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shall, so far as may be, give to their
children the family names worthily
borne by the men and women of yester
day. A resiiected name gathers about
It unnumbered associations. “Grand
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mother was tlie best woman I ever
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knew,” said a young mother to her
husband. "I want baby named after,
From a literary point of view it 'a her, and then we will try to pass on
a great pity that Victor lingo never grandmother's virtues in another worn .
saw an American tornado.
an, as well as on a tombstone.”
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Topics of
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I
Perhaps Mrs. Alfred Gw.vnne Van
himself the capacity for discrimination in many other
It was said of the ancient Jews that ' DIVORCES ONLY FOR THE CHILDLESS.
derbilt doesn't like a husband who one generation stoned the prophets
matters between the important and the insignificant, the
By
Prof.
Alexander
(iraliani
Bell.
conies In every night smelling horsy.
and the next generation built menu- i
useful and the idle.
Throw wide the gates of marriage,
merits in their memory. Something
nnd where children are produced dose
You can’t always tell. Sometimes a like this might be said of the American
man who boasts that he never worries people and their forests. The last gen
tight tlie dixirs of divorce. Every child THE CHURCH’S INTEREST IN LABOR.
Is entitled, by nature, to a father and
is being supisirted by ills wife or her eration wantonly wasted and almost I
By Rev. Charles St el tie.
relatives.
a mother, and no people should pro
The labor union Is not the labor question.
destroyed the virgin forests of the'
duce children who are not preftared
If all the unions were wiped out of exist
The Cornell coed who won the col country, and the present generation
to give them parental care for life.
atones
for
It
by
trying
to
replace
them.
!
ence the question would remain. This is the
lege oratorical prize spoke on "Men,
Tlie grand spectacle Is presented to
era of the common man. The common man,
Women and Human Beings." This At one time It really looked as If these
our eyes of a new people being grad
tlie workingman, is coming to his own. Un
forests
were
so
extensive
that
defor
hits the most of us.
ually evolved In the I lilted States by
less that victory is based on sound principles,
estation was Impassible. But the time
the mingling together of the different
the last state will be worse than the first.
According to the Atlanta Georgian, has already come when white pine and
races of the world In varying propor
The square deal for every man should be our
700 churches luu-e been found with in the hard woods have almost disappear
tions. It Is of the greatest conse-
ideal We are making mistakes, but we are
adequate tire escapes. Still, that may ed and when tlie barren hillsides, in
tlie final result should be the evolution
stead
of
absorbing
and
holding
the
making progress. If the church did not care about the
not be tlie reason why so many tpen
of a higher and nobler type of man In America, and not conditions of labor, 1 tell you right now I'd get out
rains, have turned the water courses
stay away from the services.
deterioration of the nation.
Into alternate floods and dry beds,
of the church. But the church does care. Christ gave
To tills end the process of evolution should be carefully
no social system; He set out to better the Individual.
The discovery that that “tired feel thereby destroying the water power and
studied
mid
then
controlled
by
suitable
immigration
laws
Josh Billings onia* said: "Before you can have an
ing” is hereditary leaves very lljttle that Inflicting loss Instead of producing! tending to eliminate undesirable ethnical elements and to
honest horse race you must have nn honest human race;”
has not been charged up to our dead wealth. Almost every newspaper and
stimulate tlie admission of elements assimilated readily and I guess there was lots of horse sense in that state
and gone ancestors who have no chance magazine that Is now Issued contains
by our population and that tend to raise the standard of
an
alarming
article
or
Item
In
regard
ment. It is not so much a question of man's surround
to say a word in self-defense.
manhood here.
to the ruined forests. The best the
ings. but what he is within, within himself, that has to
do with composing the social unrest.
Mr. Bryan predicts that Ireland will present generation can do Is to cheek
EMOTIONAL CONTROL BRINGS POWER.
Tlie church herself has created this Increased social
regain her freedom. The London deforestation and plant more trees.
By Sllvaln Roude.
unrest, In showing people the heights to which they might
Happily
both
the
United
States
govern
Times will at once decide that Emper
When we yield to an emotion our sentiment attain. That Is as Jesus Christ would have it—a health
or William lias been egging Mr. Bryan ment and many of the State govern
ful dissatisfaction with personal conditions to teach men
always transforms itself into a movement.
on to try to make trouble for England. ments are now doing all they can to ac
complish these ends. In 1893 the leg
Joy, fear, love, anger are expressed in un how to rise higher.
conscious gestures, in a perfectly dear man
The mandate having Issued that islature of Illinois enacted the follow
ner. The strong man is master of ills emo
women must wear flower hats tills ing law • “The Governor shall annual
tions and Ills unconscious movements. In or BANKERS' SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY.
year, the lady milliners will now show ly, In the spring, designate by official
By Senator Depew of New York.
der to expend our strength to the best advan
I lame Nature a few of the opportuni proclamation a day to be designates]
tage is is needful to give out as little us
ties she overlooked in creating the ‘Arbor Day,’ to be observed through
Bankers do not claim tliut they are
out the State as a day for planting
possible under that base form of energy
in business for philanthropy or their
floral kingdom.
trees, shrubs and vines about the homes
known ns our emotions. All our emotions should be un
health. They do not deny that they
A number of young men In Kentucky and along highways nnd nlsiut public
der control. The choleric man, violent, exuberant. Is u
desire to make all the money they le
have formed a club to abjure smoking, grounds within this State, thus contrib
feeble fellow, at the mercy of ills environments. With
gitimately can, to pay good dividends
swearing, chewing and drinking. If, uting to the wealth, comforts and at
him the nerves dominate or even abolish individual in
to their stockholders, and strengthen
In addition, they cut out night riding, tractions of our State.” This law,
itiative. He is a creature of impulse, no matter where
their institutions by adding to their
they may become models for their fel albeit it does not appear to have been
it originates. He is a moral and a social slave.
surplus. But no student of finance
drafted by any professor of English
The man that is too lively, too petulant, dispenses his
low citizens.
can rise from a study of what the
literature, is one of the most salutary
forces as quickly as they are produced. He never lias
bankers, not only of New York, but
“Uncle Sam's armada Is a success," statutes in the State code. From the
but a small amount of energy to concentrate on some-
of Chicago nnd other large cities, did
says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, day when it was instituted. Arbor Day
tiling really useful, although he attacks ills problems
in the recent crisis without feeling
"and all the more because Its mission has been duly observed, and with great
with vim and even with violence. A man who wishes to
senator dkpew .
that the banks of the country nre of
's friendly to all other nations.” Sure. enthusiasm. Tree planting is an act of
have strength for the right occasions must husband his ficered and managed by wise, level-headed, exceptionally
Also because Its target practice at Mag philanthropy. For the man who plants
resources and hold careful watch over his dally move able and patriotic men.
dalena Bay shows how we behave when a tree hardly expects to enjoy the ben
No better public service can be rendered by bank of
ments.
we get angry.
efit of it. Ills thought is, or should be,
Such a man has the advantage In that by his vic ficers nnd directors than to keep the machinery of com
that almost every good thing that he
merce going and to maintain strong and solvent the in
tory of will power over his emotional tendencies, over
It is alleged that the Illinois Central enjoys Is the result of the labors and
stitutions upon which the credit and business, the em
his animal centers and human instincts, he has purified
Railroad Company has cheated the forethought of previous generations,
his judgment, reinforced his mental powers, and given
ployment nnd the living of the people depend.
State of Illinois out of $15,000,000. If and that, therefore, the least he can do
the charge Is true the outrage can nev is to provide in some little way for tlie
who Is troubled by occult powers. They of the painter’s wns so touched by the
THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDIUMS.
er be forgiven. Illinois might with generation that is to follow him. The
call it ‘hysteria,’ which doesn't explain expression of woe on the face of the
that money have bought dukes for five cynic who says, “Posterity never did' Perfectly Healthy People Often anything. Many apparently healthy model that he slipped a five Jrnnc piece
or six of her daughters.
anything for me and I do not mean to
PoNNean Abnormal Power».
people possess the more elementary of Into the ‘poor man's' hand and vanish
do anything for jiosterlty” ought to be
“I have had a good deal of experi these powers—often without knowing ed before an explanation wns possible.
So many persons have patronized the made to feel mean.
ence with mediums, and I've come to it.”—Hamlin Garland in Everybody's. The next day the young man received
free public library in the Jewish dis
£400 as Interest on his well Invested B
the conclusion that they all start with
SHOOTING WITH MOBTAKS.
trict of Brooklyn, New York, that work
A ROTHSCHILD STORY.
francs."
at least some small basis of abnormal
on the new building for it has been
UlttliiK the Target
I. Simply a power. Is it not rather suggestive that
Story of a War Trophy.
stopped, and architects are drawing
the number of practicing mediums does The Reward that t ame to a Student
Matter of Matliematica.
Rose Garth, of Clinton, probably
with a Heart.
plans for n much larger building than
IIow do we bit with the mortars? [ not materially increase? If it were a
Old Rothschild stories are popular made the first corn shelter used In Mia-
was originally designed. On Wash An observer near the shore who sees mere matter of deception, would there
ington's birthday when the n/en have a the target communicates the horizontal not be thousands at the trade? As a now In Europe. “Some are true," says souri. Fifty years ago, in 1858, he
an English writer, “some nre only devised one from wateroak plank and
holiday, the temporary library was
and vertical angle at which to lay the matter of fact, there are not fifty ad
clever, nnd ninny nre simply inven tenpenny nails. He used It on his farm
crowded all day. and a waiting line
mortar and the instant of time at vertising mediums In New York at this
was formed outside. So long as immi which to fire, and the gun does the moment, though, of course, the number tions. But nil nre rend with Interest." until 1861, when Price's men came
grants are so eager for learning as this rest. If you were standing at the cen Is kept down by the feeling that it Is a Here Is one from the Bystander, Lon through then», saw it was a good thing
and took It down to Jackson’s mill,
indicates, they will not endanger ter of a large clock dial laid flat on the bit disreputable to acknowledge posses don :
“At n luncheon given by Empress where ft wns used tn shell the corn
American Institutions.
ground and wanted to hit with a base sion of those powers.
"There are nice ones. My own moth Eugenie nt the Tuileries tile head of which was ground into meal for Con
ball a man walking around on the out
News items from various parts of side, you would notice how long It took i er had this power In her youth, so my tlie Paris house of Rothschild was seat federate soldiers. Tlie old corn shelter
the country must lead the aoughtful the man to get from I to II and again father tells me. Her people were liv ed opiHisite a great painter. Roth wns lost track of for a number of
jinrent to wonder what has bpcome of from II to III. Then you would de ing in Wisconsin nt the time, nnd the schild was not blessed with good looks years by Its maker, but afterward he
the sort of dlsclplne he was used to in cide whether if the ball were thrown settlers from many miles around came and had, moreover, nn expression of wns Informed that It was being pre
his own youth. Because of the exclu over a point halfway between IIII and to see her perform. An uncle, when a distress and resignation combined. The served nt Washington among other cu
sion of a student from n theater in a V Just as he arrived opposite IIII the boy of four. dl<l automatic writing, painter could not take his eyes off him, rious trophies captured from the South.
Western town, the other students of man and the ball would reach file same and an aunt recently wrote to me in re and tills worried Rothschild not a lit —Clinton Democrat.
the State university wrecked the place sjM>t at the same time, it being under lation to my book, ‘Tlie Tyranny of the tle. After the meal he askisl the paint
In («uartlrd Tones.
cf amusement, and defied both ponce stood, of course, that lie maintained Dark,’ that for two years (beginning er why he hud taken so great an Inter
Rirhun—Money talks, you know.
and faculty. A few days later the uniform speed and direction and that when she was about 17) these powers est In him. nnd to his great nnuizi»-
Poorun—Yes. I know; but when h
students of the New York University tlie ball was thrown with proper force. of darkness made her life a hell. There nient the painter Informed him that lie
organized a Strike because a member Instruments give us the range nnd ob are many recent people who are posses had studhsl him as a model for a beg converses with me it never s|H‘iiki,
of one of the upper classes was sus servations. and mechanical devices sed by strange forces, but nre shy of gar In a picture lie was then evolving. above a whisper.”—Illustrated Rlts.
pended for ducking a freshman. About give us the range differences, increas confessing these abnormalities. Ask Rothschild's fn.-e brightened, nnd he
HornetImes there is trouble brewing
the same time ten students of a Massa ing or decreasing by certain short in your family physician. He will toll you snkl. ’I will sit for you.' And ho did.
chusetts high school defied the school tervals of time, too short for a ship of that he always has at least one patient One day when he was posing n pupil In a brewery.
committee by holding an entertainment any size to escape by attempting to
which thej- had been expressly forbid change direction or speed. Our observ
SIZES OF TYPICAL BATTLESHIPS OF 1898 AND 1903 CONTRASTED.
den to hold. The Interest of parents er's circle has 36,000 divisions.—Cap
in such acts lies in the fact that no tain Howell in Scientific American.
organized rebellion of this sort can
South American Inn«,
■ucceed without either the open or ,ae
A traveler who recently returned to
tacit approval of the parents. Those
who have the real welfare of their Philadelphia was narrating some of his
•ons nnd daughters at heart will nsk experiences in South America at a ban
themselves whether it Is wise to en quet of globe trotters the other evening.
courage the tendency to revolt against He had skirted tlie entire const of
law and order whenever it conflicts South America nnd hud found tlie inns
or hotels in most sections very poor.
with personal desire.
So bad were they in Peru, he said, that
Juliet's contemptuous exclamation, one American, who had tieen thrown in
“What's In n name?” does not apply to to Jail pending some dispute over his
tlie Christian name of the new baby. pnjs-rs and after Ills release hud sought
The family councils over tlie choice of the hotel of the town, returned the next
It may well lie serious ones. Eccen day to the Jail and Ix-gged that lie
tricity must be avoided. Whoever will might lie taken in.
Tlie most curious sign he had seen
“make up" a name should remember
tlie tribulations of Rose Terry (Yioke's was in the window of a restaurant in
little hero, who was named "Amandar” Buenos Aires, which read: "American
by his grlef-strlcken father, in nil at cafe—champagne and fried potatoes.”
Rear Admiral Cogblan, whose vessel, the Raleigh, ren would be the t>eat way to express what we were doing
tempt to enlirine the memory of the —Philadelphia Record.
then. Then the minimum of time required between shots
dered
such conspicuous sei Ice at the battle of Manila
boy's dead mother, Amanda. The Bible
CaiiKht on the Kun.
of the heavy pieces was two nnd a half minutes. Now
Ray, tells the Philadelphia Ledger of the Important
is no longer the one safe source from
Tlie judge listened Intently to the
the maximum is about 40 seconds.
which names may be drawn. David man's story, says a writer In the In
changes which have taken place In the navy since that
“The Improved gun mechanism permitted of a vastly
and John nnd Mary nnd Benjamin and dianapolis News. The man was the
Increased rapidity In firing. The telescopic sight brought
memorable battle of ten years ago.
Anna have still a firm hold on the plaintiff, nnd had charged ills wife with
“The greatest change,” said the Admiral, “has, of about a vast Improvement In accuracy, eaperlally when
memory nnd the imagination of good cruel and abusive treatment. He was
firing at long range. One observer had become so much
course, been the great Increase In the strength of our
folk the world over. But the mother a small man. ami Ills wife—well, it
impressed with this accuracy that tie sought to tell I
navy. Never in the history of the world has a nation
who should to-day name her daughter was nt least evident that the charge
Increased Its sea power within any ¡M*rlod of ten years as about it in this wise: Th«? captain peering through his
Kcren-luippuch or Keturnh, or her son rested on a I mw I s of i»>selblllty.
we have since the war with Spain. We had then four binoculars at a ship Just above the horizon, says to the
Bezaleel or Merodach-Balndan, would
After the plaintiff had finished his
captain of a six-inch gun: ‘Hit that follow on the
battleships. We now have 25, nearly all of which are In
be a strange survival of the taste of testimony the Judge decided to ask a
commission. The four others which are under construc bridge in the eya.’ ‘Aye, aye,’ says the gun captain, ,
former times. The romantic names of question.
1
tion should soon be ready for service. You might em ‘which eye?* ”
the eighteenth century have fortunate
"Mr. Frouble.” said he. “where did
Among the numerous other Improvements the Ad I
phasize this: that any one of these newer battleships
ly gone out of use. But the old-fash you meet your wife, who has treated
miral noted the advan<*e In armor construction, a prog i
which we have built since the battle of Manila would
ioned ones suggestive of virtues still you this way?"
ress so great that the 11 Inches which the new Connecti
have been more than a match for the entire fleet which
remain inspiring. Constnnce nnd Hope
“Weil, judge.” returned the man,
cut carries has greater resisting power than the 18 i
Admiral Dewey commanded.
and Ernest, nnd even Faith nnd Pa somewhat meekly, “you see it's this
Inches whhh the Oregon and her class carried. Still
“The other advances. They have been notable and
tience. sound a call to noble living. If way. I never did meet her. She just
many. There Is the Increase In the rapidity of fire. We another Important advance Is the smokeless powder with
the wisest negative counsel In regard kind of overtook me.”
which our magazines are now supplied, this being vastly
now have actual rapid fire. Rut In th<>ae days su<h
to the baby's name is that it shall not
superior to the old smoking, brown hexagonal with which
appliances as we were introducing might be described
A well-informed physician la fre
be eccentric, perhaps the best positive
we fought out ths war with Spain.
at tending to» well, say, decrease slowness of fire; that
advice Is that the generation of to-day quently Ill-Informed
1494- Jamaica discovered by Columbus
and named St. Jago by him.
1662—Queen Mary II. of England born.
1670—Tlie Hudson’s Bay Company
formed in England.
1707—-Legislative union of England and
Scotland put into effect.
1775—The Quebec Act became law, pro
viding for the government of Can
ada by Governor and Council.
1776 -Adoption of the Pine Tree flag by
great and general court of Massachu
setts.
1788—Maryland ratified the Constitution
of the United States.
1808—Spanish organized a revolt against
Napoleon... .Charles IV. of Spain
abdicated in favor of Bonaparte....
I nion Temperance Society formed
in Saratoga county, New York, this
being the beginning of the Prohibi
tion movement in tlie United States.
1827 French National Guard disbanded.
1854—First railroad opened in Brazil.
1850—Montmorency bridge fell.
1859—Colorado river expedition ended.
A865—Sir Samuel Cunard, founder of the
Cunard steamship line, died.
1877— Occupation of Bayazid by the Rus
sians.
1878— First elevated trains run on 'Biird
avenue in New York City.
*881—First sod turned in the construc
tion of the Canadian Pacific railway.
1882—Charles S. Parnell, the Irish lead
er, released from Kilmainham jail.
1885—Col. Otter attacked the Canadian
rebels at Out Knife Greek.
1888—Henry M. Stanley found Emin
Pasha on the shore» of Albert Ny-
anza.
1894—Many lives lost by earthquakes in
Venezuela. . . . International bimetal
lic conference met in I^ondon.
1898—Spanish fleet destroyed in battle
of Manila bay.
1905—’Landslide at Frank, R. C., with
the loss of seventy-five lives.
1905—A score of lives lost in a tornado
at I m redo, Texas. ... Steamer Falk
wrecked off I Kinds End, with loss of
nearly 100 lives.
1907—Attempted assassination of Presi
dent Cabrera of Guatemala.
Construction work on the line of the
Erie and Jersey road nnd the Genesee«
River road is being pushed rapidly.
The South Dakota railroad and ware
house commission has decided to order
freight rates reduced west of the Missouri
river. A new tariff is now being worked
out.
The balancing of the books of the Penn
sylvania railroad for 1907 shows that,
while the system earned $30,000,000 more
than in 1906, it paid $19,500,000 more
for labor, or 65 per cent on the increased
earnings.
Those opposed to closing the Red rivet
to navigation had a majority nt the hear
ing liefore Major Schunk of the United
States engineer corps at Fargo, and they
are confident that the plan to close th«
river below Belmont will l>e rejected by
the federal government.
Roads running east from Chicago seem
to be all at sea regarding the jxilicy to
be adopted on the testing of the consti
tutionality of the 2-cent maximum rate
laws passed by many of the States. The
matter was taken out of the hands of
the passenger officials by their executive
officers some time ago.
The usual cut-and-dried proceedings ai
meetings of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada were varied at the semi-annual
gathering of the directors of the road in
London, by heated charges of mismanage
ment, nnd the report of the hoard was
only adopted after earnest appeals for
unity of interest for the company’s credit
\ad been made.
An order for 200 refrigerator enrs wan
placed recently by the Northern Pacific]
as an addition to its equipment in order
to be fully prepared to handle the annual
fruit crop <»? the Northwest. It is ex
pected that the demands on the roads this
year will 1>o heavier than ever, and for
that reason those reaching the fruit dis-
trict nre all providing extra equipment.
One road which began in 1899 by band-
ling 118 cars, expects to haul .3,500 this
year.
Home of the eastern roads am said to
!>e working out a system whereby the
National Educational Association not
only will be given a rate of I % rents a
mile for the round trip for its annual
convention, which is to be held this year
at Cleveland, but will continue to receive
the $2 membership fee which the roads in
past years collected for it, without getting
into conflict with the ruling of the Inter
state Commerce Commission that it ia
Illegal for the roads to collect this fee
in connection with the sale of tickets and
then turn over the amount thus collected
In a groM sum to the asso iation.