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To be a successful explorer. donl
let the otber fellow beat you to It
If we could ie ourselves as others
see us. ws wouldn't believe quite all
we see.
Cuba has held her first lottery, and
the winners feel that It was a great
4UOCSS8.
And the weary public soon will wish
. mat both Peary and Cook had stayed
at the pole.
A female fcurglar ha been caught in
Connecticut. When will woman stop
breaking Into men's Jobs?
The theory that It Is never too late
to mena is very comforting to those
who are In no hurry to begin.
The men who are digging the Pana
ma canal consume 129.414 Dies a year.
It Is certainly going to be a great
canal. .
A Kansas girl has been engaged
(even times since June. Evidently she
didn't put In much time helping her
mother.
Mr. Taft confesses that he can't
lull a cow. We have serious doubts
also concerning King Edward's ability
n that direction.
A Boston physician says It is a
crime to remove the vermiform ap
pendix. Unfortunately the operation
ften precedes a funeral, too.
As practically all of the rest of the
records have been broken this year,
why not complete the list by smash
ing the phonograph records?
The senior Wfniam K. Vanderbllt Is
Quoted as saying that there have been
enough divorces In the Vanderbllt
family, and that there will not be any
more. He Is half right, anyhow.
A Washington judge has decided
that chewing gum constitutes- con
tempt of court. This Is no Indication,
however, that this blow will put the
shewing gum trust out of business.
The names of some of England's
biggest battle ships are Indomitable,
Indefatigable and Inflexible. A good
many of the' English people think the
next big one ought to be named the
Insupportable.
The Governor of Connecticut pro
tests against the continued use of the
term "Wooden Nutmeg State." Al
though not one In a thousand of those
who use It means.lt as a slur upon
the State, or knows the origin of the
phrase, it is just as well to drop It.
A place or. a person acquires a nick
name, even one wholly undeserved,
much more easily than it, rids itself
of It
During the twelve months ending
In June there were four hundred and
forty-four women In the English bank
ruptcy courts. Failures among mar
ried women showed a marked increase
during the year, as against'a material
decrease In the failures among spin
eters and widows, and a commentator
accounts for It by suggesting that a
woman attempts too much when she
undertakes to "run" both a business
and a family. The explanation seems
adequate. Successfully to manage the
affairs of a household calls for as
much of commercial acuteness as the
average human being is able to command.
We "refer to wlfe-beaters and the con-!
temptlble wretches who desert their j
little children. Lock up either of these ,
oris, ana tne chances are ten to one
that (he Innocent wives and children
suffer the most, mentally and physi
cally. If anything at all can be got
out of the deserter of family, get It
all. Certain K la that the convict who
deserve to be turned loose to a diet
of uncut-grass Is the fellow who has
run away and left his own little chll
dren to starve, for all he cares.
The American construction party
which has been at work building weod
en cottages for the earthquake victims
at Messina and Reggio has disbanded.
Eighteen hundred and seventeen cot
tages were built, and material for some
twelve hundred more was turned over
to the Italian carpenters.v No more
practical and beneficent relief was
offered to the stricken people of Sicily
and Calabria than that which Ameri
can money made possible and Lieuten
ant Commander Belknap's party dis
pensed. From the King and Queen
down to the poorest homeless sufferer
at Messina, the Italians have again
and again manifested their gratitude
or it.
The American Bar Association, In
1U attempt to offer something in the
way of a cure for desertion of family,
doesn't go far enough.. It proposes to
put the deserter in prison for not
more than a year and make him pay
to the deserted 60 cents a day from
his earnings as a convict. This will
be well enough, provided that 60 cents
represents his entire earnings per
diem. The theory that conviots should
Hot be turned loose with nothing Is
very beautiful as a general proposition
based on mercy and humaneness, but
there are at least two aorta of brutes
A leading British medical organ
warns the young men in the secondary
schools and colleges to avoid medicine
as a career.. In spite of all recent
restrictions and efforts to raise the
standard of admissions to medical
schools,' In spite of long courses and
additional training In hosnitflls thp
profession Is so "congested" that the
average practitioner finds It hard to
make a decent living. The spread of
mental healing and the imDroved Rani
tary conditions of our cities and towns
are among the causes of the decline
ui meaicai incomes. In short, young
men are urged to shun mertlMnn im
less they are devoted to thn'arianu
of health, take an intellectual and hu
manitarian interest in it and expect
to practice at a sacrifice. If. mav h
ODserved In passing that there is
scarcely a profession which "does not
complain Of Oversunply Of Dractltlnn
ers and decreasing demand for thlr
services or falling returns. It would
m a tad thing if thousand of
young men "Intended" for law. mrtl.
cine, engineering, teaching were ln-
aucea to take up farming and garden
lng and see what brains, education in
dustry and efficiency can do by way
or increasing the yield of land. But
tnis aspect aside, there is no real
ground for pessimism as to the future
or tne medical profession. The old
order changeth, but the new situation
vroaies new opportunities and new
sources of usefulness and Income
Harvard nas Just established a de-
partment of preventive medicine and
nygiene, and here is its nroHnertnq-
"It has for its field of work thA law
of health In relation to the preven
tion or the occurrence and tha limltn.
tlon of the spread of disease; it will
consider the laws of tha town, tha
State and the country in their bearing
on tne health of the communitv. ami
tne natural history of disease In rl.
tion to the Individual and the com
munity; it will train men for the in
vestigation of these Droblems. nnrt
men to fill various offices in boards
ui puuuc neaitn and other public
health work; It will meet the growing
need for men to direct the people In
ways or rational healthy life." It la
certain that other colleges will follow
this example of Harvard. The health
departments and the public school sys
terns will enlist more and mnm nhv
siclans in their services. More, and
more will be done nationally nnri lv
cally by public, semi-public and Dri-
Vate agencies like Insnranpo nnm.
panies for the promotion of health
and the prevention of disease and
death. Research will also he extpmio,!
and stimulated, for such problems as
cancer, consumption, nellaera and ho
on are pressing for solution. The Ills
human flesh is heir to are still many
and terrible, and there is plenty of
work ror trained and earnest nhvsi
clans. The period of transition
nardshlps to many- but there ia no
occasion for anxiety as to the future.
BY
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VIGILANTES IN PARIS.
tltlaena Determined to Protect
Themaelvea from the Apache.
Parisians are taking the law Into
their own hands to suppress the hood
lums known as Apaches, who have
been waxing more audacious and inso
lent of late, a letter to the New York
Sun says. Posters signed by well
known lawyers and medical men are
placarded all about the city and Its
suburbs calling upon the people to Join
the League of Social Protection.
This league will form.an armed po
lice body to protect members and their
property. The manifesto runs:
"Fire brigades have been formed to
fight Are and a society exists for the
protection of animals. The time has
now come when honest people miiHt
unite and take action against the ruf-
nans who terrorize the suburban dis
tricts. -
"Organized and disciplined troops of
honest citizens are to be formpd In av.
ery district where Apaches endamrar
life and property. Reprisals will -be
exercised by the Social Protection
League, whose armed member. ,m
seek out the Apaches and strike hard,
taking the law into their own hands."
K is proposed that the leasma .h.n
tart operations In time for the com
ing winter, wnen the dark days and
longer nights give the Paris
vorable chances for carrying on his
work without being easily detected by
tne ponce.
Then, bat Not Now.
"Do you know Penrotte?"
"Yes; he became well acquaintea
with me before his play became a suc
cess." Boston Herald.
DEATH'S TOLL FROM COAL MINERS.
By Joseph Howell;
You've stood at a railway crossing, watch
ing a modern 120 ton locomotive moving at
thirty miles an hour and trailing after it
twenty-five or more steel coal cars, each with
100,000 pounds of coal, hurrying toward its
ultimate market? Did it ever occur to vou
i that for every 100,000 tons of coal whisking
past you in this manner the toll of one hu
man life already has hon tau pn at i Via mlnaf
But the dead man at the mine may not be the most
serious of the community problems.- His injured broth
er, perhaps a helpless burden upon the community from
the moment of the accident until the end of a long life,
may be the more pitiable figure of the two. And for
every 25,000 tons of coal produced there Is the injured
man at the mine. Applying the death and injured rate
to the 300,0001000 tons of coat produced annually in
the whole country the dead man at the mine numbers
800 anl the army of the injured must number 1,200
men. .
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SCIENCE RETURNING TO THE MYTHS. -
By Walter Freeman Cooling.
Science Is slowly approaching the myths.
To one acquainted with current literature the
discovery of the mythical nature of matter
snd of the ntur6 auu fuuctiuu.or lue arch
angels, the parents of species, comes with
the force of a new revelation. Chemistry,
biology, and physics are near to the mythi
cal doctrine that the ultimate particles of
substance are snlrltual
consciousness, personality, and Intelligence, and that the
so-called chemical elements, or the Ions which deter
mine the character of the group or family which con
stitutes the chemical atoms, are vastly Inferior in
power, although substantially similar to the substance
which can on the most extended scale set up the series
of'reactions which chemical matter can only occasion
ally begin.
Those substances, the "breathers," are the souls of
plants and animate In whom the natural forces reach
their highest powers and perfection of being. They
have existed since creation and have come up from the
lowest and simplest mode of being. . If the spirit of
Roovah, the Breather, or one who confers on the an
cient spirits the power to form bodies, gives to each
the power to be what it wishes to be, then the dignity
to which it Anally attains, whether that of man or
grasshopper. Is the conclusion of a process analogous
to the Hindoo doctrine of Karma, the consequence of its.
Ionic life.
The superstitions ofacience have their root In ther
medieval concept of matter. All the superstitions-of
modern science are directly or indirectly related to th
mechanical concept of matter. This concept. Inherited
from the scholastic, first received a blow from the the
ory of the organic descent Xtt plants and animals from
the natural forces and substances.
TRAMP THE SFPP0BT OF THOUSANDS.
Bv Jack tjDttdnn
If the tramp were suddenly to pass away
from the United States, widespread misery
for many families would follow The tramp
enables thousands of men to earn honest liv
ings, educate their children and bring them
up God fearing and industrious. I know.
At one time my father was a constable anl
hunted tramps for a living. The community
paid him so much Der head for all th. tram.
he could catch, and also, I believe, he got mileage fees.
Ways and means were always a pressing problem In
our household, and the amount of meat on the table,
the new pair of shoes, the day's outing, or the texC
book for school were dependent upon my father's luck
In the cuaae. .well 1 remember the suppressed eager
ness and the suspense with which I waited to learn,
each morning what the results of his past night's toil
had been; how many tramps he had gathered In and
what the chances were of convicting them. And so It
was when later, as a tramp, I succeeded in eluding
some predatory constable I could not but feel sorry
for the HtUe boys and girls at home in that onBthi'
housej it seemed to me in a way that I was defrauding
those little boys and girls of some of the a-ood thine
of life.
But It's all In the game. The hobo deflaa rvUt7 n,f
society's watch dogs make a living out of him. Some
hobos like to be caught by the watchdogs esDeclallv
in winter time. Of course such hobos select communi
ties' where the Jails are "good," where Do work Is per
formed, and the food la substantial. Alan thero
been and most probably still are constables who divide
their fees with the hobos they arrest. Such a constable
does not have to hunt. He whistles and tha raniA
pomes rieht up to his hand. '.
LONDONER CRITICISES US.
Our Road Are Bud and Onr Farm
ing Unnratematlo, He Bays.
"No country I have visited has such
bad roads as the United States," re
marked Robert H. Jackson of Woburn
Lodge, London, England, at the Shore-
nam, according to the Washington
Post.
"This Is surprising to me. for if
there is any improvement a nation
can make that pays for itself it is the
building of first-class highways. I
spent several weeks in Indiana at.
Terre Haute and as I am interested
largely in farming:- I made freauent
trips through the surrounding coun
try. Some of the roads were six inches
deep In dust, and In the winter time.
I doubt not, this dust becomes sludge.
How the farmers can get to market
with their crops Is beyond me. Your
roads, wherever I have been, are gen
erally very bad. In England we have
excellent roads, as in other countrlan
of Europe.
"Road building and road improve
ment are done through the townahin
unit system. Nearly every township
has one or more steam rollers, and thn
cost of improving the roads or build.
ing new ones Is borne by the property
owners in proportion to the value of
their holdings. Most of the modern
roads of England have a foundation
of brick not the ordinary brick, but
orick of large size. Unon this fnnn.
dation is placed several Inches of
Boil, and on top of this soil blue-
stone, which is ground Into the soil
by means of the steam rollers. Thia
makes a first-class, durable road that
will keep in good condition during all
seasons of the' year. Over here moat
of the roads are made by simply turn
ing the turf and'Kradlns: at least that
Is how they Impressed me.
Farming, too. is not done In th
best manner in the United States"
continued Mr. Jackson. "You let the
weeds grow too much. I wonder what
the people of this country would do
if they had the limited area that wa
have In England and-had to depend
upon the soil for their prosperity?"
Mr. Jackson Is an exporter of nota-
toes and other products .of the earth,
and Is visiting the United States for
lie first time.
RECORDS OF NOTED AEROPLANES.
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HEIGHTS ATTAINED BY VARIOUS AEROPLANES.
That
Simply Impoaalble.
'Who wrote The Lieht
Failed?' " ,
"I don't know." answered a man who
doesn't read much. "But I'm positive
of one thing." -
"And what is that?"
"It wasn't written by the advertis
ing man of any Illuminating comnanv
Their lights never fail." Birmingham
Vge-Herald.
If you give your own affairs the at
tention' most people give to gossip, yoj
will get rich.
Every day brings Its new records In
the conquest of the air, and the great
est altitude achieved up to the time
of going to press has been that of M.
Rougler, who flew to a height of 645
feet at Brescia. Mr. Orvllle Wright
has attained 685 feet. Durine tha
Rhelms week good performances were
made by Messrs. Latham and Farman,
whilst Mr. Paulhan rose to 357 feet"
on one occasion. Since this was pub
lished Orvllle Wright established a
new record, soaring to an altitude of
1,600 feet at Potsdam. The picture
shows the heights attained by flying
machines compared with height of St.
Paul's. Illustrated London News.
The Bipenae of Being; Carelaaa.
A prominent business man, accord
ing to Orison Swett Marden, In Suc
cess Magazine, says that the careless
ness, Inaccuracy, - and blundering of
employes cost Chicago one million dol
lars a day. The manager of a large
Chicago house says that he has to
station pickets here and there through
the establishment In order to neutral
ize the evils of inaccuracies and the
blundering habit, Blunders and inac
curacies cost a New ' York concern
twenty-five thousand dollars a year.
Many an employe who would be
shocked at the thought of telling his
employer a He with his lips is lying
every day in the quality of his work,
in his dishonest service, in the rotten
hours he is slipping into it, In shirk
ing, in his indifference to his employer's
interests. It is Just as dishonest to ex
press deception in poor work, in shirk
ing, as to express it with the lips, yet
I have known office boys, who could
not be Induced to tell their employer a
direct lie, to steal his time when on
an errand, to hide away during work
ing hours to smoke a cigarette or take
a nap, not realizing, perhaps, that lies
can be acted as well as told, and that
acting a lle ma be em w
telling one.
-Don't be anxious to be told a secret
It is nearly always something unpleas
ant, and when it gets out you will be
caused of telling It