Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 December 1908 — Page 6

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RESIDENT G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, never talks without saying some

thing, and his rema-ks before the Twentieth Century Club -evealcd a new phase

of experimental psychology, in which the

learned Massaeueetts man Is an authority. Dr. Hall criticized what he termed the

feminization of the American public

ho ds responsible for lack of physical ami nioral training of boys.. The tenderheartedness of women teachers, he contended, falls short of proper discipline, and turns out unformed hoodlums who leave the classroom to add to juvenile crime. There Is perhaps some truth In this, but how des Ir. Hall propose to remedy the preponderance of women In such a poorly paid profession as school teaching? Toor textbooks, and the very short average of 131 school days to each year can hardly be expected to exert very great in3uencc toward character formation on the pupil. Added to that the fact that the girl who takes up school teaching regards it ns a temporary occupation, to Le set aside for matrimony, and the element of Influence is decidedly lacking. Dr. Hall may be quite right when ho condemns too much attention to manners and not enough to morals, but there Is Just one trouble with experimental psychology It always points out plenty of faults, but it Is mighty slow at finding remedies. Chicago Journal.

FREE PUBLIC LECTURES. T Is not uncommon to hear cultivated men and women of middle age lament the decline of the lyceuin system, which did much to raise the standard of taste and knowledge a generation ago. There are still courses of public lectures rnd entertainment which enliven winter evenings

In many small towns and in the cities, but the old system has changed Its characteristics and lost a measure of Its Influence. In its place, however, has risen something which may be even more Important the free lectpire courses maintained by many of the larger municipalities, such as New York, Chicago and Boston. The old lyceum lecture dealt frequently with philosophical subjects, and was usually delivered by some one cf wide reputation. An admission fee ws charged, and the Illustrations, if there were any, and that was not often, were produced by the magic lantern. The" patrons were drawn mainly from the cultivated and well-to-do. The modern municipal lectures are free, and are usually delivered in the public school houses. The audiences are composed largely of persons who cannot afford to pay much for the instruction and entertainment they receive, but who eagerly embrace the opportunity for mental culture. The subjects of the lectures cover nn Immense range. The courses. are frequently diversified by evenings which are given to music or other wholesome eutertainment. They enjoy the great advantage of the stereopticon and the v'.tascope, and enlist the services of many eminent socialists. Their purpose is

TINY JN A Sttiklrrg Instance . tte l rlvi&l Detail q yh&t Often Shapes Kuma.n Existence Toreurdination" savors too much of heav topics, "kick." Wien Ivy Chudlelgh. Chicago horu, but nf Australian parentage, found it necessary to go to a farm near Llnbnwood, HI., to overcome the abnormal effect of a too strenuous 6ocIal existence on hlgb-strun nerves, she at first took kindly to the idea. A fewdays on the farm of "Apple" Crane dispelled, however, the book-bought theory that the simple life Is Utopian. Miss Chudlelgh began to pine for the excitement of the electric-lighted streets. The means Miss Chudlelgh adopted as a surcease of ennui was characteristic of the up-to-date American, born and bred In a large city. First she asked and obtained permission from Farmer Crane to assist In the packing of apples in the vast orchard. Her pink Hps, her city-whitened cheeks and her wondrous lingerie, made a vast Impression on the bluejeans-clad and gingham-gowned youths and maidens at whov side 6he worked. Ivy speedily became the pet of the apple-plck-er. "Daddy Crane," she said, one day. with attractive urban Impudence, "where do you suppose these apples wfll go? Just think! Maybe some of theiu will go to Australia, where my mother and father lived. Perhaps ome of the men and women who knew them when they were young, will eat the apples their daughter Is packing." In a few minutes she tossed aside a defective pippin and ran, singing, to the nearby farmhouse. Up in her gabled chamber she turnet! tier writing desk inside out. At last she found what she wanted, a snapshot of herself, one of the mementoes of tho summer and a modernized country iad who had utilized his camera fcr her pleasure. Then she wrote on a iilnty heet of note paper : "I wonder who you are, you who are opening this barrel of rosy-cheeked njplerf and finding this note aud this photograph of me perched up in the branches of ihe old tree the apples canne from. Won't you pb?ase write and teil n.e whn you are? I'm dying of curiosity to know. Yours sincerely.To this missive she signed a fictitious name, giving the number of the lxx In the rillage postofllee that she had renred fc r I. er sojourn In the country. She returned the packing of the barrel fdu hrd left so suddenly, and when shf was unobserved deftly pulled the envelope from her belt rnd buried It among the rosy -cheeked fruit. The apf-Irs were shipped the very next day. Tint was CM. 15. On riding Into town ior. 20. slip found In her mall box K Jo'er adrcssM to the fictitious p:s-n wbru name she had placed !r the Pf-p'o Karre!. The envelope tcr u Rr!lls!t stamp and the postmark cf town !o England.

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school, which he vast fMlrBS ot ;ts

are backward In school through poor eyesight, which places them at a great disadvantage in following instructions given by means of blackboards or charts. Others are deaf, and frequently suffer seriously by reason of going through school without their disability being noticed. These two defects are most common of all. Many of the diseases of childhood are responsible for permanent troubles that affect the mental development. For instance, children ma'.y suffer from neurajgla, the thyroid gland may le Imperfect, or, ns is very frequently the case, adenoids may fill up a large part of the breathing passages and render a child dull and slow. Trouble with the teeth is blamed for retarded development, and the French experts believe that the nerves of the dental system affect the brain to a much greater extent than generally suspected. "They recommend the careful examination of every child at least once a year by a competent physician as a necessary complement of the school system. DesMoInes News.

ONCE CHINAMAN ALWAYS CHINAMAN. P" IIINA is yet a land aud a people ruled by I tf I ancestors. A Chinaman belongs, soul and I y y I bedy, to bis home land because his ancesI I i 1 1. fri. w

whose sacred duty Is to coffin his bones and send him back to his native land for burial. Not even after death will his country relinquish her claims to him. Why should the Chinese government be interested in keeping American-born Chinese familiar with the reading and writing of the old language when it is presumed that they and their children will remain in America henceforth? The answer is that such Is never the presumption. The government's theory is that a Chinaman Is here only by the accident of birth or to get money, and when it becomes possible he will take his money and go to live aud enjoy it In the Flowery Kingdom. -Washington (I). ('.) Tost.

BARREL OF ÄPPIE icad from the characteristically r.ritis.'i scrawl. Then she looked for the address. 'Waggoner's Wells, Surrey, England, November the eleventh." Well, If her apples had not gone to Australia they had at least fallen into I'nglisli hands in the land from which her ancestors had sprung. Then she read the letter. The writer admitted having found her funny little note and the presentment of her lovely self among he apples he had purchased, lie was deeply interested In Ifoth, he declared. The snapshot was altogether too small. Would she please send him a larger and more truthful one? And just as an earnest of bis own good faith, here was one of himself, lie assured her that he would anxiously await her reply. Ivy sent the photograph, and told that she was not a farmer's daughter, but an adventurous maid with a Chicago education In matters of the heart. She gave him likewise her real name and her home address, and tried to consider the iacldent closed. But Squire Archibald Pole-Wrens-fordsley of Waggoner's Wells, Surrey, England, was of a different mind. He wasted no more time In unsatisfactory correspondence. lie forthwith packed his properly British bags aud boxes and took the first available vessel for New York, hu.-rying from thence by the eighteen-hour train to Chicago. For all his haste, his British training in the conventionalities stood hlin In good stead, and . he had provided himself with a letter of Introduction to the British consul In Chicago. It was from his uncle, a baronet. By coIncidence it happened that the consul had known Ivy's father, then dead, bo the very unconventional trans-Atlantic adventure of this very conventional young English spilre was greatly facilitated. He called upon the widowed mother of Ivy Chudlelgh, and with quite nn-Britlsh ImietuosIty lagged the privilege f paying bis addresses to her daughter. Like a young Lochlnvar from the East, Instead of the West, he wooed her, and to such good Intent and result that tho particular set In which vivacious .Miss Ivy had reigned as a belle lost her from Its functions, and before It really had time to figure out what was going on the Invitations to the wedding were out. Farmer Crane sent a barrel of apples as a wedding gift. Mr. and Mrs. I'ole-Wrensfordsley are now making a tour of the world, for he Is a well-to-do young squire, and not a fortune hunter. Eventually they plan to settle down on his ancestral estate in Surrey County, England, but one of their hy-1 meneal agreements Is that they will make a yearly pilgrimage to the shrine of their love each year when the apple trees at Llndenwood, III., are laden with crimson and golden fruit. CAIRO IMMUNE FROM FLOODS. Overflows at Confluence of MlnaitIppl and Ohio fllvera Conquered Mayor Parsons, of Cairo, Is a blondhaired man of medium size and a vast amount of nervous energy. He is an Indefatigable worker, and deeply Interested in all sorts of public Improvements, lie is vice president of the -)!iio Valley Improvement Association, and has done yeoman service for the betterment of that great water way. He Is equally interested in the deep waterway project of the Mississippi, the national good roads movement and various kindred schemes of internal Improvement. "Cairo Is bound to be one of the greatest cities on the Mississippi or tit.) Ohio," he said, returning to the one subject upjermost In his mind. "With the completion of the Cairo and Thebes Railroad, connecting us directly with the great railroad lines from' the South-

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to reach those into whose lives comes the least of healthfid joy and the smallest opportunity for knowledge. New York City alone has more than a hundred of these lecture centers, all well-known and well-patronized. Although free to the audiences, these lectures and other entertainments are, of course, not freo to the municipalities which maintain, them. Yet they are so useful, and so' admirably adapted to educating, entertaining and uplifting the people, that even the country town could spend money wisely by the organization of such courses. Youths Companion.

WHY CHILDREN ARE BACKWARD. l REXCII scientist 4 1imv Keen rievitf irtir ron-

TTj I slderable attention of Ltc to the problem I of the backward child. They regard the

majority or suen caes as tue resuu fa'se 0uIlorn,a5itJ", ai,d tlie remainder n;iysH - uny - impeneci. .Many cmiurea

iuis Lieiojiocu lucic. iue vwiuucniig .Mongol who dies in a strange land has paid tribute all his tolling years to a brotherhood

west which cross tho Mississippi at The! es. It gives cur merchants dinvt entrance into southern Missouri, a rich field which should be In our territory, but which we couldn't reach directly before. That line Is moi than half done. "The government engineers have recommended the building of the dam on the Ohio, between here and Mound City, which will make the Crand Chain safely navigable all the year round, and I look for the next Congress to take definite action on tho completion of the improvements on the Ohio to secure a nine-foot stage of water all the year and for the deepening of the Mississippi making navigation possible from Chicago to the gulf. "Those will not 'vine iu a year, but they will come by the time the Panama canal Is completed, and when they are Cairo will be one of the most Important Inland seaports in America, ranking with St. Lfuls cm the Mississippi nn.l ('iiicIiumM and Pittsburg on the Ohio. It has Ihtu slow work and dii!ku!t. the building up of Cairo front the sand bars and lagoons, but It was accomplished, and to-day Cairo is absolutely immune from danger of overflow. "ThLs fact was demonstrated more than a decade ago, and e.u h succeeding year, when other cities, from Pittsburg to New Orleans, have sustained serious loss from the floods, not a wheel was stopped In CV.Jro for this cause. The natural advantages now supplemented by ample transportation, five roads direct, and there are others In project, hare served to make Cairo what Its founders hoped for one of the best sites In the West for a manufacturing, wholesale and shipping business." New Orleans Times Demo rat. lhe nine I.wl.lmo. j Everything in the Eskimo dte.ss has a reason for Its existence, writes Captain Boald Amundsen In "The Northwest Passage." The members of Captain Amundsen's e.leditIon had bevonie avustomed to the Eskimo dress, and had adopted It, but many of them thought it ridiculous for grown-up men to go about wearing fringe to their clothes, so they cut It off. I had my scruples about this, says the author, as I had already learned that most things in the Eskimo's clothing and other arrangements hal their distinct meaning and purpose, so I kept my fringe and put up with the ridicule. He laughs last who laughs best. One fine day the anovaks, a sort of tunic reaching below the knee, made of deerskin, from which the fringes, had been cut off, commenced to curl up, and if the fringe had not been put on again quickly, they would soon have looked like neckties. A Greater Surprise. The Infant mind has much to learn in order to comprehend the English language or the mysteries of etiquette. It frequently puts Its Instructor In a ditllcult iwsltion, especially If, as In a case quoted in Everybody's Magazine, tho instructor be a mother dressed to go out, with a waiting and Inipatient husband downstairs. "Where are you going, ma?" asked the youngest of the five children, from his bed. "I'm going to a surprise party, my dear," answered the mother. "Can't we go too?" "No, dear. You weren't Invited." After a few moments of deep thought, during which the mother was bidding the others good night : "Say, ma, don't you think they'd be lots more surprised If jou took us nil?" A mother's idea of as gooa luck as anyone can ask for Is to occasionally find a ptilr of stockings in the pik that doesn't need darning. There are many occasions to say human nature shorn I be changed, Sal v u can't change It.

THE GLORY OF WOSK. Thero the workman saw his labor taking form and bearing fruit. Like a tree with splendid branches rising from nn humble root. Looking at the distant city, temples, houses, domes and towers, Felix cried In exultation: "All the mighty work is ours. "Every mason In the quarry, every builder on tho shore, Every choner in the palm grove, every raftsman at the oar, "newlng wood and drawing water, splitting stones and cleaving sodAll the busy ranks of labor, in the regiment of God, "Maren together toward His triumph, do the task His hands prepare Honest toil is holy service, faithful work Is praise and prayer." Henry Van Dyke.

CHAPTER I. The doctor had made his last visit for tho night and the nurse was left alone with her patient a tj-phoid fever patient, muscular and raving. It was a prlvato "contagious" ward ; a room that was always like a ship's deck, stripped for action, with Its metal bed of white enamel, its metal table and Its gray green wall, decorated only with "colored supplement" prints because these could be changed frequently and burned easily. It was a room of dim light and a tempered shadowone of thos; bare hospital rooms where you feel that the flame of life, though It burns low, burns without a flicker, being protected and watched in Its feebleness with no sentiment of love, but with the skilled care and the cool eye of unlmpassioned science. The nurse sat at the bedside, h?r hands folded In her lap, like a nun at meditation. Thero was something nun-like In her face, In her placidity Leside such sufferlrg, In the almost melancholy sweetness of tho face of a woman who had looked many times on death alone at midnight and who had lived for a long year lu tho coustai!l companionship of pain. But, indeed, the expression belled her. She was watching her patient for the signs of a hemorrhage, listening Intently to his breathing, with the subconscious alertness of the engineer who will sit musing with an eye on the steam gauge and an ear strained for the slightest change of note In the regular swing and cadence of the machb ncrj Tho poor fellow In the bed tossed and muttered fretfully. She soothed him- with her voice with a murmur of "Yes, yes. Go to sleep, then. Go to sleep." as if she were talking to a child. There was no sign of nervousness or anxiety about her. Only once, when she rose to take his pulse, die stood a moment to smooth down the stlCf gingham of her uniform with a slow palm In an endeavor to loosen the starch in It so that it would not rustle. The patient was making a dry clutching in his mSuth. She took n piece of Ice from a bowl among the medlolue bottles and glasses on the tabic- and put it under his tongue. He sighed a breath of grateful weakness. She Mood looking down at him, smiling with a motherly pitj. His eyes were closed. Hu has been as self-willed In his lilncKS as a spoiled child. lie had been I almost convalescent when, against all wanting while the day nurse was rhattlng with the doctor outside the door he had staggered from his IkmI lo a basket of fruit on the table and paten two poaches before lie was seen. The result was a relapse Into a far Diore critical condition than he had been at first. Here he lay now, struggling against death Itself. She wondered whether he had a sister who was fond of him or a sweetheart? who bad been sending him these baskets of fruit. x lie was breathing regularly in a fitful doi.e. She returned to her chair tr.d loaned forward to look at hiui with her chin in her hand. Although she was not aware of it ho had changed for her; from being a 4cpse" he become a human being with i claim of Interest on her, and she downed at his muttering of pain. Poor fcllcw! Life must have been so full for him of interests, activities, promises, achievements. To have it all end this way, futilely! He bad given the rollege cry once In a delirium and jtrugslcd, panting, through a football game. And once he had been standing on the platform of debate. Another lime he had been writing on an examination In law. And Mill another time Ehe thought that she heard him speak Jim's name in the jumble of delirious muttering. Jim was to have been a lawyer. Poor Jim I Her eyes filled at that old, tearStalncd memory of Jim and her father 3rowned together In that horrible acclflcnt on the Delaware. Well, she at least bad not been a burden on her mother's small Income, and soon as soon as ehe was graduated from the hospital the would be not only seifupportlng but an aid to the others. There were two long years of hard work before her yet. She bit her lip. The untiling run und babble of his Sellrluin had been growing louder. She went to him again to calm him with the sound of her voice, and he looked up at her with a smile that seemed almost rational. It was only momentary; 1te called her "Auntie," and .egan a chlldlh prattle. I'm not Mvpy," be said. T don't want to go to bed, auntie," and tried to raise his herd from the ylllow. She took her cue from him. "Yes you are," she cooed. "Go set pyhyc. Auntle'll tuck ou in." She arranged his blankets about his Shoulders, patting and smoothing them flown. "Night-night," he said contentedly. "Kiss me good night." She touched his forehead with her finger tips. "Ssh," she said, and bent down to him. The lino screen at the foot of the bed, hid her from anj-ouc who might pass In the hall. She touchrnl her lips to his. fnrehead. "Night-night," fcho whispered. He looked at her with childish smile pouting his Hps. It hardened slowly into a pursed mouth of perplexity. "Hello," he said. "Where" Ho closed his eyes on a decided frown. She was still blushing hotly when his regular breathing showed her that he had fallen Into a quiet slumber. CHAPTER II. Ho was sitting In his arm-chair taking a sun bath at a wiudow that looked out on the dazzling white of melting mow. Ills visitors had just left him, I at his doctor's orders. Ho was waiting for the return of "Nurse Blakely," with . an Impatience which he might have rccognlztfl ac longing If his physical

V weakness had not disguised affection in him as an Irritable lack of what he wished to have. She came In 11-bt footed. He crowed a feeble "Ah-ha ! did you hear what the doc tor said?" "What did ho say?" She arranged his pillows to ease the strain on a weak back. He was grateful for that and his gratitude shone In his smile. "I'm to be humored, the doctor said I'm to have my own way in every thing." "Are yoa?" she said, avoiding his eyes. "You certainly had your own way a!out the fruit." lie laughed now at the folly thnt bad kept him a happy prisoner In he hospital for the past nine weeks. "That fruit!" he said; "that was th nost delicious the most Do you -mow. Nurse Blakely, I thought those peaches would kill me, but I was dying "for something to eat and I Just took them." She did not reply. "A man's a fool when he has a fever, isn't he?" he added with apolugetle -seriousness. "Only then?" she retorted with obstinate flippancy. She was busying herself about the room. He was watching her every movement with an eye of Invalid tenderness. "Oh, I say," he protested, "you don't make any allowance for a fellow txing ill!" She affected a professional cheerfulness in tho matter. "Oh, you're wellon your way to health." she said. "We'll soon have you back to your friends " "Nurse," lie said, "you're the best friend I ever had or want to have, anywhere and always." Her cloistered loneliness rose on her In a surge of bitterness. "Walt till you've been away from here about a monht. One feels very dependent and and affectionate when one is ill. it soon wears off." "That's the way you always talk," he said moodily. Then, brightening, "I'll Uta HAND WAS W1TIII.V II IS REACH ANI HE TOOK IT. report you to the doctor. humoring nie." YouTe''not She did not answer. She smiled, hav ing warded off the danger which his bder manner had warned her of. jNne heuieu nerseit in n cuatr and took up a book which she had put down on tho table when his visitors had entered. "What's tlat?" he demanded peevishly. "What are you reading?'! "Don'ts," she answered laconically. "Don'ts?" 'One Hundred Don'ts for Nurses,' " she read from the cover. "Things we are not to do." "Well, don't worry. Your sins have been all of omission. It's the things you have not done " She smiled serenely at the page. "You might read it out at least," he said. "Let me see." She turned the pages. "I think 'that is probably Included In the prohibitions: Don't let others know the secrets of the profession." He clutched the arm of the chair. "You're teasing me. Let me read that hoed or I'll get up." She laughed and passed it to him. He began to read : "Don't sit In a rocking chair and rock while resting." "Don't Injure the furniture in any way and be careful of all fancy decorations." He looked about him. "The wreckage has been appalling in this palatial apartment." He read again. "Well, great Ell I" he crlcd, and looked up at her. "Why, it was you?" "Come here, please." She went to him. He pointed with a thin finger to an accusing ''Don't kiss your patient." She flushed under her dainty Swiss cap. "Not even delirious patients?" he Inquired. She turned her back on hlai from the window. "Not-even those who have an Illumination of reason?" he persisted. She could find nothing to say. "Do you know," he Bald, "I've been puzzling over it ever since. It was Just before I fell asleep and woke up to my senses again. At first I thought it was my aunt who brought me up, and then suddenly I thought It was an old cüum of mlue at college. You look very like him. Why, your names are tho same. Was Jim Blakely a relative of yours?" He was drowned " She turned on him with a cry of "Jim Jim was my my dearest brother." "Good Lord," he gasped, and tried to rise. He sank back weakly In his chair and sat there staring at her. "What a chump I am," he said at last. "So you're little Marjorle." He remembered Jim's picture of her in his den. "How proud ho was of you." -The thought of her position there came to him in a shameful contrast. "What a brute I've been," he said, "aud you wait on me hand and foot like that. What a brute. Jim's sister." Her hack was to hl;a. She stood

looking out of the window. Her hind was within his reach, and he took It. "Do you think," be said, "being Jim's chum, you could " He touched his lips to the palm of her hand "forgive me? Could you?" It was his old teasing teue with a new note of seriousness In It. She tried to free her fingers. "Take care now," he warned, "the doctor said I was to be humored." She laughed and that weakened her defenses. He caught her other hand. -You're a brick, Marjorle," he said. t me go," she said, sobbing. "I I wrnt to wipe my eyes, you silly." Ilcr tone was Itself a surrender. He lay back and smiled with content Into he.- wet eyes. Pennsylvania Grit.

JOHN DREW NEXT TO A SCRAP. i: roadway Street Car Eptftode Called Forth the Actor's Protest. It was about SSth street that Jack Spencer got aboard a Broadway car. He Is a 7th avenue tinsmith and h? was trying to balance four lengths of stovepipe on the-. heel of his right arm a ticklish job If you ever tried it, says the New York Telegraph. Spencer didn't pay any attention to John Drew, who was also aboard, nor the actor lo Spencer, because each was apparently busy with his own affairs, the tinsmith trying to make the pipes behave and the actor combing with reflective fingers the place where ha wears the prop whiskers In "Jack Straw." But each took a new grip on himself at the souud of a voice fron the other end of the car: T say, old top! Smokln car with tho?e pipes, y'know." The tinsmith looked sternly in tht direction of the voice and saw a foollst looking person in a monocle, who proved latei to be Bertram Hardy of Hull, England, a regular, perishln' giddy, garden goat, don't you know a spoofin' old blighter from the head spooferles, dash It all I "You know, old cockeywcck," Bertram Hardy wrnit on, "you really ought to smoke up. you know. Eh what? The pipes, don't yoi see? Ilaw-w-w!" And still tho tlnsrith said nothing. But he threw the pipe into the. corner of the platform, strode over to where Mr. Bertram Hardy sat and slapped him,-quite haphazard. Just abaft the monocle. "Get out of that seat!" commanded, the tinsmith. "I shall do nothing of the sort!" retorted Mr. Bertram Hardy, and that was the end of round 1. Tinsmith's round. "Sit down, then," ordered the tinsmith, rudely crushing Mr. Bertram Hardy's hat over his eyes. "Sit down yourself," was the angry reply, and Mr. Bertram Hardy viciously cut at the tinsmith with his walking stick, Just missing the jibboom of Mr. Drew's trousers. End of round 2. A draw. "Get off this car," was the tinsmith's next lead. And. suiting the action to the word and the word to the action, lie assisted Mr. Bertram Hardy to the platform and hence to the street, throwing his walking stick after him. "I shnl have your name and address directly," said the Hull Terror hy way of repartee. End of round and fight. Both awarded to the tinsmith. It was at . this point that Mr. Drew interposed his remonstrance and reminded the conductor that this was a street car and not a prize ring. "Aw, you don't expect me to butt into a fight, do you?" demanded the conductor. GAS BY THE POUND. Invention of a German Chemist rat I.lKlit lu All Dark Places. "Give me two pounds of gas. Folks complain it's getting kind of dark upj at our house." Thus the farmer of the near future, addressing the bewbiskered corner gro cer, who will hand a little Iron cylinder over the counter and write the amount In the customer's red-covered eharge book. And that evening the farmhouse will blaze once more like the bah room of a' summer resort hotel or n sideshow at Coney Island. Light, plenty of light, for the common and Isolated people Is not a distant dream. but a fact already achieved with com mercial success In Germany, and wait ing the first favorable opportunity to come across the pond. Blaugas, the Invention of the cbemlst Herman Blau, will make any subuiban ite, lantern lecturer, camper or traveling professor of phrenology quite Independent of gas trust and oil trust, not to mention the wayward apparitions oi the moon. Just get a 22-pound cylin der of liquid gas, C inches In diameter and 3 feet long, and you will have more than enough superbrllllant Illumination to last four month3. A small lortable outfit the size of a grip will furnish a 50-oundlepower light for 2U hours a day for a fortnight. It Is said to be absolutely safe aboard ship or train. You could use It advantageous ly In the subway. This gas, which is mostly liquefied under a pressure of 1,500 pounds to the square Inch, is not poisonous or explosive. It costs slightly more than metropolitan gas, but the public ser vice commission may have a 6ay ok that. Anyhow, It beats electricity, acetylene, tallow candles and kerosene. It can be piped through a copper tube as small as a telegraph wire. It burn right side up or upside down In a mantle burner, giving an incandescent white glow. A number of suburbanites could with little exinmse have a common plant for the distribution of the great light giver, or each one could pipe his house separately, taking care not to inform the numbers' Union, which might object to the simplicity of tho installaalon. Mr. Blaugas that Is, Mr. Blau, the Inventor is praised by scientists "be cause he Ingeniously constructed his gas by a reversal of the usual gassy process, distilling oil at a low temper ature and mixing in gases the trusf has no use for. New York Tribune. Texas Dees firing Mnch Money. The output of honey in Texas last year was 4,908,000 pounds. California came next, with 3,007.000 pounds, and New York third, with 3,422,000 pounds. Missouri was fourth, with 3,018,929 pounds. Texas also stands first in the number of colonies of bees, there being 417.000. The honey crop of Texas brings an annual revenue of approximately ?500,000, the price for which it sells ranging from 8 to 10 cents a pound. In addition the beekeepers sell many thousand dollars' worth of bees each year. These colonies of bees are shipped to all parts of tho United States and to foreign countries. That mighty unfair trick of killing the fatted calf for the prodigal causes more fam!ly rows than anything else l earth, except the division of Father's Money.

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Where I the Democracy' Hopet Has the Democratic parry a future? If so, liow may It best be realized? These questions coutlnu.j to be elis-rusr-ed. There is an optimistic artM? on this subject lu the December Forum. Henry Litchfield West, under the title "The Future of Democracy," gives his idea of what the party has o preserve It nd what it needs to win He notes first the vitality that th3 organization has always displayed. Since the war it ha9 met defeat after iltfeat. It has elected a president only twice. And yet after every r7ers-i it Las continued undaunted, hopeful, optimistic. At every national elect I an It .-omcs bravely forward and fights hard Not only is Its vitality remarkable, but Its real principles are eminently re spectable. It Is a low tariff party, a strict constructionist party, a states' rights party, a party opposed to the extension of the executive power. The eat'h Isfucs of the last few years have tiot destroyed these fundamental ideas What, then, does the Democratic party need to win? To us It seems that the answer is reasonably clear. Some Jay circumstances "'will push, one of these Important Issues to the front la all probability without the patty's aid -and then Democracy's great chance will come. Seizing the Issues of the moment has profited the party little. No single one r,T them has united it. But It is not unlikely that one cf the great Issues mentioned would accomplish this, as in the ilays tt Cleveland and Tilden, Inspiring It with the old aggressiveness and making It once more a vast and formidable antagonist to Republicanism. In that way the vitality which has enabled it to survive frequent defeats would etand it in good stead. The hopefulness which springs eternal in th? Democratic breast should prove a great offensive force. We may well'ask ourselves what a party which displayed such sanguine courage In the face of sure defeat last November would be capable of accomplishing under steady guidance and with the inspiration of jreat issues. But this I not exactly Mr. West's view of what Democracy should do. He holds that it must regain the confidence f the people that it must "nominate someone whose name and record will be an assurance of safety to the business Interests of the nation." And he ndds that "it Is a mere waste of words to predict that no one who lacks this assurance will be elected" True enough, but not the entire truth. Few will deny that Democracy today has but a meager share of good report that of late It has usually found public opinion a liability and not an asset. But a mere choice of "safe" leaders will not change all this. A crusade for a fundamental principle that clrcum5tances make a vital Issue that way lies confidence and possible rehabilitation. Chicago Inter Ocean. Tht Indepndence Expentiea. The extraordinary enthusiasm which Jeveloped at the founding of the Independence party has no record in the Jocumeiit listing the campaign expenditures, recently filed with the secretary of state of New York. The throngs which were reported to be flocking to the reform organisation felt that It sufficed if they lent the support of their lungs while holding tight to their pocketbooks. It appears that of the $42,rr2 contributed to the campaign fund, William Randolph Hearst furnished ?42,293. The only other contribution ?ame from the sale of campaign souvenlrs. It seems, then, that Mr. Illsfen, although a wealthy man and the candidate for the presidency, lost nothing except time In his battle for principle. John Temple Craves,. striving for the vice presidency supplied lhe moving magic of his eloquence and the singular beauty of his presence. This is as It should be; the only man who made anything out of the formation of the Independence party in the way of prestige, notoriety and increased circulation, paid for it like l niun. The others were mercifully ibsolved of other contribution than lip service. Toledo Blade. Heat from Reformer. It is not whether the tariff will be revised, but what It will provide when It "s chauged that scares all the manufac:urers and business men. it would be t good Idea if Congress and all the state legislatures were to all meet next year, clean everything up as clean as a hound's tooth and then adjourn for a few years and thus allow everybody to ?et adjusted to conditions. What we need -all along the line is a rest from frenzied reformers, who are reforming l the time and do not give anybody a ihance to get adapted to prevailing conlltions. Melrose (Mass.) News. Feminine Idea of Church Fluance. That evening I spent with the pastor, .n his baweu, comfortless study. lie had broken himself down In the service of a debt-laden city church, and had come to the country for rost. "Indeed," said he, "the financial srobJem Is a serious one with us. Not that the people gt behind with the" salary, is Is so often the case In small churches. My eight hundred dollars comes in promptly every year. But how Is it raised? You have seen this afternoon. There are hardly any men left In niy church. Regular cubscrlptlons have almost ceased. Why? These deplorable money-waking schemes have driven all sound finance out of my church and out of many another as well "How were they started?" I Inquired. 'Terhaps It was somewhat this way : There were originally a handful of women In the congregation whose husbands and fathers took no stock In religion and would not let them have any money to put In the contribution baskets. So they smuggled cakes and pies and fancy work out of the house, sold them and gave the money to the church. Presently the other women, not to be outdone, were on bund with their eatables, their albums and their eternal underwear. They got up a sale and realized a tidy little sum. The men folks felt the financial pressure on them relaxing, and began to let up on their subscriptions. So It was up to the ladles more and more, until finally things arrived at tbe pass where you find them to-day." The pastor sighed deeply. Robert Haven SchauHlcr, in Success Magazine.

Cause of the DeSctt. United States Treasurer Treat, la his annual report, points out the tri cause of the large short ago la the treasury. It Is the Increase lu expenditures. The receipts la the ilac.il year EK?8, as he shows, were In excsj of those of any previous year xrept 1!K7. But the expenditures veer swelled cut of all relation to the uevH of the public service. . Thu3 It trraisplred that a surplus of $S4.000.GOO la 11)07 was turned Into a deficit of 33,000,000 in 1008. In calling the attention of Congress end the country to this drain, Treasurer Treat is doing his duty as a vigilant public ofllcer. Mr. Roosevelt, In his unnuai message to Congress a few daj-9 hence, should repeat the warning. Although only five months of the fiscal year 1009 have expired, tha deficit Is about $50,000,000. It Is likely to pass beyond tho $100.0tX),000 mark by the end of the year, on Juno 30 next. The Democrats, In tbe recent canvass, called attention ro. this treasury shortage, but they had n bad candidate and a bad cause, and the country refused to listen to them. If the deficit should continue until the congressional canvass of 1010, however, the Democrats would have a, far letter chance to make votes out of it. This Is doubtless he reason why Chairman Tawney of the House Appropriation Committee issued Lis warning to his fellow-Republicans th3 other day to cut out all expenditures exc-ept those needed for the benefit of tho public service. Let the Republican' Congress remember that the treasury shortage in the current fiscal year is sure to go beyond any figure seen since the civil war. days. In 1800, during the Spanish war. it went up to $00,000,OtX, but in the present year, during a period tf peace, It will go far beyond that nark. The present generation has seen no deficit which closely ajtproached the one which will be shown by the treasury statement which will b issued on June 20 next. Thu appropriations for the current fiscal year were made last winter and can net. be changed. But those for the year which begins next July are still 4rt " I. a A 1 .1 A 1 rr-i . t

i'o ,iviBiuvreu. lue iiepuu ica 1 Congress should see to it that no outlay is authorized for the coming .'iscal year, excepr such as may le necessary to keep tho wheels of government In met ion. though an exception ndglv be made in favor of waterway jm. will benefit ue provement, which whole c-ountry. Kt. oerat. Louis Globe Det,. The Good Baiineu Outlook. The country may say that whether business continues to Improve or not, it has at least been saved, from the check which inevitably would-be felt If Mr. rTtryan had been elected. His election wmld have put every business man upon guard against threatened changes of a perilous character, and the resulting stagnation would Involve widespread injury. From that condition we have mont fortunately escaped. The stream his not been checked in its flow or turned aside. The assurance of four years f Republican administration under so able an executive as Judge Taft Is a guarantee that nothing radical will be done, that injurious changes In the tarIT will not be made, end that the eerafldence of business men In the adoption of a safe and ßano policy will uot bo shaken Recognlzlug this, the tusluesi world should not hesitate for a moment. It can go forward along the lines It has been pursuing ever since trade and industry began to revive from the panic of last fall. There is no doubt that this will be done. No shadow of a popiilstlc administration disguised as Lt'inoeratle, hangs over the future; and tvhilo Congress will be called into extraordinary session for the purpose of revising the tariff it is evident that the revision will be made In harmony with well recognized Republican principles. The country Itself Is in excellent condition. The farmers have gathered large crops and gcjod prices Invite them to plant extensively next 3-ear. Labor will be given abundant employment and with resumption of traffic on the railroads no more complaint by men connected with or Interested In those corporations will be heard.s Deuver Republican. - Maat Not Urn Ilashed. Tariff revision will not le long delayed, for it Is the habit of the party In iower In Congress to do things, but it is well to remember that It should be passed on by President Taft who must see that the new schedules are properly both workable and honestly worked. It will do little good to rush the changes through In the short session. The business Interests, that means practically everybody, vrtnt a thorough and well considered measure that will not need furtlier changes of any consequence for years after it Is enacted Into law. Buffalo News. Haklac It Home-like. A good story is told on Sam Crawford, the heavy slugger of the Tigers. By trade Crawford is a barber. The other day he went into a restaurant, drew himself up to a table, stuck his feet under and looked satisfied. "Walter, a little beefsteak and onions, please." "Yes, sir. Have some nice ham and cabbage also?" "No." "How about some prune roast teef? "Don't want any." A little of our elegant tripe would do you good." "John," called the proprietor, "what d'ye mean by annoying a customer like that?" "Just trying to make him feel nt home, sir. He's a barber." Sinslnar at It Fmee Valae. "They tell me, Grtmbey, that your Ldaughter sings with great expression. "Greatest expression you ever saw. Her own mother can't recognize her face when she's singing." Home Herald. Tho Meaaure of Rrnoirn. Bob Introduce me to the old guy. The hostess Why, you must know him. He's the president of your college. "No, I don't. He Isn't Interested la athletics." Life. Upholstered. Knicker The fashionable woman figure Is like a slat. Booker While the mattress, holster and pillows are wom on the headNew York Sun. The rarest seashell is the "Cone of the Holy Mary." Only two h-peciwent ar known, one of which Is In the British museum.