I Topks of
I the Times
A man with a pull is apt to work
It on the logs of other wen.
Along with his $30,000,000 young
Elegler Inherits the solemn duty of
finding the north pole
A man may hate ' a lot f good In
him," but It does not count for much
unless he lets some ot It out
Admiral Togo can speak six lan
guages, but for the amount of talking
he does, one Is all that h needs.
If the seventeen year locust could
be grafted on the mosquito there might
Be sixteen consecutive years worth liv
ing, anyway.
Poet Laureate Austin is to be pitied
when Ella Wheeler Wilcox hears of
his assertion that there are no great
women poets.
Pittsburg has sent Admiral Togo a
box of stogies. After all BoJestveusy
may have known what he was about
when he consented to get licked.
In calling it "The Battle of the Sea
of Japan" Togo failed to do as close
editing as has been noticed In connec
tion with most of his official utter
ances. Lillian Russell has written a maga
sine article on "How to Keep Hus
bands." Well, she may know. There
are plenty of people In this world who
do not practice what they preach.
American girls will be likely to de
cide that Crown Princess Cecllle Is
very old-fashioned In spite of the
stories that have been cabled over.
8he didn't Insist on having the "obey"
clause left out
Now up jumps a physician and ad
vises only handsome men and beauti
ful women to marry. That's the way
It is done' in the novels, but as the
story always ends there we never
know what advantages are gained
thereby.
The fresh sale of Captain Kldd's
old home site at Pearl and Hanover
streets Is reported without emotion.
Yet the captain was not a bad pirate
Tor times that knew not rebates, hold
ing companies or the secrets of out
aide speculation with trust funds.
The farmers of Kansas pay a high
compliment to the young men from
Eastern colleges who helped them har
vest their crops last summer. They
say the best help they had In the field
were college boys from New York and
New England, who set the Western
fellows "some pretty tough stunts" In
work.
Advertising has now become a part
of the arts of war. as practiced by the
Japanese. When they occupied Dalny,
after the Russians abandoned It there
were no gates for the dry docks. The
Russians had hidden them. Togo's
ships needed repairs and cleaning. The
dry docks were useless without the
gates. Long seaeh failed to reveal
them. Thereupon the Japanese adopt
ed the American plan, and devised a
"want ad." to lit the case. The next
day a Chinaman appeared at head
quarters in response to the "ad." and
told them where the gates were sunk.
A priest In a factory district of
western Massachusetts recently, be
gan a crusade against costly funerals
among his parishioners. On Investiga
tion he found that their expense fre
quently Impoverished the bereaved
family, and that In order to pay for
a magnificent coffin, elaborate floral
settings and a long procession of car
riages, all of which constituted only
"a passing pageant of an hour,',' a
household was often compelled to deny
Itself for months the bare necessities
of life. In his pulpit accordingly he
denounced such practices, and asked
that henceforth those of his flock who
died be buried as simply as they had
lived. The words of this priest bore
good fruit. Simplicity Instead of os
tentation has more and more charac
terized the funerals of his parish, and
as a result the community as a whole
has been much happier. This was not
because it grieved the less over its
dead, but because, being less starved
by extravagant manifestations of Its
sorrows, it could bear them with a
greater fortitude. Nor has a single
parish only been blessed. The senti
ment against costly ceremonials for
the dead has spread to other parts of
Massachusetts, where other clergymen
have followed the example of the
priest It Is to be hoped that the gos
pel of simple grief, as some have call
ed it, may find its way everywhere.
Somebody wants to know how King
Edward's work compares with that of
Prooirtotit Roosevelt and what Vic
toria's eon really standi for la Great
Britain. There ran be no comparison
between the two rulers. Preatdout
Uoosevelt really rules. He has all the
power coiumouty accredited to a uiou-
arch, and he can do scores of things
that no king would ever dream of do
ing. King Edward sustains a heavy
load of dignity and draws a stipend
from the public treasury that Is meas
ured In seven figures, that la about all.
He la the social head of his country.
Ho makes precedent He Is fashion
Itself. The things that the king does
are good torm and are really the lawa
of society and are aped by the people.
It la odd how well loved Is this man
who playa such a small part in the
affairs of government London naa
100,000 of starring poor. Mont of
them are atarvlng because opportunity
has been dented them. And they lay
their hands on their empty stomachs,
while they cry, "Vied sav the king."
Mighty hordes of the unemployed
march the streets of the greatest city
of the world and again the cry Is
heard, "God save the king." You see,
rich and poor really love this monarch.
Time was when the rabble would
have stormed a castle and shortened
the king by a head, but that was tu an
age when a king was Indeed a king
and the common people were dogs.
Now, your Englishman, whether high
or low, may curse parliament and the
war lords and all those who Increase
the tax burdens, but he will never miss
an opportunity to get down on his
marrowbones to the first gentleman of
Europe.
Have the ocean cable and quick
overland communication diminished
the importance of diplomatic repre
sentatives to foreign governments, as
some persons assert? The foreign offi
cers of two governments can so easily
confer over the wire, they say, that a
nation needs only an occasional special
envoy who may be charged with the
completion of a particular negotiation.
That theory of the diplomatic servlce'der that the world thought this nmu
overlooks the great value of ambassa
dors and ministers in creating an at
mosphere friendly to their own coun
try. Think how much Wn Ttug-fang,
the gifted Chinese minister who left
here a few years ago, did by his
speeches before commercial gatherings
and educational institutions to bring
Americans to recognize some of the
Intrinsic merits of the long lived em
pire which he represented. Our Presi
dents usually send to the court of St.
James an ambassador of good oratori
cal abilities. His Influence there may
be very great An old French proverb
declares that "Absent people ore al
ways in the wrong." It is easy to mis
understand those whom we do not see.
Thousands of petty disagreements In
every-day life can be ended by a little
plain talk. Because diplomatists serve
this end, their expensive establish
ments and lavish entertainments are
not so purposeless as they seem at
first thought It may have seemed
wasteful for the Russian and the Jap
anese representatives In Washington,
during the last winter of terrible strug
gle at home over the destinies of the
far East to give costly receptions.
But the entertainments doubtless have
an effect on American public senti
ment. Just as did the Japanese exhibit
at the World's Fair, maintained in the
same spirit If diplomacy can In any
case shorten the duration of war by
a single day, It has earned Its cost
for years. Fancy ices are much cheap
er than gunpowder.
GRANITE MAUSOLEUM TO BE
SENATOR HANNA'S TOMB.
In Lake view cemetery, Cleveland,
on a high knoll overlooking the lake,
is soon to be constructed a mausoleum
for the Hanna family. The mausoleum
Is to be in the Doric style, and will
be built of white granite, quarried lu
Troy, N. II. At each end are to be
MAISOLEUM FOR MARCUS II ANNA.
large pierced bronze double doors. The
Interior Is shaped In the. form of a
cross, with a vaulted celling of colored
mosaics, in the center of which Is an
inlaid mosaic cross. In each transept,
or short arm of the cross, will be plac
ed a carved marble sarcophagus, cut
from a block of Norwegian marble. In
one of these will be placed the body of
Senator Marcus A. Hanna. On each
side of the long arms of the cross will
be built four catacombs, or slxteeen
In all. These catacombs extend from
the floor to the celling. The granite
platform on which the building stands
Is twenty-five feet wide and forty-eight
feet long. The height of the mausol
eum is twenty-three feet
Premium on the Single Life.
She I see by this paper that a sin
gle Greenland whale Is worth $13,000.
He I judge from that statement
that a tingle whale is worth mora than
a married one. Yonkers Statesman,
rAl'L'8 tiOSl'KU
, my Rr. rtMi fares.
Text "Bemeuiber Ju Christ,
raised from the dead, according to my
gospel."--! I Timothy 2:8
You will notice the intensity of the
possessive pronoun. It glows' with
passlou; It makes the text lncaudoa
cent "My gospel." It Is not proprie
torship; it Is identification. It seems
like egotism: It Is really uttermost self
surrender. It Is not possible to sepa
rate the man from the message: they
are one, fused in a grand and grow
lug experience. He had a message,
and the message was in the gralu and
the llbre of uls being. He has writ
ten a sentence of It to his friend, and
thou, as If Impatient lest what he has
written should .bear, even for an lu
taut, tbe look of au Impersonal utter
ance, he hastens with a kind of happy
pride in self-committal to give him
self avay on It- "According to my
gospel." The weight and the Impact
of a transformed personality Is thrown
Into the utterance. You feel the thrill
of terrific conviction lu this little poa
sesslve; It vibrates with energy. What
ever the gospel Is, It Is become to this
man a consecration, a passlou, au en
thusiasm, and. If need arise. It will
become a martyrdom, it is little won-
a provocative man, or tnai lew men
in human history have so compelled
the world to take count of them.
Paul has one great certainty: he Is
certain thnt he Is right. The audacious
faculty of mounting a pulpit, Is the
Inevitable expression of any audacity,
the audacity of knowing that he Is
right. He la sure alout some things
that really matter; he Is on the ground,
i urther the audacity of knowing that
he Is rltht this man adds another
audacity, that of believing and say
ing thnt the fact of his being right
Is a j;d thing for the world. The
Gospel Is not true news only, but good
news. The thing about which lie was
right was not to be neglected without
Impoverishment. It is of passionate
moment to men; It coucerns their
highest welfare; It la a Gospel of
good tidings, and he who has It Is un
der necessity to preach It Thl man,
then. Is finely revealed In this little
phrase that he has added like a post
script Such a man is always a chal
lenge, never more a challenge than to
day, when the temper of our time
does not encourage It
He la sent to guard the church and
to hold forth tbe good news In Ephe-
sus, where the splendor and the arm
gance of paganism bad made the
Dlace a proverb. One hesitates to
paint the picture of that city as It
was, the home of superstition and sor
cery, the citadel of the most Immoral
and lawless of Idolators.
Do you wonder that the restlessness
and superstition outside worked a slow
and subtle mischief within'? Is it any
wonder that, with that atmosphere
soaking Into their life, It was easy to
drift from the realities of religion?
My brethren, we need a deep, ef
fective force lodged- at the heart of
our chiireii lire, at tne nean oi us
pulpit ministry, at the heart of all
Its varying work. The only Justifica
tion for a church is that It shall have
something at the heart of It, of which
It says, with a passionate Joy of pos
session, "My Gospel," which It exists
to utter. This very church fabric Is
not here for any beauty It has, but
for the good tidings It brings. It Is
not a memorial; it Is a witness. At
the heart of the church's life, feeding
the church's life, the power of its
ministry, the burden of its mission.
lies the great force of an organic re
lationship with a Divine Lord, an in
tensely' personal relationship, realiz
able and actual, with every believer.
CHRISTIANITY AND GAMBLING.
Br ramford Slack, H. P.
Text "Casting lots." Matthew 28:
25.
It is 382 years since an Act of Par
liament was passed, In the reign of
King Henry VIII., tbe preamble of
which alludes to impoverishment and
crime and neglect of Divine service as
amongst the social evils which in those
remote days arose from gambling.
And so, In an ever increasing degree,
and with added miseries, the evil has
been growing ever since. You ask for
evidence. Open any newspaper and
I shall be very much surprised if you
do not find somewhere In its columns,
of tbe growing evil of gambling. And
during the whole of those 882 years
laws have been constantly passed and
constantly amended for dealing with
this evil. Those laws have, in my
opinion, never been sufficiently drastic,
PPM3
and, for the best of reasons, they havo
never beeti sufficiently clear. There
are many meu in high places tu-duy
who are afraid of dealing with this
subject and for the best of reasons.
I find that tu the middle of the eigh
teenth century more Uiau 130 years
ago very remarkable Act of Par
liament was passed, which was sub
sequently repealed. And It provided
that any one convicted of losing CIO
at on time as a result of betting or
gamlug, or of lowing tiO within the
space of twe uty-four hours, must, upon
conviction, of course, pay five times
that amount for the benefit of the poor
of the parish. The gambling habit,
which Is so far-reachlug, and which
sends Its feeler out with such rami
fications, Is working terrible havoc to
day. It Is one of our greatest and
moat threatening national curses. And,
thank God, the Christian Church Is at
length waking up to Its responsibilities
in the matter.
Let me give you a few fact. There
are at least "a.0()0 bookmakers In
England to-day; 'jo.tsio! and not a man
of them plying an holiest trade. Their
turnover has been estimated to be
."o,ox,000 sterling by the year, by un
remunerative trade; all, lu so far an
the Commonwealth la concerned,
wasteful and Injurious, Only last No
vember a bookmaker was fined 100
at Bclgate. The police, when they
carried away his book from the place
where he carried on his "business,"
found by referring to his bank book,
that during the previous twelve months
he had paid r-0 Into his banking
account Ills Ntoks showed a profit'
of 1,7(11 on the average during the
hist seven years; and he had. at the
time he was brought before the mag
istrates one client who owned him
0,4iiiO. That was lu November. Iast
August a young man, who was a mes
senger at a newspaper otllce, was fined
by the magistrates for systematically
carrying ou betting with lsys. And
this Is one of the worst .phases of this
evil; It Is attacking our children, and
to a far greater extent than you and I.
In our smug respectability, could think
possible. Ami It was found thnt this
gentleman In one of his books had
l.i.H-l entries covering a space of only
ten days; and those betting transac
tions extended lu amount from Id. to
2s. Od.
I ask you what must be the attitude
of all Christians, nny, all thoughtful
men ami women towards this great
evil? It has degraded our sport. It
is spoiling our national games, It Is de
teriorating our national character, it
h destroying our position as a nation
amongst the other nations of the
world, it Is spoiling our national exam
ple. We as Christians and good citi
zens, aa patriots, must do what In us
Ilea to discourage this evil habit.
Christian men, and women, too, have
a special obligation. I have been fight
ing for years past, whenever I have
had the opportunity, against all forms
of lotteries and raffles In connection
with bazaars. There was one raffling
transaction recorded in the New Tes
tament. You know what It was whe-i
the soldiers at the foot of the cross
cast lots for the dying Christ That
Is not a very laudable precedent for
us to follow In any Institution, bazaar,
or whatever It may be, when we arc
trying to get money for what we call
a Christian purpose. Sec to It thai
you always refuse to play for money
nt any simple game, however small
the odds.
SHOUT MKTKIl HEUMON8,
The man who blushes for his religion
is only wasting his emotions.
Whoever Is a god to himself Is apt
to be a devil to his nclghliors.
You cannot teach children to keep
the Sunday by making them hate it.
Our loads are always lighter if we
will at least look as though we liked
them.
The only thing that comes to the
man who waits Is the certainty of be
ing left.
Some men think thnt the Almighty
only gave them sense enough to prove
that he had none.
Some men could reconcile the Bible
and science if only the Bible would be
reconciled to their sins.
Labor to give the best expression
to yourself rather than to make. the
best Impression on others.
We could get along with less mourn
ing for our sins If we had a few more
real funerals over their remains.
Tbe pessimist Is the man who real
izes that It Is hard going uphill, and
therefore he puts on the brakes.
If people were as ready to put In
the offering as they are to pass on the
sermon the church would toon be rich.
Instead of real love being such a
lndyllk thing, It often has blisters on
Its feet corns on its bands, and a back
that aches with, loads of other,
Henry F, Copa,
BARONESS VON HUTTEN,
omsthln Abont fnpuliir Author ot
ram" ami Otbsr Hooka.
An American heritage, a foreign
title, beauty, wealth and' genius all
thesa are the rich possession of the
Barouess von Hutten of Bchlos Stein
bach, Bavaria. Despite the fact that
she ha no need to put forth any ex
ertion, the baroness has not hidden
her light under a bushel or let her tal
ent become rusty. Almost every year
sec a new book credited to her pen.,
say the Memphis Appeal. From tho
beginning the high quality of her lit
erary output ha given her a rank
among tha best story writer of the
day.
Baroness von Hutten Is an American
girl. She was born in the Keystono
Stat In th bustling city of Erie, on
the shore of Lake Ontario. Her
maiden nam was Kllxnhetu Kiddle,
and th lata Thomas A. Scott, th pre
siding genius of the Pennsylvania Rail
road during Its days of early expan
sion, was her mother's brother.
Miss ltltUlls whs educated at fash
lonabls private school In New York
City, and since then she has spent
most of her life on the continent. It
was during an extended sojourn In
Italy that she met Karon von Hutten,
who I th direct descendant of a
Prussian historical celebrity, the fa
mous I'lrlch von Hutten of the refor
mation period.
That wa eight years ago. ,Tue
baron was au ardent wooer and tlio
young couple were soon united In mar
riage. They take up their residence
In summer at Sell loss Stclubach, lu the
Main valley, Bavaria; In winter they
repair to an estate In Prussia,
Two years ago, the Baroness von
Hutten returned to her native land
and spent the summer at Bar Harbor,
and with friends and relatives In Bos
ton, New York and Philadelphia. This
has been the only visit to America
since her marriage.
Through long residence abroad, sho
has become Intimately acquainted with.
the most fashionable and exclusive so
ciety of Europe and of America. This
fact is made evident in her writings,
which have the cosmopolitan atmos
phere as well as the Impress of the In
terested observer of social life. Her
literary work Is Instinct with life and
movement, and Is especially marked by
graceful humor and lightness of touch.
Inspiration comes to iter In the long
walks through the beautiful beech for
ests which environ her home at Steln
baeh. REAL. PICTURES FOR STAGE
Charles Krohnmii Will Hold t'p III
Mirror to Nuture.
It has remained for Charles Froh
man to find a connection iwtween the
blograph ami the drama and tu futuro
a moving picture machine will play u
promtneut part In the equipment of his
offices In the Empire theater, say the
New York Herald.
Mr. Fruhmau returned Sunday from
Bath much pleased with the progress
of the experiment which he is uniting
to demonstrate that the moving -picture
apparatus may prove ot Invaluable
service to the theatrical manager In
the staging of plays.
Accompanied by an artist and elec
trician and a stage manager from New
York, Mr. Frohinan went down to the
famous old health resort on Friday
night and Saturday and part of Sun
day were devoted to catch lug bits of
life with a blograph ca merit.
The throng outside tin ancient piling
room, with the Invalids lu their hath .
chairs, tho bazaars and different fea
tures of life tu the ancient city, were
snapped continually by the camera
man and Mr. Frohmnn will be able to
entertain callers next autumn with u
realistic portrayal of what Is to ho
seen In the quaint old resort.
This, however, Is not Mr, Frohmau'
purpose.
"My trip to Bath," he said, when I
saw him upon his return, "is only part
of the scheme I have lind In mind fur
some time. I do not believe that from
ordinary photographs It Is always pos
sible to gnther a correct Impression of
life In some strange place, and I be
lieve that moving pictures will be able
to convey a correct Idea as to the
characteristics of the people to be
portrayed In a drama, and If ever n
question of locale should niisc It would
he a record of Inestimable value.
"I am going over to Ireland later
to get moving pictures of the real Irish.
Then I shall blograph the real Scotch
and then the French and Germans and
so on.
"I shall keep the records on file In
my office and shall be able to bring up.
the life of any country by pulling down
a record."
An Kduuation.
"Well," remarked the man who fa
vored a greater navy, "this war in the
East la a great lesson to us."
"That's what!" replied tho other..
"I've learned a lot o' new names that
I never knew were In tho geogra
phies." Philadelphia Press.
Bather Mixed.
"There goes Jenkins' widow."
"Yes, but he was married twice, yon
know."
"Of course; -what of that?"
"Well, Is she his first or second
widow J" Philadelphia Press.