Show I I Forest a Continent Long I Nowhere else in z the world is thero such a forcst as this A few steps in any direction from the roads of the loggers log-gers bring one at once to the primeval wood Turn to the north A thousand and five hundred miles you may wander If you will and never escipc the inclosing silences of this wood Across the British Brit-ish possessions through endless reaches I of mountains snowcapped inaccessible l inaccessi-ble and onward to Alaska nothing but trees and trees cedar fir hemlock pine spruce Turn to the south For a thousand miles of Sierra through tho heart of California where grows the sequoia I se-quoia the monarch among trees to the very doterts of the Mexican border i and you will find this forest still covering cov-ering all the hills thick silent and all I I I but undisturbed A continent long is this wood facing the Pacific hero 200 J miles wide from the waters edge across I the heights of the Cascades and the Sierra Si-erra there narrowing to a thin straggling strag-gling yet persistent growth along the Ii mountain tops This tree before you rising 250 feet In the nlr straight and strong thick coated with brown bark Its mighty I base setting firmly In the earth ita I roots gripping down was growing before I be-fore Columbus fav America 500 years It has been standing here raising Its head to the sky What storms has it bent before under what ages of sun Hhlne has it gained strength what lightning strokes have threatened it what sweeping fires And still It stands with the sublime majesty of age I nnd strength fearful oC nothingand The sound of axes knocking In the valley I val-ley belowRny Stannard Baker in Century I Parental School of Love Tutoring The fact Is parents begin too late to tutor their girls In the choosing of husbands They wait Until they have fallen In love The best way to make our girls choose men of character is to Instill character into our girls Not only does this method enable them to recognize character when It Is present and feel Its absence when It Is lacking but It creates the taste for character and the desire to be associated with it By laws of moral gravitation all vices and virtues seek out their own As water after strange meanderlngs flnda again Its level as birds of a feather eventually flock together though they circle for a time In space apart as qhlckcns come home to roost though they scratch In pastures new so the dualities tastes and tendencies In everyman every-man and woman unconsciously seek and respond to their kind in the natures of men and women they meet Not until We find natures akin and responding to our own can wo really love and not until those natures rest upon high character can that love last The theory of opposites may be scientifically correct but for everyday wear It Is a rood deal more comfortable to get on with similars Parents often consider their duty to their daughter fulfilled when they seato sea-to It that she marries the right sort of man But marrying the right sort of man does not ensure married happiness Marriage means new responsibilities J responsi-bilities for girls and happy marriage means the fulfillment of those responsibilities respon-sibilities The parents who would direct their daughters choice In marriage should direct their education not only toward the wise choosing of husbands but so that they shall justify the choice of worth > men not necessarily rich or titled men but men or character and the ability to make them happy Lavinia Hart In Colliers Weekly i 1 A Marquis on the M Uket i The Marquis Arthur de Mayo Durazzo oC Naples Italy has arrived In I i I New York In search of an American whose father Is willing to pay a good I stiff price td have a marquis in the family The Marquis Durazzo lo l deft de-ft j lleloualy frank He has not only advertised In the New York Herald for the purpose of making the object of his visit known but he has willingly explained I his desires to Interviewers E i You see he said to one of the reporters I am young and would like a P 1 beautiful bride with a large dowry I Even a marquis can hardly bo censured for nurturing such an ambition I When asked If 100000 would bo a satisfactory dowry the noble marquis very properly refused to commit himself It would do he intimated If that L was the best America had to offer but ho sadly said It IB not much re I I turn for the honor my title brings My family la nearly G30 yearn old Let us hone the excellent marquis may not have to return to Naples with I a morn 5100000 beauty and the idea that Americans are niggardly Think of a marquis whose family is nearly 650 years old going for a paltry 100000 It IB 1 scandalous It New York has no money to pay for marquises whose families are old enough to be sufficiently decayed let the nobleman come out this way r The honor of our country Is at stake but we do not fear the outcome It J la up to rich fathers of our beautiful maidens to demonstrate that they are Btlll game and there Is little doubt that come one of them will respond to the entire satisfaction of the delightful marauls Chlcaco RecordHorald I Republics Versus ViOm J il Our country according to M Le Roux Is in danger from the precedence given to woman Minerva according to him sprang from tho head of Jove not from the head of Juno Ho is afraid oC too many grass eggs In America Now alonG cornea one Mrs Woolsey with a book to prove the exact opposite1 The book la shrill and Innocent hut tho fact that it found a publisher perhaps proves that the womans rights spoutcrs are not all dead This volume called Republics vs Woman demonstrates that It Is better for women to live In monarchies for In England or China a woman has a chance to become Queen whereas with us she cannot be President She Is not In the directory her face on the currency Is Impersonal there are no streets named for her and no battleships the funeral of even a Presidents wife is private and there Is no place for women In masculine clubs According to the authors nolco her hits against the tyrant sex wero received by her woman audience with shrieks of laughter The same response might have been elicited had the audience been composed of men The work deserves the serious consideration considera-tion of Ixvvlnla Queen of tho Holland Dames of Sorosla and ot Carrie Nation j It proves that the United States is the most Intoxicated hypocritical licentious j licen-tious and condemned country on the face of the earth because Its governors 4 arc men During the time I kept tag says the anthor whose English is remarkable remark-able I found that over threefourths of the victims of murder were women the majority of their murderers being their husbands Russia ought to address ad-dress a note to that masculine oligarchy the American Republic especially as the murderers are in the vast majority of cases nativeborn American men 0 Royal women can propose marriage and ask for dances hut no woman in this country according to Mrs Woolsey has either of these privileges Sancta slmpllcltas There Is something holy in such Ignorance About her wo would aok as she asks about all worthy women Where arc Its public monuments monu-ments to such In America when a man becomes drunk he uses an ox to beat his wlfea brains out In monarchies the liquor only makes him happy Norman Hap good in Colliers Weekly Social Economics vs Poetry Dr Frances Dickinson president of the Social Economics club was guilty at least of gross carelessness when she went to Springfield to look after affairs af-fairs of state and left the club with a substitute at the helm It came nigh causing the disruption of the organization In an unlucky moment the subject sub-ject for discussion and action by the club was Introduced in the form of verse The subject had been suggested by Dr Dickinson herself prior to going to Springfield and evidently had been chosen by her because she fancied It would make no trouble But It had Just the opposite effect The subject appeared in the regular programme In the form of a verse Betting forth that anticipations antici-pations sweet and ever leads men on but realitys a cheat when the novelty Is gone The subject seems to be an Innocent one There havo been worse verses written than the one In question which might have been produced by any one of th hundred or moro Evanston poets But its Introduction at once raised a storm Tho presiding officer said It was shocking Some members demanded de-manded its withdrawal Other members said they would not have come one step to time club If I they had known a topic was to have boon presented In such an undignified manner Some would have liked to discuss Anticipation Others Oth-ers would lllte to have talked of Reality After a heated discussion the poetry wa ruled out and thus It will never be known what is the opinion of the Social Economics sisterhood as to the effect of anticipation as a masculine mas-culine lure or what It believes as to reality when the novelty Is goneChlcago Tribune How to Cure a Cat It may be an old trick but I never heard oC it until Dr F L Van Note the Flatbush dentist told me about It yesterday His office cat was ailing and he was going to administer a dose of medicine to her How do you do It I asked A cat Is so plaguey obstinate Yes but It Is very easy to make her take medicine said he Just put it Into something sticky and rub in on her paws She will lick every particle oC it off Theres Ingenuity worthy of Conan Doyle Brooklyn I Eagle A Spotless Character Prospective employer You dont drink ApplicantNo sir Dont gamble No sir Wouldnt touch the filthy weed oh No sir Never swoar Never sir Consider It a vile habit I suppose Yew sir sIrguees Well J guess Ill try somebody else I wouldnt feel quite comfortable If I had a coachman so much better than I am myself Now York Times The Cause of CaHhcer Almost simultaneously two announcements arc made concerning the mature ma-ture of cancer Dr Bertram H Buxton and Professor R August Wltthaus 1 i of the Cornell Medical school think that one form of this disease sarcoma exercises the power of fermentation and that Us development may be checked by Introducing Into tho patients system the germs of erysipelas Capt Rost oC the British military service in India attributes both sarcoma and carcinoma to a lack of chlorine in the sicUms system He therefore fights them by administering plenty of common salt to make good the deficiency The American Investigators conducted their studies and tests In Bellovue hospital in this city and the East Indian export worked In a similar Institution in Rangoon It Is I somewhat puzzling to the general reader to he told that Improvement Im-provement was noticed in consequence of both methods of treatment and that one or more cures were apparently effected by each Medical men arco accustomed to contradictions of this sort that they will not be surprised but r they will certainly wait awhile before fully accepting either story In full So many unconfirmed discoveries havo been mado by cancer specialists of high standing in the last few years that the profession feels obliged to maintain j an attitude of extreme caution Even yet It is not satisfied that any one has found tho cause New York Trlbun 106 |