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