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The man who attends strictly to bls
*wn business has a good steady job.
The new $20 coin lias found its
proper level. It commands a premium
rs a freak.
Once in a while one may read a
ftiort atory that has nothing about
Wireless telegraphy In It.
It Is unsafe to trifle or temporize
With anything that makes a noise like
• <rlp germ getting in its work.
The men who live to be over ninety
• nd die rich usually have a long list of
eccentricities that the neighbors talk
About
"It Is a pleasant thing to die for
those we love,” writes n Texas poetess.
And the pert paragrapbers are asking
her how she found out.
One of the latest stories Is that New
York dty stands on a vast tied of gar-
Investigators doubtless would
nets,
have to dig through several layers of
graft to get at them.
Russia wants to borrow $93,000,000.
When your friends, temporarily em­
barrassed, ask for a lift over the finan­
cial stringency, point out to them how
•uucfi worse off Russia Is than they.
The Shah of Persia has tHken an
oath to support the constitution which
he has just granted to his people.
Nicholas of Russia will regard the
shah as a very weak-kneed monarch.
A Binghamton man has invented and
organized a company to manufacture
a device to fasten women’s hats to
their heads without hat pins. Here,
wt last. Is one true friend of mankind.
"There are,” says the Tol<*do Blade,
"lots of persons in this country who
like a man who can keep quiet when
he has nothing to say.” But wouldn’t
the silence become oppressive If every­
body did that?
It has been discovered that trunks
were used by the Romans in the time
of Ciesar. ' There Is no reason, however,
to believe > that any Roman lady
of that period took more than seven
trunks with her when she went away
from home to be gone a week or two.
Since Ambassador Bryce was re­
ported as saying, several months ago,
that there nre no American poets to
day, he has received so .much verse
from Americans who are sure they are
poets, that he has been compelled to
announce that he was misquoted, and
that he never said American poets are
scarce. It would have been a safer
remark that the poets of to-day are
different from those of yesterday, a
form of statement that means as much
as the reader puts Into it, and Is
worthy of the oracle at Delphi.
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“Every penny that Is «i»ent on edu­
cation Is Justified by the great decrease
In crime, paufierlsm nnd the death-
rate," said John Burns, the English
labor leader and member of the Brit­
ish cabinet.
He lidded some words
which may not l>e palatable, but are
certainly truthful and wholesmiic. “The
faults of the working classes," he «aid,
“are the meanness of their wants, the
misery of their desltvs, and the pov
erty of their alms, tastes and hleal.s.
Education fin*s them to nobler aims
and Ideals. We spend eight hundred
and fifty million dollars n year on
drink and two hundred nnd fifty mil­
lions on gambling, directly or indirect­
ly. Working men ask me to make a
new hen ven and a new earth for them.
They only can make them themselves
by saving the money they spend for
Arlnk and gambling.”
In popular Imagination kins* and
princesses nre different from other peo-
pie. Frank Stockton's Pomona deter­
mined to see a “real live lord” when
she visited Ixmdon, and, much to her
surprise, discovered that a lord d’H‘H
not go about In robes or ermine, with
a coronet on his head, A larger num-
her of foreign royalties than lias been
»een together In several years were re­
cently entertained at luncheon by
Klug Edward (It Windsor Castle. They
were afterward photographed,
The
most notable group consists of the
kings and queens of England, Prussia'
and Spain, nnd the queens of Norway
and Portugal. As far as their appear-
anca la concerned, the picture might
be a family group taken anywhere
among the well-to-do In America. The
kings all wear conventional black
clothe». The King of Spain has on a
high turnover collar and a four in­
hand tie: the German Emperor and the
English King wear standing wing col­
lars, nnd waistcoat# »bowing a white
line between the waistcoat and the
necktie. The queens might be Amer­
ican ladlfW for all that their dries In­
dicate«, «nd ladle«, too, with an In­
dependent tnste In fashions. Some of
them wear tight fitting sleeves »lid oth-
»rs loose; some elbow sleeves with long-
wrlsted gloves, and others long sleeves
and no gloves; «ome are in dark col­
or« nnd others In light, some wear hat«
and others are bareheaded. "To dress
like a queen,” If the ptionwraph thfows
any light oil the subject. Is-to dress In
«ccordnnce with one's own taste. The
photograph Is really a fUtnlly group,
«nd shows the wide lnflMMK«
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family of King Edward. The German
Emperor Is bls nephew, the Queen of
Spain is his niece, and the Queen of
Norway is his daughter. The aaly
one outside the family is the Queen of
Portugal. The chief Interest In the
photograph, however, ilea in its revela­
tion to th» romantically Inclined, that
kings and princesses are alto men and
women like the rest of us.
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A tafcle recently published In th.
Chicago Tribune showed In comparison
the new railway mileage of 1907 and
190fl. The work done In the different
States and territories was Indicated,
the net figures marking a shrinkage In
construction during the last year. The
mileage added In 190fl was K,fl23; that
of 1907 was 5,220. The distribution
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of this nearly 11,000 njiles of construc­ ÓXLKXR.
tion has a good deal more of Interest
connected with It than Is afforded by
the mere comparison of figures which
show the activity of consecutive years.
A study of the table gives a pretty
clear idea of the development of the
country.. For there Is a natural connec-
rtlon between the movement of popula­
tion and the exploiting of the resources
of a region and the construction of
new lines of railway. From such a
point of view one would expect to find
the Western States taking a great lead
over the older parts of the country. A
study of the table shows that when
the mileage for the last two years is
combined the leading States, In order,
are Texas, South Dakota, Louisiana,
Nevada, Florida, North Dakota, and
Washington, In each of which more
than 425 miles of new track was laid,
Texas being far In the van with near­
ly 1,000 miles. A further examina­
tion reveals a surprising activity In the
Southern States generally, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Georgia, Virginia and West
Virginia making creditable advances
along with the States mentioned In the
other list. California. Idaho, Montana,
New Mexico and Oklahoma are being
opened up more nnd more by new
roads, the distances In all of these be­
ing greater than In the older, more set­
tled parts of the country. But It is
distinctly surprising to note how little
railway construction Is credited to the
East.
New Hampshire,
Vermont,
HEALING BY FAITH.
Rhode Island, Connecticut and Dela­
ware do not appeal* In the list at all. Chicago Reformed Episcopal Church
In Maine, New York and Maryland the
to Treat Body as Well as Soul.
showing Is small. In Pennsylvania
A new and important departure has
alone of the northern Atlantic States
been taken by St. Paul's Reformed
as many as 150 miles were constructed.
Episcopal Church of Chicago, under
No doubt there would he another story the leadership of Bishop Samuel Fid
If the record were given of the devel­ lows. The church has added healing
opment of traction lines, These a re
of the body to its spiritual ministra­
being constructed everywhere In the
tions, following somewhat along the
older States. They are making a net-
lines pursued by Christian Scientists,
work of their wires for many miles, although with several fundamental dif­
They nre carrying much of the local
ferences. Christian psychology, as ex­
passenger traffic and are proving fno- plained by Bishop Fallows, does not
tors to be reckoned with In the hnn- ignore physicians as does Christian
dling of freight, express mntter, and
Science, but works hand In hand with
mall. In some places they are forcing
the electrification of steam roads to
meet their competition. But the fact
remains none the less that the build­
ing of the railroads gives a pretty cor­
rect Indication of the part« of the
country which are being rapidly devel­
oped under the pressure of Increasing
population nnd expanding industry.
What has been accomplished In two
years Is a suggestion also of what may
he expected In the Immediate future.
The imperial domain of Toxas Is being
opened io a great population. The
newer Western Stntos are only begin­
ning to show their jKissihllltles. The
Southern States, long hold back In
their development, are pushing forward
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NEW AFRICAN RAILROADS.
Two Across 8ilicertn Will Sturt Pro­
duction of Cotton.
Several months ago an American who
has lived in Nigeria said in New York
that tlie climate and soil of that large
region are favorable for the cultivation
of cotton, but as yet there is no encour­
agement to raise it localise there tire
no railroads to carry it to the sea.
The railroad is now to Is* supplied.
According to tlx* Am<*rican Geographl
BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS.
cal Society’s bulletin It Is to start from
Baro on the Niger River below the the medical profession, and the work
rapids that Impede navigation. Veskcls of healing undertaken at St. Paul’s
loaded with cotton brought by rail to will be applied only to such patients
Baro may descend the Niger to Akassn,1 ns are suffering from disorders in
the port at its mouth, where steam-1 which the action of the mind plays an
ships may load the freight for Europe. ! Important part. Cure of organic dis-
The northern terminus of the rail- j i eases will not be attempted, although
road will be Kano, the great nnd popu- patients suffering from them will be
lc s capital of Hau«nland, some WK) aided as far as possible by suggestion,
miles from Baro by rail and not far , *alth and persuasion,
The <1180881*8 and weaknesnea to
south of tlx* Sahara desert. K hbq be­
came known some sixty years ago as which Christian psychology is to be
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It-wl
nt St. Paul’s are functional
the greatest manufacturing a'nd <xtm- ( uppt
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nervous
disorders, hypochondria, in-
mercial center of the western Sudan.
It is expected that the railroad will «omnia, nervous dyspepsia, melnn-
| cholln, mental depression, hysteria.
largely increase it» importance.
The British government nuthorlzeil neurasthenia, the drug haldt, the liquor
the building of the railroad in August habit, want of self-confidence, irrita-
I bllity, worry, anger, fear nnd weakness
last
of Will. The class of cases In which
Its gauge is to be 4 feet fl Inches.
But Kano will tn* Joined with the sea no cure will be attempted are those
not only by this railroad and the Niger like typhoid fever, scarlet fever, small­
but also by a through rail by way of pox and other disorders of that na­
Jebtia and Lagos, n<rw the largest com­ ture.
The work to be pursued nt St. Paul’s
mercial center on the Atlantic coast of
the continent. An agricultural fair In will be similar in nature to that which
that city recently testified to the Im­ has been carried on in Boston for tlie
portance which farming Interests are last sixteen months at the Boston Em­
already attaining. Many native farm­ manuel Church, of the Episcopal de­
ers were among the exhibitors.—New nomination, and which Is declared by
Blsliop Fallows to have met with amaz­
York Sufi.
ing success. Rev. 4»r. Worcester and
A 1.1kelr Story.
I Rev. Dr. McComb are the ministers
The Pastor—I hope you are not gt In charge of the work at Emmanuel
Ing fishing on Sunday, my little man. Church and they are effecting many
"They work band I d
The Boy—Oh, no. sir. I zim merely ctires weekly.
carrying this «Uck so that thaj wicked hand with some oft the most eminent
boy aero«» the street will not suspect neurologists nnd physicians of Boston,"
that l am on my way to Sunday school. any« Bishop Fallows. “That Is what
we at St. Paul's will do as VegaMs the
—toondon Illustrated Kits,
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neurologists of Cblcag». • I have
Many a man knoxwi from expep1en<\ broached the subject to some of them,
that it 1» faj* easier to fin# ‘ a wife than and tuey are moat enthusiastic over the
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Idea, which la characterized by them a*
CALIFORNIA PLANT WIZARD
LOCKED OUT.
Man M !»>>••* Work la Of Tremrudoua
Value to the People.
ProbuilHy bo other man In tlie world
approaches Luther Burbank of Cali­
fornia as an expert In plunt life. H s
remarkable and wholesale experiments
have been going on for many years and
have resulted In a benefit to humanity
which can 1** reckoned only In the
hundreds of millions of dollars. Ity
selection and crossing he has not only
vastly Improved a large variety <-f
vegetables, grain, fruit, nuts and flow­
ers. but he lias actually succeeded in
producing new species of a value far
transcending flint of either of tlie par­
ent originals. By changing tlie nature
of the fruits themselves tie tris larg-ly
extended the areas of their priifitable
cultivation. For example, oranges can
now be grown in territories where for­
merly frosts made It lniisissible. He
has “Invented” grains and grasses
which -flourish In lands formerly <»>n-
sidered worthless deserts. He has elim­
inated seeds from certpin fruits, ther ­
by greatly increasing their value,
has produced an islible thornless
tils capable of supplying forage
countless herds on the arid plains
even available as food for man.
As a result of Ids fame his ex
excellent. Christian psychology reaches,
through the medium of tlie church,
many patients witli whom the regular
medical practitioners can do nothing,
or little, often because they cannot give
enough time to the individual case,
Christian psychology works through
the influence of mind, suggestion, will
power and (tersuaslon, all based on re-
ligion and religious tieliefs. Tin* Bible
and the infinite God are behind it all,”
continued Bishop Fallows. “The sub-
Jects, however, who come for treat-
meat do not have to be believers in
Christianity. They may be out-and-
>ut pagans, That does not affect the
workings of the laws of God, and
Christian psychology can and will cure
unbelievers as well as the most devout
Christians.”
Bishop Fallows, who was born in
England in 1835, has led an active and
nilitant career. He came to this <*oun-
ry in 1848, settling in Wisconsin, and
n 1851 was ordained In the Methodist
Episcopal Church. During the Civil
war he served ns a colonel and was
brevetted brigadier general. He served
three terms as State superintendent of
public instruction in Wisconsin and In
1875 united with the Reformed E pl sco
pal Church, being consecrated bishop
the following year, Since 1875 he has
been rector of St. Paul’s Church, Chi-
cago. The bishop has other theories
besides healing through Christian psy­
chology. He believes that Christianity
Is a good deal a matter of the kind of
food we eat. "If every child was
scientifically fed," he says, "we'd have
no moral baseness, no mental deprav­
ity and no spiritual ignorance.” His
system of Christian healing will be
followed with a good deal of interest.
BIG POULTRY SHOW.
mental farms have become the Mecca
Aristocracy of the Feathered Tribe of everyone who by any chance gets
on Exhibition in Chicago.
within traveling distance of them.
Three thousand aristocrats of the Heretofore Mr. Burbank has tried to
poultry world contested for honors In extend every hospitality and conven­
tin* national poultry show recently held ience to his visitors, but they have
in Chicago by the National Fanciers’ grown In numbers to such an extent,
and Breeders'Association. The breeding 8,000 In one year, that he Is now com­
of the finest stock is becoming so pop­ pelled to protect himself and his work
ular in the Middle West that products from the invasion of sightseers. Re­
of this section have begun to take cently he got out a circular announcing
prizes at the New York poultry show, that he basjiothlng for sale and must
which Is the largest event of the kind, | deny visitors the courtesy formerly ex­
and to carry off alt the honors In ths tended.
Chicago event, which is second In im­
Because of the army of visitors all
portance.
the Important experimental work was
There was a large Increase this year delayed beyond recall; grounds were
In the number of entries. The cham­ overrun by crowds from daylight till
pion of all hens, owned by Ernest 10 o'clock at night; there was no rest
Kellerstrass, of Kansas City, and val­ for him or his employes day or night.
ued at $2,500, was there, as well as nu­ Rare plants -died from lack of atten­
merous other chickens valued at from tion, letters were neglected and tele­
$500 to $1,000. Fighting cocks, wild
grams delayed.
Meals were taken
standing, sleep was disturbed and
health was jeopardized. The question
arose: "Should he continue his valua­
ble work of research undisturbed, or
should he submit to being murdered
piecemeal as a showman?" Th<> an­
swer Is found nt eveiy gate announcing
that positively no visiters will bo al­
lowed and that all trespassers will be-
nrostx-uted. Utica Gloae.
America*» l-'ir.t Book.
first book printed In Ameri-'u
\ .TILVER,
“Tlie Ecciile Espl.dtunl Far.i l’l<
1WYAKÔOT
al Cielo” (Spiritual Ladder For
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¡Reaching
Heaven). It wits printed in
îÿF H -JOXT,;
tlie City of Mexico in the early part of
1537 by Juan Faldos on a press
brought from Europe by Ira Juhm de
Zumarrnga, first bishop of Mexico.
The first attempt at a newspaper in
America was the Mere dio Voianle
(Flying Mercury), Mexico, 1(!93. I'll *
first Indian school was founded in
1521, and Industrial schools for Indi­
I
ans «lute back to 1513. “Half a cen­
T3TJLKT,
tury before our overland pony express
ÜD HEX'
’XOS-Í/
was Inaugurated th -re were regular
monthly malls the length of Spauisli-
Anierica—from Paraguay to San Fran­
cisco, n little matter of 5,800 miles."—
A. Hamburg, In Soottdufc Indepmd-
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.
During 1907 the Legal Aid Society of
ew York received 2(1,399 appeals for
New Y’ork board of education will
probably vote t» restore corporal punish­
ment in the schools.
Edward Shea of Montclair, N. J., has
recovered from a trance which lasted a
month. lie says he saw visions and talk­
ed with persons long since dead.
Miss Katherine Noble of Baltimore.
Md., tlie heroine of the .Mohegan disas­
ter. has announced her engagement to
Ernesto Trorio-Seinondetti of Mexico.
The Burlington and Union Pacific will
take porters off chair cars and do away
with flagmen on some of their passenger
trains, according to a dispatch from
Omaha. Retrenchment is given as the
reason.
Tlie now armored cruiser Ibuki. which
was launched at Kure, Japan, was built
ntijely from Japanese materials and her
keel was laid only Inst April. Japan has
WYANDOTTE HfcjC-
made the lowest bid of any power for the JTLVEK FH.
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construction of a warship for Sjiain.
New avenues for making a living are turkeys and ducks, homing pigeons
being rapidly opened for the blind, ac- with records as victorious racers over
cording to Miss Winifred Holt, secretary distances ranging from 100 to 1,000
of the New York Association for the miles, nnd pheasants such as English
Blind, stenography and telephony being noblemen shoot, bred on the largest
two of the latest crafts at which the blind
pheasant farm In the country fifteen
are working.
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mill's from k'hicago, were attractions.
Jeremiah O'Meara, 70 years old. mar­ Baby chicks were hatched out 4n incu­
ried Helen Naughton, 05 years old, in bators every day of the show.
Stamford, Conn., after a wait of 40
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years. O’Meara could not find his sweet­
Reaants “Talnfed Money” Hint.
heart after he returned from the Civil
In his recent address at lhe annual
War, and she thought he had been killed. dinner of the New York Alumni Asaac.s-
They found each other only a short time
t'on of Syracuse University, John I). Arch­
ago. Neither has been married before.
bold, the Standard Oil magnate, took oc­
A strike begun by the European engi­ casion to refer to "tainted money” by
neers on the East Indian railway, which seying: “If 1 thought there was any taint
to 2. 165 miles long, has now spread to on my money J would never have.offered
Include the native heifers so that the a dollar of it to Syracuse* University—my
most important section of the road is tied conscience w ould not have allowed me. I
nn<h thousand# of ¡uissengers nre strand­ «Auld not have »sk<-d God's, blowing on
ed. while many industries are at n stand­ ’such a gift. 1 have earned nfcv'monty by
still. The strikers complain of overwork fif»V years of good, ha»{», conscientious
and poor pay. Tffie situation <s especially toil, and honest intent in
pnrsilit of
serious in view of the recent mutinies and bcsinoM. or I noni» n»vea liai» ffyea •
at the nrevailing fanujie.
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"I rather like your friend,” Mrs.
Page said, gypidously, after Carr had
gone home. “He is good-looking and
agreeable,’ but >"ii can't call Mini a
brilliant conviât lonailst. The La w-
ton girls talked «II around him. H
"L’nfortunatejy,” .replied Jfr. Page,
"Carr çannqt tnllfc oai a subje<^ unless
li» ktjpws something fibout it.”
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A New Orleans woman, well-known
for her work for charity, recently ac­
cepted an invitation to speak at ail
antituberculosis meeting. On the plat­
form she found herself seated between .
ti bishop and a rabbi, and the tone <>f
the meeting seemed to be rendered ex­
tremely solemn by the combination.
In order to lighten the solemnity,
she said, turning to the rabbi, “Do yon
know, I feel as if I were a leaf between
tlie (»Id and New Testaments.”
The rabbi turned a sad-eyed gaze
upon her. •
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will recall, that page is usually a blank
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