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Show r It may or may not Tie slgnlflianl of Sir Thomss J. Upton's Intentions regarding re-garding a fourth challenge for h America's Cup Hint Hhnmrock III. bos been wllbdra vn from the market. War always prodnros a special crop of lunatics. Already the four asylum' at St. lVlersburg contain not only number of Tegos, Kurokls and Ilayas-bls, Ilayas-bls, but even some submarines, urc-ahlpa urc-ahlpa and torpedoea." The ordinary wage worker who observes, ob-serves, that the cost of his food and clothing Is higher naturally finds It somewhat dilllcult to console himself wilh the fact Ihrt prices arc lower on pig Iron, steel bars and tin plates, declares de-clares the Providence Journal. A Brooklyn Judge has granted a disagreeing dis-agreeing young pulr a divorce for two years. TI.e Idea of a divorce with a return coupon Is new, but not necessarily neces-sarily unpleasiiig. This is a dreadful possibility, however, that when the two years Is up one or the oilier uiny be reluctant to use the coupon. Fifty cents a month or six dollars year Is the estimated cost of Insurance, Insur-ance, ugulnst fatal accidents In a plnn commcndi d to the miners by President Nlcholls In Iho district convention In Plltston. The cost Is not beyond the means of the men, und the Insurance would be of very great value to the families of Ihose killed In the mines. The proposal bus e.erjihlng to recommend recom-mend It, suys the Philadelphia Itccord. Interesting nrohcologicnl discoveries have been mnile by MM. Do Kervller und I.e l'oiilola dining Iho excuvutlon of an undent tumulus ou the eslutJ ullucbcd to tho chateau of Kerus-scnux Kerus-scnux -n (Uneven, neiir Ixirlent. The nrclicologlata found Iho extremllls of two galleries, formed of parallel megaliths mega-liths tlx feel high, mid two vaults which apparently constituted, tho necropolis ne-cropolis of un auclcut tribe, among whom Incineration nud lnhumutlun were practised concurrently. In addition addi-tion to a pllo of human remains there were found (ogulnnls and knives lu si. lox, axes iu flbrollte and some One specimens of spherical pottery. M. V Kervller estimates the data of Ui tumulus 2000 years B. C. "Let us be unashamed of soul," writes Browning, oud the rest of bis gospel la let us be unafraid of suf-, feriug. When a man looks upon S past from vaulago point of ten years it Is never the rebuffs of fate he regrets unless be was a coward and ran from them, comments Harper's Weekly. If ho Diet w 111 them, coped Willi them, and comptercd, It la of such stuff that strength Is made. The true dignity of human uaturo lies Id Us power of meeting evil und U.i informing in-forming It Into good. After all, good and evil are relatlvo terms, not absolute; abso-lute; they exist Interrelated, as du dark and light, (lood means simply that flguro that stands with Its foot on the neck of a struggling wrong. As the nature of the dethroned evil ascends In the scale of fineness and of power so docs tho good uliovo It. To bold drunkenness and ordinary sclf-lnilul-geuces under wuy seem but a low achievement, but to hold under all desire de-sire of self-nggrmidlxement, all envy, malice, hypocrisy and revenge Is literally liter-ally to love our enemies und do good to II: cm thnt despitefully use us, und this Is making gradually for the type act for buuinulty. But It Is not done without with-out suffering. The very coiidlliiuiH of growth are change und Iho pioeena Is puiu. It Is well to hum a purely I'uuudlan holiday come iiruuml once lu a whoe to remind us that we arc Cunailiiiiis l'.rst, suys tho Toronto rilar. Some iiarnnv minds seem to have conceived the Idea that Canada First contains a threat uf hostility to the British Kmplrc. r far from this being true, Canada First Is the spirit which promises iiiom for permanent British connection. If our people nre onco "broadened" lnl a carelessness respecting the Integrity el tho country called Cuimilu, there Mill ho very Utile to rally the majority them to In some day of glitterl ig toit.;i-tutluu toit.;i-tutluu to cast Ibclr lot with lh" pros-porous pros-porous nation uf the uih. A i l'o' llshmuii might l e willing to iu-i t nu re-ly re-ly to keep Ibis coi.nlry British, without with-out any '. rther Incentive in Ibc fi rt i of a more local puiriollsi.i: but ihe native Ciinuiliun-nn ever lnuea,ng factor 111 our population might not Ic so ready to shed his bl iod for Ihe !Mt-Ish !Mt-Ish uatuo If he were pcrsun.hd hat there was no Canada worth nuil.uiiiu-Ing nuil.uiiiu-Ing British connection lu licmilt. Tiiei-e local patriotisms ure (he columns which support tbo larger Imperial patriotism. We are all English, Scotch, Irish, Canadian Cana-dian or Australian First; end tlicu British with a double enthusiasm because be-cause tbe British bond wukco all our noiLea secure. . |