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Uhe Oldest Graduate. Rev. Joseph Warren, the earliest Wring graduate of Harvard co'lege, kas JuM celebrated his ninety-fhird anniversary of his birth in hi. comfortable home ia Worcester, Mas3. Mr. Cross was graduated from Harvard with the class of 1SJS. He was born at Bridgewater. Ma??., In 1S03. and was prepared for college by Rev. Pitt Clark at Newton. Soon r.fter his graduation ha was married to his first wife, Mary J. Danforth. who died In 1SS0. At that time Mr. Cross was princ'pil of Chatham Academy. The your.? Harvard man studied for th ministry in the divinity school of his own university, and als: at the Aniorcr .ccml::;:ry. and was called to the jvst'.Ta.te of the First Congregational cl.vrch of West Boylston. Maes., ia I S 4 0 . Thereafter he lived for nearly fifty years in one house. He was a member of the state constitutional contention in 1ST3 and of the legislature In 1 572. Although approaching his centennial. Mr. Cross is active, cleartended and intensely Interested In the

I ft?-' REV. J. V.. CROSS, affairs of the world at large and of the old university cf which he i3 a graduate Coo tinny Colonial Tame Societies. ;;v' ti:ree Societies ct . uoh onä of which Colv-ni:.! I f ........0 . .1-.,. tu tioit tivüi. Th c!::i:.: ic-l so much friction smo::,' t1.-- -V.ru.-, : vl at times had to ,-;rr... -s'y ti.r .aten- d to arouse the ci! rrvi-;fi':-;:rv spirit, that one of the Or '.i: n'V:;3 v r.t into court and r-r,;ui--' t '!.- it ?'v)':!d decide which enc or !!. 0 v,' - thn one and only crigir.nl cy.: .i'.rA n.iiüs of America. The eo-rt ti- . pcilate division Cf the su) fo-irt cf New York for once v.-:.? narr!:-tl. and after long and : iou3 ; oi-.-ia . nation sustained the ruilrr-: of th- lower urt that all three Lad th? : i.-lit to ust the title in-di?erimiri:t:-. A.s this decision virtually sp y - tit vre is r.o one and only ori.qinr! so cf Colonial Dames, and, moreovtr. d'ni's the right of mutual exclusive lies.-;, it nay well be imagined that the Colonial Dames of all thre. societies are in a state of mind which 0 :n be better imagined than described. A r -cnt writer proved that nearly all the? members of one society of Colonial Dames who could trace ancestry tack to the "to'onial times" were descended from '"staunch old tories" Who never became reconciled to the severance from slavish bondage to Britain. In this respect the colonial darner should not be confounded with the Daraus of the American Revolution, who are thr? actual descendants of American patriots. A JVaiad Queen. Eight young beauties, all society leaders, attired In serge combinations, but minus shoes and hosiery, contested CONSTANCE MACKENZIE. for the swimming championship, says j a London cablegram. Lady Constance Mackenzie, niece of the Duke of Sutherland and heires3 to the Cromartle states, won the challenge shield gold medal for the third time In succession. Medals previously won by her were worn on her blouse. Her beautiful raven hair fell over her shoulders. Uhe Tolar Expeditions. Tho Peary relief expedition, under the command of N. L. Bridgeman of New York, has at last sailed. Mr. Bridgeman expects to find that Peary Las di.-xoverrd the pole, and falling j that, has made force important explorations. Mr. I'. Ii. Baldwin of Illinois hus aLo 1 ;ft Trom ;o Norway, with a j nrst-c.a.cs (;ut!.t. a sta.'Kh vessel, anc plenty of dogs, and ' xpects to reach the polo. Another north pole expedition is that of Captain I'ernier of Canada, who intends to enter the arctic regions through Itorlng strait and drifl to the pole. In the meantime four expeditions, German. British, and Scandinavian, are about to sail for the ißouth polar regions. The frozen North and South have lost none of their fascinations for adventurous spirits bent Upon solving the polar mystery. Thus ;far, however, the outcome of exploration has been principally the sending Of relief expeditions an experience likely to be repeated In the cases of Baldwin and Bernler. Holland is the only country In Eu ropr that admits coffee free of duty.

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I Current Topics XVar on Hats. The war of extermlnattion oa rats, which was recently proposed In the United States, i3 being carried on with relentless energy in Cape Town, South Africa, The rats are charged with responsibility for the Introduction of the

bubonic plague into South Africa, and some weeks ap'o a central "rat OiTice" was esiablished on the docks at Cape Town, where a government official was saloned, with In RA T--D structions to pay six cents for every rat delivered there, dead or alive. For a while it seemed that a third of the people of Cape Town were busy turning captured rodents into ready cash. Then the supply of rats fell off to a considerable extent, and In order to stimulate the hunters the bounty was doubled, eo that to-day a rat of any kind is worth 12 cents when delivered at the rat office. Problem in Education, The effect of the parochial school upon the public school system is a theme that Invites the earnest attention of all thoughtful educators. The discussion of the question at the national teachers' convention at Detroit did not elicit any important information outside of the interesting fact that expenditures for the religious schools show heavy increase and that theso schools are drawing from the public schools. With these facts If they are facts as a basis to work upon it would seem that the National Educational Association should be able to conduct an inquiry that would disclose some of the reasons whjr the parochial schools are drawing pupils from the public schools. It should be able to ascertain the reasons of parents for scn-lins their children to the so-called rliiou schools. It should supplement th:s data with information concerning the curricula of the latter schools and the pedagogic methods and principles employed. Mayor in a .S7 rt Wa st. Mayor Harrison of Chicago 13 a shirt waist man. He joined the cohorts of the coatlesf, bst '.vee!; und .sent n thrill cf wonder throuli the serried Mm H I 1 III' )" " 1 MAYOR HARRISON'S SIIRITWAIST. ranks of officialdom when he appeared at his office in the morning with a plaited and beruffled garment that showed the manly outlines of his figure. Oar Invasion of Eng 'and. English newspapers continue to discuss the dangers of American competition. In fact, no public question of the day receives more attention in England than American invasion of European markets. Every foreign mall brings to this office a bundle of newspapers, all containing articles on some phase of American enterprise and aggression, and theso newspapers are of the highest grade. Included in the list are many of those credited with molding public opinion in England, and others that reflect the sentiment of manufacturers in industrial centers. The Manchester Guardian, in discussing the effects of American competition in England, quotes the president of one of the British steel, iron, and coal companies as saying that in tho last six months of the year 1D0O the works of the company were conducted at a loss because competition of America had been exceedingly keen, and had embarrassed English manufacturers in their efforts to secure foreign and colonial aa well as home contracts. Nearly all the leading papers in Britain are agitating a prohibitive tariff against American Investments ia British securities. They plainly s th 't by the unrelenting laws of interest American capitalists would soon enslave the English people. Monument to Oettel. Under the auspices of the Associated Poultry Fanciers of Germany and Austria a splendid monument has just been erected at Görlitz, Germany, to tho mmio.-y of Uobort Oettel. who is -known as the fathr of poultry breeding In Germany and Austria. Orttfl was born in 179S and did In 1834. II,. devo'ed fifty years of hU life to the Improvement of the breod of poultry in Ger many and Austria, and organized societies of poultry fancier with an aggregate of more than 3,000 members. Professor J. S. Kendall has resigned the position of Commissioner of Public Instruction in Texas to take charge of the North Texas Normal school, professor Arthur Le Fevre of Victoria, Texa h5; succeeded him.

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The .Maine Historical society ha3 voted to rcept the yift of the old historic Longfellow mansion on Congress street, Po.tl :nd. tendered it by the late Mrs. Anno LoiirfoIIow Pierce. The acceptance w;-.s made only after long hesitation, on account of the conditions made by Mrs. Pierce, among these being that the society shall m ike its home in the building and prepare it for occupancy by other similar organizations that may wish to use it as a meeting place. Another provision binds the society to erect a hall for its meetings and accommodation of its library, to connect with the main house, which must be left substantially as it stands It Is also provided that "the two front rooms upon the first floor cf the house are to be kept with appropriate articles for a memorial of the home of Longfellow." The cost of the proposed hall will be about $21,000. The Longfellow family will put the honse in good order, and by the provisions of the will of Mrs. Pierce, as far as possible, the home-

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i 1 05 nr. c .V V: A TRAVELING Control of HaUoons. A cable dispatch from Paris described how Santcs Dumont, the Brazilian aeronaut, steered a cigar-shaped balloon around the Longechamps race course several times, and, after circling around the Eiffel tower, went back to his starting point. The statement, on its face, indicates that one great difficulty in the navigation of the air has been surmounted. Long voyages in balloons were made forty or fifty years ago. Professor Wise and three others started in a balloon from St. Louis in 1S39 and traveled nearly 1,200 miles, landing in New York. Long voyages were also made by other American aeronauts and by balloonists in Great Britain and France, but in every c?s the aeronaut was helpless. The balloon carried him, not where he wanted to go, but where the winds willed. The problem of sustaining a man in air and of flying through the air was solved, but ballooning of that time was simply a matter of adventure. All the efforts of aeronauts were then directed to controlling the large balloons in use. No one succeeded. Then came experiments looking to the construction of a balloon that would sustain itself in midair and to the use in connection therewith of a motive power and controlling apparatus that would make the aeronaut the master of his machine. Many of the new balloons were controllable in quiet air, but were utter failures when it came to tests of a practical nature. Hillion Dollar Crust. A billion dol'ar cotton seed oil trust is the latest. The Standard 0:1, though nominally only a hundred mlliion dollar trust, is really a billionaire, for its stock is selling on a valuation of nearly $$00,000.000 and is worth more. The billion dollar steel trust is real'y a billion and a half dollar trust. Several of the "community of Interest" railroad system run from a billion to two billions and a half apiece. Ex. Misleading Figures. Some time when the National Bureau of Statistics has nothing better to do It might take a day off and revise the estimates of the pvjpulation of the United States that it gravely presents to the world as mathematical facts. In skimming over that fascinat- j ing volume of liht literature, the Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance, the astonished reader finds that our population in the latter part of 1900 indulged in tho erratic performances indicated by the following flguns: June 77.S1G.000 July 77.0rr,.00(T August 78.097.000 September 78.237,000 October 76.891,000 November 76.975.000 December 77,080,000 The future historian delving among these solemn historical records, will wonder what calamity could have swept away 1,346,000 of the inhabitants of the United States in the month of October. 1900. The population had been steadily increasing before that fatal time, and the increase was re-

BnjHPWCE ü (I v-v . 1 f 1 1 V- ,. :v r-r- "O L9MGFELL9VV5 PESlDEMCE like look cf the place will be retained by leaving some arctlcles of furniture, especially those of a semi-historic nature. ;"q p k w b i.Mj RESIDENCE.

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ST S ' Francesco Crlspl was born in Sicily, October 4, 1819. He took a leading part in the Palermo insurrection of 1818, and after Its failure went Into exile. In 1SÖ9-G0 he organized another revolution, landed at Palermo with Garibaldi, and became a member of the provisional government. In 1861 he was elected to the first pareumed afterward. Was there a sudden Invasion just then, a pestilence or a hot wave, or did the people drop dead from excitement over the approaching lection? Of course the real explanation Is simple. The population of the country in June 1900, was not 77,816.000, but 76,301.793. In October the treasury statisticians got the census returns, aud thereafter they based their estimates upon those figures, but they never took the trouble to correct their back estimates, which accordingly continue to be reprinted, month after month, in all their glaring absurdity. There Is a pape of these estimates, including population and per capita circulation of money, for every month from June 1896, and all palpably wrong. As these are the things on which history is based, why not take time enough to get them right? Ilezekiah Conant, founder of the Conant Thread company of Pawtucket, R. I., now a branch of the J. & P. O-oats thread company (Limited), has resigned as treasurer and general manager of Ms concern because of HI heaHV

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"t' THE :: LAM5N It was In the Congress street mansion that Longfellow passed his early life. Ills birthplace on Fore street 1 marked by a tablet. A novel vehicle that has attracted the attention of pedestrians along Wabash avenue, Chicago, for some day is an automobile house, belonging to Ceorjre Washington. 481 Wabash avenue. It is a traveling van propelled by a forty-horse power gasoline motor, and is intended for a home for its owner and his wife during their wan- ; derings about the country. An old J street car has been rebuilt for ths body : of the house, to which are added an observation and operating platform at ! the frc.tt end. surrounded by large windows, and a porch In the rear. The machinery is mounted on a heavy steel frame, the wh-le weighing about four tons. Although no great su'C has as yot attended ?.Ir. Washington's efforts to navigate in the new craft, he believes thr.t when he Ins put teninch tires on It, with teeth to them to catch the ground, he cm move his house at a good pace whenever he will. The Ilarben medal of the Royal Institute of Public Health will be presented to Professor Koch at a dinner ; 'to be held in London in a few days. liament of United Italy, and In 1878 became president of the chamber of deputies. He was for several years premier of Italy but resigned early in 1891, shortly after negotiating a settlement of the claims against the United States growing out of the Mafia massacre in New Orleans. He has three sons in the diplomatic service. Don't Say Don't. Mr. William Shaw of Boston said to the Christian Endeavorers at Cincinnati in discussing "How to Hold the Boy": "Don't be forever saying 'don't. Remember that boys are hero worshipers that they admire masterful men and women." That is pretty good advice for fathers and mothers of boys. Napoleon Bonaparte said that "Man Is the born enemy of doubt." To thl( we beg to add that the boy is a born hater of uncertainty, of the unexplainel. He Is also the especial enemy of "Don't" No camel in the deserl with all of his stomachs empty evei yearned for water as a boy yearns foi a reason. He is a living question mark, and mere affirmation without explanation produces absolutely no effect upon him. Give your boy reasons and above all give him examples and an Incentive. This writer is acquainted with a boy three years of age. He declined positively and finally to eat soup. Ex. Fishing poles are an article of expor' from Calcutta to the United Stat?!.

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The Foreign Element. The cer!?u returns for li'OO showed that of the then inhabitants of Chicago 40 per cvnt were foreigu-boru. The percentage of foreim-bom inhabitants was a little larger in Nw York. It was much smaller in Philadelphia. There it was only i'ö per cen It i3 evident that the "forrlga element" is not resp-nibl.3 for th poor governments of l.i rge American cities, for Phüad.MpV'h-.ns s'c-m to be unable to manag? their vr'.ricipal atTuirs bon-. s ly and ef.lcimt y. 'ihe c. nsus figures for last year show a drcr: f ,.e of the percentn? cf p-rs-rs of inn i-zn birth in Ci:ic;!;rrj io ah 'ur :1". p -?r c-:nt, anl I 'r??s to, Chi'-ro .''.;;.- to ?rov wors?. Th3 native-born r" i !'-s rubbered 1.111.' '. and th- f . r.': ;n-Lorn residents 5S7.000. Ch'lc-.'g,) is no: ?r much of a foreign city r.s it vi.s. rihe number of p'-rvf-s uf foreign biith increased only 137.000 In th ? decade, and that c persans of native birth 4ü2,0j0. Uut the native white mais and females born of native parents living In Chicago last yonr numbered only 354,OuO, as against 727,000 natives of foreign parentage. If for. ign immigrants and their immediate descendants had kept away from Chicago it would bar been an inconsiderable place. Of the 907,000 men and women of foreign birth who were residing in Illinois last year more than half, it will be seen, were in Chicago. They found employment and are helping with their manual or mental labor to build up Chicago, says tha Tribune of Chicago.

Irrigation and Drought. An incident of the drought in one of the corn states is related by an observer from Western Kansas, where, in one county, two adjoining farm3 presented the contrast cf irrigation and natural rainfall. A farm that had been irrigated by a system of two wells in previous years v.-aa lound to he thriving, although this summer one of the wells bad failed and the other was giving but half the supply it gave Io.ct year. The farm thc.t -Ur, r ded cn the rainfall was r.aturaily the sufi'.-ror through the unu.-'aa.lly dry con ii ;":i3. but the noir.t was that the irri-rt-d crop, alt'j'jugh in vj ! of wou! J probaMy suivive tr jr- t- of the moii-t-ire that the soil h;td received la previous yeirs. Irrigation is a matter not only for this generation, b-;t fr t lie net. and an inti rr?ting result of its lasting effect Is p.otod in n rc-.uit bulletin issued by the United States geographical survey. It is .hown by this authority that while water, turned loose on sandy soil, is rapidly absorbed in the first processes of irrigation, and that there is consequently little encouraging headway, year by year the irrigated section grows larger, until land oa which there has been little or no irrigation becomes productive. 'Pine fee dies. It having been announced some time since that oil of pine was beneficial in relieving pulmonary complaints it seems that since then quite an industry has sprung up in Oregon in its manufacture. Tho oil is made from pine needles, which are stripped from the trees twice a year. Some of the trees, it is said, yield from C00 to S00 pounds of leaves at each picking, a good hand being able to pick about 500 pounds a day. As soon as picked the leaves are sent to the factory, where the oil is extracted by distillation, ten pounds of oil being produced from two thousand pounds of leaves. The fibre that remains is woven into fabrics and mixed with hair for mattresses. It is also used as a filling for cigars, to which it imparts a pleasant quality. A notable fact connected with the process is that it is considered a benefit to the trees to strip them twice a year. Those engaged in the Industry aro mostly Germans. Discouraging Lynching. The constitutional convention in Virginia is now considering a resolution to prevent lynching and will probably adopt it. It provides that the governor shall offer a reward of $300 for the arrest and conviction of every person engaged In lynching; that the act shall constitute murder in the first degree, where the lynching is accomplished; and that the state ehall pay $1,000 to the heirs of any person lynched, the money to be chargeable to the county or city where tue lynching takes place. Such a law would be a drastic remedy, but it undoubtedly reflects public sentiment in Virginia, for, like South Carolina, where a remedy has already been provided, Virginia is but little cursed with lynching and almost universal respect is shown for the courts. Neither in South Carolina nor in Virginia has lynching become a habit or even a characteristic. Haopy Thi'olo gists. The thirty-third annual meeting cf the American Philological Association closed at Cambridge, Mass., the other day. Though the association had been in session a week, there was no diminution of enthusi.isni. There were three meitlnss (luring the day. In the morning Professor Klrby of Johns Hopkins discussed '"Certain Irregular Uses of the Elegiac Pcntame:er," Profissor Magoun of Redfield "The Trpatment of Elided Syllables In Iatin Verse," Professor Fairbanks of Iowa asked "Is There Still a Tatin Potential?" Profd8or Hale of the University of Chicago Investigated "The Dating of Euripides' Iphigenla in Taurls" and Dr. Bates "The Variant Uunes on Franks' Casket." Hetty Green's most valued possession Is just now a pet poodle, named Dewey. Mrs. Green says she Is distantly related to tho admiral and for that reason named her dog for him. Last year Uncle Sam turned out new coins worth $136,000,000, of which $99,000.000 were gold.

Christian ILndeatJor Grotvs. In the ten years from to 1909 th population of the United States Increased from G2.C22.250 to 7C.304.723 a gain of not quite 21 per cent. In the tea years from 1SD1 to 1901 the Christian Endeavor societies, whose annual convention has just ended, increased their membership froru one million to four million a gain of 205 per c ut. Not quite all of th s is In America, for the Christian Endeavor socktl'-s have Icon planted in all lands, but it need 3 only a sin: pie math-ruatl-ca.1 calculation to show that if these relatie rates cf in- r :;:? keep up It will be but a matter of twenty-üv yours cr so until ail t.h? Inhabitants of the Unit- I ;;.t 3 bc-eon.e Endeavorers, and in Irs than hily y rb the sociotics v.-Ill include the c ..ire populallja i : th !j it wit I.e. t waiting for that coimmrn." ' loa we may congratulate o ir.-rlvej u; on the vig';r of an organisation whose sole purpose is to work for good. Th it fonr millioa young people can le found to act with a single one of the many Lu lies formed to o( vat th0 wrl'l is a prrtty fj.lr setoff to the selfish commercialirm that is doing 0 much to drag mankind down.

Mas 123 "Descendants. The Dowager of Abercorn who celebrated her ninetieth birthday qult recently, has mo: living d?c-- lints than oven Qu.-on Vi.-t:ria .:ad. ile? : drcn, g: a en. r ;nichildren, :t:;.l g.. .tt-i:rc.:l dn'n nn: four du"; '2 n: !':):' r; r:d ir.-irs to dul.- . Tha sr -; . f " ' !. a!. l v.-. f the .-ixth duke of !, :);, a 1 w-. married to th? I)"i';' cf Ab: rcj-n in 1S.9. On her eight y-s: 1 ond bi:th.!ay. in 1Sj4, there was a family rcuuicn. at which 101 of hnr desr endmU r-r-;ed before the venerable Po'.vurer, led by her eldest daughter, the Dowager Pe.-hess of Lichfield, with her thirteen children and thirteen grandchildren, who were followed by the thirteen children and lifteen grandchildren of the Countess of Durham. The children of the Dowager Duchess who are Ftill living are the present Duke of Abercorn, Countess Wlnrerton, Lord Claud Hamilton. Lord George Hamilton, th- Marchioness of Blandford, the Marchioness cf Lansdowne, and Lord Ernest Hamilton. A. TIucHy Woman. The Countess of E.sex, who waa Miss Adele Grant of New York be for her marriage to the head of the ancient English family, is giving Luudoa an exhibition of American pluck. When it became known that she and her husband both had exhausted their fortunes, much sympathy was extended, but instead of throwing up her Lands the countess devised a way of earning both heis and her husband's living. Her plan is to rent apartments she ha had furnished in her own taste, and the high rents she receives give her . good income. It is said the title of Countfvsa of Ess?x always has been born by a beautiful woman, and the present American owner of the title particularly is greatly admired for her beauty and charming manner. She was the jk 'St r.A belle of New York and Newport before her marriage to the Earl of Esrex, and once was engaged to mary Earl Cairns. She has a daughter of 5, who promises to be as beautiful as her mother, and a stepson of 14. Docfeva Iter's Victe'S. After a 2.00ö-mile bicycle trip through Southern Europe, John V. Bookwalter, the eminent American econombt and author, is convinc d th it there is trouble for the world in the higher prices for grain. He la also convinced after closely studying the peasantry of Europe that a crisis Is imminent between the urban and rural populations of the United States. After traversing Italy from end to end, and ' after crossing the Apennines, Mr. Uookj waiter predicts a great str.ijle 1 won : the agricultural districts and the eitle, j particularly in the United States. J. A. Fillmore, who has resigned the position of manager of the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific railway after almost a lifetime of meritorious service, will be paid $1,000 a month by the company till the end of the year, and & pension of $500 a month thereafter as long as he lives. The ships of the world, excludina navies, are worth $291,000.000. f vhicS Eairope's share Is $227,000,000.

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