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1XXJKDO ORJKON
The Oregon whipping post for wife
beaters will be better than the divorce
court
The Hartford Times says: "Go
West, young man, and blow up with
the country."
A Wisconsin man has been chosen
to teach English to the King of Spain.
Boston papers pleas copy.
John D. Rockefeller's agent says
John will not - give up his Cleveland
home till h dies. Same old John.
The Declaration of Independence
was signed In Philadelphia. But there
were giants In Philadelphia In those
.days.
Canadians claim the north pole as
their property. There is no evidence
to show that they can clnlm it by right
of discovery.
"How to Keep Husbands," is the
title of a magazine article by LUlliin
Russell. How long has Lillian kept
any of hers?
Having ended their experiments
with baking consumptives in Florida,
the doctors will now try freezing them
In the Arctic.
They say that Nan Patterson is go
ing to write a book. Here Is a case In
which a Federal court in junction
could be put to good use.
The private car trust resents the
Idea of the United States Government
Interfering with any branch of the
highway robbery business.
Emperor William says he doesn't
like the way the Japanese show up
on parade, but he admits that he has
no criticisms to offer eoncenilng their
fighting.
Spare rooms are going out of fash
ion. Plata and Increasing property
values are doing away with accommo
dations for friends who like to travel
and save hotel bills.
Even If he shall escape the gentle
desire of bis nurses to boll him alive,
It Is extremely likely that the Czaro
wltz will accumulate a large and va
ried experience with hot water.
Should every lover of trees make a
practice of planting one tree each
year, the deforested areas would soon
be replaced by other areas heavily
wooded. Why do you not begin this
year?
Banker Blgelow says he Is "simply
a fool, and that's all there is to It"
Mr. Blgelow is right about being a
fool, but that Isn't all there is to it.
The courts are likely to hold that there
was at least a small element of crim
inality In his folly.
There has been a good deal of criti
cism of the Legislatures this year, but
can anybody name a really wicked bill
passed by any of the Legislatures? On
the other hand it Is easy to enumerate
quite a string of measures which were
enacted under the reform label.
From the esteemed New York Her
ald we lonrn that "the weather man
does not manufacture and retail sun
shine and storm. He merely gives
warning." This reproof, which Is giv
en In all kindness, should be accepted
In like spirit. We have all been unjust
to the weather man.
Rev. Dr. John Punnett Feters, rector
of St. Michael's Episcopal Church,
Brooklyn, has "discovered" that Abra
ham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, men
tioned in Genesis, were not real ih'o
ple, but composite photographs of
Israel. The world seems to be full of
descendants of ,the leanied gentleman
who "discovered" that the moon was
made of green cheese.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson, head of
Princeton University, in a recent ad
dress advised young men to interest
themselves more In public affairs, on
the ground of duty, If no other. Their
education, he held, carries with It a
responsibility which the public has n
right to demand the young men shall
share with others who have not been
so fortunate In their mental training.
The point Is a good one, and young'
men all over the country are not slow
In availing themselves of opportunities
offered. The number of young men,
not only lawyers, but those In busi
ness, who are taking an active part
In politics Is Increasing.
Although the Senate of the United
State contains to-day only about half
as many men over the age of 70 as It
did a year ago, the name of that body,
derived from the Latin word meaning
"an old man," is still measurably ap
proprlate. Nine of Its present mem'
bers have passed the allotted three
score and ten. Of the sixteen a year
ago who bad reached that age five
have since dledi Messrs. Quay, Hoar,
Bate, Hawley and Piatt Gibson and
Stewart have retired from the Senate,
ns indeed did Hawley a few weeks
before his death. Those now over 70
IiiWude both Senators from Alabama
and from New York, and one each
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.
On top of this knowledge comes the
news from Canada that it has been
found practically Impossible to garri
son the fortifications at Halifax and
Esqulmault with Canadian troops. It
Is probable that both in Canada and
the United States the condition respon
sible for this reluctance of young men
to enlist Is the very condition of na
tional prosperity which both countries
are glad to record. The industrial and
commercial opportunities In America
to-day are so numerous and widespread
that very much more generous induce
ments than are now held out to young
men, apparently, must be offered to
persuade them to abandon the civil
for the military life.
Have you ever stopped to think
what subject furnishes the most fruit
ful topic of conversation these days?
It Is money! In libraries, In parlors,
hi street cars, on railroads, in the
street everywhere the sound of "dol
lars" Is hoard. "What Is It worth?"
"How much did it cost?" "How much
did you get for It?" "What kind of
an investment would that be?" "How
are the stocks to-day?" "Who won In
that last renl estate deal?" Always
money, money, money! Do you an
nounce the death of a friend, the
query, "How mucu money did he
leave?" is the first thin to greet your
ears. Sorrow for the deadj and sym
pathy for the living, are both second
ary to the importance of whether he
"died rich." Do you speak of a mar
riage, the first question Is, "Did she
do well?" Always money, money,
money! Is a child born into the world.
"Was it born with a silver or gold
spoon in its mouth?" is the first thing
asked. And, according to the answer,
predictions for its future are either
rose or gray. Always money, money,
money! Men have died for it lied
for It, become criminals for it ev
erything but remained honest for it.
And yet those shining words of the
Holy Writ have not been blotted from
the book which men love to proclaim
their guide and solace: "A good name
Is rather to be chosen than great
riches, and loving favor rather than
silver or gold."
Dean McCllntoek of Chicago tinlver
slty says the value of play is not well
understood, and that It Is "nature's
best method of education." Play Is
undoubtedly nature's best restorer.
Next to sleep It is an essential. We
all know the truth of the adage that
all work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy. And In tuis country we have
a lot of dull boys, both young and old,
not so much because they do not know
how to play as how to work. The av
erage American business man takes
his task too seriously. In the desire
to get rich he forgers how to live.
There Is too much friction ami toe
much waste of vital forces. Many of
our business men do things in a slap
dash sort of way. They jump without
pause for breathing from one thing to
another. They work at a high tension
and worry at a high tension. They
waste nervous energy. Their minds
are in a ferment. Tiiey are feverish.
There is a get-there-Eli glare in their
eyes. They ejaculate. They gestieu
lat They all but foam at the mouth.
Luncheon Is no let up. They gulp their
victuals as If they were In competition.
Play? The projiosltjon would tie
thought a crazy one. There is no time
to play in business hours and when
business is over there are too many
other demands. If these men only
knew It, they could do better work and
more of It by lowering the tension. A
little relaxation would help amazing
ly. And a play spell at home after
business hours would renew and vital
ize the worn nerve strings. However,
It Is easy to advise. The fever of high
strung endeavor is in the American
blood. Warnings against useless ex
penditure of effort go largely unheeded.
Vermont's Only Remaining Forest.
Preparations are under way to devel
op the most extensive tract of virgin
tlnvler in Vermont. The lands contain
over 5,000,MM,(HK feet of spruce and
other valuable soft wood heretofore un
touched because of Its remoteness from
the railroad. To reach the vast wild
erness in the southern part of the State
the West River Railroad Company,
which has Just been organized, will
build a branch from the Central Ver
mont and an army of axemen will
enter the woods next fall. It Is esti
mated that it will take twenty-five
years to cut all this timber. This will
be the end of Vermont's virgin for
ests, but there are thousands of acres
lumbered many years ago which moy
soon be recut.
It's hard for a lecturer to get the
people out and hard to entertain them
after he does get them out.
THE FLOOD.
Br Ker. A. Medram.
Text: "And the Lord said unto
Noah, Come thou and all thy bouse
Into the ark; for thee have I seen
righteous before me in this genera
tion." Genesis 7:1.
In the Oth, 7th and 8th chapters of
Genesis, we have the best account of
the greatest flood this world has ever
seen. I say the best account for we
are not entirely dependent upon the
divine record concerning tills awful In
undation. For, be it remembered, that
the peoples of the earth, whether popu
lating the plateaux of Persia, the
mountains of India, the prairies of
America, or the Islands of the sea,
have had banded down to them, by
the past generations, the tradition of
the Great Flood. Tablets, excavated
from the debris of dead cities, corrobo
rate the Mosaic account The fossil
ized mollusks and brachlpods, found
upon the mountains, tell ua that once
their tall tops were submerged in wa
ter, and that they undoubtedly owe
their colossal grandeur to an aqueous
origin. Hence the famous Scottish,
geological genius was forced to ex
claim, "The evidence is in the rocks."
The building of the Ark must have
furnished a vast amount of jokes for
the Jester, talk for the tattler, and
questions for the curious. Imagine
for a moment If you please, an Im
mense timber yard on a great -plain.
Beams piled here, and boards there,
kettles of boiling, smoking jiiteh stand
ready for use, while the constant
clang of busy hammers announces the
work begun. And Noah, Shem, Hem
and Japheth are laying the keel, and
building the bulwarks of the biggest
boat of the ancient world. It is not
surprising that those faithless antedi
luvians should look on in amazement
first then indifference, then ridicule
and disgust Year after year they
came, and steadily the ark grew1 In
bulk and beauty. More and more en
thusiastic did the preacher plead with
the people, emphasizing repentance,
with every blow that fell upon the tim
bers. But like many a sermon of the
present day, the message was unheed
ed, and Noah closed his one hundred
and twenty years' mission without a
single convert
Noah loaded the ark according to the
commandment of God, and then he,
and his wife, and his three sons, and
their wives went in and God closed the
door of the ark.
God has declared that He will again
destroy this world, and the wicked
that dwell therein. "But, according to
his promise, we look for new heavens
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness." Water will not be the
element of destruction the next time,
but fire. "The heavens that now are
and the earth, by the same word have
been stored up with fire, being reserv
ed against the day of judgment and de
struction of ungodly men." God has
given the world a. foretaste of Its Im
pending doom, by the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
As Noah warned the antediluvians
to cease to do evil and learn to do well,
so I call upon you, In the name of the
Master, to quit your meanness and
prepare to meet your God. O fellow
sinners, be warned! Think not to say
within yourselves, "We have no need
of Jesus." For I declare unto you that
no arm but Christ's can deliver you,
no power but his can save you and no
blood but his can redeem you. Turn
your back upon sin and all Its delu
sions. Flee from the wrath to come
and take refuge in the arms of Jesus,
and he will save you with an everlast
ing solvation.
A BUSY MAN'S BLUNDER.
By Hey. 6. B. r. Hnllock. D. D.
Text: "As thy servant was busy
here and there, he wus gone." I. Kings
20:40. '
For the environment of this verse
we must go back three thousand years.
The words occur In the midst of the
account of a parable acted by a dls
guished prophet, probably MIcalah,
who In a wounded, disconsolate plight
greeted Ahab, king of Israel, as be was
riding victoriously homeward from a
day of bloody battle with the Syrians.
Ahab had strangely, and most dis
obediently, at the close of the battle
entered Into a covenant of peace with
Ben-IIadad, the enemies' leader, and
let him go absolutely free.
It was therefore desirable to have
Ahab, pronounce judgment against his
own conduct. So the prophet took a
plun to secure this. He ordered a man
to smite and wound him. Then, in
the guise of a soldier, he approached
the king of Israel, telling him that In
the midst of the battle one bad brought
mm
him a prisoner charging him on the
penalty of his life to keep him safely,
but that, most unfortunately, he had
failed to do so: "As they servant was
busy here an'd there, he was gone."
The unpltying king utterly refused
to rescue this supposed soldier from
the consequences of such criminal care
lessness, and Immediately passed Judg
ment upon him from the testimony of
the man's own Hps.
But the" prophet quickly dropping
his disguise, turned upon Ahab and
spoke, as Nathan once spoke to King
David, saying, "Thou art the man!"
"Thus salth the Lord, Because thou
hast let go out of thy hand a man
whom I appointed to utter destruction,
therefore thy life shall be for his life,
and thy people for his people. And
the king of Israel went to his house
heavy and displeased," and all that
was said came true.
Now, there are a good many import
ant lessons we might gather from the
character and conduct of Ahab. The
man was ordered to keep a prisoner.
It became bis very first duty to do so.
But he preferred to follow out' his own
wishes, and so the prisoner got away.
We have, therefore, in this text three
points: The first is of a great trust;
the second of a sad confession of fail
ure; and the third of the painful con
sequences. The soul is an infinite trust.
The man in the prophet's story had a
trust, and he neglected It The warn
ing was, "If he be missing, thy life
shall be for his life." I too have a
trust. I have a work for my own soul
to do, and work for other souls to do
that Is more Important than any other
work could be.
Many of us go along all our days on
the banks of the great sea of Divine
Love, and we are so busy thinking
about other things, or doing other
things, that at the end of the day's
Journey we do not know that we have
been traveling by the side of the flash
ing waters. Many of us are so swal
lowed up In our occupations and de
sires, that all the trumpets of Sinai
might be blown into our ears and we
should hear them as though we heard
them not and, what is worse, that the
pleading voice of that dear and Di
vine One who Is ever saying to each
of us, "Come unto me, all ye that la
bor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest," passes us by, and pro
duces no 'effect, any more than the Idle
wind whistling through an archway
does. Dear fellow soul-trustee, you
have the ear, you have the need, the
sin, the weakness, the transclency, to
which the gospel appeals. You have
the faculties to which it addresses it
self. Our divine Lord is speaking to
every one of us. Let us each stop and
ask ourselves this question: "Do I
hear Him?" If not. Is it because the
clatter of the world's business, or the
more refined sounds of some profes
sion or study, have so taken up our at
tention that we have none to spare for
that which requires and would repay
it most. "As thy servant was busy
here and there He was gone!"
SHORT METER SERMONS.
Faith does not fatten on fog.
Modesty is the mark of might.
It Is eosy to call our Impulses His
Inspiration.
Religion by compulsion results In re
pulsion. Faith builds no fences between us
and our fellows.
Men need new hearts more than
stronger harness.
A petrified creed often goes with a
putty conscience.
Envying another's cake only spoils
our own cookies.
Men who intend to be good to-morrow
always die to-day.
Life Is all song when one lives in
harmony with the infinite. ,
God waits for us somewhere on every
pathway of pain.
. The fragrance of a life depends on
the fullness of Its love.
The heart gains no rest through the
gold cross carried on the breast.
The man who can be patient with his
corns has a good chance of glory.
The Sunday face that looks like lye
will not wash out the sins of the
week!
What most Christians need is not
more assurance of faith, but more as
sets. It's no use agonizing in prayer for
the light when you keep the shutters
locked. '
The more haste men make for happi
ness the less intimate acquaintance
they get with It
lleaven has feasts for home coming
wanderers but not so much as a hand
out for the tramp.
Many a man wastes enough perspi
ration praying for dimes to earn ten
times at many dollars.
WORKING GIRL'S HOTEL.
One Established in London Where Rata
ls 25 Cents a Day.
Lord Radstock, a wealthy relative
of the duke of Manchester the, latter
known principally as the husband ot
Miss Zimmerman, of Cincinnati has
opened in southwest London a hotel
for working girls, says the Detroit Tri
bune. This, in itself, isn't new. Other
hotels for working girls have been
established and have met with more
or less success and advertisement
Lord Radstock, however, thinks he
has solved the problem of how to live
on 25 cents a day, and baa planned bis
hotel to meet an extraordinary demand
along that line.
At his hotel the charge for lodging
85 cents week 12 cents a night
In addition, meals are provided at
the minimum cost A pot of tea, for
Instance, may be bad for 2 cents; a
three-course dinner, consisting of soup,
steak, pudding and fruit pie, for 8
cents. Roast beef, or pork, two vege
table and plum pudding cost only 12.
cents. Irish stew requires an expen
diture of 4 cents, and all puddings only
2 cents.
A boarder may delve as deeply or as
lightly into the bill of fare as she
chooses. She may scale the menu and
live fairly well, or may go the limit
and luxuriate. She may keep her ex
penditure down to 25 cents a day, but
at any rate, cannot soar much above
that figure.
The hotel has bright well-furnished,
sitting rooms, classrooms, a workroom
for sewiug and a laundry. The bed
rooms are light airy and comfortable
and hot water and baths are free.
An immense marble-lined skating
rink, on which manypleasure seekers
can find room, is one of the features
of the hotel. Swings and gymnastic
apparatus will be put up In the near
future.
Lord Radstock allows his girl board
ers plenty of liberty. The rules are
few and not Irksome.
Lights are out at 10:30, but permis
sion to stay out till later can be ob
tained from the matron. Visitors are
permitted, but male guests are re
ceived only In the hall.
There is no age limit for the board
ers. For a long time Lord Radstock has
been Interested in such philanthropic
work; he is now Just entering his 71st
year. His father was a vice-admiral
in the English navy. His grandfather,
the Rt-Hon. William Waldegrave, was
raised to the peerage in 1800.
FOUND A LONG-LOST DEED.
Chance Raved a Valuable Legacy to.
Kanaaa University.
An unrecorded deed was found in
an obscure corner of an old desk in
Lawrence, Kan., not long ago which,
insured to the University of Kansas a
valuable legacy, says the Kansas City
Star. After the death of the late Gov.
Charles Robinson it was found that
he had followed up a number of valu
able gifts made to the university dur
ing his lifetime by bequeathing to the
university his valuable farm a few
miles north of Lawrence. His widow
was to have the farm during her life
and then it was to go to the State Uni
versity. A few months ago L. S. Steele, an
abstracter in Lawrence, was commis
sioned to make an abstract of the farm.
He found the title vested in a sister
of Gov. Robinson by virtue of a deed,
made more than twenty-five years ago.
The executors could not find any deed
or other Instrument transferring the
property to Gov. Robinson. For a
time It seemed as if the legacy would
be lost. The woman In whom the title
was vested had been dead for several
years. The widow of the dead gov
ernor was sure that her husband had
held the title of the farm at the time
of his death. A thorough search was
made.
Finally It occurred to one of the ex
ecutors to compile a list of all of the
agents Gov. Robinson had employed
during his lifetime. All of these agente
that could be found were seeu and
each of them searched everywhere for
the deed. Finally one of them recall
ed an old desk that he had sold to a
second-hand dealer a few years before.
The desk was traced to a farmhouse
almost adjoining the Robinson farm.
The desk was reached, but the missing
document was not discovered. The
farmer who owned the desk was not
satisfied with the Bearch made by the
lawyers who had visited him for that
purpose. He took the desk apart and
behind a broken panel round the miss
ing deed.
The document was recorded the next
day and the widow of the late Gov.
Robinson is now sure of her home dur
ing her lifetime and the University of
Kansas is again secure in Its anticipa
tion of a valuable legacy.
Musing.
The man who likes to wash dishes
will never have to ko verv tar -.
a Job.
Life Is full of compensations The
homely girl can often make good bread
There Is a woman in Somervllle who
has almost convinced herself that she
was'born lucky, after all. Rh.
out fifteen calls the other afternoon,
nna aian t nna anyone at home. Som
ervllle Journal
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