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.11 Tovchina ths Illh Places o! a Dchtlvl Trip-CAITADA ! n - I: - - - I r t V ' iK. pHKN a CblnM iMtni taat ha hu bMa ma.rkd for . 1 dth by tone h prepsrea for hie funeral. The blood- ' bound oa the trail ia no more Implaca ble than the highbinder; the dof mar , loae the acent; be majr be dlrerted from ' the ehaae; the quarry mar take to wide waters and eaeape. But the hlchblndnr , . aeea with a thousand ' ores; nothlnc takes him from the chase, and there la ' no water broad en ouch across which the long- arm of the hatchatman cannot ; 'reach. - , ' . . . A. lire for a life la the motto of the ton; and Whether the fir life has . . been ferflt-4o thalawandjpst through , evidence given by a member of a rival society, or has ben yielded op in public 1 Z rtvete. brawlthe Mosalo Injunction . . . la carried out. . -. f ": - --vTbe -law has aided In ttie tong scheme ; ' ' of revenge- times without number, and .-;. prosecuting attorneys who 'bave- tad . much to do with Chinese will aot accept V- their evidence unless It Is corroborated by whites.. To ths tong It does not mat- 7 WHERE THE S I INCH a- stranger appeared - en ths streets of Oyster Bay. Long Is land, en the .foarth of July sell ing chicken mittens at ' II cents this - part of Nassau county has been aroused over, a humanitarian Issue. --.Affairs, have reached such a crisis that the Intervention of the Wew Tork . t P. C. A. Is being sought by ths Busy ' Wednesday Sewing circle, says ths Phtla aelphla Telegram.' ' ' . Ha was tall and spare, that' stranger ' who brought ths chicken mittens to ' Oyster Bay, and he had a wicked cast In his left eye and a horahoe mark on he forehead, where, he said, a horse his stand -taa-frent-Moore's-rooery lust aa the Naaaau County band from Washington Point began to play on, the ' . morning of the Fourth. He had a hand , satchel filled with chicken mittens. A Great Invention. . c y Here's where you gst the invention . f the JOth eenturyl" he shouted. "Here's where you buy the only thing in the -,: world to - prevent your chickens from scratching up your flower-beds and root ' Ing out your newly planted seeda It's .guaranteed. Step up thla way and see the marvelous Invention, granted a medal ; of honor at St. Louis and approved by three crowned heads of Burope. - Just fasten one of my -chicken mittens on - the right leg of any chicken ever batched rand hs won't scratch again." - . Thus spoke the man with the hores--U-sbos mark on hla brow, and aa he talked ' ; he demonstrated the application of his Invention on a Plymouth Rock pullet he carried under hla arm. The chicken mit ten eonaiated of two short prongs of ' wire set en. a spring and provided with - a ring to fit around the chicken's ankle. ' The prongs whsn adjusted extended s , backward and downward to the earth. "Now, gents, you - Just hitch my . chicken mitten onto a hen's right limb . and set her loose. - She goes te your flower-bed and ' starts te scratch. . Blngl the two prongs you see here catch In the earth on the first backward stroke, this - - here spring gets busy and your chicken " . la thrown onto Ita ear. Maybe she trtes egaln. Bangf shs goes on her ear again. In tw or three days she-iearns not -to scratch and you can remove the chicken 'mittens for food." lf . . 'Sold Like Hot Caket. ' Josiah Snedklns, ' an --; agriculturist from over Covo Neck way. bought , five right off the handle. Orand- pa - Connors -of- East -Norwich." who . Is somewhat of a chicken fancier, bought ie. He said he had never seen the liken et that chicken mitten for downright all-round smartness. - Mr. I"". Thompson, who lives up on the htll In ""Oyster Bay: andrtro is somewhat -ef-an , inventor himself, bought one for scien tific purposes, and on hla way home he purchased a live chicken to try the mitten on. Aunt Het Oordon, who keepe - chickens, also a cow, out en the. Mill Neck road, said - she wished one big enough for her Betsy, who somatlmee . kicked bad when being milked, but she would buy two for her chickens any . way, because Miss Hawkins kspt com rlalnlng about how her (Aunt Het's) Cochin China rooster kept scratching up her (Mine Hawkins ) radishes. '-- - Before noon the stranger had sold lit - chicken mittens. Hs took the 1 o'clock train for MloeoU. after first remarking ta StaUe Agent A. X Marsh that he . fPvtif .1 .i I 1;' iVrW I 'I- . ' ' ' 1 "IK Cni NEvSC WMtA. F3 IN .WHOSE IAPE V 16 TttREATEN EP.AKD JWTILY. : 'MARY JUB tor that the assassin of one of Its mom bers escapes the life of any member of a rival society will suffice, and wlt nesses are always ready to sweat, that the man on trial la the murderer. Object of Tout; Revenge. - Joe Sue, one of the richest and best known and moat highly esteemed Chi nese In Portland, la said by the police to be the object of tong revenge. His little daughter, Mary ' Jue, haa twice turned aatda the weapon aimed at his life. Jue la a mandarin, a Judge of the fifth degree In the Canton province, and speaks English like a native American. His .family la American born, and th little Chinese heroine has been educated here, and wears American clothes; only her. face betray i the fact that she Is of 1 Chinese parentage.. English Is the lan guage of the jue household at 110 Oak street. - ' ,v ..' - - Jue flue Is the leading member of the Jue family In Portland; the first hi always the last name of a Chinese. His kinsman Is Jue Nun. who has Just been CHICKEN GOT guessed there'd "be something doing In Oyster Bay before long." Recalled the Prophecy, y ." ..; : . : '. Mr. Marsh remembered, that prophecy and repeated It Jeter when the trouble over the chicken mittens began to tear at the moral vitals of this village. -1 The day- after- tha Fourth, Orand pa Connors sent In a harry oall for -.Doe Hall at Oyeter Bay. He said over the phone that Orandma Connors bad sink ing spells and ha'd been spurred in the eye by a chicken with a mitten on. Doc Hall hurried out te East Norwich In his auto. . He later described ths harrowing ie - of : hie-chicken "mittens on to-hls blooded Legborns. Doo Hall said that when he drew up at the Connors farm all he could see about the back yard were feathers and bounding . Leghorns. There was - a tremendous cackling. Every minute aoms chlcksn would run Into the garden, start to scratch and then be thrown about 10 feet In the air by the spring oa the chicken mitten at tached to its ankle. Some of the younger chickens were in a fainting condition as the result of their violent efforts. One elderly hen had gone com pletely Insane, avers ths doctor, and It sat on the hammock rope and screamed -Just screamed. ' 1 Orandma Connors had to be rsmoved to Mre. Joyce's house. The nervous shock had complately : priostratsd her. Grandpa Connors hsd a bad cut over the left eye, where A bounding pullet had gigged him with Ita mitten. When Doc Hall left Grandpa was out with a fish net trying to corral his pet Leghorns and take off their mittens, 1 - -( Wave of Indignation. : 'When ths excitement was ' at ' its height hsre'iin Oyster Bay the wave of Indignation on the part of the towns people against the stranger who , had put the chicken mitten on the market was given Its cap of froth by ths heart rending death of Mrs. -Hans Schneider's well-known Dorset rooster Schnapps. Mrs. Schneider, who lives on the upper end of South street, had purchased one chicken mlttsn with a vlsw to checking, by gentle jet firm persusslon, ths dep redations wrought by BcbhappS -upon her turnip patch. She affixed the Simple contraption on Schnapps' leg, Juat above the top of hla Oxford tlea. Schnapps looked trustfully Into the eyes of his mistress, even as shs wss applying ths Instrument of torture. Schnapps . had been long in the Schneider family and hie love for Mrs. Schneider he had been wont to ahow in many touching waya. When the - mitten waa properly ad- Juated Schnappa walked thoughtfully tokpntlre country will become engaged, and the turnip paten, lining nign nis rigntlhls name my foot with each etep, yet losing nothing dfhte aigntty In the operation. L Schnapps selected a soft spot In the cor ner of the turnip patch end threw back hla tight foot for a preliminary dig be fore he settled down - to buslnsss. Schnapps was thrown four feet, landing on hla left eye. The dignified bird got uk duated himself euad looked behind to see who had hit him.- There was no body In sight. Schnapps tried It again, thla tlms ploughing up alx tnchss of garden patch with hla bUL Suicide of Poor Schnapps. The bird ley still for a minute, hie eyes closed In thought. Then he arose and west te hla perch 1st the henhouse. found guilty of manslaughter for killing Lee Tick Lee, and out of that the police say has grown ths demand for the death of Jue Sue. Nun waa a middle-aged San Francisco Chinese with 4 pretty young wife. In the summer he packed fish In the Alaska canneries, and had a large sum of money and many Jewels. When he returned from his last trjp, he found his wife, money and Jewels gone; Lee Tick Lee waa also- missing. ; Nun armed himself, took up the search for his property and Lee, and found them in Portland: Without any undue fuss he shot Lee; on the first trial the Jury disagreed. ; Saved by Hie Child. : v " It was said that Jus Bus had given the money that paid some of the best lawyers In the city for saving Jue Nun's neck; the other aide-spent -a-fortune in sn effort have Lee's assassin hanged. Then Lea's ton vintml nvmm the- poaitlotv wUh and eharacter-of Jue suggested that he was the proper Twice within three days was en effort made to' destroy Jue; both times his lltUs daughter Mary balked the assas sin; sow ths home Of Jue Sue' is barred to strangers; and before a door Is opened THE MITTEN Hs stayed there the rest of the "day. Evsry morning for four days, ssys Mrs. Schneider, Schnapps cams out, tried the turnip patch and retired to the solitude of the henhouse. On ths fifth day ha disappeared from the Schneider home. Residents along South street later saw ths bird running down the middle of the rosd In a f renay of wildest abandon; Btralght through town he went until he came to ths board walk leading to ths Casino bathhouse there, with a final mournful croak, the despondent Schnapps threw himself into the water or the bay. .The - aulclde - of Mra. Mrhnetder'a Schnappa haa brought local arltatlon agalnat the uae of thorh,lrken mitten and. Ut ecarbfpwedTvender-to a At ths meeting of the Busy Wednesday Sswlng circle resolutions describing ths chicken mitten as a barbarous Tello of mediaeval torture chambers and calling upon the 6. P. C. A. to take measures for Its suppression were passed by rising vote. The 8. P. C. A. waa also asked to seek out and cause ths arrest of the unknown who had brought such distraction to the henhousss of Oyster oay ana vicinity. . Anything for Notoric : 'V' : ..1 et, l . V By Clara Morris, y TH great unanswerable cry used to be, "Who struck Billy Pat- tsrsonf but today It Is, "Who struck ths Rsv. Mr. Steals ef Philadelphia T" Was it ths sun, -or waa it a sudden, mad craving for notoriety T We have all heard that true story of ins actor wno ror several' days raeoned about, iieavy-eyed, pais, wretched, and then one morning he was his old. Jovial, high-rolling self again; and when hla frlenda came to offer condolenoea upon a severe criticism directed against him In the. morning paper he happily re plied, : "Oh, that's all right, boys I I don't mind abuse aa long as they print my name; but Iwas not mentioned for nine-days, and I cams dashed near dy ing of it. I Just want to see my name that's alL" f . . - Was that what struck ths Philadel phia gentleman? . Could .he hsve ar gued, "Ths msn who attacks the char acter of George Washington Instead of eulogising him on the national holiday will create a aeneatlon; he will be as sailed violently, then, his friends will rally to his defends; the press 'of the name my name will be -known of all men.". - Let - sa - hopehere - ir but ane "Mr Steele 4or what future can there be for a people who do not cherish a great past? ' . ' . '- f And so hs "never won a battle" and he "always retreated," eto.T Well. let us see. More then one time General Washington was fighting on the de fenslvs because of the weakness and destitution of the srmy, and ths exhaus tion of the treasury was so complets that he could not even feed hla men. lie had no disciplined trooQs, because there wss nsver time to train such short-term volunteers, raw recruits. Ignorant . of t'esprtt de corps, leaving bloody tracks aa they limped en half-frosaa feet at a watch informs Jus's family that the coast Is clear. . ,......;; A few days ago Mary was met at her door by a Chinese, who asked If . her father was home. . The child is bright for her 14 years, and whsn she saw that the man had his hand on a revolver, she said no. The Chinese 4urned as If to go, and Mary ran upstairs to warn har father, who was about .to go out As shs reached the landing ehe - saw -that the highbinder had followed her,-' and called, to her mother not to let her father open the door. The Chinese told her to "shut up," and stepped Into- the shadow. Then Mary -slipped Inside.-.. A few mo ments later a knock was heard, and the little girl responded: the same man waa there. Almost Invariably Jue went to the door when anyona -called. - Since that. ..however.. Jue .does., not answer when anyone knocks. ' , : Two nights later when Mary was re turning to her homo, aha saw ths same rcttlneselurklnc In the doorway. ' Be lieving she had not been aeen, she rsn to the police station, and breathlessly ""tOid "3ept(esl SlOVtttV riteatOUt e)Olay lit captain detailed Detective Hartman and Officer Parker to arrest the highbinder; when the policemen arrived at ' Jue e home the would-be assassin had fled. But the police say , ha will return again, and if need, be again and yet again. .. . : '.' ...v Valley 'Forgo, where their leader prayed. passionately - prayed, for divine - help. But later, - maddened by the sight of his men's suffering,- he-last control 6f that "high temper" ha waa bora to, and cursed furiously the offloer who had failed htm, andr turning upon his tot tering lines. Invited them . "to give ths snemy hell!" and the amasing oath, the splendid . hot rage, made him so human to them their freeslng Mood warmed, and a wavering cheer went up, though the breath of It hung like amoke en the icyairi That any creature American, remembering Valley Forge, can. sit In upholstered ease, with gorged stomach. and question ths value of that man who Buffered with those who followed hlml Other generals made distressful com plaint of deserters, and yet deserters but General Washington held hie men together .ven when lnettaokln, BranrtrTtlns lOmmif over thrice their own number; held them through,- that awful December., croaaing of the Dela ware. : It waa a . thousand prisoners - those tatterdemallona took, waa It - not, - sir? A thousand; yes then I am rljht? Still you say 'lie won no battlee."Tet congress -expressed Its perfect confi dence in .the general who could bear defeat with such high, -calm courage. such unquestioning faith in God over all, with such unwavsrlng determination to fight on that he Inspired the wholo country with his courage. George Washington's greatest mis fortune took ths form of a blokrapher: ons afflicted with the most virulent type of kowtowing; who, picturing his subject aa above all human weakness, nearly succeeded in lifting him above all human love. Never a genius, surpassed by many In some single power, his spotless Integrity, remarkable wisdom, unwavering Justice, the Courage that no extremity of peril or dlaaster oould break, would have 'made him a char' aoter beloved as revered but for the biographer, who exaggerated his stately dignity and wonderf ul self-consclsnos Into an Icy eoldncss and the nose of a superhuman prlgl Every one must build his own Washington. .Recall hla tender ness toward that domineering mother from whom came his own "high tem per"; his loyalty to his pretty and provocative' wife, who became stately Lady Washington; his affection for little Nellie Cuatla; his almost tsndsr friendships with brothsrs-ln-arma. Read hla greatest rival's estimate of him: "His temper was Irritable and high, -but he had - attained complete ascendancy over it With Integrity most pure. Justice inflexible no family tie. no love, no hate, oould bias his Judgment." - So said Thomas Jefferson. - Recall the warm hospitality Of Mount Vernon snd find how unlike your Wssh Ington will be that bloodeea. lay fig urehead - of the biographer's creation, almost ss different, as "the ehurchless, horse-racing, card-playing, woman-following creature". Mr. Steele would make him. - , - That critic, by the - way, .makes -an amusing picture, leaping and hopping up and down In his effort to reach and smirch the high and honored, the more and t more loved name of Washington. Hs may not havs won a battle, he may not have been a genius; but during vmn of onnraanlon there haA IncrnnnjMt Kand ripened In his great heart a leaven of liberty that mane mm more pre cious to the struggling young country than any genius, . any conqueror I A leaven of liberty that made a patriot ef every soul who cams In oontsot with him. It wss that which mads him greatest among many who wars great. Bo with growing affection and Undying reverence the whole country salutes George Weshlngtoa. . j. Prefeaear J. B. Bereer, oeeapylng Me rkilr f Utaretnre a ad Latla s tba Orrfoa a art. aultural eollsa. ta sway, aotabook ta hand and ramara In place, tot tha Holy land, a ad will write bla hopreealoa or the toer (or The Sunday Jouraal. air. Horner kaa the 06- aerTara m. tne yhUoeoylMr'e Tlalna and - arary-iaiiar-a - nan: k la latter will la atroet and entartala. Bla ara tails et ta fauoa te vaaaun. By J. B.r: Horner. . ' -yi ! LL ABOARD!" Is beard at . XX - r the Union depot,' and two pugnms begin to ride out a series of tickets to be punohed along the Una from Portland to Palestine punched In a dosen differ ent languages, within hearing distance of ths Englleh. aU- the, war. ... North America, Europe, Africa and Aeta will be touched, all within the 'Anglo-Saxon belt. Six hundred towns and cities will be passed, throe hundred of which will be along tne Aarerlean atretoh from Portland to Quebec. It requires six days hence the review of towns, mountains, rivers and prairies consists of a rapid succession of snapshots -ell kodsk work. so td speak, no opportunity for nicely focused . time exposures. . artistically selected and developed perfectly In Con trast ana astau. ' . The great boat at Xalama carries the entire train across the Columbia as gently aa the Indian mother In her canoa ones carried her little one over and laid it sweetly ssleap on the opposite Shore. The figure Is not far-fetched, for the little moving lty wa asleep when we crossed the Columbia. History knows so little of the Columbia. Like the Tiber the Columbia has been long un known and unsung for the want of a Llvy or a VlrglL and the American LlvyN ana .Virgil are yet unborn. , Daylight appears and aa the chan ticleer crows Chsucer spplauds because It also grows.- Ths Canterbury story of tne cnanucieer tnai.grew last and tip toed that he might . crow hla beat Is Chaucer's prophecy of, Tacoma. which grown ana crows with: all Ita might. Weatern Washington resembles west ern Oregon so closely that ons might think Some butcher had eome along with his great cleaver and chopped off a slice of Oregon to make Washington, and, by tne Dye, tnat was tne way or it, . Catacombs of America.' Aa the train pulls out of Seattle one la reminded that to visit the cataeomba of the old world an American must first pass through the catacombs of the new. ror tne blast or tna locomotive whistle announces a run through a tunnel a mile and a quarter long. ' I say tunneL be cause engineers uss that term. - But many centurlee hence, when means of transportation will have been changed by the magle touch of some American genius and the present system! will be in disuse, travelers visiting the accu mulated subways of New Tork, Chicago, Philadelphia and, Seattle will speak of the Amerloan catacombs. Tbe4lm for all this may be distant, but It la coming. And It Is not unreasonable to expect ere that that the -city will recede from tnnaa attractive Belmanta where It new la to the new-made land on the shore-below, with Us numerous canals and gondolas; and then thy T vanica At Mission Junction the engine whis tled - on Canadian soil, snrt an .officer naked: .-;.'-.'--. v. ' ""Are you' from Canada' or AmerlkerT Supposing that the aame rules of pro nunciation which insist, on Canada should also apply' to America I was thrown into a meditative mood. -"Are you from Canada or AmerikerT" again he asked. '' len't Canada In America I In quired,. ."No. air.-reott-ironL.cenaaejpr Amerikerr. : "1 suppose that Canada la etlll In the American eggahell." - "Not a bit of It, air;, ahe peeped through and broke out long since, Are you from Canada or AmerlkerX, I de mand of you for the fourth, and last time.' "WellyTns not front Xannyder." , ' .Then you're from Amerikerr-- ,1 suppose ' so," , wss . the , response grunted reluctantly,- because ths beau tiful name of my country had been viciously murdered In the pronunciation. But the maple leaf whlcn grows aouna antlv tn Oregon is everywhere la evl- SlrSiS pressed respect tendered the ofllcsr who Shovld Religion Be Tatipt in the n n By Sir Alfred Austin. " O one In t these daygtparouja. 1 presume, deny that . religious equality Is " e principle that should be sacred In -the eyes alike of the individual and the etate. t. In affect is it not being challenged and deviated from by many persona at this moment T n. mi can noaaibly be without a eras or 6olnlon concerning the relation . ta dean with the Unseen, In other ards- concerning religion; and that all oplntona on the subject Including thoss "sgnostlcs," must penorce " A prominent member of the cabinet, who ought to be able to think lucidly, but who on h, occasion seems to havs failed1! to do eo grants the foregoing conolualons, bet goes on to affirm that -It neceaaarlly follows thst! schools .ma h tha state, or by the grant of publio money, tnuet be aeeelar, Inaamuch " . ft A 1 a -M aa tha state muat oe nun -. -of religion." The lack of lucid thought arises here from the ambiguous use of ths word "nsutral." y ' There are two posslbls wsys for the -t.. a h. reaiiv neutral In the mattsr; Either (1) to allow that religious ssnll, msnt and opinion era of supreme Impor tance In aU teaching, even of tho oeten alble purely eeoular kind, and necosartly sntsr. directly or.lndlreotly, lato all suoh teaching, save of the abstrsot sciences; a. .erirm. whether explicitly or lm- -.nti. that it Is not of ths slightest eonssqusnce If they be.excluded from the. SSCUlsr. CUrTiepJUm n aitanaurj school a '- ' '". The State and the Parent From " ths" f irstif"lhess ii wo alterna- tivan it follows that ths atete muat con. suit snd abide by v the wishes of ths parents; from ths second, that ths wishes of the parents may legitimately be Ignored, and rellgioua opinion and religious ssntlmsnt may be treated as a superfluity, not to ssy a nulssnce. Are we, as a nation, prepared te adopt the second course T Ask Bishop Pottsr of New York, one of the most opsn-mlndsd of msn. what haa been the effect of, in large measure, adopting II In the United States. Ask -ths most serious men In France, even though they themselves may in- ellna tiwiM "na-nnatlnlam " what Is the result ef en enaloaoua course having eentlmenta It requires the Canadian Paeiflo Iron horse six working days to gallop across the continent Our calendar has been misplaced, and we And ourselves need lessly travsltng en Sunday. .. Thla at- rangsmsnt doss not pay the sightseer, who csn see more and appreciate It more fully by taking a day for sweet, invigorating rest once a .week. In lieu of a sermon -the .following waa offered by a fellow traveler familiarly known as Jack;- "After enjoying the" ahowera. of the Willamette valley I determined recently to go to- Egypt to dry out - They say It la hot enough' there ta dry et any body. Everybody gats dry in Egypt Ths glare of ths watsr and ths turning sands thst drive Fahrenheit into the aliade before breakfast evsry morning nave neating powers to be coveted by the most ambitious bake oven. Wise men have failed to explain why the towns In EsrVBt did nnt- tinrn im - dry before the slder Pharach axchangsd a nrsi-ciass throne for an Isolated cor ner wnere no might stand up as a seoond-oiass mummy. ' The - Pharaohs make Una mummlas In that hot climate. They succeed better as mummlas there than as kings. - If I wanted to pons as a mummy ana nave a pyramid for a monument I should go to Egypt and be a Pharaoh. , "A candid ' clergyman who recently Bailed up the Nile and trotted cameia aoouc tne pyramiae until united States greenbacks blistered In his vsst pocket told me Egypt Is so much like the re gion he had been preaching about so long tnat jie lert. and he confessed ft rs easy for hlra . now to eqntsmplats a literal Hades. A member of his con gregation testifies that as a result of travel the bitter as well as the pleasant la now vigorously held under the strong caicium iigni or ner pastors - sermons. Ths pastor has a . foretaste; been warmed up to the subject: and now ha preaches a genuine gold-etandard. 100-cents-on-the-dollar hell, t This Is .- ths American: Ides... '.-.:... Sufat-Coated Hopelessness. p "When the patient la alowly but eure- iy aying tne pnyaician speaks of the fading hope In sugsr-coated language so" as to make It easier for the linger ing eufferer. This la humane, for It leaeena pain when the skill of the physlcan and the strength of the euf ferer hsvs alike bowed helplessly at the shrine, of fate.. But when a man la merely wicked and Ie dally growing In tolerably worae to himaelf. to nis fam ily and to the best Interests of good society, hie pastor ought to- run him in like an Oregon officer . trots . wife beater up to a whipping peat, arid laah him . hard and long. - There le eome thins lively about It. and I enjoy It as long aa -It Is the other fellow. "Americana don't do things by halves. They want to think of a heaven that la heavenly; and .that they , may. enjoy heaven the more, they want to know of a helt.tbetJa too hellish for endurance. The - contrast . thereby Intensifies ths charms of the blissful abodo for them. The church has become a sort of Adam less -.Eden. -Where warm -heart-sermons have deteriorated Into Intellectual ser- monettee, without the 'traditional heat,. They are too tame to draw or drrvv men into chureh.- If your pastor falls to put enough fire -Into hie sermons, tell him to put more -heat 'Into hla Hades. Then, lf hs falla. aa a last resort, send him to Egypt for a epell to warm up; and he will be met at-the outer gates of Cairo, unless prior to- that time he who had left for cloudless) Egypt to dry out will have returned to the world-famed Wabfoot state wtth its soft aklea and never-falling rains to apend another season In aoaking up again." -World. Oreateat Tnif edy. . " In the panorama' viewed - from - ths Canadian Pacific Iron racetrack are ths Caacadea, the Selklrke. the Rocky moun tains and the Laurentlan chain. Osa and Psllon have been hurlej athotisand times against an Olympus ' here and there to form the Cascade ' range. The tearing up of the earth to build the Rocky mountains was the- greatest tragedy of tne woria.. ror inis cnain, sxtsnded on through . South - America under another name, la the backbone of this continent If ancient Greece had" been located lu the neehy anoun tains, mythology would have been 00 bean pursued, yet more absolutely Jn their, country, Turn to the volumes reoently pub- liahed by Mr, ShadweU on "Industrial Effloisncy," and there read hie statistics contrasting the appalling number of Illegitimate births and suicides la those parte of Germany where religious eenti- ment te more or less extinct with the paucity of either- In . those districts where religious sentiment la inculcated and prevails. But need ws resort to othsr countries in oruer 10 om aanoniiaaa 01 ins can- 1 ger of materialistic conception, as con treated with the divine Idea ef lifsT Mstsrlallam Is rampant la the land, the purault of wealth, luxury and diversion raging among men, and, alas, woman I know of nothing mors pethetio than the noble and self-sacrificing sfforts of thoss who era striving with all thslr might to mitigate these evils; evile that, by a wiser method of -education might, in large measure, have been anticipated and prevented; prevented by the early and continuous Inculcation of the worth lessnsss, nay. of the unworthlness, of the feverish chass for money, luxury and sxcltsmsnts as' compared with tha cherishing and pursuit of nobler pleas ures. r -."y y, , .- - - .1 , Life and Its laauea.. " Materialism not used In any eolen tifld or philosophic sense, but In Ita colloquial signification is to be con fronted and corrected only by more- ele vated notlone concerning what .makes life . worth llvipg-and slsvatsd reli gious feeling 'respecting llfs aad tta Issues, unless Inculcated In childhood. Is rarely acquired tn after ysare. Peace-loving, but- robust, patriotism, reverence-MJeelgnated by Shaksspeare, "that angel of ths world"- humility, urbanity In a word, aU the pieties are surely as Important elements tn educa tion ee the knowledge of how many pence go to the pound: and aa long aa there are hundreds of thousands of per sons who believe, rightly or the reverse, that these "plstles" cannot be duly In culcated apart from definite theological dogma, the stats Is bound to allow for that view Just as much aa for tho op posite on in other words, to treat de nominational schools and denomination al teaching as considerately and fairly as unasnomineuona permits no flirting with patriotically hla own. sbundant that there never could have been room for history. .. . - S Nine hundred miles of Laurentlan stone with watsr filled basins repre sents part of the run betwean Winni peg and Montreal. Ths basins have be come little lakes, and the exposed atone, decayed and turned to soil and clay, has been mantled prettily with meadows here and there, while low shrubs and birch and sprues of medium height are seen almost everywhere, . The lakes are alive -wish fish and ths forests abound in game aa Ideal rest for the business man or nerve-worn . teacher. . T!e forests are Increasing and ths lakeser gradually knitting together through the thousand veins thst time has worn Into streams beneath the surface. - Ia the slow washout; of agss thsss streams, are enlarging connecting the whole system until eventually It will be all one. and an advanced step will have been taken in tne creator's marveioua work of separating the land from the watera. The Third Day's Work. .; This stone nearly 1.000 mllea In length la another evidence that Ood'a tntrd flay-a work, of creation le still going on and that the - world le relatively-new. . Of this, svldanea In nature. is ample.' And the wayworn traveler le glad that he who made the land and the sea has told the story prettily in reve lation and then fully explained It In the volume of pature so that the mind of man can comprehend It mors fully. While the Bible - In , Natuns's mirror which ths author Is ever holding before ua that we may get some knowledge of his handiwork, the panorama which ths iron norse of the Canadian Pacific re vealed In the past two days, certainly helpa one ' to - understand It so that grester satlsfsotlon abides within. ' Montreal, with nearly 500,000 popula tion the British metropolis of '.America -ymua hum. wuiviuiif-a nauuiiu old city of colonial time with, electric ayatama or cars, paved streets, stone business blocks, splendid colleges . and universities, and inany-steepled ca thedrals. If one would hava the Impres sion of a city with msny churches, let him be en Mount Royal when a hundred bella are ringing In or tinging out the hours of labor. I heard them ring at morn, when chime were pealing forth from every part of the city. In thla tremendous orchestra there .were ths soprano notes, tuneful and melodious; ths alto. Plaintive but consollna: - tha tsnor. penetrating and ahrUl, like martial music; and the deep, grave tonea of the. great cathedral bella which rang slowly mm aoxoiogy or tno opening day, "Praise Out Lady of Snows. . ; y . IT you -would have an Idea ef Frnnna - and England amalgamated in America, visit . Montreal. But lf you want to see European city without going to Europe, visit Quebec, the ancient capital of New Franc. It la a quaint old waUed city often called the Gibraltar of America. The guide aava thst almost ovsry-PUllnlng In those antlaua and ter tuous streets has a story to tell, and hardly a foundation Is upturned without discovering some Implements of war wseor- oy savagery or cl ruination. A Canadian soldier escorting our Lnrtv- through the citadel pointed ta a relle vary precious to the British government. It te a cannon captured at Bunker Hlll.r The Britisher the brave -among the brave In war le often the moat con siderate In peace. When our escort saw considerably humiliated at the s1ght-OT-the"-trophy within a British fortification he remarked that the Ameri cana have numberless souvenirs of Ilka sort - Among those who - endured self denial at Quebec were Cartler. he dis coverer of Canada: Chamolaln. founder of Quebec: Frontenao, who derted Phlpps, the English admiral, when be demanded the surrender of ths city: tha aobla Montcalm; the victorious Wolfe, on tha plains of Abraham denied ths partici pation tn the glories of his victories by the summons of dsa'th with tha an- conquest fOeneraP Montgomery ana ssversi others whose names are forever connected not only with the history of Canada, but with the history of alt America. The etreeta. the architecture, the habits of ths people and the policy ef the government In Quebec are eo modeled after the Ideas of ths old country that I am led te ths - 1. amiu is uis next thing to a trip te Europe. What did even a pagan poet pray the gods to glvs to the youth of Rome D, pro bos mores docill Juvsntats ' . ;.'" date, ' , . . , ' 1 ... ... Et deous cmne briefly, tn English, all tho plstles. ' "The youth of a natlon.'r said the wlseet statesman-of -our time, "are the trustees of posterity": and a youth das tltuts of religious ssntlmsnt will as--suredly squander, one by one, the most preoloua bequests left ue by ths parent past w.-. ' - Only one brisf word more. History shows that no atatenman. anil hn si uuivui uiai is truly wise, ever quar- rels with rellgioua fasting. If thsv da their final fats Is certain. Thsy hart to go to Canossa, ' .4 Clvb in Dankrvptcy . ; at H , H . !,,....! (Continued from Preceding Page) to explain that the "maid" waa -a manl Now thla scandal had been known In tho elub for eome 41 1 tie time, and no resignations hsd resultsd therefrom. But on ths day following tho appear ance of the paragraph all ths remaining titled ladles withdrew, and 100-members followed - them, thus affording a de lightful manifestation of thslr high re gard both for the peeressss and ths proprieties. Some little time lster an other 100 stsmpeded because .the secre tary took tea In the drawing-room with one bf the members. -- The final blow waa dvilth when a member (Committed suloWe on tho premises. perhaps by way of empha sising her protest sgslnst mismanage ment whloh hsd brought the club Into disgrace, lr so, 11 provsa most effective. For weeks artsrwara tne clu brooms wore empty savs for ths servants. After a run iivi.ii . v 1 t saiuuwy vnuugu 10 ksep the clamorous creditors at bay, tha management threw up the aponge and decided to take the "benent . of the bankruptcy act . It raaaXse People. 'When a lawyer cannot make hla own will ao that It cannot be eonteated and a aollcltor when called tn la unable to a-uarantee .that a document. , aa drawn up by him, will asaurs the testator's wiihaa jiaine? carrier our. nv inirt from wishing to heln their family to sscape ths legal tangles incidental to dying Intestate, do men make wills at SUIT Schools? i 1 . v -
