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Polished language 1s Otten used
telling the unvarnished truth.
Dr. William Osler Is «0 years old
and admits that he has repudiated
the doctrine which made him famous.
Ten dollars a week may not be a
living wage for brokers’ clerks, but
the account Is not squared by embez-
alement.
__
Abdul Hamid Is credited with hav
ing several million dollars on deposit
in United States banks. If he has, it
la perfectly safe.
Down in Mexico a millionaire who
murdered his bi other-in law is to be
hanged. The Mexican laws cannot be
rich In technicalities.
King Edward is disposed to listen
sympathetically to the suffragettes,
notwithstanding the fact that he is
never likely to need their votes.
The law' of Tltlpu as exemplified In
the “Mikado” evidently obtains in
Camden, N. J., where a man has been
sentenced to a month In jail for flirt
ing
One of the discouraging signs of
the times is contained in the fact that
people still gather in lkrge crowds to
see paracuhte performers kill them
selves.
An English nobleman recently lost
his life while pursuing beetles in
southern Arizona
It Is possible to
imagine a more heroic death for a
nobleman.
Among other defects of the mechan
ical piano player tn hot weather is
that it never excuses Itself on the
ground that it forgot to bring its
music along.
Somebody remarks that "the world
is full of people who are experiment
ing with union suits for the first
time." The same may be said with
reference to divorce suits.
J Pierpont Morgan and King Ed
ward are reported to be very chummy.
Perhaps the King thinks of getting
Mr Morgan to secure a controlling in
terest in Germany, and thus stop al)
danger of an Invasion.
People who thought the recipients
of big incomes were to be required
to begin immediately to pay taxes
on them will have time to Indulge in
several more thoughts before the in
come tax paying begins.
The German Chancellor is going to
quit. Kaiser Wilhelm, being a versa
tile man, might take the job himself,
doing the chancelling, so to speak, at
certain hours in the day, and wear
ing his mustache combed down while
st it.
The biography of Dean Hook re
calls a certain minor canon, who used
to preach at the cathedral when Hook
was a boy at the Winchester school
In one of his sermons there occurred
the striking reflection that “what is
Impossible can never be and very sei
dom comes to pass.”
Usually when science makes a
marked advance there is a patholog
ical penalty paid by those most ac
lively engaged In the work. Med
ical experts now tell of mysterious af
fections suffered by wireless telegraph
workers in consequence of the action
of the Hertzian waves. In some cases
the eyes are affected, and in others
the heart or the nevres.
New Yorkers who sought to get rail
way accommodation from Chicago to
the Pacific coast in June were told
they would have to give three or four
weeks' notice before room could be
found for them. All trains running
to the West were crowded, and space
in them was reserved for that length
of time ahead. Three reasons for this
unusual condition were given by the
railway managers: That many na
tional conventions are to be held In
the West this summer, that the Seat
tle fair is open, and that the people
are beginning to realize that the fu
ture expansion of America Is to be
toward the West, and are anxious to
understand the problems to be met
there.
There is much profitless talk Just
now about age as a bar to employ
ment. In mere manual labor when
a man Is really physically enfeebled
by age. it is a bar that cannot be
overcome. In other lines that call for
Intellectual activity chiefly, it should
not be. The old are needed to “teach
the young Idea how to shoot.” There
is a place for Nestor, even In an army,
as well as fo.r Hector. Youth has its
advantages, and age has Its own, and
the old head on young shoulders Is
too great a rarity to depend on for
the running of the business of the
world. Put It is noticeable that the
cry for “young blood,” once more prev
alent than now, comes mostly from
lips that are old. “It Is a crime to be
old," said an old man caustically to
another who refused him employment
on that account—"unless one is an em
ployer.”
The recent mutiny In a company of
Philippine constabulary, stationed at
Davao. In the extreme southern part
»1 the archipelago, appears to have
Old Favorites
u
lence and loyalty of the force. Cer
tainly these native troops have repeat
edly shown their efficiency in policing
the Islands, and there has been only
one other notable instance of Insub
ordination since they were organized
In 1898. Nevertheless, many observ
era of Philippine affairs insist that
the loyalty of the Philippine troops Is
more a loyalty to their immediate offi
cers than to the cause in which they
are engaged or to the flag which they
follow. It is urged that at heart they
are antagonistic to Am rlcan rule, and
not to be relied upon In a serious cri
sis. Other nations have had varying
experiences with native soldiers in
distant lands which have come under
their control. Ancient Rome used
them, and in modern times Great
Britain has had to depend on their as
sistance. The Sepoy mutiny in 1857
is one of the most memorable in
stances of the rebellion of such troops.
It is probable that this country has
numerous problems in the Philippines
more difficult of solution than that of
maintaining the efficiency of the na
tive constabulary.
“Who is to be the new professor ot
Christian theology in the divinity
school?" was asked recently in a
group of graduates of a New York
university. “It is not easy to find the
right man,” was the reply. “The young
ministers nowadays are Interested in
sociology and not in theology." A
clerical reviewer of a recent book by
the retiring professor in question
wrote that the book was deficient be
cause too little attention was paid in
it to the social side of Christianity,
Thus was emphasis again laid on so
ciology in distinction from theology.
Neither John Calvin nor Jonathan Ed
wards would be plea=ed with this man
lfestatlon of modern religious Interest.
In the days of Jonathan Edwards, and
for many years afterward, the doc
trinal sermon w'as regarded as of the
highest Importance, and even now
there are many clergymen and laymen
who deplore the present tendency
away from doctrine. They say that
modern Christians do not know what
they believe, and are ready to accept
any new fad. Ignorant of Its theolog
ical significance. These persons regret
the breaking down of the barriers be
tween the Protestant denominations
indicated by the advice of a New York
clergyman that those of his parish
ioners who live too far aw'ay from the
church to attend its services should
join a church of some other denom
ination, If necessary—nearer their
homes. This lowering of the bars be
tween the sects is one of the results
of the decreasing emphasis on doc
trine. And the little regard in which
doctrine is held Is still further lndl-
cated by the decision of a committee
of one cf the most conservative Cal-
vlnlstic churches to recommend for
ordination to the ministry three young
men who are unable to accept as lit
eral some of the statements in the
Bible which all Trinitarian Christian»
used to consider fundamental.
Since I've Ueeu In the Aruiy.
AN IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION.
HE decree of the Iowa Supreme Court that
lake beds and the beds of non navigable
rivers belong to the State constitutes a
decision destined to have a far-reaching
effect on drainage projects. While the de
cision is binding in no State except Iowa,
the precedent set is likely to be followed
in other States where drainage projects are undertaken.
Northern Iowa, particularly, contains a large number
of shallow lakes which can be drained and converted
into agricultural land at comparatively small outlay,
and the tendency to do so has led to much litigation
to preserve lakes which the common good demands
Bhould be retained. Whatever other effects the law has,
it will tend to stop the drainage of real lakes, since
the direct financial benefit is not so likely to tempt the
State as it would a private individual.
In rendering this decision the Iowa Supreme Court
has also undoubtedly cut out for itself much litigation
in the future determining. titles to lake beds already
drained and defining what constitutes a lake within
the meaning of the law. The Iowa court is used to
that, however, as the cases will be legitimate suc
cessors to the piolonged swamp land disputes.—Omaha
Bee.
TRICKS FOR THE JURY.
N spite of its many good qualities, the
jury system has always presented to the
mind concerned with pure justice the
basis for a multitude of doubts. For ex-
ample, when eight men on a Jury are con
vinced that a verdict for murder should
be rendered and four are equally honest
in their vote for acquittal, what justice can there be in
a verdict which condemns their subject to a compro
mlse verdict of manslaughter and a term of twenty
years? Either the law has been robbed of a life right
ly forfeited to it, or an innocent man has been made
to pay the penalty for a crime he did not commit.
And this brings us to the methods by which the
opinions of juries are swayed. It is the view of the
law that a jury Is moved to its duty by some telling
bit of melodrama, a piece of sentimental clap-trap, or
the clever Introduction of irrelevant nonsense into the
serious proceedings of the case by some slick lawyer.
One does not wish to be severe on a man on trial
for his liberty. Nor Is it right to deprive him of any
legal privilege granted to him by the law. But it must
be 6een that since the jury before which he is being
DIVERSION OF IMMIGRANTS.
HE country districts have a perpetual hun
ger for men to do common labor; particu
larly is this chronic shortage acute in the
South and Middle West. On the other
hand, it is too often true that the labor
market in the large centers of popula
tion is oversupplied with men. It is the
mission of the Bureau of Immigration, under the or
der just issuel by Secretary Nagel, to equalize this con
dition—to send the laborer away from the overstocked
market to the other market where his services are in
demand.
Though the government doubtless concerns itself
largely with the economic aspects of the case, there is
also a moral and physical question Involved. The more
generally Immigrants are kept away from cities, the
better will be the health and morals not only of them
selves, but of their children; the more probably will
the second generation grow into worthy, law-abiding
Americans. The better, too, will be the conditions in
the cities themselves if they are relieved somewhat of
this constant influx. It would be almost a solution of
the problem of congestion and its train of evils.—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
A
As the sour old married couple were
Walking In the park Mr. and Mrs.
Spoonmore rode by in their new auto
mobile, chatting merrily.
“Look at them!” said the experi
enced married woman, bitterly, "See
them actually carrying on a conversa
tion and not quarreling! How do they
to it?”
"Huh,” grunted her husband.
But if the experienced married cou
ple had heard the “conversation” this
is what they would have heard:
“I’m really glad I took that rasp-
berry-colored gown. Oh, I clear for-
got to get some raspberry -colored
thread to use in taking in that place
in the skirt! But I suppose you can
"What do you want, little girl?”
get it some time downtown if you
“Who, me?"
would ever remember------”
"Yes"
"My, but this little wagon does run
"Nuffln. I’m just shoppin'.”
fine. Ever notice how she purrs? I’ve
found out the best way to steer and
The Flow of Solid*.
not wabble; you Just------”
The Idea of flow is generally associ
“I really believe that white gown
ated w ith the movement of liquids and
is a bargain. I hope the other one
gases, and indeed the term fluid is
doesn't make me look pudgy.”
usually restricted to these two states
“You keep your eyes on the road
of matter. Nevertheless it Js begin
ahead of you and pay no attention
ning to be understood that nearly ev
ery substance Is capable of a move to what your hands and feet are
doing. That Is, after it becomes------ "
ment corresponding to the Idea of
"I wonder if they really will send
flow, and that such a thing as abso
them out when they said? If they
lute rigidity does not exist, The flow
don't there's no trip for me next Sat
of solids occurs in such mechanical urday.”
operations as the drawing of wire,
Whoop! I looked down at my gas
the manufacture of drawn tubing, the
production of various shapes in the throttle a minute, and that thanky
forming press and in the spinning ma'am rose up and swatted us right!
lathe, and all these are well known to I guess I'd better heed a little of my
the engineer. To the general observ own preaching after this."
“I certainly wouldn’t have wanted
er It is apparent that we have in
the mountain glacier an example of another thing that woman showed me.
continuous flow of an apparently solid Did you ever see such a fright in your
mass, and that, too. without rupture life as that blue one with the long
or disintegration.—Cassler's Magazine. coat to it? Perfectly dreadful. And
she said it was the very latest style,
too. Well, all I have to say is that
Wet Cloth Io Slckne««.
When a very hot cloth is wanted the style won't stay that way- very
for use in sickness, do not wet the long.”
"Good! Did you see her take that
whole cloth.
Take hold of the ends,
one in each hand, then drop the cen hill on the high gear? I've got that
ter In boiling water, twist the cloth spark and gas notch business down
quickly, and the result will be a very pretty tolerably fine. I tell you. That
fourth notch of spark and the fifth of
hot cloth and the hands not wet.
gas will climb any old hill if the car
Isn't overloaded and I'm not stopped
Recognised Work of Women.
After the Franco-Prussian war, for something at the foot. I wouldn't
"The Service Cross for Women and trade------ ”
“Well, you've no Idea how glad I
Glrla" was established in recognition
of their aid during the war.
The am that the ordeal's over. I've been
decoration consists of an Iron cross dreading this hot shopping trip for
a week, and it was mighty nice of you
encased in silver.
to go along and help me select the
When a man goes into an office to things and talk them over with
sell a book, he usually shakes hands , ~ie
ni ------ '
with the proprietor with «o much cor j "Look out, kid! • A little more and
tjo*r Mother wduldw'l Aav« knofiz
lialil} as to attract suspicion.
The Feminine Prerogative.
tried can only honestly concern itself with the testi
mony as to his guilt or innocence, nothing else but the
facts bearing on these points should be allowed to plead
for him before that jury. And there is nothing either
in the ethics of the profession of law or in the unwrit
ten licenses permited by custom in the influencing of
Juries w’hlch justifies counsel for the defendant in re
sorting to such tricks—Washington Post.
CONCERNING “GRAFTER.”,
CCORDINO to a court decision that has
just been handed down, calling a man a
grafter does not constitute slander. This
will probably lead to fresh attempts at a
definition of the term which has filled a
long-felt want while awaiting a place In
the dictionaries. The people accepted It
quickly and applied it liberally without any effort at
nice distinctions, They called men who were guilty
of criminal offenses grafters, They found the word
useful in connection with boodle aidermen and dishon
est politicians. But they employ It also in referring
to small cheating and a disposition to ask something
for nothing. The offenses vary from grave to trivial
ones, and yet the same quality is recognizable in them
all. The grafter figures on rewards without service, on
holdup games, on taking what does not belong to him.
The same moral qualities are suggested by the term
whether the action complained of is criminal or not,
and they are qualities that make for thievery. They
were recognized recently in the Senate in a smoking
room of a sleeping car which was discussing an inci
dent that had happened shortlj’ before. A man had
secured two railroad tickets for the price of one, owing
to the error of a clerk, had refused to pay the full
price on demand, and had decided to let the unfortu
nate clerk take the consequences. The Senate voted
unanimously that he would be a star grafter if he had
the opportunity, and its members emphasized their
opinion of him by snubbing him and making unpleasant
remarks within his hearing.
The legal problem Is beyond us, but we are positive
that if “grafter” is not slander it will never be mis
taken for a compliment.—Chicago Record-Herald.
T
you when you got home to-night. It’s
certainly fierce the way people let
their kids play In the streets, out in
front of autos, and everything. Some
day one of these tads will be killed,
and the fond parent will say the
Lord took them because they were too
good for this earth.”
"Well, I'm gladder every minute
that she didn't get me to take that
pongee with the embroidery. There
must have been a prize offered to who
ever could sell that thing, the way she
coaxed at me to let her send It out.”
—Chicago Daily News.
always open, and pigs roam therein
by day, and beggars sleep therein by
night. Prisoners are at times chained
to the pillars till it is convenient to
march them off to the district magis
trate's prison, and 1 have seen a wife
sold by auction to the highest bidder
and the auction conducted in the an
cestral hall.
Our l-'oollxh A ■■ibna.ndorlal Itnnk
I'm Paddy \\ hack of Bull) hack.
Not long ago turn'd soldier;
In «rand attack, tn storm or sack«
None will than I be bolder.
With spirits gay I march away,
I please each fair beholder.
And now they sing "He's quite th«
thing,”
Ooh! faith! ye girls, I charm ye.
And there ye come, at beat of drum.
To «ee me in the army.
Rub a dub dub, and pilll 11 loo.
Whack! fwal de lai la and trill! II loo;
I laugh and slug like anything
Since I've been in the army.
The lots of girls my train unfutls
Would form a pleasant party;
There's Kitty Lynch, a tidy wench.
And Suke and Peg McCarthy,
Miss Judy Baggs and Sally Maggs,
And Martha Scraggs all storm me.
And Molly Magee Is after me
Since I've been In the army.
The Sallies and Pollies and Kitties and
Dollies
In numbers would alarm ye.
E'en Mrs. White, who’s lost her sight.
Admires me in the army.
1
The roaring boys who make a noise
And thwack'd me like the mischief
Are now become before me dumb,
Or else are very civil.
There's Murphy lloake, who often
broke
My head, now daresn't dare me.
But bows and quakes and oft he
sneak«
Since I've been In the army.
And if one neglect to pay me respect,
Och! another tips the blarney,
With "Whist! my friend, and don't of
fend
A gentleman of the army.”
My arms are bright, my heart is light
Good humor seems to warm me;
I've now become with every chum
A favorite In the army.
If I go on as I've begun
My comrades all inform me.
They soon shall see that I will be
A general In the army.
Delightful notion, to get promotion.
Then, ladies, how I'll charm ye,
For It's my belief commander-ln-chfet
I shall be In the army.
A GASTRONOMIC IDYL.
Empires Mny Fall, but the Genius
°f Cookery Remains 'I'rluiitphnnl.
You will find a small restaurant Just
Inside tiie street entrance. It is pre
sided over by a waiter who has ap
parently been 40 years of age for the
last two decades, says a writer in the
Bookman. He has a friendly, alert
air. and anything in the world that
you want he will promptly provide,
for the honor of the Hotel de Nor
mandie. You will naturally order
some sort of pottage or something that
your fancy suggests; but whatever
else you do, be sure to call for mus
sels. I can see you turning up your
nose at this. In America, who eat«
mussels except perhaps at rare times
some pickled mussels? They are with
us in the same category as tripe. But
behold the genius of the French!
When the waiter brings in a enormous
silver bowl with a domelike silver cov
er, and when he removes the cover-
then you forget everything In the
world except the delicious savory smell
of the steam which arises from the
myriad shells that open lovingly for
you to extract from them the dainty
sea flavored mussel that lurks within.
Mussel, did I say? No, these are not
the ordinary mussels that Americans
know. French gastronomic genius has
transformed them into monies marln-
iere. In some deftly magical way the
French chef has imparted a delicious
suggestion to the monies. Just that
Indefinable, evanescent memory of gar
lic-garlic which in the hands of the
ordinary cook is an offensive and dead
ly weapon, but which in the hands of
a cook of high degree an artist in
fact—is a means for achieving some
of the supreme triumphs of his art.
After the monies you will have any
thing you care for- dainty slices of
galantine or sliced capon nestling
amid watercresses, and then perhaps
some peaches in a little basket where
the fruit Is enfolded in leaves from its
own tree and ripened to precisely the
right turn on some ancient wall in
the sunshine of an old French garden.
Then, perhaps, some pulled bread and
a bit of Camembert and a cafe Maza-
gran In a long glass. No one remem
bers now the battle that gave its
name to this particular preparation of
coffee which shows that men may
come and empires may fall and armies
may be dashed into fragments upon
the battlefield, but the genius of cook
ery remains
triumphant and it«
achievements are never lost.
The carefully trained diplomats sen,
abroad by foreign countries—-where
diplomacy Is a regular profession—-are
letter perfect as to the gymnastic and
sartorial details of their jobs. Born
with the mildew of caste In their
QUAINT SACRED EDIFICES.
veins, they glory In the triplicated
kow-tow and gloat over the backward
Chinese Anceftlral Halim Where De
glide.
parted Spirit« Are Honored.
Diplomacy, the French say, Is the
The most important edifice in
Chinese villages is the ancestral hall, art of tying one's own necktie, and,
says the Rev. Charles Bone in the In under that definition, foreign diplo
dependent. As ancestral worship is mats are its masters. But in handling
the oldest and most sacred cult of the men, in adjusting really important af-
Chinese, it may be assumed that these ’fairs, in promoting international am
ity and understanding, in dealing with
sacred edifices are very ancient.
The ancestral hall is the recognized those quick crises which are the true
rendezvous of the spirits of the de test of diplomacy, the wider training,
parted, who are supposed to revisit the broader outlook, and the more di
their old haunts, and especially to versified experience of the American
gather therein on anniversary days, ministers made them unequaled.
Meanwhile the stupidity or coward
when the living offer them homage
and sacrifices. The inner room of ice of Congress — statesmen are wel
these halls is indeed regarded as a come to the choice—which was respon
veritable holy of holies. A Chinese sible for the creation of the ambassa
with a sympathetic imagination, who dorial rank without providing funds
gazes thoughtfully upon the hundreds for its support, will stand in the way
of gilded wooden tablets standing in of applying either possible remedy to
rows, tier above tier, until in the cen the impossible situation. And so the
ter top row, stands the tablets of the American people must continue to
original ancestor of the clan, feels sponge on the private fortunes of am
like an Anglo-Saxon who is privileged bitious millionaires who are anxious
to linger In the aisle of Westminster to buy for themselves and their fam
Abbey. Every village of Importance ilies some temporary glitter and glory
abroad, until the National Legislature
has its Westminster Abbey.
But the village ancestral hall is either makes suitable provision for
more than this. It is the recognized ambassadorial support or—quickened
rendezvous of the clan life of the vll- I and inspired by the living memory
lage. The village school Is held there- i of Abraham Lincoln—returns to the
Tempo« Fufflt.
In, for It Is said that the presence of [ old Ideas of republican simplicity.-
Two
darkle.s
were engaged in a live
the spirits of the departed will both Success Magazine.
ly dispute about the purchase of a
assist the youths in their acquirement
mule.
of knowledge and inspire a reverence Mnrwhnl nnd the Emperor’« Order*.
“Look hea, Mlstah Jackson,” ex
Apropos
of
the
centenary
of
the
in them for the honor of the clan.
claimed one, "you done tole me, t'reo
Alas, however,
"familiarity breeds death of Marshal Lannes a Paris con
temporary tells the following story: weeks ago, dat mule was a young ani
contempt.”
The marshal had a horror of eti mal. He haint got a toof In his head,
In the ancestral hall, moreover, the
several head men of the village gather quette and appeared very little at he’s so old.”
Mr. Jackson thoughtfully scratched
to discuss municipal affairs and ar court. One day when he was amusing
his
head and than replied: "Time
himself
by
shooting
larks
on
his
es
range Internal quarrels. Chinese fam
shua
does fly In dis hea country."—»
tate
of
Maisons
Lafitte
a
message
ar
ily life is. to a foreigner, a tangled
mystery, and he Invariably loses him rived to invite him to the Tuilleries, Success Magazine.
self in its confused mazes. The deli where his absence had been much com
Tell-Tale Aroma,
cate degrees of mutual responsibility mented upon.
Josh
—
It
’s too bad.
The marshal, not the least per
to which each member stands to the
Bosh—What's too bad?
turbed,
replied
to
the
Invitation
in
his
other.
quite unknown in western
Josh—That our neighbors always
lands, offer many opportunities for blunt, soldierly and characteristic know when we have fried onions for
manner:
,
disagreement and quarrels; moreover,
"Tell the emperor," he said. “I am supper, but never get next when w«
the way In which certain funds and
at
his orders to rejoin the army, but have strawberries and ice cream —
the income of certain clan lands is
If
he
wants me for anything else I Yonkers Statesman.
divided at specified times presents
am
shooting
larks.”—London Globe
colossal stumbling blocks to Internal
When a woman has nothing els« to
harmony.
Why Is it that a fat woman seldom do, she remember« a lot of sewing
Ftutbej, thee* sat red edifice«" are ha/i * disagreeable tepip«rt
she bus long neglected.