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alas, that la!,or ■ . or be se cl as
long as name- are to a-tefully ' t: led
The south pole Is now the burning and places so innumerable. .But think
of the joy of the t
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question.
spiring card, wtth the one small pi Int
Harry Thaw has ‘een a great money ed line Intended for hfs benefit among
Baker for expert witnesses.
a wilderness of “sentiments” that are
"lost” in spa e and time! Think of
“All Hats (»« to the Farmer," says the thrill in the stereotyped message!
• headline. An<l open your purs*, Ijtbor sating baa its limits. The in
too
ventore must really leave us a little
real chance for indi-
Somebody declares that politics Is spontaneity, a
expression, for “home Indus»
vldusU
a disease. And In most cases It Is
try."
incurable.
How much do men know about worn-
The new tariff law Is now In effect.
en’s dress, and how much do they
How does It feel not to be taxed on
care about ft? Is an interesting ques-
your hide?
tlon raised by a curious advertisement
The milliners say they lost money printed in London. The person who
on the "peach basket" hat.
This placed the advei tLseinent announces
himself as “a man of gnod position.
makes It unanimous.
with very critical, refined and exclus
Dr. Cook doubtless noticed that the ive knowledge," and much experience
earth seemed flat at the pole, as the of the best firms which rater to wom
en’s wants. He fs “willing to be con
geographies say It Is.
sulted on matters of dress and millin
There Is some talk of abolishing the ery." The heads of a number of well-
|2 note. Why not? The fives are known dressmaking establishments,
when asked for an opinion, all agreed
much more convenient.
that the knowledge of men about wom
A judge has ruled that a man may en’s dress is small, ami their advice
swear at hfs wife. The best plan, how in regard to it of little account. They
admitted that the heads of some of
ever, Is to swear by your wife.
the most noted dressmaking establish
Lady Cardigan Is of the opinion that ments had been men, but they were of
a girl should not get married until the opinion that the men succeeded
only by virtue of being good business
she Is old enough to know better.
managers, and that the details were
It Is against the law to swear In worked out by women In their employ.
certain Kansas towns. Think of hav "It Is only the -esult that men no
ing to walk out into the country to tice," was the general agreement,
swear!
Very likely there is truth In thia view,
but there is also truth In the opposite
The Countess of Cardigan sayB no side of the proposition, says the
girl knows her mind in her teens. The Youth’s Companion. Many women are
countess, It may readily be deducted, so intent upon the details that they
Is In her “tys.”
lose sight of the result. They cannot
see the forest because of the trees;
When a man has enough money laid and It is here that the advice and
aside to keep him on Easy street fop judgment of a man of taste may be of
the rest of his days, he ought to give service-—especially the advice of ths
others a chance.
husband. He is a man of taste, else
ho would not have selected so charm
"How do you like the new $50 bill?” ing a woman for a wife. In a general
asks the Manchester, N. H„ Union. way, the preference of men Is for elm-
Oh, five thousand times better than pliclity in women’s dress. It makes
the Lincoln cent!
for good sense in material and for di
rectness in accomplishing a desired
Why do they seek communication end. Men are uncritical and undls-
with Mars? Because there are people crlmlnating in the matter of fabrics,
constantly asking questions that no but as the London dressmakers tacitly
one on earth can answer.
admitted, display frequently sound
Judgment In regard to the general ef
Mrs. Besant says that India saw fly fect. Above all, they are far more in
ing machines centuries ago. So did clined than women to consider the In
we, but we never saw them fly until dividual case rather than the general
Orville and Wilbur were Incarnated.
style; and that Is not an unmlxed evil.
A Michigan judge has decided that a
man may spank his wife when It Is
necessary. Now It will take a judge
and a jury to decide when It Is neces
sary.
TIGER WHIPS A LION.
A LIB1RAL »DÜCAriON.
Î
K »on l.'Jir»
Rome of the bones of Buddha have
recently been found In India. It Is
hoped that the discoverer has his
diary and instruments where he can
readily lay his hands upon them In
case he Is called upon to furnish proof
•f his discovery.
Abdul Hamid, former Sultan of
Turkey, is rei>orted to be losing his
mind owing to constant worrying. We
•uppose his worry Is caused because
he has only eleven wives and about
$20,000,000 Instead of the large harem
and the immense treasure that he for
merly possessed.
Most men marry for love and some
of them stay married for the •same rea
eon. There are others. Erank Mel-
choir of Hoboken, N. J., is one of the
Others. Mr. Melchoir has no fondness
for a diet of “love and cheese and
kisses. ” He demands a decidedly mote
sutatantlal bill of fare. He was haled
Into court for administering forcible
reproof to his better half; and in the
cold light of the police court the
source of domestic infelicity was dis
closed. No, it was not that love had
fled. Not at all. Ix>ve was permanent
ly roosting there and had taken the
place of the cook. That was the trou
ble. The head of the family would
come home from work hungry and
tired; and would find his wife arrayed
Uke a bride; but with no supper ready.
To the manufacturing of fads In
connection with postal cards there
seems to be no end. The picture card
originally
contained
an excellent
Idea. It had a touch of nature and
appealed to the imagination. But
what degenerate forma It speedily
assumed, and what a nuisance It be
came! The Indecent cards required po
lice Intervention. The merely vulgar
card has had to seek obscurity an 1 a
congenial atmosphere
The varieties
that are fit will survive, whether they
are made in Germany, France or in
the home market. The plain, un
adorned post card retains Its useful
ness and hold, however, and will never
be wholly displaced. In France, It
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pseudo-benefactor of mankind has in-
vetitvl i a
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sembles in t ¡’i the Australian ballot.
U bears all sons of messages, sunU
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For * n .-d- rat«l> lit s ,1 ■ duration
a man must be able fairly to appro-
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He should first read a good daily pa
lter. He can skip all that does not
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crimes, the so l.tx evert'the games
anil races the actresses and divorces;
but he cannot emit the major events
—the process and progress of legisla
tion, the movements of democracy,
the conflicts of privilege, the discover
ies In science, the Inventions in the
arts, the diplomacy of nations and
the general advance of civilization.
These things are of importance to hu
manity, and to have them foreign from
one’s education leaves It utterly illiber
al. Therefore, the first thing neces
sary is not a book for the shelf, but
a broad, intelligent Journal for the
table.
Th» n ft is Impossible to gain a fairly
liberal education without the basis for
an understanding of these current
facts of history, and this requires tho
reading of some books. What are the
important books?
Largely text books. Tor example,
one should have read and fairly mas
tered roasonal ly lull treatises contain
ing the lati -t conclusions in the chief
sciences, such ns chemistry, physics,
geology, bioipgy and astronomy, so
that he may be tide to gauge the value
of what he reads in Journals and mag
azines. He will keep in touch wfth
new discoveries and inventions, He
will be a man of his age, for liberal
education is the education of this and
not of some past age. Equally ho will
read as good text books as he can find
on sociology, political economy and
governments. This will require read
ing of the history of the principal na
tions, or, at least, of a general history
of the world. He must have read
enough on the history of religions to
distinguish their differences and their
worth.
Now comes the question of the value
of pure literature In a liberal educa
tion. There is no doubt of Its im
portance to put the polish on an edu
cation which fs truly liberal. But pure
literature is not of the framework,
the bone and muscle of a liberal edu
cation, but of that beauty which is
skin deep. It Is delightful to read
Chaucer or Dante, tut many a man
of a liberal education has read neither.
The long lists of famous names of an
cient and modern times attract us and
give us additional “culture” if wo
have time for them, but the bulk of
them are not essential.
And when it comes to the older En
glish, poetry and prose, Shakespeare—
well, one needs to have read his plays
twice or three times to be fairly in
telligent. For other poetry one can
get all he really needs for a fairly lib
eral education within the covers of two
or three volumes which give us golden
treasuries of accepted verse.
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THE UNWRITTEN LAW.
S it not time that the unwritten law bo
cast back into the dusty closets of feudal
proprieties and ancient folk lore whence it
wao taken? To recognize such an influ
ence is to bow to the half-savagery of the
middle ages, to offer praises to murder
and to issue a certificate of merit to the
agent of assassination. Recent trials have indicated
not only that the plea of emotional homicide is failing
in the courts, but also that sentimental hysteria is dis
appearing from the Jury box. The imposing hypothet
ical question may find a witness—properly coached—
ready to say yer at the end, but, with the company
termed by the oratorical lawyers of the '50s “that sa
cred flame of civilization—an intelligent Jury"—one-
half might be counting the buttons of the judge’s coat
and the other half snoozing. The presentation of new
varieties of Insanity Is not uninteresting, but ft has
lost its mystic charm. The game fs largely worked out.
The unwritten law we have beheld invoked to excuse the
avenger of an outrag'd fireside and with success. A
Jury In a recent sensational trial was divided in a
case of murder brought about by a frenzy of Jealousy.
The argument was lost entirely when employed in de
fense of politicians who resented with firearms the crit
icisms of a newspaper. T^t us hope that the last
American community has ceased to license murder by
giving approval to the law unwritten.—Toledo Blade.
THE GULF HURRICANE,
NE of the triumphs of man over nature Is
the great sea wall which protected Gal-
veston against a repetition of the horror
which submerged the city nine years ago.
The whole country rejoices with Galveston
that no life was lost within the wall and
that the property loss from the flooding
of sewers was Insignificant.
The hurricanes which periodically start from the hot
vzaters of the equatorial Atlantic or the Caribbean sea
and hurl themselves against the low-lying coasts of the
Gulf of Mexico are freakish. They are more apt to
come late in August or early in September than in
July, it fs not often that they spend their greatest
force upon the same part of the coast tw’lce In so short
a time as the period between the two visitations of
Galveston.
A dozen years or more ago the hurricane headed for
the delta of the Mississippi river and drowned hundreds
of fishermen and squatters whose huts had been built
upon that low alluvium. Once in a while the storm
piles tip the water of the Gulf of Mobile bay and floods
the lower part of the city for two or three blocks back
from the river front. But Galveston, which is prac-
tlcally on an Island, is the only one of the Gulf cities
where the need of a protecting sea wall has yet become
apparent.
The exceptional severity felt at Galveston is easily
explained. When the hurricane follows the Gulf stream
northeastward its fury is visited upon shipping in the
The new woman superintendent of
the Chicago public schools will receive
a salary of $10,000 a year. Where
does she stand on the Income tax
proposition?
Mrs. Decker expects that feminine
fashions will be reformed when wo
men get the right to vote. They will
have to be if the voters expect to keep
their hats on straight.
nt
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In Norway those who are not vac-
cfnated may not vote.
In June British Imports increased
by $29,000,000 and exports by $13,000,-
000.
While an audience of 1.500 people
Alexander mutilated the dead that
was in the hall of a Coney Island ani the sight of them might lie as horrible
mal Rhow a lion and tiger started to the enemy as possible.
fighting, and before they could be sep
The revenue of the commonwealth
arated the hind quarters of the lion
of Australia for the last financial year
had been so mangled by his striped
was $71,750,000, a decrease of $3.325,-
antagonist that he had to be shot. Tho
000.
act which was being shown required
Lightning kills one-half of those it
seven Hons and two tigers, and was
strikes,
while a few of the survivors
considered a very daring feat on ac
count of the enmity of the great are rendered blind, deaf, dumb or par
Jungle beasts. At every performance tially paralyzed.
The “Place-makers’ Bible" Is so
they snapped and snarled at each oth
er, but had always been held in check called from a typographical error
by the trainer; on this occasion, how- which makes Matt. v. 9. read: “Blessed
ever, he turned his head for an in are the place-makers" instead of peace
stant. and in that inconceivable time makers.
the lion saw his chance nnd spran
The annual report of the Montreal
upon the tiger, after which, in s, " harbor commissioners says that Mon
of efforts to part them, the}' foug!)' treal Is now handling a greater vol-
until both were helpless.
time of business monthly than an y
other North American port except New
The Smallest Store.
York.
What fs believed to be the smalle;
An irrigation project to cost $25,-
etore In the world was opened for 000,000 Is on the cards in Argentina,
business yesterday at Front street and the principal rail'. ays to do the work
Bigelow court. Worcester. It consist" and be mid by the government in 5
of two shelves 14 Inches long attar-het per cent irrigation bonds, with the wa-
to the building owned by J Lewis EH" ter rentals to take care of the bonds.
worth, secretary of the State Board of
The Treacle Bible got Its name from
Agriculture, and tho space given up to
Its rendering of Jeremiah vlll. 22: "Is
the display of a few handfuls of fruit
there r.o treacle li> Gilead." Instead of
and peanuts contains 280 square
balm in Gilead. It was printed in
inches.
1568. The same text was rendered in
For more than a quarter of a een
tlie Douai vision. 1609. "Is there no
tury the corner was the sl*e of a new» ro--!n In Gilead?"
Tills Bible was
and peanut stand, but when the city called the Rosin Bible.
extended Bigelow court front Front
All degenerative diseases that cause
street to Mechanic street ft was seen
that the stand encroached on city so much suffering and death In civili
land. It was demolished to allow the zation are absent from the Eskimo.
street to be extended, and the new line No art.-rl. lero-ls, Bright’s disease,
goes to within 14 Inches of the Ella ' cirrhosis, diabetes, cataract. The pure,
sterile arctic air contains no germs,
worth Building.
but
Eskimos Invariably take a bad
Louis Orient© has rented these fs.
Inches from Mr. Ellsworth and started "ship col 1" when they go aboard white
man's ships.
to do business yesterday, keeping his
During 'he coronation festivities of
stock In trade in a little structu**
about the size of a dog house in th> 1906 the consumption of meat In Mad
rear of the Ellsworth Building. Wi-*’> rid was much smaller than at ordinary
Mr. Orient« makes a sale he has to| times, d-spite the Large Influx of vis
stand on the sidewalk.—Boston Glol>e itors. This was due to the fact that
the majority of the working classes
\ Pnrthlnn Shot,
got no wazos while on holidays and
She (contemptuously i -Marry you? are consequenHy compelled to go with
Why, you couldn't keep an old cat out their meat.
alive.
The Geneva version is sometimes
He—Oh. well. If you’re one of that called the ’Breihes Bii.le," from its
eort, all right -Boston Transcript j rendering of Genesis IH. 7: "Making
Poople are never stlngj with tilingo them*» Ives bre- h»- out of fig leaves.”
.This translation, dons by the English
tlitf don't wan»
Atlantic and upon frail structures along the coast. Its
course being in the open sea. parallel with the shore,
the water doesn’t pile upon the land as it does in the
Gulf of Mexico.—St. Louis Republic.
THE DAY OF CHEAP FOOI».
F the day of cheap food has passed, as
we are now Informed with great fre-
quency, there wlU soon be proof of it in
a visible movement from the cities to the
farms. Good wages In America have ad
ded greatly to our artisan population,
High prices for food, if maintained and
Justly distributed, cannot fall to carry many thousands
back to the land. The fact that no such shifting of
population and Industry Is in evidence proves that
food Is high only In spots and that manipulation rather
than scarcity Is to be charged with the soaring prices.
In Manhattan a measure of potatoes or beans or
onions or berries Is to many people a luxury. One hun
dred miles distant ts may be almost worthless. In
one place the man who would buy finds prices high,
In the other place the man who would sell meets an
Indifferent demand and nominal prices.
It Is not true, therefore, that the day of cheap food
has passed. There has been no Important change ex
cept in the congested markets. Transportation charges,
the profits of middlemen, tho exactions of combinations
and the other costs of distribution and delivery have
increased in spite of Improved methods, but the en-
hanced prices rest upon products which in the first
Instance barely paid for their growth. If our farmers
received a fairer proportion of the money paid by con-
sumers for their commodities they would be the rich
est class of workingmen In the world.—New York
World.
A LESSON IN MISSIONARY WORK.
.SIE SIGEL, granddaughter of the famous
civil war general, voluntarily entered the
field of settlement work among the Chi
nese of New York City. She was a mis
sionary among the heathen Chinese in the
thickly populated section of foreign New
York City. She was found murdered, her
mutilated body being packed in an old steamer trunk.
The man or men to whom she had brought the mes
sage of the gospel turned upon her nnd killed her.
It is almost incomprehensible that the girl should
have fallen in love with her Celestial convert, and yet
there are the ircriminatlng letters said to have been
written by her. If this element of romance was an
actual fact, then Jealousy or revenge must have been
an element. Certainly there was treachery somewhere,
and a "converted” Chinaman murdered the young girl
missionary.
Here Is a lesson in missionary work, and the ques
tion arises, does it pay to sacrifice lives and treasure
in an attempt to compel the followers of religions older
than ours to accept Christianity? Will somebody an
swer this question?—Cleveland Press.
I exiles at Geneva, was the English fam
ily Bible during the reign of Eliza
beth and was supplanted by the ver
sion of King James tn 1561.
Miss Gertrude MacArthur, daughter
of the Rev. Dr. Robert S. MacArthur,
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, In
New York, has been appointed a teach
er of English In the peeresses school
at Toklo, Japan. This school has only
the daughters of the nobility of Japan
for Its pupils. A daughter of the Mi
kado is being educated there.
The Eskimo mother totes the baby
In the hood of the fur jacket on her
back next to her skin. Babe Is nursed
two years, but at six months begins
to blubber for blubber. Eskimo wom-
en are absolutely free of those surgi
cal diseases which are filling and run
ning our hospitals oCer. the curse of
the times.—New York Press.
VANISHING TIMBER.
Trees <’nt Three Times ns Fnst n«
They Are Growlag,
forests. The supply seems abundant
enough for a great many years.
Further study of the statistics In
the pamphlet, however, reveals th«
reason for anxiety. The yearly drain
upon the forests is some 20,000,000,001
cubic feet. Figures are given for lura
ber, lath, shingles, firewood, poles,
posts and rails, railroad ties, pulp
wood, cooperage stock, tanbark and ex
tracts, round mine timbers, naval
stores and miscellaneous products.
The annual growth of the new trees
to take the place of the old fs esti
mated at less than 7,000.000,000 cubic
feet. In other words, the timber Is
being destroyed three times as fnst as
it is growing. The end of such a pro
cess is not hard to see. That Is where
the need of the forester comes in. By
showing what Germany Is doing, for
example, in keeping the annual growth
always ahead of the annual destruc
tion, the pamphlet points the way to
the right course of procedure in the
United States.—Chicago Tribune.
History in Woman»« Gnrb.
Nobody knows exactly what the tim
Never before probably were so many
ber supply of the United States Is. varieties of feminine historical cos
There has never been a timber census tumes seen as were represented In the
taken In this country, With a few ex history pageant recently In Bath. Eng
ceptions no State has made any close land. The founding of that famous
estimate of its forest resources. But watering place antedates the Roman
the demand for information on the Invasion of ancient Britain, says the
subject which lias attended recent agi New York Press, and every fashion in
tation has been so marked that the De women's dress used by the people of
partment of Agriculture has prepared Bath since the days of tho Picts and
a pamphlet In which an attempt is Scots, and of the wall separating
made to give a fairly accurate show Southern Britain from the savage
ing of facts. The assistant forester, tribes of the norih. was shown by par
who is responsible for the compila ticipants in the pageant. There were
tion, has collected hfs data from many the flowing, fur-lined, heavy robes of
sources, He claims no special author the Saxons; the light, graceful draper-
lty. On the contrary, he invites les brought by the Roman Invaders;
criticism and correction of statements the flowered and embroidered gowns of
in the interest of more complete I Norman women, who were up-to-date
knowledge of actual conditions.
in all the mode, coming as they did
The original forests of the United from France; the rude dresses of wild
States were found tn five distinct .beasts’ skins in which were clad the
areas, called for classification purposes helpmeets of the Danes and Vikings,
northern, southern, central, Rocky who swept through the country long
Mountain and Pacific Coast. The esti before the Normans came, and every
mate Is made that they covered 850,- style of frock which garbed English
000,000 acres and contained 5.200,000,- women from the time of Klug Arthur
000,000 board feet of saw timber, oc and the Round Table to the present
cording to present standards of utill- reign of King Edward, Each of more
zntlon. There were 100,000.000 acres than 200 women wore a different cos-
of scrubby forest and brush land, prin turne illustrative of a distinct period
cipally In the West, which has been In British history.
available for post and fuel material.
A Serious Qnaation«
Cutting, clearing and fire have re
"My dear Mr. Fellows,” said the
duced this enormous acreage of 850,-
doctor, “I will admit that I am not
000,000 to 550.000.000. The 5.200,000,-
quite decided as to whether or not
000,000 board feet have dwindled to 2,-
yours is a constitutional disease. ft
500,000,000.000. The stand of timber In
"Hum! That so?" said the patient,
every region has been reduced In great
with a weary sigh, "and have I got to
er proportion than the actual forest
go to the expense of appealing to the
acreage. The clearings in the central
United States Supreme Court to find
part of the country to make place for
out?
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rich farms account for that. A tint ex-
amination of these estimates lead« the
Some people are noted for their abll-
reader to wonder why ao much has lty to recollect things that never hap-
been said about the exhaustion of the pene&
I Legal Information
The liability of a railroad company
to an infant who comes upon its prem
ises without Invitation, and who is in
jured there while playing, without Its
knowledge, with a turn table, fs denied
In Wheeling & L. E. R. Co. vs. Har-
I. St. Rep.
vey, 77 Ohio St. 235,
503, S3 N. E. 66, 19 L. R. A. (N. 8.)
1136.
That one killed at a railroad cross-
ing under clrcumstances of which
thcro was no witness cannot be pre-
sumed to have been in the exercise of
due care In an action to hold the rail-
road company liable for his death.
where the burden of showing due caro
is on the • plaintiff, is hold in Shum vs.
Rutland R. Co. (Vt.) 69 Atl. 945, 19
L. R. A. (N. S.) 973.
From i n charge allo« ing the jury
to consider on the subject of damages
the humiliation resulting from the loss
of an eye. an appeal is taken in United
States Express Co. vs. W’ahl, 168 Fed
eral Reporter, 818. The United States
Circuit Court of App ds remarking
that there was a contrariety of deci
sions involving this point, adopted the
decision of the Supreme Court in Mc
Dermott vs. Severe, 26 Supreme Court
Reporter, 709. and allowed a recovery.
Where mental suffemig producing eni-
liiirrn--sment or humiliation as the re
sult of the absence of a facial constit
uent is a direct and necessary conse
quence of the physical Injury, Its sub
mission to the jury fs proper.
When Oregon became a State tho
boundary between It and Washington
was the main channel of Mie Columbia
river. The diminishing depth of that
channel, the Jetties constructed by
Congress, processes of accretion, and
the diminution of the volume and
depth of water, have made another
channel more fmjiortnnt and properly
the main channel. In Washington vs.
Oregon, 29 Supreme Court Reporter,
631, the Federal Supreme Court held
that, whatever changes had occurred
In the former channel, Its varying cen
ter was still the true boundary, and
suggested that the course of wisdom
would be for the Interested states to
gain the consent of Congress to secure
the aid of commissioners who could
adjust as far as possible the jurisdic
tion and this elusive boundary.
Trial«.
"Don’t waiters try you?" asked tho
thin chauffeur of his comjnnlon while
waiting for a meal.
"Not as much as Judges,” replied the
fat chauffeur, with a fast look.— Yo®
kers titatebuian.