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Bishop Potter says he learned while
in California ‘'that San Francisco was
the froat door of 'the United States
_and New York the back door. It is
"still customary, however, for all goods
to be delivered in the rear.
A New York physician says fathers
_should encourage their boys to play
flall. Any boy that needs en
gement in that direction is hard
ly worth the trouble.
As they have it figured Gut now, we
‘have to have a big nawy to protect
those more or less troublesome colo
nial possession that we would not have
had if we had not had a big navy.
Says ‘the Chicago Tribune: It is not
improbable that future naval wars may
be fought out with torpedo boats, tor
pedo hoat destroyers and destroyers
0f torpedo boat destroyers, and so on.
Report says that ten per cent. of
the Japanese soldier- & women.
With so many chances to tell reason
able lies about the war, why ring in
one so stupid? :
The British Admiralty has just
struck off its maps the so-called Royal
Congpany Islands, which have ap
pears;d hitherto as to the south of Aus
tralid, but have been found to be non
existent.
If stupid and slow men are on big
“battleships while clever and quick men
are oa torpedo boats it would be ab
surd to conclude from results in that
_eparticular;case that the day of big
fighting machines was at an end.
The suggestion that nurse maids
should receive regular training for
their work is not without its good
points. Trained nurse maids, how
ever, would command a wage too high
for the average paterfamilias, who
would have to countent himself with
the crude article as found today.
Can zny one tell, muses the Boston
Watchman, why so many of the great
battles of the world are fought on
Sunday? In the case of the battle
of the Yalu the J’apanese could have
been moved neither by superstition
nor irreverence.
A Zurich lady doctor is advocating
a scheme under which all unmarried
girls of the well-to-do classes are to
be compelled by the State to devote
one year to unpaid hospital work. She
claims that not only would the hospi
tals benefit, but the girls would gaia a
training which would be of jreat value
to them after marriage.
President Eliot, of Harvard, has
seized upon another cccasion to urge
working people to be content with
small pay. Ia his fine and philosophi
cal way he says that “love of work,
the motive of exceling, and the play
of mental powers, should give the la
borer more satisfaction than his
wage.” What is the use, then, of giv
ing college professors four or five
thousand dollars a year, and Wwhy
shoud not lawygprs and docters and
merchants and bankers take the medi
cine that the learned Eliot prescribeas
for mechanics and men with the pick
and spacde? asks the New York Mall
and Express.
So many prominent railroads in va
rious parts of the country have been
borrowing or intend to borrow tens
of millions of dollars for needed im
provements, expansion and develop
meat that upon no inconsiderable
number of lines the movement which
wa3 begun years ago to puil down
mean and ugly passenger stations in
country towns and small cities, and to
set 1p in place of taem really attractive
‘bits of architecture, with flower beds
and other comely setting aad framing.
may encounter a check. The Bosion
and Albany has long been noted for
its handsome stations in the minor
communities of the Old Bay State.
The famous architect Richardson de
signed several of them.
Ia “feeling” music the sound is con
ducted from the instrument to the
person by means of electric wires. In
stead of the wsound waves merely
knoecking on the tympanum of the ear,
as in listening to music, the waves of
harmeny course clear threugh the
body, so that. the tune is felt from
head to foot. The device can be at
tached to any kind of musical instru
ment, so that one can feel a piano,
phonograph, guitar, banjo or a trom
bone, and if a wire couid be attached
to every horn a person could feel the
music of a brass band. Those who
have practiced “feeling” music have
demonstrated that they can easily dis
criminate between the feeling of dif
ferent airs as well as of different in
struments. They could readily distin
guish “Home, Sweet Home” from “My
Ragtime Chinaman,” although they
were separatgd from the instruments
by walls so thick that the music could
not possibly be heard.
Citing an lilustrious Example.
The cook had left withcut giving
warning, and in this emergency the
mother of the family was washing the
breakfast dishes herself, assisted by
the small boy with the high forehead,
the thoughtful mein and the deliber
ate manner of doing things.
“You will have to dry them a littl2
faster, Kemton,” she said, “or you will
not get them done before it is time
for you to start for school.”
Kenton accelerated his motions a
little.
“Mamma, he said after he had
worked in silence several minutes,
“when George Washington was the
architect for Liord Fairfax he used to
eat his meals off a shingle. What
was good enough for George Washing
ton is good enough for us.”—Chicago
Tribune. :
Convicts Beg for Work.
“There is nothing that a prisonsar
hates werze than enforced idleness,”
says a revort issued from one of the
large prisons of Pennsylvonia. ‘“There
are about 300 prisoners here who have
nothing to do, and they are begging
for work.
“The results of i%eir idleness are
ill health, mental depression, morbid
brooding over their troubles and ir
ritable chafing oVer real or imaginery
wrongs.® They are able-bodied men,
able and anxious to work, yet they
are kept day after day in their narrow
‘cells, growing worse physically and
mentally.” .
Coach Lincoln Réde in to Gettysbura.
The Western Railrad Maryland
Railroad Company still gwns a pags
senger coach that President Lincoln
rode in from Hanover Junction to
Gettysburg, Pa., on Gctober 18, 1863.
On the following day the President
made his famous speech at the conse
cration of the Gettysburg Battlefield
Cemetery. .
The coach is in good condition and
is being daily used on the Baltimore
and Harrisburg division of the road.
It was built in the shops of the then
Hanover Junction and Hanover ani
tettysburg Railroad, of which Canpt.
Hichelberger of York, Pa., now dead,
was president for forty years.
Training a Horse.
The horse iz a logical and therefore
a teachable animal. Convince him
that a locomotive or any other object
of terror is not dangerous, and he
will never shy at it again. Every
year accidents cccur because the har
ness breaks or the vehicle upsets,
and then the horse runs away. But
such accidanis are unnecessary. Any
norse can, with a little pains, be
tanght to hold hack a carriage by
iis hind quarters as well as by the
breeching. To have wheels come off
and straps and other things hitting
his legs should Be a part of every
colt’s egducacion.
The Interiering
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Husband Nuisance.
By a I.ong-Suffering Wife. : '
" P pWOULD like {2 say a word or two abeut the husband wio goes
i d beyond his sphere; many married women will know him but
y too well; he may be called “The Interfering Husband,” the one
oo Who will poke his nose into household and domestic matters
which 1n no way concern him.
LoD Bl He is a kiad of general,walking encyc'opedia on all matters
‘ connacted with housework: he thinks nothing of instructing his
wife as to how she should perform duties, and, alas, he frequentiy goes the
length of lecturing the “general” on the most trivial points of rouscwifery. No
true wife cares for a husband going about the Kkitchen; fa fact, it {3 no place
for a man; yet, the kitchen is a kind. of Happy hunting ground for the inter
fering husband.
He drops in of an afterncon—why on earth is the floor not scrubbed yet?
He demands an explanation, and is told that ite “Missus” said it wasn’'t to be
scrubbed that day. :
This won't do for the interfering man, however; he hunts out his wife
and iaforms her that the kitchen looks like an old cicthes shop; can sae not
keep his house in a cleanly state? Is he to pay for a servant standing about
doing nothing when she might be well employed scrubbing floors, and so he
gooes on.
Such a man is more than a nuisance; he is aa infliction, and the household
over which he presides is rarely a happy one; it cannot be when the man goes
on like this. .
But the same individual wen't enly meddle with houschold affairs; he
will alio dictate concerning the children—-aad t2is no true mother will
tolerate.
Suppose tie month of May comes in, and is raw and cold—have the chil
dren stopped wearing their winter flannels? + No? Well, they must do so at
once—so orders the interfering husband, heediess of the fact that the mother
ought to be the best judge as to whea the chiidren ghould put off or on certain
articles of clcthing; and thus he dictates, ailways interfering with the wife's
duties.
Naturally, trouble is ever to ‘the fore; it could not be otherwise. Suppose
such a man gives his wife a certain sum monthly as a privats allowance, why,
it isn’t private at all; she really has to account for every penny spent, and a
woman cf spirit will aot mookly stand this sort eof thing long—open rupture
almost follows a 3 a maiter of course. I wender if the interfering man is aware
of the fact that hie is known all over his neighborhood as such? If there hap
pens to be a servant in the house it won’t ba Kept dark; ali his little peculiari
ties will be discuszed with “Mary” next dcor, and Mary, if she happens 0 be
on free terms swith her misiress, will not hesitate to speak of “that man’” up
the street, menticning a fow facts concerning him. Her mistress will, if she
be of the average female type, most certainiy hint to some of the iadies of the
neighborhoed abeut Mr. So-and-So and his goings on, and '‘hus his aame i 3
bandiad about till he is well known in his real celors half a dezen streets away.
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The Match-Making
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instinct in Man.
‘ By Nixola Greel¢y-Smith.
oY < AT is the intimate conviction of every man that breattes that every
‘@ § unmarried woman waats to marry. Rosy, happy, ebuliient in
?(\‘\ : 4 her celibacy as she may appear, he knows that h-r gayely is a
pest et huge bluff and trat deep down in her innocent heart she i 3 pining.
@/7©fi>\§) If affor a breakfast table quarrel with his wife over her mil
(o\r@@al liner’s bill e gances from his morning newspaper, where he
i yeads chronicies of domestic lafelicity aired dally .n the divorce
courts to the array of befriiled and husbandless bread-winners tirat accompany
~ him on his way downtown, his mind is filled with vague gues.ions as to the
reason of their detached condition end his heart beats with geauine if some
- what ingenious pity.
| Pretty girls, many of them, are they not? Gay, smiling, bucyant, with
health and youthful spirits. And yet, he reflecis sadly, in their hearts there is
~ the gnawing canker of unwilling celibacy, a strong, even if unconscious, longiag
| for love in a cottage, a hopeiess, husbandless discontent.
If this man, with ail the instine's of a matchmaker, happeas to know any
' atttractive single woman well enough io question her as to tae motives of her
| unmarried state, he will do so in th: naive belief that she may possibly take
~ him into her confidence and tell him th 2 truih,
i “Why don’t you get married?” he asks. “You are younsg, pru.tty.’ charming.
| You have everything ‘o make a men happy. Why dont you do ity
| Now, the girl may have very gcod r2asons for not marrying, or she may
t have no reasons at all.
But, at any rate, she does not share the average man’s belief that—for
! women—any marriage is better than none at ali Before she c¢xchanges the
} certain content of her iadependent bachelornood for the uncertain happiness
~ of dependent watrimony, she wants to be very sure of her emotions. She knows
‘that love, a little word of one syllabie, cannot always be stretched through the
experience of polysyllabic matrimony, and she wouid like to he sure before
gsentencing herseif for life that =he feeis an éenduring affecticn and not one
born of propinquity and the sympathy of a moment in brief, she asiks too
many questions of an emotion which lazts loagest when no quesztiens are asked,
Because women newadays are et apt to take their emotions for granted—
which, after all, is the only way to take them—they aro-slower to marry.
But once married, they are apt to be satisfied with their lot.
| We lcok for-the man nowadays, not for a man, as our grandmothers were
~apt to do, and even the matchmakingz masculine person who asks questions
ought to realize that he is barder to find and graat us a little more lime to
make up our minds.—New York World,
Bible Translation,
One hundred years ago the Bible
was current in some forty languages
—today in some four hundrad. It is
necessary to use sixty different sets
of types to print in these many
tongues, while some fifty languages
require to be printed in more char
acters than one tuv be legible to all
races and creeds m that particular
country. Again, to translate the
Bible into one foreign tongue is in it
gelf a work of more than a lifetir.
very often. What must Le then the
labor required to learn somea barbaric
tongue which has no writing no char
acters or alphabet of its own, and to
‘tsupply all deficiencies before the task
of translation can begin? Mureover,
the biblical metaphors and similes
‘bave to be altered and made compre
hensible to untutored minds. One
‘translator, Henry Nott by name, spent
twenty years in Tahiti to learn the
language, after which he spent an
other twenty years in translaiing the
bcok intu the Tahitan tongue. \ w