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Editorial Page of The Journal , 3 THE JOURNAL " AM INDEPENDENT mwsrarae; P. a JACKSON . ...rafctUfcer fabllakeS rrrr areata leicapt 'h'd.'L ' Mui. ! rtiA Jnarsal Be! as 114- u, rut ui Yaemui mw rorit". SMtereS at the aoeterrtee at Porttaaa. Or, for tiMnniHiaa taraexk Um Mb. as eecoaa-eiaea tjcpbon-main tit. ' " All Sepal Imaata rearfces by thla mntafc tee operator tM eepartaieat yoe west. T0 POBRION ADVCRTISINO BBPHMBNTATTTI .VreelaBS Beajamla Special AaartUln tnw. 1M mm wmI, Mw XatkS TOM" U, Colnwa. Sabarrtpttoa Tarme by ,n 4lr" to tfee CaiteS States. Canada at Mazlaat Om paw. ........ as eo I Oh swats ..I SUNDAY , . Om rear........ .03.00 I On aieeta I . DAILY AND SCNDAT Om m IT.60 I On matft I M Ihc JOURNAL WOKS CttCOXATHW. -ferssyv 1S0T, oomunn katzxzxt ielraary, IMt, Sally average.. Iseraary, last, Sail? averace.. Mm ...U.M4 els ta tka yea (tally average)... .! Tba Joenial'fC tba ealy Sally paper ta Faniaad that glvee etrrolttloe facta aad HiraiM to tba pa bile, foil ana rreelr la abort, aiakaa Ita raeorda aa oee book. Bar f every ioaraai clralatloa arawnaet la abmdaot and eosvlnrtaf proof, aoea to ran edvertleer wee aealree to eiake par. eoaal tavaetlirariaa. presareoea rrpnrtav ear r.ar roote atreets, rtrraUttoa record, pa par bulk. . atpraaa and noatofflre receipts, aad tha caah rsratpu (or ctrcnlatloa, tba boat evidence of all. Oa top at thla Tba Jeamal la entitled to RoireU'e A mar Ira a Newenaper Mractorj'a guarantee atar. tbaa stearins tba foil oelirary U ta rood, to toe ad vertiser. EASTER. EASTER Is an expression of an almost universal hope. It Is . a hope of, such "sublime - audacity" aa to lead to the be- lef that Its source Is God himself, ttnd therefore must be true. It is a transcendent thought, this of a new, advanced, almost inconceivably bet ter life to come; -that after death Jthere is. the resurrection. ! Religion presents the hope ac tually transformed . Into fruition In the case of the God-man. He was Jborn of a woman, lived, tolled, suf fered, went about doing good, worked miracles, made his divine revelation, - was slain and burled, arose, and ascended such In ep itome Is the wonderful story of the object lesson of resurrection and re demption. . It has been believed and lias Influenced the lives of uncount ed millions. It has changed, as did nothing else that ever happened, the li (story of the world. And the cere monials today are In more or less OTnscl6uiobedIehce Id-the-Injunction: "Do this in remembrance of xne." - , y $ At this season, ' however, there jar ere ceremonials and festivals long before the beginning of the Chrls- , Vlan era. It ts a resurrection time tot nature, in latitudes removed from the equator. Winter typified death; the advent of spring a new life. After old age and decay come youth and growth and bloom and beauty again. . Winter's snow-shroud slid away. Its frost locks were unloosed, and i tender, '; beautifulyoung life peeped forth; the year's very grave bloomed and teemed with healthy, happy, hopeful life. . . So man says it shall be with his soul, except that its renewed Ufe, In stead of being the same, shall be in finitely changed. This life is the pro bation, the prelude, a little prelim inary experience; death is the dark passageway; the foes are sin and evil and suffering and folly and ig norance; the mighty triumph Is to Joave wrestled with these success fully and with faith. ' I' The Easter bells are ringing in rlumph and peal: "O Death, where is thy sting? 0 grave, where is thy victory?" . A VALUABLE EXPERIMENT. iXPERIMENTS in the use of fumlgants recently concluded at the state agricultural col- . lege at Corvallls, ought to reach the attention of authorities in very Oregon town, and, for that matterj become understood in every Oregon home. These are days of germs and germ diseases, and all Sight on the subject Is of value. In .the experiments, the class in bac teriology, under the supervision of the professor, undertook to de termine the efficacy of fumlgants In the destruction of germs. V A room in which a patient had tiled of pulmonary tuberculosis was used. Cultures containing living tu- ' berculosls, anthrax, pus and other germs were placed in the room and a strong treatment of formaldehydt gas was applied In the usual way. , liat only did the pus and anthrax germs survive the test, but the same was true of other germs introduced into, culture media from bits of cloth clipped from the carpet and table cover that were in the room during the patient's illness and death. ' The latter were, however, non-pathogonlc. or harmless germs. A second test with the same fuml- gant was made, la which every ave nue for escape of the gas was elim inated. In other respects the gas was applied as before with the re sult that under the Increased pre cautions, the anthrax and pus germs which had survived the first test were destroyed. The conclusion ar rived at In the report of the experi ment Is, that if properly applied formaldehyde gas is effective as germicide, and that to insure its ef ficacy, care must be taken to pre vent leakage of gas during the fum igating process. - -. The experiments are valuable ana merit wiae pub licity. - .... . DIVIDENDS AND SLAUGHTER. jf yjsakliY lour . score persons ll . killed, maimed or injured, is X 1 the ghastly story of another ' railroad tragedy. This time California town is the scene, and ttettar"larcharge-of-a switch, the scapegoat Simultaneous informa tion is that the Southern Pacific's net earnings for 106 were Sir- 698.78 per mile, or seven per cent Interest on a construction cost of $67.1(8 per mile. Further informa tion is that these net earnings were Increased over former years because the cost. of operation was decreased, la the one fact there is explan ation of the other. Decreased cost of operation meant over-burdened tracks. Inadequate equipment, and over-worked employes, and that is the' secret of - Increased profits. It Is also the secret of why the slaughter of the passengers goes se renely on. It is railroading di rected from Wall street, where big dividends are the first consideration, and the safety of the public, the last ' Killed and maimed pas sengers, bereaved homes and white slabs in cemeteries are inconse quential in Wall street so long' as dividends grow . So trackage is over-burdened. equipment over-loaded . and ' the strength and waking hours, ot em ployes over-taxed until switches are left open, orders misread and rules forgotten. The sequel ts that div idends and slaughter 'increase to gether. . DEATH ON THE RAIL, T HE wholesale railroad slaughter near Colton Thursday is the latest of a long and intermin able series of such" disasters. called by courtesy accidents. Though In a sense accidents most of them result from criminal carelessness and insatiable greed. : On this oc casion the train ran into an open switch. But on any decently man aged railroad, on any railroad run with as much regard for human life as for the lives of sheep on their way to a . slaughter house, there would be no open switch. Nor would one tenth of the other ac cidents that kill and malm thou sands of people occur. All that is necessary to prevent such accidents is for the railroad management to put and keep it road in the best possible condition, to put in use every Improved appliance . conducing to safety, and employ enough of the right kind of -sufficiently-paid -men to guard against accidents. All this takes money. Roads run down; old methods are clung to, and not enough men are employed and these In many -cases are. underpaid and overworked. " Hence these whole sale manslaughters called accidents. Carl Snyder, who has searched thoroughly into this subject, finds no excuse for these tragedies. In an article in Everybody's Magazine he presents many instructive if un pleasant facts. , One Is in ten times as much danger traveling on an American as on an English railroad. In point of safety American rail roads are 20 years behind those of most other civilized countries. Rail road men in this country hare be come so used to the slaughter that they seem not to care. In the past 19 years nearly 6,000 passengers, over 48,000 employes and nearly 90,000 other persons have been killed on , American railways, and nearly one million have been crip pled, maimed, crushed, scalded, dis figured or invalided, and yet noth ing is done and little Is said about this frightful destruction and spoil ing of human life. And It is grow ing worse. In 1905 it was more than twice as dangerous to ride on a railway train or work for a rail way company on a train as in 1895. Ten per cent a year of increase of risk. This ts both terrible and hu miliating. There are bright spots, and large ones, in this horrible picture. No passengers were killed in 1908 on 279 roads, with more than one half the total mileage. On other roads 182 were killed. On the St. Paul, Minneapolis A Omaha railroad, with 1,700 miles of track, not a passen ger has been killed in 10 years. The Delaware A Hudson road has a like record. The difference between these roads and those that killed hundreds was not a matter of luck it was a' difference of management The "lucky" roads have 'spent more money to protect life, and have followed European models, where laws are stricter than 'they are here. In one year not a single person was killed on the 22,000 miles of railroad in the United Kingdom, carrying more than twice the number of passengers carried in the United States, Canada and Mex ico combined. In the last five years, the number of English railway em ployes killed was 35; in the United States it was nearly 4,000. The block signal is aa absolute necessity, yet in thla country not one quarter of the railroad mileage has any block signal system. Nearly three quarters of the accidents are due to "negligence of trainmen and engineers and., many others to "negligence f despatcheTS-and-stg- nal operators.",. But a further In quiry shows that men are too often overworked and underpaid. A lit tie money saved weighs more than many human lives sacrificed to greed. : ' . i - . t A RADICAL PROPOSITION. T HE, REPORTED recent propo sition of the president that all state laws regulating rail roads, .even roads wholly within the state where such a law is passed. .. are. unconstitutional, and that all regulation must come from the federal government, has not aroused very much comment prob ably because most people doubted whether the ' president really broached such a proposition in of ficial earnest. , But such Is the pres ident's Idea, and It is very likely that he will aid ' the railroads in nullifying all state railroad laws. If that can be done. He ts fully com mltted to a greater degree of cen tralization of government than has ever before been openly proposed in this country, and this Is but one large factor of his general program. Mr. Bryan goes to the other ex treme of advocating the exclusive control of railroads within a state by the state governments, giving the federalgovernment control over only interstate roads and. regula tlon'talltng. as he thinks it will, to accomplish the desired ends, he would have dual government and state ownership. ' Under the president's theory all state-laws creating railroad commis sions, regulating rates, fixing fares, or affecting railroad transportation in any ; way, ; are unconstitutional, and therefore may and should be held void. Even the transportation of merchandise from Portland to Salem Is Interstate ., commerce be cause the railroad has to carry goods originating In or destined to an other state. Maybe this theory will be sustained. More likely It won't. The president may be a great con stitutional lawyer, but. we doubt it Nor dowe think the country will approve carrying the centralization process so far, even IX it were sure of a succession of Roosevelts. But suppose there should bea succes sion of HanimansT 1 CONQUEST. OP - DISEASE. A BALTIMORE doctor ts au thority for the statement that there should be only two unpreventabie causes death old age and ' accident nd , that all germ diseases of are curable by antitoxins. There is nothing new in this announcement A year or two ago an eminent New Tork physician said in substance that life could be prolonged indefin itely. Others have said the same thing. It seems from all this testi mony that It Is or Is going to be rather easy to prevent , death, to stand off for decades, if not for cen turies, the approach and avoid the claiming touch of the great all-conqueror, yet everybody goes on dying the same as heretofore, and nobody seems to expect to prolong life much any beyond the "allotted span." No great amount of faith appears to be placed In these assurances of physicians, and scarcely anybody will sacrifice his death-encouraging habits and ways of living for the sake of longevity. We don't prize life very much till we are about to die, or have become as we call it old, and are "no good" any more, and then life Is very precious, or we Imagine we would consider it so If we had It to live over again. . .This latest defyer of death says that most diseases that cause death are caused by germs, and these can be destroyed by lately discovered anti-toxins. Hitherto unconquerable diseases are yielding to Irresistible serum-therapy treatment, and in a generation or two old age will be the principal cause of death. And old age will come slowly, serenely, not at (0, 60 or even 70, but at 90, lOOy or more. Since there will be no . more diseases, we do not see why . a well-organized person who does not , work his physical ma chlnery hard, who lives temperately and not too strenuously, should not live far beyond 100, up to 200, and in some eases almost Indefinitely. The problem now, this doctor says, ts to find a means of produc ing, a sufficient supply of ant! toxins. The use of animals Is not sufficient to meet the demand, and he proposes to ; use criminals for this purpose. He says that "a law making the punishment for certain crimes optional with the convicted Imprisonment on the ones hand, in oculation with certain disease germs on the other would solve the prob lem for all time. With the work in the hands at experienced men, chosen for their " medical acumen and not by political Influence, human-produced anti-toxin could be fnralBhedhlchwontdupplythS7Tecogzedrlnatleajierrbetterrhaps medical profession for all, or nearly all, the known' diseases due to germs. And It would not be danger ous to the subjects, either." If the latter statement be tae, there may be something worth considering In his theory. We see no reason for scouting such predictions and statements re garding the conquest of disease and the prolongation of human life. If people are growing in wisdom and power, why should this not happen? So here's to our happy grandchll dren; may they be In their prime at 70, and live twice or thrtce as long as we tan."' "' "' Sl'Z . THE POSTOFFICE GRAFT. r F THE PRESIDENT succeeds in reforming the railroads, ' he might " next turn his spray pumps on congress. That body apparently has railroad rabies in the incurable form. In the matter of compensation for carrying the malls it has played high finance with a finesse to make Wall street special lsts turn green with envy. After I long investigation, a special commit tee recommended that this compen sation be cut $12,000,000. The committee stated that the reduction recommended ' was the result of compromise, which meant that the committee believed a greater reduc tion should be made.-- ; The recommendation was sanc tioned by a similar one from the postmaster general. . . It was urged by every newspaper In the country. It must have been approved -by-the Intelligence and conscience of every congressman, as' It was by the peo ple. If ever a measure had sanc tion of common sense and public sentiment, this one had. except In congress. . Every other legislative body In the world except the one at Washington, would ; have ' felt' Im pelled to carry out this universally demanded reform.' But the $12,000,000 reduction was not made. ' Whether Mr. Hill sang In a siren voice or Mr. Har riman wared a magio wand is im material. The house committee on rules found the fifth rib of the pro posed reduction, and drove the knife In to the hilt The $12,000,000 re duction was scaled down to $2,500,- 000, and let go at that By delib erate act of congress, the graft was perpetuated at practically the same old figure of about $48,000,000 a year, and the country pays the bill. Of course congressmen never do such things, btt If the episode had happened down . In San Francisco, there would be surmise that It was the result of "Indian Information." THE CITY BEAUTIFUL. W"5 E WHO live in Portland do not appreciate our natural d.vantages of site and climate as eastern visitors do. Nor do we appreciate as many of them do the value of beauty in a city's physical features. , Chicago, for Instance, would give millions for one tenth of our hills and slopes. No eastern city Is kept by nature so fresh and green. Yet In this,' as In our waterways and harbors, nature as left something for man to. .do. Nature has provided the hills, the slopes, the canyons, the trees, the moisture that keeps vegetation green and the sunshine that causes rich tints of bloom; but while in spots the landscape may well .be left pretty much as it is, some artistic manipulation Is necessary, some' care must be taken, some improvements must be made, so that the fullest possible benefit and enjoyment' may be had from these rich gifts of na ture. It, is unanimously said by visitors who have been to many cities that none is so finely . adapted to the work of making a city of beauty as Portland. But while we can do nothing to Improve the mountain Scenery or change the course of the rivers, much must be done In the way of grading, trimming, planting, road-making, cultivating, adorning and keeping clean. . There should be 'more parks. There should be more . upland . driveways. . Streets should be parked, improved and kept clean. There should be hun dreds of miles of flowerbeds along them. Every householder should vie with his neighbor in keeping his premises neat and tidy. The whole municipal body politic ought to .be animated with a livelier spirit of civic Improvement In the direction of making here the real City Beau tiful. : - Commerce, trade, business ' and politics are hot everything. They are important, but so is It Important to make here a notedly beautiful city, especially since nature has first done so much In this direction. It will pay, from a mere commercial point of view, to do thla - It will pay dividends even larger, even if theybe not so easily and generally pier citizenry. , Might It not be well to revivify local Improvement clubs, delegates rom each to form a central body. that shall devise and carry out ways and - means . of . making the city cleaner and more beautiful through out? Some good work of thla. kind has been done, but only a smaU frac tion of what ought to be done. The city officially can and must do much. It must buy aad Improve public parks, and lay out . and con struct driveways, ' and Improve streets and keep them clean, and perhaps park many of them; but citizens individually, or banded to gether la neighborhood improve ment or beautifying clubs, can and should do much more. If the city does the large and basic work, the people in small, non-offlclal organ izations or individually should at tend to the many minor details. Everybody ought to take a pride In making this, his or her home city. the most beautiful city in the world, With time, work and money, this can be done. Is It not worth doing? With so many boodlers, of so many kinds, in San Francisco, the wonder is that much of the truth did not leak out and become known to everybody long ago. What was going on was probably pretty well known In a general way, or strongly suspected, so that about the only surprise Is in the large number and assarted variety of boodle: actors that had so long been successfully performing on that municipal stage. If 'one could not avoid making some sort of complaint about Ore gon's climate, he might 'say that be cause the seasons are not so sharply segregated or differentiated here as back east we cannot appreciate, or enjoy the coming of spring as peo ple there do. - This would be true; much of our winter is so spring-like that we are not very gallant to Miss Spring when she does really put In full and genuine appearance. . Mr. Harrlman Is said to have sug gested to the president that tariff revision, rather than railroad reg ulation, was the ' proper reform caper. The bnnko artist Is always desirous that the police should de vote 'their attention to burglaries. It is biennially to laugh, bien nially, when one perceives during the space of a campaign what de voted friends of the dear working men some fellows are who are af flicted with a palm-itch or graftltls. Taft's opponents can't say that he is merely putting on that Jolly good fellow style for campaign purposes, for they do say that he Is built that way and couldn't help being Jolly even if he loses the nomination. Probably many people who are winding up their observance of Lent are at heart glad that 825 days will Intervene before another Lenten pe riod begins. Tom Johnson's Skill. From Louis Post's Publlo.' Mayor Johnson would hars mads a flna burglar. Ha admlttad this to H.B. Bwarts of Wooster, Ohio, an Inventor who brought tha mayor a naw voting machln to axamlna. Ths Wooster man submitted tha maehlne with tha state ment that It could not ba manipulated fraudulently. Tha mayor put on his aiasaaa, as mined the meohanlam and then sent for a stenosrapher. Ha borrojred a hairpin, and with a faw pokea and Jabs showed tha Inventor how ha could "run up" a faw hundred votes) for any candi date ha wished. Acknowledging" tha defect, tha owner aald ha would try. again. Ha expreaaed wonder at the mayor's ability as a me- cbanlc . . Oh, I m an expert lock picker, too. aald te Cleveland mayor. "Lt me gat n Inkling of tha general make ef a lock and I can pick It." Tba inventor carried away his model much Impreaaed with the mayor's talk. Like the First From Puck. ' a MteelmlH Br. (of PlttaburgWRemem- ber, my eon, to stick to your last. steel mill Jr. (absently) But suppose she, too, sues for dlverost Hymns to Know. The Eternal Goodness. ' : By John Oreenleat WWttlar., ' tA growing appreciation of the re llgioua beauty of much of Whlttlars work, together with, an Increasing will Ingness to Mcognlae the good In men of all faiths, aeeousta for tha more sn eral ffaa, within recant tlmea, of the poems of the Quaker poet In the wor ahlp of the churches. Thle hymn will be recognised as taken rrora his poem. "The Eternal Goodness."! i ' ' . , I bow my forehead In the dust, , I veil mine eyes for shame, And urge. In trembling aelf-dtatrust. A prayer without a claim, -No offering of mine own I have, Nor works my faith to prove; Ican but give the gifts he gave, .' And plead his love tor love! Z dimly guess from blasalngs known. Of greater out of sight; And. with the ehastened paalmlst, own His Judgments too are right. And If my heart and fleah are weak To bear an untried pain. The bruised reed ho will not break, " But strengthen and anataln. - t now nerwharibe future hath Of marvel or surprise. Assured alone that life and death , Hla mercy underlies. - ' ' And so, beside the silent sea . I wait the muffled oar; No harm from him can come to me Oa ocean or oa shore. -1 know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms In air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and ear. And thou, O Lord, by whom are seen Thy creatures aa they be, -Forgive me If too close I lean My human heart on thee. (Copyright! Houghton, Mifflin Co.) Sentence Scrmona. By Henry T. Cope. ) No trial, no triumph, . ' ... a a Obstacles are opportunities. - ' Cold feet often get Into hot water. e He gives nothing who gives only gold, a e . ' Many a sin best ts overcome by Ignor ing it. . Things sublime always are simple at heart. ... . e The glorious life never seeks Its own glory. Worship never can be made perfect By sitting stUL . Tour religion is worth to others what It costs you. Sin always ts In sympathy with thai saints who are sore. - - ' a If religion Is not for all of a man tt Is sot for aught In man, . .. I Heart health never eonjas so long as the hand Is en the pulse. a e . Feed oa garbage andyou soon lose your faitn la good things. The beaotr ot life eomea from Ood'a sun shining oa our sorrow, a . Don't be tonsure that the honeymoon will sweetena sour disposition The religion that Is put on at certain times Is sure to fall oft at the trying ant. ' The man who never has bean ashamed Of himself has nothing of which to be proud. a e . Many think they are merciful when they are only too lasy to teach by pun ishment. , - a a Ton must give the world full posses sion or some old ideals before you ean have a newt earth. - ' e '-. ; It Is easy to think yon are eonvlctlns sin when you only are telling the things you do not like to do. ... . a a , :.. : Many make the mistake of underesti mating their possibilities and overesti mating their difficulties - a a . gome folks think they sre Maht hearted because they find It so easy to make light of the troubles of others. e e ' The fanatlo Is he who would rather see the race go down to perdition than tnat it should Climb up unlabeled with his pet fad. ' . , Today in History, lilt Henry II of France born. Died July Is, 166. UM Rene ' Descartes. celebrated French scientist and Philosopher, born. Died 1(60. 111 rhlllp HI of gpatn died. Born April 14. 1678. . , Hit Masaonneueve defeated the Iroquois. . H8 Alliance ef Warsaw. Kit General Jackson, at New Or leans, fined f 1,000 . for contempt of court. 1SS Treasury buildings at Wash. Ington burned. ltit Henry Clay realcned from tha Senate. 1144 Andrew Lang born. Hal Kingdom of England recog nised by Great Britain. lSa Claude A. Swanson. governor of Virginia, born. IMS Battle of Five Forks, Va. 1S91 Earl of Granville. Kngllsh diplomat, died. Born 1811. " Rooseveltian Limitation. - From the American Magailne. The moat serious thins about ' Mr. Roosevelt's advocacy of the ship sub sidy ts that it anowa he does not clearly see that the fundamental trou ble In our commercial situation doea not aee that the thing which has chiefly eauaed our trouble Is special privileges; that the trusts snd combi nations, he Is fighting sre caused by special privileges, and that every time a subsidy Is granted you are laying the foundation for more abuses of the very .kind we are now trying to cure. . . . Another example of 'hla unmen tal makeup Is his lark of a policy. His gwn slogan, the square dent, tells the whole story. That phrase points to no purpose to change anything; essentially, either fnr good or for evil. AccepVng things as they are, he would have men do right. The government Is only the umpire, snd Its duty Is to be fair; fearfully and aggressively fair, but not fundamentally, Juat. He la not uproot ing wrong) be -la eorf acting wrongs. .v A Sermon forToday ; . , The Call to Success. ,' ... v;; By Henry F. Cope. ' ' a Enter ye In at the strait gate; for wide la the gate, and broad Is the way, that leadeth.. to destruction,' and many there be which go In thereat. . , Because strait la the gate, and nar row the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that And it Matt. ' vti:l-le. - , I F you were trained In childhood In tha sect of the Pharisees a definite picture will come to mind aa aooa ' aa theae words are read, the broad -way of pleasure leading with lta facile desoeut to the pit; the narrow , path of pain and privation leading by perilous aaoents to the city of gold. - How often has this Invitation been urged to persuade ua that tt was worth while to be miserable and mournful for the brief time of life In order to make sure of bliss unending hereafter, how unwlaa were they who ehoae the broad path of pleasure, forgetting the pit that yawned at the end." How different from all this was the thought of the gentle, happy mind that k -In these words called. men lo their hlgtw eat and best. ' Thla la not an lnvlta. tlon'tO' construct the life until'lt may' pass through; the narrow portals of some creed 'or to empty It of all things gen- -lal or great.' It ta a call to men to pay the price of success. . , ? The gate to the best always Is nar row. There Is only one line to the eiorth star, while there are many away from -It Over the gateway to tha kingdom of knowledge, of power, of success, ta written, "Strait Is tha gate; narrow the way." -Thla one thing I do" Is the ' plan ef anything worthily dona. The dilettante plucks flowers from , many fields; . genius cuts a furrow straight through one. In the broad way the many meander; In the narrow way but few great souls march. What la true In business. In learning, ts bound to be true In the business of character building, In the task of learning to live. Blngleneaa ef effort Is the prloe of sue--- eeaa here; eonoentratlon alone com mands character. Tou cannot, attain to the things that are supreme until you are willing to sacrifice the things that are superflu ous. Righteousness Is found only by setting It first aad making It the single . lm. -The broad path is the easy one, the way of leaat reslstanoethe dwarfs are there. The call of Chriat Is for ' men to live purposeful ilvee, to eeaae drifting, to seek the high goal of char- - acter, to take the path of toll and pay . the price of perfection. Often ere we tempted to give up the strife, . to let down the .. restraint, to , yield to ease and Indulgence; the price ' aeema too great, the goal toer dlatant. In truth, IMa ever at hand, riot In some shining city, but In ths fellowship of every kindred spirit, and In the frulta of character that grow along the way of self-denial. . It la not a question of this way lead. in to paradise snd that to an awful pit: is a matter of that earnest striving after things worthy, which of Itself creates worth, while' the drifting In the way of least resistance cannot but re sult in weaknesa and 1n the loas of every , good power. The prloe of power Is the constant exertion-of the power we have: the . penalty of slothful In dulgence Is the decay of all power. Here la the Invitation of the narrow way, not to crowd the mind Into some creed, not Identification with some par ticular aeot not the rejection r .things genial, generous, and human,' but, the deliberate and steady setting of the 11fe, with faith snd seal. In the path to high and worthy ends. In the way where - men have run with each eagerness that the road still is like a narrow trail In- , stead of a broad path where . they -wander at ease, . Here walks one who lived for the soul, who had no other aim than to find life and to Impart It, whose footsteps. though often they seem to wander to the side ef every sorrowing, suffer- r Ing one, still lead straight to the shin ing end of the full and fruitful life. . who leads on now calling to all ths sons "" of men to follow him. ,. -1, Our Frugal Soldiers. .- Although the American soldier le not highly paid, he must be -considered a thrifty fellow when his saving tem perament comes to light. Last year . 14.260 enlisted men saved and deposited with the paymaster's department II,- 498.238. This quite respectable sum ' represents snout It per cent of the to tal pay of all ths enlisted men for. that period. There are but few wage workers who ean boaat even a ten per -eent saving out of their earnlnga. Had every enlisted man made a deposit, the average aavlng for the year would have , - been 127.10. but that Is the leaat Inter- eating feature of the system. The fig ures show that the soldier can deposit, under the law of 1872, only sums f IS snd over. As the pay Is small, the - total depoelts for ths year show that the saving habit IS continuous with many enlisted men. Theae deposits bear interest at tne rate of four per eent per annum, but they cannot be withdrawn until the . soldier receives his discharge. Last year there was repaid to es-soldlers the sum of tl.KI.tI6; Interest was slso paid to the .amount of 170,111. The number of men discharged Is unobtain able, but the amount repaid shows thst their average savlngraust have been considerable. Since the enactment of the law of J8T2 the total depoelts have amounted to t27.789.66t, and discharged soldiers have received tl. 681,01 in Interest on deposits withdrawn. There remains on deposit with the psymaster general the sum of t,11.7l7. - i in eni- T- ir- -- ;'-' ' Over. ' ','--.. '; Mel. W. In New Tork Sun. The last speech of Beverldge dies on the air. . The laat little Junket Is plotted with care. - . The laat speech of Suiter for printing has leave. The lest filibuster put through with a heave. t ' The laat wicked railroad Is threatened and licked. The last constitutional barrier kicked. , The laat of the pitchfork has prodded and ouit. . The laat of the big stick has swatted . . and hit. ; - . . The last ef the taffy is swallowed with pride, i r- , The last baggage franked and last mil ense applied. The last of two billions Is voted swsy And congress expires In the usual way. South Africa and Manchuria "Fines.' Before the eyes of all the members ef the new conference, declares . Wll 1 ll.im T. Stead, In the Saturday Evening l'o.t. there la written up the story for the past seven years of those who re fused to walk In the way of The Hague: ' ' Great Britain, fined "for erring from tha way. .11.180.000,000 Russia and Japan, lined for erring from the wer.l,000,090,00
