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THE VALO1 R OF IGNORANCE.

Every schoolly still more every school- mastor, is familiarisays The Times) with the cheerful type of ignorance that hurls itsest light heartedly at difficulties before which higher degree of knowledge practise a restraint. No one would wish for for it is the parent

of

s complete climwhich suen love to |

most of

stot

the

in mind and to work off periodically

their children or upon friends!

A sense of henwar and a not too

retentive nunnery, A type of physical

was a common experi

courage has

unlike it was a

ence of the war. Men were found in the field who, through some anving

uf imaginative power or some

โมเ

not only trint, won for their comrades and their

tion of the nervous system, were totally free from any thought of the dangers which they rau. Sanels men. if they survivel at all, perform praticies & valour. Where angels might

to tread, they fenred

und and vantage country. Their valour, however admirable, was in a sense the valour of

They did not know of ignorance. what fear was. A variant suels instinctive and uncuacions courage in the recklessness. of the man who, fully conscious of the dangers when he thinks of them in cold blood, is ridden in the hour of action by a damonie energy which blinds him to all but the immediate purpose. It is roleted of a V.C. of an earlier war tint, in the net of charging, he was so dominated by the desire to he first at the goal that he was as Crude who likely to lash out at

ut any threatened to outstrip him as to reserve his prowess for the enemy. Very different of from either type is the husdrawn's imagination, wh gifted with the faculty of seeing the full possibilities of what be í- called upon to underge, and often in a white heat of physical fear in consequence, nevertheless able to draw upon

of resolution and to the deal with outward calm. All three types have produced their heroes. While secretly envying these whose valour is based either on ignorance of the danger or on tenipuary blindness to it, the think- ing world will probably give the palm to the man whose mind knows and whom flesh shrinks but who none the less endures.

In the sphere of physical danger that judgment is no doubt just. But it

it no longer scene valid beyond question in ao- other setting. To face the intangible" unknown THY well demand the highest

Says "Gets-It":

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craving is to learn what lies beyond. To know even the worst seems more bear- able than that not to know at all. In that pass the highest valour is to accept the necessity of ignorance, and arch on unflinchingly all the same. It is a

is a valour not easy to come b

c by. To the longing to

any know is unendurable. Lacapacity to stand the strain leads them into dangerous byways. "For Just of knowing what should not bo known en do stranger things than take the golden road to Samarcand." It is well if it be not the road to Endor. The man who resists that temptation dis plays the supreme valour of ignorance, but ia no ordinary or derogatory sense..

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For

bis valour is rather the valour of knowing that intellectual knowledge has its appoint- ed bounds, and that some other guide is needed for the darkness into which his way must lie.

WALL STREET SPECULATORS OUT MANOEUVRED.

BY A MAN WHO WAS. ONCE AN OBSCURE MINER.

The New York correspondent of The Daily Telegraph writing in the latter part of March, said

An amazing story of how Clarence Suun- dera once an obscure miner, beat the wily Wall Street speculators at their own game, and is now dictating terus of settlement is revealed through the action of the York Stock

in ruling Wiggly

the Piggly

after a flock from the list.

of

corner.

rise of 150 a share

bas

in one day had disclosed the existence

Bir.

Saunders told the Wall Street operators, who soldPiggly Wiggly" short from $10 to $70 a share, that they may purchase the stock from him to-day to complete their con- tracts at 2150 a share.

A few years ago.br. Saunders left mining and became a grocery clerk. He opene

own shop and failed, but commenced anew, and soon had a chain of 1,200 popular price of aid Mr. Saunders

shops. "It the

WEA happiest day of my

when the stock of the 'Pizzly Wire shops was admitted to trading on the

Stock Exchange in June, 1692" When

Wiggly

Yo New York branch of the "Pinole

the

chain failed last year the Wall Street bears thought they saw an opportunity to wipe out the stock, and they sold beavily, forcing it down to $40 a share. With only 200,000 shares outstanding Mr. Saunders was able to take every share offered until he The had practically cornered the market. speculators who had sold took they did not possess found it impossible to "cover" except at ruinous prices. Mr. Saunders estimates that there are still 25,000 shares to be delivered to him, which be is selling today at 100 share, but to-morrow and thereafter at $250 a stare.

Mr. Saunders declares he will never again permit his stock to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where the gambler and speculator have such a free rein to ply their trades."

.

It is reported from New York that the paper profite of Clarence. Saunders are estimated nt from £500,000 to £1,200,000, and the ebaners are about oven that he will be able to convert them into cash.

FIFTY YEARS OF EMIGRATION.

In the House of Commons on March 26th, Lieut.-Colonel Buckley, in reply to Colonel M, Alexander said that the num ber of British subjects recorded as having left the United Kingdom for countries outside Europe during the fifty years, 1873 to 1922, was 11,372,384. Of these 5,294,688 were going to countries within the British Empire, and 6,982,070 to foreign countries." During the same period 6,508,314 British subjects arrived in the United Kingdom from countrica outside Europe, viz, 2,334,267 from British Dominions, and 3,009,282 from foreign countries. These Bgures showed an oxcces outwards of 9,058,388 to British Empire countries and 2,079,784 to foreign countries.

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