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TOLEDO ORJGON
The trouble Is that some automobiles
carry too many "tanks."
That overworked geography class la
now at work on Scandinavia.
. Opportunity has an exasperating
way of calling on a man when lie's
out
An automobile Is extremely danger
ous when charged with gasoline and
booze.
"Bright young men are needed In th
country," says Secretary Wilson. In
the country only, Mr. Secretary?
The object Is to avoid contact be
tween the wheels In the chauffeur's
head and those of the automobile.
A New York department atore has
added a hoHpltal department, having
profited by observations taken on bar
gain days.
President Eliot of Harvard advises
young men to associate with their su
periors. But how can college young
men do that?
If Grover Cleveland was hired to sit
on the fVpiltnhln mfpfy rnlve few peo
ple will expect the old thing to blow
off any more steam.
Railway travel at the rate of a mile
In hulf a minute Is exciting, but many
of us do not carry sufficiently large life
Insurance policies to risk It
The Czar's $0,000,000 Investment In
the United States does not look so very
big when one considers the wealth" he
has deposited In the Straits of Korea.
Some things about the insurance
companies are coming out that the gen
tlemanly agents forgot to mention to
you when they were soliciting your
business.
If King Oscar doesn't like such a
short title he might fill a whole line
on the hotel register by writing this
way: "Oscar, King of Sweden and ex
King of Sweden and Norway."
An English paper Is authority for
the statement that Duchess Consuelo
of Marlborough has among Jier pets at
Blenheim a number of snakes which
she takes pleasure In twining around
her neck. Well, It's her neck.
It is absurd to say Paul Morton
knows nothing about the insurance
business. Xny man who has lived to
be as old as Mr. Morton and has not
been positively discourteous to the
agents must know a whole lot about
the Insurance business.
Since Theodore Roosevelt became
President 72,000 government employes
have been put In the clnssllied sen-ice
that Is, their successors must be ap
pointed under the competitive exam
ination system. Now practically the
only large group of government ap
pointees still outside of the classified
service Is that made up of the fourth
class postmasters.
In the midst of the pomp and splen
dor of the royal wedding at Berlin
there must have lieeu some disquiet
ing reflections among the guests upon
the outlook for what Mark Twain has
called "the king business." Many of
the princelings at the wedding have
no love for Nicholas of Russia, yet
they cannot understand that the down
fall of the Muscovite autocracy would
pell a menace to -every throne in Eu
rope. Once familiarize people with
the Idea of dethroning kings, and no
monarchy Is safe.
Farmers' daughters aw educated in
many parts of Germany in traveling
schools, which go from village to vil
lage to give girls over sixteen years
of age practical lessons in housekeep
ing, cooking, the selection of food,
care or inmltry and cattle, the culti
vation of vegetables, and butter and
rheesemaklng. The results have been
so satisfactory that It is now pro
posed to add instruction In nursing,
cooking for the sick, mending and
sewing. The teachers, who are grad
uates of the schools of housework, and
have passed government examinations,
carry with them an outfit of a cook
ing stove and the various utensils for
cooking and Ironing. The classes are
held in the schoolhouses, the term
lasts six weeks, 'and the cost of tuition
Is put so low as practically to exclude
no one.
Don't be afraid of a little fun at
home. Don't shut your house lust the
sun should fade your carpets, and your
hearts, lest a hearty laugh shake down
some of the musty old cobwebs there!
If you want to ruin your sons, let
them think that all mirth and social
enjoyment must be left on the thres
hold without when they come home at
night When once a house Is regarded
as only a place to eat, drink and sleep
in, the work is begun that ends In
gambling houses and reckless degra
dation. Young people must have fun
and relaxation somewhere; If they do
not find it at their own hearthstones
it will be sought at other and less
profitable places. Therefore, let the
tire burn brightly at night and ninke
the homestead delightful with all
those little arts that parents so per
fectly understand. Don't repress the
buoyant spirits of your children; half
an hour's merriment around the lamp
and fireside of home blots out the re
membrance of many a care and annoy
ance during the day, and the best
safeguard they can take with them
Into the world Is the influence of a
bright little domestic sanctum.
Physicians In New York say that
the average New Yorker Is killing him
self by his pursuit of the strenuous
life. That life, as explained by tlie
doctors in this instance, is the mad
chase after wealth which the New
Yorker makes his main object in life.
The great Increase In deaths due to
diseases of the heart and Brlght's dis
ease, as Bhown In the mortuary statis
tics of New Y'ork, is the principal foun
dation for the doctors' reports. From
1808 to 1004 the increase In deaths
from Brlght's disease was 16.47 per
10,000 population. In a recent week
125 people died of heart disease, while
the number for the corresponding week
of the year previous was only 50. The
fact is established that the stomach
and the heart are extensively affected
by the bolting of food and by worry
ing. The New York, business man
bolts his food, and he worries, so the
doctors assert that he dies earlier than
was the custom forty or fifty years
ago. In the face of these figures the
cry that the life strenuous Is shorten
ing the lives of business men would
seem to be amply substantiated. Fig
ures don't lie. But occasionally they
do give out woefully wrong impres
sions. The recorded Increase of deaths
due to Brlght's disease In this instance
means little. The medical records of
fifty years ago were kept In a manner
not to be compared with that of the
present day. They were far from com
plete. Possibly 50 per cent of the
deaths were properly diagnosed, and In
diagnosing heart troubles the medical
profession of that time was notorious
ly Incompetent. Many men undoubt
edly died of heart disease whose
deaths were ascribed to some other
cause. Had the mortuary statistics of
fifty years ago been kept with the
same care that obtains to-day there Is
great probability that the death rate
in the diseases mentioned would not be
shown to have Increased. Everything
tends to make this probable. The
business man of the present day, while
he possibly works harder when he
works, does not work so many hours,
nor so many days each year, as did the
business man of fifty years ago. He
takes more vacations, spends ,much
more time In recreation and amuse
ment. He works under conditions much
less conducive to worry than did his
predecessors. Telegraph, cable and
rapid mail service permit him to know
the exact condition of his business af
fairs at all times. Fifty years ago a
merchant was frequently under a con
stant strain for weeks and months at a
time, merely awaiting an Important
letter, or news from a shipment of
goods. Now one day will bring the
business man what he wishes to know
from any corner of the earth. Besides,
the business men of to-day drink less
than did those who have gone before
So If the New York business man dies
earlier than did his fathers, the reason
is yet to be found. The plea that mod
ern life kills early will hardly hold.
Swimming Is very good for a girl's
figure if It is good to begin with.
What a woman likes about a yacht
ing trip is the clothes she has to buy
for It.
If a girl wasn't Jealous of somebody
it would be a sign she was the only
person In the world.
If a boy Is real clever he can ac
quire a lot of knowledge at school use
ful, to forget afterwards.
me way some women s summer
clothes are made they would look
dressed up if they fell off.
Bometlmes it's Just as well to go
home early to make your wife sus
picious about your health.
If a man had to work as hard to
get his living as he does to get his
fun he would become an anarchist.
Hs Is Bound to Keep Bust.
Lightning set the bell In a church
steeple ringing recently and Brother
Williams exclaimed: 'My, my! It sho
has come ter pass dat de devil Is ring
in' folks ter ineetlu'!" Atlanta Constitution.
THE PROPHETS OF 18KAEL.
By Rev. John B. alt tor 4-
Text: "Keep ye Justice and practice
righteousness." Isaiah lxvi.
Brilliancy of literary power marked
the age of the prophets, but morally
It was dark and degenerate. Abnor
mal wealth and abject poverty, beauty
and ashes, glory and shame, the robes
of Dives and the rags of Lazarus alter
nately charmed and terrified the Imag
ination. The simplicity of pastoral life
was abandoned. Property once held
In common passed Into personal own
ership. Socialism merged into Indi
vidualism. Society reorganized around
the individual. Greed coerced men be
yond legitimate acquisition into re
spectable robbery. Money controlled
the seats of law and Justice.
Dark are the pictures of the age
painted by the prophets. The sins, so
dendly to virtue mid so fatnl to hnp-
plness, were common. Fraud, dishon
esty and robbery prevailed In commer
cial life. The weights and measures
were false. Ignoble traffickers tam
pered with the markets and cornered
the necessities of life. Stocks as !n-
substantlul as a mirage -were floated
and bubble companies formed. In vig
orous language Isaiah denounces illi
cit trusts aud combinations. "Woe
unto them that Join house to house,
that luy field to field till there be no
place, that they may be placed alone
In the midst of the earth."
But notwithstanding the manifold
corruptions of the age, reaching from
palace to hovel, and permeating every
sphere of labor and every avenue of
trade, the people were religious. That
they had made lies their refuge, and
concealed themselves under falsehoods
did not interfere with their devotions.
Such astounding inconsistencies were
inevitable. For moral standards had
been falsified. Hypocrisy ruled the
day. True merit and genuine worth
were discounted. Fraud, sham and de
ception were rewarded.
The prophets were altogether dif
ferent They were progressive, expan
sive, upward gazing souls. Their
minds were fluent and flexible. They
were open-eyed and believed lnt the
infinite Intelligibility of things. They
saw the red streakng of the dawn of
Truth's Illustrious day. In the sym
phony of progress they vere the lead
ing performers. They had visions of
the ideal Man, the Ideal Church and
the Ideal State. Agalnst arid formal
Ism they vowed eternal war, and
smote the huge ecclesiastlclsm of
their times as with a mace. They as
serted the supremacy of reason over
tradition.
They were lavish of the light, know
ing well that all sanitary purification
begins when rooms are flooded with
oxygen and sunbeams. And so it
was their function, not to repress life,
not to clip It into mechanical shapes,
but to give It room, to keep It plastic,
green and fresh and growing, until it
reached Its attainable perfection.
They cared nothing for the cult aud
ceremonial, the changing drapery o
religion. But they did care for relig
ion as a life, as an essence unmixed
and pure. And so they became the
leaders and Instructors of the soul
and uncovered peak after peak In the
mountains of the Ideal.
CHARACTER AND HABIT.
By Rev. 6. B. f. Hallock, D. O
Text: "Learn to do well." Isaiah
1:17.
Some one has well compared learn
ing to do well with learning to swim.
You wade in the water, but not very
far, for fear you w'lll drown. You try
to swim, but sink. You try
again, and do a little better. You
swallow a good deal of water; It gets
Into your ears and eyes and nose, but
you keep on splashing, and finally can
swim. So must we, in the region of
moral things, keep on doing well until
we learn how, and It has become a
habit. Habit Is something we have
we have it. That is what the word
means. Bub as we well know, It often
becomes something which has us.
What Is habit? It has been well
defined as "the involuntary tendency
to perform certain actions which Is
acquired by their frequent repetition.
"Habit Is second nature." Habit "Is
prevailing dispositions, feelings and ac
tions which are right or wrong."
Habit Is "moral character." "Habit"
says Horace Mann, "is a cable; we
weave a thread of it every day, and at
last we cannot break it" What we
have thought or felt or done once, It
Is a little easier to think or feel or
do the second time, much easier the
tenth, Incomparably easier the twen
tieth, and very difficult to keep from
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thinking or feeling or doing after one
hundred repetitions.
We need to borrow the force of
habit in the discharge of our religious
duties. Devotion should be a habit
Prayer should be a habit We should
have set times for prayer. . We should
read the scriptures with system, not
reuding fitfully, now and then. Just as
we happen to "feel like It" That Is
tie surest way of getting Into a state
in which we will not feel like It at all.
Our benevolence should be a habit We
should give, not at the impulse of feel
ing, but in the pursuance of a habit
conscientiously formed and persistent
ly maintained.
It pays to have the habit of doing
right, even though It saves the soul
only once. How infinitely well it pays
when that soul saved Is the man's
own. Joseph's soul was saved by the
habit of doing right. Millions of souls
have been saved in the same way.
There Is infinite danger in risking
your soul to any. other than a fixed
habit of doing right, which Is a fixed
habit of fleeing to Christ in every time
of stress and strain for his divine and
all-powerful aid.
RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN.
By Rev. C. W. Caswell.
Text: "And 1 say unto you, many
shall come from the east and from the
west aud shall sit down with Abra
ham, Isaac and Jacob In the kingdom
of heaven." Matthew viil.: 11.
What u blesed boon Is life! How
much more blesed to know we shall
live forever, uud that we shall love
and commune with loved ones and the
holy of all ages in the life beyond!
The desire to live and the longings of
love are the strongest proofs of both
Immortality and heavenly recognition.
Man Is unconscious of mortality and
the animal of immortality. Instinct
leads each to their God-given destiny.
Klondykers would not load a ship
with gold to sink It in mid-ocean. Sure
ly God Is as wise as his children. He
will bring the treasure ship Zion into
the desired haven and land !ts pre
cious freight on the eternal shore. An
infidel once said: "If I could be sure
of a hereafter and know that.l should
meet the loved ones gone before, I
would crawl on my bands aud knees
from New York to San Francisco just
to gain that certainty." On his knees
before God, every lnfldel can attain
that blessed consciousness of Immor
tality and loving fellowship with the
holy as light divine flashes through
his being.
Would you live a life of entire holi
ness freed from every weight and sin?
Would you look only unto Jesus? Then
look often toward the unseen and
realize that the arms of loved ones
are around you, pulling you to the
skies; that you are not only a pilgrim
of earth, but an Inhabitant of glory;
and as you gaze, you will exclaim:
"Let me be holy, for yonder company
are robed In sotless white." We gaze
too much upon things near us, and
the near view is often dark, dusty aud
doleful; oh, the beyond! How It lifts
our drooping spirits up and makes of
our earth a heaven! Lift up your eyes
unto the heavenly hills whence cometh
your help.
We are truly a race of travelers,
having no continuing city. Strangers
and sojourners as were all our fathers.
Our days here are a shadow, a banij
breadth; yonder shines one eternal
day. "Death does not end all," It is
only the beginning! Atlllctions are but
for a moment compared to the far
more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory." Separations only mean that
your beloved has gone home to gaze
upon the "King in Ills beauty" and
await your coming to the heavenly
mansion. Death signifies that you
have gone to the "building of God, the
house not made with hands eternal In
the heavens."
Christian believer, art thou weary
with sorrow, heavy laden with separ
ation, cast down with loneliness; gaze
towards the faces that look back upon
you. See! they, beckon you home
ward. Soon the white-winged mes
sengers will come for your spirit and
will whisper to your soul "Let not
your heart be troubled, neither let it
be afraid. In my Father's house are
many mansions." Come ye blessed
of my Father, Come up higher. That
where I am there ye may be also.
SHORT METER SERMONS.
There is nothing divine in dullness.
Sulkiness is only selfishness turned
sour.
Many great souls have been lost by
little sins..
Blessed is the sorrow that cures of
selfishness.
Gliding the wagon does not ease the
springs.
The best place to pray for corn is
between the rows.
The religion that lacks sunshine is
all moonshine.
ence
Ammonia vapor has proven a power
ful disinfectant, a room filled with it
uemg rreea rrom cholera bacilli, pus
tule germs or diphtheria miiww in
two hours.
An English health officer hud loaiil
the following circular.
In butchers' ahon: "with . wi
preventing contamination by the han
dling of meat exposed for sale and of
preventing the spread of infectious dis
eases thereby, I hereby request you to
provwe a suitable supply of forks with
which intending Durchasers mr mnt.
examination of the meat in your shop."
A cubic foot of earth welch nhnnf
five and a half times 88 much no n
cubic foot of water. A cubic mile nt
earth weighs 25,649.300,000 tons. The
volume of the earth is 25D.Rsn.onn.nnn
cubic miles. The weight of the world
without its atmosphere Is 6,600,250,-
uw,wu,uw,uuu,uoo tons. To add to this
the weight of the atmosphere elves a
grand total of 6,000,255,819,000,000,.
000,000 tons.
When that English submarine sunk
the other day the occupants of the ves
sel were given a brief warning before
hand, according to one of the survivors.
oy me actions of a cage full of white
mice. According to this authoritv ev
ery submarine has a number of white
mice aboard because these little crea
tures are very susceptible to atmos
pheric changes and at once give warn
ing of any escaping gas by squeaking.
Glass containing manganese is slow
ly turned violet by sunlight nnd Sir
imam Crookes has found that ra
dium produces in a few days a colora
tion as intense as that caused by the
sun in years. F. Fischer, has now
been studying the effects of ultra-violet
rays and reports that the light of a
mercury arc lamp In a quartz tube iravo
a slight color In fifteen minutes to
rour out of eight glasses, and an In
tense violet hue In twelve hours. The
color proved to be due to manganese
silicate.
The city of Hull, England, has 13
miles of wooden pavement, and is
trradUallV Rllhstlflltlnir Ell, ill riai-oi,w.T,
for the granite blocks hitherto usl.
it is as smooth as asphalt, but lesa
slippery. After many experiments with
woods from various parts of the world,
the city authorities have settled upon
the Jarrah and karri woods from west
ern Australia as the best for the pur
pose. They are of a dark mahogany
color. The blocks are cut to the sl.
of large bricks, and are carefully laid
upon a foundation of cement seven
Inches thick. Some of these pavements,
laid from seven to ten years ago, are
not yet In need of repair.
The Brazilian government, convinced
of the existence of immense supplies
of underground water within its terri
tories, proposes to organize a division
of hydrology similar to that of the
United States geological survev. Drill
ing outfits have already been purchas
ed In this country. The colonial office
of Bermuda has sought American ex
pert advice In regard to obtaining a
supply of water from underground
sources In those Islands, and there is a
similar movement in Feru, where It Is
thought that water drawn from be
neath the deserts may serve to Irrigate
the nearly rainless area sionir the
coast It Is also pointed out that Ara
bia may be irrigated in this manner,
as Investigation has shown the exist
ence of great underground water beds,
there, one of which is said to extend
K00 miles across the peninsula from
the HedJaz northeasterly toward the
Euphrates.
Views and Notions.
President Hadley, of Yale, and a.
young man whose appearance was
that of a student once met says the
Searchlight, in Yellowstone Park, In
the midst of the wonders of nature.
President Hadley turned to th
young man for sympathetic comment.
"This is a wonderful scene, Isn't
It?" he said.
The young man smiled and nodded,,
and turned without speaking to gaze
at the prospect sprend before them.
"Do you think," asked President
Hadley, confirmed in his ideu that ho
was talking to an ardent student
"that this chasm was caused by sonie
great upheaval of nature, or Is it the
result of erosion or glacial action?
What are your views "
"My views," said the stranger,
quickly, opening a bag containing
photographs, "ore only two dollars a
dozen, and dirt-cheap. Let me show
you some."
Affronted Authority.
"So your wife does not approve of
baseball?"
"No," answered Mr. Meekton. "Hen
rietta can't stand It to see any mere
man bossing people around the way
the umpire does." Washington Star-
A Famous Ancestor.
Lawyer You say the mania for
porch-cllmblng Is In your blood?
Porch-Climber Yes, sir, it's Inherit
ed; I'm a lineal descendant of Romeo.
Detroit Free Press.