TRUMPET CALIA
with substantial financial aid.
BAR DOI RECORDER ! not
glth good wishes and the influence of
itnd words
and
commendations
While there are Inany instances of
thli kind there are also many where
„! this is . let -1. and
the
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e honest, capable, faithful em-
the
when he. takes the responsibili
pio.
If there was les« of the anwritten ties ty business upon himself, is the
law there would be more unbroken subject of ungenerous and unjust crlt
laws.
iclsm, because he comes into honorable
competition with his late employ
Now Italy is beginning to make er. No one man, or set of men, can
face« at Austria. More millions for possibly have a mortgage upon any
Dreadnoughts.
branch of business, or monopolize all
the chances for conducting an honor
Atlanta recently had a musical fes able callUig, be it in publishing a
tlval and cleared 111,000. It was a newspaper or selling peanuts. Wunt
noteable festival in this regard.
do we acquire a knowledge of business
for? Why are some of the best years
There is positively no truth in the
of our lives passed tn the employ of
rumor that the eagle on our $20 gold
other*, except to educate us so that
piece is to be displaced by the possum.
we may be capable, some day, of as
suming charge, ourselves, and fitting
A boy tried to burn up a beehive.
us to take the place of those who»e
Immediately there was a general dis
active life must sooner or later be
trlbution of the latest remedy for rheu
brought to a close? "Live and let
matt« tn.
live," and when, by the aid of those
The intended bride of a man named who have labored long and earnestly
Beefsteak wishes him to take her for you. a competency has been secur
name of I^imb. Why don’t they com ed. and you have a full share of this
worlds goods, do not be so sordid,
promise on Hash?
mean and unmanly as to throw ob
Dr. Charles William Eliot is one stacles in the way of the success of
man whom the public will not permit the young man who was once in your
to be Oslerlzed. It keeps handing him employ.
Job« which he will r.ot have.
“Back to nature” is a popular slo
In the case of that little Texas gan at present, and it needs to be
town named Zephyr, which was de clearly understood before it is accept
stroyed by a tornado, let us refrain ed. It has been raised many times by
persons who meant by it a return to
from making the obvious comment.
something like savagery, and who,
A home for habitual drunkards is finding vice in civilization, and espe
to be built in Maine. The wives and cially In the cities, blamed cities and
children of habitual drunkards will be organized civilization for all vice. In
compelled to go on shifting for them our time the phrase expresses part of
an effort to lead people to an outdoor
selves.
life, to encourage the settlement of
Judge Landis recently imposed a farm regions and to raise the stand
fine of $1,000 on a firm for rebating. ards of country living. There is some
Mr Rockefeller will probably not con- danger that In our enthusiasm we
■Ider it necessary to offer the firm come to regard cities as in themselves
evil institutions, necessarily favorable
any sympathy.
to vice and ill health. We need to re
There is a question in the Senate member that the city is only a form
who "the consumer" is. The consum of human association for purposes of
er is the producer. He has to pro trade and exchange of Ideas, and that
duce the ".»cessary in order to get the some of the most important contribu
tions to civilized thought have been
■tuff to consume.
made, not in rural Isolation, but in the
IS. H. Harriman was unable to get friction of highly complex gatherings
a special train to take him from Cher of men. A writer in the London Times
bourg to Paris. That's what a man recently pointed out that the ancient
gets for going into a country where Greeks and both ancient and modern
Latins are urban in their genius, and
the rallroaus are not his.
he might have added that the Ger
“Truth lies at the bottom of a well.” mans, with their talent for system, are
administrators of city
“Truth is golden.” It follows that the successful
California man who has discovered a units. Americans and Englishmen, al
rich mine down hie well has com though forced by necessity to make
large cities, are by nature villagers,
pleted a perfectly logical sequence.
lovers of the country, happiest with
If the sleeping sickness microbe some acres of open land round their
tries to prey on our only living ex houses. Because we do not, as a race,
President, it will find that the weather like cities, we do not know how to
In British fcaBt Afilca is pretty hot make them. London and New York
for the brand of exercise it has in are in appearance and in social con
ditions gigantically ugly. While we
voked.
may count on American country life
A Kansas legislator proposes to tax taking care of Itself, at It would In
all bachelors over 45 $25 a year, des England if the nature of the people
pite the fact that any man who has were not thwarted by economic stress,
had the sand to resist the wiles of wo we have still to learn to make great,
Intelligently
governed
men for that length of time is entitled handsome,
cities.
Americans
who
are
crying,
to a pension.
"Back to nature!” may cry also, "For
A New York girl took what she ward to the truly great city!”
thought was a love potion and imme
When Her Turn Came.
diately developed a desire to commit
burglary. Really something ought to
The Journal had taken on a “woman
be done to stop carelessness on the editor,” whose duty it was to look
part of druggists.
after the “Woman's Page.” Space be
ing scarce in the "local room,” a desk
Katherine Clemmons Gould corn was given her In the managing ed
plains that since her husband has ac itor's room, directly adjoining. For a
customed her to a life of luxury she week or two no fault was found with
is unable to get along on less alimony her work, but one morning the man
than $120,000 a year. Her case should aging editor said to her:
“Miss Penfield, your style of writing
serve as a warning to all gentlemen
who are keeping their wives in luxury Is a little too terse and epigrammatic
now and thinking of getting divorces for the needs of your department. You
must study expansion.” *
later.
"Very well, Mr. Ringgold,” she an
One of the most noted cancer spe swered. "I will try.”
cialists of New York died a few weeks
Thereafter her work appeared to
ago of cancer, and last month one of give entire satisfaction, for there was
the best known New York experts on no further criticism. About six months
appendicitis died from the disease of later, however, the managing editor,
which he knew so much. In Illinois after a morning spent in working at
a specialist in insanity has lately been his desk, suddenly wheeled In his
confined In the hospital where he was chair and said:
engaged, suffering from a derange
"Miss Penfield. I want a wife. I
ment of the mind. The frequency want you. Will you marry me?”
with which physicians fall victims to
"Mr. Ringgold," she responded, with
the ailment to which they devote most a mocking smile, “that is rather terse
of their attention is one of the curi and epigrammatic. Don't you think
ous phenomena of medicine.
you ought to study expansion a little?"
When the battleship Mississippi
■teamed up the river of the same
name to Natchez recently, it was the
first time that a warship of that size
had ever entered the river. A monitor
went much farther up the stream a
few years ago. but the monitor is a
■mall boat. The Mississippi is a thir
teen thousand-ton vessel and draws
twenty-seven feet of water. As the
channel pilots have taken vessels of
twenty-nine feet draft over the bar at
the mouth, they had no difficulty In
getting the battleship into the main
channel of the stream. This channel
averages fifty feet deep for more than
three hundred miles from Its mouth,
providing water enough to float the
biggest ships yet built. The reason
for the cruise of the battleship was
to permit the people of Mississippi to
see the warship named after their
State.
A
Cmnlly
Name.
A new boy had made his appearance
in the schoolroom, and Miss Adair,
the teacher, summoned him to her
desk. “Do you expect to come to
school here regularly?” she asked him.
“Yes'm.”
“Where do you live? Are you In
this district?"
"I guess so. I live down this street
’bout four blocks."
"What Is your name?”
"Martin Luther Hicks."
“Martin Luther?” said the teacher.
“I presume. Martin, you know for
whom you were named?”
“Yes'm." answered the boy, bright
ening up. "I .was named after me
uncle on me mother's side. He keeps
a liv'ry stable.”
Cheering
News.
Bobby—Make a noise like a frog,
uncle.
Uncle- Why?
it is natural that a young business
Bobby—’Cause when I ask daddy
man. after serving his employer faith
fully for years, should finally "branch for anything he says: "Walt till your
out for himself," and utilize the uncle croaks.”—The Tatler.
knowledge he has acquired tn his
When a.farmer loses a cow and it fa
schooling for his own advancement the best milch cow he had, he is gen
and benefit. And tn this laudable un uinely discouraged.
dertaking It would seem as though his
late employers should deem It a pleas-
A spinster who heap« bar birthdays
Uie, not to say duty, to help him,, if xeepo them guiefc.
Han's Horn Sounds a Warsis* Nate
to (be I tir.-deeuo d.
WHY THE VIOLIN IS MUSIC’S KING.
By Janies Huneker.
Restricted as to its range of dynamics, the
violin has had for its votaries men of such
widely different temperaments as Paganini
and Spohr, Wllhelmj and Sarsate. Joachim
Ysaye.
Its literature does no compare with that of
the piano, for which Pach. Beethoven. Schu
maun, Chopin and Brahms have written their
choicest music; yet the intimate nature of
the violin, its capacity for passionate emotion, crowns
it—and not the organ, with its mechanical tonal effects
—as the king of instruments.
Nor does the voice make the peculiarly poignant ap
peal of the violin. Its lowest note Is the G below the
treble clef, and Its top note a mere squeak: but it seems
in a few octaves to have imprisoned within its wooden
walls a miniature world of feeling; even in the hands
of a clumsy amateur it has the formidable power of giv
ing pain; while in the grasp of a master it is capable of
rousing the bou I.—Everybody’s.
MOTHERS-IN-LAW MOST MALIGNED OF ALL.
By Helen Oldfield.
Probably no class of persons are so much
and so persistently misrepresented and ma
ligned as are mothers-in-law.
As a rule, women are pleased to have their
daughters marry well; the matchmaking
mother is as common a subject for a Joke as
is the objectionable mother-in-law. If after
marriage it turns out that the match Is not
all that the wife's mother wished for and
expected, she usually is anxious that in the eyes of the
world it should appear satisfactory, and to this end
earnestly and steadfastly she endeavors to show her
son in-law in the most favorable light to outsiders.
Therefore, if the mother-in-law have even ordinary
common sense she will, for the love which she bears
her daughter, encourage her to do her best to please
her husband and to retain his affection.
It sometimes is pitiful to see a woman's efforts to pla
cate a cantankerous son-in-law. and although when there
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS
is an trremediai le breach she naturally takes her daugh
ter's side of the difference, she Is apt to do her best to
heal it. Besides, in time of trouble, who is so ready
to help and to comfort as the wife's mother?
The prejudice against mother« in law i« a modern one.
for which Thackeray is largely responsible The moth
era in law whom he portrays are drawn with lampblack
and add. and it is difficult to see how any man. though
endowed with the patience of Job. could dwell in peace
and harmony with such women as those whom he in
flicted upon Clive, Newcome and Philip. But Mrs. Mac
kenzie and Mrs. Baynes are as unusual, let us hope as
Improbable, as any of the villains of fiction, and it is
grossly unfair to accept them as normal types. Just
why Thackeray, whose written cynicism in the main
was kindly, and who in social intercourse was among
the most genial of men, should have shown such rancor
towards mothers in-law is hard to guess. Certainly it
was not from personal experience, «Ince hl« wife had
long been an orphan when he married her.
. We met a man today who is hard
to please; he doesn't like cold weather
and he doesn't like warm weather.
As a man glows leaner because st
age. Its wife becomes fatter.
through them.
It is an unhealthy thing for a boy
to be able to digest a man's religion.
Heaven Is bound to be a very far
country to the man who can hate his
brother.
There can be no friendship with the
Savior without fellowship with His
sorrow*.
It la the religion you wear as a
cloak that Is soon worn out and
threadbare.
The depression of many a meeting la
due to people who want to make an
Impression
A peculiar look of wisdom belongs
to the man who discovers the hole in
a dough-nut.
The church pessimist takes a bite
at the oven before speaking on the
bread of life.
Crooked paths come from trying td
walk to heaven while looking on the
other country.
The church that has no place for
the child-life will have no place In the
life of the man.
Some men think they are called to
the ministry because they have a lik
ing for fried chicken.
The best proof that you have had a
glimpse of Heaven Is that you are try
ing to make earth like it.
Iou can never get the temperature
of a church to go up when the folks
are talking one another down.
Lots of people believe In walking
with God on the rest day and working
for themselves the rest of the days.
NEW PROBLEMS FOR THE LAWMAKERS.
By Ml/. Baden-Powell.
In four years' time we may be able to say
that flying is common.
It is then that new laws and regulations
will have to be adopted. The "rule of the
road” in the air must be settled, as also
the question as to whether international
frontiers are to be respected, and if not,
whether universal free trade must result.
Then comes the subject of the ownership of
the air above private property. Finally we must con
sider the means by which laws may be enforced and
the registration and Identification of aerial machines
carried out.
it is no good making laws without the ability to carry
them into effect. Even supposing a regular service was
inaugurated of police patrolling the air in extra swift
flyers, they could seldom follow and catch up trans
gressors, since it would not often be possible to convey
the information to them in time. There can be no doubt
that an Intricate problem is now confronting us regard
ing the amending and making of laws to regulate that
traffic which some of us believe will Boon be darkening
’he air above our heads.
RAILWAY UNIT S OF DANGER.
J
By Clarence L. Cullen.
Many a woman who imagines that
she Is the apple of her husband's eye
Is really only the crabapple of his vis
ion.
A small boy with his first drum isn't
in it as a nuisance with the w< man
that develops what she thinks is a tal
ent for sarcasm.
You don't know what being in bad
means until your wife becomes ac
quainted with a bunch of women who
can easily afford to pay $!K) apiece for
their hats.
When you hear a hatchet-faced, vin
egar-mouthed woman exclaim "All
men are devils,” don't you wonder
what facilities she ever possessed for
finding all that out?
After a baby comes, a woman real
izes that the lesson in patience she
had to learn to get along with her hus
band was only the a b c of what she
had to learn later.
When a man is a nagger he general
ly knows it and has his moments of
■elf-contempt. But when a woman is
a termagant she goes to her grave
without ever finding It out.
We know a male Jellyfish who Is Im
becile enough to permit his wife to
make him eat onions, although lie de
spises them and they like him not, just
because she herself wants to eat a
mess of them.
Why is It that a woman will begin,
at the breakfast table, to tell her hus
band an interminable, Intricate, and
meaningless dream that she has had
when she knows that he Is already
twenty minutes behind his office-reach
ing schedule?
The soured old harpies who buzz
around young women and advise them
to “take the reins from the start"
never by any chance go through with
it and elucidate how they themselves
made out at that personally conducted
reins handling job.
Why Is it that when a woman in
the public eye. whose reputation n I-
ways has been considered unimpeach
able—a certain noted female singer,
say- gets her name dragged Into a di
vorce case the women who read about
it generally appear to be oh-so-gladdy-
gl«d?
When two or three over-indulged
women who pretend to believe that
their husbands mistreat them get to
gether at a shopping luncheon, the en
suing rataplan makes a blank cart
ridge skirmish drill sound by compari
son like the rustling of autumnal
zephyrs nniong dead leaves.
The self same woman, w hose hus
band always takes off her shoes when
she returns from a wholly unnecessary
day of shop gadding, generally is the
one who says to her woman cronies,
’•'Deed I've got a picture of myself
pressing
my husband's trousers_
huh!”
"i d rather die or work In some
body's kitchen than take a cent of
your detestable money!’ is what they
all say while the details of the mu
tual agreement divorce are being ar
ranged. But when the decree 1« hand
ed down they line up greedily at the
alimony counter all the same.
The best fitting
for future aork is
lidel; y in present
duty.
To-morrow'■
shadow 1« always
heavier than to
day s burden.
Love overcome«
all mountains be
cause it sees
■
HE very gratifying announcement is made that American rail
roads killed a much smaller percentage of people than usual
last year. It is found that the total number of passengers
and employes who lost their lives in this way in 1908 was
2.827, while in 1907 the number was 4,759, and in 1906 it was
just 6,000. The Bureau of Railway News and Statistics traces
the reduction to lessened traffic on account of business depres
sion, apparently with reason, since there seems to have been very little
advance during the year in safety appliances on the roads.
The most Interesting part of the announcement lies in the opportunity
it affords to make the usual comparison with the English figures for the
same period. There is a general impression that the American railroads
are much more careless in their methods than those across the ocean and
that a vastly greater number are killed here. The impression recently was
given some basis by the cabled statement that the British railroads had not
Killed one passenger during the last year.
This statement appears to have been true, but misleading. No passen
gers were killed in Great Britain .in 1908, so far as accidents to trains
went, but 107 lost their lives on the roads by accidents due to "other causes.”
More than this, the English railroads had a death list of employes, due to
accident, of the very respectable figure of 432.
All told, the number killed, passengers and employes, In America, was
2.S27, while in Britain it was 539. But the comparison would be unfair if
the relative traffic were overlooked.
The United States has almost exactly ten times as much railroad mile
age as Britain has. Our freight ton mileage, in which traffic 70 per cent
of the accidents occur, is seventeen times greater. Our locomotives are twice
as powerful, our freight cars three times as large and our freight trains
at least five times as heavy. According to the bureau's estimate, the units
of danger to be overcome in the United States exceeds those in the United
Kingdom by at least 10 to 1.
On a calculation of this sort we should have had 5.390 fatalities on this
side last year, to be on the same basis of slaughter as our British cousins.
As a matter of fact, we had little more than half the number.
The American railroad record for death dealing does not seem to be so
bad after all.— Detroit Free I’ress.
THE BENTLEY BABY.
?
W VW V V OO
In the summer of 1887 Holman
Bentley, accompanied by his wife and
child, made a steamer journey on the
Upper Congo, In Africa. Sir Harry
Johnston, in Ills book entitled "George
Grenfell and the Congo,” recounts the
result of the journey and the Import
ant part played by the Bentley baby.
The party went through the Bolobo
district, which at that time had be
come excessively hostile to Europeans.
The temporary station of the Congo
State had been burned to the ground,
the chief, Ifaka. was dead, and when
the steamer Peace, bearing the Bent
leys, arrived in August, it was rough
ly ordered away. Before sheering off,
however, an idea occurred to Bentley.
Taking advantage of the steamer’«
halt, his wife and nurse w-ere giving a
bath to the Bentley baby.
As if by accident, the little white
child was held up in view of the angry
and excited people. Suddenly a hush
fell on the assembled throng, gradual
ly giving way to a shout of delighted
surprise.
A few minutes afterward, In re
sponse to urgent invitations to come
on shore, the Bentley baby, tn a dainty
white
dress, was being paraded
through the town, nursed and dandled
by warrior after warrior, till bls
snowy frock was reddened with cam
wood dye or stained with greasy black
marks from those who had stained
their bodies with oil and soot.
Mrs Bentley was equally an obje-t
of interest and admiration, as she was
the first white woman who had ap
peared in those regions. Up to that
time the white man had been looked
upon as a sort of unnatural creature,
who was not bred and born like ordi
nary human beings, a semi-supernat
ural being without a male. The Bent
ley baby practically created the mis
sion station of Bolobo, which has en
dured ever since.
The Wall-Paper Man.
OK I'd sing you a song of the wall
paper man,
was always warm, to be dried. Re-
Who's with us once again.
vived by the fire, we were enabled to Who comes with the files and who ev
endure the next bit of martyrdom, an
erywhere hies
hour upon the low sofa, our books In
With his ladders and buckets ten;
our hands, while our cold breakfast I'd sing of the ease with which bric-a-
brac breaks
The contrast between the life of the was preparing. My stomach rejecting
At the soft, gentle touch of his hand,
young in the twentieth and in the milk, bread and tears generally did
I'd «Ing of the joy which it seems that
early part of the nineteenth century for me.”
he take«
Six
years
later
in
the
Highland
is most striking, and one wonders
In upsetting a Jardiniere stand;
how the Scotch children of former home austerities seem still part of I'd sing how he figures the cost of a
times survived their early training. the education.
Job
Tn winter we rose without candle
Lady Ritchie gives in "Blackstick Pa
To a dot (except extras worth ten),
pers” a description of home life in or fire or warm water; and really In Of his tracks In the hall and pasta
buckets that fall.
Scotland in 1806, which she took from the Highland winters, when the breath
And th«- way the new rug appear*
froze on the sheets and the water In
the "Memoirs of a Highland Lady."
then;
"Although seldom ailing, we inherit the Jugs became cakes of fee, wash Oh, I'd sing of the wonderful litter ha
Ing was a very cruel necessity.
ed a delicacy of constitution, demand
leaves
"As we could play our scales In the
ing great care during our infancy. In
And the household he puts In a
dark,
the
two
pianofortes
and
the
harp
fuss —
those days It was the fashion to take
began the day's work. How very near Yes, I'd sing of him now If I didn’t
no care of It. All children alike were
crying was the one whose turn set her
somehow,
plunged into the coldest water, «ent
at the harp! The strings cut the poor,
Have to pass up all singing to cusa.
abroad In the worst weather, fed on
cold fingers Martyr the first sat In -Kansas City Times
the same food; our life was one long
misery.
"In town a large, long tub stood in
the kitchen court, the ice on the top
of which had often to be broken be
fore our horrid plunge into it.
We
were brought down from the very top
of the house, four pairs of stairs, with
only a cotton cloak over our night
gowns. Just to chill us completely be
fore the dreadful shock
How I
screamed, begged, prayed, entreated to
be saved! All no use!
"Nearly senseless. I have been tak
en te the housekeeper's room, which
the diningroom at the harp; martyr
the second put her blue fingers on the
keys of the grand piano-forte In the
drawing room ”
His
Color«.
"What are your college colors?"
"Well," answered Farmer Corntoa-
«el. “Josh has figured so strong fa
hazing an’ football, I should say they
Knrw Her uMlaal«,’>
"Hadn't you better wash the dishes ' must ba black and blue."—Washington
before we go?" said a man, who wa.<, Star.
taking a hired girl out for a walk; I
It's simply impossible to love thy
"your missis will be sure to see them neighbor as thyself if he la an ama
and »cold you.” "No, she 'll not," re teur cornet player.
plied the girl; "as soon as «he learns I
I am going out for the evening, she'll |
Even a college education can’t de
spend all the time looking through ury prive some young men of their goo4
MOS*.
trunk.”—Puck.