Topics of I
the Times
Ltfe'a primrose path is pared with
the long green.
Some men would rather so to jail
than bust! (or a living.
Successful guessers are applauded
by th public aa great prophets.
Before taking cooking lesson It'a up
to a woman to get her husband's life
Insured.
Some people are so dlasattsfled that
they are complaining of the eagle as
the national bird.
"Nan" Patterson and Caleb Towers
could both speak feelingly concerning
"the law's delays."
A London scientist has discovered
radium In wheat Maybe John W.
Gates put It there.
A married man longs for etther some
excitement to relieve the monotony or
some monotony to relieve the excite
ment The real Kentucky colonel who In
sisted on being addressed as "mister"
knew the short cut to a splendid Iso
lation. Terbaps by this time Dr. Osier re
grets his decision to move to a country
where there will be no pension substi
tute for chloroform.
"Few rich men," says Dr. Gladden,
"escape being despised." And fewer
still seem to be lying awake at night
thinking of the desplsers.
A former employe of Russell Sage
bas sued the multimillionaire for $800.
Does he think a mere court could ex
tract money from "Uncle Russell Y'
"Woman la man's equal." says a
feminine magazine writer. Well, that
depends on who the woman Is snd
who the man Is. She may be his su
perior. From the way in which Mrs. Chad
wlck's attorneys keep up the appeal
game we conclude that the money she
got was about as good as any the
banks had In stock.
rrofessor Felix Adler declares men
and women should not marry for hap
piness, but for social end. A few
more like that, professor, and the Uni
versity of Chicago will try to hire you.
The orange crop In Italy, Spain and
southern France is reported to be al
most a complete failure. It la expect
ed, however, that the cotton-seed olive
oil yield will be as generous as ever.
Dr. Gladden declares Adam never
could have been a millionaire. Still,
he must admit that at one time Adam
was the richest man in the world and
controlled about everything in sight
excepting Eve.
A Pittsburg millionaire was arrested
and locked up in a police station Veil
by mistake the other night Whenever
you hear of a millionaire being ar
rested and locked np you can put it
down as a mistake.
Passing events, as well as history,
remind us that since the days of the
Forerunner the name of John has been
conspicuous in the church. Less than
two years ago the blcentennary of
John Wesley's tyrth was commemo
rated. Bohemia is now erecting at
Prague a costly monument to John
IIuss. In '1505, four centuries ago,
John Knox was born.
Have you seen "The Girl and the
Coachman," the latest 10, 20, 30 sue
cess? The most thrilling part comes
when "Uncle Andy" advances to the
center of the stage and declaims In
deep thrilling tones: "He Is not rich,
but he is a sober, moral, well doing
young man, and the family would
much rather have such a husband for
Nancy than a worthless duke!" Wow!
Just listen to the gallery.
The health committee of Birming
ham has recently been visiting Liver
pool to investigate the Liverpool sys
tem of supplying "humanized" and
sterilized milk to Indigent mothers for
the benefit of their young children.
One of the brightest signs of the
growing realization of human brother
hood is that the number of "human-
Ized" officials interested to the preven
tion of Infant mortality in large cities
Is Increasing.
The immigration problem for a se
rious problem it iscannot find a so
lution satisfactory to most Americans
until the standards of admission to
this country are raised so as to en
courage the entrance of those who are
likest to the national type and until
some method is found for distributing
Immigration over a wide territory, thus
relieving the perilous ongestion of
fbrt!gnrs tn our great urban centers.'
Ths United States still needs and wel
comes immigration of ths proper kind,
but It fears ths concentration of ths
wrong kind in ths big cities. j
A famous French general, when ask
ed how it was that he had such an
erect carriage, replied that It was be
came he beut over and touched the
floor with his fingers thirty times every
day. If he had acquired rigidity of
the spine so that he could not do that
he would have had with it weak ab
dominal muscles, which result In por
tal congestion. This portal congestion
interferes with stomach dtgesMon and
with the action of the liver. The pol-son-detroytng
power of the liver Is
lesaeued, autointoxication results and
artertoscleroals and old age come on
at a much earlier day. But by keep
ing the spine flexible and the abdomi
nal muscles strong and taut the portal
circulation is kept free and old age Is
held off.
Enough money Is lost every year In
rainbow Investments that Is, Invest
ments induced by the brilliant promise
of a prospectus that a pot of gold may
be had if one accepts the advice it
gives to pay the interest on the na
tional debt Every one Is familiar
with the type of Investment meant
The aUeged property back of It may
be a gold mine or a copper mine, an
orange grove or a coffe plantation, a
town lot or a mineral spring. All that
is required is something on the alleged
security of which to issue certificates
of stock, par value ten dollars, which
as a special favor will be sold for a
short time at five dollars to sll those
who receive the circular." The prop
erty la usually a long way from the
part of the country where the stock Is
offered for sale, and the Investors buy
the stock without knowing anything
about It When they receive no divi
dends and begin to make the Inquiries
which they should have made origin
ally, they discover what experienced
Investors knew from the first that st
the best the enterprise was wholly
speculative, and at the worst wss a
swindling operation from the begin
ning. The recent collapse of a com
pany of this kind is a case in point.
The only safe course for small invest
ors to follow Is to avoid speculative
Investments, and to put their money in
the banks near at home, or to buy real
cstaie wnere they live snd are familiar
with the actual value o' things.
The 120 marrlaceible young women
who drew homesteads en the Rosebud
Indian reservation in South Dakota
are in no haste to marry. They don't
have to be. They know that a woman
with 160 acres can marry any time,
and they are resolved to wait until
the right suitors come along. They
have organized and announce to the
10,000 men from whom they have re
ceived proposals that the only way to
get Into their favor is to work into it
They are not to be won by soft words.
Good clothes, white hands, a handsome
face, parlor manners will not do. The
girls Invite their admirers to come
out and show what they can do in the
plowing, sowing and harvesting Hue.
Suitors who prove by one or two sea
sons' work that they are not lazy and
know how to tend horses, cultivate
corn, and pitch to a thrashing machine
will stand a chance of getting a bride
and farm. These young women are
wise in their day and generation.
Their plan, adapted to varying cir
cumstances, would be a good one for
others to adopt The city young wom
an can seldom put her young man
through his business or professional
paces to see whether he is desirable.
The next best thing is to demand a
look at his pay envelope, bank book,
and receipted bills. They will ahow
bow much he is uinking, keeping, and
spending, and give a more accurate
idea of his ability to support a family
than the theater tickets he buys or
the carriage he hires. The young man
also oijght to be afforded better facili
ties Zr "correctly Judging of the prac
tical accomplishments of his intended
When the rural wooer calls he not In
frequently is allowed to sit by the
kitchen fire and watch his sweetheart
prepare the family dinner. He knows
she can cook. All the average city
man knows at marriage about the
housekeeping accomplishments of his
bride is what he has learned by seeing
her handle the versatile chafing dish.
It is no more than fair that before a
man contracts to live by a woman's
cookery he should be given a few
samples of It Of course, people ought
not to marry other people because they
are workers, money makers, or good
cooks. They ought to marry for love.
But working, money making and cook
ing play important parts in practical
life, and in the long run, other tilings
being equal, those who do them best
will love and be loved most
May Recover.
"Do you know that Grabcoyne was
seriously injured by an explosion?"
"No. When did it happen?"
"Last night Burglar blew open his
af e and got about $37." Detroit Trib
une. The way some people have of being
good is worse than their way of being
bad.
THE I'ftlS OK 1UCMKH.
Br tOlh O. tV
"Then took Mary a pound of oint
ment of spikenard, very costly, and an
ointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped
Ilia feet with her Imlr. And the house
was filled with the odor of the oint
ment" John 12 X
It Is always to be remembered that
Jesus did not come Into this world
upon an Industrial, but upon a rellgi
lous mission. He was concerned not
to aecure bodily comfort for men's
bodies and to establish a bread-and-butter
paradise, but to secure salvation
for their souls and to make them par
takers of the riches of the kingdom ot
God. If He has been a reformer ot
society, and as the ages go on It will
be seen more and mors clearly that He
has been such a reformer. It li because
lie has been a Saviour of the soul. Alio
Christ's Idea of how to arrange the
great difference between man and man
la so to possess men wtth the spirit
of the Father that they will treat their
fellow-men as brethren.
I will say a word of a law to which
great Importance should be attached,
and which Illustrates the grace of Je
sus' teaching. It Is the law of Tjeauty,
which was Illustrated in that hour
when a pious and devout .woman,
touched with the romance which ever
clings round the person of Christ and
the kingdom of heaven, took that pre
cious ointment, and Instead of distrib
uting It in alms at the door, poured
It forth on the person of our Lord; ao
that although a little later they struck
Him, they put Him to shame, and they
crucified Him. He died bearing the
fragrance of that ointment upon His
body. Waste? Ah, glorious waste, the
fragrance of which has filled not that
room alone, but the whole history. So
that If a man, having discharged his
duties to his home and to his workmen,
shall hold In his hand a surplus, what
magnificent and beautiful things he
can do with It! He can purchase pic
tures and statuary, and lovely metal-
work, and specimens of the binder's
art and place them where "the poorest
of the people can have a vision of beau
ty. He can erect some great building
in hit city, whereon shall be written
tn stone the thoughts of ages; and In
that building can allow the poorest ot
the people to hear the greatest artist
in the subtlest of all arts I mean
music the great players nnd Ue great
singers. Tuey are to-day the monop
oly of ihe rich; they might be glvei
for the service of the poor, ne car
secure open spaces In the crowdet
districts of the city, hy pulling down r
few houses and making there a llttl
circle of quietness', where worainp
women can go In the afternoons with
their children, away from the noise
and danger of the streets. He can
give great parks, as men are giving
where the people can go on Sunday,
and where the young men can have
their games; where public functions,
can be held. Any man who gives an
art gallery, or gymnasium, or mush
room, or an hospital, or a school, or a
university, or a park, or a playground
to his fellow citizens, has given that
which it honors him to give nnd which
they receive without dishonor. Richer
may be a sordid thing, and used basely
they nre the corruption of character,
and they are the nurse of revolution.
Used Chrlstlnnly they are servants of
peace and righteousness, and establish
the kingdom of God by laying the
foundation safe and strong of Innum
erable homes, and brighten with the
Joy of beauty the Inevitable greyness
of Innumerable lives, all to the good
of human souls and the glory of Jesus
Christ our Lord.
HOME AND WOMAN'S DUTY.
By Bishop Samuel fallown.
President Roosevelt has called the
attention of the country to the supreme
importance of motherhood. He 1b but
following in tbe footsteps of Napoleon,
who, when asked what Is the great
need of France, answered, "Mothers."
Whatever Is most excellent In the
nation must begin at the fireside. Worn
an Is the queen of the home. She rules
there by divine right She is the anoint
ed priestess to keep the sacred fire of
love to God and love to man ever burn
ing on the home altar. That throne
she can never abdicate to another,
That holy office she can never forsake.
The borne is the imperium in imperlo
of the State. It is the center arm
source of its human beginning and au
thorlty. In it is Infolded tho church in
which the eternal father first speaks to
the child through the mother's heart
and Hps. But woman's sphere is not
confined to the home. Multitudes of
the gentle sex are not permitted to as
cend the royal throne of motherhood
For them the gates ot opportunity
were opened In the nineteenth century
so nnmeroualy snd so widely that Via
tor Hugo might well call It "the wom
an's century."
It took the world thousands of years
to learn that woman had soul. It
required 2.000 years more before it
could learn that she had mind, and
this knowledge Is among the supremo
gifts the century just closed gave to
mankind.
It la serious question whether It
has ben an advantage to society or
not to have several millions of women
enter Into the Industrial ranks, as they
have done within the last thirty years.
It has important bearings tn many di
rections, and especially upon marriage
and the home. But we must bellevt
that all things considered. It la for ths
lest
It la not the number of children tn
a home that la of paramount Impor
tance, but the quality. Reason and
not recklessness must rule In settling
tbe question. Parenthood must be
largely determined by ability to take
csre of offspring, to say nothing of
the health and well-being of the
mother.
Former President Cleveland has crit
icised women's clubs as being Inimical
to the home. But I believe on the con
trary that these clubs, whether for
purely social, literary or philanthropic
purposes or for extending the rights
of woman so persistently and Insolent
ly denied her through all the ages, are
not a menace but a blessing to the
community.
From a somewhat careful examina
tion of the constituency of these clubs
I find that a large number ot the mem
bers are women, who have done their
duty faithfully at the fireside and
whose children are the crown jewel
of their homes. Other members are
younger women who are devoting their
energies to the betterment of society
snd are not losing their attractiveness
and doinostlclty by their relationship to
such organisation.
DESIRE Fun I11Q NERD.
Br Or. 4. K. fMi.
The lust for big things has led many
men and nations far out Into the des
ert to perish, forgetting tenderness and
looking only to the accomplishment of
the ambition for greatness. In our life,
military and civic, we are cursed with
an overwhelming desire for bigness.
May God call us back from our fol
lowing after this mirage that has led so
many meu and nations far out Into the
sert to perish, simply of their own
hint for big things. It is still true that
the victories of peaco are greater than
the victories of war.
In the bitter competitions and doadly
strifes by which society Is beset we
have come to emphasize power, might
nid magnitude, forgetting that the
race la not always to the swift nor tho
'mttlo to the strong. Have men come
i believe that God Is always on tho
.-tide of the Urgent navies and strongest
armies? Do we, like Napoleon, see as
Imiwtant only cavalry, Infantry and
artillery?
Tho true disciple of Christ will lenrn
from his Master, who found In a cup
of cold water a ministry, touder and
sweet to human thirst. Sad is that
heart to which want and suffering
make no appeal, and sadder ia that life
tlint gives out none of Itself In tender
ness for the benefit of Its kind.
Hie church to fulfill her true mission
to men must not allow herself to be led
Into the riotous assembly that thun
ders In the theater at Ephesns, but
must rather go to the upper room In
Jerusalem, where (die may for a time
be alone with her. Lord to gain power
for her ministry of tenderness.
Short Meter Sermon.
Whining piety wins no one.
Faith always goes forward.
The worst sins have many aliases,
Love counts Its wealth by its losses.
Shortening the face lengthens the
life.
It Is easy to be resigned to another's
woes.
Weeping over your weeds only wat
ers them.
The .best way to keep his day is to
do his deeds.
The Master is always with those
who seek to minister.
The church that does not look for
the lost is lost Itself.
Only a soft man finds any pleasure
in spreading himself.
Salvation Is more than a sense of
satisfaction with ourselves.
Angels may have wings, but that
does not indicate that they will wel
come a man milliner.
Where tbore is no faith in the possi
bilities of man faith in the power of
God does little good.
It you know enough to help you will
have too many contracts to waste any
breath in criticism.
NIQRO EXCELS IN 8CHNCK.
Trained by a Neted Kdacelor Bad !oe
Valuable Werh.
John W. Widgeon, scientist Is prob
ably tbe most Interesting negro tn
Baltimore. He holds a position at the
Maryland Academy of Sciences direct
ly under the eye of Dr. Philip ft,
Uhlor, which gives utin a piece of dis
tinction among his race. He has ac
complished a wonderful amount of
work of a scientific nature without
liny other training than that given htm
by Dr. Uhler, whose protege be has
been for many years, and he Is en
gaged at present upon the arrange
ment of a collection of coral which he
gathered Isst summer t and near Ja
mate which Is said to be the bt la
that part of the country.
Widgeon's life has been sack an In
teresting one that at the suggestion of
I. Uhler he has begun to write out
the whole of It He Is the only negro
In Maryland who has seriously at
tracted the attention of aclentlfle men,
and what he Is doing now bids fair to
make him even more widely known
than before.
Widgeon was born of slave parents
on the eastern shore of Virginia In
1H50. After the Civil War he weut to
Maltlmore and got a position In the
establishment of Kuhn & dimming.
photographers, where Is? learned a
great deal about photography. Then
he went to work for Sharp & Don me
where be remained for sixteen ycers.
During his connection with this firm
he leartmt a lot of chemistry, for he
was employed In the laboratory ten
years. Dr. Uhler gave htm a poltl.i
as a helper on one of his scientific
corps after he left the drug firm -and
he showed such marked ability In this
line of field work that It wsa not long
before be was sent out on expeditions
by himself to gather gH;!i!cl speci
mens for collections or for study In
the laboratory. He has been engaged
upon this sort of work for eighteen
years, and in tnat time he has got to
gether a valuable collection of fossils,
rocks, minerals, Indian relics and birds
and snakes, all of which are on exhibi
tion at tbe Maryland Academy of Sci
ences.
The coral collection is eicellent
Widgeon made two trips to Jamaica to
get It He did all the work himself
lie stripped and dived for the speci
mens he wanted, not lathering with
tbe paraphernalia of regulation scien
tists and divers.
Dr. Uhler says that he would not
dispense with the services of his col
ored helper for those or a highly train
ed aclentlfle man, because Widgeon,
being a negro, can and Is willing to do
certain kinds of work which a white
man would not do.
"His endurance and patience," con-
tinned Dr. Uhler. "are- unlimited. It
seems to me, anl his Indian blood, of
which he has considerable, hU grand
mother having been full blmled. glve-
htm the characteristic trait of wood
and field craft. He N Invaluable to mo
and tho work lie dues 1 as complete
and thorough us I could hardly get
under other circumstances."
LITTLE BOY A HERO.
Bescaeil Ilrownlnc Tot end Kranarl-
tutee Hint In Hclcntlflc Manner.
With a record of having saved throe
lives Master J. G. Ford, a newsboy
only 12 years of ago, has all the mod
esty of a true hero.
Young Ford was In the vicinity of
some abandoned clay pits, when he
was attracted by the screaming of sev
eral other children. One of their num
ber, James MeGovern, aged 4 yenrs.
had fallen Into tbe pit and was alout
to drown.
James' brother William, who Is only
two years older, was alwwt to plnngo
Into the pit when young Ford arrived.
He held tho baby's brother back with
one hand, unloosed his paper strap
with the othqr and, retaining a firm
hold on one end of tho strap, threw the
buckle end to the little one in the
water.
Fortunately enough, his aim was
gtnxl; the little fellow grasped tho
strap and was drawn to tho shore in a
comatose state. In one hand bo had a
piece of a cigar box, which ho had
graspod In a frenzy and all efforts to
make him relinquish his hold on it
were unavailing.
Young Ford's efforts did not stop at
this point He realized that tho little
one's condition demanded Immediate
attention and recalling, as he stated to
a reporter, one of bis lotwons In physi
ology, he proceeded to exert his efforts
toward restoring natural respiration,
doing so as nearly as he could remem
ber from tho instructions contained in
bis school book.
In this be was successful, and after
resuscitating the child by rolling him
on tho ground young Ford carried him
to tbe home of his aunt Mrs. J. Gov
ern. Master Ford is well known In tho
southern section of the city, says a
Now York Herald special from Boston,
where he has a paper routo, He bus
twice before made rescues from the
same clay pits, one being his youngor
sister, Madallne, and the other Aubrey
Stein, a playmate. ,
Asked to make a statement, the boy
replied: "I guess I havon't anything
to say. Most any kid wcsld do what
I did if they had been in my place."