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There will always be plenty to do
In the uplift line. '
A combination of dyeing concerns la
talked of. Can't they, when Independ
ent, make a living dyeing? ,
der tome measure of equity where the
ordinary processes that Is to say, the
system of society at that time In vogue
have failed. The Socialists and
dreamers Imagine vainly that the only
factor In the failure to distribute the
benefits of society la the thing called
a frame of government or the collective
thing called the fabric of society, wher-
as the greatest factor contributing to
the failure is human nature and the In
herent defects of Individuals.
After long study Mrs.' Russell Sage
has hit upon a sage way in which to ex
pend a 110,000,000 charity fund.
A scientist declares that In a few
more centuries the red-headed girl will
disappear. What will become of the
white horses?
There's one good thing about egg
shell cars. Passengers who are not
pinned down can generally find plenty
of holes to crawl through.
Professor Jenks of Cornell says It Is
possible for an honest man to get rich.
Still, It Is to be feared that the short
cut will continue popular.
Brander Matthews has been honored
by France, besides having a Carnegie
hero medal coming to him for starting
the new peekaboo style of spelling.
A man gave hunger as an excuse for
stealing forty loaves of bread. Natur
ally the court did not understand how
a man could be as hungry as that
The man who waa Jilted by a woman
who soent $20,000 a year on her dresses
should swallow his grief and make his
fortune by marrying her dressmaker.
In a recent raid on a gambling den a
' man named Plzymuvszallaskivltch man
aged to escape. It Is supposed be bung
his name out of the window and slid
down.
A French colonel declares that "sui
cide Is desertion." The two acts are
certainly equally effective when a man
can't bear to live with his wife any
longer.
A statistician asserts that the aver
age woman carries from forty to sixty
miles of hair on her head. But that
Isn't a circumstance to the notions she
carries In her head.
The Czar Is advocating an Income
tax for Russia, although, as far as can
be learned, the only people with in
comes in Russia are the bomb manufac
The Rev. Herbert It Bigelow says
that men who deny women the right to
vote are barbarians. We have beard
that they are even worse than that, be
ing nothing short of nasty, mean things,
In New Mexico an alleged gold mine
has turned out to be nothing more than
a natural cave, with no gold In It
Still, that's some better than the gold
mine that exists only on stock certlfl
cates.
The King of Italy and John D. Rock
feller are said to be the world's great
est coin collectors. But the former Is
collecting only the rarest kind, while
the latter collects all he con get his
hands on.
It Is said "the most talkative worn
an In the world lives In Chicago." But
perhaps you have In mind some woman
who could give her a close race for the
championship and two-thirds of the
gate receipts.
Mr. Rockefeller considers himself "a
trustee to Ood for all his great wealth."
Let's see, It Is Baer who represents
Providence In the coal fields, and Har
ry Thaw claims to have had a divine
mission to kill Stanford White. Most
of us should be thankful If our mission
Is simply to be good.
A woman In a typewriting contest In
Paris recently won a victory by writing
sixteen thousand five hundred words In
four hours. A man wrote seventeen
thousand words, but he made so many
mistakes that he was ruled out An
American woman has surpassed the
Frenchwoman's record, for In the ordl
nary course of business she once wrote
ten thousand five hundred words In
two and a half hours, and made three
copies as she went along.
Whenever you are tempted to growl
against fate or complain of your lot
Just look around and find out what
others are bearing. You will find many
men with more brains and better edu
cation worse off than you are. Then
compare your lot with that of such men
and If you don't quit complaining and
go In for rejoicing there's something
radically wrong with your mental bal
ance. When an obstacle gets .In your
way don't waste time and energy In
complaining about It If you can't push
It out of your path get over It, under It
or around It any way you can and
leave the obstacle behind you. The
second obstacle will not appear half as
big If you get past the first
The problem of poverty has been
pretty thoroughly studied In this gen
ration. Without pretending to lntl
mate that all Is known that can be
known or that wisdom will die with us,
yet it appears pretty clear that one of
the worst possible means of attacking
the poverty problem is to give great
sums of money to the poor. The right
aim of society Is Justice and not char
ity. Charity Is always to be regarded
On the so-called "race suicide" ques
tion there is a good deal of loose talk
and generalizing without knowledge.
Professor E. A Ross' article on civili
zation and the birth rate In a recent
Issue of a sociological periodical Is one
of the many illustrations of how not
to treat the question. It Is apparently
based on a few facts and cavalier dis
regard of all facts that are adverse to
the theory held by the author. It is
easy, on the one hand, to say that the
restriction of the size of the family Is
due to selfishness,, love of pleasure,
shirking of the duties and responsibili
ties of life, lack of moral courage. It Is
equally easy, on the other hand, to ar
gue that restriction Is both a symptom
of progress, material and physical, and
cause of It. Professor Ross cheerful
ly assumes that all those who hate fam
ine, vice, Ignorance, pauperism and dis
ease hall the decline of the birth rate,
while those who deplore It he'conslgns
to such categories as "mystics, clerics,
sentimentalists, militarists, capitalists."
Now any man of average experience
and intelligence Is aware that the re
striction of the size of the family Is
neither necessarily a blessing nor nec
essarily a curse to society. He knows
of Instances where the restriction Is un
doubtedly the result of unworthy mo
tives, and he also knows of cases where
there Is too little rather than too much
thought of restriction. In England two
attempts have been made to get at the
facts all the facts of the birth rate
in a really scientific manner. A report
on the subject was Issued some time
ago by the mathematical department
of the London University. That report
showed that the restructlon was prac
ticed "at the wrong end." The rate Is
low for the superior, the thrifty, the
educated and prosperous ; It Is not low
for the morally and socially Inferior
classes. The evidence showed, accord
ing to the report that "the birth rate
of the more capable stocks was decreas
ing relatively to the mentally and phy
sically feebler stocks." The families
were largest where the conditions -f
life were least favorable, and smallest
where the opportunities for healthy
growth were ample. The London Fa
bian Society made a careful Inquiry
Into the same subject and reported
that, while the rich boroughs of Lon
don showed for a given year 2,004
births per 10,000 of population, the In
termediate boroughs showed rates be
tween 2,302 and 2,400, while the poorest
boroughs had a rate of 3,078, or 50 per
cent more than In the rich quarters.
Professor Ross puts the cart before the
horse when he assumes that restric
tion will give us healthier and better
offspring, and that economic pressure
Is responsible for It He forgets to
ask where the restriction Is practiced
as a rule.
Drerfa' Herole Wife.
Oh, that poor dream of the wife who
should meet him with outstretched
arms. She was there, Indeed, In that
somber old city. Rennes; but as be
suffered, she, too, was to suffer. If,
among all the personages of this tragic
drama, one was worthy of all respect,
that one was Lucie Dreyfus. During
five years she had borne her suffering
with noble dignity ; her faith had never
wavered ; she had bidden from her chil
dren all knowledge of the awful trage
dy ; you bad thought there could go out
to her only pity and admiration. Ah,
you do not know how fierce a hatred
burned in France, In those days. Mad
ame Dreyfus was turned away from
every hotel In Rennes. Not one would
take this poor wife In her name was
Dreyfus. The old woman who finally
gave her house-room was stoned and
hooted in the streets. And all this night
of the "traitor's return a mob hung
round her doors or drank In a tavern
over the way, snouting tne wnile a
son of "Death to the Jews!" Suc
cess Magazine.
Noon Really Ninth Hoar.
"Not many people know that what Is
celebrated as noon was originally at 3
n. m. The reason for the chauge Is
Interesting," said a Columbia unlversl
ty philologist the other day. "Noon,
or 'nones, as It was then known, was
the hour at which the monks said their
'nones,' which were prayers at the
ninth hour, or 3 o'clock. The monks
reckoned time from the time of eating
breakfast at 6 o'clock a. in. That was
the beginning of their day. The monks
were not permitted to eat their dinner
until after they had said their 'nones.'
This was a long time for men who had
so much time to think of eating. They
were all very hungry at 3 o'clock. By
and by some of them cut the time
little short prayed a little earlier. As
time went on they clipped off enough
time to bring the eating hour lu Its
proper place, at midday, and nones' be
came 12 o'clock , lnstad of 8, even
though It meant the ninth hour."
THE EXPIAT0BT DEAD.
laexpUeable Fat that Overtook
-. Enemies of Dreyfus ReTlaien.
"Always the dead!" Relnach cried
bitterly ; "whenever we find a forgery,
a crime, always It Is set to the account
of a dead man !"
And be drew up a list horrible In Its
eloquence, of the dead who strewed the
dark path of this monstrous case of
crime and cruelty and infamy. Yet
there had fallen so many of the ene
mies of truth and Justice, that he might
have called them the Expiatory Dead.
Three I have told you ofthat poor
wretch, Lemercler-Plcard, "found dead"
In his room in the Rue de Sevres ; Hen
ry, "found dead," with a closed razor
near by; Felix Faurse, "found dead,"
and smuggled Into his palace.
There are many others. Captain
d'Attel, who claimed to have heard
Dreyfus avow bis guilt to Lebrun-Ren-
suit the day of his degradation, was
found dead" in a railway train, his
corpse blue and already on the way to
decomposition, though bis Journey had
lasted but an hour. This pretended
confession, which Dreyfus never made,
D'Attel confided to his friend, Chaulln-
Servlniere, a member of the Chamber
of Deputies ; now the Deputy took train
one day to visit his home ; an hour later I
he was "found dead" on tne railway
tracks between two stations. And.
Rocher, of the prison guards, who also
claimed to have heard Dreyfus say : "I ,
am guilty, but I am not the only one 1"
died, and to this day no one knows
where or how. It was as though Eter- j
nal Truth had reached down and slain
this He wherever It lifted Its evil head. I
The prefect Barreme was summoned
to Paris by his government chief; he
was found "dead" In his compartment
when the train arrived at the Gare St
Lazare. Laurenceau, prefect of th
North, was called to Paris to give evi
dence regarding the spy system on the
German frontier; there was no acci
dent on the Journey; the next day he
was "found dead" In his room at the
Hotel Terminus.
Lorlmler, one of Henry's most tire
less agents of forgery and crime, was
"found dead' hanged In a lonely barn j
another, Guenee, was "found dead" on
the floor of his room In Parla Then
there was Munler ; bis part In the con
spiracy had been to falsify the mean
ing of a cryptic telegram sent by Pan-
lzzardl to the Italian government so
that It affirmed the guilt of Dreyfus;
and Munler was "found dead" In a rail
way train. Was It any wonder the
martyr's friends began to see In these
mysterious and opportune deaths, the
work of an avenging destiny? With
"Decidement la Fatallte est Dreyfus
arde!" the very stars In their courses
fought aaglnst the He. Vance Thomp
son, In Success Magazine.
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Told In English, Schools.
From an English paper Is gathered a
bunch of schoolroom stories, some of
which are so good as to have their gen
uineness doubted, as, for example, the
definition of a He: "An abomination
In the sight of the Lord, but a very
present help In time of trouble."
To be received with equal skepticism
Is perhaps the boy's answer to the ques
tion why David preferred- to be a door
keeper In the house of the Lord : "Be
cause If he was a doorkeeper he could
walk outside while the sermon was be
lng preached." More natural, however,
Is what a child said of Elijah: "At
Elijah went up to heaven he dropped
his mantle and Queen Elizabeth walk
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It need hardly be explained that 11
was an Irish boy who gave the text:
"He that humbleth himself shall be ex
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shoes In the presence of the burning
bush, gave the novel explanation:
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How He Got a Warmer Seat.
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near Westchester and made his way to
the sitting room after seeing that hla
horse was taken to the stable. There
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"Get two dozen oysters on the half.
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