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-? A flippant, " frivolooa man ,
may ridicule others, may con
. trovert - them, . ' acorn them;
' but h who hat any respect
for himaelf , seems to hav
renounced the right of think
taff meanly of others. - : -
THE BRYAN OF TODAY."
J. BRYAN must stand
; for a principle that will
' not be'' extinguished;
must be the exponent , of an. jdea of
wondrous "vitality,' must be something
that his millions of fellows are not
be still remains great in defeat 'v In
politics as In war, the vanquished is
expected to ' disappear before the
shouts of triumph greet the victor;
twice beaten for the highest office in
the land, Mr. Bryan has continued a
powerful factor in the political life
. Of this country for a decade; and it is
tile calm judgment o(, Mr. ; C E., S.
. - Wood that death alone "can rob the
Nebraskan of the presidency in 1908.
; In an article on "The Democracy
of W. J. Bryan, which Mr. Wood,
because o'f his freedom from parry
- slavery,' the judicial bent of his mind,
. the broad view of his mental outlook,
, and his independence of thought, was
asked to write for The Sunday Jour-
; tiafc, ah, estimate is given of the Ne
braskan that throws a new light on
Alhimnd-4n-the things for which he
j atandt. ' Y ''' ''''.'.'"' ";"J'-i ". :
i ; Mr.' Wood says Mr. Bryan has al-
; ... waya been; sincere; that his views on
, the causes of the financial serfdom of
! the common people were right m
T8967an(Tae stiUlrigEt; that he is the
' 1 man of the common people; that Lin-
coin would have stood on. the same
, platform with him; that he is a leader,
' , , not of political combinations,' but of
- thought and manhood; ; that lie
I ; Roosevelt is trying to enforce in a
partial way the very principles which
Bryan wrote In his platform long
ago; that fee is safer than Roosevelt,
because less, Impulsive; and that he is
' the champion of the citizenry of
'America against T the - aggression of
. special privilege. t Mr. " Wood also
believes that Bryan is a statesman
. - These are strange words .to be 1
t penned by C E. S. Wood, who.re
J ., volted against Mr Bryan's financial
J - theories in 1896; and they are inter
t eiing as suggesting the remarkable
.change that baa taken ' place in the
minds. of the leading thinkers of the
i , country toward the great Commoner.
THE VACATIONERS, t
HERE ARE vacations arid va-.-cations.
- We - cannot help
pitying a good many people
who take a vacation they make such
hard work of it ' To take a real, en
joyable vacation, one should quit
thinking, should worry about nothing,
past,- present or future, should float
into his vacation "as a feather is
wafted downward from an eagle in
hs flight"; let the world "go hang";
drift out into a casual corner and for
get and be forgotten. Eat, smoke if
f ?' yon like, dream, love God, nature and
1I created things, but don't bother
i about them.
,v Listen' to the leaves. Lie down
f .'. flat and let the summer breese fan
' ' youi, it doesn't cost you a cent
j Tfcere Is a glory in the harvest moon
I' , that you never, noticed before. The
j ; bird will light on your upturned toes
; u and chant you an prison more musical
than any ever heard in anv cathedral.
If. , - w
A Virgin angel, if you close your eyes,
will wing downward and kiss you and
you Will be purer ever afterward.
. 'Fish a Jittle if youlike-Maybe
','luht" :aday or two. But for - the
most ' part, loaf.. . Dream. Let God
in. Be happy. Don't worry. Learn
: t&at everything it nearly right and if
not is" getting better. JDon't try to
reform the world all at oncev Love
your wife, or. husband. Be careful
without worrying about your chil-
. dren. ' Never think about the price of
hops or wheat Don't dig your po
tatoes till fall. . v , ;
There is an ill-begotten idea in
some (minds that a vacation should be
a change of work that th a mortal
ahould be--somehow atamefulty ' busy
until like Mr. Sage, and others, be is
laid in his coffin. A murrain on such
'i iiu. &at wxi filax. ,Wp;k not
at alt,' during vacation. Gean up and
let the angels kiss you.' If you work
at all, scrub your soul and let a lot
of 'sunshine in. Speak gentle words
to . whomsoever is-' about you. Be
vacuous a '.. little while. - It : was
Charles Lstnb, we believe, who said
that he liked to "let his mind bpbulate
in a vicuum." ! v'This is the philosophy
of a vscstion, . Nine tenth of the peo
pie make hard work out of it., .The
thing is good for nothing if you can't
rest and play, and loaf and be eay.
Go out to grass. ' Get tinder the
trees. . Hear the rippling of the rills.
Lie down on the sws,rd and dream
that you are young and innocent
again and be so. .,' Get wet.; -i Get
warm. Get chilly. Let Mother' Na
ture get ; her' arms right "'round yu.
Never think of a dollar. ; ' .
Why, three quarters , of you can
have a better vacation than John D.
RockefeHerT ,Ktngaak6nTlght
here in Oregon, if you, would try or,
rather, it you wouldn't try so hard. '
Screed against smoking.
THERE is a crusade, according
r; to f the Baltimore J Newa,
against the man or boy who
smokes. We were "aware' that' this
was so aa ,tp the youthful cigarette
smoker, but according to ' the Bal
timore paper all amokers are under
the ban. V It says:" - t -" - r.' -
Thaa are evil day a for the man who
smokea. Everybody ntni to b aralnat
him. Ratlroada are prohlblMng thtlr em
ployea from ualna tobaeco whllo on
duty. '' Bualnaaa houaa object to the
eractloe altoaather. or they (at apart
eartata rooms and apeelfy eortatn hours
whoro and whoa jamployos may Indulao.
School booka are fllled with dlAsTaraa
ahowlng; th pernicious ayatom. and tha
Anti-Tobacco leaauo la ovor aetlvo. Bvon
the United Railways aooma to be con
spiring with the aatia, (or In tha nn
new cars with which thoy 'have ' ro
eently equipped a number of their llnea
the aooommodatlona for amokers have
been ruthlessly cut down.
Smoking is a Tile habit ana should be
prohibited by law. . ,
This seems to ns an extreme view.
It is not certain .'that 'a moderate
amount of smoking is physically in
jurious; many: physicians claim .that
in some cases it is beneficial Nor is
pipe- or cigar disagreeable ' to the
average person. Probably mankind
would be better' off if tobacco were
not used at all; but we cannot indorse
the statement that "smoking should
be prohibited by law," and are sur
prised that so conservative a paper as
the ' Baltimore News should ' have
-mady-it" - ' r ,' ' ' " ' " '
: Cigarettes, ' for reasons that have
been often stated and are well known,
are. objectionable, and it may aafcly
be said that the boy who is a' cig
arette "fiend" lessens his chances of
success in life; but a decent cigar or
an after-dinner pipe the law will long
tolerate.,- ; : VV;,,V.
,'' III! W -t-t,
A LITTLE SUNDAY , SERMON.
For thua aalth the Ood of hoata, the
Ood of Israel: House end Aelds and
vloayards shell be posaeesed again In
thta laud. Jar ml&h xzxU: It. ,
TJE EXACT PROPHECY has
not yet come quite true,-yet
x Jeremiah prophesied truly;
there shall be yet in Tudea Jlouses
and fields anj vineyards." V '
Yet the seer , did ' not look far
enough af ild. He loved- his own
country -his Valley and mountain
land,' and its peculiar people, and he
said what goodword" fie could for
them. "Houses arid fields and vine
yards, he said they should possess.
He said nothing of great cities, of
sky-scraping steel structures, of paved
streets;" his 7 vision of : future hspn
piness for his beloved people was of
"houses and fields and vineyards." -.
A house to live in, a field or two
where grows the grass and grain, a
patch of potatoes . and ' other veg
etables, -a vineyard where in the fall
you can freely .pluck the luscious
grape, a few fat kin, the boasting
outburst of chanticleer, a new-laid
egg, the housewife brewing with up
rolled sleeves the morning coffee-Mi
"house and a field and a vineyard"
, . . j-..-' ,
wnai a vision oi aeiigutsomencss ana
bliss that wasl , ' . '.'
We are sorry , for Jeremiah. . We
believe he had a vision of southern
Oregon. We think in k vision he
viewed the promised land." If ia not
fn the .valleys of Judea, unless with
irrigation, but it is in Oregon.
The "Sunday Sermon" then is this:
Appreciate and rightly enjoy the
"house, the field and the vineyard."
Cultivate- and -lovii -nature's- - gifts.
There is a song in' every bleat of a
lamb; a prayer in every movement
of a brute, a song in every wsvement
of a leaf I - - ; -:' '
A. house, a field and a vineyard
they-are better than a church and
bank and a courthouse I : ..
.There, in house, field end vineyard,
you can work', yon an worship, you
can grow;-you can be true to nature
and to "nature's God." v
In considering the many things that
srf proving Portland the arestest city
on the coast the student of cause and
effect should not overlook the bank
clearings. The week ending July 26,
1905, yu considered in a class by it-
Wtat Is PortlandV Greatest" Need?
MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE BOARD TELL JOURNAL READ-
.- 1 ERS WHAT WOULD IMPROVE ROSE CITY.
Emergency Hospital: R. L. Sabin.
R. U gabln,' screUrr of the ' Mer
chants' Protective association and m am
ber of the nolle committee of the ax
eoatlv board. - beileres that the most
urrent need of the city la better accom
modations for prisoners and an emerg
ency hospital or a surgical chamber in
connection with tbo-elty Jail. . .'
"It Is poor economy for the city to
poison Itself by baring a JaU which Is
not only unsanitary, but entirely too
small for th needs of th city, which
Is rapidly growing. ' Th JaU Is perhaps
as goo aa It can be made, but lacks air
apace, light and proper ventilation. It
was improved some years ago by th
addition of a cement floor, steel cells,
etc., but notwithstanding this a new
building ia certainly on of th city's
most urgent needs, .
"Certain thing should b provided at
the earl laat possible date and without
waiting for ' a nw building. Thar
should be connected with the Jail an
emergency hospital. . Tew. people realise
th number of oaaea requiring immedi
ate surgical aid to preserv th Uvea of
men Injured in accidents. . There is no
plae lit for a aurgioal operation within
th elty JaU and private hospitals often
object to accepting Jail cases. ,
On or two eells should be "provided
for th violently insane. Every now and
thaa men suffering from delirium tre
mens ar taken to th JalF and are hard
to handle, oia can hardly blame th
private hospitals for not wishing to
take these cases because of th disturb
ance th sufferers make.,
"Furthermore, th JaU should be made
self; we had. the exposition then, and
the vast crowds that made-that great
enterprise a wonderful success and
yet the bank clearings for the corre
sponding week one year later were
over . 30 per cent greater, and there
was nothing to cause this but the
quiet, natural, steady growth of Port
land.; Were it not for the fact that
we fear we might be charged with
crowing over the many signs of our
prosperity and progress, we would
say that our percentage of increase
is much greater than that of Tacoma,
Seattle, or: Los.:Angeles.We.- wjll,
however, disarm criticism, and draw
the sting of envy by stating that oar
little friend, Seattle, showa an in
crease of 24 per cent; Los Anegles 5
per cent, and Tacoma ' 8 per - cent
These figures are, very satisfying, and
Portland congratulates her sister cit
ies on their growth. ' -
f AN IMPORTANT DUTY.
JCIIEA1U31-Jatjieenljaii
and written about the de
struction of burdocks, this
tles and other noxious weeds in Port
landand not too much has been
said and written. iUZl: ,1111-- "
There are acres of them, in the ag
gregate.. " They are "' ripening " and
flourishing now. There are lota of
them, blocks of them, , millions of
them. Do yon think they are pretty?
The thing to do, and it ought to be
done now, is to destroy these noxious.
noisome weeds, all over town. Cot
them down I .Burn them upl ';
Plant, potatoes and sweet peas or
sow lawn grassar-anything decent and
dean and sweet, but kill the weeds. ,;
We said that this is an "important
duty.It is. Every good 7 citizen
should help perform it " 1
Let us have a holocaust of bur
docks, a hallelujah of consumed this
tles, a resurrection of roses, sweet
peas and green grass, a wonder of
dean vacant lots I -
Clean upl Portland is a splendid
city. .. It ought to be proud t itself.
It owes it to itself, and every person
within its wide gates owes it to him
self to f - .-.r ;.
Clesn upl ; '
Get rid of the weeds. Let's do it
this summer .-.",...
Nowl ' '; -!
EIGHTY 'MILLION DOLLARS.
Died
In His Eightieth ) Year of Old Age
; Russell Sage.
HE LEFT EIGHTY MILLION
'"v ' dollars. -y :
TIHERE ts an epitaph and an
. indictment . Think of it you
boys who would write on the
heavens with the quick lightning of
youf '"desires " the' story of your
mighty deeds. Yon men in your
prime with all your ambitiona active,
you middle-aged who are guiding the
motor-car of Success, you old men
who arc still planning an eternity of
work hr an ever-nirrowiogliofiioft-
after his ,80 years of splendid oppor
tunity, all we can say of Russell Sage
is: He left ' eighty million dollars.
Thst isn't much to say it it? ' 1
Russell Sage was a trader and a
lender. . He began by making people
believe that his old horses were as
good.ss new; and ended by lending
money at 95 per cent The misfor
tunes and necessities of others were
among the things that made Russell
Ssge wealthy; every financial disturb
ance added to his riches; after every
commercial i and , industrial storm
Russell Sage was the beach comber
who gathered the flotsam and jetsam.
, No one has ever said that Russell
Sage had a gsnsiojn impulse. : Jit
jt"n h
"Si
R. L. Sabin.
aa sanitary aa possible. Thar la no
doubt that th present building Is en
tirely inadequate, and I would suggest
before au other things a better olty
jail.-
fought the claim of the wreak' of t
man who saved his life when a crazed
pauper threw a bomb at him. Ht
was a solitary; hit only friends were
the dollar and cent kind; he livedu
an alley, at one end of which stood
his office; his parlor was furnishe'd
with desks and tape wheels. He did
notknow a daisy from a violet; his fa
vorite book was his ledger; hit favorite
occupation counting his profits; the
only literature he enjoyed was the
story of the day's market report He
made money so fast that he could
not find investment for it nd hit
cousin is ia an eastern poorhouse,
, 1 be funeral of Russell bsge was
private. For his $80,000,000 he got a
$25,000 steel-lined tomb, a column in
the daily papers telling how .he made
his money, and the epitaph quoted.
Not very much for $80,000,000, ia it?
The Journal publishes today the
names of some firemen they are on
the roll of honor of the Portland de
pertinent who deserve to be rcmem
betedJor-ihek-gQad. deeds longjifter
Russell Sage is forgotten, despite the
$80,000,000 he left - . v : f'-.
No one will disagree with the
friends of Mr. Taft who say that the
"distinguished abilities of the secre
tary of war are inch that he would
acceptably fill any position to which
he might be called." That it true;
the nation Jias no position to give
out that a 325-pound man could not
fin.-.. i.
The statement that Dreyfus got hit
face slapped has been l denied by
Dreyfus, by the man who was said
to have done the slapping, by the peo
ple who would have seen the incident
if it had been givn. and in fact by
everyone except the correspondent
who wrote thejtory,
Special Isaue of Pasco Express.
The .' Pasoo Express has ' issued an
Illustrated souvenir edition, whlob
should be In th hands of every lover of
Pasfo, Franklin eounty, and th state of
Washington. It tells a capital story
of the rise and growth of a splendid
part of th northwest, and proves Its
statements of th remarkable progress
of th county by figures and pictures,
which, however amaalng they may be,
ar at th same time convincing. The
whole state of Washington shows an
Increase of population sine 100 of
ovr SI per cent. Franklin county has
Increased (50 per cent In th last five
years. Whatever has seemed best for
his town, , eounty and state has bean
published by Sdltor -Olexentannen and
the result has been th gathering to
gether in convenient form of a great
mass of matter that must be Invaluable
to people who are seeking Information
on th bast places In -Washington In
which to settle. A fin description of
the - Pasoo-Paloua irrigation projeot Is
on of th featurea of th issue.
; ' - Wiae Suggestion. - ,
" From the Welner Wltiblatt
Ther ar still remote districts In
Austria where th country apothecary
acts as a doctor and urns the old-fashioned
remedies, i Recently on of these
elderly practitioners was summoned in
hast to see a postilion who was dowa
with fvr. ' Th apothecary had had a
long sitting in th village beer house
and left bis boon companions re
luctantly. V
He prescribed leeches for his patient
but la spit of all his efforts th leech
refVeed to ettok, and finally th doetre
patience waa exhausted and he was
about to give up th Job, when his wife,
who had been watehlnghlm with a gap
ing mouth, suddenly said: "Wouldn't it
be better, Herr Doctor, if my husband's
leather breech were taken off first T"
Dog Carries Idaho -MalL
From the Walla Walla Statesman. -Lucifer.,
the big St. Bernard dog em
ployed In carrying mail from Halley.
Idaho, to 1 corral, aa inland town, i
years old, and it seras -likely that he
will have a stesoy Job In coming
winters drawing his aled over the snow
on th lt-mlt round trip he Is making
dally between th point mentioned.
sir. Floyd's contract provide penalty
In ease malls ar not dellvesed on time
eech day, - Lucifer baa saved many -dol
lar by aiding his. master in trans
portation of th mills In a sled fitted
up with suitable harness. Th faith
ful Bt Bernard baa no difficulty , la
drawing th aled, and often has more
than 190 poaaes ,ec nail en the load, -
Lan ding tke Fist.
-v ' ' .'. By Wax Jonts. .'
. Jack Spott waa a nice fellow, and
he had barrels of money; at least hi
father had. Tom King waa a nice fel
low, too, and he had barrels Of money,
or hit father had, - - , - , . :
, .Ethel thought a lot Of each of them
and ah waa as nice as ah could be to
both, but somehow or other neither Jack
aor Tom would com lo th point whert
one -discusses, the residential merits of
Jereey or Long Island; y
- The summer was slipping by without
th sign of a proposal, and Ethel began
to grow unhappy. Bo one evening she
wrote two letters short letters, put
run. or meaning, one ran: . .
J3ar Tom (--promised to glv you
my reply tonight. J am sorry to hurt
you but, Tom. I love another. I may
as well tell you It's that adorable, ath
letlo boy you've seen me with several
times, Jack Spott. I shall always n-
aeavor to be a true sister to you.
.'.'t . "ETHEL.'
' Then Ethel wrot another . latter.
worded just th aame, except that it be
gan "Beat - Jack. and- lefeirad to Torn
King aa the adorable athlet. -. Then she
took th letters, out -te tha noatofflc.
carelessly getting Tom's letter Into the
nvlop addressed to Jack, and Jack's
letter, or aourse, into Tom King's en
velope. . ,
- Next morning Jack Spott opened his
man.-' . - .
"That ehlck King proposed to Ethel t'
ha cried. "And she loves me! , There
may b tim..; ." v
. Tom King opened his letter:' . 7
: "That - scrub of a two-Spott)' be
cried. "Proposed to Ethel, indeed! And
she loves him! Ther may be time."
Ethel had Just accepted th panting
Jack , Spott when Tom King burst
breathlesaly into th room.
, "Too late," she murmured sweetly,
- "And to think, dear," said Jack, after
Tom had gone "to the devil," as be bad
bitterly announced his destination, "to
think that I might never have won you
If that letter hadn't got Into th wrong
envelope."" ...;.. ,
. "Just think of !t, dear." answered
Ethel. "Wasn't it Just luckr
And over his shoulder ah winked at
herself In the glass. , -
.;"V'.-r.i The Cricket.
i -By William Cbwper. -
Little inmate, full of mirth. .
Chirping on my kitchen hearth, t ,
wneresoe er n mine anode .
Always harbinger of good, ' .
Pay me for thy warm retreat . ; -With
a song more soft and sweet;'
In return thou shall receive .
Such a strain aa I can glv. .
Thus-thy praise shall be expressed,
Inoffensive, welcome guest!
While th rat la on th scout
And th mouse with curious snout, '
With what vermin else Infest
Every dish, and spoil th best;
Frisking thus befor th fir. ' '
Thou hast all thy hefrt's desire.
Though In vote and shape they be
Formed aa It akin to thee,.
Thou aurpassest happier far, - -Happiest
grasshoppers that are)
Their Is but a summer's song
Thin sndures the winter long. ,
Unimpaired and shrill and clear, ,
Melody throughout th year,. ; -
Neither night nor fawn of day
Puts a period to thy play: - ;,.
Sing then end'extend thy span ',
Far beyond .th date of man.
Wretched man, whose years are spent
In repining dlsoontsnt, -Lives
not aged though he be,
Hal a span, compared with the.
The Lumber of the Southwest
The lumber Industrie of this country
have now reached a point whan they
must turn-their atteaton to southern
and Pacific state for th future sup
ply of timber. In a recent report of
th Census Bulletin, th estimated quan
tity . of - merchantable timber on lands
owned by lumberman was sit.ooo.ooo,
Oe feet; f this amount sJ.OOv.000.000
f et aur found in the southern group of
states, while the states of California,
Oregon and Washington ar estimated
to have 7S,vvM00.S0 feet. It Is worthy
of not la this connection that while
tha general average for th entire coun
try of merchantable -timber- per acre 1a
S.700 feet, th average for th Paolflo
states ia 14, (OA feet, an indication of th
sis of th. gigantic redwood tree for
which that part of th country la Justly
famous.',.
,-" Unique Cane.
::' From th Nw Tork Globe.
A Holland house patron la th posses
sor of a walking cane that 1 unique in
on respect. Its hollow silver handl Is
shaped Ilka a aoorknotj. the top opening
and closing on a hlnga. A sliver tub
fastened to th has or tn xnoo ex
tends about four Inches inside of th
cigar ash. 1 . ' . .
"It ia an- invention Of my own," aald
th owner. "I find it a mighty useful
thing When traveling. Cigar ash, you
know, can't b batn aa tooth . powder.
It both preserves th teeth and keeps
them white.. As I amok on an average
six cigars a day. I thought it a pity to
throw away so valuable a constituent as
th ash. Evsry tlm I am stroking a
cigar and hav my can handy I open
th handl and drop th ash in."
Pretty Girls, and Advertising.
There la nothing like advertising. A
short tlm ago a Boston paper hunted
up on of th pretty girls of th Hub
and printed her picture, declaring that
she was th most beautiful girl in
Massachusetts. - Within the next 10 daya
she had too offer of marriage, aaya th
National - Advertiser,
A paper In Virginia, taking a hint
from this, printed the photos of two
famous beauties and offered a prise
to the oaa having th greatest number
f offers of marries within 14 hours
after th portraits wer published. Th
offers pourd in by th doaens and on
beat th other by three, and th prise
waa duly awarded. Allof -which shows
that th ordinary mortal doesn't recog
nise a good thing until its merits have
bees exploited In th dally press.
'Problemt inWages.
a nmhlaa . now under dlacuaalnn In
England Is that of basing th wag1 of
operative In textll Industries upon th
profits accruing to tne capital employed.
A conciliation board na worked out
a partial solution, the first step . In
which Is the fixing of a standard rate
quel to that paid befor th last ad
vene . of per tent. When ther Is
an Increased return on th capital of S
per cent above th fixed rat of profit,
then ther Is to b an Inoreas in
wages, but no advance or reduction of
waga is to bs mad unless th rise or
fall In profit, as the case - may be
reaches at least I per cent.
The worklngmen find some difficulty
In understanding the proposition, but
the opinion la generally sxprsed that
som basis will b reached 01 a aatta
faetery, understanding. .
A Sermon
PROFESSIONAL
, V By Henry F. Cop. '
fBy their fruits shall ye know thro.
Matt. ,vil:l. ' . ,v. ,. -.
rTTHERI la a good deal more r
I . liglon In the world than w
' - aomatlmes ; think. True, many
- assume they hay succeeded In
classifying and pigeonholing the world's
supply. But you might as well think
that truth is to be found only attached
to affidavits as to tmagln that . re
ligion can be Identified by label. No
matter what aystem of classification w
may use. there stilt la a great deal of
true religion that gets through th
meshes of our sieves. - - .
Th higher you go In the scale f
things the greater the difficulty in
their classification. ' There are Indefi
nitely more shadss of difference be
tween men than amongst rocks, and
when jrou coma -Into the world of ideas
and motive and attempt to arrange and
label thing of th spirit only ignorance
feel Itself capable of the task. '
Blnce religion is neither a ' button,
garb, or other Inanimate thing, nor a
style or cult, nor a theory or -a philos
ophy,, but is a matter of attitude of a
lite, its classification is- possible, only
to th on who sees all haerte.- , .
Rellnton ia the recognition of vital
relations to th infinite; it I th f lad
ing in these relations of motives that
seek to establish right relations to all
things, to nature, to -man, and to our.
selves, : A man ia religious, In th pro
portion as -beVscta thee relations first
in life, aa a seta the development' of
hi own Ufa, th cultivation of likeness
to th beat revealed, the application of
th best thus cultivated to. the good, of
his fellows, to th bringing of th king
dom of right relatione In this world.
He ia religious who lives up and lifts
up; he is irreligious who lives down or
drags down. Vital testa are th only
poaslbl one here. - ' It make no dif
ference what your accent or your garb;
It makes-no dlfremnc what your phil
osophy of th past -w th future, what
your familiarity-with the family his
tory of th deity, th law of life Judge
you by the tr of your life and by th
fruit it bear. - '
Religion la not a typ of mind; it is
th trend of a life. A man may .be a
beggar or a king, hard-headed or tender
hearted, practical or speculative, motor
or sensory; It make no difference what
hi temperament or taste, h may atlll
seek th right, love truth, cherish high
Hy mr sto-Know.-
. God It Love.'."-
By Sir JohniBowrlng. "
(Sir John Bowring. LL. P. (Exeter,
England. October 17. 17 November
II. 187J), a dlatingulahed linguist and
nolltlcal writer, waa th author of a
number of excellent hymns. Including
the well known "In tha Cross or cnnsi
aiorv." - Hs wss a member or parlia
ment, and waa knighted by Queen Vic
toria In lit. He waa known as a Uni
tarian in faith, but this hymn, aa well
aa many othera whloh , he wrote, has
been adopted by nearly au ennrcnos.
"Ood-fe
lar songs today In. England and her
colonies, especially ' In the . Sunday
school. ;- 'j -. ;V' ;,..-',:-:".y ,
Ood Is love; hi mercy brightens , ,
AU th path In which w rove;
Bliss he wake and wo he lightens; .
Ood Is wisdom, Ood is love. -
Chance and change are busy even :
Man decays, and ages move;
But his mercy waneth nvr; ; ,
Ood la wisdom, uoa is love. -
Ev'n the hour that darkest aeemeth, -Will
his chsngsless goodnes prove:
From th gleom his brightness stream-
- tn,
Ood la wisdom, Ood ia love. 1
He with earthly care entwineth -
Hop and comfort from above; ,
Everywhere his glory ahlneth: ,
uoa is wisoom, uou is iov.
Women Coin Jesters. ' ;V ;. ' ' ,',
The adjusting of th coin Is th most
Interesting part of th Whole process.
This requires a delleauness of touoh
whloh is more highly developed . in
woman than In man, and on sooount of
her superior, qualification In this re
spect this department 1 In her charge.
Here th coin is first "ssiectee"-tnai
is, pieces which show th slightest im
perfection or roughness are thrown out;
those which pass successruuy tnrougn
th skilled fingers ar aent to th lopg
tablea where another, set of women
weigh each on on delicate scales. If a
coin is light it la thrown out to be re
melted. Som of these women have be
come so expert aa to handle 1,000 pieces
day. ...... ' '('
The coins ar next fad to th milling
machines, this work also being done by
women. The plancheta are put Into th
Instrument by means of a tube, aad a
they descend they ar caught upon a re
volving whel and the edg la com
pressed and forced up. At Uaat 100
dimes can be milled in the ahort space
of a minute. About SO women era em
ployed In these two room. . .
' .Prince Tired, of Life.
From shesf boredom and lack of fa
cilities for amusement, Prino OunlloJ
son of th xlld ex-king of Dahomey,
attempted to commit sulsld at Algiers
recently by drinking a deooetion of
match heada. "
He hsrs hi rath!" axil, ana as
th French government haa kept th
family1 short of funds, the young prino
moped all day for . want of something
to do. , . T
He got several hundred matches re
cently, cut th phosphorus heads off.
and boiled them down. ,Thn h swal
lowed th decoction, but th pain waa
so great that '. h could not, bear It la
silence.
His cries brought bip just in tim
to save- hie life, aad he la now out ef
danger. He aald his llf waa not worth
living without amusement. . ."
His fathsr, Ex-Klug uenansin, sur
fers from Brlght's disease, and th
doctors declare that the Algerian cli
mate doe not suit him. - It Is probable
that th minister of colonies wilt con
sider whether th king and his son ean
not be permitted to return to their
country. (. ' .:,;("
. ; i i i i' - ; '
. , J)eath in the "Alps. ''t,
Many tragedies are " reported le very
day In the Alps. On July IB Frans Bren-
nlg, a Vienna manufacturer, was found
dsad at the foot of a precipice iOO feet
deep la the Austrian Alps.
Two students . named wagner and
Oahler have bn missing; for several
davs. Numerous search parties ere out,
but there Is little .hop of rescuing the
youths alive. . .
Another climber named Hadwinger
fell (0 feet down a precipice, where he
lay In bad weather and without food for
40 hour pafore he waa rescu ,
for Today
RELIGION.
ideals, work in harmony with tha Infl. .
nlte. recognise th spiritual by peeking
to grow out of the base. -
fcuch a religion cannot be confined to
a division or a department of the life.
The segregation of religion to Sundays
has been successful but in starving it
to death. It would b a strange man .
who should hang out a sign - aaylng, -"Thla
Is my -truthful day." He would ,
not find the world especially impressed
with his honor on that or any other day. ,
He who la not religious every day is
not religious. -.. - . ' "
. Such religion will hot need to express
itself In garb; A man's strength doea -not
depend on the cut of his coat.. Th
only thing In your clothe that psrttcu- ;
larly i matter- te - your religion la
whether the bills ar paid. Tet ther
sre a good many men who feel surs thsy
would go straight to glory If thsy .should -die
with their religious coats on.
A man' plaoe In another world de
pends on his progress in this. If ther' .
hss been In him a life that has grown
toward th beat. If he ha been morally
what h has beeri physically, on devel-,'
oping from weakness to strength, from .
Ignorance to wisdom, from th typically
animal to th human, he is then ready ,
for th next step In life; but if hi II f
has been spent -r In gathering baubles,
stilts and paddings, titles and trappings,
all theae should b stripped from hlm( -no
matter how holy their names may be, "
and h shall stand a poor, dwarfed, un- ,
developed soul, unprepared for- llf be- -cause
)t has not lived. '
If a man would know whether h la
religious, let htm not . ask whether he
feel tide of emotion.' whether he haa
his name enarossed on charity list or "
church rolls, whether he be well armed
for. theological polemics; let him ask '
whether the supreme-thing In his llf
Is th finding of th good, th serving
of the best, the will of th most high.
Joy, and peace, of kindness. Inspiration "
and holiness. - ' '
The things within make tne things
without- You cannot put your religion
on. : A new. coat - will not make you
healthy. Turn your face to th light ,
and you shall know th truth; set th
things you' know to "be bass beneath -your
feet; seek touch with the divine
and infinite; leave life's doors open to
the things that ar lovely and of good
report: serve your fellows with a fre
heart and your religion will Uk care .
of Itself. . -
TtSentence1Sermons.1
. r , . . sr Henry F. Cop. -Convenience
often poses aa conscience.
' The honest cask doea not fear the
knocker. ,
TJnls you lay out your'"worlt,"your "
work will lay you out.
.-'.:,-.- e , e .- ; ' ' .'
- Oily words easily gush from rocky and
barren harta. - - ; ,; . .- , .
';, .',..,. . ; "
It doesn't take many bracer to make
a hinder..,, i;. ,-a;.,. ..a, -u I
dationa for a full-grown heart. .. ,
- ; - ' . .';:..'
The.. tears that . accompany a choking
up process ar net always those of re
pentance. . ; . ' C ' . '
Tou cannot proveyour grit by throw
Ing sand Into the jfrorld's sores. .
. f .
.The thing you look at in private de
termine what you look like In public.
, ' , . ..v . '.'. 1
Jump at a conclusion and you will
flrrd confusion. . -. 1 .
, . e e . .. , ... .' ' ,
Many a door of opportunity I closed
to a man on account of his Imagined
oheat measure, .
e e - .
' Many a man thinks h la spiritual be
eause he has forgotten how to b
natural. '
j : e. a ' ....... . .
' While sympathy walta for second
thoughts selflshnees gets th floor. -
a .;.. - - Y
- Tou ean discount th patriotism that
never warms up tlllv the poeketbook is -in
danger. s w
" e ..
.Trouble la the only' thing that come
In answer to th prayer for something
to turn up. ' . ... '
. - .-- a- ,- .. , '
Th man who haa brains back of hie
forehead never needs to bother as to
how the front of It looks. '
, . ,."
-'N man ever made-enough' money te -
build a mausoleum for his guilty past.
, '- U . e e , . , ...
' The man who - is sitting hard on
thorn In his own lot has a fine appre
ciation of his neighbor's roots.
.
If you can keep sweet in a world
where selfishness Is turning men sour,
you are doing more 'toward ita enrich
ing than all the silver mines of all the
agea.-
; Wealth in Ireland
Th faot that a moneyed syndicate It
about to develop som of the copper
mines of Ireland appear to hav oaused ' "
surprise. . Sixty years ago th "develop-
ment" was a fun blast One mine
alot.e In . Wlcklow was producing ita,
t.OOO tona of copper ore per annum.
Thr remain gold in Ireland, th mln- - -rnlogista
tell us; not perhaps to any
stent In th rocks, but in unexplored
gravels, to say nothing of the tomb of
dead king and chieftain. Ireland haa
her pearls, too, though they ar neither
better . nor wore thaa those which ,
brought Caesar to th coasts of Britain.
Sir Francis Doyle went to tits grave be-
Having that Ireland haa other unknown .
treasures. - On of hi friend in th '
habit of buying pearl picked up by
children on the shoree of Lough Erne, '
cams one day In this manner Into poa-s
session of what at first seemed a value -leaa
pebble. -That pebble, when exam- v
Ined by a Jeweler, proved te be a fine
diamond, and Sir Francis believed that
ther are deposits of native gema hidden
la th distressful country. .
'::,: Motquitolett Cities. C- .
. i Over In Europe there are many happy
towns where the not ef th moaquito la
neter heard.1 .'But In America th altlea - :
thlch . ean elalm to be - tnosquitoless
ould not run up to a doaan. Health- .
Culture- says that Denver ia on of -them,
and, Strang to ear. Orand Rapids,
Michigan, only a short way from the
gnat Oe hennas of Lake Superior, la an- -ether.
,
- Th explanation is that 'the elty ie '
built en hilloeke-ef drift and eo deep -
and so finely pulverised that they ab
sorb moisture like tissue paper. Stag- ,
aant water doee not get a ghost of a
chance to scoumulat and mosqultoea
hav carried their cargo of miorobea t
more eOnganisl mark eta