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▲ New York clergyman say» old a««
logins at 45. This hurts like sixty.
▲ disease called ascending paralysis
■as broken out In New York. Thue are
•he dangers of aviation Increased.
Even Santa Claus after thia will
have to submit his observations and
records to a committee of experts.
Have a good look at Mars. It la now
only 35,000,000 miles away, and won't
be so dose again for several years.
When the uplift of the farmer gets
through he will probably be growing
a Van Dyke beard Instead of crops.
Halley’s comet will pass within 13,-
000,000 miles of the earth, but It la
no! expected to stop even to take
water.
Better .make a careful note of this:
If you are unexpectedly attacked by a
polar bear, hit him with a sled run
ner.
The American people, weary of arc
tic controversy, will please rise and
sing with one accord James Montgom
ery's lines:
It is said that 31,000,000 is paid out
In alimony every year In Chicago. This
powerful lot of money constitutes the
grass widows' might.
One hundred and fifty-one people
have been killed while trying to climb
the Alps this year. We desire to en
ter a plea for safe and sane Alp climb-
‘ug.
Mark Twain’s daughter was lately
married to Ossip Gabrllowitsch. While
Mr. Gabrllowitsch Is a Russian and not
a Finn, he is said to be all to the
Huckleberry as a pianist,
A Boston paHtor who recently be
came the father of quadruplets has
been asked to resign Ills charge. But
he will still be permitted to sing "A
Charge to Keep 1 Have.”
May we ask, in an unobtrusive way,
if the settlement of these rival claims
to the discovery of the pole does not
hinge entirely upon the answer to the
question, which of the two explorers
was the first 'rival there?
The young Shah of Persia is unhap
py and has tried several times to run
away for the purpose of joining his ex
iled father. His case furnishes anoth
er proof of the fact that nobody likes
a job which is thrust upon him.
An average of eight new churches
built every day In this country, as
statistics show to have been the case
for the past twenty years, indicates
that there is little reason to be pessi
mistic regarding the religious future
of America. Moreover, church-mem
bership is growing faster than the
population.
Between 1864, when the coinage of
the two-cent piece was authorized, and
1873, when it was discontinued, over
forty-eight million coins of that de-
Dcmlnatlon were Issued, and only sev
enteen million have been returned to
the United States Treasury. What has
become of the remaining thirty mil
lion and more—for very rarely Is a
two-cent piece now seen in circulation?
The problem of where the pins go is
not the only one of its kind.
Much Interest la felt in the report
of the Biblical Commission which the
Pope appointed some years ago to
formulate the position of the Roman
Church on the question of the hfstori-
cal character of the early chapters of
Genesis, and the general subject of
Scriptural criticism The necessity of
adhering to ths established doctrines
of the church is of course Insisted up
on. but there are some apparent con
cessions to modern interpretations of
BlbMcal language For instance, it Is
held that the account of the creation
given tn Gen eels was Intended to be
suited to the popular comprehension,
and It la not by Its very nature accur
ate in the scientific sense of the word.
It la therefore quite permissible to
think of the "days” of Genesis as a
longer and indefinite period of time.
On points not directly settled by the
judgment of the church or the Inter
pretation of the fathers, the defense of
Individual opinion is lawful.
The satirist has had a pleasant time
nocking this age wherein men affect
a leaning for clothes of dull grays and
browns and blacks and yet delight to
parade periodically in uniform cloth
and gold lace. They joke of the staid
and unassuming citizen of daylight ,
hours who is thrilled by night to be
addressed as ' high worshipful mas- I
ter" or "exalted potentate of the uni
verse." The color sense is merely held
in taut. The weakness for title is
pandered in secret. After all there is
no need for the shamefacedness over a
taste for things that are bright and
beautiful In this world. Life to the
one who has lived rightly and health
fully and with joy in his heart is a
pageant. To him everything la Illu
mined and interesting and he can but
grieve that any one should deny the
seed of color and form. How much
■tore picturesque our streets might be
If at luaM some small part of the gor-
prousneas in which the city or villages
Indulges In in times of festivity could
be a part of the daily parade. We
know that, living as we do in a clean
er and more comfortable period, the
clothes of the ancients we copy and
admire could make a braver show
now For history tells us that though
the last king of the house of Valois
wore violet velvet he powdered and
rouged. The lace of Louis XIV. was
stained.
The husband whom La
Grande Mademoiselle took, somewhat
against his will, was described as
"well-dressed and dowdy.” Men may
shortly become a little more frank in
the matter of their attire, admitting
that the gay and airy and bizarre is
not necessarily to be condemned, but
rather to be presented as the public
confession of a cheerful spirit
From the earliest days the lure o»
the unknown has been something
mankind could not resist. To travel
in new lands and sail uncharted seas,
to go where no one had gone before, to
find what others had
sought in
vain—this has always stirred the
blood of the race, and has led its
bolder spirits into the perils and the
achievements of great adventures.
Such things a3 the search for the
Golden Fleece and the quest of the
Holy Grail gave expression to this be
fore the great era of discovery and ex
ploration, and in more modern times
there has been the splendid struggle
to wrest the final secret from the froz
en north. Now that this last goal has
been attained, there Is little left,
geographically speaking, to stir the
imagination of men; but thia is far
from meaning that the realm of the
unknown is all explored, or that the
lure of its mysteries is calling with
a jess potent appeal.
The field of
scientific activity is constantly broad
ening, and in the many new worlds
which it offers for conquest the fas
cination of seeking out the unknown
is only equaled by the blessings and
benefits which follow for humanity
when the victory is won. Medical
science has gone far, but the road
is still long before it. The glow
worm reminds man that he has yet
to produce light without heat, and the
electric eel hints at the unsolved prob-
leh of electric power without waste
In the transformation of energy. The
fish mocks the efforts of the sub
marine navigator, and the bird those
of the aviator. Thus nature points
the way to the ex;>erlmenter and the
explorer. Then in the sphere of
psychic
phenomena how little Is
known, bow much remains to be dis
covered! Even if the mastery of ths
earth's surface be practically com
plete. the realm of the unknown looms
vaster and beckons more alluringly
than ever as mankind advances.
CHILD WANTED TO KNOW.
A SOLDIER'S LONG RIDE.
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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
WHEN SHOULD GIRLS MARRY?
GRANDMOTHER has undertaken to an
swer the question in the headline in a mag
azine article. Having had experience, she
thinks she knows what she is talking
about. It is her opinion that no girl
should marry before she is 25 years old.
There never has been and never can be
any fixed rule for the mating of human beings. Ages
ago parents were the sole arbiters of the marital des
tinies of their daughters. They gave in wedlock when
and where and to whom they pleased, and the daugh
ters had nothing to do with the bargain.
The matter is one in which there is pretty nearly
Independence of thought and action on the part of
American girls. Parents may try as they will to shape
their daughters' love affairs to conform to their own
ideas, but it is a rare case in which they succeed—and
even then success on the part of the parents Is not a
guarantee of the girl's happiness. It has been esti
mated that a woman’s chances of marriage begin to di
minlsh at the twenty-fourth year and decline rapidly
to the thirtieth year, when they have almost disap
peared. The period of greatest expectation is from 19
to 23. It is between these periods that the majority
of women must make up their minds, and they do it
from the dictates of the heart oftener than from any
other consideration.—Savannah News.
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MARRIAGE. AND DIVORCE.
HE Department of Commerce and Labor
has just Issued a comprehensive compila
tion of marriage and divorce statistics
from all over the world, which furnishes
much information of interest.
Hungary alone of civilized countries
leads the United States in number of an
nual marriages in proportion to marriageable popula
tion, with 339 weddings to every 10,000 unmarried
adults. Saxony follows closely with 350, while Ireland,
laid waste and pitifully poor from British oppression,
is at the foot of the list with but 126.
The United States average is 357. New England and
California rank about 250. Therefore, it appears that
the coast States, as usual, are leaving their burden of
good citizenship to the Mississippi valley.
The increase of divorce is shown by the fact that in
1870 but one decree was granted for every 1,233 marr-
rfed persons, while in 1900 there was one divorce to
every 250 married couples. Illinois has been unde
servedly accused in this respect, since the figures show
the States of Washington and Delaware away in the
lead, while Illinois is only twenty-fourth in respect of
the number of divorces granted, and South Dakota is
but twenty-second. Big cities lead the country dis
tricts by a comparatively small percentage.
The divorce habit in other countries is also on the in
crease, although religious beliefs and the great expense
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If Condnctor Called Town for t'SS
of It, What Was the Font
It was refreshing, too, when a young
child traveling eastward from the far
West held a conversation close beside
me with an utterly pallid and exhaust
ed mother, which perhaps deserves
narrating more fully. I never saw a
woman more utterly exhausted, while
the child seemed as fresh at sunset as
at dawn. It was when the through
trains on the Boston and Albany still
stopped at West Newton, and the con
ductor had just called with vigorous
confidence the name of that station.
After a pause, the child exclaimed as
vigorously. “Mother,” to which the
mother responded, perhaps for the two
hundredth time that day. in a feeble
voice. “What, dear?" when the follow
ing conversation ensued: “What did
that man say, mother?" “He said
West Newton.” A pause for reflection,
then again, "Mother ” "What?" "What
did that man say West Newton for,
mother?" To this the mother, with an
evasiveness dictated by despair, conld
only murmur. "I don’t know" This
was too well tried an evasion, and
the unflinching answer came. "Don't
you know what he said West Newton
for, mother?” Thus demanded, came
the vague answer. "Said It for the fun
of it. I guess” By this time all the
occupants of the car were listening
breathlessly to the cross-examination.
Then came the inevitable “Mother,”
and the more and more hopeless
“What?" "Did the man say West
Newton for the fun of It. mother?”
"Yes.” said the poor sufferer, with an
ever-increasing audience listening to
her vain evasion. The child paused an
atom longer, and then continued, still
Inexhaustible, but as if she had forced
her victim Into the very last comer,
as she had. "What was the fun of it,
mother?”—Atlantic Monthly.
First l.oce.
of divorce actions keep the ratio behind that in thia
country. There is no Immediate danger of the great
American divorce record being exceeded or even equaled.
—Chicago Journal.
REASON FOR HIGH PRICES.
HEN the Chicago packers raised the price
of No. 1 beef loins from 19 to 21 cent» a
pound they gave the shortage of cattle re
ceipts as a reason, and showed that there
had been a falling off of about 200,000 head
of cattle in the stock yard receipts during
the last year. An investigation of the
market records showed that the price of the grade of
cattle used for such cuts was from 25 to 35 cents a hun
dred pounds higher than it was on the same day a
year ago, while No. 1 loins were 2Mz cents lower a year
ago than the new price fixed by the packers. Thus it
will lie seen that, while the price of such cattle in
creased from 25 to 35 cents a hundred during the year,
the price of No. 1 loins increased $2.50 a hundred in
the same interval, so it doesn't seem that the packers'
theory that their increased prices are due to a decrease
in the cattle receipts is fully substantiated.
About all the investigations made into the subject
tend to the conclusion that in these days prices are
high because they are high. This merely means that
we are living in an era of high prices, and while it is
doubtless true that some of these prices are the effect
of demand and supply, a good many of them ».re high
purely as a result of sympathetic influences. Holders—
1. e., controllers of commodities—have found that by
judiciously but persistently raising their prices and hold
ing them firm they can get just about what they want
to ask.—Indianapolis News.
WOMEN POLICE.
OMEN police is the latest panacea for the
attainment of ideal civic conditions.
The idea emanates, of course, from the
facile, not to say erratic, brain of a wom
an reformer. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, pres
ident of the National Woman Suffrage As
sociation, who informed the students of
the University of Minnesota the other day that all Min
neapolis needs to become a model city is 100 women
on its police force. “One hundred women specialists
put on the police force of a city would make for im
provement in civic conditions.”
It will doubtless strike the ordinary observer that
what the average criminal needs most Is fathering—ad
ministered with a strong hand. The criminal has been
mothered already ad nauseam. States and municipali
ties vie with each other in coddling him. Large sums
are spent to make his cell a boudoir and to save the
poor convict from feeling the shame of his condition.—
Kansas City Journal.
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THE TIPPING EVIL IN AMERICA.
VERY EXACTING BUSINESS.
It Take« Lot« of Time mid Trouble
to Fi^ht Bacteria.
If we are to sterilize the mouth
pieces of telephones every day, to kill
the bacteria and prevent infection, and
must scrub the doorknobs every day
for the same reason, why not be con
sistent and go on scrubbing and scrub
bing every thing with which we come
in contact? the Memphis News-Scim-
etar asks.
If these bacteria must be cleaned
out once a day, why not once an hour,
or once a minute? The pestiferous
things are apt to get in any second.
Of course everybody knows that
drinking water must be not only boil
ed but distilled. We have all of'en
enough been warned that handshaking
is dangerous and kissing deadly. All
of which warnings we have all duly
observed of course!
Now. after having long and virtu
ously refrained from water as God
made it and from the other entice
ments, it Is hard to be informed by
the bacteriologists that we still are
in momentary danger from microbes
unless we scrub, scrub, scrub.
And when we get used to scrubbing
and learn to look upon ft as a matter
of course Instead of a hardship, may
not the microbes steal another march
upon us through the scrub brush?
Maybe we shall have to sterilize the
soap and then sterilize the sterilizer.
Bacteriologists are insatiable. They
never know where to stop.
But their demands, if fully acceded
to. would leave us no time to make a
living It would be scrub, scrub with
us all the time. The farmer, instead
of plowing, would have to put in all
the time killing the microbes in his
plow handles; the butcher. Instead of
killing beef, would never cease to
scour his knife and cleaver. There
would be nothing produced to eat. and
while saving ourselves from death
from microbes we would all die of
starvation.
This sort of thing may very easily
be carried too far. The bacteriologists
must learn to draw the line some
where
We may soon become as ridiculous
as were the Salemites In the days of
witchcraft.
It Is a popular fallacy that the first
love is the true one. unique in its ex
cellence. »aye an exchange. As well
say that the first picture of a painter
Is the best of all he will paint in the
course of his life; that the firstspeeeh,
the first book, the first statue, the first
composition, will be the best of the
statesman, novelist, sculptor or musi
cian, as the case may be. First works
have all the imperfections of uncer
tainty. of Inexperience and Ignorance.
And It is rather by chance than by
Stopped In Time.
anything inherent In the nature of Cu
"When you do tell a lie." remarked
pid's ways that the first love turns Hamlett Fatt, "tell an elaborate He "
out to be the great one.
"I don't know about that," said Yor
ick
Hamm. "Following tnat policy
It Was HI« Rn«l■<>••.
would have lost me the job I just got.”
"I see that you are a great gum
"How so?”
ohewer, sir. It's a fine habit."
"A manager wanted to know if I
"May I ask If It Is any of your
had ever played Richelieu. I never
business?”
have, but I said yes. I was about to
"Of oourse it Is; I'm the man that
say that f originated the part."—Ix>u
makes it"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
isville Courier-Journal.
After a man weighs a hundred and ,
ninety pounds, he finds out at break-1 We are sorry things do not run your
fast what I m is to have for dinner.
1 «ay oftener.
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W. D. Howells, who recent’y returned from England, has given some
fresh information about London’s new "no tip” hotel. Mr. Howells found tip
ping in England "pretty near as bad as it is here.” He was interested in
the new hotel and went there to lunch. The place was so crowded that it
was almost impossible to get in. A single daily charge is made for a bed
room, with lights, attendance and breakfast. Tipping is prohibited.
This experiment, in the heart of London, is certainly interesting. The
house is run by two of London's great cheap restaurant syndicates, which
is controlled, by the way, by the British tobacco trust. So there is plenty
of money behind it. Its success as a "no tip" hotel depends largely, if not
entirely, on the disposition of the public to discountenance the habit of tip
ping. We have been led to believe that the frequent and vociferous denun
ciation of this practice by Englishmen is more or less Insincere. An Eng
lishman wants comfort, and he is willing to pay an extra sixpence or so to
get it, but he objects, naturally, to others doing the same thing. The sup
ply of comfort is always limited.
Tipping in this country is worse than in England only because the tips
are larger, says the New York Times. The English sixpence tip becomes a
quarter here; the threepenny tip is a dime, and is generally received with
out thanks. We do not have to tip so many persons. Shopmen and police
men get tips in London. But undoubtedly the habit of tip giving and tip
taking is growing in this land of republican Institutions, strangely and in
excusably. It Is a deplorable habit for both the giver and the recipient.
Patron
Saint of
Aviator«.
It has been stated that the Vatican
had been approached with the view of
selecting a patron saint for aviators
and that it had been suggested that
Elijah would be an appropriate per
son. The originator of the story seems
to have not taken Into account that
Elijah was an Old Testament charac
ter, and as such would be ineligible.
No doubt, going to heaven in a chariot
of fire would have made Elijah an
appropriate patron. A Paris contem
porary suggests that Saints Colom'»«
should be chosen. Her name alone
has much to recommend her. She suf
fered martyrdom at Sens under Mar
cus Aurelius — London Globe.
Carried llvpurt S3- Mik« *»■
l<«ir»ehH(*k for <»en. hrarury.
“Gen.. Kearney was ordered from
Santa Fe across to California with the
dragoons and wanted to get his report
back to Wirshington as soon as it could
be done,” relates Thomas Tobin in
Outing, "and asked me if I would
carry It to Fort Leavenworth. I
agreed to do It and started with only
a day's notice.
"I carried on a blanket, a lariat,
knife, Hawkins rifle, with about a
hundred rounds, a dragoon pistol and
about two spoonfuls of salt. I de
pended on my rifle for meat and on
finding Indian herds for fresh horses.
I weighed about 140 pounds and wai
tough as leather. I got my first re
mount from St. Vraln at Mora, about
eighty miles from Santa Fe and rode
it two days, til) I found a camp of
Utes hunting buffalo and got a fresh
horse from their herd In the night. I
had to be very careful about falling
In with any Indians, for they would
have killed a lone man for his outfit,
and half a dozen times or more I hid
in some draw on the prairie till night
or rode miles off the trail to keep away
from their hunting parties or camiw.
It was very risky, too, riding Into their
herds, and roping 3 fresh horse and
I always led him away some distance
before I tried to .change my saddle, so
that if he made any noise, ft wouldn't
stampede the herd and wake the camp.
"I didn't dare to make a lire In the
daytime but at night could cook a lit»
tie meat on the coals and the little I
slept was while lying on my lariat, so
that my horse couldn't get away with
It out of my reach. I followed the
Arkans<%s as far as Big Bend and then
bore off across the country to Council
Grove and from there northeast, fol
lowing the plain trail to Fort Leaven
worth; in all, 832 miles, as measured
later. I rode It in little less than elev
en days and used nine horses; the last
two I got from government trains
which I overtook after leaving Arkan
sas."
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For the traveler crossing the Atlan
tic to fancy that his passage is to be a
time of rest is a mistake, declares
Alan Dale, in “The Great Wet Way.”
He says that as soon as one establish
es oneself comfortably, determined to
get the good of the trip, this Is what
happens:
An excited passenger rushes up, and
begins:
“Come to the other side of the ship!
Quick! For goodness' sake, don't miss
It! Everybody’s there. Come on!”
He helps me up, and drags me with
him to the other side of the ship,
where it Is blowing a gale, and It is
hateful. All the passengers are there,
in agitated groups. Emotion Is In the
air, wind-tossed. Men and women are
talking in all kinds of voice; they are
armed with opera glasses, field glass
es and telescopes. It is a busy mo
ment.
“Look!” cries my chaperon. "Look!
See where I'm pointing? Follow my
finger. There! You've got It. You
must see It!”
But I don't. I see nothing. There
Is plenty of water, and there is plenty
of sky, but not more than usual of
either. There are also many clouds.
I see all that, and nothing more, and
I say so.
"Nonsense!” he exclaims testily.
“Here, take my glasses and look
straight ahead of you. Now do you
see?”
I see a black speck on the horizon.
I hate black specks. A year ago I
saw go many of them that I went to
a doctor, who told me that It was Indi
gestion. I had to take pepsin after
meals for three months. Now this
idiot appears to be Intensely rejoiced
because he has forced me to perceive
a black speck on the horizon.
“It Is a boat!” he cries, joyously.
"There is no doubt about It at all.
If you look carefully, take your time,
old chap, you'll see the smoke. Yea,
It's a boat, a boat, a boat!"
If he could see a Brooklyn trolley
car, a Strand omnibus, or a touring
automobile, I should be able to under
stand hfs excitement. But a boa»t!' One
would think that a boat was the most
extraordinary and dramatic thing that
had ever happened. One expect« to
see boats, for ours Is not the only ves
eel on the Atlantic Ocean.
I'nate Jewel«.
A ton of coal Is worth a churchful
of charity.
A secret that you can't tell is aa bad
as money you can’t spend.
Cast your bread upon the waters—It
may save your whole family from dys
pepsia.
There are men who would be recon
ciled to death if they thought that
could get their pictures tn the news
paper.
No man can be secretly religious.
There are plenty of men who think
when thev put a «penny in the collec
tion plate that they ought to hear a
100-pound sermon.
Ah, was he not truly brave! He
walked out without a single tremor to
discharge the cook. But, being a kind-
hearted man, before he reached the
kitchen door he reconsidered the mat
ter and decided to give her another
trial!—New Orleans Picayune.
Disabled teachers In Munich receive
Probably it Isn't necessary for a mu pensions of 75 per cent of their salar
sician to be born, but It Is necessary ies, and a schoolmaster's wife who
for him to have more practice than loses her husband gets three fifths of
the average member of a country baud his salary, with an allowance for every
gets.
I child under twenty.
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