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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1979, 15 January 1907, Page 1

WHY WOMEN ARE MORE SINCERE THAN MEN. It is a curious fact (say the Spnetatpr) that tlioro arc no notable hypocrites among the women of fiction, and we believe that there are very low in real life. So far as our experience goes—and an experience backed by a literature cannot be an isolated experience—hypocrisy is a fault from'which women are practically free. Thoir freedom is the more remarkable because women are not frank. There is, however, a vast difference between want of frankness and hypocrisy. The design of the hypocrite must always bo self-inter-ested, and, moreover, his part must bo consistently sustained. A liar need not bo a hypocrite, although a hypocrite can hardly avoid being a liar. But ho must do moro than lie. He must load a false life—a specially bad life under cover of an ostensibly good ono. It is possible to be secretive with a good purpose, and oven with a good purpaso to make a certain amount of pretence. The benevolent self-control of the best women is apt to run to excess, and to result in their hiding all those feelings, opinions, and oven plans, which militate against the peace of the moment. The fominino mind finds it difficult to distinguish between complete openness and selfish brutality. They forgive bluntness in a man, if they like him, but never in a woman, whether they like her or not. Many perfectly sincere, conspicuously genial, and scrupulously truthful women are more essentially . reserved than the most “bearish” and least communicative of thoir husbands and brothers. Their instinct is to hide. The reason, no doubt, is to ho found very deep down in the feminine eliara and very far back in the liistor.' oi the race. Force can afford to ho open skill must of necessity ho secret. Those who have not the one will employ the other. . . Cynics, no doubt, believe, and have preached so diligently as to pervert many, that any heightening of the general moral standard of life and any great awakening of religions feeling result immediately in the production of hypocrites. Wo do not believe this. If wc may answer the cynics according to their cynicism, we would say that where the standard is very high, real virtues become a drug in the market, and it is hopeless to trade in counterfeit goods. . . Are wo then reduced to the cynical conclusion that (lie chief reason why women are not hypocrites is because hypocrisy does not pay them? If our argument bo correct, wo are forced to it. If wo remember, however, the reasons why it does not pay a woman- to bo a hypocrite, and remember at the same time that moral standards are the natural expression of moral tounon eies, and not arbitrary inventions * r the convenience of society, wc shall not be able to take leave of the discussion without a tribute of respect to the weaker sex.

BIG GAME. Hunters increase in numbers in inverse ratio to .the diminution of game. This is the experience of several of our . administrators in Africa, whoso views on the question of preserving “big game’-’ and of constituting reservations on the lines of Yellowstone Park are given in a bulky Blue Book issued recently. Lions, however, appear to be as common as over in parts of British East Africa . Some lifty are killed every year, but f ‘big manes’’ are very .scarce, When a lion kills a man of note in Somaliland the young men go out on horseback and gallop round and round it. As the lion turns swiftly round in the cloud of dust it becomes dizzy, and is then shot with poisoned arrows. BrigadierGeneral Swayns, reporting on the reduction of game in Somaliland, says that in one place in IS9I he estimated some 10,000 animals, where now ho finds only a dozen at a time. In the earlier days he knew two sportsmen who shot eight lions before breakfast. As showing the remarkable number of big game hunters nowadays, the Commissioner calculates that Uganda has a direct revenue from them of £20,000. Yet Mr. Percival, the game ranger, who is complimented on his work and is said to bo “a stranger to much more power, as well as to real ideas of comfort,” gets only £250 a year. It is proposed to give him much more power, as well as to restrict, far example, the sale of cow ivory or tusks below certain weight. There, was a proposal to train African elephants for such work as the Indian onbs do, but it was found that .the .disadvantages were -great and the cost enormous. --It is curious to note that .the African beast has a concave back, and the Indian one a convex, the/ latter being much mpr-y. easily Tho'African elephant is Bigger and fiercely and 'experts think that lie " would prove an - in-; tractable pupil, as trained Indian, elephants would .havo been required to teach him. V One of General Swayne’s proposals, “as a sportsman,” Tor protecting' game is to. restrict'the -use'of rifles to a boro.not less, than-. 577. .• ~ ;• ••

A young: lady residing.-: -at 0e Lower llutt, had an exciting experience lately when journeying .by steamer to Lyttelton for the purpAiso. of spending a few days at the Exhibition. She and four other ladies occupied a cabin, and during the night she was awakened, and noticed a man in the cabin trying to take a purse from around one of the other ladies’ neck. The man, when lie found that he had been caught, shook his fist at her, as much as to say,“lf you say anything I'll strike you.” The young lady was not to bo bluffed this way and she screamed. The man at once made off, and was caught by a steward as ho emerged from the cabin. _ The steward after a while returned and informed the ladies that the man meant no harm, that lie was drunk, and had given him a lot of trouble to "et him back to his room. A con temporary says it is surmised, however, that the man was one of the ship’s crew, and knew what he was doing. An accident of a serious character happened on Devil’s Elbow Mountain, 17 miles from iJmgara, N.S.AV., recently: Mrs. W. E. AVearno, with Miss Wcarnc, and a son four years of age, were returning from Piedmont station after spending Christmas. Coming down the worst part of Devil's Elbow in a sulky the liorse kicked up and bolted over the side of a cutting. Mr. AVearno, who was riding, seized the rejns, hut the sulky struck his hor.se, causing him to lose his bold. The sulky, horse, and occupants of the vehicle plunged down the side, going straight for a deep gorge. Fortunately some fallen timber caused the horse to swerve, throwing all the occupants out over the side of the sulky. The wheel passed over them. The vehicle then turned over, falling with the horse and luggage 20 ft. perpendicularly into a gorge, everything being smashed to pieces. The occupants were taken back to Piedmont, where it v.-as found Mrg. and Alias AVearno wens very much bruised and shaken. The boy was only scratched, and sustained small bruises . The escape is considered miraculous.

In a quiet street in Liverpool a men of the Bill Fikc3 typo accostrd an old gentleman at night and asktd him to read what was written, on a piece of paper which ho handed to him. The gentleman look the paper, and by the aid of a gas lamp read those words ; “ Jf you utter a cry or’speak a single word I shall shcot you Hand over y.jur watch and chain, jour purse, and any otlwr articles of value you have about jou, and then pass on.” lie did as the message ordered, a: d walked awaj’. lie met a policeman, told his story quickly, and the two gave chase. They came up with the tbii f shortly, who appeared to he hurrying awaju Next mottling, at the police court, says the Liverpool Post, he gave what he called an “ explanation " of the incident. “Your Worship,” he said, “ I don’t know why I am charged with stealing those things. lam a per fcctly innocent and uneducated man. I picked up a piece of paper in the street last night, and, not being able to read it, anel thinking it might be important, I asked the gentleman to read it. 110 read it to him c elf, and then handed me these articles without a word of explanat’em. whatever, and walked away before I had. lime to inquire v, by lie diet so,” THE PERIL OF OUR TIME. Is Lung Disease. Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption cures lung trouble. Small dose. Pleasant to take. Every bottle guaranteed. For sale by. A. W. urTtnSUV rur: SuTo by ,y ,r .'r ' *' --J gout* .Chemist,i. , I . „