Show gsa S THE WORLDS LABOR AS JOY OR CURSE it is worthy of note that all the areat historical religions of the world whether of the millions of egypt tolling under the lash to build the pyramids at the of a couple of onions and a piece of dry bread a day or of the millions of india working in the rice swamps amid swarms of pes tiberous tit erous insects or of the millions of the semitic race whose traditions have been gathered together in the story of eden and of the tall in the book of genesis all have been rooted and grounded in fhe problem of the common doom of man that he must eat his bread in the sweat of his body and the sweat of his mind none of these religions affects to treat the issue flippantly rhetorically or with commonplace platitudes but with awful seriousness the enormous over weight of the burden of the work in comparison with the strength spir its interest and reward of the worl er Is what oppresses the minds of these teachers and prophets and brings them to the common ominous condic alon that this must be the outcome of some primeval curse and of some stupendous moral catastrophe re dempt lon from which is the end and aim of all higher spiritual hope labor may be either joy or curse all turns on whether it Is encounter ed with freshness spontaneity and zest or whether it Is the draining to the dregs the springs of life once tor all out with it fair and square and plump there Is no more dignity nor elevation in mere labor than in a mechanical pump handle what it lifts from the living central springs beneath determines all our joy must be in this living water welling up as we ourselves quaff its refreshment or extend it to the thirsty lips of others for this sole joy that Is set before us must we endure the cross and despise the pain we the poets exempt from this moll pure children of inspiration never the weary pump handle for them but only the leaping geyser but hear what milton has to say no worthy en can be done by us without continual plodding and to our faint and sensitive abilities boston herald SUBMARINE HAZARDS the death of eleven men in the british submarine boat A 1 as a re suit of a collision with a merchant steamer Is the first fatality that has followed an accident to modern craft of this kind when ready for ice with hatches battened down the early attempts at under water gaviga alon of course were only a form of suicide but the submarine boat of the latest type when properly handled seems to be as safe as anything that takes the chances of the sea when the moccasin was cast adrift in a storm she rolled ashore and after pounding on the beach for several days was finally hauled off as good as new any surface torpedo aboaf aft er her experience would have been total wreck even the british boat that has just had so tragic an does not seem to hae been injured by a blow that probably would 1 ave sunk a bat the lesson of her experience Is the particular need of vigilance on the part of the lookout on a boat which being invisible cannot depend on other craft to do any of her watch ing for her perhaps too the peri scope the eye of the submarine may be opened to improvement new york world WISDOM OF moderation instead of contemplating new ave for extravagant display of force or wealth let the country consider the wisdom of moderation it has been suggested that a public debt under certain conditions serves a wholesome purpose in restraining waste and checking those enterprises which have DO other inspiration than national vainglory or aggrandizement vate credit is wealth public honor Is security the nation that needs to consider economy Is not consuming vast wealth and exploiting immense resources in huge and monstrous armaments that challenge the world she ts likely in deed to avoid offense to other nations to be slow to anger and to cultivate ane rewards of peace instead of seek ing distinction as the exponent of mere splendid materialism such a people would meet the magnificent de that was made by the poet mllton enflamed with the study of learn ing and the admiration of virtue stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots dear to god and famous to all ages boston globe FRENCH housekeeping A french cook turns any and everything to advantage and many a culinary chef d oeuvre is the result of care and sull rather than rare or costly ingredients with just a pinch of savory herbs and a clear fire a cook will turn shreds of cold meat into deliciously appetizing morsels gastronomic discrimination on the part of her patrons keeping up the standard of excellence if I 1 were asked to point out the leading charac terl of the french mind I 1 should unhesitatingly say that it is the ariti cal faculty and to this we owe not only the unrivalled french cuisine but pleasures of the table generally here is one instance in point one quite ripe melon to the uninitiated tastes very much 1 an other but a french country gentle man knows better wherever a mel on of superlative flavor is served he the seeds to te set aside for planting thus the superlative kind Is propagated the cr faculty is ever alert in france warring with mediocrity and Incompleteness The cornhill Corn hlll BOOMERANG OF GREED the failure of D J sully the cot ton speculator is merely another in stance of overreaching greed it mr sully had been content with a mod erate profit of a million dollars or perhaps of three or four millions he could undoubtedly have come off with a whole skin when cotton reached the abnormal figures of the last of janu ary but like other men intoxicated success he was not satisfied with tats achievement the on ot the game or greed for money they amount practically to the same thing urged him into another bull movement lie bel eved he ild put cot ton to almost any price he pleased and he failed the case Is by no means peculiar the success il speculator who becomes overconfident tries to run a corner and is pulverized in the at tempt is a figure in american market history natural laws which are always at work eliminating the unfit rarely allow the too greedy speculator to escape occasionally a rare combination of qualities may save him but as a rule the irian who tries to hold up society and pick its pock ets is overwhelmed he may win for a time whom the gods would destroy they first make baad but in the end he rarely yet the failures that strew the path do not deter other ambitious and grasping men from setting out on the same course every new aspirant imagines that he will prove too smart to be caught the mistakes of others he will avoid he does not perceive that he is defying the law that corn pen nation legitimately goes only for service done he does not foresee that finally he too will succumb to the boomerang of greed pittsburg dispatch VAST irrigation SCHEME the cost of irrigating the and lands in wyoming will be much less than the original estimates owing to the fact that the government will be able to utilize one of natures vast reser veirs for confining the waters from the mountain country during the flood season rising near the boundary of the yellowstone national park in north western yarning that nature s won derland rushes into a canyon cut down through solid granite the flow of the shosoo Sho soe named by the indi ans stinking water because of its sulphurous origin among the yellow stone springs is highly variable in time of flood or cubic feet per second and again as low as feet the possibilities of this broj act therefore lie in the storage of the floods joining the walls of this granite canyon the government will build a cement and stone dam as am movable as the everlasting rocks themselves and rising feet above the river level forming a great lake covering 3 acres and with a stor age capacity of gallons it is estimated that acres will be irrigated globe RUSSIA LAND OF GRAFTERS to petersburg came three ameri can business men to secure a gold mining concession there are places where gold is aund in russia and our friends wanted the privilege i of working one ot those places first they had to deposit with the ministry of the interior as good balth so much for the regular legal part of the program now for the ir regular illegal part they kept in their room at the hotel europe a bag of hard cold cash in golden rubles this cash they doled out in install ments first to this prince then to that count for influence each time they handed out the money they were told that their proposition had been found good and promises were made that the concession would be speedily granted each time the would be con cession aires believed that they had accomplished something and each time they were disappointed and had to refill the money bag the some delay in the negotiations con tinned week after week technical ob stables more serious than the preceding one were forward and so weeks grew into months and the americans were not one step near er the goal deciding that bankruptcy would come before any kind of a nite conclusion could be obtained chev went away with what cash they had left and an accumulated amount of disgust their 50 was returned with all legal formalities but conald drably more than that sum was left in the hands of the princes and counts such has been the experience of many other americans seeking to do busi ness in russia each in sheer derpera despera tion abandoning his enterprise gil son willets in leslie s weel ly HEALTH FADS ON THE BRAIN to get all sorts of health fads on the brain Is a disease in itself it Is very prevalent disease too with a few foolish rules to observe a whole lot of hygienic quiri s to adjust to and a schedule of superstitious sanitary no lions diligently followed by day and dreamed of by night ts a malady which begins as a mental de ran gement and ends in a complete physical fizzle no room left for a spontaneous life no place tor free joyous libel ty not a minute s space for rollicking disregard everything fixed every minute disposed of intro ions without number ings misgivings hovering vaguely about the mind like flocks of carrion crows such a life is not worth alv ing one might a thousand times bet ter go back to the reel less regime of a rough rider medical talk |