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Peary has the usual hard job la try*
6* *• tra the Cook
Cimisation win last eaiy • laac
* la* aad order are bombproof.
S a man is a liar it la us«i*M to
tau klai so ne knew It all th* time.
A soft answer may turn away
•ratk. bet there's likely to be a fiare-
My boy, you will learn that many a
availed orator Is merely a human
phonograph.
It’s all right to hope for the beet,
bat the fellow who spends all his time
taping will never get it.
Will some gentleman kindly volun­
teer to go to the polar regions and
verify the Peary and Cook mat*?
Hitch your wagon to a star tf you
must, young man, but endeavor to
make a wise selection of the star.
If Dr. Wu is really after the spirits
it will be necessary for them to be
very careful about what they admit.
King Edward regards a fleet of bat-
tleehlpa a slxn of peace, especially
when It belongs to the home country.
An Ohio woman opened an old bak­
ing powder can and found $3,20),
enough to raise quite a batch of muf­
fins.
It would be a shame If King Alfon­
so should lose hie job just when he is
beginning Co accumulate an interest­
ing family
What a lot of fun Mark Twain could
have with the name of his son-in-law.
At Mark’s time of life will he feel like
learning bow to spell it?
If King Edward has been hunting
around for a life job he has probably
found It in his pro;x>ee<i effort to es­
tablish a friendly feeling between the
lords and commons
The execution of Ferrer will not ex­
tinguish the Influence of his teaching
and It la more than doubtful If it will
do much to instill sounder Ideas of
government into the minds of his fol­
lowers.
Before getting his divorce J. M
Barrie settled a handsome fortune
upon the lady and made the co­
respondent promise to marry her. Is
the age of chivalry dead, as has been
alleged?
little less than * mockery when the
sard* are sent to the mother wtie
--—i and should have, so much more
than that As youth lives tn and for
the future, so does old age always look
back over the slope as it nears the
summit. The parent is wrapped up In
the eon and daughter; but as the son
grows to manhood and the daughter
to womanhood, they are absorbed tn
the plana and the processes of build­
ing the structure of the coming years.
Stwh is the law of life and the basis
of all progress. but it Is a pitiful
thing when the son and daughter fail
to keep in mind their obligation to
the loyalty and love of their parents,
Blessed are the absent ones who write
long and frequent le’tevB to the old
home. Soon, they cannot know how
soon, the precious piivilege wiH no
longer be thelra
With the «sentry, the world. In fact,
busily divided into hostile Peary and
Cook camps, the partisans and the
middle-of-the-road» rs seem to have
given little thought to the role played
by Eskimos In the achievement both
of the commander and the doctor,
Could either Peary or Cook have at-
tained to the l'oie without the aid of
these husky little brown men, with
the unpronounceable names? It is ex-
tremely to be doubted.
With icy
dimes and frozen temperatures as
their native element, habituated to
hardship as the millionaire is to lux­
ury, stomachs apparently molded of
Indurated iron in ability to digest as­
tounding foods, these aborigines of
the far north furnished the Indispens­
able factor of guides and pack-horse*
and assistants amidst conditions that
would speedily put even the hardiest
of white men out of commission. In a
way, too, the Eskimos, both of the
Peary and Cook parties, developed a
strange and admirable gallantry, a
sort of unconscious fighting spirit, in
battling with the heart-breaking con­
ditions which must ever attend explor­
ations of this nature. It could only
have been this driving impulse that
sustained them through weeks > and
months of bleak and dreary toil I in a
struggle toward the "great nail."
They were not buoyed up, as were the
leaders of their resi>ectfve expeditions,
by the knowledge of the acclakn
history and civilization, waiting
lavish adulation as soon as they
turn from frozen solitudes, In
fairness, the names of these Eskimos
should go down Into history side by
side with those of Cook and Peary.
Theirs was simply the high courage
and bright incentive of sheer man­
hood; no sordid or vainglorious mo­
tive did tempt, or could have tempted
them upon such a bleak and profitless
enterprise.
FISH THAT CAN WALK.
fllmbfo* Hereto Travel Over
iron. Waler to Water.
SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN A MISTAKE
'
By John Te tapit Oravaa.
The average man is distinctly growing
weary of the noisy and intemperate agitation
of a few women tor the correction of some
imaginary wrongs of the female sex and for
the establishment of some purely bypothet-
teal rights.
It la calculated to dissatisfy some whole
some and happy women, and disturb a civili­
zation with Which t««re is nothing materially
the matter. The agitation is a half century old end
its present expression Is notably the incessant com-
plaints «gainst men and a continuous depreciation of
the male sex, both In the matter of its morals and Its
manners.
The present agitation is too fierce. It will react
upon itself. Half its energy is expended in abuse of
men. The present aggressive movement of the women
seems to recognize nothing good in men. Men are fail­
ures everywhere—failures as husbands, failures as fa­
thers, failures in ail the relations of life, public and
private, and "slave wives," fairly blossoming into misery
out of comfortable and normal conditions, are supple­
mented by new-born viragoes openly urging "physical
violence In the prosecution of the suffrage cause."
This is dangerous ground for woman. The sharp
rivalries of the sexes In the ordinary avocations of life
have recently washed away much of the chlvalric
glamour which enshrined the woman, and street cars
and elevators tell the story of the familiarity which
has debilitated knighthood. If now the tongue of the
termagant is to speak for the sex in this new evangel,
there will surely be found men to tell women some re­
ciprocal things that are not complimentary. There are
cold-blooded, thinking fellows who see things as they
are, and in merciless analysis, without restraint of
courtesy, they will tell women what they think.
BRIDGING THE CENTURIES.
By Bella Squire.
In the tragic story of "Tess of the D’Urber-
villes” the author makes the pregnant state­
ment that the girl Tess was 200 years ahead
of her mother, and in the statement lies the
clew to all the tragedy that followed. But in
the probability of such a suggestion being
possible lies our greatest hope for an ultimate
civilization.
Here in the cities in countless cases are
examples of the younger generation crossing easi­
ly and naturally the centuries that their parents have
not bridged. Medieval ideas transplanted into the worst
conditions fostered by our modern civilization in cities
do not make ideal homes, but Into such abodes are born
many of the children who throng our streets and
schools Our city is cosmopolitan Our people are from
many nations and many climates They represent al­
most every stage of civilization through which our an­
cestors have lately passed, and. once here, they are
thiust. because et their ignorance and poverty. Into the
worst conditions which our complex civilization pro­
duces in the aedern city.
The probit® which our schools have to face is this—•
to carry these children from the stage of civilization
in which they are born and live up to our own sta^e
if it is possible, and to combat as well the evils which
our civilization has produced for them, for we have by
no means attained, as yet, an unmixed good.
We are in the midst of a great change in educational
methods and ideas It has been forced upon us that
mere mental cramming or the acquisition of knowledge
will not necessarily produce good citizens of itself We
have also begun to realize that the very conditions of
life Itself have changed radicall) and that to meet the
changed conditions we must change our methods.
To a great extent the regular school is still in bond­
age to the past, but the summer school, a new institu­
tion. designed to meet one phase of the new condi­
tions, is frte to experiment and to expand, and in such
schools are being performed the mtracles of getting the
children of the most backward ready to march in the
vanguard with the children of the more favored. It is
in these schools that the rudiments of the art of liv­
ing are being taught, and it is in the art of living,
more than in mere knowledge, that real civilization
lies.
ART WORKS GOOD MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT.
By Sir H'm. H. Bailey.
There are few sights that I admire more
than the contemplation of a well-ordered
municipality where the freely elected un­
selfishly serve their fellow citizens by the
promotion of the health and prosperity, the
education and public happiness and refine
ments of life, and Improve the public taste
by the creation of Ideals of art and beauty.
I know of no better way of cultivating the
imagination than by familiarity with the works of art
and beauty by the study of the best poets, Many of our
history makers were poor scholars. Their success was
founded on their possession of that divine quality, im-
agination.
The grammar of ornament can be taught by examples
only. Harmonies of shape and color become servants
of the thoughts of only those whose eyes and fingers
have served apprenticeship; and that service may be
rendered to the poorest artisans in Paris in these noble
institutions. We have an anxious trouble with our un
employed, unskillful most. That is apparent and self-
evident. There is another class, of cultured people, ed­
ucated and refined, who are utterly helpless in times of
distress and when overtaken by misfortune What a
great addition to the wealth of the nation It would be
if new Industries could be created by using our Il­
brarles to promote industrial an in the manner that the
French libraries of industry are now being used with
such apparent success! We Import thousands and thou­
sands of dollars’ worth of beautiful things which might
be made.
/
MECHANICAL WAVE BATHTUB.
The "common drinking cup" must
no longer be used In railroad trains
or stations, In public or private schools
or in the State educational institu­
tions. according to a ruling of the Kan­
sas Board of Health. One Immediate
advantage of this prohibition ought to
be a decrease In the prevalence of >o 1-
taglous diseases In the State.
The Chicago * Northwestern comes
along to add its name to the list of
railroads which have not lost a life
among the millions intrusted to their
care during the last year. In this case
the achievement looks pretty good, be­
cause the total of passengers carried
amounted to the combined populations
of the States of New York. Pennsyl­
vania. Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. When you come to think
of it, It's quite a job transporting all
those folk without running over one
of them or letting them do any fool
thing that might result tn death.
Church membership tn the United
States le the subject of a bulletin is
sued by the Department of Commerce
and Labor. The statistics show that
during the six years following the cen­
sus of 1900 church membership in­
creased 8.4 per cent. Of this Increase
4.4 per cent was tn Roman Catholic
churches, 1.8 per cent in Protestant
churches, and the remainder in
churches of other denominations. The
total church membership reported Is
32,936,445, or 39 1 per cent of the total
population. Of this total, Protestant
churches are credited with 20,287,742
and the Catholic with 12,079,142. Of
the total church membership 56.9 per
cent are women. The disproportion
between the sexes 1s most marked In
the Protestant churches. In the Cath­
olic church the men constitute 49 3 per
cent of the total.
“My boy," writes a white-haired
mother to her eon. a busy man In a
distant State, "write home often You
do not realize what your letters are to
me, and how long It is between them."
No. he had not realised U, and unhap­
pily there are many absent sons and
daughters who need a similar remind­
er. They would be Indignant at the
suggestion of waning filial devotion,
but In the stress of business. In the so­
ciety of new friends, tn the happiness
of a new home circl*. how rarely they
spare an hour for a good long letter
to the aging mother In the old borne -
the loving mother whose heartache, as
tbs passing days fall to bring the long
•d-for letter, is one of the most pa­
thetic tragedies of old age. The de-
cilne of the letter writing habit of an
earlier generation has often been de­
plored. but this feature of the decline
can neither be excused nor defended
Mti jM-card subetltitio for letters to
ACTS LIKE A PATENT CIIt'BN'.
The mechanical wave bathtub shown
In this Illustration was originally in­
vented by a French nobleman, but Is
now being used to some extent in Ger­
many. It resembles in form and in
action certain patent churns now sold
everywhere, and is intended to pro­
duce a wave motion, such action being
deemed more or less beneficiai from a
medical standpoint.—Popular Meehan-
"Sculptor MacMonniee hasn't a ver?
high opinion of the public taste in
sculpture.”
The speaker. a Fifth avenue art
dealer, entiled.
"MacMonnles told me in his Giverny
studio last year thak the public taste
in sculpture was as naive as a child's.
Everything must be big and grand, re­
gardless of truth. Then he exempli­
fied the child taste. He said that when
lAlojo. the Cordova sculptor, was
modeling the King of Si>aJn in the
'90’s, the little fellow said anxiously:
“'Are you going to make me big in
this statue?'
“ The statue, your majesty, will
make you a little Larger than you
really are.' said 1-a.lojo
"‘Well,’ aald the royal urchin. 'I
want you to make me "*ry, very big
with a long mustache.’ ”
Urging the necessity for greater
lection against fl ref F. W. Fitzpatrick
«ays that within the last five years
jur total fire loss has been $1.257.716,-
)00, while it has cost nearly $300,000,-
)00 a year to try to cure the evil with
water, and $195,000,000 more handed
sver to Insurance companies who will
pay us back about $95,000,000 as balm
for our losses. We vote millions for
the handling of fire when It break* out
but dole out hundreds toward the pre­
vention of an outbreak.
Continuing he says that our legisla­
tion anent buildings is aimed toward
the benefit of the individual, and real­
ly benefits the shyster who preys on
the Individual, putting up tinderboxes
which he sells to the unwary.
A Suitable Job.
"We should lose no time in absolute­
Proud Papa—That boy of mine is to ly prohibiting combustible construc­
wonder. Very smart child for his tion within the city limit*; we should
age.
patern after our European cousins
Disgruntled Neighbor—Haven’t a »nd make the Individual responsible
doubt of it. if we were living in old tor damages that accrue to others'
times. I am sure he would be holding property by reason of his negligence,
an office for which he seems eminently
'The community could encourage
the individual Into building properly
qualified.
Proud Papa (suspiciously)—What by revising the order of taxation, As
things are now, a man building a first-
office do you mean?
Disgruntled Neighbor—Town crier. :lass fireproof construction spends
initially more than he would for a
— Baltimore American.
8re-trap. He is taxed upon the value
The Chine®« Cow.
>f that property and therefore pays a
The Chinese cow has been bred as a tax on that additional sum that he
work anknal rather than for milking — expended.
_ .-------- Consequently, he pays
purposes, and. beyond feeding her calf, more tax than his neighbor who has
it appears that she has almost lost her the fire-trap, yet he Is causing the
claim to being a dairy animal A cow ‘:lty lees expense by not requiring the
In Chin* Is seldom milked without the services of the fire department. The
assistance of the calf.
¡tax should be graded In accordance
Even new things have their faults: with the class of construction, the
we can never keep new shoestrings maximum rate on Inferior stuff that
require* maximum protection
tied.
"Then, too. the International Society I
It Is possible to prove a good many
Building
Commissioners
has
things which are not true-
strongly advocated a most effective
s
measure, the labeling of all buildings
of a public or semi-public nature as to
their class of construction: 'Fireproof,'
‘ordinary,’ 'dangerous.'
The word
fireproof’ is used altogether too glib
ly. Have the departments do this
labeling and make it a very serious of­
fense for anyone to advertise his
building as being of a better class than
that to which ft really belongs, and
you will take a very broad step ahead.
"We have been given such spectacu­
lar lessons in the last few years, such
conflagrations as Baltimore's. San
Francisco's and Boston's, that we
must Indeed be dense and stupid in
the extreme If we are not willing and
anxious to do something to prevent
the repetition of those appalling catas-
trophles.”—Utica Globe.
Cowldn't
Say
Anythin*.
The boy had been repeatedly warned
about running to the neighbors and
had even that day made the beet of
promises before gaining liberty. Yet
no sooner was the door safely shut be­
hind him than he had disappeared like
magic.
“Why did you go to Garner's?" de­
manded bls father upon his return.
The boy looked steadfastly at the
floor.
“I am waiting for an answer.” Still
silence.
"Come.' said his father, losing pa-
lienee; "don't stand like that! Speak
up Like a man."
"Well,” said the boy, raising relue-
tant eyes, “you've got me right where
I •can't say anything.”
M® Kvt*®®e® to the Coetrery.
Friend—I think her mother is a see-
slble woman. The Lover—Well—a—I
don't think she likes me. Friend—Oh,
I "merely said she was • sensible
woman!
«
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It may seem absurd to speak of
SstiSB as walking The flying fish is
well known, but its light looks much
like swimming In the air. We natural­
ly think of fishes as living always In
the water, as being incapable, in fact,
of living anywhere else. Pearson's
Weekly says. But nature maintains
no hard-and-fast lines of distinction
between animal life which belongs to
the land and that which belongs to
the water. If we can believe the ac­
counts of naturalists. theYe are fishee
that traverse dry land.
It Is reported that Dr. Francis Day
of India has collected data of several
Instances ef the migration of fishes
by Itnd from one piece of water to
another.
A party of English officers were
upon one occasion encamped tn a cer-
tain part of India when their atten-
tlon was attracted by a rustling sound
In Jhe grass and leaves. Investiga­
tlon showed it to be caused by myriads
of little fishes that were passing slow-
ly on. There were hundreds of them
moving by using their side and small
fins as feet, now upright, now falling
down, squirming, bending, rolling over,
regaining their finny feet and again
passing on.
These fishes were the famous climb-
Ig perch and they were passing over
the country to avoid a drought. When
tlie stream in which they had been
spending the season dries up they
scale the banks and. directed by some
marvelous Instinct, crawl to another.
Wilson Vance's novel of a Crom­
wellian soldier in old Virginia en­
titled "Big John Baldeth” Is to be
brought out in England by the noted
Bristol publisher who introduced Hugh
Conway, Jerome K. Jerome, Anthony
Hope and other novelists of note.
Wilson Vance is the father of Louis
Joseph Vance, author of "The Brasa
Bowl."
There will be given to the world
this autumn two books about the late
Lord Kelvin, one of the really great
men of science of 'he nineteenth cen­
tury. One is the formal biography by
Professor Silvanus Thompson and the
other is a volume of personal remdnis-
•ences written by his sister, Mrs. King
—who has lately followed her brother
Into the other world.
Mrs. Velma Sw-anston Howard has
returned to New York from a visit
to the celebrated Swedish author. Miss
Selma Lagerlof. A new edition of
FARMING LAND IN COLORADO. Mrs. Howard's translation of Mlse
Lagerlof's "Christ Legends" has just
Acre« Costing of $15 Each a Few been Issued.
The book is having a
Year« Ago Now Worth $2.500.
success as literature aside from its
At the present time Colorado land religious significance, Many of the
values are growing at a lively rate, legends It contains are not to be found
and the end Is not yet. It was but a in the Bible and have a distinct
few years ago that fruit land now qualntness and charm of their own.
worth $2,500 ar acre was bought for
Harry Delacombe, the author of the
$15 an acre. The cause of this phe
nomenal increase is Irrigation and "Boy's Book of Airships." has been in
the British army and became much
cultivation.
Colorado is but on the threshold of interested in the subject on which
her greatness as an agricultural state, he writes. He Is now a specialist In
the Pueblo Chieftain says, and the Ir­ it and has a personal acquaintance
rigated lands to be opened to settle­ with most of the leading inventors.
ment will no doubt be filed upon so He has withheld his forthcoming book
eagerly that those who secure the al­ from the press as long as possible in
lotted portion will be Indeed fortunate order to get in the very latest informa­
The scarcity of irrigated public land tion, and it includes accounts of the
and the small amount estimated to be Zeppelin dirigible and the Wright,
given to the public for homesteads Curtiss, Farman Blériot, Antoinette
during the current year not only speak ind other aeroplanes as they api>eared
volumes for the overwhelming demand at the international contests at Reims.
To see ourselves as others see us
as compared to the supply, but clearly
Indicate the present sound value of is always an Interesting occupation,
their Irrigated land, and, above all and nothing can be more Interesting
the certain high value of all Irrigated to an American than to know why he
lands In Colorado In the immediate fu Is unlike the English and the causes
that have made him the energetic,
ture.
Fifteen thousand acres of govern enterprising, active man that he Is. In
ment irrigated land will be available A. Maurice Low's forthcoming book,
for settlers in the Uncompahgre pro­ "The American People,” these things
ject and 50.000 acres of fruit land in are explained and the working of the
Grand Valley, Colorado. The immense American mind Is carefully analyzed.
sums of money to be expended by the To be told that American character
government in the development of has been influenced by the Indian or
these projects will be but a pittance that one reason why we are different
compared to the wealth added to the from Europeans Is because of our
state by the cultivation of the land 'cold waves" Is interesting.
thus irrigated. Directly and km med I
Cicely Hamilton, the author of "Mar­
ately the benefit will be felt by those riage as a Trade," frankly admits that
sections of the State wherein these »he speaks as a spinster. Her claim
projects are located, but no less sure­ is that womans one trade or means
ly, although indirectly, will the entire of livelihood has been to please man,
State experience the prosperity.
to marry him if possible, and to do the
work that he judges too tiresome or
Why 1>I<I lie n® itr
uninteresting to do for himself, The
One of the guests of n seaside board result has been not only that
her
Ing house had picked up a curiously profession of matrimony has
l>een
shaped atone on the seashore that look ivercrowded but also that the
low
ed exactly like a half eaten crust of grade of woman's wages Is due to her
bread. It was being passed around lack of interest in her work and re­
the room, and the finder was evidently
gard for it on account of her belief
feeling pleased with himself at having that her only reepectable career was
found something really unique Every
the marrying of some good man, or in
one who saw it exclaimed how like a
case that failed In becoming the wife
crust of bread it really was. It at last
an unworthy man Miss Hamilton
reached the quiet man In the corner. Of
to an English woman and the author
and the finder went up to him to get
of. "Diana of Dobson’s."
hl* opinion.
"Yes." i said the quiet
man, "it is a striking resemblance
Breakin* a Reeor*.
Didn’t you think It was a crust of
"What was the matter with that boy
bread when you saw It on the sand?" ( sent you?”
•
"Ye*.” replied the proud Under. "I
’He Isn't honest.”
wa* completely taken in with It."
“You must be mistaken!"
"Then what on earth did you flck It
"No, I’m not. He said he was truth-
up for?”
ful and that he loved work, and a boy
that can lie twice with half a dozen
The Way a Benedick Looked at It.
words Is too swift for our business."—
Mrs. Benham—I don’t believe a word Houston Poet
of your excuse. Benham—That's just
like a woman I don't suppose Jonah's
T®® Mock Reall.na.
wife believed the story he told her
"Why are you crying. Johnny?”
after he had spent three nights with
"We was playing train and I *M
tbs whale. Mrs Benham—How do you the engine.”
kno* Jonah had a wife? Benham— I “Yes.”
He wouldn't have been a Jonah If he
“And pa r«tned Ln and switcha*
bad got been married.—Brooklyn Lite.
-Jud<s-