February 22, 1908.]
It is the compulsion in a unitter of this kind which your petitioners' Association resents.” One would like to know how any measure of this kind can be carried out without some compulsion. Surely the Cainese Association, would have been wiser to address the local Government on any de'ails that it wished amended than to resort to the heroic expe- dient of sending so werk a protest to the Chinese Amassador in London.
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fit to his health. But the bike of those | field of action which there seemed little hopy days was rudeness itself, an 1 soon acquired of extending. It was evident that there were the well deserved name of bone-shaker," | dangers in the way, which the bravest did and the inventor saw that there was a way not cire to encounter; but the opinions of open to improve; but the new amendments practical men, with the improvement in needed machinery, and little by little cich motors brought about by the experience of part of the machine was improve with the the motor car, commencal to change, and object of reducing wight and increasing calculations founded ou actual results now strength with so keen a zest that rapidly as appeared to show, that if the mtchine could the popular use of the bike grew, the b3 made sufficiently light without com. machinery for its manufacture grew still promising strength, there would be little more rapidly, and the new industry wis difficulty about the motive power. This was actually becoming bankrupt. A f.w the list stage, and ingenuity now set itself (Daily Press, February 19th.)
Frenchmen had meanwhile been making to the same task na Fox with his umbrella A few lines in a Paris newspaper of the experiments with the object of propelling some sixty years ago. 13th ultimo to the effect that HENRY | vehicles by machinery instead of horse It will thus be evident that at no previous FARMAN, an English aeronaut, had won the power, and thereby as they conceived period of the world's history could a Deutsche-Deacon prize of £400 offered for | diminishing the cost. Some eighty years practical flying machine have been possible; traversing the first kilometre, 3280 feet, ago such a thing hal in England ben aluminium, bicycles, rubber tires, high actually in the air, in a machine heavier proved feasible, an for a time a steam tension stels were none of them invented iu than the atmosphere, and dependent for its carriage had actually run regularly from the pursuit of aerial navigation, yet each flotation on internal machinery, marks London t› Barb, but the app sition was so ons in its way, however slight or unobserved, perhaps the commencement of a new era strong that it was suppressed by parliament has actually brought nearer what at first was more markedly than the running of the making the duos so heavy as to be actually nothing more than an impalpably dream. first railway train independent of horse as prohibitive. In France legislation had no: In fact man here has unconsciously beeu a means of propulsion. Long ago. HORACE been so foolish as to put a positive har ou following the way of nature without fore- wondered at the amount of oak and triple advance, and the French rods were forecasting the result, and as the radiolarian on brass he must have had round his chest the success of the bike and led to the the rock has developed into the engle soar- who first committel his frail craft to the erection of suitable machinery, much of ing in the heaven, so man, in his earliest cruel deep, but Mr. FARMAN had discarded which was waiting for employin ut, and experience confined to the surfwe of the both the oak and the triple brass as quite the methods of producing light pot strong | groun1 has little by little learnt to take
! beyond the necessities of his still frailer framework had been made a regular subject advantage of his surroundings, and now craft; and only succeeded through the aid of stuly under the influence of the cycle with some prospect of success easys to take of aluminium, the lightest of all metals, demand, so that the French engineers found! possession of the air. The lesson, of course the very thought of which had never that much of the opening ground had been fis, that in the pursuit of knowledge wo must occurred to HORACE in his very highest cleared for them, and that if they could flights of tic imagination. But this contrive a surtible engine ther was a fair recalls the thought Low very much the chance of success. Little by little, each accomplishment of the first flight has been maker throwing his whole knowledge and dependent on studies and inventions into energy into the task, this was accomplished, which the idea of flight never once enterel. and swell that even in England the Many of the greatest inventions of the obstructive enactments, which world, meaning by great st those that have years kept English makes out of the fields brought about the greatest changes in
were gradually relaxed. Probably In- hawan life and conduct, have been brought; veution within the list thres quarters of a about almost unconsciously, and their ulti-century has made so great a social change mate consequences have never formed any
as the sucessful introduction of the excle,
(Daily Press, February 21st. part of the mutive. A gond generation and its successor, the motor car.
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We have before us a new book by the Rev. past, a man of the name of Fox, in search doubtful if it have not within the last | R. J. CAMPBELL of the City Temple, of a method of making the clumsy umbrella forty years brought about a greater soal entitled Christianity and the Social of his day look a little more seemly in the change than that which imm:liately follow Order," and a review of the supe book, hands of a dandy, bethought himself thated the introduction of the Railway system. ! written for the Daddy Graphic by the R v. if he used for his ribs a finer quality of
Canon Hussler Hesson. The book is Ofeurs since the days of ARCHIMEDES, steel, and grooved them so as to uiike them men have dreunt of obtaining the command a devoted to showing how nearly identical practically hollow, he would obtain the of the air as well as of the lind and water;
were the practical aims of Primitive Chris. same actual strength while diminishing and when MoxGOLFIER invented his fire tianity with those of Modern S-cialisın, and considerably the weight and s z22. The idea ・ ballon the tongues of the prophets were led to the construction of machinery for for a time let loose, and the purpose of grooving the ribs, and Fox's with
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CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM,
the review claims to demonstrate that the writer was ignorant of both subjects, Between the two lies the possibility of an e dort tining, if no, profitabi‹, hour or two. We are under the impressimi that tie simdarity of the ideas an laims of Chris- tan tv and So talism hul bee a not-1 before CAMPBELL was ever heard of. Cer. túnly we have been interes el for a long time in the attitude of Christ aus toward Socialism. Let us clea“ the ground a little. Suppose Christ-anity de Socialism, in tho mato, and me. reza, wo would expect all Christions b› be Sheralists, would wu not? Yet Cana Hɛssox is a Christian, and be isata Socialist. Ho clums that while Mr. CAMPBELL MAY be a8cialist, ax he avows, he is
A Christian. Mr. not CAMPBELL, When he comes to reply, will be obliged to retort that Cum Hesson is next her Now why as right Their chief punt of divergence is this MC. CAMPBELL maintains that trae Chricianity chiefly mus th regjistrutura of somety un matad het of thiess rusteal of strikes and competitiu.
Mtly uf Christian origins lellen irresistibly to am that the “first (iristiau preachers did not know of any other gospel than that of a Canva universal brotherhood on earth.” HENSON, But being a Socialist, prefers
Paragon Umbrella ' while the patent future, their peculiar
AS lasted, carried the market with it, no other them to take the bright or gloomy view having a chance against it. About forty of the multiplication years ago, after many velocipedes of various. It degrees of rudeness had been tried by our Falloon would not bring about any rapal Me great-grand fathers, someone hapjenel to noticeable change, and that it never find that he could run about and balance
euld become anything better than a more himself on two wheels set
before o scientific toy.
Something better seen-l to another. The dandies of the time of the
be promised in the 244 badoin, which wit Regency did indeed make use of such au
more praevi dde. soon imul fol. httle instrument, as we can see by consulting the Sull met would
thems Ives ill ext is caricaturists of the day; but the dandy had exertions which ths me e seu itic saw could to put his feet to the ground to gain an not be brought into practical use, and as the impetus from without, that som the toy uulity of being able t went out of use as being an incumbrance enemy's lines could not fail to be of enormous rather than a p progressiou. As
alvairage in time of war, the mitory soon as the discovery was made that any Powers always encouraged experiments in one after little practice guld Faru thart of thotation in the air. The sucers, to balance himself, and could thus pro with which the difficul tes of the motor car ceed at faster pace
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high powers could be mal. of but a fea came to be familiarly oled, cune intoands weight per borse power, nuw began fashion, and manex 4 por city clock who
to affect mou's ininds as to the possibility of found paying twice a day for las crumbus a navigating the air by the resistance of the strain on his feeld resources, was able to
air itselt.
lu a small way this bad been accomplish the journey in less t me and done from time immemorial in the form of, with actual enjoyment to himself, aud benc- · kites, but a kite at its best had but a narrow
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