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TIVERTON GAZETTE EAST pEVON HER A M) TUESDAY JULY 22 1913 The Latest Cnnarders Lb 0IND YOUR BOOKS As Music to the Senses The analogy said to exist between sweet perfumes and good music is confirmed and emphasized by the delightful fragrance Toilet Soap THE Goodenongh Binding Subtle intimate and intensely sympathetic the Goodwin fumes appeal to the higher senses and stir the best that is in Jike an inspired rendering of a classical masterpiece all other respects too is a perfect toilet soap pure as befits it cleansing and refreshing mild and soothing action and eminently beautifying to the skin and complexion demand for Steoso and Cma? bindinge of BINDING it cannot be beaten Can be bad via Dark Bine Purple Bed and Karoos inr i upeeiaUj got Serials Ac Silerent colours I to meet the a POPULAR HvudeiV Cloth A "Chromatic of more than 30 Differently Perfumed Varieties PRICES 4 oer Own Paper Graphic Music full size 26 per Vol 3 6 Proportionate Rate pels Tk K6Mrih8 5 1 18 5 jirandi iO 6i 20 Superior Binding at Toilet Soap Sold by Grocers Oil Stores and Chemists Maiert GOODIVIN' MANCHESTER 2D per Tablet WESTERN CANAL SCHEME dealing with a proposed scheme up Devon and Somerset for the supplying London with agricultural direct by motor f-urge appears REVIEW eeries of papers by various well-known people on the wrongs suffered by animals at tlw hands of man In his preface Mr Sidney Trist traces tho- growth of the idea of kindness towards animals from the time when they were only implements of the farm by law up to the present day when efforts are being made to right tlia wrongs of our dumb friends Mr Trist aptly quotes plea We do pray for mercy And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds- of SACRILEGE AND ARSON family liibles in oau leather gilt edges from 176 Old Books Carefully Repaired Gregory Son 11 Gazette Office TIVERTON "THE UNDER Under is the title of a handsome volume published at the issue of The Motor Ship and Guardian office london and edited by Mr We make the following ex- Sidney Trist a Devonian It coioists of a vVi Ilia nr Alexander Booth Rcxss a native of London has been charged at Pwllheli with sacrilege and arson Mr William George who prosecuted said that the question of the mental condition might perhaps be raised later on Motor Boat but his written statement admitting the tracts offences showed no signs of a disordered brain In this statement Ross gave Iris movements dnee June 27 and told how lie walked from New Brighton to Llandudno where he br oke into a church and got 7s 6d from the offer-tory-box He proceeded to Bangor atrd broke into two churches In orre he destroyed a quantity of property and drank a lot of wine reason was just a lark I thought it would be fun to see the faces of the clergymen next He swore afterwards that all the churches which yielded up no money he would burn down and if the town went up loo it would le a good job My firm he contended to rob and burn all the best-looking churches in the chief towns aroitnd the Welsh coast taking two iir each town a night All the churches that I found over a shilling in I would spare the rest must He described how at Pwllheli he entered one church with a spire and after two hard work broke into the An article for opening purpose of produce in this Recent have again the Canals by motor of improving way is weeds alongside its present as it only not mure than weekly This of coal hoars frequently ballast about sixteen regularly A scheme should be via Cullompton Bridgwater would be the Somerset TREBLES the wear of BOOT SOLES and ALL LEATHERS The big economizer in boot the finest dressing for boots and leather in the and the only preparation that stops boots creaking and makes them water-proof and good lix more months hard wear Sold Everywhere in Tabes and I- SEMELEGRAMS the Great Prize Scheme £2000 One form with 6d tube three with I- tube afe Finding nothing he prepared to set the fral authority were based upon the eaciers salaries the whole question of the pr ovi-ion would for the first time hare a chan 'e o1 being treated as a question of national portance and of being brought into ref a 'm with national needs Even that time-hen mired old proverb Those who pay the piper have the right to call the would be at last on the side of efficiency at present it makes for the docility of the piper more of ten than the excellence of his piping I do noi wish to make the reform here proposed seem simpler thing than it is there are plenty of incidental difficulties to be solved in adapting salary scales and the pensions that must go with them to the circumstances of different kinds of education and even to different local conditions but those difficulties exist now the difference is that there would then be some chance of a general attempt to meet them whereas now they are met haphazard not at all THE MOBILITY: OF THE TEACHER Let me say again that this change does not involve making teachers into Civil Servants need not touch the mode of their appointment or dismissal it need not alter their tenure One tiling it must alter their mobility and therefore tlieir chances of promotion The devotion of teachers to a particular school a good thing so far as it is a natural and spontaneous affection no school can flourish unless it inspires such a devotion but the confinement of teachars to one school gleboe prisoners at their posts because to move is to forfeit seniority and lose the chance of promotion that is a hindrance good work in general and the removal of this hindrance would be one of the incidental advantages of a national system of payment this connection the creation of a national system of pensions is particularly to be desired in no part of our educational system do we cut so mean a figure compared with Continental nations ns in this at present pension schemes are so rare and of such various kinds that where they do exist they are a very effective restriction upon thfe mobility of teachers especially after the first few years of service when a change of experience may be most desirable Ve need have no fear that the individual character of schools will suffer from this mobiLity in any sense that is worth preserving the conception that used to be prevalent and still exists too many places of a successful school as a sort of factory with trade secrets not to be given away to its rivals will tend to disappear and so it ought YVe want a high general level of competence not a morass with a few dry spots towards which those condemned to live in less fortunate places look with hopeless envy we want to make sure that in no part of this country shall anyone be left unsatisfied who wants his children to have the beet education suited to their powers EQUALISATION OF CONDITIONS Surely it is a deplorable and scandalous thing that the best advice that can be given to parents in so many places is to go and live ill some other county if they want their children well educated Yet this is almost inevitable under the present system for the causes of the want of educational facilities in this or that place are precisely local causes whether they spring from the poverty of the region or from that poverty of imagination which allows men to acquiesce in bad conditions because they have never thought of anjthing better There ought to bo local traditions just as there ought to be school traditions but both alike must be inspired by a common ideal or they become the greatest obstacles to every sort of progress binding and chaining us to every prejudice that we are too idle to see through and to every sort of tame acceptance of evils that we ought not for one moment to tolerate Of course those who take that view of education which may be summarised in the words Give the child a will not think that any of this matters so long as books can be turned out to suit the growing mind and distributed about the country it will seem to such that there is nothing more to be desired but to those who believe that education at its best is not a thing that anybody can get out of any number of books but something to be done by children and grown-up people to these surely the question what of grown-up people are to Ire helping in wherever it is being done is the one question of all that does matter OF REFORYI If the change in the basis of State Grants which I advocate were carried out in its entirety at once it would transfer £6060000 year from Rates to Taxes That looks and a large sum though the actual effect of the transference upon any single ratepayer would probably disappoint hie expectations But it is not necessary that the change should be carried out all at once in order that its beneficial results may be secured Those results will begin to be felt the instant that the efficiency of the teacher becomes the direct object of the State Grant So long as the avowed object of State Grants is simply to secure the attendance of children at school it is impossible to make them an effective instrument for any other purpose Any other purpose is irrelevant and therefore any other use of the power given by tlie grants tends to become tyrannical like the conduct of the man who reduced his dress allowance because she played the piano badly THE HOPE But if the State makes the efficiency of the teacher its business without abandoning its general responsibility for the efficiency of the educational system at large the Central Authority can so concentrate upon its proper function as to make that function the guiding and enlivening activity by which the whole standard of education may be permanently raised to its proper level Whether the State finds the whole of the money for the teachers or four-fifths of it or some other preponderating fraction it will have taken in hand that which is its proper business it will have made itself responsible for the development of teaching power throughout the country it will have made a National system possible and the statesman who sees and grasps the opportunity of doing that will earn the gratitude of the nation for he will undoubtedly have sttved it from decay tural properties of these rich-soiled counties to be utilised for supplying London with produce in a manner cheap enough to make the local industry a paying business also a direct route would thus be made from the Welsh and Gloucestershire ports to the English Channel A service of motor barges and lighters would be ideal for the transportation work and with regard to the construction of the waterway ppoinrment ana deemed to ourn um existing rivers could lie utilised in many church He collected pictures and maps from places as the deepening of the waters etc A' Cole exposes the horrors of the Anglo-Belgian iraffie in diseased and worn-out horses Some details of this trade aro almost incredible in their ugly cruelty per-liajis the worst side of the whole business is the consequent growth of brutality among the men concerned Mr James Buckland the well-known Newton Abbot authority on birds contributes a striking article on Horrors of the Plume is the title selected by Madam Sarah Grand for her attack on the men who are responsible for tlie trade- in rare plumage and furs She attempts to exonerate women of any responsibility on the score of vanity but not There arc articles on in showing tho appalling and often unnecessary suffering borne by horses and beasts when on a campaign Bensusan and Chief Inspector Robinson expose the methods of training adopted by stage exhibitors It can only be said that after reading of some of these methods especially on the part of foreignei-s one hopes never to see an animal performance again Mention must be made of Mr concluding article on the inalienable claim of animals to considerations of humanity He establishes his point by quiet and the pleasant reply logical argument devoid of sentiment When Officer Inf your in your stockinged there was are very exclaimed his to be boy I should like I aind: twins I have just pretty bad broke and broke her engagement Two- tramps ere Where magistrate tramps ind Yle- Oh live on Patient-- Well getting on all You still have a trouble not If you hod a A doctor attended caught a severe chafter when you you?" asked tho doctor they were lie schoolroom books and tapers and made a under the organ and in the cupboards then went up the hill behind to see the un thoroughly enjoyed it" he said and am sure the public did He told tbe efforts to subdue the flames nd of how the women screamer! and how lie liked and joked with the onlookers He onrneyed to and examined the IniTches and he concluded: would have proceeded round the coast to Bristol robbing churches and burning them if unfortunately had not been detained by the police The ngHsh churches are etter than the elsh churches for money Perhaps the Scotch have more collection-boxes in the The prisoner was committed for trial such as the Exe Grand Western Canal Tone and could easily be carried out It would mean but 20 to 25 miles of new cutting and the deepening and widening of another 15 miles of existing waters No doubt railway opposition would be met with but the possibilities of such a scheme are of course enormous The water supply should offer no difficulties as the are fairly well filled all the year round It would not be necessary to construct a navigation as deep or as aide as the Exeter Canal but 7ft 8in locks and an average depth of 4ft to 5ft -would be sufficient In 1801 a Company was formed for cutting a Canal to Crediton a distancetef eight milecs but after cutting for a short distance the attempt was abandoned Modern engineering skill would however find no difficulties Barges from Cardiff Newport Bristol Swansea etc could enter the Canal near Bridgwater and would carry the goods to Exeter Quay or Basin where they would be transferred fo the Channel craft that have A dramatic confession has been made at a previously unloaded and vice versa Agri-mission service at Exeter by a man named cultural and dairy produce bricks- and stone John Yeomans about 35 years of age who for could be carried from any inland village rer two years has pretended to the public of town or quarry along the navigation direct xeter that he was blind He was respectably to London via the Severn the Kennet and dressed apparently well educated and wore Avon Canal and the Thames or via tho or via he comes to deal with vivisection however he states his case too strongly THINKING HORSES During the last few yearn great curiosity and interest have been aroused on the Continent by the reports of the doings of certain wl mated and thinking horses at Elber-field Germany A controversy has been raging over- them in which doctors of medicine psychical research workers and medicine psycnicai reeearcii worKers ana biologists disputed each facts and I without spending Hen: "'What a ridiculously giddy that young Miss Dorking lien: young yet Wait has known the sorrow of sitting for weeks on a china egg and two sober down remarked tho man as lie made a attack on a particularly tough steak The Newest Steamers And the Cheapest Way TO CANADA Cabin (TI) and Third Class Passengers only carried Magnificent Accommodation iWork found for approved applicants ALAUNIA Apply to CUNARD LINE 51 Bishopsgafce London or Local agent SECONDARY EDUCATION THE NEXT STEF TOWARDS NATIONAL SYSTEM By Cholmisley MA Headmaster of School Islington aud Hon Sec of Incorporated Association of Headmasters THE PRICE OF EFFICIENCY For the foreign statistics quoted in this article 1 am indebted to the Report of an Inquiry into the conditions of service of teachers in English and Foreign Secondary Schools presented to the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools in 1910 and published by Bell and Sons THE ENGLISH STANDARD What have salaries to do with efficiency? I have quoted facts as to the salaries paid in English grant-earning secondary schools The highest scale adopted by any Local Authority in England begins at £150 and goes up by yearly instaments of £10 to £300 or in special cases to £350 That is in London for men who are graduates of a university for women graduates the scale is from £120 to £220 and in special coses to £250 In 1911 only 50 out of 121 Local Authorities had adopted salary scales at all and the most usual limits were from £120 to £200 for men graduates and £100 to £160 for women graduates FACTS FROM ABROAD Let us see how some foreign authorities value the provision of higher education In Prussia the scale for men is from £135 initial salary to £360 final salary with a rent allowance varying from £65 to £28 according to local conditions in Bremen the scale is from £200 to £390 in Hamburg from £200 to £450 Few authorities pay an initial salary of less than £150 and moreover in some municipalities where the environment is not attractive higher salaries have been found necessary to attract competent teachers In England if there are such municipalities it would seem that they prefer to allow education to share in the general gloom at any rate the notion of attracting competent teachers by high salaries has not penetrated French teachers are so elaborately classified that is difficult to give a clear summary of their conditions but at any rate in Paris the range of salaries among the six classes of professeurs agreges (secondary schoolmasters of the first grade) is from £200 to £320 per annum to which must be added in each case a sum of £20 the indemnite agregation It i6 calculated that the well qualified Frenchman may reasonably hope to obtain a salary of £300 after twenty-four or twenty-five service all receive an initial salary of £148 per annum Finland appears to be the only country in which women possessing the same qualifications as men are paid at the same rate in Holland men teachers start at £150 women at £100 a difference which compares unfavourably with the London scale In France Germany and the Scandinavian countries increases in salary are generally speaking regular and automatic All these countries provide pensions for teachers in France where the teachers are civil servants the practice of the civil service obtains and provision is made for widows and orphans in Germany the pension amounts in many cases to over 75 per cent of the final salary and in thirteen States no contribution is required from the teacher in Denmark and Holland the pension is two-thirds of the final salary In England about 25 secondary schools have pension schemes one of these that of the City of London School which is financed by the may be compared with the least favourable of the foreign systems the rest fall far below them It lias been seriously suggested that the English Govern ment might make a contribution towards pensions for secondary teachers if the teachers would contribute twice as much as the Government WHAT IS THE MONEY PAID FOR? Now what does all this prove? Surely it proves just one thing that the nations whose practice is here compared with our own are of opinion that teaching power is worth paying for Moreover having made up their minds to pay for it they are entitled as we are not so see that they get it They do see that they get it In France and Germany to take the two greatest of them it is by no means an easy matter to become a fully qualified secondary teacher but it is not possible to become a teacher at all with out being qualified France and Germany are in a position to insist upon training because they make the profession worth training for In Prussia the total cost of preparation from the time that an intending teacher passes his school-leaving examination at about 19 until the end of his probationary year is abo £540 allowing for 4 years spent at the University in France the conditions are different but the necessary expenditure before a man can enter the highest grade must be at least as large in fact it is so large that the State has been obliged recently to make a considerable improvement in the financial position of the teachers in order to induce a sufficient number of candidates to present themselves INDUCEMENTS Let me repeat that the real point is con-I tained in the word inducement AVhat can we expect to get if we do not offer inducements that make it worth while for people of first-rate ability to serve us? Why should a man become a schoolmaster a secondary school in England for in stance when there are half-a-dozen other careers in which he can put his brains to more remunerative use not to mention the Civil Service which makes but a moderate demand upon his brains when once he has got into it and pensions him in the end thereof? There is only one answer to these questions It is understood in business that if you want a thousand pound man or a five hundred pound mail or a three hundred pound man you offer £1000 or £500 or £300 as the ease may be It is one of the elements of business capacity to know wliat is wanted and to understand that the only way to get it is to pay for it Trying to get it without paying for it is sometimes called trusting to luck and sometimes leads to a fraudulent bankruptcy but that is precisely what we are doing now in this business of getting a teaching profession and we must stop doing it If we do not stop doing it we cannot hope to get the teaching power that the nation needs nor to hold ouir own with other nations in any sort of adventure that calls for trained intelligence THE ROAH TO REFORYI It has already been maintained that this most necessary reform the creation of teaching profession can be carried out if the nation cares to have it carried out only by making it the business! of the nation as a whole The method is obvious At this moment about 75 per cent of the cost of secondary and elementary education accounted for by the salaries of teachers In adequate as they are it is evident that it is difficult if not impossible- to induce Local Authorities dependent upon the sensibilities of the ratepayer to face the necessity for increasing tills proportion That is one fact The other is that the Board of Education now I makes grants tp secondary schools in England and YVales amounting to about £750000 based upon the attendance of pupils For elementarv education the grants amount to £11750000 for technological £500000 There is no great principle involved in the preservation of that basis there is every reason why if should be altered The attendance can ho looked after by the Local Authority as in practice it is even the most abandoned type of ratepayer hardly desires to let children stay away from school in order to keen down the rates but if the grants made by the cen- a or it is to In in it theories with extraordinary heat aud acrimony Tlie result of all this in England was that the Society for Psychical Research sene Ylr Edward Bullough Fellow of Gonville and Cains- Cambridge and Ylr Woolley YID to investigate the conditions under which (he mental training experiments were made and the actual degree of ability repo: two gentlemen aro of exceptional interest Jt appears that in 1890 a certain Herr Von Osten at Ellx-rfield tried to teach a horse which he had long ridden to understand and obey such verbal commands as Turn to the "Keep straight more etc etc He soon succeeded in this and was able to drive the animal without l-eins through the crowded thoroughfares of Berlin by vocal orders In 1905 he met Ylr Ki all of Elberfield who though he had never handled horses became so interested in the possibilities of equine education (hat he answer that First creature Second till she thro- attained by the animals The reports of these desperate which and the encountered Young you him the old a You counsel black spectacles and as he stood in the main reefs of the city selling bootlaces he excited considerable sympathy among the general public Latterly he had a large plate hang in front of him bearing the word He was led to his pitch every day by a Oman who fetched him home at night On Sundavs she would lead him to Mint Wesleyan Church where he was a regular attendant and he was generally conducted to his eat bv the stewards Attending a special mission service conducted by Mr Garland Yeomans startled the SENSE AND NONSENSE GiuMw-ley have much luck ori hit fishing trip Remarkable luck Why every one believed the tales that he Ivothor to see me to the door pleaded the departing visitor Really no bother at the hosteeft assured her a is one thing queer in British bring out their whips for their own party when they want to boat the other one I cannot tell a declared the eminent magnate won't have urged his eminent counsel say that your mind i i blank on that subject laidy of House Bui you said if give you something to eat you Id light (lie fire in the I know lady: but 1 thought it was a Magistrate (to prisoner) yen veiw there fur no ishonest i-orpo-eo why woro you Prisoner: sickness in the naughty to-dy mother YVeli you got thankful replied the to know- whit That seen Hunter and ho looks the natter with him do-you Yliss Rose discovering it to brought before a magistrate do you asked the replied ouo of tho he said to th other the floor above my pal doctor do you think Doctor: yes good deal of fever but that Patient Of course fever it wouldn't trouble an old lady who had cold Did your teeth felt file chill coming over doctor dinna ken lying on tho was brother who was so deaf any Bridget: lie all right in the Officer: "You say Bridget: he was arrested yesterday and I'm told he gets his in the 1 was sorry to hear Brown that you -have failed in 1 struggled hard but I lost everything save my honour thank goodness and the property 1 was wise enough to settle on niv wife when I found myself getting into said papa showing the little boy a coin a penny 300 years old It was given- to me when I was a little 1 ejaculated Teddy think of u'i 1 mm anybody being able to keen a penny as long att had been served up to him at a wav-side hotel have heard of the golden calf iron horse but now 1 seem to have an indiarubber cow" Scraper (amateur violinist): notice (hat old man crying while was Friend: and I spoke to He said your playing reminded him of days when he wa Was he No lie used to ring are oil your oath the examining reminded the witness your must be explicit and exact Yam said that you drove a But you do drive a No Then pray what do you boss In a private sitting-room at Ihe hotel eat a party of merry-makers when there came a knock at the door and an attendant announced The compliments of Mr tlie author who is in tlie next room and he says you are making so much noise that he cannot write said one of the party tell him everybody who-has read his books knows NOT CARRIED He was a member of the harbour board in a Northern seaside town and was attending his first meeting The board was discussing a proposal to place two buoys at the entrance to the harbour for the guidance of mariners beg to propose as an said the new member one man should should lie placed there instead of two boys as the latter are too young for such a responsible as the NEARER THE MARK A lady physical scientist who unfortunately was rather stout was one night lecturing on physical culture and in describing to her audience the beauty of a symmetrical figure went on to say that the proper proportions of the body should be as follows: "Twice round mv fingers once round mv wrist twice round my wrist once round in neck twice round my neck once round riv Voice from the back: round your waist mum once round Hyde WHAT THEN? Tbe eye of little teacher was and sorry for notwithstanding that he her favourite pupil lie stood before her convicted of the heinous charge of a theft of toffee from a fellow pupil If was a first offence however and she did not desire to inflict corporal punishment moral lecture she thought would fit the case in mind she concluded "that these temptations can tie resisted if determination is used Always turn a deaf ear to Little Willie's lip trembled But ho answered I got adeaf ASPECTS TO ORDER Tn a certain manufacturing town it is a common thing for skilled workmen to wave sufficient money wherewith to build houses for themselves A great deal of rivalry exists among these men as to who should have the beet house with sometimes curious architectural results A and were two rivals A having built a house whose turn soon afterwards came determined to outdo him So ho callvl in a well-known architect to prepare plans Asked what aspect he would like to his house scratching his head inquired "Aspect! What's tlintr lias A got of said the architect possibly put me on was the prompt and emphatic reply BLOOD TONIC PILLS For Delicate 1 emalee The Reliable Remedy for Ancmia and Povt rtv of Blood Tn Is amt 2s fid Boxes ROSSITER Dispensing Chemist Bamplon-street Tiverton llow IS IT THAT ClARKK'w IlLOOU MlXTttftK attained "'idi great popuTni-liy" a question which has perplexed mnnv Tlie answer is Ii is unques- ionnhlv the finest Blnol Purifier that science slut medical skill have brought to light ThousimNs wonderful cures have been effected bv it Fur Scrofula Seurvv Koremn Skin and Itlood Disease Pad Legs Borea and Pimples of ail kinds its etTeots are ous Sold everywhere at 2s 9d perhottlc Bi ware of wort hi imitations unit substitutes udience when standing up and removing his jmrge and another 30 tons or more could be dark glasses he professed conversion He towed astern in a a dumb-barge at avowed he had all the time been able to seeand iV speed of miles per hour with only 15 had been imposing upon the public As a bhp and would travel day and night For memento of the occasion he presented his dairy produce the power-barge alone need be poctacies to the mi-sioner in whose company and the speed thus accelerated to about le went to the chief constable and repeated sjx miles per hour So the time taken to do his confession prepared to face any conse- the cruise from Mid-Devon to lxndon would uences- which might result therefrom be about four and two and a half days re- Tf is understood that no action will be taken spectively allowing for the passage of locks gainst the man in the absence of a specific xn the summer months a service of pleasure charge and meanwhile employment is being motor launches coukl be run sav from Lon-found for him by those connected with the Aon to Fxeter Exmouth Torquay and Dart-mission Yeomans states that he a son of a mouth ria the Thames the Canals and the clergyman It is said that he has been assisted cstuarv of the Exe Boats of about 70 feet by officials at the Blind Institution hut when length' with say sleeping accommodation for an offer was made to find him employment go passengers would suffice Two 50 hp oil he represented that he must lead an outdoor jmraffin marine motors driving twin-screws life He says he has two sons besides a girl would he ample power anil on the Canals of two years often seen with him only one need be in use the two together only one need be use increased railway freightage rates opened up the question of utilising for the transportation of goods barge traffic and there is some talk the Exeter Canal which by the excellently maintained except for the banks Unfortunately length and usefulness are limited serves the Exeter district and now half a dozen coasting craft call traffic is mainly local and consists gravel stone etc while the leave the port empty or with Before the railways were opened sailing craft and one steamship traded between Exeter and London put before us is that this Canal extended to ihe Bristol Channel Wellington Taunton and with a loop to Tiverton and this means of opening up Devon and not only as manufacturing coun- ties but would enable the unique agricul Thames and Severn Canal and the Thames When one considers that the fuel cost of motor barge transport is less that l-20th of a penny per ton mile and that taking year in and year out this method is quicker than the railways for some classes of goods transport it will seen that the practicability of the scheme is not merely a paper one and is well worth consideration by the Government A motor barge of the type suitable using paraffin fuel would cost to run including labour under 25s per 24-liour day Twenty-five tons of -argo would be carried in the being run when on open water As such craft would onlv lie run in the day-time trip would occupy about two or three weeks and as a holiday tour would lie unique The scenerv of course is very beautiful along the Canals and halts would lie made on route at the town of i'dei wt- To ar toe route the outward crume would lie along the kennet and Avon Navigation through Read- Thamkand SevL-lual" entering the river Thames at Oxford If this service lie pos- the Eng- Manchester and many WIDOW Tuesday an Compensation Harris a the respondent Knowle late Symes Ylr A 18s a workman House residence they were injuries to sending to Buckland to been in the that the the course a wheelwright when Mr respondent do general repairs He did not know it was to lop trees which was work he always did personally He admitted he expected to be paid for the work His Honour Judge Lindley said it was an unusual case and the contention that this particular work was not part of the emtilovment he thought to be quite time looked at from the point of view of what his regnal work was but the question was whether ir was not part of his employment on this day He held that it was The men were sent to do anything which Mr Incledou YVeb-ber might want done in the way of Yfr business The widow was entitled to the compensation and he awarded £150 and cosis £15 to lie paid forthwith and the remainder at 30s per mnnth A large bronze equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener lias been east at Farnliorough from old cannon sent from India and is to be erected in Calcutta in recognition of Lord services as Commander-in-chief in India A replica of the statue made of old cartridge oasis from Omdurman will be I I COALS nrK LOADS it WBOLBBALB 1A1 iidowWekh Female Pills Prompt and relkW for LadiM Th only Omuto Awarded CERTIFICATE of MERIT at the Tasmanian Exhibition 1891 Ordered hy Specialists for the Curs of bo: lMTtan' Reputstion Complaints Chemists or post fres 12 And 210 from iii Fnl Complaints Sbjd in boxes 11 and 29 of all I CATHERINE KEARSLEY (DEPT 0) 42 Waterloo RdLondonSE rOBACCO CICARS I CIGARETTES Every known Brand at Manufacturers own List Prices Endless variety of Fancy Goods and Shop Fittings The Tradeonly supplied Opening orders a Speciality Send for Price List to 8lNTtLETQy COLE Ltd Cannon 8t Birmingham IMPORTED MEXICAN CIGARS EL DESTfNO I LA UNION ndn sell at It each Reina Victoria tell at ea onio XII sell at 41 each I Escepcionalee sell at 41 ea FINEST VALUE EVER OFFER ECL ERSEAS OPPORTUNITIES Edmonton and the Edmonton district have excellent opportunities for farm is manufacturers merchants labour along certain lines capitalists live men generally Itw information Special reports that you upon for accuracy and modern-lion li you are interested write to QEO HALL lndaitrUl Commissioner Edmonton Albnrta IABETES Sufferers should use either FARWELL and CRESCO FLOUR 7d per lb rTT dietetic FOOD aid per lb or SPECIAL 1LOUR 1- per lb carriage not paid net cereals are recommended by a the Medical rratsior Sample of cither sent on receipt of Jdfor poit-e Particulars from Agents WARNER Co tel lS-10 LAYSTALL STREET LONDON EC ztbturiSJh CcCd I By test the best lEUCitm OOF FEE WHITE a BLUE Srsalrtait A altnr Olnnr fiSfflss Hellcat Focd admirably 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(lnnn WDI wait upon you at once with Cash Write (in confidence) to Manager 48 Stokes Croft Bristol IIY is prepared fo grant LOANS of £5 "pwards without sureHes or loan office Mrs Watts 123 North Road oriBiol I i i Yeomans recently applied tor permission to the streets and sell bootlaces as he said he was too weak to stand This was refused hut a certificate was granted This has since been taken from him A HORSE Mr Ylead at West London Police Court on an Arthur Hudson a groom living at Anlaby-l-oad Hull Yorkshire has appeared before toad at West London Police Court on an Telephone 111 lomoBOWioaioBiOBOomomowiOflioa oioaoaowowoaoaioaoaonont omomowow ill ooog iomoI MO OBO ISI olo 821 cQo Bjjl 0R0 121 oo IgU offo IS! oo 121 ofio 11 oo 11 oo 11 oo I1 oo 121 oc 15 oo lil oo Igl oo 11 oo 121 oo Igl oo 121 OBO nil fip oMo II oo II oo II ofo ill ii iii Hi OfO ill oo III sir EVERYBODY occasionally falls into an of condition Where is the man or woman whose bodily organs are always working in perfect order and harmony So much occurs to upset the equilibrium Even the healthiest of persons is liable to stomachic derangement sometimes The strongest individual is occasionally reminded that he has a liver Now whenever the balance of health is upset the sufferer SHOULD TAKE a few doses of Pills This excellent preparation has a remarkable curative effect upon the disordered system The cause of the trouble is attacked and dispersed the affected organs are thoroughly cleansed and restored to their normal healthy activity Some form of dyspepsia will distress us all at times and there will be biliousness depression headaches and general lack of tone To restore vigour speedily and to preserve it you should take 151 olo ill oo ill oo ill oo ill oo ill oo ill oo ill olo ill ogi ill ill 121 oo 21 oo Igl olo Si! 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Si! igi oRo Igl £2 igl oio 121 I BEECHAM PILLS ii oo ill oo ill oBo ill oBo ill Sold everywhare la boats price 11 (56 pills) 29 (168 pills) lol ooBoaaomioamooaomioIo l2o2iKi2aMa2aSaoSa2aaomomoJI 204th YEAR SUN OF THE OFFICE fTIRE (FFiCE Founded 1710 The Oldetsc Insurance Office in the World from Policy dated 1728 Insurances effected on the fallowing risks: FIRE DAMAGE RESULTANT LOSS OF RENT A PROFITS EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY and COMPENSATION inclnSng ACCIDENTS TO DOMESTIC SERVANTS PERSONAL ACCIDENT SICKNESS AND DISEASE I DLIITY ODARANTEE hurolary plate glass Agencies in every District ASPINALL Enamel Paint 54 6 8 I- TINS THE DPIS'HAi ANH HIST ASPINALL Bath Enamei WILL STAND HUT ATI ff ASPINALL Sanalene Painl be I GAiXDiN Ul ff ccutracywis COLOUR CARDS PRICES 'PitST-ns Tpa-r'-l fd New Crow SE adjourned summons at the instance of Sidney Inight an inspector of the Royal Society for other towns in the Midland district the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for cruelly ill-treating a horse at Olympia on the occasion of the Horse Show on June 28 Ylr Leslie Smith appeared to prosecute and the defendant was represented by Ylr Bickmore Inspector Inight gave evidence to the effect that he saw the defendant chew a piece of ginger anil administer it to the mare which then became greatly excited Alexander Pearce YIRCVS described the effect of the ginger on the horse In cross-examination the witness ad in it Its 1 that ginger was administered medicinall but in a different manner TT For the defence Ylr Albert Howard Llewellyn dL tlie firm of Llewellyn and Co (Limited) of Walsall said the mare belonged to him It was a toy pony and was only enterecl in the show for the purpo-e of advertisement The defendant was a very land man and witness felt sure he did not consider lie was doing anything cruel to the pony In replv to Ylr Leslie Smith the witness admitted lie had sent a letter to tho secretary to lie Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in which he asserted that tar crueller things than were done to horses at the Horse Show and lie instanced the use of sharp spurs and bits in the ring and the practice of under the were found to lie success-fill it would sible later on to run similar hips to jj Channel seaside resorts from Liverpool Birmingham Chester COMPENSATION TO A Til Barnstaple County Court on application under the Act was made by Susannah widow with one child of Chulmleigh being James Dennis of Braunton the employer of husband Robert Harris Ylr (Crediton) appeared for applicant Sol don for respondent Harris was a wheelwright earning week and on November 6th with a named Lake he went to Buckland Braunton Mr YV Incledou Webber's to top or lop trees Whilst doing this a branch fell causing Harris from which lie did Ylr Incledou Webber spoke to Mr Dennis for men to come to do some work Yfr Dennis having habit of doing repaire on the property For the defence it was argued accident did not arise out of or in of employment He was and Lake a joiner and fuel don Webber sent for the men did not know but what it was to joined Von Osten in h-is work In 1908 Krall bought two Arab stallions (named Ytahomed and Zarif) and gave them a systematic course of instruction oil the exact lines of elementary school education Reading simple arithmetic date reckoning and spelling were included in the curriculum and the experiments were successful beyond all expectation When the animals were thoroughly efficient in these and familiar with language Ylr Krall endeavoured todra spontaneous utterance from them by object lessons on pictures statues and so forth 1 one or two instances lie was successful in this and it is on this that he bases his- theory of animal intelligence far more than on the more mechanical aecom- tmw vuv pitehments of countin'' and spelling 1 YIETHOD OF TRAINING I'he first step in tlie training was to tame to make him familiar with above all to captivate his attentjou fry caresses carrots and other signs TJwnnd nd tor of affection The second and far more difficult stage was to teach the animal to control his moment so as to -adapt them to responsive expressions or rathei to render the animal conscious of them This appears to be a step which some of the animals find great difficulty in biking Another of the horses Amasis who has been taught for about six months seems to be constitutionally unable to acquire any such control He stamped extremely well and appeared very attentive but could not get himself to stop at the right number unless Ylr Krall counted aloud with him Assuming that the horses had a conception of number as the investigators were inclined to think after some rather striking performances they witnessed it was developed during this stage of their education in the form of movement-images Ylr Krall explained to his horses all the rudimentary procedure of addition subtraction multiplication and division as he would to a child and was greatly astonished at the ease and quickness of their understanding for instance in grasping the difference between 3 multiplied by 2 and 3 squared He himself did not know by what methods the horses extracted roots bevond the square root of 144 the highest square which he taught them The same might lie said of the spelling With the aid of a simplified spelling-table the horses learnt to spell each letter being represented by a number The association between each letter and a certain number being once' formed the spelling of words written on the b'ack-bonrd was merely a matter of memory Something far more complicated and far more interesting but at present inexplicable was achieved when the liorsies began to spell out spontaneous statements Encouraged by his success with these horses Mr Krall attempted the education of others beside- an Algerian donkey The latter proved intelligent enough but so obstinate that his education had to he abandoned A Shetland point Hanschen whom they saw and worked with was an intelligent but scatter-brained little fellow still in the elemcn- tai stage of arithmetic The concluding part of Yfr Bullough re- port dealt with the opinions of the numerous men of science who had examiner! the horses These investigators were divided into three amps whose respective positions were briefly explained While proceeding along the AVellington and Taunton road a Bridgwater woman Mrs Judd was injured by a motor car which dashed into her at a point where the road Is undergoing repair The elder of two children with her was also hurt and the other a baby was found underneath the car practic-allv unhurt old by Boautar Bamptaa Bt Ttearton GUILD OF SERVICE Ln connection with the Diocesan Guild of Service a sale of work was held in the Palace Grounds Exeter on Tuesday in aid of the Union and the Welcome Club Plain and fancy needlework and pottery stalls were in charge of members of the Guild of which YIrs Robertson wife of the Bishop is the president Miss Smith-Dorrien hon secretary and Mrs Owen lion treasurer A flower and fruit stall was in charge of YIrs Thorneyoroft a basket stall under the management of Mrs Pastfield and a sweets and cakes stall was presided over by YIrs Stanbury and Yliss Warren Teas were provided from a large marquee where Mrs Vlieland and other members of the Welcome Club including the joint hon secretaries (YIrs YY Richard and YIrs Ylortimer) were in charge Ylusic was supplied bv a string orchestra under Mr A Trevithick Concerts were given by the Valleri Orchestra conducted by Ylr Norman Kendall and the instrumental items were interspersed with solos by Yliss Amy Holman an excellent contralto The Bishop of the diocese opened the sale and said it represented the result of nine work on the part of the Diocesan Guild of Service No doubt that Guild organization would spread in 1 ime to other places It was a democratic institution in the sense that the members co-opted by bal lot and had the privilege of deciding by ballot the object to which the results of then-work should be devoted at the time of tlie sale This year two objects had been selected one for providing a social worker for the Diocesan Ylotliers' Union That appointment was a new departure on the part of the society He hoped as- one result of the sale that that new departure would be successful The other object the sale was organized to help was the Babies Welcome Club which did an excellent work among the many pool-women in the poorest quarters regardless of religious or any other distinction and ensured that the mothers were helped wlipn they speciallv needed help in regard to the lives of the Whies whom the club existed to wfilconic On the motion of the Rev Simmons vote of thanks was passed to the Bishop and Mrs Robertson for allowing the members of the Guild to meet at the Palace OS SITE KIDNEY BACKACHE PILLS Boxes is and 2s 6d each ROSSTTER Dispensing Chemist Bampton street Tiverton Owing to a smallpox epidemic in Sydney the Government doctors have vaccinated 120000 persons At the United Ylchodist Conference at Halifax the Rev Parker of Sheffield in submitting the Finance report said that thev had too many ministers It took 200 memWrs to support a minister but there were over 100 nearly one-quarter of the whole denomination with les than the regulation number There must be more joining up for the present eondiHons were alike bad for ministers and people and mission funds tails of horses He pointed out that had a permanent effect ou the animal The defendant giving evidence on his own behalf said that he only used the ginger medicinally and ho had known ginger to be used on hunters after a hunting In reply to Mr Iieslie Smith he denied that the i "er made the animal sprightly or restive Wright YIRCVS of Ylalvern-i-oad Acton said that it was a common practice to use ginger with horses and he had used it himself hundreds of times He failed to see that there was any cruelty in it Similar evidence was given by Mitlbn YIRCVS of High-street Brentford Mr Mead fined the defendant 40s with £2 4s costs LIVER TONTC i A valuable remedv for Biliousness Indigestion Stomach Liver Complaints Habitual Constipation Prico I lid 2s 9d and 4s 61 per Bottle or Post Free for Is 4d 3s end 5s or two small Bottles for 2s ROSSITER Dispensing Chemist Bamptou-street Tiverton At the Old Bailev Theresa Alexander otherwise Tichborne has been sentenced to six imprisonment in the second division and in default of finding a surety at the end South African war with the second Canadian of that period to six further impris- contingent has died in Toronto onment for sending Lord Granard a letter in which she threatened to murder Miss Denise Greville Tichborue erected at Khartum Maior Cockburn VO of tho Royal Canadian Dragoons who saw active service in the.