The Oregon whipping post for wife
beaters will be better than the divorce
court
have since died: Messrs. Quay. Hoar,
Rate, Hawley and.l'latt. Gibson and
Stewart have retired from tin* Senate,
as Indeed did Hawley a few weeks
before his death. Those now over 70
Include Uith Senators from Alabama
uml from New York, and one ear
from Maine, Vermont, Illinois, Iowa
and Colorado.
In this country' we have been long
familiar with the complaint that It Is
hard to get Americans to enlist In the
navy or engage In the marine service.
Ou top o f this knowledge comes the
A Wisconsin man has been chosen news from Canada that It has been
to teach English to the King o f Spain. found practically lnqiosslble to garrl
sou the fortifications at Halifax and
Boston papers please copy.
Esqulmault with Canadian troop». It
John D. Rockefeller's agent says Is probable that both In Canada and
John will not give up his Cleveland the United States the condition respon
slble for this reluctance o f youug men
home till be dies. Same old John.
to enlist Is the very condition of na
The Declaration of Independence tlonal prosperity which both countries
was signed In Philadelphia. But there are glad to record. The Industrial and
were giants In Philadelphia In those commercial opportunities In America
days.
to-day are so numerous and widespread
that very much more generous Induce­
Canadians claim the north pole as ments than are now held out to youug
their property. There Is no evidence men, apparently, must be offered to
to show that they can claim It by right persuade them to abandon the civil
of discovery.
for the military life.
W O R K IN G GIRL 'S HOTEL.
On* Established In l,oadnn Where Rata
la 2(1 Cents a Day.
laird Radstock. a wealthy relative
of the duke of Manchester the latter
known principally as the husband ot
MUs Zimmerman, of Olncliiimtl bus
| opened In southwest I j OI u I uii u hotel
for worklug girls, says the Detroit T r i­
bune.
him u prisoner charging hliu oil the
This, In Itself. Isn't new.
Other
penalty o f his life to keep him safely,
hut that, most unfortunately, he had hotels for worklug girls have been
failed to do so: “ As they servant was established and have met with more
or less success and advertisement.
busy here and there, he was gone.”
laird Radstock, however, thinks he
The unpltylug king utterly refused
to rescue this supposed soldier from luts solved tils problem of bow to live
the consequences of such criminal care­ on 2(1 cents s day, and has planned his
lessness. and Immediately passed Judg hotel to meet an extraordinary demand
ment upou him from the testimony of along that line.
At his hotel the charge for lodging
the man's own Ups.
a
N
O cants a week 12 cents a night
Rut the prophet, quickly dropping
In addition, meals are provided at
his disguise, turned upon Ahab and
s(K>ke, as Nathan once spoke to King the minimum cost. A pot of tea. for
I »avid, saying, "Thou art tbs man!” lustaucs, may be had for 2 cents; a
"Thus salth the I/ord, Because thou three course dinner, consisting of soup,
hast let go out o f thy band a man steak, pudding and fruit pis, for M
whom I appointed to utter destruction, cents It oast tieef, or |Mtrk. two vege
therefore thy life shall be for his Ilfs, tables and plum pudding cost only 12
and thy people for his people. And cents Irish stew requires an expen­
the king of Israel went to his house diture of 4 cents aud all puddings only
heavy and displeased," sad all that 2 cents.
A boarder may delve as deeply or as
was said came true.
Now. there are a good many Import lightly Into the bill of fare as she
ant lesaons we might gather from the chooses. Nhe tuny scale the menu slid
character and conduit of Ahab. The live fairly well, or may go the limit
iiiau was ordered to keep a prisoner and luxuriate. Hhe may keep her ex­
It became bis very first duty to do so. penditure down to 2fi cents a day, but,
Rut be preferred to follow out his own at any rate, cannot soar much above
wishes, and so the prisoner got sway that figure.
The hotel has bright, well furnished,
We have, therefore. In this text three
points: The first Is or a great trust; sitting rooms classrooms, a workroom
the second o f s sad confession of fail­ for sawing and a laundry. Tbe lied
ure; and the third of the painful con­ rooms are light airy and comfortable
and bot water end baths are free.
sequences.
An Immense marble lined skating
The soul Is an Infinite trust
The man In the prophet's story had a rink, on which many pleasure seekers
trust, and he neglected It The warn­ can find room. Is one of the features
ing was, “ I f be be missing, thy Ilfs of the hotel. Swings and gymnastic
shall be for his Ilfs." 1 too have • apparatus will be put up In tbe near
trust 1 hare a work for my own soul future.
Ixird Radstock allows hla girl Imard
to do, and work for other souls to do
that Is more Important than any other era plenty o f liberty. Tbe rules are
few and not Irksome.
work could be.
Lights are out at 10:80, but permis­
Many of us go along all our days on
the banks of tbe great sea of Divine sion to stay out till later can lie ob­
Iaive. and ws are so busy thinking tained from tbe matron. Visitors are
alwut other things, or doing other permitted, but male guests are re­
things, that at the end of the day's ceived only In tbs hall.
There Is no age limit for the board
Journey we do not know that ws have
era.
been traveling by the side of the flash­
For a long time I/ord Radstock has
ing waters. Many of us are so swal­
been
Interested In such philanthropic
lowed up In our occupations and de­
sires, that all the trumpets o f Nlnal work; be Is now Just entering bis 71st
might be blown Into our ears and wre year. Ills father was a vice admiral
should bear them as though we heard In tbs English navy. Ills grandfather,
them not, and. what Is worse, that the tbe RL-IIon. William Waldegrave, was
pleading voice of that dear and Di­ raised to tbe peerage In 1800.
p m it
The Hfcrtfonl Times ears: "Go
W est youug man. and blow up with
the country.”
TH E FLOOD.
I r Mer. Â. «Ulema.
Text: “ And the Lord said unto
Noah. Come thou and all thy bouse
Into the ark; for thee have I seen
righteous Itefore me In this genera
tion.” Genesis 7:1.
In the tith. 7th and Nth chapters of
Genesis, we have the best account of
the greateet flood this world hae ever
•een. I say the best account, for we
are not entirely dependent upon the
divine record concerning this awful In
undatlon. For, be It re mem bared, that
the pcoplee of the earth, whether popu
Hi ting the plateaux of
Persia, the
“ How to Keep Husbands,” Is the
H ave you ever stopped 1» think
title o f a magazine article by Lilllau what subject furnishes the most fruit mountains o f India, the pratrlee of
Russell. How long has Lillian kept ful topic o f conversation these days? America, or the Islands of the sea,
any o f hers?
It Is money! In librarle». In parlors. have had bnnded down to them, by
In street «'ara, on railroads. In the the past generations, the tradition of
H aring ended their experiments
the Great Flood. Tablets, excavated
with baking consumptives In Florida, street—everywhere the sound o f "dol­ from the debris of dead cities, corrobo^
the doctors will now try freezing them lars” Is heard. “ What U It worth?' rate the Mosaic account The foeall
How much did It cost?" "H ow much
In the Arctic.
did you get for It?” “ What kind of lsed mollusks and brachlpoda, found
npon the mountains, tell us that once
They say that Nan Pattemon Is go­ an investment would that be?” "H ow their tall tope were submerged In wa
ing to write a book. Here la a case In are the stocks to-day?" “ Who won In ter. and that they undoubtedly owe
which a Federal court injunction that last real estate deal?" Always tbetr coloeaal grandeur to an aqueous
money, money, money! Do you an
could be put to good use.
Hence the famous Scottish,
nounce the death o f a friend, the origin.
geological
genius was forced to ex­
The private car trust resents the query, “ How mncu money did he claim. “The evidence Is In the rocks."
leave?”
Is
tfaa
first
thing
to
greet
your
Idea o f the United States Government
The building of the Ark must have
Interfering with any branch of the ears. Sorrow for the dead, and sym furnished a vast amount of Jokes for
pa thy for the living, are both second­
highway robbery business.
ary to the Importance o f whether he the Jester, talk for the tattler, and
Imagine
died rich." Do you speak o f a mar questions for the curious.
Emperor William says he doesn't
for a moment. If you please, an Im­
rlage,
the
first
question
Is,
“
Did
she
like the way the Japanese show up
Always money, money, mense timber yard on a great plain.
on parade, but he admlta that he has do well?”
money!
I
s
a
child
born Into the world. Beams piled here, and boards there,
do criticisms to offer concerning their
Was It born with a silver or gold kettles of boiling, smoking pitch stand
fighting.
spoon in Its mouth?” Is the first thing ready for use. while the constant
8pare rooms are going out o f fash asked. And, according to the answer, clang of busy hammers announces the
Ion. Flat* and increasing property prediction» for Its future are either work begun. And Noah. Shem, Hem
vslues are doing away with accommo­ rose or gray. Always money, money, and Japheth are laying the keel, and
dations for friends who like to travel money! Men have died for It, lied building the bulwarks of the biggest
for It. become criminals for It— ev­ boat of the ancient world. It Is not
and save hotel bills.
surprising that those faithless antedi­
erything but remained honest for It.
Even If he shall escape the gentle And yet those shining words of the luvians should look on In amazement
destre o f his nurses to boll him alive. Holy W rit have not been blotted from first, then Indifference, then ridicule
Y’ ear after year they
It la extremely likely that the Czaro- the book, which men love to proclaim and disgust
came,
and
steadily
the ark grew In
wltz will accumulate a large and va­ their guide and solace: "A good name
bulk
and
beauty.
More
and more en­ vine One who la ever saying to ea«b
ried experience with hot water.
Is rather to be chosen than great
F O U N D A L O N G - L O S T DEEO.
thusiastic did the preacher plead with of us, “ C-ome unto ine, all ye that la­
riches, ami loving favor rather than
the people, emphasizing repentance, bor and are heavy laden, and 1 will C b s n c s
veil a V s l n a b l s L e a s e r t o
Should every lover of trees make a sliver or gold,"
Kansas U n iversity.
with every blow that fell upon the tim­ give you rest." passes us by. and pro
practice of planting one tree each
An unrecorded deed was found In
Dean McCUntock o f Chicago univer­ bers. But, like many a sermon of the duces no effect, any more than the Idle
year, the deforested areas would soon
an
obscure corner of an old desk In
present
day.
the
message
was
unheed­
sity
says
the
value
of
play
la
not
well
wind whistling through an archway
be replaced by other areas heavily
Lawreuce, Kan., not long sgo which
ed.
and
Noah
closed
his
one
hundred
understood,
and
that
It
la
“
nature's
does.
Dear
fellow
anul-trustee,
you
wooded. Why do you not begin this
best method o f education.”
Play Is and twenty years' mission without a have the ear. you have the need, the Insured to tbe University of Kansas a
Jeer?
undoubtedly nature's best restorer. single convert.
sin, the weakness, the transclency, to valuable legacy, says the Kansas City
Noah loaded the srk according to the a'hlch the gospel ap(>eals. You have Htar. After the death of the late Gov.
Banker Bigelow says he la “ simply Next .to sleep It Is an essential. We
t fool, and that’s all there la to I t ” all know the truth of the adage that commandment of God, and then he, the faculties to which it addresses It­ Charles Robinson It was found that
Mr. Bigelow is right about being a all work and no play makes Jack a and his wife, and bis three sons, and self. Our dlvlns I April Is speaking to he had followed up a number o f valu­
fool, but that Isn't all there Is to It. dull boy. And In hue country we have their wives went In and God closed the every one of us. I>et us each stop and able gifts made to the university dur
The courts are likely to bold that there a lot o f dull boys, both young and old, door o f the ark.
ask ourselves this question: “ Qo I lug bis lifetime by bequeathing to tbe
God has declared that He will again hear Him ?" I f not Is It because tbe university his valuable farm a few
was at least a small element o f crim­ not so much because they do not know
how to play as bow to work. The av­ destroy this world, and the wicked clatter of the world’s business, or tbe miles north o f I«awrence. Ills widow
inality In his folly.
erage American business man takes that dwell therein. "But, according to more refined sounds o f some profes was to havs the farm during her life
There has been a good deal o f criti­ his task too seriously. In the desire his promise, we look for new heavens slon or study, have so taken up our at­ and then It was to go to the State Uni­
cism of the Legislatures this year, but to get rich be forgets how to live. and a new earth, wherein da-elleth tention that we have none to spare for versity.
A few months sgo 1«. R. Steele, an
can anybody name a really wicked bill There Is too much friction and too righteousness.” Water will not be the that which requires and would repay
abstracter
In I«awrence, was commls
much
waste
o
f
vital
forces.
Many
o
f
element
of
destruction
the
next
time,
phased by any o f the Legislatures? On
It most. “ As thy servant was busy
iloned to make an abstract of tbe farm.
the other hand It Is easy to enumerate our business men do things In a slap­ but fire. “The heavens that now are here and there He was gone!”
He found tbe title vested In a alaler
quite a string o f measures which were dash sort o f way. They Jump without and the earth, by the same word have
of Gov. Robinson by virtue of a deed
pause for breathing from one thing to been atored up with fire, being reserv­
enacted under the reform label.
S H O R T M E T E R SERMONS.
made more thnn twenty five years ago.
another. They work at a high tension ed against the day of Judgment and ile-
Faith does not fatten on fog.
Tlie executors could not find any deed
From the esteemed New York H er­ and worry at a high tension. They struction of ungodly meu." God has
Modesty Is the mark o f might.
or oilier Instrument transferring tbe
ald we learn that "the weather man waste nervous energy. Their mind« given the world a foretaste of Its Im-
It Is easy to call our impulses Ills property to Gov. Robinson. For a
does not manufacture and retail sun­ are In a ferment. They are feverish, pending doom, by the destruction of
time It seemed ns If tbe legacy would
Inspiration.
shine and storm. He merely gives There is a get-there-Ell glare In their Sodoin and Gomorrah.
As Noah warned the antediluvians
warning.” This reproof, which Is giv­ eyes. They ejaculate. They gesticu­
Religion by compulsion results In re­ be lost. The woman In whom the title
was vested bud been dead for several
en In all kindness, should be accepted lât. They all but foam at the mouth. to cease to do evil and learn to do well, pulsion.
years.
The widow of the dead gov­
so
I
call
upon
you.
In
the
nnme
of
the
Luncheon
Is
no
let
up.
They
gulp
tbetr
In like spirit. We have all been unjust
Faith builds no fences between ns
ernor was sure that her husband bud
victuals as If they were In competition. Master, to quit your meanness and and our fellows.
to the weather man.
held the title of tbe farm at tbe time
Play?
The proposition would be prepare to meet your God. O fellow
Men need new henrts more than of bis death. A thorough search was
Rev. Dr. John Punnett Peters, rector thought a crazy one. There Is no time sinners, be warned! Think not to say
stronger harness.
made.
of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, to play In business hours and when within yourselves. “ We have no need
A petrified creed often goes with a
Finally It occurred to one of the ex­
Brooklyn, has "discovered” that Abra­ business Is over there are too many of Jesus." For I declare unto you that
ecutors to compile u list of all of the
I f these men only no arm but Christ's can deliver you. putty conscience.
ham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, men­ other demands.
Envying another's cake only spoils ugenta Gov. Robinson bad employed
tioned In Genesis, were not real peo­ knew It, they could do better work and no power but his can save you and no
during Ills lifetime. All o f these agents
ple, but composite photographs of more of It by lowering the tension. A blood but his can redeem yon. Turn our own cookies.
Israel. The world seems to be full of little relaxation would help amazing­ your back upon sin and all Its delu
Men who Intend to be good to-mor that could be found were seen and
each of them searched everywhere for
descendants of the learned gentlemen ly. And a play spell at home after slons. Flee from tbe wrath to come row always die to-day.
tbe deed. Finally one of them recall­
and
take
refuge
In
the
arma
of
Jesus,
business
hours
would
renew
and
vital­
who “ discovered” that the moon was
L ife Is all song when one lives \,n ed an old desk that he had sold to a
ize the worn nerve strings. However. and he will save you with an everlast­
made o f green cheese.
harmony with tbe Infinite.
second hand denier a few years before.
It 1» easy to advise. Tbe fever o f high ing salvation.
God walta for us somewhere on every The desk was traced to a farmhouse
Dr. Woodrow
Wilson, bead of strung endeavor Is In the American
A BUSY M A N ’ S BLUND ER.
pathway of pain.
almost adjoining the Robinson farm.
Princeton University, In a recent ad­ blood. Warnings against useless ex­
B y Her. f . B . f . Mullock. D. D.
The desk was reached, but the missing
dress advised young men to interest penditure of effort go largely unheeded.
The
fragrance
of
a
life
depends
on
Text: “ As thy servant was busy
document was not discovered. The
themselves more in public affairs, on
here and there, he was gone.” I. Kings the fullness o f Its love.
V
e
r
m
o
n
t
'
s
O
n
l
y
R
«
m
a
u
l
i
n
g
F
o
r
e
s
t.
farmer who owned the desk was not
the ground o f duty, if no other. Their
The
heart
gains
no
rest
through
the
20:40.
Preparations are under way to devel-
satisfied with the search made by the
education, he held, carries with It a
gold
cross
carried
on
the
breast.
For the environment of this verse
luwyers who had visited him for tluit
responsibility which the public has a op the most extensive tract o f virgin
The man who can be patient with bis
purpose. He took the desk apart and
right to demand the young men shall timber In Vermont. The lands contain we must go back three thousand years.
corns has a good chance o f glory.
behind n broken panel round the miss
share with others who have not been over 5,000,000,000 feet o f spruce and The words occur In the midst of the
The Sunday face that looks like lye Ing deed.
so fortunate In their mental training. other valuable soft wood heretofore un­ account of a parable acted by a dls-
The document was recorded the next
The point Is a good one, and young touched because of its remoteness from guished prophet, probably Mlcalah, will not wash out the sins of the
day and the widow o f the late Gov.
men all over the country are not slow the railroad. To reach the vast wild­ who In a wounded, disconsolate plight week.
What most Christians need Is not Itoblnaon Is now sure of her home dur­
In availing themselves of opportunities erness In the southern part o f the State greeted Ahah, king of Israel, as be was
offered. The number of young men, the West IHver Rafiroad Company, riding victoriously homeward from a more assurance o f faith, but more as ing her lifetime and the University o f
Kansas la again aecure In Ita anticipa­
not only lawyers, but those In busi­ which has Just been organized, will day o f bloody battle with the Syrians. sets.
Ahah had strangely, and most dis­
ness, who are taking an active part build a branch from the Central Ver­
It's no use agonizing In prayer for tion o f a valuable legacy.
In politics Is increasing.
mont and an army o f axemen will obediently, at tbe close of the battle the light when you keep the shutters
M usings.
entered Into a covenant o f peace with
enter the woods next fall. It Is esti­
locked.
The
man
who
likes to wash dishes
Although the Senate of the United mated that It will take twenty-five Ren-Hadad, tbe enemies' leader, and
The more haste men make for happl- will never have to go very far to find
States contains to-day only about half years to cut all this timber. Thia will let him go absolutely free.
It was therefore desirable to have neea the leea Intimate acquaintance a Job.
as many men over the age o f 70 aa It be the end of Vermont’s virgin for­
L ife Is full of compensations. Tha
Ahab, pronounce Judgment against his they get with 1L
did a year ago, the name of that body,
ests, bat there are thousands of acres
homely
girl can often make good bread.
Heaven
has
feasts
for
home
coming
own conduct. So the prophet took a
derived from the Latin word meaning
lumbered many years ago which may
There Is a woman In Somerville who
plan to secure this. He ordered a man wanderers but not so much as a hand­
“ an old man,” la still measurably ap­
soon be recut.
has almost convinced herself that aha
to smite and wound him. Then, In out for the tramp.
propriate. Nine o f Its present mem-
was born lucky, after all. She wiped
the
guise
of
a
soldier,
he
approached
bero have passed tbe allotted three­
Many
a
man
wastes
enough
perspi­
It's hard for a lecturer to get the
out fifteen calls the other afternoon
score and ten. O f the sixteen a year people out and hard to entertain them the king of Israel, telling him that In ration preying for dimes to asm tan
and didn't find anyone at borne.— Som­
tbs midst o f tbs battle one had brought times •• many dollars.
•go who bad reached that age five after he does get them ouL
erville JeurnaL
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