Show t NTEMPRARY THHUHT r r i = r llnny Queer Things Lest r jtnto Supoilntcnilenl of Sihools Charles n Skinner tells of the Janitor of ZL city school who threw up his joh one day and when asUed by a frloml what the trouble was nald a Well Its hip Im honest and I wont stand beln slurred I I ever found a pencil O anything else in the school when 1 wan swccpln out 1 always al-ways ffOAo li to the principal but Just the sumo ihy I tearhflrs or iiomcnnc hats too mean to I face me save mc the Blur In whnt way asked the friend Well Just this A little while ago I Haw wrluon on the I board Find the I lonimon multiple Well I didnt say I word hut I T searched from garret to cellar and I couldnt find the I darn thin Well HKain huil night In i big writ In on the tunic board it said Find the coinmoi divisor Well I says to myself bays 1 both them darn things bo lost now and Jll set blamed for Hwlpln em so Ill quit Jlalli more Herald What an Unread Man Should Read i Among the few general counsels which 1 von I tire humbly to offer In this matter the first and most Important for the unrend man to remember Is this Beware of literary superstition Naturally lh I timid acoker whom I have In mini is liable to feet n little awed before enthroned literary authority I author-ity 1 i n n sense a Is the proper altitude he tude for u beginner but It must accompanied by a courageous adherence adher-ence to hh own ImprcelonH Fcr example ex-ample if Hoinconp bass advised you toad to-ad the Iliad and you cannot for the life of you see anything In I while at the same lime you are shamefully conscious that It Is a classic and that It Is your moral I duty to enjoy It In spite of otrHelf1 the thing to do Is to be perfectly honest with yourself und put Homer tyat all events for the time flu day may come when through he l changea wrought In your taste by various other reading you may enjoy Homer after all and realize why so many generations of men have delighted In him why In short his worldi arc clatNle Meanwhile however there IP I no use In your trying to feel what you dont feel fut reading Is nothing If not sincere sin-cere and Its profit ir not easily Hep arable from Its pleasure I have taken 1h Iliad merely us an example of those worldfamous books which gathered gath-ered from every branch of literature compose the heterogeneous assemblage of the immortals and all of whlih the bewildered unrtad t men when be lakes his Ilijjl rcripeclful look at their embattled em-battled names on the bookshelf super stltiously feels It his mighty responsibility responsi-bility to digest Hichard Lt Galllennu In June Success Tree Lecture System The free lecture system of New York city Is what the leading system of adult education In the meliopolls Is called It has been and Is an attempt to nppl university extension methods to the masses of a great city The Legislature Leg-islature piovlded for the movement in lEss ami for two winter the lecture were under the supervision of the committee com-mittee on evening fchools In the irst aensun ISfi eiuns l were given with an average attendance of 115 In the next ecason K2a lecture were given but the average attendance was only SI pays the Worlds Work Then It was that there was called In to take special charge of this work a man with a gift of organization and a keen aympathy for thj masses In addition to apractlcal nole1gr of hat was suited to them Intellectually lie was Dr Henry M t Ivlpzlgcr and he has been In charge of the system ever since In the n tear t-ear he rained the attendance 50000 Statistics ar available for the thirteenth thir-teenth season of the work although nt this writing the season Is closing for the fourteenth The figures shew thai In the llOl eijon IflCJ lectures were given and that a L total of 553000 persons his tencd to thfm which means an average attendance of nearly 300 persons to the lectures Last Days of School Oh what I ft i1 loaf os u day In June 4 When the lUst tiim of school is closing Then the Ixvs t Mi hwirl Is all atune With the < it miner rounds of tlir afternoon And tin swirl of his thought nigh miikou hJn swoon As he Trennjj < at hln desk half dozing The woodpeckers fiance iholr rlnadoon Ij tan I side nf time ncwlcavcd oak And Hi I blue Jay gaudily dressed buffoon With his harsh lauiih sc < Nimu his Joko 4 Oh the school Lorms closing days are alow And the lessons a boy ia xayhig Mean rnucht to him Ho I cnn only l know While Imprisoned then und depressed wllj woe That wiitUnrr for him In the brooklets ow Time llm iipcuklcd trnut arc aplaying Youll never keep a boys wild thiaujhmt J trow Within the bounds oC a book Will under the bank where the aldrrs crow There a plure for his line ami book Obi whnl in I KO Itinr an a day la June When the I schools last term In midliiir I 11111 the nroat sumnur choir la all In 11m From the lilrdr hhh notes to the Insects croon While tin boy yearns all through the 1C lcnnoi To follow hln thoughts far wumllng Puck Choose Places by Lot The women who entertain frequently In PasJa have recently Invented a new method of dealing with one of the principal prin-cipal difficulties Incident to dinner p ttr tit that of pairing off tin guests On arriving in the < 1rawlll room the guests find two baskets fnil of loyrs I Hidden r Hid-den in the I blossoms ate munburud IJcIc jth The men arc tcquoiUed to shut their cyis put a Mund In one basket adorned with fornetmcnots or some other blue llowcr and pull out a card Tim hidlis perform a like ceremony drawing tickets from a bower of pink blossoms gentrally roses The currc hpondlng numbers then look for each other and having sorted themselves out PaIr oft and go In to dinner Of rows I under Ibis system the hostess foregoes all credit for thiv harmonious arrangement arrange-ment of the guests if the dinner passjfi on1 brightly Uut If it Is 1 It failure in this respect and if the couples being ill I assorted the conversation lags heavily tho advantage of the new method Is that the bored giirsLs have no grievance against their IIOSUSH and can only rail at futr Detiolt Free Press Safest Place on Earth The Board of Trade returns of railway rail-way casualties In the United Kingdom during IflOl show that In the coune of i that year out of the millions and mil lions of pussungcrs whirled along be hind the Iron horse not a single ons met his death ib tough an arcidnt I to a train And It speaks eloquently for the arrangements of the companies thu I I cure and skill of their servants and 1 the soundness of their material that t t this record as It I I If should he estab lished at I a time when services are ful lor speed fuutcr and travelers more numerous than at any previous time since Ciforpe Steibciiions great inven tlon was put to gcnoral public use H Is true that I there were mishaps and hut I omy persons were kilted and I many Injured but not one of the for mer was a pastiuiiKCr and I llu num her of the latter was about 100 abort of the corresponding figure for 1000 To be exact during last year accidents 3 to trains rolling xtocl permanent way 0 etc were responsible for the deaths of olght railway servants and three I persons per-sons other than passtnRcrs and for injuries in-juries to a totul of CUT out of whom 17J were members of the public IL I Is evident that if one Is going to have anything at all to do with rail Ins I-ns one Is safest in a train that In i on I the move for In the course of the year JIS passengers wore killed I and JGfifl Injured In-jured l by falling between carriages and I platforms i Rottlnt Into or out of compartments com-partments i tumbling onto the lines or crossing them nt t Inappropriate moments mo-ments I or In other ways that could easily have bcon avoided by The ox orclsc of a little care and prudence London Tcleprnph Centurys Greatest Work Many of the most eminent Hermans wor recently nuked to express their opinloff as to which was the greatest work of the last century i and their an SWCIH when olasslilivl howpd that thc majority attached most Importance I to tho following arhICI Ill nI6 1 The establishment of lie I German emnlro I I The prociamalion of the rights of man i The discovery of seam as a motive powtr 4 AppMcil olcctrliJty n The discovery of narcotics and of antlseppfa ii I The promulgation of the law of COWICIa lion of energy 7 The work of Danvln S J The discovery of th modern scientific scien-tific method of Judging things which Is bciscd l on exact observation 0 The discovery of the spectral analysis ana-lysis 1 10 The dluovery 01 the Xrays 11 Ecnt thnv n5 ninth symphonj 12 The second part of Faust la The convention at Oeneva U The primary school and compulsory compul-sory education 15 The movement in favor of wo mans rights m The exploration of Africa by Europeans Eu-ropeans Outlook for Prosperity That Amerlru if its leading men are prudent i will remain I prosperous for an leiiillo i I period seems probable Never has I the country accumulated so much wealth never have Its Industries and Its I railways been as well administered cmd l never hae Its farmers been as free from debt But whether Its trade will remain as active II It Is at present In I some measure depends upon the outlook out-look l for the growing crops says the London Statistic Should there be a crop failure farmers would have ICES to spend upon machinery and upon luxuries lux-uries manufacturers would have fewer orders the railway companies wou hi have J less mule to carry and would not icqulre i so many new wagons and engines I en-gines and there would be less employ ment I for the working classes But un less l the consequent chuck were to bring to light overtrading and credit thus receive re-ceive a blow every one would still b l prosperous and the diminution In trade nativity would be light People have no doubt gone ahead too fast In certain directions di-rections On the other hand the stocks of raw materials and manufactured articles ar-ticles are indeed ao light that It has been found necessary to supplement them from abroad notwithstanding the heavy Import duties At the same time the balance of trade has for some yeans past and still Is greatly In favor of the United States and the country is able to buy annually a very large quantity of securities from Europe By cUmIn ishing Its purchases of securities from abroad America would be able to provide pro-vide additional capital for Its own In dustries Died of Improvements An uptown physician tells of a German Ger-man friend a poor Journeyman baker who sent his wife to a local hospital when she fell ill The physician always asked with Interest after the condition of the t sick woman when he met the I German and was told In reply Well doctor they any at the hospital themes Improvement This reply did not vary from day to day for a month or more and was always spoken by the German very stolidly as though he really did not see in the report any grounds for hope Then one morning imeilng the t physician and I being asked the usual question lie said Oh shes dead doctor Dead repeated the physician What do they say she died of They didnt say they didnt have to answered the German r knew She died of too many Improvements Philadelphia Times I Board With the Butler Qo avoid the trouble of housekeeping many wealthy Parisians board with their butler PO to spank Instead of or dering the food for the household from day to day they pay a fixed sum per month to their butler or housekeeper who contracts to supply them with the usual Hire1 meals per day composed of the customary courses says What to Eat The price paid for this service varies in accordance with the style of living I If guests be invited I to dinner or any sort of entertainment b given an extra sum per head Is paid In this way the lady of the house avoids the annoyance of butchers and bakers bills and if Lime butler I does not kirsp his part of the contract it IP I easy enough to llnd another to replace him I Of course the Presidents household is I carried out on this plan on a large scale and many of the big stores sup ply all their employees with dally meals in the same manner The bunkr and other administrations of similar i nature often furnish the noonday meal I j I to their clerks by i contract the latter paying a trifling sum toward the cost Discovered Its a plat said Mr Blyklnc as he crumpled tIme paper and threw it on the floor Its another scheme of monopoly to fasten the yoke of power on the people What are you talking about asked his wife This beef monopoly I have delected the dastardly plot Its Iart of a gigantic gi-gantic conspiracy Thoy o IC going to make meat HO expensive that nobody con buy It < Well dtiar we wont starve We can cat vegetables There you ae Theyll make us all herbivorous Theyll deny us he I nil mal J food which makes people energetic and recentful I Theyll keep I us on a vegetable diet until were all HO patIent and goodimluied that w = wont kick ut anything they want to do Wash ington Star The Tragedy of Forest Destruction Buy Slammrd Baker writing In the July Century on Irrigation speaks tljuK 01 the progress in Western sen I timent In the matter I of forest preserva tion and of the need of making moru reserves Another scheme of time Westerner i for conserving the watersupply has borne rich fruit In the last few years It in l a wellknown fact that there In no better I conservator of water than a forest with thick undergrowing vege tation The ground IH protected and the vegetation holds back and regulates the water which falJn In rain Nearly all of the high plateaus and mountain I ranges of the West where the rainfall and snowfall ate gnatosl and whpr I ail tile great rivers have their sourc are covered more or brim densely with vegetation often with magnlllcent for ests hundreds even thousands of years old If It wore not for these for ests all the water that fell would run bWlftly Into the valleys the wtreams vould rise to floods und In a few days time tho channels would be dry again This Is actually what now happens In many valleys of the West great torrents tor-rents for two of three week In the year absolute drought all the remainder remain-der of the time I It 1 Is therefore of vital Importance that these forests be preserved pre-served Time Westerner led by wise scientists has taken up the miller and by good fortune the Government at Washington bay been aroused to the necessity of the case and forest reserves re-serves and national t I parks have been created which will not only go clown to future Kunurailonn as the most notable places of natural beauty on the continent conti-nent but they will preserve life and bring happiness to the valleys below Comradely I Good comrade inlm I do not care Aloni what lInt hour foot shall fare So Ime we Com our Ininleiui br i And wnntln ran bcnoath the iilcy IIulu brethren of the sun and air The morn awaits UH nnd the f noon Ayo evn till the peer of moon With fern and llowor with bird and bo With rood I and vim with jrasa and tree Our chirks shall be closo In tune And well I know that I we shall bring 13aek toni our outlaiul Kvjryliir A laririf1 raptured C from the mirth And lovliiniHSK of mother earth Whose soul Is I over llko the sprIng Thou trip the pilgrim run IT Afar rut JilllB nnil hermit hnllmvs alt I Iliv sun pours round us vlrnln cold And frnm yon violet liriglit lnholil The tmlninwn bockotiH Ilki a nturJ Clinton Suolliinl In tin I Indcjiumlcnl I Dsfcctivo Scent of Birds Animals follow their nosey with m crrlug Instinct A dog Identifies his master by l > i Kindling him A goat picks her kid from an Inclosure of hundreds I with her nose After a separation a cow Is never satisfied with her calf l until she has thoroughly smvllcd U 4 The feat bored family sue ao deficient as to smell and taste that they I go anywhere and eat anything says a writer I in Outing I haw seen birds contentedly I I brooding I about slaughterhouses and sewer discharged where lie 1 air was so contaminated that my horse would turn up m Its I nose draw its lips back from Its teeth and gioin and I could only accute my ma terial I by working with I a cloth flipped In disinfectant bound over my llmmc and nostrils The birds eat unspeakable 1 thing It I is nothing to Und them I raking 1 the river banks for worms at the very mouth of a sewer discharge S S 4 Some of our gnldennotcVl gay J lyplumas birds that t have been sung by poets and painted by artists may be found In I the fields complacent ly l picking the t undigested corn from The droppings of the herds they follow Beyond all question the birds have sight and the animals scent but where each Is defective In one of these senses I it i seems compensate for by the eater eat-er degree In which it posscsi the other Evils of the Competitive System A deplorable feature of this competi tive L ayslem Js that It touches the Imagination Im-agination of those lower I in the scale of income and produces among them a I fever of dlfcontent nnd ambitious unrest They become a pushing crowd of egotists Ihuir homes lose the simplicity sim-plicity i of the oldtime American family and become centers of social Intrigue the I I marriages of their children arc If not actually arranged then promoted with an eye to the main chance they t hang h upon the triumphs of the society column they give themselves over to fashionable vices such as gambling at bridge whist scandilmongerlng and sycophancy until their peace of mind bucomes l a tiling of the past and they lose I their sense of the perspective and dignity of life Such misguided materialists mate-rialists remind one of the t famous son pct 1 of Keats t On Fumcr which read so to speak in the feminine gender might appropriately be entitled On Social I Ambition How fcvord Is Ihu t man who cannot look Upon his mortal days with temperate bloo1 Who vexes sill the leaves of his lifes boo And robs his fair namo of Its maiden hood U Is IH If the rose should pluck herself Or the ripe plum linger Its misty bloom An If a Naiad like u meddling elf Should darken her pure grot with muddy looi Dill thu t robe leaves herself upon the hrler For winds to kIss and grateful bees to teed And tli roo uliun sllll wears Us dim all Ire The undisturbed lake hap crystal space Why then should man teasing the world for sracu Spoil his htilvjitlon for a fierce mlscrecd Century for July Craze for March Music All I 1 over I he world said flu nil miii ter t Sou a nothing goes like popular music I can sde up my audience asa as-a general 1 thing before I have finished my second number I gave them Wag ner l In Berlin They liked It But when ps an encore I played one of my own marches or tin American popular i melody mel-ody the applause wan tremendous t They pick up our tunes too In Sor iXMilo m on the t Fourth of July I hoard an Itilian 1 t bund play John Browns Body and they played IL I In far levi ragged fashion than they did one of mir own marches a few minutes later Most of the national melodic have been derived from foreign sources but John Browir Body and Marching Through Georgia l1lc not Glory Hal lelujah originated an a Sundayschool hymn In Charleston S C Kitcheners troops sang It In the Soudan It will be sung so long as men ma rob to war to military music Philadelphia Press Its an Impossibility Charles Stockier tells the following joke on himself lIe was taking a short cut through Frankfort street one afternoon a few days ago when he cairn upon a child crying bitterly lie stopped to ask what was the matter Mamma nays I cant ever be Presi dent C sobbed t lie child Well what If I you cant condoled the lawyer l Then arc lots of olhr ways of making a name for yourself even it1 you dont get Roosevelts Job You can grow up to be a good man and thats hotter than being President Dont you think so But I cant grow up to be a goodman good-man walled the youngster In a fresh outburst of woe Xiitihciiac aidMr Sleekier Of course you can Cant neither t bellowed the child Why not Id like to know Cause Im a little tlrlNcw York World How American Women Travel IIost American women abroad work hard They travel 1 In all sorts of discomfort dis-comfort rising while It I le yet night walking through t miles of picture gal lorles visiting I ancient churches and cathedrals ca-thedrals anti doing all kinds of places In which they lake no Interest They go to so many cities and sue thorn so superficially that 1 they know nothing I about any oC them really TIow can any one know anything of It country Its people Institutions language art architecture morals schools or any thing else Just by racing through It with a party of nervous hurried strangers strang-ers each mimber of It llrcd and worn to a frlvleV Womans Home Companion Com-panion Nicknames Out of Style The present fashion oC using the full Christian name of persons 1 young or old when addressing them instead of a nickname as Ufled to I bu the rule IK a more sensible thing to do than fnsh lon usually prescribes but why It J should be counted n crime for an intimate inti-mate friend In a moment of forgetful ncsB to revert to the old nickname It li I > bard to understand To call her child JJossle cut 1 once she was called rousea the Ire of the put out of VKllssnbcih Anne brings you up with a frown and a sharp reminder re-minder should you call her Annie though you may never in her case have learned of tho change from the old style Will as a rule docsml care a fig himself what you cull him but be quite I sure his mother doeii and will say to you reprovingly William If you please 1C I you Umncu to call him Willie Two persons wh < > had been close friends had a quarrel which parted them for life over ones PersIst l I lice In calling thc child of the other Babe Instead of Jladys which was her name Detroit Pre Press 1IaJdn g Rend fcr a Bath Col Harry Hall has Just returned from a Western trip lie says that I 0 nIl n-Il Journey access the pralrlcn hy stopped with P farmor for thenight Ho asked If hu could have a bath for ho watt duslv and titehst fumed Certain rcMllcd iu farmer Then he shoulfd to his son 11m get the fixIn1 for n bath for this yer gent Jim I cAtno back with C a towel I a chunk of soap and a pickaxe Whats that I pickaxe for asked HallOh Oh said Jim youll have to dam up the crlcIcNew York World Labor Union Church A labor union chut oh with the rich excluded Is I the latest proposal of or gnnltd labor In Indiana i The project hi an Interesting departure from the t Biblical Ideal I of the mud and the poor niLcilng togvihcr I before the Lord who Is the Mnkcrof them all With a mcm borublp limited to I hose In good nnd I regular u slaiiIfng in trades unions amid with Die runnng expenses paid by aa stssniuiilfl as 1C I for a strike tho Ill COPS of the I pew evangelical venture I would scorn lt I C > be assund We pre mimi there would be II stringent rule ngnlnst long scrmonu twenty minutes with n loaning to the 1 ilde of mercy was Air OBvm iss Idea and n lalmr union congregation would have peculiar pecu-liar advantages In enforcing It Thoy could rattle t their I pew doors M al I got up and go out on lie stroke ol tho I clock Just as they drop their hammers on week days New York Evening Post A Duty of Parents A boy 15 years old who had successfully success-fully worked in the I head of his clafs In a Hbhoken grammar school a mid who was to havo boon the doss H ladle 1 Inrlan developed an affliction of the heart and after I the examination t was io exhausted that t ho took to his bed He was anxious for hIs diploma and to plcaiv > him In his sickness the school authorities made it out and gave It to his teacher to present to him but before the teacher reached his home ho had died A nil tho I reflection Is that this Is one of the tragedies of overstudy and a testimony lo the barbarity of a strenuous school system Of Ibis Individual In-dividual I case we know nothing but t of such cases In general It Is not unjust to say that I they I are the tragedies of unrciuinnablc parental ambition and testimony to the negligence and rcck lesoiiCitB of fathers I and mothers It 1 Is an fxlraordinary boy who at IS 1 years old determines of himself to go to the head of his grammar school class and to I be the vilcdletorlaii u and most boys can be implicitly I I i trusted I not to allow I such an ambition to Injure Ibcir health Teachers and parents and taskfi and ON en the system arc usually futile In their attacks upon the boys physical system MO far aM study is I concerned So when a bov who needs restraint doe appear nothing i is more obvious to a discerning mind than that the llrst duly Is to rcfilraln him and that no parent can honorably shift thai duty to the teacher or put the Illume for its nonobservance upon the course of study or upon rhe school system That so many boys escape alive and well is proof sufllclont that a boy need not be killed by his school but If the parent par-ent docs nol rnako sure that lc l Is not being killed who will That Is what parents are for Harpers Weekly The Cost of Irrigation Those who look forward to the con liol 01 the great rivers of America and the use of funds supplied by the Government Gov-ernment for that purpose point to the fact thai t England has spent about SIO 000000 on tin new Nile dams and other works for controlling I the t great Egypt Egyp-t river and making certain the crops of the valley below and that sho has Invested tIme sum of J3COOOO000 for Irrigation Ir-rigation purposes In I India during the last thirty years A single canal from the Ganges cost 15000000 11 has a total longin including tributaries and drainage cuts of i10 miles and Irrigates Irri-gates over l 1000000 acres of land Thc > 3 works In India costly and stupendous as they I have been arc regarded by the JSnglish asi pioiUtihlc Investment There arc 0000000 acres of land under cultivation In the valley of the Nile supporting a population of over fiOOO 001 people Mr tflwood Mead Irrigation Irriga-tion expert of thc United Stales Government Gov-ernment estimates that the Missouri river and Its I tributaries C If I properly controlled will Irrigate live times as much territory furnishing an opportunity opportu-nity for the expansion of surplus population popu-lation that will last the American people peo-ple for a long time to come No those I westerners do not bellevo in thc necessity neces-sity of foreign Inlands as an outlet for American colonlxatlon they point rather ra-ther lo their own expanses of unclalm vil cheap rich land In a climate that Is nearly perfect Ray Stannard Haker I in July Century Sahara Dust in England Tn C the course of a paper on The Com nlsh Dustfall of January IDOL read before the Royal Meteorological society at iu Victoria sircei recently MI 11 U Mill said that I since he I Krakatoa eruption III 1SS when the volcanic dust thrown I Into the air made Itself I apparent appa-rent for many monlhs all over the world In a long soriOM of brilliant Kun < ols I the most remarkable Instance of far u traveled dust was that which occurred III March lMil hays the London Telegraph Tele-graph In Italy I the rain foil so thickly thick-ly I charged with red sand thai thin pea sfintn took I it I for blood and became pan 1 m icstricken For three days the dust cloud traveled northward over central Europe substantial traces falling far north ay the Danish Islands and Instances In-stances In which it reached parts of JSnghind anil Scotland hud been recorded re-corded A large quantity of similar dust fell about January Llst last In Cornwall over an aioa of OUO square miles and the conclusion seamed to bo that about this time the atmosphere over the extreme west oC Europe eon jlstcd of itlr which bad come from the African deserts carrying with I It I a quantity 01 lino dust of which It mere vciulgc some 100000 ions or solaud boon caught In I Its fall and carried to the shores of the channel There uccmcd to be little t doubt that I the farmers oC I lie west of Kngland hud this spring plowed many tons 01 the sand of till Sahara Into their furrows Growth of Christian Science Joseph Dana Miller In his article on Tho Growth of Christian Science in The Era Magazine gives the following interesting information Toe total number of Christian Science Sci-ence churches and societies here and abroad is now 001 showing tho I remarkable remark-able increase of st during the last year The Christian Science Sentinel furnishes the following authorltallvo llguros reln lIve to LIlt denomination The total I number of branch churches for the year ending December 31st 1000 was 113 1 The total number for the year ending December 3lrt J1I01 was IOB giving an incrcahe of 53 branch churches The total I number of oclolius nol yet organized us churches for till year I ending December 31st lOGO was lII The total number for time year ending December De-cember Jlst IJOl was 107 giving an increase in-crease of LS societies Hesldcs there there arc many five reading rooms more than one hundred in the United States eight in Greater New York alone und one largo one In Chicago in which all the churches of that city unite These reading rooms are tl feature 01 the denomination and u arc to bo found In many of the cities abroad where Christian Science hna obtained ob-tained I a lodgement 1 Tho First Church of Christ Scientist Scien-tist III Huitoti Muflimchustiltn was fin ished In ISLl at an cxpcnce of over 5210 t 000 and wan dedicated III iSt5 > It ir known as The Mother Church all the other churches being branches of this one Mistaken jfor Pat Sheedy ExSpeaker Thomas H Reed war a victim of mistaken Identity the other morning according lo a yarn told at Ihc Lawyers club The portly statesman states-man was walking clown Hroadway when ho was accosted by a A Vail ulreit operator who IB fond of other gamn of ohanco besides tho s played on the stock exchange and who In wont to confuse facon Hollu Pat was the operator > greeting Sir exclaimed the cxSrea Icon You look as fresh as a daisy old boySir Sir repeated Mr Reed with rising Inflection You must have won a nIle last night Sir thundered the mon from Maine Oh come off Pat Dont you recog nise your friends when you are down hoio hoioYou You have made a mistake sir Well If you are not Pat Shcody Ill cat my hat Do io then salt the cxSpcakor cttilly 1 am Thomas It Hood A Question Wheneer I feed lie barnyard folk My uontl soul Is vexed My uetiHlhlllllea are torn And 1 am sore yuralexod I The roomer 10 politely slniuls While waiting for lila food But when I teeth him what a change lie then lo rouuli ami rude Ho crowds his gentle wives nslrto Or Decks them on the bond Snniftlmeii I think It would bo beat If J ho were never fed And no I often stand for hours Dcclii Inn which IB right To iumiilI II ely have enough Or starve and bo yollte TSIlls Parker Duller In Leslies Monthly for July Tho New Woman in Japan The Japan Womens university Is said to have adopted baseball In a modified form cus an exorcise for Its students The modification made by i a gymnastic teacher consists of Increasing the number num-ber of bases to live Instead of four and of shortening the hilerbuso distance Tho Hold will therefore bo pentagonal In I shape says Die Japan Times The heading of this note may sound ob Jecllonablc but in using It We do not of course Insinuate that our new women wom-en behave extravagantly as their sis tams I in the West ara supposed to do The creation of new women adopted for national requirements la I an Inevitable Inevit-able consequence of the new state of affairs In Japan Womans Responsibility That woman is responsible for three fourths of all the sin crime and poverty pover-ty of the entire world was the wholesale whole-sale accusation brought against I her recently re-cently by a reverend bishop In thc Middle Mid-dle West This arraignment occurred at a public gathering and before an audience au-dience of two thousand people I In which women predominated Ills remarks were received with rapturous applause which goes to show that women do not mind being told how wicked they are but rather enjoy It This by no moans proves that they intend to profit by Hand H-and must not be so construclod by I any reformer who Is I prone lo slake his fame upon a regeneration of the elusive sex It may havo been that the women In till t audience found the C bishop an attractive at-tractive gentleman to watch und listen to If lie was he hud a slrong point in his favor and may havo been applauded ap-plauded for sentiments which If I ut letod by a less favored orator might have boon hissed Despite the apparent approval I of his feminine I hearers which does not delude us in the least wo wish to record our disagreement with the condemnatory con-demnatory speaker and In particular with one of his remarks regarding wo mans responsibilities as a mother To her man must leave the training of the t boys and girls that I are to bo time fathers and mothers of time future Shall woman wo-man be false ungrateful and traitorous traitor-ous to the truit that man has reposed In her Even In these days of Dlbll cal criticism It is startling to ho told that It was man who appointed woman to the honorable post of mother Harpers Har-pers Weekly What the Miner Really Makes There Is a wide difference of opinion regarding tin actual wages of the striking strik-ing anthracite miner The nominal wages as figured by the operator vary from SoOOO to 7fiOO a month The actual ac-tual wages un figured by the miner vary from 000 to tS00 a month This difference Is duo to the fact thai the operator figures on the basis of full lime I while the fact Is thai the miner rarely makes full lime and Is compelled to figure according to the actual number num-ber of days ho has worked which In the past ten years have averaged little over llftoen days to the month The report re-port of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Mines i and Mining for ISllfl shows Iliac the average wages of the miner for that year would not exceed SlinSOO nn ncr ugv of I2H71 per month Potor Roberts I in Ills recent publication on the Anthracite Anthra-cite Coal Industry gives the average monthly earnings of the minor for the years IMS as 53110 and that I of the day laborer Is ZIOnn average of 1117 per day for thc miner and 90 cents for thc laborer I take from my notebook the following statiment made by an old 1 miner whoso word cannot be questioned Family of six Av mage monthly wages for twelvemonths twelve-months Nov 1000 to Nov 1001 3000 Rent l0 clothes and shoos GOO doc tom and medicine lf0 I coal I 200 lodge and church 150 household goods 5200 total SIToO Thorc Is left a balance of SlSfiO for food for six during Iho month Rev John McDowell In The Pilgrim for July Regions cf Present Volcanic Activity The active volcanic groups of the Western Hemisphere I occur In five widely wide-ly I separated regions 1 The Andean group of volcanoes of thc equatorial region of western South America 2 The chain tIC some twentylive great cindercones which stretch east and west across the couth end of The Mexican plaleau S The Central American group with Its thirtyone active craters extending diagonally across the western ends of the enstanclwcsL folds of time Caribbean Carib-bean corrugations fringing the Pacific side of Ciuatcmaln San Salvador and Costa TJlca This Is separated from the Mexican group on the north by a largo I nonvolcanic area the Isthmus of Te huantepec and on the south from the Andean volcanoes by l the Isthmus oC Panama wh1e no active volcanoes are found I I The chain oC volcanoes oC the Windward Islands marking the eastern gulo oC the Caribbean sea standing In a line directly cross the eastern terminal ter-minal I I of I the Caribbean mountains trending east and west and parallel lo the Central American group similarly sim-ilarly situated at their western terminal ter-minal 5 The volcanoes of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands Prof Albert T Hill In tho July Century Where Employer and Employee Share Rufus Rockwell Wilson In the Juno Success descrlbos In an Interesting I manner the town of Leclalre la established es-tablished by X 0 Nelson the manufacturer manu-facturer ns a cooperative colony Speaking of the sharing of profits Mr Wilson says Prodisharing a practiced III Lc claire Is based on earnings and Is I an added percentage on wages If the divi u dend Is 2 Pet cent n man with a salary 01 1000 receives 20 in addition and an olllce boy whose wages are 5200 a year gets a dividend of SI I The pieceworker piece-worker ban his share tho same as the man working for wages and In his case the yearly sum of the earnings Is the basis of percentage of extra profit No one IK excluded from the list anil the men IIIC also encouraged to become stockholders In the I company which gives thorn employment A nhllre cots U0 and a man can buy as much 01 us lt tie as be deslri < or even a fraction of a share paying for it out of Ills wages During the last ten years the workmen of I < jclalro have received dividends on their wages equal to 7 per cent per annum and those who invested a portion of their wages In stock have received III Iniorcin and dividends an average of about li per com on their Investment Nearly all of inc I cmplnjioi own stock In the company com-pany nlthmigh I It optional with them The workman can buy It or not I as suits his pleasure nnd when ho quits Lcclalre If ho wishes to sell his stock the company buys It for what ho paid for iu China Wants Bicycles That It I would bo worth while for American manufacturers of bicycles to look for trade In China Ia evident from a report which has Just been sent by the Italian cnnsu 1 nt Tientsin to his homo government t Enterprising manufacturers of bicycles bicy-cles lm ways could easily establish a large business in China and especially at Tientsin since that oily Is mirround ed by ovoril I small villages which at present laclc the proper facilities for communicating with each vilhcr Bicycles Bicy-cles are now only sold In Tientsin by two Chinese dealers and as a result a large price Is paid for them Very Dramatic Actress Actresses do not generally carry thc tragic air of the stage Into their every day affairs but there are exceptions It Is related of a in motH actress that when traveling who was occustomed to dine strictly alone On one occasion the waiter brought her dinner ten minutes min-utes too soon and she made him take It away until the hour had struck It was at the same hotel that she gave a servant some clothes for the laundry When can these bo re turned to me washed and Ironed 7 she Inquired l The day after tomorrow at 12 I3e It ao was the stately reply But at the hour appointed the clothes had not arrived She summoned the servant My clothes that were to be returned at 12 today bring them Hut madam we have not been able to get them ready owing to a difficulty In i i the laundry You shall have them tomorrow liming them now they were promised today I know It madam but they are not ready enymutt That matters not lo me do as you arc bid The servant went out and a few mo monts later two men entered bearing In their arms a tub of soapsuds and vet clothes set them on the floor and went out Whether or not the Imperious lady fin ished the task herself is not recorded Philadelphia Press The Iklosb Ancient of Crowns Among the crowns preserving the ancient an-cient form more than any others now worn is the socalled Iron crown of Lombnniy which Is the most treasured national possession of the Italian king dom It Is of golden plaques or panels rather longer than they are high but small In size so as not to rise above the top of time head They form in deed only a Jointed band of foliagod embossed relief work and one narrow wlro of Iron binds them together In the Inside this wire having the icputo of bolng hammered out from one of the nalls of our Saviors cross It was the enlargement of these panels In olhcr crowns which loci to the crosshand or closure of the crown Look at the German crown and the Austrian both adaptations 04 that of time old Emperors of LIme Holy Roman Empire The arch of Empire became the result In the crown of the necessity for fasten lug panels for protectloui lot the head from any stroke from above delivered In war Leslies Monthly for July Science O Science child of lisle Philosophy Wltnac clunrcut fcalurca too correct for Art Have ofttlrncs played Medusa to the heart Of budding 1ancv fair and wild and free Thou who art yet the queen of Liberty For whose while favors uncos oft have sIghed On whose hronl plain brave men have ruoicd md died Strlvlnr through mists of hope thy face to ace Thou whose bright touch like sunlight cloth divide Tho heavy clouds which long have veiled Ito urlzo Who grandly careless of a worlds ic nowiit Dost search untiring earth and heavens wide Shall wo yet find in thy calm clear cold eyes Qho faith thy feet have seemed to tram ale down Agnes M Matthews In July Success The Number Seven Numerous are the queer beliefs concerning con-cerning the number seven From time very earliest ages he seven great planets plan-ets wore known nod ruled this world and time dwellers In It and their num her entered Into every conceivable matter mat-ter that concerned man Thorc are seven sev-en days in the week seven holes In the head for the master stat are seven seven ages for both man and time world In which he lives says the St James Gazette There arc seven material heavens There are seven colors in the spectrum and seven notes In the clinton ic octave and the I loading note of timescale time-scale Is the seventh no It noted that tin seventh son is not always gifted with beneficent powers In Portugal ho is believed lo bo subject to the powers pow-ers of darkness and to bo compelled every Saturday evening to assume the likeness of an ass Ice in a Volcanic Eruption Thompson the assistant purser had scon the rain coming but hail time to fling himself through Die open doorway door-way of his stateroom and close Iho door Thin next instant the ship veered over and water hot from tins fire sweep log over It poured Into his cabin until lie was up to hi neck Then the ship rightud the water receded and Thomp son struggled out on the starboard alloy al-loy and came upon two women horribly burned and begging piteously for water lie rushed Into a neighboring stale room and finding a can was about lo fill IJL from time little lank ol1 fresh water above time basin when he felt something soft beneath his foci Looking down lie saw the dead face of a man Ve broke a block of Ice Into small pieces Those the sufferers could hold In their mouths when they could no longer lon-ger drink Several of them had their tongues burned out The coatings oft their of-t moil tht and tongues and ihc linings lin-ings of their noses were sometimes entirely en-tirely gone so that the aIr when they attempted to draw their breath would block their throat and nostrils and smother thorn From Chief Officers Account Ac-count of the Loss of tho Roralma In Leslies Monthly |