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JTISTICE THE NEED OF THE HOUR.
' . By Rev. Newell Dwlght Hlllls.
Among the dark" problems of life
we' must make a place for the Injus
tice that noble men sometimes suf
fer. ' Long ago Jerusalem crucified
its Saviour, Athens poisoned its mas
ter, Florence burned its hero, but to
day every town and village holds at
least one martyr to cruel and unjust
rev. dr. Hiixis. ! Judgments. . " '. . . -'
Ours is a world In which the clerk suffers in the finan
cial failure of ; his employer; where the officeholder Is
: ruined by the political mistakes of the party leader;
where the' child is destroyed by the sins of the father.
Employers -sometimes suffer - grievously by reason of
economic events over which they have no control; some
times the citizen suffers through the sensational press;
sometimes the author or editor suffers through cruel
criticism over events for whose evil consequences he is
In no wise responsible.-This - problem of unjust judg
ment and this bearing of Injustice In silence Is one of
the hardest-problems that man experiences. ' Injustice
public nien have to endure In silence.
The need of the hour Is for Justice and truth In Judg
ment. The full facts are perhaps never before any of us.
But In general men are far better than they are believed
to be. The good in the world outweighs the 111. The
prophet snw man as part gold and part clay, but the
- proportion of gold Is more and more and the clay is. less
and less. The world, has had too many teachers pois
oned unjustly. : Too many reformers martyred without
cause. Too many heroes who are victims of malignity.
Jealousy and hate. There Is too much good In the
worst men and too much' bad In the best men to leave
, any place for Injustice, harshness or cruelty.
THE MATTES OF FIRE INSURANCE. ; ; ,
:,; - V , : By P. W. Fltzpntfkk.
" Since '1800' -e have paid In Insurance pre
miums $3,022,000,000, or Just In the last ten
years,' $1,610,885,000. Iu 1905 we carried Into
the-Insurance companies, over $100,000,000 In
premiums and got back In paid losses the sum
of $95,000,000, which was supposed to console
fus for the loss of about $180,000,000 In smoke
j And fully that much more for fire departments
and other, alleged "protection." , San Fran
cisco; offers the lutest Illustration of bow much Insurance
really doee protect. Property . to the value ; of fully
$3GO,o66,OW was destroyed; the city and country t suf
fered a' business loss by the fire In that city of nearly a
billion dollars'; If will take at least $12,000,000 to clean
up the city, and undoubtedly $400,000,000 and. twenty
years' ..time to rebuild It. For all of that terrlflo loss
and cost the citizens will receive from the Insurance'
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companies $132,000,000, a goodly portion of which sum
they themselves contributed. . ,
It Is late In the day, but at last people are beginning
to learn that of all "insurance the best Is to build prop
erly In the first place, to construct so that Internal fires
or conflagrations can Inflict but the minimum of damage.
And It can be done so easily and at such slight additional
'cost above that of .the most flimsy construction. Why,
take for Instance, the Board of Underwriters laboratory
In Chicago, the most perfectly fireproof building Jn the
country with all the "frills" and accessories that we
have been clamoring for for years to make buildings
more thoroughly proof against fire, and, In spite of all
that, it has cost but a trifle over 10 per cent more than
If it had been built In the usual shoddy way. Consid
ering Its longevity, freedom from repairs, and the elim
ination of Insurance, or, at least, the payment of heavy
premiums, and that building within a few years of its
erection means an actual and great economy to the Indi
vidual, and from the day of Its completion a godsend to
the community. . . s .
PTOE FOOD' IS GREAT TRIUMPH.
STUDIES OP GULF FISHES.
Carnegie Laboratory Find the Sea
Denlaea Have Short Memory.
The Carnegie Institution laboratory
at the Tortugas consists of eleven build
ings upon Loggerhead Key and is de
signed to afford the best possible facili
ties for the study of life of the Gulf
stream and the coral reefs. The lab-l Mia Candace' Liarht
oratory Is provided with a seagoing Nobody ever thought of Miss Candace
yacht and three good launches for visit- West as intellectual, but doubtless had
Ing the neighboring reefs and for any one supposed that she would take
cruises over the Gulf stream. The literally the text, "Let your light so
yacht Is sixty feet long and can remain shine," half a dozen worthy and well-
at sea for weeks at a time, being pro- meaning friends would have hastened
vlded with a powerful engine and sails. s to try to convince her that it did not
Researches have been conducted dur- mean wasting kerosene oil every night
Ing the last two summers. The follow- to light the bit of road In front of her
lng brief statement will give a fair" house when she could so ill afford to
idea of some of the best established do It
remilts achieved by Investigators work- ) MIssjCandace never forgot the way
Ing at the laboratory : the command flashed upon her. She had
One Investigator studied the habits finished her frugal Sunday dinner, and
of the reef fishes and found that the her tiny house being In Immaculate
most abundant predatory fish of the Sunday order, she sat down by the
Tortugas reefs was the- gray snapper, window, as she always did, to read her
which commonly feeds upon a little sil- three chapters. She always read the
very sardine. . ' Bible through in order, but It niust'be
If some of these sardines be dyed confessed that the prophecies and the
bright red and then thrown Into the sea epistles were a difficult duty. Now she
together with some normal silvery sar- had come to Matthew again, and was
dines the silvery ones are at first reading wtth the simple unquestioning
enten more readily than the red, but Interest of a child. And then she came
the gray snappers soon learn that to It "Let your light so shine before
bright red sardines are good to eat men."
By P.M. Haaney.
Well and properly administered, the pure
vfood law cannot fall, to, work : an4mmenwJLmfc,JjB.nd. will then devour them as eagerly j Miss Candace started and turned her
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stomach. It has long been the most abused
arid outraged of organs, with the result that we have
almost become a nation" of dyspeptics. It has been the
victim of legalized wholesale poisoners before whom the
Borgias of Italy and all other Infamous toxlcologlsts of
history fade Into utter Insignificance. There Is no more
ominous and appalling sight in the world than the In-"
numerable red lights that flash from the drug stores of
American cities; they are the danger signals that tell
every citizen of the continual menace to health and life
that lurks In his dally food.- .
The world keeps moving,, and the march of science and
civilization goes on over shams, frauds, and humbugs of
every kind. Without reviving the days when every man
smoked his own bacon and grew his own cabbage, we
are getting so that every man may obtain genuine and
-wholesome diet,-, be he carnivorous or vegetarian, that
every man may know what he Is eating, even if he be
newly married and. his wife does the cooking. The era
of the wooden nutmeg Is gone, the era of the painted
strawberry Is going. The clouds of gastronomic doubt
and danger drift away behind; the sun of health and
digestion glows In front; and soon, according to the signs,
we may reach the happy period when the food color
artists cease from 'troubling and the adulterators are
at, rest.'' " ' ' ...'.. ,,-'. ''.-",:
f they were normal In color.
eyes to the narrow, unllghted little
GOLD MINING IN SIBERIA,
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-s ! SIBKUIAN 'PEASANTS WOKKINQ TIIEItt OWN MINE.- J
, Siberia is phenomenally rich iu the precious metals and has developed a
system of mining peculiarly Its own. A curious feature Is the way the ground
Is prospected and opened up by the peasant,"tributors," as they are called.
Permission la readily granted to sink shafts, wherever they like, subject to
the conditions that they can only go down as far as water-level, usually about
sixty feet, and that all the quartz extracted must be treated at the mill of the
.ground landlord, and all gold extracted sold to him at a rate previously de-;
elded upon, leaving a fair profit for the peasant and an extra good one for
the landlord. There Is no philanthropy about the transaction, and the peasant
Is In no way bound to accept the terms. No charge whatever is made for
the use of mill. The field Is thus practically developed for nothing rich
reefs which would probably remain undiscovered are opened by up "trlbu
. tors." who frequently make fortunes out of rich strikes. The mine owner
Is thus continually In touch with all that Is going on, and duly records the
results of the operations for his own benefit , In the mining operations women
as well as men do their share of the work. " , '
NOVEL CURES FOB SNORING.
Cane of Offending Policeman Sna
ireata llemodlea for Dlaeane,
. Very many of onr renders will b
Interested In the ultimate fate of the
unfortunate snoring policeman who has
been banished from his fellow sleepers
nd caged at night In sound-proof quar
ter v Perhaps the dreadful infirmity,
jsow that it has the official recognition
of ; his superiors, may. call for some
suitable scientific treatment, If so the
great army of auorera can covertly
watch the outcome with all the cunning
and complacency of undiscovered trana-gt-wnora
" -'-'.'"'
We are glad we can make the start
with a perfectly fair case, for convic
tion of the nuisance la always most dif
ficult to obtain. The culprit must bo
caught with the snore on him and In
the preaenco of reliable ear witnesses.
. No 'one has ever been known to ac
knowledge his fault eoluhtarlly. On
the contrary, one of the surest slgna .of
the confirmed malady Is his persistent
denial of Its existence." lie is not satis
fied to plead lack of premeditation and
absence of accountability, but openly
Impugns themotives of his clamorous
accusers. The worst of it la that on all
other matters he Is perfectly reasom
able. This makes It extremely" diffi
cult to obtain bis consent for treatment
of any sort 'vr; '"
We speak now of snore rs as a' class.
The only easy way ! to tackle thera
when ther cannot resist Them are
various approved methods not only In
genious but effective for temporarily
arresting the sonorous, rasping and vi
brating respiratory spasms. " The most
popular, perhaps,. Is the. elbow thrust
in the ribs. Next Conies the gentle
pinch of the hose, whereny part of the
wind current Is shut off. Some have ad
vised that the nose be clasped by; a
clothespin even before retiring, but un
fortunately the subject of the experi
ment almost Invariably demurs. Others
have recommended sitting on the chest,
but this Is rather a hnxarctbug procede
Ing for both parties, and so also Is a
temporary twist of the windpipe," uor
less performed by skilled manipulator.
But no matter what is done the dis
ease is well known to recur indefinite
ly. v : ; -V", - V -
In most Instances death appears to
be the only common relief for the peace
disturber and his surviving . relatives.
But the end should never be hastened.
The poor policeman for the present can
be safe In his cupola, but how long re
mains to be seen. Twice last summer
the place was struck by lightning. The
main hope now Is that maq and cupola
may both alter their habits before It be
too late. Meanwhile the neighborhood
must ping Its ears and wait New
Tork Herald, y- -- ',; : '' , .'-,
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I lott can llTft way off on a lonely
farm, but trouble will come to you out
there. .yV-'' ' ";. v "
A critic la a man who couldat bare
don it IvunceIC
HOME FROM ADAM TILL NOW.
he lnveetlgator then dyed some sar- street before her door,
s bright blue and threw them In ; "Why, I never thought of thatl" she
ther with red and silvery ones. At exclaimed.
the blue were relatively avoided. But having thought of It, she never
,i- soon the gray snappers learned that questioned the matter. The only prob
they, too, were palatable. Small por- lem was to think how she could save
tlons of Jelly fishes were now attached enough oil to burn till 10 o'clock every
to the blue sardines and the gray snap-, night. Miss Candace thought till 10
pers seized them greedily, but were o'clock would be long enough, it was so
stung by tlie pieces of jellyfish. In a seldom that anybody passed at night,
few minutes they learned to avoid the-) So her duty began, and as the weeks
blue, but still ate red. and silvery sar- passed, the lighting of her lamp became
dines. The next day, however, the a humble act of worship. ,
gray snappers had forgotten this expe- j One day the minister's wife called,
rienee and the patient Investigator was and learned about the light, and the
obliged to teach them anew. tears came to her eyes as she listened.
Another investigator demonstrated ( "Dear Miss Candace," she said, "I
that even such lowly creatures as sea wisn that we all lighted our bits of
anemones and corals pursue the meth- road as well as you do."
od of trial and error In their behavior t Five years ater Miss Candace died,
and that they recognize things lnjurl- In ajj years Bhe kept her
ous and avoid them. Moreover, they lamp lighted, although, so far as she
at first avoid each sort of Injurious knew nobody had ever needed it She
stimulus In a fixed and constant way, had never thought to Mulre about that
but if this falls they adopt new meth- part 0f It
8 At her funeral the minister spoke of
The associative memory of caterpll- her lamp It had probably done no
lars may endure about half a minute, materlai 8ervlce, be said, but no one
but they cannot retain the memory of t the moral Influence of
an experience for so long a time as a ,t Aa h .nl1ert thpre w. . ,lttle BtIr
Place Where Painter and Plumber
v-.'.j- Meet at Interval.
The home Is supposed to be a place
where children can congregate, pro-
minute and a half. Results such as the
above may appear trivial to the lay
reader, but their Import Increases when ,
It Is considered that these simple
forms relate to the beginnings of mind.
in the company, and a young woman
rose. .1
""It isn't customary for friends to
speak, I know," she said, "but I must
Some of you here may remember me ; I
was Maggie Anderson. You used to
The Licorice Plant.
Black licorice Is made from the call me wild, and I was. But none of
tected from the allurements of the Juice of the licorice plant, mixed with you knew that I almost ran away with
world and the advice of the neighbors, , Btarch to prevent It from melting In hot uu ' T u t
and. where parents can quarrel Judl- weather. The licorice plant grows for I kn wnftt It meant but I was
elously without too much Interruption; the most part on the banks of the Tigris hard and bitter and didu t believe In
rays Life. In reality, however, the and Euphrates rivers, which flow any one, and 1 agreed to meet him on
home Is a place where decorators, paint-i through Immense treeless prairies of a certain night.
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ers. furniture men and plumbers meet uncultivated laml. Tbe climate or tntse "'vi ul
great plains is variable. Half the year but t never got to nim. Lo you know
It Is mild and pleasant, but for three why? I couldn't pass Miss Candace's
plumbers
at -intervals In order that they may re
vel in luxury thelrown. .
,-. Homes have been In vogue for some
little time.' Adam and Eve started the
first one and It .would-have been well
with .tlietn had it not. been necessary
to send out the washlngi Thus theser
vant question was started and the ruin
of man followed. . - .-
i. A home Is what Is left after you have
paid the taxes, the Interest on the.mort
gage and the Installment man. . To own
more than one home Is not to have any.
v Homes were at one time popular In
this country. When, by going out In
the back yard to milk tbe cow, one was
In danger of being scalped, the home
was at the height of Its popularity.
Owing, however, to the decreasing de
mand for babies and the " increasing
demand for alimony, homes are being
looked upon with disfavor.
In the- suburbs the home still flick
ers on, kept alive by certain instincts
handed down from a past age.
It. Is. Impossible- at present , to say
just how, long the home will continue
to exist. It is' hard to raise children
and mortgages at the same time,
It 1 quite, evident that cooks and
chlldreu are ' gradually disappearing.
This greatly simplifies the problem.
In all probability the race' of the fu
ture will be divided Into two, classes
thos?, who,-having become worn out
J joking' for servants, are now in sani
tariums being-taken care of by the
government, , a ndthose who sjlll con
tinue to work' for the trusts, Unincum
bered by babies or bank accounts.
' Ga Pipe Made of Paper.-
. Gas pipes of paper are being made
in-France Manila paper Is cut Into
strips equal to the length of the pipes
to be made.' They are then placed In a
receiver filled with melted asphalt and
wrapped around a core of Iron until
the desired thickness Is reached. After
being submitted to a strong pressure
months It is very cold, and for three Ught. I tried again and again, but
months In summer hot winds sweep each time shrank back because I feH
across the country, raising the tern- as if it wouia snow now bad I was,
perature to 104 degrees 'for weeks at a and -'yet at the same time, when I
time. ' ' - j looked away from it, I was afraid to go
The licorice plant Is a shrub three around through the dark. It seemed to
feet high and grows without cultlva- nie as if that light somehow came
tion in situations where Its roots can straight from heaven, and if I crossed
reach the water. The usual time of it I should be lost
collecting Is the winter, but roots are' "I went back, and a few days after
dug all the year around. At first the that I got work in Canton. I am mar
root is full of water and must be al- ried now, and happy, but If It hadn't
lowed to' dry, a process which takes been for Miss Candace's light Oh,
nearly a year. It Is then cut Into small I wish I had come back and told her !
nieces from six Inches to a foot lone. I always meant to some time."
The good and sound pieces are kept, Youth's Companion,
and the rotten ones are used for fire
wood. .
As the valley of the Euphrates con
tained one of the earliest civilizations
In the world. It is probable that licorice
Is about the oldest confection extant
and that the taste, which pleases near-
"Thon Shalt Remember."
In the great review of Moses, re
corded In the Book of Deuteronomy,
the phrase occurs again and again
"Thou shalt remember." In fact, the
Bible continually calls us to dwell
not No one Is truly nappy wno nas
not hapmess as a well of water spring
ing up within himself Into everlasting
life. Dr. Lyman Abbott
Preparation.
What comforts me Is the thought
that we are being shaped here below
Into stones for the heavenly temple
that to be made like IHm la the ob
ject of our earthly existence. He Is the
sbaper and carpenter of the heavenly
temple. He must work us into shape,
our part Is to be .still in his hands;
every vexation is a little chip; also wa
must not be In a hurry to go out of the
quarry, for there Is a certain place for
each stone, and we must wait till the
building is ready for that stone; it
would put out the building If we were
taken pell-mell. Charles George Gor
don. Moral Conraa-e.
To do wrong, or, what Is the same
thing, to refrain from doing right, when
the time for action arrives, because we
are afraid of what other people may
say or think, Is the worst form of slav
ery. To break such bonds, we need a
deeper consecration to truth and duty.
We may admit all the arguments
against such bondage, and yet fall to
escape It; but If we are faithful and
loyal to the good and the right If in
our inmost heart we love and honor
them above all things, we shall find con
tinually growing within us that moral
courage which wins for us our best
freedom. -
STILL NO CURE FOR CANCER.
Remedle Widely Heralded at Firt
All Prove Disappointment.
Premature advertising of medical
theories which have not gone beyond
the stage of experiment Is not without
Its dangers. The X-ray was hailed on
all sides as the long-sought panacea.
Within a year after its discovery It
had been tried on all sorts of maladle
and the papers were reporting results
nothing short of miracles. Conserva
tive medical men asked In vain for
time to observe results. But what now
Is the attitude of the profession to
ward X-ray - fherapeutles? It has re
placed none of the older methods, cer
talnly no surgical operations, and with
cancer lt Is used only when every sur
gical measure has failed, and then only
to decrease the rapidity of the tumor's
growth.
The alleged trypsin cure for cancer
has been similarly trumpeted more
loudly than the scientific tests yet war
rant The results of Dr. Beard's ex
periments on mice he considers encour
aging, but In cases of numau cancer It
Is yet years too soon to make any posi
tive claim, whatsoever. Of cancer thera
are many types; some grow quickly
and without removal nre rapidly fa
tal; some, again, are t.o slow In their
growth that years may pass before
their presence Is even recognized. It
Is not easy to decide, even when the
result appears most conclusive, wheth
er a cure of cancer has been effected.
Formerly surgeons believed that If a
cancer did not recur In Its first site
within one year the patient was free of
danger. That time ("observation
time," as surgeons call It) has been
increased first to three, then to five
years, and at present one of the most
experienced surgeons la this country
believes that cancer may recur even
after ten years.
Thus It Is evident that the factors'
which enter Into any adequate determi
nation of the value of trypsin as a
remedy for cancer are -not simple nor
do they quickly become manifest even
to the conscientious and scientific phy
sician. New York Post
ly all children to-day, was familiar to ,,MD , . . , .
;L k ; Forgetfulness of God Is branded as one
the little brown boys and girls of Baby
lon and Nineveh 3,000 years ago.
f Conldn't Be the Same.
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of the worst of sins Indeed, the point
of departure for most of them. This la
no idle admonition. Our memories are
sometimes weak where the goodness of
God Is concerned, and very tenacious
in regard to our own miseries. It is
due to God and to ourselves that we
remember the way He has led us.
Nothing will keep the soul alive to
al! its duties so much as the living pre
servation of the memory of God's good
ness to us. There Is no better founda
tion for our hope of the future than
thla The mercy of the past becomes
an argument for more mercy In the fu
ture. "Because Thou hast been my
help, therefore In -the shadow of Thy
wings will I rejoice." Most of our de
spondency may be traced to forgetful
ness of God's goodness In the past.
Happtnea from Within.
The real sources of happiness are In
Judge Your face is familiar. Seems
the paper Is coated with sand, cooled w me a young mau aoout your size witn ourselves, not in our possessions; In
and core withdrawn and the outer pipe a black Patcn orer hls ,eft eye was our imagination, not In the novel ; In
rneu once oeiore. j our appreciation of beauty, not In the
The Prisoner Youse are mistaken, picture; In our musical culture, not In
yer honor, It weren't me, cua I wua the piano. Your enjoyment of the beau
wearin' me patch on me odder eye den. ties of nature the sea, the mountains.
tne flowers will depend not upon the
surface covered with a water proof
preparation. It la claimed that these
pipes are as good as and more econom
ical than metal ones.
Each Willi na- to Wed.
Maiden lady rescued from drown
ing, to her rescuer) How can I ever
thank you, noble young man? Are you
marrlMl
Kt-nmntwir. Fri,nin r .-fw 8ea or Vs mountains, or the flowers.
how badly Popklns looks? He told me but yurseIt men will find
that for nights in succession he walked ?y In the pralrle than others 111
tbe floor in mental agony,
the Alps, some more Joy In the desert
NO? have you a pretty daughter?--:' II?leS3 ' 5,
Meggendorfer Blaetter,
When a man comes around, and In
duces a society to get up a play, mem-
Peculation from his employers or
teething baby? Baltimore-American.
of California. . Is It the rich, the merry,
the powerful, the popular, J:hat are
blessed? We look about us and we
know that this Is not true, though we
The average man who is kept grind
bert of the society say their Dnrrtose lag away. In order that he may collect Bct " though it were. Blessed are the
la to, make money. - Really) the mem ben his salary, feels that he could put up .poor In spirit, the meek, the merciful,
want to act; usually, they know the with an income tax all right, if he had be Pure In heart; this we know Is
will lose money. 4 the In come. true, though we act as though it were
MOSLEM RULES OF EATING.
Moat of Them Seem Based on ther
Beat Sanitary Idea.
The rules set down by the old Mos
lem precept as to how to behave re
ligiously and appropriately at meals are
Interesting, though whether they are
devoutly compiled with In times of fes
tival Is doubtful. Here are some exam
ples : Wash your hands and mouth be
fore eating. When eating never put
one leg upon the other nor put your
elbows upon 'the table, as this hinders
good digestion.
Never be a slave of your repast and
never touch any aieal If you are not.
hungry. Be ever content with what
you find before you and never give
yourself great pains in preparing,
choice dishes. Be always If possible
at the table In company with friends
as the prophet never parook of hi
meals alone. Always begin and end!
your meal with thanksgiving to Allah.
Always eat with your right hand and
swallow, before and after food, a little
salt.
It shows good upbringing and Is
pleasing to Allah ever to put Into the
mouth only small morsels and never to
make any observations upon the de
fective qualities of dishes. Never cut
bread with a knife, but, as the prophet
did, break it. Never choose the fruit
offered, but take any at hazard. Never
wipe your fingers with bread. Avoid
blowing on a hot dish, but wait until
it gets cool. Eat dates, apricots and
other similar fruit one by one, remem-
m-nuK in eaung mem tnns tne unity
of Allah.
Avoid at the table drinking mncft
water. Your meal finished, use attent-
neiy iue rooinpicK, gatber up the
crumbs and wash again your hands
and mouth. Lastly, render thanks to
Allan. London Lancet
Old Coffer Unopened.
In the national archives of France
Is an ancient secret coffer which for
some reason or other, has never been,
opened since It was confiscated from
the original owner, although the key
Is with it