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It has bn demonstrated again that
when an Irresistible train meets an
Immovable curve something happens.
Henry Savage Landor never seems to
be happy unless he Is undergoing hard
ships that would kill an ordinary man,
When he hears about Mark Twain's
white dress suit Harry Lehr never will
forgive himself for not thinking of It
first
James H. Eckels thinks large for
tunes are good. Perhaps they are, but
sometimes they get into the wrong
hands.
"What is home without a mother?"
The answer comes readily enough If
you can keep your mind off Mamma
Holman.
The fear that women will lose the
nse of their arms is absurd. Men will
not permit any such calamity as that
to happen. ,
A Georgia man killed himself be
cause he hated work. Lots of men
with a similar dislike are satisfied to
"kill time."
The experts have not made quite
plain the exact shade of difference be
twene adolescent Insanity and Insane
adolescence.
Is the scientist who thinks women
will lose their arms because they have
no further use for them unaware of
the fact that the practice of holding
hands has not become obsolete?
Mark Twain has expressed the hope
that hereafter the public will take him
more seriously. And the public cer
tainly will If he persists in appearing
In a white suit in the dead of winter.
"Newspapers" nowadays devote most
of their space to freaks," says Dr. Park
hurst. After all the advertising he has
had, It seems unnecessary for the rev
erend doctor to begrudge the others a
little. , -
The newspaper men who are rum
maging around for the "most beautiful
woman" are going to get themselves
disliked by thousands of women who
have no patience with poor Judges of
beauty.
Says a Chicago judge: "I cannot
forget that my mother was a woman."
The statement Is not remarkable, but
It Is a reminder fbat there are lots of
men In the world who apparently often
do forget that very thing.
A Boston "auntie" U pleading with
thoughtful mothers to cease buying
their boys tin soldiers for playthings.
"Auntie" figures that the warlike toys
make little Harold bloodthirsty. But
would It help any to buy Harold a
stuffed peace dove and let him knock
the stuffing out of the poor bird?
through the dark valley of the shadow.
Without it the splash at the, river or
the crash of the bullet
The almost universal reverence of
the Indians for the earth Is Interesting
In connection with their feeling about
the ownership of land. The earth Is
regarded as sacred, often It Is called
the "mother" and It appears to rank
second among the gods. A sacrifice of
food is held up first to the sky and
then Is deposited on the earth, and per
haps rubbed Into the soil. The first
smoke Is directed to the sky, the second
to the earth and then those to the four
directions In order. Other sacrifices
are commonly held up first to the sky
and then are held toward the earth.
Before beginning to perform any sacred
office the priest or doctor holds his
hands first toward the sky and then
rubs them on the ground. "It Is by
the earth," they say, "that we live.
Without It we could not exist It nour
ishes and supports us. From It grow
the fruits that we eat and the grass
that sustains the animals whose flesh
we live on; from It come forth and
over its surface run the waters which
we drink."
Why pistols In hip pockets? London
Is disturbed over a record In 1906 of
23 homicides and attempted homicides
by shooting. In nine months of 1906
New York had 52 such homicides, to
say nothing of uncatalogued attempts.
Last year Chicago, the most American
of our large cities and one-third as
large as London, reported 109 homi
cides by shooting, and added 163 sui
cides of the same class. Ask the police
to explain the difference In these death
rates? They will tell you It Is because
of the widespread custom In America
of, carrying concealed weapons. A pis
tol in a hip pocket Is an encouragement
to a quick temper. It Is a questionable
adjunct for a wise man, while a fool and
a pistol make a combination that rep
resents the height of irresponsibility. A
very large proportion of the men who
carry "guns" have little or no excuse
for it Presence of common sense is
greatly promoted by absence of pistol.
Not only in nearly all cases Is It child
ish, useless and positively silly, but It
Is also Illegal, dangerous and a distinct
abettor of crime. It removes from men
not only the opportunity but the neces
sity for clear thinking. It menaces
friend and foe alike. It Is the confessed
resort of the rowdy, the bully and the
coward. It need not be argued as a
point of law. We Ignore thousands of
other laws. It Is a proposition Involv
ing simple and straightforward com
mon sense. .Take away the pistol and
you probably remove four-fifths of the
possibility of homicide. The man who
is the most amiable to-day Is the very
man who forgets himself to-morrow.
No pistol means no yielding to sudden
criminal Impulse; It means fewer un
justifiable homicides and more real
safety for the Individual and for so
ciety, and therefore a safer nation.
Leave the gun at home.
America and Europe can see that Ja
pan is being caught In the strong cur
rent of modern. Industrial and commer
cial organization and Is being swept
far away from the old moorings. A
Japan of factories and mills, machin
ery and big corporations, wealth such
as the country never before knew and a
grim vlndustrlul grind strange to the
Japanese Is coming Into existence. The
whole color of Japanese life Is chang
ing. Wealth is making Itself the usual
object of worship In Industrial and
commercial nations. Will Its votaries
and the victims of Its bitter rivalries
the human sacrifices of wealth abused
and misdirected emulate the fents of
arms which amazed the world In the
lege of Port Arthur and the great bat
tles from Llao-Yang to Mukden?
Enthusiastic automoblllsts are urging
that a national highway be built be
tween New York and Chicago. The pro
posed road Is not Inteuded for the
amusement of rich pleasure-seekers, but
for the farmers, who are to own trac
tion wagons In the future and carry
their crops from the farm to the best
market A party has traveled between
the two cities by automobile, noting the
best route to be followed, the location
of gravel-pits and the grades to be over
come. It has obtained facts enough to
make Its Inquiries worthy of respect.
Whether the national highway Is ever
built a such, there will be a continu
ous good road across the State of New
York In a year or two, built by the
State or by the various towns and cit
ies; and there are excellent stretches
of good road In the other States along
the line.
Suicide as a panacea for earthly
troubles held to be unbearable has been
practiced by man since the dawn of
history. There conies a time with many
a tried soul when, battered down again
and again by misfortune, the great
haunting question, "AVhat Is the use?"
cannot bo banished from mind. In
gratitude of relatives or friends, sick
ness that Is felt to be ultimately Incur
able, poverty and worst of all a nature
and spirit too constitutionally weak to
fight the rebuffs of a careless world,
all pave the way to contemplation of
elf-destruction. This state of mind
comes as experience shows to high
and low and rich and poor. The rea
son of the one Is not the reason of the
other, but the desire Tor a final rest Is
the same. One good hopeful friends
and one good hopeful talk at the prop
er moment will pull the desparlng one
ILAM'S HOBS' BLASTS.
Waxalac ICetes Calltnc the Wicked
to Repentance.
Alcohol is the
blood of murdered
fruit and grain.
Black against
other black Is dif
ferent but not Im
pressive. Take care of
your wheat and
you will not be
worried by weeds.
To back an unpopular opinion Is the
finest hardihood In the world.
The man who worships himself al
ways thinks there Is no God.
It takes more grace to do the little
things than to do the great ones. j
The people must be taught to be
brave. A trimmer cannot teach that
Conduct, of necessity, Is a matter of
balances, and judgment the finest sci
ence in the world.
The only way to save men Is to set
them thinking. Salvation without sense
and work is a myth.
Right wins. God's verbs have only
the present tense, however we Inflict
them into other forms.
To see the right of a thing Is pro
phecy. To get on the right side Is
faith. To stay there Is victory.
A pastor ought to be good company
for the weakest of his flock and his
habits safe to be patterned after.
The moderate reformers are our own
pickets, far out near the enemy's
lines. Let us not shoot at them.
Light Is the gentlest thing In he
world. It forces no entrance, but It
makes no compromises, and It gets
there.
Set your heart on the high thing and
all the lesser will be served. The ef
fort will be full of pleasure and the
pursuit will make you strong.
The liquor traffic Is an Industrial
and political trinity. It gears to the
social system at the saloon but gets
its life at the still house and Its hope
of perpetuity, at the still church.
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BISMARCK DREADED HER.
Princess Clementine, Politician and
Mother of Two Noted Sona.
Princess Clementine, of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,
who died In Vienna not long
ago, was widely noted as a politician
and also because of
the fame or notorie
ty of her children.
M Sbe was the daugh
!Vsl ter of Kln8 Louis
C ifM- k Philippe of France
and was born In
1817. In 1843 she
married Prince Au
guste of Saxe-Co-burg-G
o tha, who
died In 1881. Of
cLEUENTiNii. her four children
three are widely known Prince Philip,
whose abuse of his wife, daughter of
Leopold of Belgium, drove her to an
asylum; Prince Ferdinand, who rules
over Bulgaria and Trlncess Clotllde,
who hns lost much of her great fortune
by engaging In wild-cat speculation.
King Louis Philippe looked upon Clem
entine as his favorite child. She had a
natural bent toward politics, and Bis
marck, who said that she was the only
woman he ever dreaded, declared that
she was without principle. She was
responsible for the placing of her son,
Prince Ferdinand, upon the Bulgarian
throne. . Until the young man was mar
ried she practically ruled the nation.
When Louis Philippe was driver,
from France Clementine took up her
residence In London, where she In
trigued for -the return of her father
and, later, her brothers to Paris. In
money matters she showed great abili
ty, and by wise Investments greatly In
creased the large fortune left to her by
her father.
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Many Klnda or Day la One,
A mean solar day Is the average or
mean of all the apparent solar days In
a year. Mean solor time is that shown
by a well regulated clock or watch,
while apparent solar time Is that
Bhown by a well constructed sun dial.
The difference between the two at any
time Is the equation of time and may
amount to sixteen minutes and twenty-one
seconds. The astronomical day
begins at noon and the civil day at the
preceding midnight The sidereal and
mean solar days are both invariable,
but one day of the latter Is equal to
1 day 3 minutes and 66.555 seconds of
the former.
The old first church of Quincy, Mass.,
had In Its. history many homely details
not without Interest. Mrs. Dolores Ba
con, In "Old New England Churches,"
says that at first this church building
rested on two rows of dressed stone.
At that time the town decided that
this dressed stone under three walls of
the church was all that appearance de
manded. This left the east side in a
rough condltlonn, and that was the
side which looked toward Thomas Bax
ter's house. The Rev. Mr. Wiblrd, pas
tor of the church, boarded at Baxter's,
and the rough, unfinished side was con
tinually In his sight, When he learned
of the town's decision to let it stand
thus, he exclaimed, "Why should not
my side be dressed stone, too? It must
be ; I will pay for It myself."
There are many lovable generous
things told of this same preacher. As
he looked over the tax lists from which
his salary was drawn, he now and
again would erase a name with the re
mark, "This man has been unfortu
nate," or "Such an one needs the money
more than I do," and would strike out
the name, and thereby reduce his In
come greatly.
Another colonial church, the pastor
of which Is described as a "forceful"
man, was the Lexington, Mass., church.
is related that when John Mahu was
somewhat advanced in years some of
the parish wished to have elders ap
pointed to assist him with his duties.
After listening attentively to the opin
ions of two of the deacons, he said :
"I suppose you will be willing to ac
cept the office yourselves?" They assented.
JDo you know what elders are re
quired to do?" asked the parson. The
deacons answered that they did not
but would be glad to learn.
"Well, they must groom, saddle and
bridle the minister's horse when he
wishes to ride; bring It to the door
and hold the stirrup for him to mount ;
and when he goes to other towns on
ministerial duties, accompany him and
pay expenses." The" deacons withdrew
the motion.
Teeming Million of India.
According to figures printed In the
British blue book and based ou the
latest census British India has a popu
lation of 204,000,000. This Is 41,000,000
more than It was twenty years ago and
the Increase Is greater than was to have
been expected In view of the high death
rate, which was partly due to repeated
famines. One hundred and ninety-two
millions of people support themselves
' by agriculture and live chiefly on rice,
I There are less than 3,000,000 Christians
' In India, of whom 2,600,000 are natives.
I More than two-thirds of the whole pop
J ulatlon can neither read nor write. In
! ten years the taxes have increased from
6 cents per capita to 45 cents.
Almost as Good as Art.
Small Edith was visiting In the coun
try for the first time.
"What do you think of our rural
scenery dear?" asked her grandmother.
"Oh, it Isn't so badl" replied Edith.
"It looks almost as natural as real the
ater scenery." Chicago New.
8 ore to Be Careful.
Lady (meeting servant whom she
had recommended for a situation) I
am glad to hear that you are getting
on bo well In your new place. Tour
j employer is a nice lady and you cannot
'do too much for her.
Servant (innocently) I don't mean
to, ma am. London Punch.
Morse Telegraph Antedated.
The theory of telegraphing by wire
was practically Illustrated in 1775 by
Arthur Young, long before Professor
Morse was bora.
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