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frankly, that if they will say
their prayers with the clergy at
one hour u) the Lord's day. the
clergy are perfectly willing to
play basebail with them at an
other hour of the same day,
which is their day of rest,
which rest is recreation; that if
they will comply with the re
quirements of the church and
observe Sunday, first of all. as
a day of prayer they may have
the rest of it as a day of play,
and that, if they have stopped
their work in order to worship,
having worshiped, they may
“walk abroad and recreate
themselves." If this be trea
son. either to the church or to
the day. let those who wish to
do so make the most of it.—
Rev David M. Steele. Phila
delphia.
FAR MORE FAIR.
More fair than sunrise moun
tains
In folded veils of light.
Or trails in silver birches
Engreened and mossed from
sight;
More fair than new mown mead
ows.
Where sliding waters flow,
Or purple clouds of thunder,
Where torrents stream below;
Than roiling, southward valleys
With tasseled maize in bioom.
Or northward pines enterraced
In dark and rearing plume:
Than showery west empearling
A dewy distance gray;
Than drifted plains by starlight
Or rising moons of May.
I saw a fairer picture.
Outshining fields and skies.
1 saw one happy morning
A child from fever rise.
I would that I were Raphael
To paint that lovely sight.
1 saw him pick a daisy
’With wasted fingers white.
—Sarah X. Cleghorn in Mun
sey’s.
HABIT.
Imagine Hercules as oarsman
in a rotten boat. What can he
do there but by the very'force
of his stroke expedite the ruin
of his craft? Take care, then,
of the timbers of your boat, and
avoid all practices likely to in
troduce either wet or dry rot
among them. And this is not to
be accomplished by desultory or
intermittent efforts of- the will,
but by the formation of habits.
The will, no doubt, has some
times to put forth its strength
in order to strangle or crush the
special temptation, but the for
mation of right habits is essen
tial to your permanent security.
They diminish your chance of
falling when assailed, and they
augment your chances of recov
ery when overthrown. John
Tyndall.
ON HIS BLINDNESS.
W hen 1 consider how my light
is spent
Ere half my days in this dark
world and wide,
And that one talent which is
death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though
my ,-oiil more beat
To serve therewith my Maker,
and present
My true account, lest he re
turning chide.
“Doth God exact day labor, light
denied ?”
1 fondly ask. But patience, to
prevent
That murmur, soon replies,
“God doth not need
Either man’s work or bis own
gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve
him best. His state
Is kingly. Thousands at his bid
ding speed.
And post o’er land and ocean
without rest;
They also serve who only
stand and wait’’
—John Mil ton.
SAID OF SLAVERY.
Corrupted freemen are the
worst of slaves.—Garrick.
Servitude seizes on few, but
many seize on her —Seneca
By the law of slavery, man,
created in the image of God. is
divested of the human charac
ter and declared to be a mere
chattel.—Charles Sumner.
That execrable sum of all vil
lainies commonly called slave
trade.—John Wesley.
Enslave a man and you de
stroy bis ambition, his enter
prise. his capacity In the con
stitution of human nature the
desires of bettering one’s con
dition is the mainspring of ef
fort. The first touch of slavery
snaps this spring. —Mann
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TRtACI'EROUS SUICKS’XD.
The ..’ay !. Is Form..l and Its _rcw
sc io Ch eristics.
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light, weighing about ninety-four
pounds to the cubic foot, while oth
er forms of sand run as high as 171
pounds. Quicksand when examined
under the microscope will be found
to have rounded corners, like rivet
sand, as distinguished from “sharp”
sand, it is quicksand that is used
in houiglasses and egg glasses, part
ly because of its tineness and part
ly because it does not eventually
cloud the glass by scratching, a>
would the sharp sand. It is to its
lightness that quicksand owes its
deadly qualities, and a demonstra
tion of how it becomes “quick"’ inav
be given by placing a quantity in a
bucket and adding water by pres
sure through a hole in the bottom,
allowing the water to overflow very
slowly when it has worked up
through the sand. The upward cur
rent will be found to loosen the
sand and to raise the surface very
slightly, separating and lubricating
the particles so that they are easily
displaced.
The bucket now contains genuine
quicksand. The sand, owing to the
support it receives from the water,
has its weight, or supporting pow
er, reduced proportionately, weigh
ing in the water but thirty-two and
a half pounds as against ninety-four
pounds when dry. Bulk for bulk,
the mixture is nearly twice the
weight of a rrtan, but is too mobile
to give support and too thick to
swim in. In its natural state, pre
senting an apparently firm surface,
resembling simply' damp sand, it is
the most deadly man trap conceiv
able.
Quicksand requires in all cases an
upward current which is not quick
or strong enough to break through
in the form of a spring. Ordinarily
water flowing over quicksand will
not make it dangerous. It may be
formed in tidal rivers and on the
shores of tidal seas by the rising
tide saturating a porous stratum of
ground below high water- mark, and
when the tide falls a return current
is established through the porous
(sandy) ground with a sufficient ve
locity to loosen the sand and make
it “quick.”
A permanent quicksand is found
where a slow current of fresh water
finds its way to the surface of the
sand bed either in the bottom of a
stream or elsewhere. Quicksands
that are encountered during the
sinking of walls and foundations are
due to the influx of water when the
work gets below “spring level” or
the level of the water in the ground
at that particular spot. The sand,
being deprived of the lateral sup
port of the water in the excavation,
is pushed in from behind by the
water currents flowing from all
sides.
One of the most peculiar and
grewsome characteristics of quick
sand is that it will soon engulf any
object cast upon its surface, no mat
ter how light that object may be,,
even a perfectly dry stick.
Got Its Reward.
A Dundee farmer employed a
farm hand named Sandy.
“Here, Sandy,” said he one day
“gang roon and gie the coos a cab
bage each, but min’ ye gie the big
gest to the coo that gies the maist
milk.”
Sandy departed to do his mas
ter's bidding. Upon his return the
old farmer asked him if he had done
as he was told and had divided oui
the cabbages according to merit.
“Aye, maister,” replied the lad
die. “I gied ’em a’ a cabbage head
and hung th’ biggest on the pump
handle.”
England’s Oldest Castle.
Manchester castle is said to be
one of the oldest inhabited houses
in Britain. It was old in King
Henry’s time, for it appears to have
been the Romans who first raised its
huge gray towers to defend the pas
sage of the river Esk running below
its walls. From its perch on Hard
knot fell it commands the country
from the hills to the shore, a posi
tion of immense importance so near
to the border. At the time of the
Norman invasion the fortress was
given to the Penningtons, who have
held it ever since.—Westminster
Gazette.
Wanted a Picture.
A little boy’s father was reading
a fairy story to him when the
father came to a place in the story
where it told of a magic cloak that
was invisible.
The little boy looked at the book
and then said to his father, “Why
habn’t dey put in a pitcher ob it?”
—National Monthly.
Food of the Song Sparrow.
About three-fourths of the diet of
the song sparrow consists of the
seeds of noxious weeds and one
fourth of insects. Os these beetles,
especially weevils, constitute the
major portion. Ants, wasps, bugs
and caterpillars are also eaten.
STORM.
Out of Git- thunder ips a
crook. •; sw rd.
Bright as a serpent's tongue
aye. bright as blood.
And men within the moment
cast their clothes
And stand forth naked in a
snarling brood.
The storm treads on like some
great booted god.
Roaring and slaying with its
bloody fists.
And men are milled between its
awful palms—
Their vaunted masteries are
blown like mists. * * ♦
We have not conquered elemen
tal things.
Not chained the lightnings nor
controlled the skies.
The storm breaks and the
world’s a beast again.
Snarling at bay. with terror in
its eyes.
—New York Sun.
PEACE.
Peace rules the day, where
reason rules the mind.—Collins.
Nothing can bring you peace
but yourself. Nothing can bring
you peace but the triumph of
principles.—Emerson.
People are always expecting
to get peace in heaven; but, you
know, whatever peace they get
there will be ready made. What
ever of making peace they can
be blessed for must be on the
earth here.—Ruskin.
Let the bugles sound the
truce of God to the whole earth
.forever.—Charles Sumner.
WHY?
Before Agrippa at the bar of
Rome
Stood the Apostle Paul and
said,
“Why does it seem incredible
To thee that God should raise
the dead?"
How vain with the incompe
tence of man
To measure the eternal power
Or limit the unlimited
With vision of the fleeting
hour!
Wherefore believe only what we
see—
Accept the shadow and yet
find
Denial for the thing; accept
The eye, yet call the Maker
blind!
If from the utter void of noth
ingness
God willed “Let there be life,”
why might
He not with equal grace decree
When darkness falls. “Let
there be light?"’
—Edward H. Blake.
FRENCH SAYINGS.
Tis easy to go on foot when
one has a horse by the bridle.
He who washes a donkey’s
head wastes his soap.
It is very foolish to rush into
the next world when we can be
well placed in this.
When tb.e fox is asleep noth
ing falls into his mouth.
That which is called liberality
is frequently nothing more than
the vanity of giving, of which
we are more fond than the
thing given.
ALICE, WHERE ART THOU?
The birds sleeping gently, sweet
Luna gleametb bright,
Iler rays tinge the forest and all
seems glad tonight;
The wind sighing by me. cooling
my fever'd brow,
The stream flows as ever, yet
Alice, where art thou?
One year back this even, and
thou wert by my side.
One year back this even, and
thou wert by my side.
Vowing to love me. vowing to
love me;
One year past this even, and
thou wert by my side.
Vowing to love me. Alice, what
e’er betide.
The silver rain falling, just as it
falleth now.
And all things sleep gently, yet
Alice, where art thou?
I’ve sought thee by lakelet. I’ve
sought thee on the hill.
And in the pleasant wildwood,
when winds blew cold and
chill.
I’ve sought thee in forest. I’m
looking heavenward now;
I’ve sought thee in forest. I’m
looking heavenward now;
Oh. there mid starshine! Oh.
there mid starshine!
I’ve sought thee in forest. I’m
looking heavenward now
Oh. then amid the starshine.
Alice, I know art thou!
—W. Gurnsey.
GEIMA”Y FACES
riuCSmu h.OBLEM
Reforms Include Municipal
Campaigns.
CHECK APARTMENT HOUSES.
Country’s Measures Include New Dom
icile Laws, a Campaign Against High
Rents and Residence Famines and
Building of Workmen’s Dwellings.
Germany has vigorously taken in
hand her great housing problem It is
a troublesome task. Bad housing, says
Count Posadowsky, former minister of
the interior, is the reason why the na
tional birth rate has fallen from 42 to
29 per 1.000 in the last forty years.
The absence of imperial housing legis
lation is one source of the evil.
Other social problems have been
beneficially regulated by the bundes
rath and reichstag. but housing has
been left to the state legislatures, and
these have done very little. Their neg
lect has caused friction. A year ago
Dr. Delbruck, who now holds Posa
dowsky’s portfolio, threatened that if
Prussia did not improve her housing
the empire would intervene. This
threat made the reformers hurry up.
The Prussian and other state govern
ments set to preparing bills, and pri
vate organizations and individuals be
gan to compete with them in proposing
plans of betterment.
Mainly the reformers are fighting the
specific evils which spring from a
brand new urban civilization. Every
fifth German lives in a town of over
100.000 population. Housing on the
laud is fairly satisfactory, but in the
great cities it is worse than in Ameri
ca, England. Belgium. Holland and in
some respects France.
Germany’s broad, straight streets
and imposing facades, which arouse
foreign admiration, are rich sources
of evil, for they have brought terrifi
cally high rents, unhygienic construc
tion and unexampled overcrowding.
This is the fault of the town planners,
who copied the concentrated building
system of Paris and Vienna, a system
devised for medieval fortified towns
and useless for Berlin, which has no
fortifications.
By planning broad streets a: deep
blocks the town planners compelled the
construction of five storied apartment
houses instead of the dispersed one
family houses of America, England.
Holland and Belgium. The so called
“flat barracks” dominate. The aver
age Berlin house shelters eighty-two
persons as against seven persons per
house in London and Antwerp.
On hygienic, social, moral and eco
nomic grounds the big apartment
house system is universally condemn
ed. The apartment houses are un
healthy. being excessively hot in sum
mer, thus conditioning high infant
mortality. Half the apartments look
on to airless, lightless courtyards. The
working class apartment houses have
no elevators. The bad results are
proved by the fact that the mortality
of women and of sufferers from heart
disease increases with each floor. The
apartment house prevents the owner
ship of a home, turns people intc
nomads, produces overcrowding and
makes for higher rents.
Germany now will take radical meas
ures against these evils. Her methods
are three—firstly, new housing laws;
secondly, a campaign by the munici
palities against high rents and housing
famines: thirdly, the building of work
men’s dwellings out of public funds.
A powerful influence for the im
provement of German housing is being
exercised by the state social insurance
system. The insurance organizations
have become capita lizers of the move
ment for providing working class dwell
ings
In Hanover 47.000 workmen's houses
have been provided, the homes of
about 250.000 persons. Berlin's second
mayor. Burgomaster Reicke. advo
cates a plan of housing Berlin’s popu
lation out of insurance bureau accumu
lations. He stands for building out
side the city a vast settlement of model
working class houses. With him is an
other housing reformer. Professor E.
Francke. the general secretary of the
Society For Social Reform. All these
houses would be owned by their ten
ants. Rapid underground communica
tions would bring the workmen to the
center of the city in twenty minutes
Other states than Prussia are legis
lating and working in the same direc
tion. Bavaria will check the building
of apartment houses by changing the
police building laws. Saxony will pre
vent municipalities favoring the con
struction of dear and large apartments
to the exclusion of workingmen. These
state initiatives have checked the de
mand for an imperial housing law for
ail Gepmany. but such a law, say ex
perts. is bound to come in a few years.
Women’s Civic Club.
A Women’s Civic club has been or
ganized at Montpelier. Vt. Among the
projects proposed by this organization
will be the removal of objectionable
billboards, the planting of trees, the
placing of benches in public places, the
care of the city parks, the establish
ment of a fund for the maintenance of
a distr: t nurse and the distribution of
loth?!.a. food and books to the hos-
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