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ONE JUGEROL S
BESSIE BARRISCALE
TWO - GUN BETTY.
Lively Story of a Breasy Western Girl Who
ought She Could Fool A Ranch Gang
into Believing Her A Man.
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THE CURSE OF. NOISE. Our Hedical Correspondent tells us, what some, of us knew before, that we do not grow accustomed to noise. We may per A novel form of insurance policy-to be suade ourselves that we do grow aceustom- known as the Directors' Indemnity Policyed to it, out of a base compliance with what will be offered to the public shortly, we are pleased to call modern civilization; says the London Daily News:
but in that case our bodies are less servile Under it, directors of public companies than our minds: they refuse to be, innred will be able to protect themselves frons to it and to tell themselves lien, about it. Anancial loss incurred through a techni- When they are tired by noise they are tired,
and there is an end of it. But the lies of i cal act of negligence...
the mind on this subject avail it nothing in- deed it exhausts some of its energy in We think we can ignore telling them. noises, so that we are mistaken. The process of ignoring them is itself active, not passive; it is a process of refusal, which for that very reason ohhhusts us CALUUTTA LINE - This Lins affords regular linge is Calosite, Penang and more than any active process of acceptance. This becomes clear, our Correspondent Lars, when we are ill; for then we have not the energy needed for refusal, and noise growns intolerable to us put it another way.
One may SHANGHAI LINK -Ɛmlings approximately every three days boiwoda". Chato There are many
Shanghai, Tomsskmen calling al Swasew Through takes a
Ladifogasni farked who believe that, those who do not
be obtained wil through Bill of “. notice ugliness of any kind are immune
Forthern and Yangiers') LANEA weekly oddelen, Ping
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Recent sensations in the City have given rise to a demand for policies of this type, and although the terms are still under discussion, a number of directors have applied for proposal forms.
Naturally a policy of this kind will have to be exceedingly stringent, other is it might be regarded as lending itself to grave abuses of public confidence, Counsel's aid had been invoked in draft ing the terms, and it may be taken that there will be nothing in them to encourage carelessness on the part of the directors.
Criminal negligence will not be cover ed, but it is probable that some provision will be made where required to insure director against a co-director's mal- administration.
TIENTSIN
STRAITS, & CALCUTTA KOBE
from it. One might as well say that MANILA
those who have no sense of smell are im-
mune from bad drains. The more we learn HALPHONG LINE the more clearly we discover that the uni- BORNEO The premiums will run upon a gradu-verse is not made that way. The senses ated scale, which will work out roughly have their higher and their lower uses; as follows:-
Amount Insured,
£25,000
$20,000
£13,000
£10,000 £5,000
they make us aware both of danger and of
Annual Premium,beauty; and if we blunt them from indiffer
£17 ELT. 10
$10
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ence to beauty we also cease to be aware TIENTSIN of danger. There is a healthy as well na a morbid sensitiveness; and the hatred of BANGLOT noise, like the hatred of dirt, is healthy and natural. For noise, like dirt, is chaos, and a The underwriting companies" will, of chaos yet more impossible to ignore. Man course, insist that directors insuring must is to male that be needs and desires order; perform their duties to the best of their he is bewildered and devitalized by a lack abilities, the main object of the policy of purpose in bis surroundings; mere un- being to enable a director who has been tidiness, impairs our sense of purpose and found technically negligent to make good makes him unhappy, whether he knows it or, not; and beauty, as Professor Tethaby the sims for which he is responsible.
Careful inquiries will be made before as well said, is a kind of glorified tidiness, policy is granted, and the underwriters being matter utterly controlled by some have the right to refuse any proposal spiritual purpose. Of this we are very im which may not be deemed satisfactory in perfectly aware with regard to things ieen; but with regard to things we heard we are not aware of it at all. We do not know how cho of sound, which is ugliness, un- tidiness, impairs our sense of purpose and all our higher faculties, as it tires our nerves in the effort tignore it. We have l the notion, in this as in other things, that beauty is a luxury, whereas it is a neces sity, without which we are even inferior animals.
every way.
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NEW FACTORIES, MINES AND IRON WORKS IN GERMANY.
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Our Correspondent.says that silence is
The Ruhr iron, steel, and mining mag- natas, unaffected by reparations alarums, continue to construct new factories, 'ex-one of the great bealers, with pure air and tend old ones and sink new shafts on what Easen newspapers call a truly gran- diose scale, which must make our com mèrcial competitors simply dizzy."
unlight. That is true, not merely because silence is rest, but also because it is thut! absence of chaos, in which order on be imagined and grow. The creative faculty Herr Stianes is building new factories which produces music needs silence; and at Bochum, Thyssen and Hambora, but music itself is not a luxury, but a neces. those projects have not the Napoleonic sity; it is what sound ought to be, and the note which marks the extension scheme hearing of it increases our sense of order which the Eloeckner trust is about to and porpose, and with it our very physical embark on in the neighbourhood of Dort-enegy Asmer match best to music, so mund.
they live best to it; in all respects they live
to
Build what will be in effect a new town.
This trust proposes to erect new smelt best in an orderly world created by them ing works capable of a yearly output of selves, whether it be a world of architecture, about. 600,000 tons of steel to replace the of giniens, of patterned forms and colours. works in Lorraine which it lost an- re-or of patterned sounds. But the world of our sult of the Versailles Treaty. For the great towns, in which most of us now live, greater coal consumption which will fol-is one of disordered sounds even more than low, it also proposes to open up new of disordered sight; and the strange thing. mines with, when 10,000 additional miners is that we are proud of it and think it a sign have been engaged, a daily output of of energy, when it is really a sign of mere 10,000 tons, or about 3,000,000 yearly. To slovenliness insensitiveness, and "failure to curry out this project the trust proposes mean anything. In a civilized, world any un-
necessary noise would be resented as wan ton rudeness and an offence to the common spirit, the half-animal, half-mechanical, hoot of a motor-car in a hurry would be hated like the oath of an impatient lanatic. Sound of all kinds would be judged as ex pressive either of good or of evil, and there would be a general effort to make all sounds Construct. two local railways.
expressive of good, that is to say beautiful, Enlarge and lengthen a canal..
or to suppress them. But now we are like Pull down two bridges.
street boys who can only make themselves Found elementary and secondary heard by yelling at each other, merely be schools, children's homes, libraries, fire cause they have the habit of yelling, we station, hospital, and since the miners live in a world of competitive noises, and and their families must one day die,hitherto we have supposed that their ugli lay out a cemetery?
ness did not matter, because most of us are.
Buy up the historic Castle Bladen: horst, and convert the mansion and grounds into a club with recreation fields for miners.
The new town of which the initial indifferent to ugliness. But now science, population will be about 70,000, is to be which has so long seemed the ally of the called Gross Rauxel. It is interesting to Philistine against the artist, begins to de- note, as indicating the proverbialshy.clare for the artist. It tells us that this Dess" of the German industrial kings in noise we make is mere waste, and, like all the matter of tax paying, that the trust waste, a destroyer even of brute energy. has insisted before beginning, building It tells us that even the Philistine must operations that the local rates which it lenta" to love beauty and hate ugliness, in will be called on to pay will not be of too
enerous a kind.
In view of the growing popularity of the game in Germany it is-announced that special tennis courts for the use of the firm's typists will be laid out.
THE OLD OWL,"
*M. CLEMENCEAU'S ADVICE TO-
BOYS.
For the second time since his retire ment, M. Clemenceau brake silence on May 27th, at Nantes, where he unveiled a memorial to the war victime among the former students of his old school, which now bears his name. The Tiger" made very moving speech, full of sense and courage, and in its conclusion full of pathos,
mere self-protection; and perhaps he will listen at last to the men of science, though- he has been deaf for so long to the artist.
Times.,
ing charming things." Instead of that it was made up of duties and struggles: the struggle for the right to found a family, to prosper and to live; the struggle for the right to love those around. us; the struggle of courage, mobility and generosity."
M. Clemenceau confessed that at the beginning of the war he had not believed in anal victory. He knew Frenchmen would know how to fight, but he feared the enemy would be too numerous and that the Allies would arrive too late, but his countrymen had been able to make him blush for his doubt. Then, as the “old owl," which is the bird of wisdom, be warned his audience that "it is a fine Paraphrasing Socrates, by ended, “We thing to throw oneself on the enemy, to are going to part, F to die and you to leave behind all one loves and cherishes," prepare to live as good Frenchmen... but there are other sorts of courage," and Forget me, roll up your sleeves, and work he talked of the quiet courage" of the
out your destiny. His almost deprecatecholar, who sticks to his job., o
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Known as the modern, Midas, or the Napoleon of finance, Sir William Hopwood, the cottonmill magnate, whose deals few years aggregated 30 millions, finds receiving, order in bankraptey made
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ing little sermon to boys. must have. At the banquet afterwards M. Clemen appealed to the least impressionable of ceun said, ". Wo must give all-our energie, gan file a cotton-piecer. Ho become them. He recalled his own schooldays to preserving peace. But there is a limit, began life as when boys were unreasonable, with im. where, for my part, I halt. Better to die reputed millionaire and was knighted padent notes, cheeky months, and bright in honour than live in shame." Later the Armistice of 1810 when he bought year. He made his greatest deals after eyes," and said he had thought of life as he added, "We shall not abandon our up, thirty mills Everything. He touched "garden where one had only to enter Allies; on the contrary, we desire to returned to gold and he made the church to be welcomed by delightful people say main their friends, but we ask for a little charitable gifts amounting to 250,000.
(Continued at foot of next column.) Justice."-Timer
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