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The Oregon whipping post for wife
beaters will be better than the dlvoive
court
The Hartford Tlruoa nays: "Go
West, young man, tad blow up with
the country."
Wisconsin man ha been chosen
to teach English to the King of Spain.
Boston papers ptoae copy.
John D. Rockefeller's agent says
Toha will not give up his Cleveland
home till he dies. Same old John.
The Declaration of Independence
was signed In Philadelphia. But there
were giants In Philadelphia In those
day.
Canadians claim the north pole as
their property. There is no evidence
to show that they can claim It by right
of dlscoTery.
"How to Keep Husbands," Is the
title of a magaxlne article by Lillian
Uussell. How long has Lillian kept
any of hers?
Having ended their experiments
with baking consumptives in Florida,
the doctors will now try freesing them
In the Arctic.
They say that Nan Fattwson ia go
ing to writs a book. Here Is a case lu
which a Federal court injunction
could be put to good use.
The private car trust resents the
Idea of the United Statea Government
Interfering with any branch of the
highway robbery business.
Emperor William says he doesn't
like the way the Japanese show up
on parade, but he admits that he has
no criticisms to offer concerning their
fighting.
Spare rooms are going out of fash
Ion. Flats and increasing property
values are doing away with accommo
dations for friends who like to travel
and save hotel bills.
Even if he shall escape the gentle
deeire of his nurses to boll him alive,
it ia extremely likely that the Czaro
wltx will accumulate a large and va
ried experience with hot water.
Should every lover of trees make a
practice of planting one tree each
year, the deforested areas would soon
be replaced by other areas heavily
wooded. Why do you not begin this
fearT
Banker Blgelow says he Is "simply
a fool, and that's all there is to It"
Mr. Blgelow Is right about being a
fool, but that Isn't all there is to It.
The courts are likely to hold that there
was at least a small element of crim
inality in his folly.
There has been a good deal of criti
cism of the Legislatures this year, but
can anybody name a really wicked bill
passed by any of the Legislatures? On
the other hand It Is easy to enumerate
Quite a string of measures which were
enacted under the reform label.
From the esteemed New York Her
ald we learn that "the weather man
does not manufacture and retail sun
shine and storm. He merely gives
warning." This reproof, which la giv
en In all kindness, should be accepted
In like spirit We have all been unjust
to the weather man.
Rev. Dr. John Punnett Peters, rector
of St Michael's Episcopal Church,
Brooklyn, has "discovered" that Abra
ham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, men
tioned In Genesis, were not real peo
ple, but composite photographs of
Israel. The world seems to be full of
descendants of the learned gentlemen
who "discovered" that the moon was
made of green cheese.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson, head of
Princeton University, In a recent ad
dress advised young men to interest
themselves more In public affairs, on
the ground of duty, if no other. Their
education, be held, carries with it a
responsibility which the public has a
right to demand the young men shall
share with others who have not been
so fortunate in their mental training.
The point Is a good one, and young
men all over the country are not slow
In availing themselves of opportunities
offered. The number of young men,
not only lawyers, but those in busi
ness, who are taking an active part
In politics is increasing.
Although the Senate of the United
States contains to-day only about half
as many 'men over the age of 70 as It
did a year ago, the name of that body,
derived from the Latin word meaning
"an old man," is still measurably ap
propriate. Nine of Its present mem
bers have passed the allotted three
score and ten. Of the sixteen a year
ago who had reached that age five
hare since died: Messrs. Quay, Hoar,
Bate, Hawloy and IMatt Gibson and
Stewart have rettrvd from the Senate,
as Indeed did Ilawley a few weeks
before his death. , Those now over 70
Include both Senators from Alabama
and from New York, aud one each
from Malno, Vermont, Illinois, Iowa,
and Colorado.
In this country w have been long
amlllar with the complaint that It is
hard to get Americana to enlist lu the
uavy or engage In the marine service.
On top of this knowledge comes the
news from Canada that It has been
found practically impossible to garri
son the fortifications at Halifax and
Esquunault with Canadian troops. It
Is probable that both In Canada and
the United States the condition respon
sible for this reluctance of young men
to enlist Is the very condition of na
tional prosperity which both countries
are glad to record. The Industrial and
commercial opportunities In America
to-day are so numerous and widespread
that very much more generous induce
ments than are now held out to young
men, apparently, must be offered to
persuade them to abandon the civil
for the military life.
Have yon ever stopped to think
what subject furnishes the most fruit
ful topic of conversation these days?
It la moneyl In Ubrariea, In parlors.
In street cars, on railroads. In the
street everywhere the sound of "dol
lars" Is heard. "What is it worth ?"
"How much did It coetr "How much
did you get for Itr "What kind of
an Investment would that bo?" "How
are toe stocks to-day r "Who won in
that last real estate dealt" Always
money, money, money! Do you an
nounce the death of a friend, the
query, "How mucu money did he
leaver Is the first thing to greet your
ears. Sorrow for the dead, and sym
pathy for the living, are both second
ary to the Importance of whether he
"died rich." Do you speak of a mar
riage, the first question Is, "Did she
do well?" Always money, money,
money! Is a child born into the world,
"Was It born with a silver or goM
spoon in its mouth?" is the first thing
asked. And, according to the answer,
predictions for Its future are either
rose or gray. Always money, money,
money! Men have died for It lied
for it become criminals for it ev
erything but remained honest for It
And yet these shining words of the
Holy Writ have not been blotted from
the book which men love to proclaim
their guide and solace: "A good name
Is rather to be chosen than great
riches, and loving favor rather than
silver or gold."
Dean McCHntock of Chicago univer
sity says the value of play Is not well
understood, and that It la "nature's
best method of education." Play Is
undoubtedly nature's best restorer.
Next to sleep It Is an essential. We
all know the truth of the adage that
all work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy. And in tula country we have
a lot of dull boys, both young and old,
not so much because they do not know
how to play as how to work. The av
erage American business man takes
his task too seriously. In the desire
to get rich he forgets how to live.
There Is too much friction and too
much waste of vital forces. Many of
our business men do things in a slap
dash sort of way. They Jump without
pause for breathing from one thing to
another. They work at a high tension
and worry at a high tension. They
waste nervous energy. Their minds
are in a ferment Tney are feverish.
There la a get-there-EU glare In their
eyes. They ejaculate. They gestlcu
lat They all but foam at the mouth.
Luncheon is no let up. They gulp their
victual as If they were In competition.
Play? The proposition would be
thought a crazy one. There is no time
to play in business hours and when
business is over there are too many
other demands. If these men only
knew it they could do better work and
more of it by lowering the tension. A
little relaxation would help "amazing
ly. And a play spell et home after
business hours would renew and vital
ize the worn nerve strings. However,
It Is easy to advise. The fever of high
strung endeavor Is In the American
blood. Warnings against useless- ex
penditure of effort go largely unheeded.
Vermont's Only Remaining Forest.
Preparations are under way to devel
op the most extensive tract of virgin
timber In Vermont. The lands contain
over 0,000,000,000 feet of spruce and
other valuable soft wood heretofore un
touched because of its remoteness from
the railroad. To reach the vast wild
erness In the southern part of the State
the West River Railroad Company,
which has Just been organized, will
build a branch from the Central Ver
mont and an army of axemen will
enter the woods next fall. It Is est!
mated that it will take twenty-five
years to cut all this timber. This will
be the end of Vermont's virgin for
ests, but there are thousands of acres
lumbered many years ago which may
soon be recut
It's hard for a lecturer to get the
people out and hard to entertain them
after he does get them out
V Arrowy
THE FLOOD.
Br Rev. A. MaMi-Ms,
Text: "And the Lord said uuto
Noah, Come thou and all thy bouae
Into the ark; tor thee have I seen
righteous before me In this genera
tion." Genesis 7:1.
In the 6th, 7th and 8th chapters of
Genesis, we have the best account of
the greatest flood this world has ever
seen. I aay the best account for we
re not eutlrely dependent upon the
dlvin record concerning this awful In
undation. For, be It remembered, that
the peoples of the earth, whether popu
lating the plateaux of Persia, the
mountains of India, the prairies of
America, or the Islands of the sea,
have had handed down to them, by
the past generations, the tradition of
the Great Flood. Tablets, excavated
from the debris of dead cities, corrobo
rate the Mosaic account The fossil
ised molluska and brae hi pods, found
upon the mountains, tell us that once
their tall tops were submerged In wa
ter, and that they undoubtedly owe
their colossal grandeur to an aqueous
origin. Hence the famous Scottish,
geological genius was forced to ex
claim, "The evidence Is In the rocks."
The building of the Ark must have
furnished a vast amount of Jokes for
the Jester, talk for the tattler, and
questions for the curious. Imagine
for a moment If you please, an Im
mense timber yard on a great plain.
Beams plied here, and boards there,
kettles of boiling, smoking pitch stand
ready for use, while the constant
clang of busy hummers announces the
work begun. And Noah. Shem. Hem
and Japheth are laying the keel, and
building the bulwarks of the biggest
boat of the ancient world. It is not
surprising that those faithless antedi
luvians should look on In amazement
first then indifference, then ridicule
and disgust Year after year they
came, and steadily the ark grew In
bulk and beauty. More and more en
thusiastic did the preacher plead with
the people, emphasising repentance,
with every blow that fell upon the tim
bers. But like many a sermon of the
present day, the message was unheed
ed, and Noah closed his one hundred
and twenty years' mission without a
single convert
Noah loaded the ark according to the
commandment of God, and then he,
and his wife, and bis three sons, and
their wives went in and God closed the
door of the ark.
God has declared that He will again
destroy this world, and the wicked
that dwell therein. "But according to
his promise, we look for new heavens
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness." Water will not be the
element of destruction the next time,
but fire. "The heavens that now are
and the earth, by the same word have
been stored up with fire, being reserv
ed against the day of Judgment and de
struction of ungodly men." God has
given the world a foretaste of Its Im
pending doom, by the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
As Noah warned the anteutluvlans
to cease to do evil and learn to do well,
so I call upon you, In the name of the
Master, to quit your meanness and
prepare to meet your God. O fellow
sinners, be warned! Think not to ssy
within yourselves, "We have no need
of Jesus." For I declare unto you that
no arm but Christ's can deliver you,
no power but his can save you and no
blood but bis can redeem you. Turn
your back upon sin and all Its delu
sions. Flee from the wrath to come
and take refuge in the arms of Jesus,
and he will save you with an everlast
ing salvation.
A BUSY MAN'S BLUNDER.
By Rev. . B. T. Hallock, D. D.
Text: "As thy servant was busy
here and there, he was gone." I. Kings
20:40.
For the environment of this verso
we must go back three thousand years,
The words occur In the midst of the
account of a parable acted by a dls
guished prophet, probably Micalan,
who In a wounded, disconsolate plight
greeted Abab, king of Israel, as he was
riding victoriously homeward from a
day of bloody battle with the Syrians.
Abab had strangely, and most dis
obediently, at the close of the battle
entered into a covenant of peace with
Ben-Hadad, the enemies' leader, and
let him go absolutely free.
. It was therefore desirable to have
Ahab, pronounce judgment against bis
own conduct. So the prophet took a
plan to secure this. He ordered a man
to smite and wound blm. Then, In
the guise of a soldier, he approached
the king of Israel, telling him that In
the midst of the battle one had brought
FWMT
him a prisoner charging him on the
penalty of his life to keep htm safely,
but that most unfortunately, be had
failed to do so: "As they sorvant was
busy here and there, he was gone."
The unpltying king utterly refused
to rescue this supposed soldier from
the consequences of such criminal care
lessness, and Immediately passed Judg
ment upon him from the testimony of
the man's own lips.
But the prophet, quickly dropping
his disguise, turned upon Abab and
spoke, Nathan once spoke to King
David, saying, "Thou art the man!"
'Thus aaith the Lord, Because thou
hast let go out of thy hand a man
whom I appointed to utter destruction,
therefore thy life shall be for his life,
and thy people for bis people. And
the king of Israel went to his house
heavy and displeased," and all that
waa said came true.
Now, there are good many Import
ant lessons we might gather from the
character aud conduct of Ahab. The
man was ordered to keep a prisoner.
It became bis very Drat dnty to do so.
But he preferred to follow out his own
wishes, and so the prisoner got away.
We have, therefore, In this text three
points: The first Is or a great trust;
the second of a sad confession of fail
ure; and the third of the painful con
sequences. The soul la an Infinite trust
The man In the prophet's story had a
trust and he neglected It The warn
ing was, "If he be missing, thy life
shall be for his life." I too have a
trust I have a work for my own sou!
to do, and work for other souls to do
that is more Important than any other
work could be.
Many of us go along all our days on
the banks of the great sea of Divine
Iavo, and we are so busy thinking
about other things, or doing other
things, that at the end of the day's
journey we do not know that we have
been traveling by the side of the flash
ing waters. Many of us are ao swal
lowed up In our occupations and de
sires, that all the t ruin pets of Sinai
might be blown Into our ears and we
should hear them as though we heard
them not and. what Is worse, that the
pleading voice of .that dear and Di
vine One who Is ever saying to each
of us, "Come uuto me, all ye that la
bor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest" passes us by, and pro
duces no effect any more than the Idle
wind whistling through an archway
does. Dear fellow soul-trustee, you
have the ear, you have the need, the
sin, the weakness, the tranaclency, to
which the gospel appeals. You hsve
the faculties to which It addresses It
self. Our divine Lord Is speaking to
every one of ua. Let us each stop and
ask ourselves this question: "Do 1
hear Him?" If not Is It because the
clatter of the world's business, or the
more refined sounds of some profes
sion or study, have so taken np our at
tention that we have none to spare for
that which require and would repay
It most "As thy servant waa busy
here and there Ho was gone!"
SHORT MET Kit 8KHMON8.
Faith does not fatten on fog.
Modesty Is the innrk of might
It Is easy to call our impulses Ills
Inspiration.
Religion by compulsion results In re
pulsion.
Faith builds no fences between us
and our fellows.
Men need new hearts more than
stronger harness.
A petrified creed often goes with a
putty conscience.
Envying another's cake only spoils
our own cookies.
Men who Intend to be good to-mor
row always die to-day.
Life Is all song when one lives In
harmony with the Infinite.
God waits for us somewhere on every
pathway of pain.
The fragrance of a life depends on
the fullness of Its love. 1
The heart gains no rest through the
gold cross carried on the breast.
The man who can be patient with his
corns has a good chance of glory.
The Sunday face that looks like lye
will not wash out the sins of the
week.
What most Christians need is not
more assurance of faith, but more as
sets.
It's no use agonizing In prayer for
the light when you keep the shutters
locked.
The more haste men make for happl
ness the less Intimate acquaintance
they get with it
Heaven has feasts for home coming
wanderers but not so much as a hand
out for the tramp.
Many a man wastes enough perspi
ration praying for dimes to earn ten
1 times as many dollars.
WORKINQ QIRU5 HOTEL,
One KatablUhtd In London Where Sate
Is U3 Cents ljr.
Ixird Itadstock, a wealthy rotative
of the duke of Manchester the latter
known principally as the husband ot
Miss yjmmermaii, of Cincinnati has
opened lujouthweat Ixtndon a hotel
for working girls, says the Detroit Tri
bune. This, in Itself, Isn't new. Other
hotels for working girls have been
established and have met with more
or less success and advertisement
Lord lUdstock, however, thinks he
has solved the problem of how to live
on 23 cents day, and has planned bis
hotel to meet an extraordinary demand
along that Una,
At his hotel the charge for lodging
la 85 cents a week 12 rents a ntght
In addition, meals are provided at
the minimum coat A pot of tea, for
Instance, may be had for 2 cents; a
three-course dinner, consisting of soup,
teak, pudding and fruit pie, for 8
cents. Roast beef, or pork, two vege
tables and plum pudding cost only 12
cents. Irish stew requires an eipen
dlture of 4 cents, and all puddings only
2 cents.
A boarder my delve as deeply or as
lightly Into the bill of fare as she
chooses. She may scale the menu and
live fairly well, or may go the limit
aud luxuriate. She may keep her ei
pendlture down to 2B cents a day, but
at any rate, cannot soar much above
that figure.
The hotel has bright well furnished.
sitting rooms, classrooms, a workroom
for sewing and a isuudry. The bed
rooms are light airy and comfortable
and hot water and baths are free.
An Immense marble-lined akattng
rink, on which many pleasure seekers
csn find room, Is one of the features
of the hotel. Swings and gymnastic
apparatus will be put up In the near
future.
Lord Radstock allows his girl board
ers plenty of liberty. The rules are
few and not Irksome.
Lights are out at 10:30, but permis
sion to stay out till later can he ob
tained from the matron. Visitors are
permitted, but msle guests are re
ceived only In the halL
There is no age limit for the board
ers.
For a long time Lord Radstock has
been Interested In such philanthropic
work; he Is now just entering his 71st
year. Ills father was a vice-admiral
In the English navy. Ills grandfather.
the Rt-Hon. William Waldegrave, was
raised to the petrsge In 1800.
FOUND A LONG-LOST DEED.
Chance Baved a Valasble Lsascjr to
Kansas UnlTsralty.
An unrecorded deed wss found In
an obscure corner of an old desk In
Lawrence, Kan., not long ago which
Insured to the University of Kansss a
valuable legacy, says the Ksnsas City
Star. After the death of the late Gov.
Charles Robinson It wss found that
be hsd followed up a number of valu
able gifts made to the university dur
ing his lifetime by bequeathing to the
university bis valuable farm a few
miles north of Lawrence. His widow
waa to have the farm during her life
and then It was to go to the State Uni
versity. A few months ago I 8. Steele, au
abstracter In Iawrence, was commis
sioned to mske sn abstract of the farm.
He found the title vested In a sister
of Gov. Robinson by virtue of a deed
made more thun twenty -five years sgo.
The executors could not llud any deed
or other Instrument transferring t lie
property to Gov. Robinson. For a
time It seemed as If the legscy would
be lost. The woman In whom the title
was Vested had been uVnd for several
years. The widow of the dead gov
ernor was sure that her husband had
held the title of the farm at the time
of his death. A thorough search war.
made.
Finally It occurred to one of the ex
ecutors to compile a list of all of the
agents Gov. Robinson hsd employed
during his lifetime. All of these agent,
that could be found were seen and
each of them senrched everywhere for
the deed. Finally one of them recall
ed an old desk that he had sold to a
second hand denier a few years before.
The deHk wns traced to a furmhouae
almost adjoining the Robinson farm
The desk was reiiched, but the mlsxlug
document was not discovered. The
farmer who owned the desk was not
satisfied with the search made by the
luwyers who had visited him for that
purpose, lie took the desk opart and
behind n broken panel round the miss
ing deed.
The document was recorded the next
day aud the widow of the late Gov.
Robinson Is now sure of her home dur
ing her lifetime and the University of
Kansas Is again secure In Its anticipa
tion of a valuable legacy.
Musings.
The man who likes to -ash dishes-
will never have to go very far to find,
a job.
Life Is full of compensations. The
homely girl can often make good bread.
There Is a woman in Somervllle who
has almost convinced herself that she'
was born lucky, after all. She wiped
out fifteen calls the other aCternoor
and didn't find anyone at home. Som
ervllle Journal.