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Show i I t I from tht letlrri ant latum on accuracy and farttkouyH.by Earl U. Pratt. Oak Park, lllinou . if The accuracy I j 5 I 3 Tor a rest time review of the dally sources of in information on the of easy errors and the better methods. I ! library is for. enemies friends of forethought, to duce mutually expensive t i I s 1 ii ii remis-tah- es of mechanical commercial and professional people . Overcome evil with good in trying to help those in any trouble. A minute ago I read about a woman who went two thousand miles In order to get away from her many sympathizing friends. IIow Is It that the sympathizing friend manages to increase our sorrows? By having a big heart and a little head or by having an artificially big beartf , 4 My troubles have been more painful on account of sympathizing friends because In place of lifting me up they sat on me. Something might be said about the false friend who enjoys sympathizing, to see suffering, but we will limit this article to the real friend who falls down la trying to comfort you in your msery. A good many examples and Illustra-lion- might be given, but unless I get down to something useful I will disobey my headline. Tou and I may not have been very skillful In the past while delivering bad news or talking to a friend the first time after the friend's misfor- , t tune. i i i I s u n i j I . How can we be more skillful from bow on? The first time I ever wrote a Christian paragraph In a private letter was one In a letter to a beautiful girl cousin whom I had visited. Soon after I heard from that family that my cousin was dead, but that my letter bad been a great comfort to her. You cannot make me believe that 1 wrote that paragraph to my cousin from any every day promptings. It was, In my mind, a product of some momentary goodness or a superior power. In trying to comfort others we should stop and think and appeal to the greatest and best thought we know, in order to sympathize In a way to comfort. Much of the discomforting sympathizing may be duo to laziness In saying anything we happen to think or In Using worn out sentences that mean nothing. If there Is anything we need, original preparation for It Is for times when we talk to friends with breaking hearts and bleeding memories. Profitable Precautions. minutes a day of simple bodily exercises will enable us to perform unexpected tasks which otherwise might be dangerous If not fatal. Any person at any time Is likely to bave to Jump, lift, run. pull, push or carry a load or move lively to escape a fall or some danger. You can remember events In your own experience or your observations which will Illustrate the wisdom of always being ready to do something A few i extra difficult. 'This wisdom for the physical Is true with the mental. A person who made a happy bit at an entertainment when placed In a difficult part of the program was asked later how long be was preparing the Idea he sprung on the audience, and he replied about two years. He did not know when he would use It, but kept It growing as mental stock ever ready. be would not use It or any Idea like It, becauRo It was fun rather than humor It luughed at a person In place of with a person and It Is better to lose a hit than to run a rtHk of making a hurt. But when a person Is willing to lose a hit on that account It will not be long before a better hit will bo created, as the heart helps To-da- y the head do Its best. Water-Tigh- t Rubbers. He entered a basement restaurant and aat down under the sidewalk glass roof, with his rubbers, umbrella and overcoat near by. The sidewalk leaked and the water (truck one of the rubbers that didn't leak and the lum ber enjoyed his pie o much he was oblivious to the footwear reservoir. After he had walked a square he noticed a damp big right toe and wondered why the rubber had broken so suddunty. On rcarhlng his desk be Inspected and found that bis foot was wet because bis rubber was whole. It Is astursl for us to think of the most common solution to a condition nod In the long run we may save time to think that way, but those who are always ready to believe In uncommon solutions have tbelr day of victory as well as defeat All progress hi made by those who think twice and wonder nad stop to (famine. The queen of Korea was a clever and ambitious woman, who stood behind the throne and directed the policy of the country. Being a cousin of tho old Imperial family of China, her tendencies were entirely says the Nineteenth Century and After. Accordingly a conspiracy was set afoot for her destruction. Populai rumor suggested her diplomatic enemies as bearing a hand. In any case, during October, 1895, the palace was attacked, the king impounded and the queen murdered In circumstances of brutality unparalleled even In tho history of Japan, so prolific in Instances of callous cruelty. Some of the rival nations were said to have been seen among the murderers one even was pointed out as having 6truck the first blow. Suspicion was supposed to hint at the names of some In high places. Meanwhile the king was virtually a close prisoner In the hands of the Japanese, who, however, attempted to appease popular rumor by recalling their minister and opening an Inquiry Into the manner of the queens death. This was finally decided to have been accidental, and the minister Is said to have been reprimanded. With tho king fast In their hands, the Influence can resist depressing sights and information by means of will power secured by mental exercises. story an hour long has been told this morning by a business manager, and when I left him I felt like taking a month's vacation to mourn over the conditions In some departments of the business world. After I had walked a hundred feet my resolution was made to throw off A me by will power the mental depression and go to work on my day's work with a determination to promote Intelligent commerce as a remedy for (elfish chicanery. A secretary of a big organization told me about the material In many organizations ft,; a scandalous story. That was several years ago when the dusty corners of a prominent mans work were being cleaned with the public as an audience. At about that time another secertary told me that he was going to begin collecting and studying desirable efforts, products and plans. My thought was that d Pocket Pieces. Do you A statue of Louis Joliet, the French explorer, will be placed In the little park in front of the public library building at Joliet, 111., to commemorate the memory of the man for whom the town Is named. Sigvald who made the statue of Lief Erickson In Humboldt Park, Chicago, Is the sculptor, and he has succeeded In Imparting a winning strength of character to the face of the famous ex plorer. Asb-Jornse- TO REMAIN HONEST. HARD Serious Difficulty That Statesmen Have to Face. By way of Illustrating how difficult It Is for a man to remain honest while In the Ohio legislature Congressman Biedler tells a story. A sturdily upright member from one of the country districts was approached by a lobbyist, w ho asked him to vote for a certain bill, hinting at a handsome money consideration. The Indignant member, who was opposed to the measure, began to voice his anger when the lobbyist said the other side was spending a good deal of money to defeat the bill. The member at once said he should not take sides at all, whereupon the lobbyist suggested that he stay away when the vote was being taken. The country legislator, thinking that was a good Idea, did so. On his return the lobbyist handed him $500 for absenting himself. "Great Scott!" said jhe astonished member. "Is there no way for a man to be honest here?" and then he pocketed the $300, Just like an old-time- to-da- y Slnco last August my lectures to audiences of one for newspaper articles have pleased me. My plan Is to keep them going, cut them up and pass them along to you. In one case a reporter had a club of a subject of his own with which ho wanted to hit a certain class of people. but ho wanted me to hold the club and he got me to say something I can Imagine that on that subject. some of iny acquaintances have looked a little differently at me since that Interview camo out. That reporter Is a valuuble help to mo In my advertis lug of accuracy, but ho made me more cautious. Do you blame me for the interview department of my forethought promotion? I sit down an hour, more or less, and bave a pleasant visit with a person on my favorite subject the dally sources of better methods. That person devotes hours to carefully and skillfully writing out and framing my suggestions, then places them before the eyes of thousands. Five years ago I tried to do I of the Japanese became paramo But at last one of the ladies of th, royal harem contrived to smugSi9 the king In her own sedan to the sian legation, where he proceeded to prompt reversal of his forced poic, t From that day dates the destructfo, I of Japanese Influence In Korea. they ever hold the country it will In the chains of conquest, not In nl bands of loyalty. The scanty rellca oil the queen bad been slrce translated from tomb to tomb of Increasing holJ ness, according to the Korean rite, f which the place of sepulture depend f upon the verdict of the augurs a9 j, Its auspiclousress, and Is liable to bs changed as often as the priestly 0pin.f ion alters, or it is set aside bp fresh conclave of clerics, replacing, the former, disgraced and executed. Now she is on the eve of removal to yet a third mausoleum of peculiar I and Inviolable sanctity, where her! poor skull and finger bone will be 3 laid to their last rest, among the ures of porcelain which the KoreanJ bury with the remains of their king and queens. As for the lady who rescued tho king the emperor, as he Is not stj led the next step in her career win be her elevation to the rank of empress-consort of Korea. $ s f, . 1 u i c Evil Spirit at Work carry things In your pockets or Jewelry on you that have stories about them? I expect to be Interviewed by a newspaper man whom I have never seen and my plan is to talk about something I bad In my pockets before I knew that Mr. Unknown was to ask me quesHAS FAME AS RACONTEUR. tions. You may be given the story which he writes my remarks into. Bede Knows But It may be a woman with a pen- Congressman Stories and Tells Them. cil. 1 STATUE OF LOUIS JOLIET ERECTED IN ILLINOIS TOWN We more good could be grown by holding up the desirable than by exposing the evil. My belief Is that the world is growing better not all the time in every placo, but as an average the whole world over. Some think with me and some think the opposite. One man told me that the most comforting Idea In his mind is that the world Is better every day. It may be that prayer when sincere and aggressive Is a source of will power which Improves the world in general as well as the individual who offers the prayer. Were you ever depressed by a story you read or which some one told you? Do you think that we should let the conditions of the report to enter and remain In our mind? Can we drive out the thoughts from our bead the same as we would a vermin-loadebat flying In our houses? We are less able to help those who need help If we are depressed because depression weakens. We are not able to do good work anywhere If our minds are poisoned with the fumes of the acids of evil. We can and we should train ourselves to resist those forces which Injure our Individuality and cut down our ability to comfort, encourage and wisely direct. ! I When entertaining an afterdinner party Congressman J. A. Bede sometimes rattles along like a vaudeville Here are a monologue performer. couple of sample brirks: "Two Irish men were sitting up at a wake and one asked: Thwat did Mike die of? Gargrene, said the other. Let us be thnrkful for the color.' sighed his friend." Hardly wnit ng for the laugh which greeted the above Mr. Bede continued; "Thi' wM is a pretty good suppose you've all been country. there. Weve got a good deal of scenasked the conductor of a train ery. that got Into St. l'aul two days late what had delayed him. A half mllo of scenery fell down on the track. he CAUGHT WITHOUT Son of A NICKEL. Senator Clark In Embarrassing Position. William A. Clark, Jr., son of the Montana senator, boarded a street car In Butte the other day, the line being owned by his father. He found that his pass had run out and told the conductor who he was. But the man had Just been engaged, and the superintendents Instructions were still fresh In bis mind. "My orders are to collect fares," he said, holding out his hand. Young Clark was about to pay, but found himself penniless. A walk seemed Inevitable, when a friend who had been enjoying the scene loaned a nickel to the son of a man worth several hundred millions and the Incident closed. WANTS HIS JOB BACK. China has just degraded Chang Yi, one of its officials, for transferring the Kalping coal mines to British control. The unfortunate man has also been Informed that he will be further punished unless he brings the Kalping mines under Chinese control again within two months. This calls to mind the time when the Pekin government was In a state of panic over the Kalping mines, fearing that they might Involve the reigning dynasty of the empire In terrible evil. It was in the 80s and China was very suspicious of everything foreign. Tho government had become convinced that some kind of machinery used In European coal mining was worth Importing for the Kalping mines. The machinery was Introduced. Europeans were hired to run It, and the coal output was greatly Increased. Five thousand tons had been raised for shipment when suddenly an order came from the Pekin authorities to close the mines at once. This precipitate action was taken to nip an evil influence which had developed In the emperors palace, whose Inmates were In great dismay. The public censor had brought about this unpleasant situation by a memorial which he had presented to the throne. He said it was his melancholy duty to report that the galleries which had f been opened In the Kalping mines by' the foreigners, and the smoke and noise of tho foreign machinery,-ha- d j disturbed the repose of the earth dra--l gon. In venting his displeasure the dragon, in turn, had vexed the spirit of the empress, who had died som months earlier and had been burled about 100 miles away from the minea The spirit of the departed princesi was Justifiably angry and bad taken prompt vengeance by afflicting several members of the imperial household with the measles. There was no doubl that this calamity was distinctly trace-able to the wicked proceedings at tbs i coal mines. Coal mining was, therefore, sue ? pended and It was not until the measles disappeared from the Impe l rial household that calmness again ! prevailed and the reopening of the 1 mines was authorized. But years ! elapsed before machinery was again I ' employed. Only half a generatlon has passed. ? but things have been moving, though slowly, In China. The government j that once closed the mines is now de- - j slrous to keep them, machinery and I all, under Its control. New York Sun, i j Famous New York Police Captain Tlrea of Retirement. Police Captain Chapman of New York, the man who acquired a reminiscent fame by raiding the Seeley dinner at Sherry's, wants to have his name taken off the retired list. What he desires Is an active job with full pay on the police force. Chapman was quite a person about four years ago, but lately he has dropped out of sight. It Is claimed for him that no man In New York has a finer or more luxuriant or better kept set of whiskers. Then there Is the nerve of raiding Sherry's on his side. Public sympathy .Is with him In the effort to get back on the active list. WILL LECTURE IN AMERICA. Famous Frenchman Soon to Tou This Country. Anatole I.eroy Beaulieu, the French 1 publicist, economist and member of the Institute. Is coming to America to lecture under the auspices of the bederatlon ilea Alliances Francalse, And in this fashion Mr. He will be the replied." seventh annual lecturBuie proceeds for a goodly portion of er to come from France at the InviI. is speeches to give the banqueters tation of Cerolo Francalse do ITnl the value cf their money In paying his versite Harvard .to deliver the bright-mindeHyde expenses hack and forth from Wash- lecture at Harvard this year. M. I.eington. roy Beaulieu Is a brother of the fa mous French economist, Tsui I.eroy LEFT SEAT IN CONGRESS. Beaulieu, and holds many positions of distinction, Including the presiRecent Action of Congressman Sha- dency of tho National League Against froth Had Precedent. To-dalike this Atheism. and failed. something Mr. Shnfroth of Colorado Is not the It is a natural product. first Democrat who refused to accept UNABLE TO GIVE GUARANTEE. a seat In congress because he believed Bright Boys 8carce. A man got a boy to help him with Washington Bartender Honest About carry his election had been tlng'-When J. c. Black of the bundles to a railroad station. Hit Wares. The fraud. aaaln-- t station was used by four railroads. t:iii Geotgla district ran Two or three members of the senThere wero two stairways, each lead- Thomas E. Wat. on In was elected by ate like brandy and are fastidious ing to two trains for two roads. The a ?' d m ijorlty. but It was charged about the kind they drink. They found man knew better, but by easy error thut llure was much irregular vo'lng a hold In Washington where there Wh n Mr. were several hollies labeled as he started up the wrong stairway, be- !u Richmond county of tho cause he was thinking about soma Black learned of this he forwarded his distillation of 1M1. This cost brandy Inti to the governor, who or- 75 cents a drink. "Here It Is." said other subject and he nearly always rcslgn.it Mr. Black was on "f the used thut stairway when taking trains dered a new election. senators when he had InMr. Shafroth, by the vited two chosen again. at that station. to havo some. companions The boy Instantly corrected him and way. was champion chess playei of "It Is the finest In Yon Washington. he told the boy that he needed a manthe house while there, being one of ran see by the label that it was disager as well as some one to help him those who look part In the game by tilled In ISM. Isn't that right, Mr. carry bundles. An employment bu- ruble between the bouse of represenBartender? what tho label rhaf reau says that the right kind of boys tatives and the British house of comsays," the bartender replied, "but I mons. are difficult to And. don't know the printer. There are a plenty of negleeted Crown Princs Is Headstrong. hoys whlrb might have been taught to Origin of Familiar Expression. There Is growing fear In Berlin enjoy doing things and do them right With reference to the origin of the amo. Some time ago people w ith fore- court circles that the crown prince familiar expression, "So long," corre-Kindcthought saw that they must begin of Prussia, eldest sou of the Kaiser, s of the London Acadcmv to grow ability and earnestness tbs may carry out his declared purpose that it Is derived from the Nor same aa they grew wheat and corn, to contract a morganatic marriage wegUn "Saa laenge," a common form so they started places for doing this with some American girl. The young of farewell, equivalent In meaning to kind of work. man, headstrong and erratic as his "an revolr," and pronounced like "ao Many children are so situated they father, has asserted more than once long." with the "g" softened. There have neither opportunity nor Incen- that when he weds his bride will be was a fair number of Norwegians a natlvo of this country. On several tive for any kind of useful work withtha settlers In America, to out which the end Is poor judgment occasions he has paid violent court among the namea, and It Is aulte and Indolence. In sumo homes tbert to American stage beauties, his latest Judge by the likely phrase was picked up from la so much "civilization" tha children flams having art him on fire more them. It Is In general use among tha are tho last to be thought of and for. fiercely than ever. Dutch In South Africa. 1 d aug-gest- Silver as an Antiseptic To properly dress a wound Is not an easy thing, and the process Is complicated and may be costly when the dressing has to be renewed every dav. There are none of these oojec-tlonhowever, In the method of Dr. Roboul, for whether the dressing Is to be applied to a recent cut or to an ulcerated tumor, a sheet of silver or sliver leaf Is all that Is necessary. Tho silver is simply placed on the wound or ulcer, and as It sticks closely to tho surface a little cotton soaked In collodion Is sufficient to keep it In place. The effects of this sheet of silver are very remarkable. Where the wound Is a rcetnt one and not contaminated with microbes, tho wound quickly heals under tho Influence of the silver, without Inflammation or suppuration and without presenting the slightest bad symptom. Conditions arc Just as favorable In cases of ulcer, chronic ulcer of the leg, for example. In which rase the suppuration decreases little by little, while the ulcerunl surface becomes covered with gradually healthy skin which noon produces a good cicatrice In place of the ulcer. This perfect cicatrization has been obtained In many cases of .ulcerated cancer of tha skin. s, What Is this property that silver possesses? It Is due to the great antiseptic power of this metal, which li proved by the following experiment. Several years ago a physician of Lyons, Dr. Rollin, decided to cultlvats microbes In a bouillon which he had placed In a silver vessel. To his great surprise he found that In place of multiplying In tho nutritive liquid tha microbes perished, and at the end of a few hours completely disappeared, which fact was all the moro remarks bio as tho same microbes multiplied ad Infinitum when placed In another vessel. Pursuing his Investigations, Dr. Itollln analyzed the bouillon which was contained In the silver vessel, and found therein a very small trace of silver, which Infinitely small quantity had rendered antiseptic a liter ol bouillon. Not loss curious Is the statement of a physician who counted the number of microbes found on pieces of monof ! do not recall exactly tho figure! given, but the calculation showed that on silver money there wero found onlf one-fiftas many microbes as on i cold piece, and a hundred times than on a copper piece. Public Opinion. U-- Grow Less in Depth One of the most remarkable physbeen getting shallower. Evaporation, ical features of the globe Is the deep for they hate no outlet, exceeded the and wide depression In the hollow of Inflow. But, for some climatic re which stands the Caspian sea, and son probably, LaKo Aral and Its neigb near to it the Sea of Aral. The Cas- lair. Lake Balkhash, have since 1MH pian Is nearly as large as France, and been Increasing in depth. Nature re Its surface Is eighty-fou- r feet below ports that M. Berg visited Bake Balk the level of the Black sea. The Sea hash last summer and found that th of Aral Is nearly as large as Ireland, level waa rising with comparator and Is very little over tho sea level. rapidity. Whereas the Caspian, lik Within recent geological times the tho Dead sea. Is very salt, owing tc vast expanse In which these lakes are the rate of evaporation, Aral and Balk found was sen. Us floor has been hash are brae klsh only. These rent gradually raised, and the waters till- nnnts of what was onco a great a ing tho depressions are all that Is left opening Into tho ocean, as tho M"fl of an ancient Mediterranean. A terranenn does now, still conlaie strange feature of both bodies of marine fish and seala. Some of the water la that, although they receive latter survive In the Aral and Baikal largo rivers, especially the Caspian, lakes, having gradually become fitted Into which tho Volga, the Ural river for their habitat, though It la oolong and acorea of atreams from tho Cau- salt, but merely brackish, and In th casus flow, both hav for many year ae of Baikal actually fresh water. Bust of Archbishop, fismuel J. Kltson, the Boston sculptor, has Just completed In mtrble a magnificent bust of Archbishop Williams, which la to bo placad la the Catholic University at Washington In a niche close beside tha llkeaesa of Pope Uo XIII. Edward Honor Boston Artillery htf Through the Karl of Denbigh, commanded the Honorable Artillery o during tla recent Amorlcaa visit, King Edward has sent a frame! and signed photograph of himself t the- Ancient aod Honorable ArtlHwry Cotnpaay of Boston. a a a a' c |