Topics of the Times If a man make bo enemies be bu tut few friend. A wife It the only extravagant habit some men hare. Ills satanic majesty doesut wasts any of hit time on the hypocrite. A marriage license gives a man a legal right to Ue to one woman. The Japanese do not hare consump tion. Even the children axe taught how to breathe. A poor girl's Idea of a mercenary wretch la a young man who marries a rich widow. Rockefeller has cornered violets, riant a few in your garden and smash the Ylolet trust After a man takes more than $3,000 they quit calling It stealing and refer to It as embezzlement. A Boston paper wants a good Amer ican name for the chauffeur. How would It do to call him down? Some bachelors sigh because they are lonely, and some married men sigh because they have no chance to be. Nevertheless, Russell Sage la the greatest object lesson In favor of va cations that could possibly be dlscov red. Some people seem to think the Al mighty Is making a mistake In not leaving the management entirely to them. The widow who baa scattered the ashea of her husband on two conti nents may be trying to make extra work for the last day. It would appear that Influential peo ple who obey the laws must be doing so Just because they like to and not through any fear of getting Into trou ble if they should break over. The fact that few Americans be come chess experts has often caused wonder. The American who Is capable of becoming a chess master Is usually trying to pile up a hundred million dollars at easier work. The man who leaves a team of horses unhitched on the public street In these days of coughing chu-chua and reckless drivers Is the bosom friend of the man who sows the whole FechlU gulf with floating mines in tiio hope of getting a warship or two. Mr. Moseley's commission of Eng lishmen who came here to study Amer ican schools gives them much praise and some censure. One of the chief objections Is to sending big boys to women teachers, whose influence, it is alleged, makes them less virile. No doubt a manly man does make a good schoolmaster for a boy more than 12 years old. But It Is contrary to all ex perience to assert that a good woman teacher has a harmful effect on the manliest of boys. . A generation ago an English physi cian of note declared that four-fifths of the English-speaking peopfe dig their graves with their teeth. But this undoubtedly doesn't tell the whole story. The manner In which eating is done and the makeup of the modern menu have a good deal to do with wrecking constitutions. Many is the business man who allows himself to become so absorbed in his affairs that be will swallow his meals in nervous baste that soon becomes disastrous-to digestive organs. Hygienlsts observe that Gladstone is credited with chew ing each bite 22 times, and attribute bis longevity to his correct habit of eating. The culinary art of modern society has not for its purpose the preparation of the most wholesome food. The object to be attained is rather to tempt a jaded palate, to in duce disregard of the guidance of ap petite. Milton's phrase, "They also serve who only stand'and wait," has long been applied to the female portion of the human race. The modern girl pre fers to quote, "Let us then be up and doing," with a courageous heart, train ed muscles and a resourceful head. When a prominent Philadelphia soci ety girl was recntly attacked by a negro she used her gun-metal-handled umbrella as she would a golf club, and n vigorous "drive" caused the thief to drop her purse and flee. When two sisters discovered a burglar under their bed not long ago, they dragged him forth, one of them sat on his chest, and the other ran for the police. A little Now Jersey girl recently rescued two small brothers from a burning building, and a Chicago housemaid broke through a group of men and dragged a child from under a trolley car. A "mere man," who recently fainted under the ordeal of vaccina tion, has collected these items of n week for the edification of his own sex. After a little less than two years of work the Department of the Interior Las lasned a statement outlining the disposition of the fund for reclaiming the arid lands of the Western States and Territories. Twenty seven million dollars will be expended during the tx-xt two or three years, and the work of construction, when finished, will hare redeemed 1,000,000 acres of land, capable of supporting a population of 500.000. Th!s announcement cloaee the preliminary stage of the reclamation project, which, being self-perpetuative ly the law which set It In motion, will continue to operate as long aa the work of irrigation la commercially profitable. The object of the reclama tion law la to make the government the agent of the people In turning over the public domain to small land own- I era on a strictly buslneaa basis. The settler can buy of the goTemment the , reclaimed land at what It costs to re deem It In this wsy the fund for Irri gation wlll not be exhausted, but will remain Intact for making more land cultivable. The Eastern farmer Is not taxed for the benefit of the Western farm, as would be the case If the gov ernment sold the reclaimed land at the old figure of $1.25 per acre. The new lands are to be sold to actual settlers, and their purchase limited to 100 acres, go great Is" the fertility of Irrigated land that the average farm need not exceed forty or fifty acres to support a family In abundance. The population being so much denser than In other finning districts west of the Mississippi, life on the farm can give way to life In the Tillage, and the ele ment of loneltneaa which has hereto fore made the vocation of farming re pugnant to many wllLbe eliminated. Great Interest Is already being taken In the reclamation project by pros pective homeseekers. Some forty years ago the good peo ple of these United States abolished the slave trade. And Is it not time that we abolish the trade slave? A trade slave Is a man or woman who must go to his or her business early in the morning and spend from 12 to 10 hours each day waiting upon a lazy and exacting public that could make its purchases in two-thirds the time. Ask any dealer why he keeps open so long and he gives only one excuse "Others do." It la a feeble excuse. Dealers could, If they woud, stand to gether In this matter, and, without In Jury to any and with benefit to all, establish a work-week that would emancipate their trade slaves. Tew things in life are more piteous than the listless girls, dispirited young men and gray-haired veterans of the stores whose lives are narrowed down to their dally toll by a brutally selfish public. To them the beauties of nature exist only in pictures, and the Joys of life are but things of their dreams. Mil lions are giving their whole lives for Just enough to eat and drink and wear. And they are held to that hard lot, not by any natural condition, but by the thoughtless public that likes to take its ease, to consult Its own time and to domineer over its slaves. Vision aries have many schemes for revolu tionizing the entire economic order, but none for revolutionizing human nature. The great oppressive force, the great source of injustice, under any system, lies in human nature. We fill our mouths with phrases that have no meaning and the heart must stand voiceless. Better than all the imagin ings of the centuries of absolute In dustrial equality to come is the weekly half-holiday that we can make our own. One-half day of freedom and of pleasure each week for the store work ers counts more for emancipation and equality than all the' vain dreams ever dreamed. The merchants of every city and in this land may bring on this practical reform if they will. They can give their employes a chance to go home and enjoy their families, take them out to the parks or into the country and enjoy some of God's sun shine and the sight of green fields, make a garden, plant flowers, play games, go a-flshlng, and do a thousand and one things to get nearer to na ture, to humanity and to God, and feel that it Is sweet to be alive. They would go back to work with fresh ened spirit, with better courage and with an inspiring feeling that there is something more in life than endless drudging. And no business would be lost HENRY TALKS ON PATHOS. Example of the False Sort Belated at a Dinner Party. George Harvey gave a dinner to William Dean Howells last month in London. It was a literary dinner, and most of the conversation that went on at it bad a literary turn. Henry James talked about true and false pathos. "Examples of true pathos," said Mr. James, "come readily to our minds the death of Lear,, for Instance, or the fading of the heroine in 'George's Mother but I want to tell you of a good example of false pathos. "Tills piece of false pathos was read to me the other day by a young man. He was very proud of it he thought it the best imaginative passage he had ever written. "It concerned a destitute young wid ow and her little son. They lived in a garret, very cold, and they had no fire, no bedclothes, nothing. But an old door, unfastened from its hinges, leaned against the wall, and when the weather was unusually severe the young mother would cover her little boy with this door, laying it over him as though it had been a blanket "And the youngster, cuddling up un der the door, would smile at his moth er and say: '"In weather like this, mamma, what do the poor do who have no doors to cover them?"" An Awful Warning. "There's a girl who has had twelve offers of marriage." "Mercy 1" "And she's been waiting five years for the thirteenth." Cleveland Plain Dealer. j OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS The Sensitive Temperament Belong ""iU comfort It Is better to TT ut for accompllshmeut K" I Hwer lies in the senalUve I -1 . 1 ... . ... Mr..-- . brough life. He la Jarred by discord and op position. His craving la for peace; criticism ungs aim use a wnip, sensitive meu, as a rule, endeavor to hide their sufferings from the public gate. In this endeavor they assume an arrogance or a cynicism that la not genuine. Some of the boldest flouters of critics and opponents are really the most sensitive. Behind their outward show of coutempt they suffer the keenest agonies of soul-torture. But the sensitive la the creative temperament A man thatjdoea not feel cannot perform. He Is not creative, nor original. The sensitive man shuns polemics, the give and take of contest, but once In a fight he stays. All the groat men have been sensitive. The sensitive man takes things seriously. The sensitive temperament la the temperament of the thoroughbred whose pride keeps him from ever giv ing up. It Is the senalUve men that battle for an Ideal, for a principal. Sensitiveness Is a symptom of brains. The dull wit Is protected by a thick skin. But the thlnkor Is sensitive because he thinks. He W self-analytical He meditates on criticism and measures himself by it. To the world he may appear to be as hard as steel and as cold as ice, but he feels deeply as very man of brains does. Intensity of feeling Is a necessary element of genius and intensity of feeling to possible only to the sensitive temperament Genuine sensitiveness must not be mistaken for a spuri ous sensitiveness which is very common and which Is noth ing but vanity and conceit One finds people proclaiming themselves "sensitive" because their vanity is easily of fended. These people are quick to imagine slights where none were Intended They expect from the world a defer ence to which they are not entltlod and they fret when this deference is denied. The true sensitive does not cry out his hurts, n suffers In alienee as every great soul does. His feeling Is not a ahallow vanity, but a deep move ment of the souL San Francisco Bulletin. History of Japan's Commerce. APAN has a history antedating that of any of the nations of Lurope now existing. Its pages have been shut to ua on account of our Ignor ance of the Japanese language and literature, fowiAj out these obstacles to the acquisition of knowl fvl Hlge are gradually being removed and inanv interesting and Important to light. The subjugation of Korea In 200 A. Japan had made considerable advancement In maritime power at an early date. The use of packhorses and oxen, the spanning of rivers by bridges, and the establishment of stations at the distance of a day's Journey apart as far back as 813 A. D., show that domestic trade and commerce and Interior means of communication reached a fair state of development Peddlers were known as early as 437 A. D., while a systematized market was organized and a law of measurement and prices was en acted in 701; and in 700 the ratio of monetary metals was established at the rate of one to ten for gold and silver, and one to a hundred for silver and copper. By 1540 more than 2.000 Chinese merchant vessels. It Is said, went yearly to Japan, mostly to buy silk. Prior to this, and about 12S0, the Japan Islands were made known to European nations by an Italian who had lived many years in China. The first navigation line from Europe to Japan was established in 1541 by three Portuguese mer chants. The Spanish secured a few trade privileges in 1649, and in 1601 the Dutch came and began to do a large busi ness under the namo of the East India Company. But before or shortly after these events Japan bad es tablished herself as a sea power through her own efforts In the Pacific Ocean. The communication with the Philippine Islands, with Annan, with Slam and with India began be fore 1500, and there were then more than 600 Japanese emigrants living at Manila, and thousands living In Slam. For a short while the Philippine Islands were under the control of Japan. In 1000 William Adams, an English shipwrecked mariner, landed in Japan, and was naturalized. Captain John Smith, sent by James IL, arrived In 1013. In ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND. The dangers of ballooning, writes Santos-Dumont in "My Air Ships," are confined usually to the landing. But the sea of air presents many kinds of dangers, and sometimes the balloonist encounters more than one on the same voyage. In Nice, in 1900, he went up from the Place Massena in a good sized balloon, alone, Intending to drift a few hours amid the enchanting scenery of the mountains and the sea. His experiences were enough to make most people content with solid earth. The weather was fine, but the bar ometer soon fell, which Indicated a storm. For a time the wind took me in the direction of Cimiez; but as It threatened to carry me out to sea, I threw out ballast abandoned the cur rent and mounted to the height of about a mile. Soon I noticed that I bad ceased descending. As I had de termined to land soon, I pulled on the valve rope and let out more gas, and here the terrible experience began. I could not go down! I glanced at the barometer and found that I was going up. Yet I ought to be descend ing, and I felt by the wind and every thing, that I must be descending. I discovered only too soon what was wrong. In spite of my continuous ap parent descent I was, nevertheless, being lifted by an enormous column of air rushing upward. The barometer showed that I had reached a still greater altitude, and I could now take account of the fact by the way In which the land was disap pearing under me. The upward-rushing column of air continued to take me to a height of almost two miles. After what seemed a long time the barometer showed that. I had begun to descend. When I began to see land, I threw out ballast not to strike the earth too quickly. Now I could perceive the trees and shrubbery. Up in the storm Itself I bad felt nothing. to All Great Me. have a thick skin, that is worth while tempera raeut The 1 1 . . 1 1 - facta are coming D.. Is proof that at that time hail The It. f!I I A Now, too. as I continued falling lower I could see how swiftly I was being carried laterally. By the time I perceived the coming danger I was In it Carried along at a terrific rate, knocking against the tops of trees and continually threatened with a painful death, I threw out my anchor. It caught In trees and shrubs and broke away. I was dragged through the small trees and yielding shrubbery, my face a mass of cuts and bruises, rhy clothes torn from my back, fear ing the worst and able to do nothing to save myself. Just as I bad given myself up for lost the guide rope wound itself round a tree and held. I was precipitated from the basket and fell unconscious. When I camo. to I bad to walk several miles until I found some peasants. They helped me back to Nice, where I went to bed and had the doctors sew me up. DIVORCE LAWS OF CANADA, They Are Far More Stringent Than Those ExUtlna; in the United Btatee, It will not be advisable for mis mated couples In this country who may desire a legal separation to. go to Canada to obtain it Recently publish ed statistics show that during one gen eration of thirty-four years those pre ceding the year 1901 the divorces granted in Canada numbered only sixty-nine. In the United States during the same period the number of di vorces was almost 700,000. The popu lation of the United States has aver aged twelve times that of the Domin ion, while Its divorces were 10,000 times as many. If divorces In the United States dur ing the time mentioned bad been the same per capita as in the Dominion there would have been less than 2,000 in this country reduced; In other words, by 608,000. Were these figures reversed If Ca nadians had outnumbered our divorce decrees by 10,000 times, relatively would we not be looking upon our "lady of the snows" with something of the regard bestowed upon the biblical mm September, 1011, a world atlaa was first Introduced Into the country and cumulated the study of geography aud the desire for trade and discovery. So with the assistance ot William Adams two schooners were built In them the Japanese croesed the Pacific and opened trade relations with Mexico, only eighty years after Columbus discovered America. So acUve was the commercial spirit that during this. epoch over 1,000,000 Japaucae emigrants bad settled In the islands and mainland of Southern Asia. . But in 1630 the Japanese Government became afraid of foreign religious influence and alarmed on account of the euormoua export of gold; so It Issued a law shutting up porta, confiscating all ships large euough to go to sea, and prohibiting shipbuilding. China aud Holland alone were allowed to eonUnue trade relations, but their operation were confined to one port As a result of this law, the growing power of Japan was crippled, and for over 200 years she led practically a hermit existence Kansas City Journal State Aid to Good Roads. EVEUAL of the Eastern States are taking a practical part iu road building. New Jersey, the first to make a State appropriation, passed a law in 1801 by which the State pays one-third of the cost of Improving the roads. The coun ties furnish the oUier two-thirds, with the priv ilege of charging a Dart of this nronortlnn to the towns In which the roads are built At first the farm ers were opposed to the measure, but now co-operate with It gladly. A State Commissioner of Highways furnishes the plans. Nearly 1.000 miles of roads In New Jersey have been macadamized since the law weut Into effect In Massachusetta the State meets the entire cost but requires the counties to pay back one-fourth. The State appropria tions of $500,000 a year have reached a total of o.000,0t)0, and. as a rwtult Massachusetts has constructed hundreds of miles of fine roads. Connecticut operates on inucu the same system, and Its $1,500,000 In appropriations has pro duced GOO miles of excellent roads. On a smaller scale Maine, New Hampshire, -Vermont Rhode Island and Del aware assist in the building of good roads. By the New York plan the Stato pays one-half the toil of building roads, the counUes 3o per cent and tho town ships 15 per cent Appropriations have reached a total of over $2,0U0.000, lust year's installment being $000,000. Penn sylvania, at the last session of the Legislature, appropriated a lump sum of $0,500,000 for good road, the State to pay two-thirds and the counties and townships one sixth each. Hut there seems to be a loophole in the law In the matter of determining routes, and the rivalry, or Jealousy, of neighborhoods has prevented much headway thus far. The principle of State aid to improved roads has been firmly establlahrd. on the ground that the whole peoplo are In terested in tho best highways and that all citizens should bear a fair proportion of their cost Already the roads built on this basis In Massachusetts, New York, New Jer sey and Connecticut are an Impressive lesson on the value of tho good roads movement St Louis Globe-Democrat Morals of Americans. IIT.RH ntTTIlllP.ll'P 111! T. .t..t,. D. -- .....u bum us luui the moral standard of the American people Is degenerating. Dr. Hall Is president of the S TT I f.u 1 f a r . ... uiuuu xueuiogicai seminary in ew York. In the course of an address before the Religious Educational Association In Chicago be spoke of the "relatively good state of the common mor ality of the American people," but a deeper examination of the social side of our American life reveals, he thinks, a sit uation that causes anything but satisfaction. Our activity has Astonished the world, "but morally we are rapidly go ing astern so rapidly that one Is dumfounded at the con trast after a visit to some of the countries of Europe." Re ligion, be finds, has very little part In our civilization to day; our home life might be better, and our people are generally apathetic about their spiritual Interests. To much the same Intent but more specific are the conclusions of Dr. Coyle. of Denver as disclosed by him May 19 at the open ing of the Presbyterian general assembly at Buffalo. He noted the drift of the people away from lofty Ideals and from organized Christianity. It means something, ho thought when conservative observers called our time "the age of graft" Harper's Weekly. scarlet woman! Yet no especial op probrium, nationally speaking, has been attached to our national laxity. Here a trivial excuse, spldcr-webby In Its validity, may serve as a pretext for seperatlon. But In Canada it is a much more serious affair. Only one cause, the Scriptural, may be taken as ground for legal separation, and then the matter is not left to the indifferent, Insignificant weighing of a local Justice of the peace, or even to the courts; it is made the concern of Parliament both houses of which must pass tho bill which is entered by counsel In be half of his client In addition, a published notice of In tention to apply for divorce, giving name of applicant and accused with ground of accusation, must be insert ed for six months In two newspapers published in the applicant's residential town as well as In the Canada Gazette, the official government organ. As a further bar the cost of securing a divorce is so high that few people of the lower classes can afford it The fee varies according to the eminence of the counsel retained, but the aver age cost including traveling expenses for both applicant and accused must appear at Ottawa, the seat of govern ment when the bill Is beard govern ment fee, solicitor and counsel fees and so on, is not less than $500, and oftener reaches $1,000 or more. The Freshest Yet. "This order of poached eggs on toast doesn't look very nice," Bald the cranky guest " Are you sure' the eggs were fresh laid?" "Sure," replied the waiter; "they were laid right on the toast" Phil adelphia Ledger. Not Doing; lb "He left . numerous relatives to mourn his death." "Well, be might as well have taken them with him; they're not carrying out instructions." New Orleans Times-Democrat What is there that silly enthusiasm will not lead some people to dot TRUMPET JCALL8. Rasa's lions Round a Warning Note to the tin retire mtl. j(Y7 LEANMNESS Is ny character Is all. 1 nrivj ins "u sin brings paraly sis of the spirit. The church that Inclines to the world declines. A He la none the better for being set to music. The dollar sign Is not the only sign of success. Ills promises give power to our pray. The offering always savors of the hand. There are no promises without pre cepta. Results will punish bolter tbsn re venge. Man's raging cannot shake God's ruling. High living does not make lofty living. "Do" prevents more evil than "Don't" The Bible Is the world's text book on manhood. There Is no moral progress without moral purpose. s The dally paper la a poor substitute for dally prayer. Angels would rather bear our pray ers than their praises. You cannot bo a gentleman unless you learn of tho gentlest of uu ti. Christianity proves Itself and propa gates Itself by love for the people. International comity Is a convenient synonym for international cowurdlce. The stone that shrinks from the pol ishing nover gains the power to shine. The world's real rulers reign not ln the Toll of the thunder, but lu the si lence of sunshine. There Is no Imputed righteousness whore titer Is no endeavor for per sonal riMCtcousncs. Sometimes the people are going to church In spite of the things the preacher does to attruct them. CHARITIES IN JAPAN. Efficient Car Taken of Adults and 8m.ll Children. The greatest development of Japan In churlty has been lu the Institutional care of able-bodied adults and of de pendent children. Progress iu the cure of the former dates buck to ISiW, when a commission was appointed to consid er the problem in all its bcitrlngs, ac cording to a writer In Churltles. This commission recommended, first the erection, through funds furnished by tho state, of workshops lu which the Indlgeut poor of Tokyo could be put to work and their earnings applied to their support; second, to supplement these workshops, or until they could be erected, by the establishment of agen cies for furnishing drivers of vehicles. mowers of lawns, etc., men with slm- plo occupations, tho employe to reiuuln under control of the agencies aud bla earnings to bo applied to his support; and, third, the support under sanitary conditions of the aged, tho cripples and those Incapable of any form of labor and the rearing of their children at -public expense and under public over sight As a result of this plan It Is. not unusual to find that worksuop In mates such as the blind, tho paralytic the Infirm, the high or middle-grade Idiots and persons who have lost one or moro limbs become well trained In somo particular task and acquire a de gree of skill that enables them to earn more than la necessary for their sup port sT ivJ kbi In the children's Institutions boy , over 7 are pluced largely in the hand, of the older boys, more 'experienced and more serious companions. Young girls go to school carrying upon their backs infants that have been Intrusted to them so as to lighten the tasks of the regular attendants. The attend ants are fourfold those watching over the child's clothing, the food, the clean liness of person and the physical train ing. In the training of Institutional children a kindly demeanor is required on the part of the attendants and lu every way there Is encouragement of 1 the effort to provide n mother's ten derness and sympathy. Foundlings are boarded out for three yenrs with nurses who are paid $2 or $3 a month. Homo Japanese Proverb. Seeing that we all are, or ought to be, grateful to the man who provides us with a new proverb, we have espe cial reason for gratitude to the Japa nese, who have quite a collection of excellent variants for some of our best-known efforts In this direction. Thus where we say, "More haste, less speed," a Japanese puts It "If in haste, go round." Our "Accidents will happen In the best regulated families" becomes "Even a monkey sometimes falls from a tree." "Out of evil com eth good" reappears as "The lotus springs from the mud." Other easily recognizable variants of English prov erbs are: "If one plays with a tiger trouble may ensue." "You cannot fix a nail in a custard." "It is hard work scattering fog with a fan," which also appears as "Building bridges to the clouds," or "Bailing out the, sea with, a shell." While, in case of a failure in any such attempt, consolation Is conferred with "After all your owa heart makes, the world." A Change, Parrot Do you believe in evolution! Tigerskin I should say I did. Last year I was roaming the mountains as free as the air; now I'm posing on the carpet made up Into a rugl