TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER.
E8TINQ ITEMS.
Comments and Criticisms Based Upon
tit Happening of th Dajr-Ulstorl
eal and New Note.
Credit If all well enough until th
bill collector begin to come around.
Th mott magnificent thing Jay
Q&uld ever did wa to become tba
fthr'of Helen.
Tb Jap nre aid to be using "hu
man" bullet. ThU 1 one of tbe few
humors of "civilized warfare."
Never itrike a man until you are
aaUitted that ho deserves It and don't
do it then unles you outclass him.
Ella Wheler Wilcox's latest poem
sayst "Whatever you do, keep sweet"
Thl would be a nlco motto for a 1cm'
on, wouldn't It?
The men say they havo no desire to
organize a fathers' congress. They
get their Innings while the mothers'
congress Is In session.
It would be like the beef trust to
explain that tho worry and expense
of being Investigated will necessitate
another Increaso of prices.
A British scientist claims that the
earth Is kept hot by radium. Perhaps
the great rush for radium was what
mad last winter so cold.
The Bev. M. J. Savage In a recent
sermon undertakes tcTtell "why more
people do not go to church." He finds
the principal reason to be that "they
don t have to."
We would like to learn the Mormon
methods of making a living. A man
who can provide for five wives and 100
children under present prices Is a fl
nanclal wonder.
John D. Itockcfeller began his bush
ncss career by learning to milk a cow,
A good many people would like to
know whether that was when he learn
ed, to water things.
Doctor now assert that bedrooms
are filled to the doors with murderous
microbes and baleful bacilli. That's
another excuse for your not going to
bed until very late.
When Dr. Italnsford says to us lay
men, "We ministers are no better mo
rally than you," we laymen. Instead of
feeling elated, are liable, knowing each
others' Infirmities, to be decidedly de
pressed. Somebody says that the Parisians
furnish the gowns and the American
women furnish the figures. When It
takes three figures for a gown the
American father at once becomes an
active factor In the little epigram.
Wash a baby clean and dress him np
real pretty and he will resist all ad
f ances with tbe most superlative cross
ness, but let blm eat molasses, ginger
bread and fool around the coal hod for
half an hour, and he will nestle his
dear little curly head close up to your
clean shirt bosom and be Just the cun
nlngest little rascal in all the world.
The Victory, which bore Nelson's
Hag at Trafalgar, hag been thorough
ly repaired, and towed to her former
moorings at Portsmouth, where she
will be the flag ship of the naval commander-in-chief.
The prediction Is
made that she will float for another
half-century at least. It is 140 years
since the Victory was launched at
Chatham.
To exclude Immigrants for illiteracy
i unjust Most of those people are
illiterate because they lacked oppor
tunity. Hefe they soon learn, and their
children become as bright as any in
our public schools. An illiterate man
who is industrious and honest makes
a far better voter and citizen than
tome native born citizen who has edu
cation and a keen desire for grafts.
A dog in England has lately been
honored by the receipt of an Ilium!
nated address, in which he is informed
that be Is the most successful collec-
tor for the Victoria Infirmary at Nor
wich, and Is thanked by the board of
managers. Tbe dog is a G-year-old fox
terrier, named Prince. He does not
wear a cup or basket or carry one in
bis mouth, as do most mendicant dogs,
When be receives a coin be goes un
bidden and deposits It In a box kept
for the purpose. During 1003 bo col
lected more than 2,000 coins. One
bopes that if illness or accident ever
overtake Prince there may be a' warm
bed for blm at tho infirmary, with
plenty of good sirloin Bteak and dog
biscuit Cuba has entered the third year of
ber independence and self-government
and she has every reason to be proud
of the record she has made. Apart
from a rumor or two of rural riots that
were greatly exaggerated and an ex
ceptlonally large amount of noise from
the defeated party at tho last elec
tions, she has nothing to her discredit
and if such things are really dis
credits, what has our own country to
say for itself? The best of it is that
the Cubans appear to be In every way
contented and happy. Undoubtedly
this could not bo said had the United
States seen fit to retain a closer bold
over their government With or with
out reason, suspicion and dislike would
have taken root. Moreover, tho last
two years have taught the Cubans a
vast deal more about the benefits of
quiet and peaceful government than
they could ever havo learned in any
other way. If they havo been on extra
good behavior for the sake of showing
us what they could do, that does not
detract at all from tho value of the
training they have gained. It Is too
early a yet to show by facts and fig.
ures what material benefit Cuba has
grained from tho reciprocity net which
went into effect last December. The
fact that tbe law was pending caused
tbe Cuban sugar ready for exportation
last fall to bo held back in order to
secure tbe benefit of tbe lower duties.
Ai a result Cuba sent us during tho
first tbreo months of this year goods
to tho value ef ?23,000,000, as against
$13,000,000 to the corresponding
month of 1003. At the same time our
export to Cuba Increased from $3,200,
000 to $0,600,000, the more Important
Increases being In flour, cotton cloth,
sewing machine, locomotive, lumber,
leather and furniture. Beyond ques
tion our merchants can secure enlarged
market In Cuba It they but exert
tbemielve to take advantage of the
preference In their favor, while It Is to
be anticipated that Cuba's Industrial
and agricultural development will fur
nish proof that It ba been greatly
stimulated, even before the present
year I out
If any one think that the United
State ha a monopoly of all the en
ergy and enterprise he should revise
his optntons forthwith. Tbe whole
world is wide-awake, and every peo
ple Is alert for opportunities for ad
vancement. There are the Hussions,
for Instance, whom we havo been ac
customed to regard as somewhat slow
and behind the times. They have re
cently secured the services of Horace
O. Hurt, formerly .president of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, to
assist them In making tho Siberian
railroad as efficient as the transconti
nental roads In tho United States,
whero the problems of carrying trains
across wide plains and over snow
capped mountains have been solved.
Then there are the Spaniards, who are
planning tor closer trade relations with
tho Spanish-speaking peoples of South
America. And the Germans are seek
ing outlets for their surplus popula
tion In countries which will buy the
products of tho German factories. The
Ilrltlsh are considering plans for a
commercial federation of their colonies
for tho development of their resources
and the preservation of the trade of
the mother country. The Trench nre
developing their possessions In North
ern Africa and undertaking the re
clamation of the Sahara, as well as
pushing their railroads across the Py
renees into Northern Spain. And all
these people are studying the Ameri
cans, that they may ovoid our mis
takes and profit by our successes.
Within a few weeks the reports of
two Independent Ilrltlsh commissions
to this country have been made pub
lic. An official of the railway depart
ment of India, after a tour of the
United States, reports that "the one
Idea In the minds of the American mil-
way men Is to 'get there." " He thinks
that this Is the secret of American
railway success. One of the members
of a private commission to study the
relation of tbe schools to American
commercial success says that "The
schools have not made the people what
they are, but the people, being what
they are, have made the schools." The
American peril," of which we hear
much, is that the Americans shall
grow complacent and satisfied with
themselves. Instead of keeping their
place In the company of the other
wide-awake peoples.
THE HEART'S FARE.
She was a little, bright-eyed Scotch
woman, old, crippled and poor. So
long as she could work she bad stood
at her wash-tub, her dauntless face set
against the foes that she knew were
closing about ber. She had to give up
at lastdisease was too much for her;
so followed the unspeakable bitterness
of help from tbe parish.
But when she surrendered her body
her soul did not yield. A tiny two
roomed thatched cottage and $35 a
year were her all, but tbe poor pittance
nourished and sheltered the same sun
shiny spirit No, that was not all.
Years before a lad from the village bad
gone across tbe sea. He was no rela
tive of hers, but be came of a family
whose heritage were all the needy and
sorrowful within their ken, and over In
the new country he did not forget
Every Christmas $5 went from Amcr
lea to the tiny thatched cottage In Scot
land enough to pay for ber winter's
coal and give her a bit of meat dally
for three months.
One day the young Scotchman re
turned, bringing bis bride with him.
The tiny old woman, slowly hobbling
to meet ber callers, beamed upon them
with a radiant face. She welcomed the
young man with exclamations of de
lighted admiration. She would not con
sider herself worth a question.
"Hoo am IT Oh, brawly, thank ye.
Tbe legs? Ah, weel, they're no that
bad the day."
Then her bright old eyes turned to
the bride.
"Ye'U be a malst fortunate wiue to
wed wl' a Chalmers frae Collnton," she
declared. "They are a' alike a' guld
to them that needs It and It's malr tbe
luve than the money that does tbe hert
guld, ye ken. Ye're a fortunate wlfle
to wed wl' ane o' them."
"Malr the lure than tho money that
does the hert guld." It had been tho
fare upon which she kept ber brave
spirit alive through the difficult years.
Tbe little bride smiled across at tho
"Chalmers frae Collnton," but she bid
the beautiful lesson in her heart
Ho Witch Ilurned In Salem.
It is a fact that no witch was ever
burned or put to death by flro In Sa
lem or any other part of Massachu
setts, say the Washington Post How
tbe impression tbat Cotton Mather and
his associates bad perpetrated that hor
ror gained currency is inexplicable, but
it has been floating around for gener
ations and In all probability will "go
on forever."
Salem was tbe scene of the trial, con
viction and execution by banging of
persons accused of witchcraft. Gal
lows hill, the eminence on which the
hangings occurred, Is perhaps the most
interesting show place In New Eng
land. It may bo doubted If more sin
cere or conscientious men ever lived
than Cotton Mather and his brethren.
They went to the Bible for their au
thority to tho Mosaic law omitting
tho Christian dispensation. That law
told thorn: "Thou shalt not suffer a
witch to live." Firmly believing in
witchcraft and having no doubt that
tbey bad witches to deal with, what
were they to do but to kill them?
From their point of view they exer
cised great humanity in employing tho
gallows rather than the fagot.
If a man can't be bought you can
usually land blm with flattery,
imBBX
m-fMcmu a.
Opinions of
Triumph of forestry.
CCOIIDINO tx United State Consul Tuurgee,
A
of llordeaux, the growth of
jr marine pine. In the I.amlps and adjoining do-
virtmciibi of France, "undoubtedly marks the
most remarkable achievement ever wrought
)' humau opener In tha modification of tmtunil
conditions of soil and climate for tho benefit
of mankind."
A centifry ngo tho region between
the Pyrenees wns In most of It extent "not only one of
the moot barren In tho world, but apparently altogether
hopeless of reclamation." Sand dunra were advancing from
the sea at rates varying up to 200 feet a yenr, swallowing
up fields, meadows, vineyards, houses,
and leaving uotlutig but a gray desert
been destroyed, and now nature wns
There seemed no hope for the heart
occurred to Hreiuoiitler, a native of the
that the devastation might bo arrested by planting the
"pin maritime."
The Idea was submitted to Napoleon,
and ordered Us execution. The result
has been the greatest of bis victories. "Today the dark
squadrons of the pin maritime are posted ou thousands of
sandy slopes, faithful guardians In tho shelter of which
the vineyards and wheat fields rest secure." They give not
only protection, but profit. "Lumber, firewood, turpentine
aud all tho by-products of resinous distillation are now pro
duced In such abundance here as not
need of Importation, but to make southwest France a con
slderable and profitable exporter,"
States.
Meanwhile, by permitting the reckless destruction of
our own much richer loug-leafed pines,
tected our coasts and which asked only
are bringing upon ourselves the same desolation that threat
ened France a century ago. Milwaukee
Our Bad College Spelling.
I'CH Is said In the papers about college En
glish. Tho people within and without college
Ml
walls declare that students
J there Is a thing more fundamental than their
mm
poor English style: It Is the matter of their
spelling. Many college men.jis proved by their
essays, cannot spell. They frequently make
the mistake of transforming writing
ilnlng Into dinning an echo probably
college dining room.
But poor spelling Is not confined
College professors nre not free from the blame. A letter
lies before the writer In which the distinguished head of n
most Important department In an American college de
clares that a certain candidate, whom be
Is "coinpetant" A New England college professor has
recently said that In making applications for a place In
English several candidates wrote of the salery. Of course,
also, a man may lack culture aud spell correctly. Spelling
Is more or less a matter of an arbitrary bit of knowledge.
But whatever may be tbe psychological relations of the
art the schools should teach boys and girls to spell. By In
correct spelling the higher ranges of learning are rendered
less Impressive. Leslie's Weekly.
When Divorce Is Not an Evil.
HOLE3ALE and reckless denunciation of di
vorce, so often heard from the clergy. Is not fn
keeping with reason or with public policy.
Divorce Is not always an evil. Often It is a
blesslug.
Tho woman with a brute for a husband
would be In sore straits. Indeed, If there wen-
w
no escape through the law from a union
The wife who found herself hopelessly
sot might well despair If she could find
laws.
In most States of tbe Union divorce
procure as the ministers would Intimate.
provide that there must he good and
fore a husband and wife can he legally
IN A TIBET NURSERY.
Itock-a-by-UabyUm lit the Forests of
ThU LIttlo-Known Country,
Our first meeting with the Hlfans
presented many ludicrous features,
says a writer In Collier's Weekly. We
were plunging through the gloom of
tho forest when our ears were assailed
with a concourse of yells which echoed
through tbe supernatural silence with
ghostly welrdness. In this forbidding
wilderness we bad not looked for signs
of human habitation, so hastily ar
ranging ourselves In position we pre
pared ourselves for what seemed an
inevitable hostile attack. Long and
anxiously we awaited tbe onslaught
of our supposed hidden assailants,
when again tbe peace-disturbing sound
echoed almost, It seemed, over our very
heads. Glancing upward, the mystery
was soon explained, for In tbe lower
branches of the treo we could descry
numerous small bundles, each too large
for any eyry and too small for a wind
fall. Both my Klangsl and Gharlkauese
escort, with their superstitious natures
roused by these ghostlike sounds, vis
ibly paled beneath their dusky skins,
and gazed furtively round In order to
seek means of escape from this en
chanted spot. Even I was not a little
puzzled and awed until, peering mora
closely, I became aware of the fact
that the disturbing elements which
had caused so much concern arose
from the fact that we bad unwittingly
stumbled upon an aboriginal nursery,
and that the weird and ghostlike
sounds emanated from several hungry
and lusty-lunged Infants. Then the
solemn stillness was broken by our
hearty laughter, the Klangsl and
Gharlkauese, as If to mako amends tor
their credulous fears, making tbe
woods ring with their forced guffaws.
The Slfan Tibetans, a we subse
quently learned, place their children
In skin cradles and hang these from
the trees. In the forests near to their
villages, for two reasons the flrst,
from a belief that they will be In.
structed by the deities; tho second,
that their full existence may not bo
endangered by tho abominable tilth
and squalor of the settled regions, Sev
eral times In the day they are visited
by their mothers, who provide them
with food and remain with tbcm dur
ing the night, and in this forest borne
the child remains until it Is 3 or 8
years old and has grown strong and
healthy enough to stand the rigors of
hardship and disease.
Mormon Missionaries.
According to tbe Mormon authori
ties, upward of two thousand mission-
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
tho "pin maritime,
the Glrondo and
churches, villages
Tho old forest hail
taking Its revenge
of Frauce, whon It
threatened region
who saw Ita value
says Cousul Tourgeo.
only to prevent the
the correspondent
bo treated as a
even to the United
mostly In winter
Everybody 1ms
down the receiver
which formerly pro
to be let alone, we
neighbors. But hero
Free Press.
tho censors, and,
"cast dispatches on
ou tho Justice of
write badly. Hut
means that public
er It Is a breach
Into wrlttlng, and of
evidence, prefers to
of the noise of a
to college students
govcruim uts there
has recommended.
been
words
to deny
lenged doings of to
we save our face
humor. We give a
English language,
process. When a
remark that he is
wo steal n ride from
laughingly refer to
wo bribe we merely
wo are bribed we
worse than death.
commissions" or
bound to a drunken
no relief In divorce
grave definition of
humorous If so many
piled them with a
Is not so easy to
Most State laws
sufficient reasons he-
separated. Every
xy
Everybody's Magazine.
PROOF OF THE NECESSITY FOR IRONCLADS.
I V'ltLUM
Helplessness of the Wooden Ships "Auomemnon" and "Sansparell" Under the
Shell-fire of the Sebastopol Forts, 1054.
arles are constantly In tho field, most
of them young men, and all under tho
supervision of experienced lead-rs and
directed from headquarters established
at central points. Hardly a week
passes that the newspapers do not con
tain some Item concerning this inva
sion: Mormon elders stoned in Ohio,
a rich convert In Now York, a new
Irrigated valley opened and settled In
Wyoming, a strong new church organ
ized In Illinois. Utah Is', of course,
under Mormon political control, but It
Is not so generally known that tho
Mormons also control, or at least hold
the balance of power, In Idaho, In Ne
vada, and possibly In Wyoming nnd
Colorado, with a strong following In
Arizona, Washington and other States,
thus electing, or at least Influencing,
not a few United States Senators and
representatives. Nor has the growth
of tho church been confined wholly to
the United States, Tho Mormons urn
migrating In consldcrabl numbers to
the newly opened Alberta country In
Canada, and they havo taken up for
Irrigation considerable tracts of land
In Mexico. Century.
GOPHERS MAKE BLACK LOAM.
Industrious Little Animal Keeps
the
Boll Thorouullly Mixed.
I have visited nearly every State ami
province west of tho Mississippi, I
have availed mysolf of the researches
of the Agricultural Department mad')
under Dr. O, Hart Merrlam's careful
biological survey of tho West, Indeed,
of all sources of Information, and I am
satisfied that the ordinary earthworms
are not native to any part of America
south of tbe Saskatchewan or west of
3
lawyer of experience knows that almost Invariably when
couples aro divorced there aro the very best of reasons
why they should bo. The Inside history of unhappy mar
riages, ns told in tho private offices of attorneys, la some
thing appalling. Kveu the ministers, who deal In theories
often Instead of actualities, would stand aghast at the
revelation.
Tho Indissoluble marriage of intimated men and women
would bo an unnecessary hardship which tho people, whose
Intlucnoo makes the laws, would not stand. Nor is It to
be presumed that an Indissoluble marriage law would make
any difference In tho matter of hasty marriages. The
couple who embark ou matrimony do not look forward to
or take Into consideration the matter of escape, should the
tie hecomo burdensomo. Tho thought of divorce, like re
morse, comes luter. Chicago Journal.
Tho Wonders of tho Wireless.
HE time Is coming when tho anient newsgath
eror will go to a hilltop, rig up a small Jointed
pole, point It heavenward, and read tho hap
penings of the world on a dial; when tho cur
ious man will thrust his wireless Instrument
Into tho azuro and pick therefrom the doings
of tho nations, lint Just at present Hussta Is
objecting, and raising questions a to the legality of such
measures on tho part of tho Japsneso aud British par
ticularly tho British, who have a fondness for getting au
thentic news no matter to whom It belongs. Husala says
who purloins any wireless messages shall
spy. Wo pass up the question of Just
how she Is to enforce ber demands, seeing her navy Is
quarters tor the war.
an opinion about tho woman who takes
on a "party line" and studies up on her
Is another problem: Is It gentlemanly
according to International law, to speak over the heads of
as the Injured New York Times puts It,
the uiicovenantcd air?"
Our own government does not feel called upon to settle
this little question. The Department of State prefers to
wait till some American citizen Is Involved before It decide
tho Husslan claims. But this simply
opinion will step In and dctermlno wheth
of neutrality for a man who has some
thing to tell to say It through the atmophero Instead of
by copper wlro through a strictly guarded office. At present
tho London Times, whose correspondent Is tho person In
speak of the three-mile limit and neu
trnl u. iters. It contend-:, with British mildness, that If the
Itrlti-li Hag files ou the correspondent's ship, there ran be
no nia-stion that It Is all right. In the cabinets of the
Is pondering and palavering, and the
result mu.v ! a Joint note agreeing to the Husslan con
tentlons. S.iu Francisco Argonaut
Politeness and Crime.
fit language and vocabulary, with our grow
ing slackness, are changing. We nre carrying
things (otherwise Insupportable) with a laugh,
and coining phrases for the purpose. As has
said, we are still sensitive to such course
as "thief" and "steal," but It Is vain
among ourselves that certain unchal
- day forcibly suggest thoso terms. So
with nil Indulgent gnycty not devoid of
twist and a turn to the rapidly changing
and the ugly words disappear In the
conductor steals a fare we Jocularly
"knocking down on the company;" whxj
tho same company nud conductor we
our success In "heating tho game;" when
"Intluenco" or "square things;" when
collect "assessments" or "rebates" or
"retainers," and so on until wo reach a
"honest graft," which would be more
people did not feel that the term sup
long - felt want. Now, these expressions
and others like them may bear a strong resemblance to
thieves' slang, but they merely reflect the language of a
people unconsciously retreating to a lower moral level.
the Mississippi valley, exclusive of tha
narrow humid belt along the Pacific
coast
There exists, nevertheless, a flno
stratum of humus In all parts of the
country whero there Is molsturo
enough to produce annual vegetation.
Tho black earth In Manitoba Is from
one foot to two feet thick, an amount
probably not exceeded over any large
area clsowhcro in tho world. This Is
not a solid bed of decayed vegetation,
but Is thoroughly mixed with the upper
formation, nnd forms tho black lonm.
There la no doubt, then, that In the
absence of earthworms this mixing Is
done by n number of apoclcs of bur
rowing nnlmuls, but by far tho most
Important of theso are the Geomyldao,
or pocket-gophers.
Gophers are found In tho whole of
the region west of tho Mississippi val
ley, as far os tho Pacific coast, south
well Into Mexico, and north us fur as
the Saskatchewan, In other words,
their distribution is general over tho
whole region that Is without earth
worms, though It Is not likely that tho
rodents had to do with this limitation.
Ernest Thompson Seton In tho Ccn
tury. An Amorlonnlsm.
A good way to find out how small
tho world Is la to do something crooked
and try to hldo. To get an Idea of the
earth's Immensity try to spread the
news of a good deed all over it Bal
timore American,
It's a smart baby that understands
the baby talk Its mother Indulges In,
The wise man who has anything to
say to a mule says it to bis face.
INCREASE OF DIVORCE.
Phllndelnhl Itnpldlr (lottlntf Into
Line with tbe IliiUotoi.
Flgutes drawn from tho divorce teo
ords of the Common Plea courts or
Philadelphia show, whou compared
with the rccoul of marriage aud the
population of the city, a surprising In
cichho of divorces In this city, bring
forcibly to mind tbe ease with which
tho marriage tie It dissolved In this
State, aud suggest the possibility that
Pennsylvania may before long acquire
the disagreeable notoriety which ha
for years attached to certain Western
Htntes. Ten or eleven years ago there
was on the luerage ono divorce to
every twenty-four marriages In Phlla
dclphla, according to tho Ledger of
that city. Slnco then the proportion
of divorces has been steadily Inrmis
Ing, until In 11KK1 there was one dl
unco to ItlP marriages, and the causes
for which the courts grant divorce
have Is'cn mi broadened by statute and
by Judicial Interpretation that pilgrim
ages to the HaLntns are no longer need
ful, fuses of collusion are all too
common, and tho annulling totals of
tho annual divorces Indicate a laxity
or linlirrereneo ou tne port or mo
Judge which Is deplorable. It 1 to ho
noted that there Is a wide discrepancy
In tho dlwirco record of the several
Common Pleas courts of Philadelphia,
a dlffeienee the slgulllcaiico of which
has not been lost upon member of
tho bar engaged In dlwirco practice,
guiding them In the selection of tho
court In which to lllo such suit.
Philadelphia In respect to the In
crease of dlwirco Is U'lter than sonio
other American eltle and worse than
others, hut rolled merely tho general
tendency In the entire country. Socio).
oglst who haw studied tne problem
have shown that dlwirccs are more nu
merous In the I'lilted State III propor
tion to the population than In any
other country of which the record aro
ncrcsnihlc, ami that there hao been
J curs In this country when more di
vorces were grunted than In nil oIIut
cMllzcd countries put together. Ill
1STO It Is said that ll.n per cent of tho
marriage ended In divorce; In IRso tho
proportion was -t S per cent, and In
lMs) It had Increased to It.'.', in In
diana In HKsi there wn n divorce for
every R.T marriages In tho Slate. The
record of tho principal cities Is given
In the following table, which shows
the number of marriages aud divorce
and the number of marriages to ono di
vorce In ItsJl:
. MsrrUtfts
to olio
rnr -New
Yolk . . .
Iiurrslo
llnlllluore ...
I'Mlsili-liihta .
Wiutltlljitoo .
I'lltahurg
lloaton
Now Ortmti
Marrlsera Dlrorrf. illrorr.
... la. 1 17 si; mo
... a.tvs m not
. . . 4ll 170 SH t
... o.til'i 4H3 :"t
... a.is.1 pis is o
... a.ti.i lwi 13
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The statistics of divorce presented
In
this way are Miitlclcut to Justify
alarm nnd to eiplalu the attention
which I now being given by sociolo
gists nnd churchmen to the problem of
checking the evil and establishing some
uniformity of praelhv.
EXPLORED ALASKA WILDS.
Government (Initio Tolls nf 111. Ilipcrl
rme lit tlio I.uiul nf (lolil.
a. . i.um.ii-r, who ror ten years
has been a pilgrim In strange lauds, a
guide, n scout nnd n United State
customs officer, I a Washington vis
ltor, say the Washington l'ost.
Under the direction of the War De
partment In ISPS Mr. (lumacr wa tho
guide and surveyor nf tho alt-Amcr!
can route from Vnhlez to Eagle City,
Alaska, when tho country was an un
known wilderness, where no white
man hud ever set foot
"Our pnrty," Mild Mr. Giimaer, "wn
nut of nil touch with civilization from
February to November, during which
time the Spanish-American war was
fought We know nothing of the con
flict until wo reached Forty-Mile Hlv-
er, 00 mile below llnwnou City.
'Our parly consisted of flvo men
Lieut 1. (1. Lowe, Stephen Birch, mir
veyor; two army packer, myself, tl
pack horses und three burro, which
wo took a nil experiment. They lasted
only 100 mile, when they were aban
doned. Tho Montana puck ponies wero
the only onca that could stand tha
strain even In summer tlmo. In win
ter only reindeer nnd dogs ran endure
tho cold.
"Otir expedition had to cross tho
Yiildcz glacier, nu extremely hazardous
undertaking on account of tho numer
ous crevasses and fissure of from four
to ten feet In width. To get over them
wo used snow bridges roped together,
ns they do In Switzerland. Many peo
ple Jin vo slnco lost their lives In fol
lowing this perilous trull, hut slnco
then n route has been found by dipt
Ahcrcromhlo around the glacier, and
no more live need to bo sacrlliced.
"Within two years n railroad will
penetrate the now gold ..-.lis at Tan-
nun, that aro Just now causing n sen
siitlon among hunters of tho precious
tiivtul. Vulilez, with tho most bcnutl
ful harbor In tho world, and surround
ed with mountains ft.OOO foot high, will
bo tho futuro eupltnl of Alaska. Tho
territory ha a futuro splendid beyond
mo imagination or its most enthusias
tic, citizen, mill In dollars nnd cenls
will give greater return than nny ter
ritory over owned or over to bo pos
fcCLMua by tho United States,"
Lincoln' Passes.
Lincoln's humor armed him effectu
ally against tho Importunate persons
with whom, ns tho head of tho nation.
ho was beset at all times,
During tho Civil Wur n gentleman
nslied 111 in for a pas through the i.Vd-
oral Hues to Itlchiuouil,
"I should ho happy to obllgo vou "
said Lincoln, "If my passes wero re
spected, But tho fact Is, within tho
Inst two yeurs I havo given passes to
Itlchmond to a quarter of a million
men, nnd not ono has got thero yet."
Discovered at Last
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
I've discovered what you ore.
Sure a gunj, I vow, I vum,
You're a hunk o' railhiint
Philadelphia I'rcss,
A woman Is seldom as strict with
her children ns she Is with her bus-
bund.
Senator Stewart of Nevada enjoys
tho distinction of being tho only mini
In tho Heiiato who ha never been
shaved, ills beard began to grow
when ho was 10, nud has been grow
ing for Oil year.
John Burns, member of Parliament
for Hattcrscn, recently took n iW-mll
walk with mi Infantry Imttnllon In or
der to see tho wolk done by tho army.
Ho Hindi nn nveriigi of '.'3 miles a day
and declared lit the end of the trip
that ho enjoyed It greatly.
Missouri, Arkansas nnd tiiilslana do
not allow noil resident to hunt. In
Nevada, fallforiila, Arizona, New Mex
ico, Texas, Kansas, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Indian Ter
rltory no license I required. The
hlghet llccnso Is that of Wyoming
f.Mi; tho lowest that of Washington
-I.
An estimate Is iiiado that an cipcusn
or JI.ikmi.ixhi ha been homo by two
rival homo owner within three year
pant to bring tho record to It present
point. The men Interested nre f . K. (I.
Billings, the owner of Lou Dillon, and
11. E. Siiialher. who own Major Del
mar. Tlmo ha thus been knocked
from t lut reeoitl at the cost of mora
than I'JTiIMmoi n second.
A recent maritime disaster call at
tcutloii to n tiny Maine village of his
torical Interest, t'eiiiaquld Point wa
ono of the earliest of the New Eng.
laud while settlement, nud the ruins
of tho stone fort, built there In It'MI,
till slain near tho Ktenmboat laud
Ing. With a short nnd bloody history,
Indian hostility making tho locality
uninhabitable, the town site was short
ly afterward nbaiiihuied.
All Interesting article In the shapo
of nil old straw hat that ha passed
several year of continuous travel till
railroad nil over the country, arrived
at tho llrnltlelHiro (Vt.l station recent
ly. Tho hat was started from Mil
wnukeo nud since then ha visited nil
part of the Fulled Slate. It I cov
ered with check bearing tho mimes of
tho different town It ha visited. It
wa scut from Ilrattleboro to Bellow
Fulls.
Illondi hair I characterised by a
high proportion of soda ami also of
silica; red hair contain a very high
proportion of slllcn: black Is poor In
roda nnd poor In silica the latter he
tug almost entirely lucking -hut on
tho other hand I rich In potassium.
Tim we have polnsslc hair, silicic hulr
and sodlc hulr, and as tho hair I con-
tlnually growing ami being cut or fall
ing out, It I evident that by mean
of tho hair then I both roiistnnt and
linitortniit elimination of certain min
eral compounds.
Tho largest organ In Maine Is nt thn
Universalis! Church, nt Portland. In
It arc over ftouo pipe, tho smallest
piccolo, being half nn Inch long, nnd
lie lnrgest, n double open diapason, or
.T.' foot "C" pipe. The vox humans
stop alone, having 111 pipe, cost JiHsl.
Tho pipe room, of which thero aru
four, nre each nn largo ns nn ordinary
bed chamber. The organ wn voiced
by J. 11. Brown, who voiced the organ,
nt Westminster Abbey. It has tlirco
manual, and I blown by a Ihrro
hnro-power electric motor.
WAYS OF THE MOSQUITO.
Itnw Home of tho Adult lllhtrnata
Ilurlnu tlio Wlutor,
Thnt adult mosquitoes llvo through
the winter I evident to all who havo
seen and felt thm on tho first warm
day of early spring, say n writer In
the Literary Digest. Now wn aro told
III addition that larvae nnd even tho
egg of tint Insect may survive great
colli. Huys n writer In the Itevuo Sol
enllllque: "it Is well known that mosqultoe
hibernate In thn adult state; a certain
number of theso vexation Insects pas
the winter In various retreat In
slaughter houses, granaries, cellars,
etc., and In the spring they resume
active life and multiply their kind.
Hibernation, however, doe not nlwny
tuke plnee In the adult form only; tho
larvue can nlso pns tint winter with
safity. Tills ha licen shown by tho
observation of John It. Smith inn do
during the winter nf Hmii-iink! nnd nt
tho end nf It)'.'. The winter cold docs
not regularly tleslrny aquatic larvae.
They will bear n considerable degren
of It, they have been Been surrounded
with Ice, tho water having frozen
around them, nnd lifter tho melting of
the solid envelope they still lived. Tho
same larvae may bo allernntely frozen
up nnd melted several times In lh
courso of tho winter. Thl I true of
the culex piingen nud of several other
species both of culex and of anopheles,
etc.
Certain specie hlberunto In tha
adult state; other In tho larval statu
also; others still hlberunto In tho egg.
But many havo lilliernntlug larvae:
with many tlio lurvnn pass tho winter
under tho Ice, or In tho tee, without
tho least Injury. It may easily ha
seen that cold will not kill mosquitoes,
for numbers of polar explorors havo
noted tho abundance of the Insects In
tho regions of Ice, and It Is well known
that tho mosquitoes aro ono of the
plagues of tho summer In tha moist
parts of Alnskn.
Tho Lash In English Prison.
Flogging Is still allowed In English
prison us a punishment for mutiny or
violence, but recently published stalls
tics mako It doubtful whether even In
theso extreme enses corporal punish
ment serves tho purposo for which It
Is Intended. It Is shown that slnco thn
number of prison offenses for which
flogging was allowed was reduced In
1HU8 the number of offenses against
prison discipline has decreased from
1-17 to 131 per 1,000 prisoners, wbllo
there has been nn Increaso In tho num.
ber of thoso offenses for which the
"eat" is still tho penulty.
TvUo Fellow.
Fuddy Why wero you so awfully
afraid of that pistol? You know well
enough that It wasn't loaded.
Duddy It Is tho unloaded pistol that
always goes off nnd kills somebody.
Boston Transcript.
What a good many churchgoers need
Ib a praying macblno that will wind It
stlf.