Show II t.- t. I S S Jr IT is claimed that cotton cottonwood wood is a af d 4 r f i bat sugar tree and that its j J j mo me qualities aro are fifteen times greater than ban sugar cano cane and twenty times i than boots rS t IF tho the women who send flowers to i jail birds and coddle besotted men men S birds 4 j woUd would l lond nd a n hand to some honest honestA A man man struggling to t keep his head above S i water ater the they might poso as a S i But ut in order oidor to win a n woman's womans wowan's wo wo- wo- wo f mans man's sympathy a man must bo be either cither t t i a nothing good-for-nothing or a u criminal criminal 1 Their quality of mercy is i strained 4 THE Tun TiE improvement in our methods of 1 l S cattle transportation across the ocean ocean r A has ba been followed by similar simlar acts by bythe V. V the Canadian Government Government All Al cattleS cattle eatto S 5 Inspectors aro are ordered to t enforce the theS the tho S new regulation concerning the tho crowdIng crowdIng crowdS crowd- crowd S Ing of cattle catte on shipboard The Tho regulation regu regu- t t lation distance for each h head ad of cattle cattleS 1 I S Is l two feet foot eight inches which is i uniform un- un uni uni- form torm for with that of the United States ALMOST OST all aU Americans Bufer suffer from S of spirits their spirits their spiris-their their own or Ot other peoples Most frequently it i is i 4 both their own and Id other peoples s 's W Weare Wo We 0 are aro not a 0 placid people We Wo havo 4 great capacities for exaltation upon c Id adequate quate occasion occasion aid and still sti greater SS tL I for depression without adequate l S r IOD Loz We have almost no cap capacity for that quiet contentment which forgets X S' S S I yesterday and does not think overmuch 1 f. f j. j of to-morrow to in i its satisfaction with to day I WE Wi are aro at once optimists and peb pessi 1 S S mists mists We Wo are aro often orten gl glad and often L S sad Bad sa but rarely happy Compare what i you seo see in our streets street of any pleasant pleasantS S evening with wih what you see in Paris ParisS Pars S thoroughfares Or save yourself the tho S trouble truble and look in i the tho mirror The Tho lines of the tho face seen there thero may express ex- ex J. S S press many good things things but how commonly commonly commonly com- com they la fail t to t suggest suggest an habitually habitually habit- habit happy spirit And And it is i the habitual mood which marks the coun coun- I. I S S. S S S f t t GRADUALLY correct intuition ud td t d S i diffusion of knowledge havo have changed S j r- r the the type typo of the American fr free freo o school hool f f L In ha a 0 number of ot cities manual training has ha been successfully in operation n forS for S 1 several years From rom no school that is i c EO so o fortunate fortunat as to possess it is it ever dropped dropped No child that takes it up upS IP S S willingly lays it tt down own The practicability S t ability of ot carrying it on with th tho S usual literary instructions is no long longer longera r I a 0 question in any city iy in i which the experiment has ha been tried tried Certain results sult are uniformly noted in these thes schools WE WE TB arc aro ar accustomed to td con consider ider the tha i f S S Irish land laws the essence of barbarS barbar- barbar f S lam ism ism but so BO far as mere law is i conf con con- f y corned tho the situation in Ireland is no not V as M bad as a it is in i Great Britain or 01 J S t even in America No Na Irish landlordS landlord S could clear off of his hi tenants by hundreds to t make room for a a deer for forest st as aa isS is la S S dono in hi Scotland cotla d. d and and every year S ta d. d ant S could cud be done don in i tho the United States i iI if i I l there ther were any object in in it it The Tho To e veri vezy y ox excess cess of misery in Ireland has secured soS se so- S cured for the people there thero some relaxation relax rolax- S 5 of the rigor of land lad laws that tha S s press pross with increasing asing cruelty upon al alS almost al- al l- l S most mst the tho whole civilized world world S THE remedy for the the tho foulness one and andS S of many any of our ourS S suburban towns and anti villages is i in te e S S hands of those who dwell in i th tIto S The Te statutes of the state give to the theS S S local health health authorities all al the tho power powerS S that is la necessary for preventing epidemics epi epi- t. t demies and putting an end to unwholesome S S some conditions In th the tho first place S the city business man who lives in th the country should do his full ful duty in local loca elections There is is no no public duty S that is of so BO much importance to hi hiS hi S own interests interest H He sh should uld do do his' his ut utmost t. t S most to elect local loca officers r who wil wIll wIllS wil S appoint efficient and instructed men a as asS S members member of of the local be heth ieh h board board S TBS TE dominant idea idea in life le is the one oneS S that is most pot potent nt on the he eve o of S J death death It was wa the te courtly courty ChesterS Chesterfield Chester Chester- S field feld who who when he ho lay dying said sad a aa as asa 5 S 5 a a friend frend entered his chamber Give ive Day roles a 0 chair and it was wa Pope PopeS S who assured a nil an inquirer r with almost almos S his hi last breath breath I lam am dying sir of a aS S hundred good symptoms symptoms U But to the theS S S 5 leaders of men inca the solemnity of theS the te S occasion has ha been usually present and andS anc S 5 they die dio in the spirit of the last adS admonition ad ad- a- a monition of Grotius Grotus Be serious serious U S S S The o exultant whisper with wit which the theS S deaf dea Be Beethoven passed away I shall hear in i heaven heavens will wi never cease toS to t S vibrate any more mor than the last lat reS re request re- re ro S quest of Goethe More ore light more mora light S S S S THE TuE judge who refused to issue paS papers pa- pa pa S pers per of naturalization to t a number 0 of P Poles les Italians and ad Hungarians whose whoso S 0 answers revealed that the they had haa no S knowledge or understanding of theS the S constitution proved himself himsel to t be bo o othe of S the te right quality These aliens alens came r Into court court prepared to make solemn S o support and obey the S tion tion of which they knew nothing nothingS at at S all all The judge remarked that the theman S SS man who puts his ballot balot into the box without knowledge of what it contains Sf S S has ha no right to the consideration that'S that thatis tat S S 'S is given to the American voter He Ha was ri right ht Such voters are aro re merely c voting cattle catte banded and rushed toS to t S 5 the te poles to voto vote as hey they are bidden or e bought bought They Toy should hould not be allowed c the franchise by which to overcomeS overcome S the tho votes of honest onest and intelligent cit S S zen cans t i S i S s |