Topics of the Times Football, for lack of a bettor name to describe It. Is still designated as a lort Doctor will doubtless agree with that London scientist who assort that disease ta a blessing. Too many men allow their religion to hang In the closet through the week with their Suuday clothe. Some of the watcbdoga of our na tional banking system seem to have lost the faculty of finding and follow ing the scent. Just to show what heroes they are, bo me of the life insurance experts an nounce that they earrypolleiea In their own companies. It ts expected, meanwk-tle, that the forests will remain !n their place until the courts have decided whether or not they are to be preserved. In Japan Admiral Togo la fondly re ferred to as a lobster. The admiral ts a small man physlcalty and can't tight much except when he is on his ship. It is asserted, on the other hand, that big hats for women are not going out of fashion. The report that they were, doubtless, was started by some designing masculine person. "Three saTed by chewing gum' is the head over a news item. It aeema that the three used chewing gum to plug a hole in their canoe. Then they were sated by not chewing it. after all. Russia's bad way never could be more forcefully illustrated than by the lamentable fact that the stroke of one man's pen could open the dungeons where political prisoners hare been left for years to wither and die. Professor Wiley proposes to test the effects of cold storage food on the hu man system. It is to be hoped that ha will try the cold storage egg himself, so that he may speak from personal experience Instead of merely observing Ita effect on some hired man. About half a century ago England took notice of one fleet only, the French. Now things hare changed. Japan has revealed her naval power; Italy has a fairly good navy; Wil helm II. rules orer Germany and has announced that the country'a future welfare must be sought for on the seas; the United States wish to have no rivals on the ocean and Russia is beginning to rebuild her fleet. This continent Is no longer the scene of the most striking Innovations; Amer. Ica is an old story. Africa is the new world. The French are stretching a telegraph wire from the Mediterra nean across the Sahara to Timbuktu. The wire' has already reached the Tuat oases. It will pass thence to the Ahag gar Mountains, where live the Tuareg bandits, and so Into a country which a few years ago was extremely dan gerous to an avowed Christian. No matter how profound and learned a lawyer may be, he seems to be In capable of drawing his own will so that it will not be set aside. This was the fate of Samuel J. Tilden's will, and now we are Informed that the will of Chief Justice Edward M. Paxon of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, be queathing $3,000,000 for the establish ment of a farm school for boys, is void for such an obvious defect as the ab sence of subscribing witnesses. Some times it looks as if people who know how to make money never know any thing else. There are men who have never been detected in wrong-doing whose per formances are nevertheless so hostile to the public welfare or so acceptable to self-seekers that" their honesty is impugned and their patriotism dis counted. Any prosecuting officer will testify that there Is nothing in the whole catalogue of crimes so difficult to trace as political corruption, noth ing so difficult to fix as bribery. The public should not wait for proofs. The vote should not wait for evidence. It Is not only essential that public men have their dishonesty unproved, but that they be men of such proved hon esty and absolute Integrity that no breath of suspicion has ever tainted their reputations. . A friend of the editor asks this ques tion: "Why do Americans as a rule go after the dollar harder than Euro peans?" Plainly, because dollars will buy more in this country than in Eu rope. Dollars will buy some things there, but here they will buy every thing that is worth buying. In Eu rope It makes no difference how much money a man has, nor how decent his character, neither be nor his family can amount to anything in particular. ITe must be born to the manner. Else the door of 'opiHUtuulty Is closed. In this country. If he Is the right sort of a man, be csn buy freedom from fear and worry, recognition. Independence, He can aspire to ho and become all that any other American can aspire to become. And that Is why our critics across the waters fall to understand us. Years ago they called us a nation of shopkeepers. They can see us only as dollar chasers. Rut the fact Is we want money because of the thtugs It will buy. We do not hoard It, We are royal apeudcra. Of course there are some among us who believe that money win buy anything content ment, happiness, or even character. They learu differently. Rut surely it ts not altogether an unworthy motive that we should desire money that we may minister to the wellbelng of those whom we are fond of. It Is not sor did desire, this one of wanting money to educate our children and give them chance In life better than our chance, And that is why Frlta and Patrick and Nets and Antonio and Moses, when they wine to us over sea, Join with us In the dollar chase. It Is only when we begin to long for dollars we cannot use that we become money mad. The American wants dollars for what they will buy and he buys what he wants. There Is close relation betweeu be lief and reasoning, but there could be no greater vrror than to suppose that reasoning Is the only thing that can produce beliefs and that all of our be liefs are the result of reasoning. Moat people would fvel Insulted If told that they believe anything whatever with out reason, aud yet the truth Is that of atl the beliefs that exist In any human mind not oiw In a thousand bat been produced by reasoning and not one In a million by Investigation, re flection and reasoulng. The greater part of our most cherished convlettous are Inserted in us ready made, just a cartridge Is Inserted In a gun or a box put Into a wagon. This Is easily prov ed by asking people why they believe certain things. In most cases It will be surprising to see how they are em barrassed by the question and what trifling and Inconsequential replies they make. Sometimes they becoimj Impatient and Indignant and Intimate that what they believe Is self-evident, or they say: "Any fooi knows that." They drop the subject as soon as they can, but not until they bare made It evident that they believe without rea son and without ewr attempting to reason. How, then, do we come to be lieve certain things? Evidently by mere imitation or by a sort of hypnotic suggestion. In childhood and youth we belteve everything we hear. What I ever Is constantly said In our homes or by our associates we Install among our settled convictions and retain them long after we have forgotten when, where and from whom we first heard them. We are as passive In re ceiving these impressions as a colt Is in getting used to harness. We would naturally suppose that convictions that wvre acquired so easily would be Just as easily upset and abandoned, but It is Just the reverse. The beliefs which we have acquired we know not how aud which we atv at a loss to defend are exactly those that are most Invin cible. We would at least expect them to melt away before strong argument, but argunivnt hag' no effect on them. Argument will often overthrow and re verse beliefs which were acquired by argument, but these belk'fa' which are foisted upon us hypnotically do not yield to rensonlng. These traditional beliefs cannot be said to be an evil. The fact Is our wry life Is founded on them and governed by them and we could not live without them. Life Is too short for everything to be rea soned out. We must Iw set up In busi ness with an immense stock of ready made convictions or else we would be more helpless than the brute creation. They are valuable also for the very reason that they cannot be over thrown, for without this quality there would be absolutely no stability in hu man character. Ou the other hand, It Is obviously absurd to reason that cer tain opinions and beliefs are well founded because they are widespread and of great antiquity. A belief may be perpetuated from generation to gen eration in an ever-widening circle for thousands of years and even beconw universal without ever having a parti cle of fact or logic for Its basis. That we can never entirely free ourselves from Involuntary beliefs is certain, and that we would perish if we were deprived of them Is certain also, and jet our safety depends on keeping them in check by reasoning and inves tigation. We must be continually sloughing off our groundless beliefs or we shall be completely swamped by them. This is not an attractive pic ture of human nature, but it Is a faith ful lUeness. Papa's Viewpoint. Her Father What are your pros pects, sir? The Suitor (modestly) I am fifth vice president of the Brazen Assur ance Society. ' Her Father Well, you may come and see me again, If the jury acquits you I Puck. popultvjionco - Paper Sftatlnaa ' nrU. In several places In Prussia, expert menta are being made with a some what novel material for soldiers' Unit, namely, shavings 0f imper about three centimetres broad and several hundred metre long. These are stuffed Into bags on which the soldiers' He, They re said to be more comfortable than straw and more springy. Straw beds, moreover, must be changed every six months. These new beds of paper havings need changing only once in two or three years. rarmlag y .. In order to demonstrate that. If nec essary, agricultural operations can b carried out day aud night continuously with gasoline motor, an Interesting trial was reeeutly carried out la Eng land on a farm near Biggleswade, A field was Illuminated by acetylene gas, tud two 6-foot mowers were attached to an Ivel gasoline trader. Under these conditions fifteen acres were cut la the short time of 3 hours 33 minute. New Active Valeaaa la Xavaea. A volcano throwing off molten lava has been discovered lu Nevada. Th volcano Is In Rye Patch, Humboldt County. Although that section bat been traversed for years the crater has Just been found. , The men were In search of cattle when they came on the stresm of lava, and. tracing It to Its source, found the volcano. One of the largest and most famous trees In England 1 the Cowtborpe oak, thus named from the town wherein It ataud. It la gradually decaying and disappearing, although It atlll puts forth green leaves every year, Llk other giant tree In a state of decay, Its trunk seems to be sinking Into the ground. About 200 years ago It was 78 feet In girth at the ground level, and HO feet high. Now It Is but little more than 54 feet In girth at the ground, and only 37 feet high. China Is so well suited by natural conditions for the production of silk that even the most atittqunted and un scientific methods cannot deprive her of the first rank In that Industry. Ii Japan eveiy thing connected with the silk business 1 scientifically regulated. No silkworm Is allow to hatch unless the egg has passed a scientific Inspec tion. The mulberry trees are cultiva ted on scientific principles. Similar methods are pursued In other countries where silk Is produced. Hut lu China these things are almost entirely disre garded, and yet China keeps uear the head In production. Her undeveloped resources lu this Industry are so enor mous that Mr. Anderson, our consul at Amoy, predicts that when Chlnn adopts modern methods she will give a new turn to the silk business of the world. l)ealiaed In Praetlew. When tho lute Secretary Hay was crossing the Atlantic In 1HH5 on his way to Paris to serve as secretary of legation he told the following anecdote to one of his fellow travelers, Ou ap plying for admission to the bar of Illinois be was summoned to appear before a committee of prominent Chi cago lawyers to be examined as to his qualifications. He went to the place appoluted and found the commit lee assembled; but for a long time they took no notice of the young candidate, but continued talking vigorously together on various subjects. At Inst one of the lawyers, turning to him, said: "Mr. Hay, what would you do If a client should come to you with such a case as this?" and proceeded to de scribe very elaborately a complicated legal case. "I should ask for a retaining fee of fifty dollars' promptly replied Mr. Hay, "and tell -lm to call to-morrow." "Mr. Hay, you ore admitted," said the gentleman, and with a hearty laugh from all present the proceed ings closed. Xrry Fororrtfnl. Clergyman I'd like to pay a fit tin;,' tribute to your husband's memory. Widow He didn't have any mem ory; be couldn't remeiubvr to mall a letter. Social Problem. Lumber Yard Lem I hain't seen Weary Willie around lately. Seven-Lengue Raunilers No; he's disguised himself as a college profes sor an Ilvln' In one o' dem. He's goln' to write a magazine article on lelr lives an' habits." Puck. I' n so RE Whenever a sore or ulcer does not heal, no tuutlcr on what part of th body it tuny Ixt, it is because of a poisoned rendition of the Mood. This fHuson may be the remains of some constitutional trouble; the cllcct of a one spell of sickness, which has left this vital stream polluted ami weak, or because the natural refuse matter of the body, which should pass off through the channels of nature, has been lift in the system and absoi bed into the circulation. It does not mutter how the poison became intrenched in the blood, the fact that the sore is there and dot-a not heal is evidence of a deep, underlying cause. There is nothing that causes more discomfort, worry and anxiety than a festering, discharging old aore that resists treat ment. The very sight of it is abhorrent aud suggests pollution and disease ; besides the time and attention required ta keep it clean and free from other infection. As it lingers, slowly eating deeper into the surrounding flesh, the sufTcrcr grows morbidly anxious, fearing it may be cancerous. Some of those a til ic ted with an old sore or . . ... ulcer know how useless it is to ex. JttXttf&Stt&Sl' bect ft cure from Halves. towilcr. lo- MOMoountauu B.n thia trx tions and other external treatment. . ,,0. 1 ha a-ood w.Jt'c.T tt.a Through the use of these they have 'on, tuihUlorot worse. IwmId seen the place begin to heal and scab tllSuil' . I wci, anu hcib conic raiuiuvinjr iiicm ! jr ,, selves that they would soon be rid of ffiV;: Aft tAmH the detestable thing, when a fresh riubu blood wadleine. . ' upply of poison from the blood '. V...T.. W.J.CAT1. would cause the inflammation and old discharge to return and the sore would be as bad or worse than before. Sores that do not heal are not due to out sidecsuses; if they were, external treatment would cure them. They are kept open because the blood is steeped in poison, which finds an outlet through these places. While young people, and even children, sometimea suffer with non-healing sores, those most usually afflicted are persons past middle life. Often, with them, a wart or mole on the face inflames and be gins to ulcerate from a little rough handling ; or a deep, offensive ulcer de velops from a alight cut or bruise. Their vital energies and powers of re sistance have grown less, and circulation weaker, and ncrhana some taint in the blood, which was held in check by W w V-- J rO ) PIIDCI V VCPCTADI r There is only one way to cure these old runtLT f tut I MDLt, sores and ulcers, and that is to get every particle of the poison out of the blood. 1'or this purpose nothinjf equal. S. S. S. It goes down to the very bottom of the trouble, cleanses the blood and mikes a permanent cure. S. S. S. enriches and freshens the circulation so that it carries new, strong blood to the diseased parts and allows the place to heal naturally. When this is done the discharge ceases, the sore acabs over and fills in with healthy flesh, and the skin regains its natural color. Book on Sores and ulcers and any medical advice desired will be furnished! without charge. mc SWIFT SPCCtFtC CO., ATLANTA. OA. I have seen something of legal prac tice on both sides of the Atlantic, and my opinion Is that our profession would gsiu luiinenely by combining the two branches pretty much as they are combined In the I'nlted States aud Canada, says a writer In the Ixiiulon .Suturdily Kevlew. It Is obvious that the solicitors would profit by such an agreement. They would have the right of audience in an courts and the op portunity to qualify themselves for promotion to the bench. In America the young lawyer goes Into an office, where he makes his merit t known by steady attention to business. There will slwnys be two kinds of lawyers those who stay In their offices, dealing directly with cli ents and attending to mutters of rou tine, aud those who advice on points of law and argue cases In court. These two orders of men are clearly (llstlgulshed In America, but they work together as partners to the great advantage of the client. Never flmllvd Ascala. "How do you manage to wrlto 511 those funny things?" asked the Inquis itive female of the' Jokesinlth. "With a typewriter, madam," an swered the so-much-per yard grin pro ducer. "Indeed:" exclaimed the I. f. "Don't you know, I Imagined you used some sort of copying apparatus." Infrvqnrnt Ocraalona, "You must try to love your papa as much as he loves you," said the vis itor. "Oh, I love him more," replied Tom my. "Indeed? Doesn't your papa love you very much?" "Not much. He says he only loves me when I'm good." Philadelphia Press. Mr'trry of the Pac no-. It's awfully hard to understand linw pug dogs csn like th sort of people that like them. Cleveland Lender. HelplHelp! I'm Falling Thus cried the hair. And a kind neighbor came to the res cue with a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor. The hair was saved t In gratitude, It grew long and heavy, and with all the deep, rich color of early life. Sold in all parts of the world for sixty years. " About on, ;Hr at-o T loit raarly all of my 'hair following- an attack of moailtti. I wu adrliad by a filaiid to ua Ayar'a tialr Vigor. I did to, and aa a ratult I now have a beautiful baad of hair." Mas. W. i. BttOWM. Mauou oom Valla, Wit. by J. O. Ay.r Co., Lowell, AIM BuumOMturara t lu 9 SAR8APAWLU. vers PIUS. CUeRltr PECTC8AL. THAT DO NOT HEAL a. A tm,l av I I a am feu a I i V WS vast Www WM J f their stronger constitutions of early me, snows usm. ii is wen to be sus picious of any sore that doea not heal readily, because the same germ that produces Cancer is back of every old circulation to nnxltiee this fatal diaeaxe. A NOVEL ADVERTISEMENT. II Appeared la a Keeeat laaaa ml a l.aadua Kewaaaner. a anm.KMKi.Y rxeoMi'KTKNT root with no tiiiallrti-ailiiiia, mm-IhI er IiiM!i--lual, totally drvolit ut aiiowlrtlit on any i-imi rival. Ir aiihjm t, ItKirnuslily iullu a till uiitruai worthy, la iti-alrtma of olilaln- log rrmmirrailvv hm In any -( It r . Attilrma I. K. 3, Mat-lla roait, l Ku a!ii(toa. The a ti til Innj candor of the a!ovo advertisement which appeared In a recent Usue of the Ixiudou Times lets caused some amusement and attract'! a great deal of attention amc ng hind nvss men, says the London Kxpiess. .Many declared that i. V." was practical Joker; others that 1e hud a detlnlte object In view wlie.i be made himself out to be a fool. That this latter solution was the cor rect one an Kx press representative learned yesterday from "1. r" him self. His object, he said, was to af truct the attention of employers by going out of the beaten tr.t k. "I. V." who Is about 'J7 years old. Is rather more ak-rt and Intelligent than the average man with nit ordi nary public school education, and hi face Is a particularly honet one. "1 thought If I said exactly the op posite to what moNt people lu tur-l of a billet Insert lu the newspapers, lie said, "I might stand it good cliauce of hearing from employers tired of superlative virtues, and I hdve not been disappointed, "I have this mornlug reivlvel two genuine offers and appointments fr Interviews from the heads o' good tlrms and a large number of letters aud post cards from practical Jokeis. It was Inevitable, of course, that thro" or four of the writers should luv advised me to apply at once to the war office, 'where 1 would be sure of a billet.' "I have bevn schoolmasterlng seven years, and althougn 1 have a small billet now, I wish to better myself." Not Hull! Kor Two. When Michael Burke Joined his : brother James In this country, tho aioney Hie brought over, added to lame's savings, enabled them to go nto the ice business. In course of :lme their custom Increased, and It liecame necessary for them to have an )IIlce. In this James booh installed a lice roll-top desk. "The one desk will do for the two )f us," he explained, tnc day It was let us. "And here are two keys; one for you, Micky, and one for me." Michael accepted the key, but seemed to be studying the desk. "That's all right," he said. "But (vhcro Is my keyhole?" Art Note. Mrs. Syllle My husband takes a deep Interest In art Mrs. Older You surprise me. Mrs. Syllle Well, It was a surprise to me. But I beard him telling Jack Rownder last night that It was a good thing to study your hand before you draw. Cleveland Leader. CUMl WHIHt All Ut f All. Coukd Syrup, TaMea Oood. ui In tlma. Sold by drumUta. &.J Boat