad. So they Immediately invented this game. One person is chosen as the "cus toms officer," the rest of the company being passengers. The officer ' holds a handkerchief knotted into a ball. "What has A in his trunk?" he asked, throwing the handkerchief at one of the "passengers." As he throws it he must fix in his mind one object commencing with A that can be packed in a trunk. The person at whom the handkerchief i3 thrown must answer some object commenc ing with A. If he answers the same word that the officer has . in mind he must pay "customs" or forfeit to be redeemed later, or if he fails to an swer quickly he must pay customs. The fun lies in playing quickly, and In keeping the passengers won dering whose baggage will be exam ined next. Philadelphia Record. A MISSIONARY'S EXPERIENCE It was one hour before sundowD on a cloudy, drizzly after' ym. I had my double umbrella, bla' ' inside and white outside, for fenaing off both sun and rain, but had it closed over my hand without clasping it, to go through a narrow opening in the bushes. I had crossed a little open grass plot of a few roSs, and was just entering a narrow footpath througt the mountain jungle, that would take me down, to the east foot of the mountains, where I was to meet my pony. Suddenly a tiger sprang into the path and disputed passage. I saw at once what he wanted; only great hun. ger Impels these tigers to come out during the day. He had had cc breakfast and wanted missionary meat for supper. I did not wish him to have it. It is always best If a scrimmage is to take place to be the attacking par ty. When I was a b X I had gene out among an Indian t Jbe in Michi-f i i .i i ; - ... i . Situ aiiu leanieu liicu war wuuop. Springing forward I raised this war whoop, and at the same time sudden ly opened my double umbrella. Springing aside, over a bush, into the open ground, he made for the crest of the hill. Straight as an Trow he went through a crevice in je hill. About twenty feet down on the other side I knew he would strike on grassy ground, and the slope from there led down to a little stream, which my. path again crossed, less than a quar ter of a mile below. I scrambled up the hill to the crevice and saw the tiger trotting down the.slope evident ly wondering whether he had done a wise thing in running away. Putting my head with its big, white sun hat into the opening, I once more raised the war whoop. Down the tiger dasbd again with speed. When his pace slackened I repeated the op eration and on he dashed, and so con tinued until he entered the woods on the opposite sice of the valley. Then I turned and wended my way to the foot of the hill, mounted my pony and kept my appointment. Dr. Jacob Chamberlain's Story of Missionary Life.
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