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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
Wane-Earning by Murricd Women.
HE American prejudice against wage-earning
in married women atmoars In tlie effort ocea-
II Hlonully made to make tlie employment of
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I riivuri n in niu jmiimii; ni mihio
marriage. Hut thousands of American married
women do earn wages, tliousandH more would
Kindly do so If they could, and other thousands
would be liappler and better off IT tliey did. The prejudice
against It seems disad vuntageous. Americati men, as n
rule, prefer to support their wives If they can. If an
American married woman works for pay, it In either be
cause it gives her pleasure or because her husband's in
come Is Insulllelent. She does not do It as a matter of
course. How long she can keep II up depends upon what
the work is, and upon oilier circumstances. If she lias
children, that, of course, interferes with her wage-earning
If It does not stop It altogether, and general acceptance of
u custom which would restrict or dlncourHge child-bearing
Is not to tlie public advantage. Marriage tends, and should
tend, to withdraw women from wage-earning, but It need
not stop It per so and abruptly. To make marriage a bar
to future wage-earning by a woman operates in restric
tion of marriage, and that Is at least aa much against
public policy as restriction of child-bearing. It will always
depend on circumstances whether a young wage-earning
woman who marries had better go on with her work, but
Dr. Patten seems to lie right In holding that It Is often
best that she should do no, and that It Is often better
that she should marry and still earn wages than not marry.
Prejudice should not determine conduct in these matters.
There should be a freer choice. Harper's Weekly.
streets of Montreal and the suburban roads are infested
with automobiles, in the possession of a lot of howling
Yahoos, who go out of their way to lie offensive to people
who do not happen to like the smell of gasoline. They de
liberately try to frighten horses; to scare pedestrians, and
to splnali them with mud. It would be Interesting to know
Iiotv some of the ends come to be in even temporary pos
session of tlie machines. They certainly do not belong to
the class that can afford to own or to hire such luxuries.
It would be worth the while of all respectable people who
are Interested in autotnoblHng to make a combined effort to
suppress this nuisance. Anybody walking along a highway
frequented by automobillsts can readily understand why
hatred has grown up between the Hast Side gangs and the
New York uutoniobllists. Montreal Star.
Waste Lands and Criminals.
ASSAOHUSETPS is about to try a now experi
ment in the industrial management of its con
victs. Instead of employing thorn in manufac
turing goods to compete with the products of
non-crlmlnal labor, it Is proposed to establish
I Industrial camps and set the convicts to re
claiming waste and worthless land, of which
the Hay State possesses enough to keep them at work for
generations.
The plan Is a tentative one, tlie first camp having Just
been established near Itutland, but on the face of It the
scheme appears to possess two merits. It furnishes out
door work for the convicts without subjecting them to tlie
humiliation of constant public observation, us would be
the case if they were employed on the streets and high
ways, and the work performed will be useful work. If
they are able to make two blades of grass grow where
one or none grew before there is authority for the claim
that they will be transformed from malefactors Into bene
factors. Tlie experiment will be watched with a good deal of
interest for various reasons. While no sane person would
advocate the maintenance of criminals in idleness, no one
hits as yet found a way of employing them that Is entirely
satisfactory. The farming out of convicts which has been
practiced In some of the Southern States lias been shown
to no subject to glaring abuses. These abuses could lie
minimized if not entirely avoided if the State did tlie
farming under wise and honest management. Every State
lias an abundance of waste lands, -which would be worth
reclamation, and which, if reclaimed, would add to the
public wealth. Philadelphia bulletin.
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Automobile Nuisances.
I IIK wife of a railway magnate In New York
lias been nearly killed by a stone thrown at her
head while riding in an automobile. The Police
Commissioner, discussing the event, says: "The
automobile people must be protected. This mat
ter of hatred that has been growing among the
mob gangs of the lower and upper Hast Side
has got to stop if I have any power." Of course there is
no possible excuse for such an action as throwing a stone
lit a lady's head, but wo wonder if it lias occurred to Police
Commissioner MeAdoo that there are other people besides
tlie automobile people, who need protection; that there
must bo a cause for the hatred between the automobile
people aud the gangs. At the present time some of the
The Insurance of a Man Hanged.
Y the ruling of a Pennsylvania court an in-
Blsurance company has been freed from the
necessity of paying the policy of a man hanged
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l7l VI inn-. J IIU lllilll, ui i-uiii.h, uo ujuhu
the possibility of having any concern in
the matter. His heirs were not, and
they ure the ones who must suffer. In
China, not a highly civilized country, tlie relatives of
an assassin are forced to share the penalty with him, or
Indeed to bear all of it, In case of tlie criminal's escape.
Tlie courts of Pennsylvania may understand law and
have the ability to construe it. To such credit as they
are entitled for ncumen, purity and fearlessness they are
heartily welcome. And doubtless on the lofty plane which
they operate in tlie Interests of Justice they arc above feel
ing a pang of discomfort at tlie Intimation that the Chlneso
theory, relined and modified and made presentable by a set
ting of woi;ds, appears in this decision- It would be unfair
to hang the Innocent wife of a murderer, or send his chil
dren to prison. It is not more dazzllngly fair to starve
them or send them to the poor house.
Nobody desires the Insurance company to be deprived of
any legitimate protection. As a rule. It does not suffer
much. Generally the rare swindler Is caught and a heavy
penalty exacted.
Policies carried for a certain time become "incontest
able." That Is to say, the company will not contest them
unless through some circumstance, probably a technicality,
it sees a reasonable chance of beating the claim of the
heirs. If it has agreed to pay a certain sum upon the
death of a certain man, and the man, having fulfilled I1I3
share of the contract, Is dead, nothing remains but the
payment of the sum or a dishonorable attempt at evasion.
In tlie Instance under consideration the man had com
mitted murder. This was tlie business of the company only
as it was tlie concern of all law-abiding citizens. It is a
folly to assume that he committed the murder with tlie
purpose of getting himself hanged, and thus securing for
his heirs a sum of money. Tlie law prescribes the pun
ishment for murder. It stipulates, in Pennsylvania, that
the guilty shall be hanged. It does not add "and his
heirs deprived of tlie Insurance upon which lie may have
paid premiums." New York American.
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educated Business Men.
TUDENTS of tlie history of education are fa
miliar with the time when the object of the
collegiate foundation was amost solely to train
young men for the priesthood or Uie ministry.
Then the desirability of general scholastic cul
ture as a preparation for entry into tlie law
was recognized, and lastly, as a preparation
for entry into medicine. The ministry, the law and medi
cine these almost up to our time hr.ve been the three
learned professions. Except for tlie comparatively small
number attracted by the notion that an academic education
was fitting to gentility, the vast majority of academic pu
pils were destined, in the order named, for the surplice, the
robe and the chaise. From the three typical American
universities the greater numlxu' of graduates now look for
ward to business careers or to technical pursuits which are
closely related to business. The business man of the future
is plainly to be a man of scholastic odueatlon. This ten
dency is likely to have an effect on business as it already
has an effect on our universities. New York Globe.
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FAVORITES I
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A Korent Hymn.
Tlie groves were God's first temples. Ere
man learned
To how flic shaft and lay tlie architrave,
And spread the roof above them; ere he
framed
Tho lofty vault, to gather and roll back
The sound of anthems, in the darkling
wood,
Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down
And offered to the Mightiest solemn
thanks
And supplication. For his simple heart
Might not resist the sacred influences
Which, from the stilly twilight of the
place,
And from the gray old trunks that high
in heaven
Mingled their mossy boughs, and from
the sound
Of tlie invisihlo breatli that swayed at
once
All their green tops, stole over him, and
bowed
His spirit with the thought of boundless
power
And Inaccessible majesty. Ah, why
Should wc in the world's riper years
neglect
God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore
Only among tho crowd, and under roofs
That our frail hands have raised? Let
me, at least,
Here in the shadow of this aged wood,
Offer one hymn thrice happy if it find
Acceptance in His ear.
Father, Thy hand
Ilnth reared these venerable columns,
Thou
Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou
didst look down
Upon tlie naked earth, and forthwith
rose
All these fair ranks of trees. They in
Thy sun
Hudded, and shook their green leaves in
Thy breeze,
And shot toward heaven. Tho century-
living crow,
Whoso birth was in their tops, grew old
and died
Among their branches, till, at last, they
stood,
As now they stand mossy, and tall, and
dark,
Fit shrine for humble worshiper to hold
Communion with his Maker. Tlic.se dim
vaults.
These winding aisles, of human pomp or
pride,
lieport not. No fantastic carvings show
Tho boast of our vain race to change the
form
Of Thy fair works, lint Thou art here;
Thou iill'st
The solitude; Thou art in the soft winds
Pliat run along the summit of these trees
In music; Thou art in tlie cooler breatli
That, from tlie inmost darkness of the
place,
Conies, scarcely felt; the barky trunks.
tho ground,
Tho fresh moist ground, are all instinct
witli Thee.
William Culleu ISryant.
MADE PURSUIT OF WEALTH.
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I LACKCl) JUST WHAT HE WANTCD.
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Tlie agent for the "Inexhaustible
Cyclopedia, In Twelve Parts," ap
proached Mr. Hansom with a light and
springy step, and was greatly cheered
when he received an Invitation to
"drawr up an' show your wares," and
tlie other rocking-chair on tlie shady
porch was pushed towards him.
"You say there's everything anybody
wants 10 know in It," said Mr. Uansoin,
I'enlally, when the agent's flow of con
versation had ceased for a moment aud
Jio looked hopefully at his hot. "Well.
1 guess I shall have to buy it. La wy.ee,
yes, I can see how easy the pay
nients'U be. Hut now I Just want to
make sure o' one or two tilings before
1 pay ye down the fust money.
"Le's see, what parts have ye got
with ye? 'Vol. One, A to Com;' that's
al Iriglit. Now you find 1110 tlie placo
whero it tolls about ant-hills, and tho
best way to rid your dooryard of 'cm.
1,'vo tried more'n forty different ways
n'ready."
Mr. Uansoin leaned comfortably
back in his chair and rocked with a
loud creak while tlie agent searched
tlie pages of "Vol. One," with an mix
lous face.
"It .doesn't toll about them," he
stammered, at last. "You soo " Hut
atr. Hansom raised bis hand In protest.
"It's too bad," he said, "but prob
ably that slipped their minds, .lest turn
over to the b's, and llnd 'butter.' Now
see how you can make it come when
It's contrary, same as it. is sometimes
when you're In a hurry to get through
churning."
Again he regarded tho agent's red
dening face with a calm and genial
gaze.
"Not there!" lie said, when the re
sult of the search was reluctantly ad
mitted. "That seems cur'ous, don't It?
Hut still I'll give 'em another chance.
Now you turn over tlie c's till you
come to 'cats.' There, you've got It.
Now how do they undertake td keep a
Malty cat from shedding all over vis
itors' clothes and tlie furniture, so tho
whole family won't lie picking an' eat
ing gray hairs the enduring time?"
'Pbe agent shut the book with a flam
and rose abruptly, in spite of Mr. Ran
som' benevolent smile.
"You stan' there a minute till moth
er fetches ye a glass o' lemonade; It's
a warmish day," said Mr. Hansom, cor
dially. "Hut as to tho book you're
peddling, why, mother's got a 'Helps
to the Handy that her mother had bo
fore her that you'd ought to take a
look at some time. "What with that
an' tho World's Atlas an Uie diction
ary, I guess mother an' I'll make out to
got along without any cyclopody,
young man."
You will bo wise if you keep out of
some scraps. . , .
A Carnal ion I-'nrin.
A 200-acro ranch In Santa Monica,
Cal., is devoted to carnations as an
outdoor crop. The grower is a retired
banker who follows flower culture as
a recreation. He started with two
acres, which liavo been Increased to
L0 acres, and it is expected that Until
ly the whole of the ranch will be do
voted to tlie culture of tills llower
The carnation fields are yielding on an
averago from (i.000 to 10.000 flowers
every day, and the demand Is stated to
bo greater than tho supply. A carnu
tio'n field remains in bearing from two
to three years, and Is then renewed
with plants obtained from cuttings
Tho plants are set in rows three feet
apart, and the plants two feet apart
in tho rows, thus permitting cultlva
tlon with machinery.
Tratlio on the Si . Canal.
Ill spite of tho reduction of trans
portation charges of 10 cents a ton,
tho receipts from tho traffic of the
Suck canal for tho year 10015 aro only
a little less than those of tho previous
year, so a further considerable In
crease of traffic can be stated. The
receipts were ?0,700,000, or ?20,000
less than in 11)02.
A Good Kule.
Look for goodness, look for gladness,
You AVill moot them all the while,
l you bring a smiling visage
To the glass, you meet a smile.
Alice Gary.
Those "Who lliive "Won a Competence
Should Hot ire from fliin'mcHS.
In tlie United States leaders in every
line of activity, in politics and bus!
ness, have been conspicuously prone
to die, as it is said, In harness. The
deatli of Mark Manna is a case in
point. Hut the list of those distin
guished for their successful attain
ment of wealth and fame, who have
continued their activities long after
the advanco of age and the diminu
tion of physical strength must have
warned them of the approaching end,
is a very long one. In tlie older coun
tries of Europe, on whose civilization
that of the United States is founded,
it seems easier for men who have more
or less successfully obtained tlie ob
ject they aimed at to retire and enjoy
freely the prizes they have gained,
although even there tho old barbaric
struggle is in many cases kept up to
the end. Public opinion there, too, is
more tolerant of those who lay off the
harness before being compelled to do
so by tlie decree of fate. In this
country, however, there seems to ex
ist In the mind of the ordinary man
a certain contempt for those who give
tip the strenuous paths of labor and
ambition before their strength has
wasted away. The successful men
of the United States who have sprung
from the masses aro imbued with this
opinion. Until within the last twenty-live
years tho idea of retiring from
active life and settling down to a life
in which personal tastes and proclivi
ties could bo followed was regarded
as at least eccentric.
There have always been two neces
sary steps to be taken beforo retire
ment from active life could with
safety be accomplished; 0110 was the
acquirement of wealth and the other
provisions for its safekeeping. As
civilization progresses tho second and
more important step can be more eas
ily luanaged. The Individual no longer
hns to depend upon his own efforts to
guard the store set aside for ills fu
ture support. The power of corpora
tions, originally directed simply to tho
accumulation of wealth, is now to a
very great extent applied' to its con
servation.
In Great Hrltaln there has always
been a wealthy leisure class, and nat
urally there has been a systematlza
tlon of the manners aud customs con
sequent on such an association of
wealth and leisure. Public opinion is
more tolerant of a man who wishes
to do what he likes with his own
than it has yet become in the United
States. The existence of a leisure
class, able and willing to enjoy their
lives rationally and Intelligently, is a
check on the wilder exhibitions of
leisure on tlie part of suddenly nc
quired wealth. It also holds out
something beyond mere money-getting'
as tlie goal of a successful life. It
encourages retirement after reason
able fortune has been gained and dis
courages to some extent the piling up
of exaggerated redundancy. 'Pbe ef
fect of a more philosophical view 6?
life on the part of our own business
men will tend to a more even distri
bution of wealth and a leveling of tho
Inequalities now so frequently point
ed out. Hunker's .Magazine.
JARGON OF ENQLIEH TRAMPS.
It Datc-H from tlie Reformation ami It
a Picturesque Limminc.
Tlie English government is goiu,? to
consider the vagrant. Vagrancy has
engaged the attention of the authori
ties ever since It started in tlie whole
sale line witii the reformation. In good
Queen Hess' days a vagrant was
whipped for being one the first time,
he had a portion of his right ear cut
off if he repeated the performance, and.
if lie was convicted a third time ho
was sent on a long journey from which
there Is no possibility of return. Mild
er statutes came with the Georges.
Our present vagrant act was passed in
1SL4 and amended in 1S0S. The. va
grant lias not been amended at all.
Tramping runs in families. 1 havo
traced the history of a tramp family
back over 100 years, and found that
live generations of them have been
born in tlie workhouse and all had
been lifelong vagabonds.
They ure a conservative people, and
it is interesting to note that many of
the words which were tramps' lan
guage when Harmon compiled his dic
tionary in l."i(J0 are in the tramps' and
thieves' vernacular at this very second
that ticks from the clock. The
"boosing ken" of tho sixteenth cen
tury is the "boosing ken" of the twen
tieth. 'Plie "beak," a constable, has
become the "beak," a magistrate.
"Dudes," clothes, have become "duds;"
"cass-am" is still cheese, "autem" is
still a church, and "mort." sliglitiy al
tered, Is woman, and an "autem mort,"
or church woman, a wife.
"Saltee" (soldi) are still pence, and
the thief and the vagrant still reckon
in Italian. "Tray saltee" is three
pence, "cliinker saltee' is live pence,
eight pence is "otter saltee." nine
pence is "nobbn saltee" ami ten pence
is "dacha saltee" Italian, tie. cinque,
otto, novo, died six pence is some
times a "tester," which was its olii-
cial name in the days of Henry VI 1 1.,
and a shilling is n "beong." Italian,
bianco white. "Home," which meant
good or chief, is to-day "rum." in tho
language of the road in Elizabeth's
time the queen was tlie "Home mort,"
and London was "Home ville." In
buskers' slang, the manager of a the
ater or a show is to-day "tlie rum
cull." The tramps are an ancient fraterni
ty, if tihey are forced off tlie road
into labor colonies. I wonder If their
venerable jargon will gradually pass
away? I don't think so. because it is
a secret language, and at no time will
a tramp llnd a secret language nioro
useful than when he and ills fellows
are in difiiculties. 1 can imagine no
dltliculty greater to tho true-born
tramp than hard work. London Hef
eree.
Vov u Change
There was good talk at a tea parti
given once at the observatory of Cain
bridge, England. Sydney Smith was
there, and although lie took the won
derful work of the place seriously, ho
had a light manner of expressing him
self. The party had been led up tc
look at Jupiter, and this was his com
ment: ".Jupiter? If you hadn't told me. I
should have taken it for a bad shib
ling."
"Whero is Sir .John Horschol?" asked
one of the guests.
"Mo Is at tho Cape of Good Mope,"
said tlie astronomer. Airy. "Mo was
ordered there to obsorvo tho stars of
tho southern hemisphere."
"All." said Sydney Smith. "I sup.
poso you astronomers, when you aro
ill, aro advised to change your stars
Just as wo ordinary mortals are told
to change our air."
Earthworms vs. Gophers,
Darwin concluded that the earth
worm in live years brings up soil
enough to cover the ground one inch
thick, and that, therefore, the result
of its labor is of vast importance. I
reckon that tlie pocket gopher does
this in five months. It does not do it
in tho same way or so effectively, be
causo the earthworm actually digests
Uie substance of its castings; hut It is
evident that tlie pocket gophe's m flo
od answers tlie purpose of fully dis
integrating and mixing tlie dead vege
tation wjth tho soli to produco a rich
aud fertile blacJi loam. Century.