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Uncle hum's Diyeslive Powers.
ROUT ono iiillllon steerage passengers arrived
In the United States, looking for homes or
work, during Hit! fiscal your Hint ended Juno .'50.
This wipes out nil past records. The largest
number arriving In nny previous year wan Wn,-
010, during Hie twelve inontlis ending .Tunc,
too: J.
Jtiovr that, immigration has reached (lie 1,000,000 mark,
at S email wonder tliat tlie authorities are redoubling their
-2sSfiftice. The time has come to ccnsorlzo Uio Increasing
tt'ttum of immigration under rules that will not work
vS&i randuo harshness mid yet will fully proloet the na
'tlnn. These steerage Immigrants have more brawn than
iiAtnJo hut poverty Is not nlono a good cause for rejection.
Jtllirge proportion of present .sturdy American citizens bo
npaaait tho very foot of the Industrial ladder.
TObo portentous feature of the case Is Hint the Immense
'otattiu of Immigration comes largely from Southern and
?.&M&jr Europe, Instead of from the sturdier races of the
-worth and west. The latter arc still coming, but their
swaiilur Ib dwarred by an avalanche of less desirable Imml-.-frmnta,
with almost startling averages of Illiteracy and
yjt&nxtjr. The present volume of Immigration Is equal In
3Bswa jycsr to the total population of a good many proton--iism
states of the American Union. The steerage output,
t ra ulnglo year, Is greater than the population of any
.Asiwalcan city except New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
rOncJft Sam's digestive apparatus Is about to be Hoverely
-rrvriicft. Ktcamshlp companies that force Immigration ah
janrajtully, for the sake of gain In tralllc, arc probably court
.txz josvore reprisals at this governments hands. Kansas
iO& IVorld
only evil, and as a lover of my country fell It my duty to
do all In my power to hinder Its progress, t bud the same
feeling when I came to Okayama; but when I heard you
speak ho kindly to us soldiers, and say that you and other
Christiana wero going to pray for us, It quite broke my
heart, and I went Into tho corner of the waiting room and
wept. My heart Is entirely changed. 1 no longer seek for
death, and If I am spared to return, 1 shall come to you an
soon as possible and ask you to teach me Christianity.
Hoston Transcript.
31 W
Waste and Graft in Life Insurance.
, 1 1"1 13 Insurance companies, whether managed bj
stock companies or not, are essentially mutual
enterprises. Tin policy-holders pay In all the
i money, and Ibey should take It all out again,
plus Interest, and less the legitimate expenses
of management. In no other sense should there
bo either profit or loss In the business.
.&qy thing that does not make for the beucllt of the
4a3iar-J!iolder Is by that very tact condemned. It Is cssen--JtbxSty
-wasteful. Mere bigness Is of no advantage to the
'IINiMcy-holdera, beyond the point necessary to protect the
jwunpany ugalnst abnormal variations from tho average
JbatVa rate. Heavy expenditures merely for the sake of
:lxcreslng business are, therefore, wasteful. Wo read of
sfife nftittra vagant commissions to hustling agents, of tho
RciKi(liilous and Illegal "rebate" system, of the rage for do-
tffum&fl dividend policies at high premiums whereby a big
'sttrjjluK can bo accumulated. All wasteful. The ntmos-
;v?2:KPa of bigness encourages a disproportionately large
xsinjlMjr of very big salaries and breeds temptations to the
Hjf-n&ltlng ollielal and director. It Is, of course, not tho big
rows itself that Is wasteful, but the rage to get big at
- nwwllcvor cost.
.FoUey-lioldors Investigations, if thorough, mny drive
urt find tors, but they will not. be nearly so effective against
"ViwsEteful systems of managing the business. For both pur
.p-MiB regulation and Inspection by the Federal Government
o Wdglily Important. Tho possible dlllieultles In (lie way
uihraild not deter Congress from a serious effort to bring
iwarf: radical changes In prcont conditions. -Cbk-ai-o Hoe
-mS-IJ'erald.
Missionaries mid the War.
RKMARKAHHH change in the attitude of
Japanese- officers and soldiers toward Christian
nissionarles has taken place within a few
'wxm1'm,nllis. When the war with Russia began the
''SvWwkOT? '"lanese Government opposed nny effort to
's3wdjr1 1 religion ny npproacuing mo army
in mo campaign or on ine uem. inn u did not
AttSior the missionaries from proffering courtesies to the
ifcjjwpa on their way to Mm front, and when they paused
Kara few hours at cities like Okayama missionaries went In
ismQ out among them in a human rather than a profos--xitt&al
way, evincing their own loyalty to Japan, comfort
JkwE and cheering the soldiers, offering those who would
sftaS&e lbem, attractive leaflets anil copies of the Scripture.
'JGftmii a. bond of sympathy was created between the natives
saucul foreigners, and to ono of the women missionaries of
tOms iluierlcan Hoard a soldier sent back a short time after
S&nsw iho front a letter saying:
am from Sendul, and all my life 1 have been a bitter
4jitfiMMiint of the Christian religion. 1 have regarded It as
BE
Girls Will Uc Girls.
HOSE fearful souls who have become alarmed
lest higher education, co-education, women's
colleges and other educational agencies should
deprive tho world entirely of old-fashlonablo
marriageable girls can take heart. Herbert E.
Mills, Professor of Economics at Vassar Col
lege, who ought to know something about tho
effort of education upon Mio girls of the country, In a
recent speech before the American Institute of Instruction
at Portland, Oro., gave It as Hie result of his experience
that the Vassar girl atill possesses a perfectly normal inter
est in tho other sex. In a word, he says: "She is generally
a very healtJiy and a very lovable girl, who ha general
lutercHt In school, sports, and social affairs; In domcsUc
matters and marriage."
1'hls coincides with the observation of others who havo
noted that, generally speaking, the girls of the twentieth
century promise to bo Just as much like their mothers
and grandmothers were as the varying changes of condi
tions and customs will permit. At heart they will still bo
women, the better half of the human race, willing to guide
tho households and rear the babies, thus Insuring the per
petuation of the race, domesticity and civilization.
Of course, there were lots of old-fashioned people who
never lost their faith that the primal feminine instincts
were Ineradicable, but for tho reassurance of the timid ones
who have become fearful that, the modern feminine thirst
for knowledge threatened to deprive tho world of normal
women It Is well to point out that this Is not the case.
Hereafter they can sleep in peace, calm In the assurance
that "girls will be girls" to tho end of time. Philadelphia
Bulletin
We Talk Too Much.
the United Slates we are prone to talk too
much. We do not sulliclently appreciate the
value and beauty of silence.
During tho after business hours, at the
lunch and dinner table we talk on and on with
J.out ceasing, as though there was nothing worth
thinking about We invented the first talking
machine, and no American is considered properly equipped
unless he .-an talk at all times and upon all subjects.
Information must be imparted and Ideas exchanged;
it ia essential to mental companionship and develops our
faculties of expression. Hut there Is no necessity for the
endless and eternal talk In which so many of us indulge.
There Is a great, forco and value In silence. It enables
us to think, it forms and expresses character. The great
men or the world were relatively silent men; they talked
only when they had something to say, and the greatest of
them said but very little.
We should study the beauty of silence and develop
our thinking power rather than our talking power. Chi
cago Journal.
fill
Short Names and Fame.
LTllOUGH a great majority of the men in this
country have three names, an unusual propor
tion of those who attain eminence in public life
have only two.
Take the recent Cabinet changes as an Illus-ii-atlon:
Paul Morton resigned, John Hay died
and 13111m Hoot Is to return to the Cabinet. No
middle name In any of theso cases. Of twenty-five men
who have held the ofllco of President, only seven have had
more than two names. Of tho twenty-six Vice President1
thirteen have had two names and thirteen have had three.
The United States Supreme Court has had eight Chief Jus
tices, four with two names, four with three. Of thtrty
olght Secretaries of State, including Mr. Hoot twenty-one
have had but two names.
As every American-born boy has a chance to become
President parents would do well to give names easily said
and easily remembered. New York World.
FADS OF A SULTAN.
-33tAV ltulcr oT Morocco linn a I'tt-iulon
Cur HI eye I cm uml Motor Cora.
Ooe of tho weaknesses of the Sul
Axm of Morocco, .writes Cunningham
ffScaham, who has visited Morocco sov
eca:l times, is his passion for tilings
T.Ctwt are supposed to represent our so
silled European progress. Ho goes in
JJor motor cars, red hansom cabs, gold
'lucKllcd bicycles, gold cameras, grand
.jzixaos and other things that he doesn't
.rss3Jy want. Ho has never been to
sHtaope, but foreign visitors stimulate
iMa curiosity In these things and bo
rcsniars them sometimes on a wholesale
cat"J. I saw about "00 bicycles when
tt -was at tho palace at tfess, somo of
tSa most expensive nnd olaborato
nuake, with gold nnd silver fittings.
He is the smartest bicyclist I havo
vrver seen. He could earn a good llv
sias l Kuropo as a trick rider. I have
wen him manlpulato tho machine
'tending on tho pedals all the time.
"3a delights to ride full apood up uar
cow Inclined- plants.
Mo drives a motor tn th mot reHt
3sa way. I rodo wltb hiic In one f
irs once, but aofun '.l other tn
i2sfJous. It did not Nel safe.
ae an instance of 1i..h emld Hie cu
filry in "tho toys oC lfliuoph.' Mr.
isfcanam said that he was with Uio i
Asp onco on n tux-gaUicrlng oxpn.M-
an. A troop of soldiers accompaul;!,
as usual. The parly was overtaken by
three camels bearing pianos the Sul
tan had ordered. His majesty bad one
of them unpacked in the rain and sat
down before It with all a child's de
light. A few weeks later Mr. Harris
GUI.TAN' Oil ilOltOCCO.
ia the Hino piano at tho palace,
runty from tho rain, and besprinkled
lt vnd. IpMcIugdlko a discarded toy.
Pa-Aiva registers are not tolerated In
Hoeco, ??r. Graham wont on, resutu
h'a account of tho tux-galhcrlnj-c'vcdltlou.
Tho Sultan has a short
ay i p isslve resistors. If any el'
his auhjocla won't pay, or are oven
suspected of withholding a portion of
the tax, their heads are promptly cut
off, or they are shot.
Yet he is not a cruel man. He keens
strictly to his religion as a Mohamme
dan. Ho does not smoke, nor does ho
gamble. Ho regards all cards as bo
longing only to Christian nations, nnd
not to bo touched by him. I doubt
whether ho has ever seen a pack of
cards. Ho does not allow others to
smoke In his presence.
During my visit the .Sultan used to
rise regularly at da break. He would
CO early to tho mosoue. then consult
with his muilsters, and alter a nvli
take a short sleep before recolv!g for
eign visitors and privato friends. He
sometimes tramps in-ttfe afternoon, but
always retires o.r5y. He is amiable,
and very kind and thoughtful, but al
together to' weak a man for Sultan at
tho p'-ooNt crisis, though full of good
intontioi.s.
Samuel Hopkins Adums and Stew
art lid ward White are collaborating in
the writing of "The Mystery," a so.i
novel founded upon actual incidents of
nautical history.
A rather curious coincidence occurs
in Hurton Stevenson's "The Marathon
Mystery," and May Sinclair's "Tho Di
vine Fire." Hoth books have a charac
ter of the same name, "Hankln, of 'Tho
Poauot.' " Tho similarity is only In
name, but seems none the less sad.
And botli hooks were published by the
same house.
According to Mrs. Stevenson, It was
Robert Alan Stevenson, an erratic ge
nius and a cousin of Robert Louis Ste
venson, who Inspired many of tho lat-
tcr's most fantastic stories. It was ho
who suggested the idea of "The Sui
cide Club" ami furnished tho model for
the young man with tho cream tarts,
for Paul Somerset In "The Dynamiter,"
and for Prince Otto.
Dr. C. W. Saleoby, author of "Tho
Cycle of Life," a book dealing with
scientific questions of vital import, has
nlways lived in I3ngland. His wife is
the eldest daughter of Alice Meynell,
the poet. He took his degree of M. I.
in Edinburgh University, and won. tho
prlzo given to the "most distinguished
graduate of tho year in medicine"
tho result of five years' continuous la
bor.
Francis L. Wellman, author of "The
Art of Cross-I3xaminaUon," which has
passed through several impressions in
two years, was bora In I'.rookllne,
Mass., in 18f4, and is a graduate of
Harvard and of Harvard Law School.
Ho has held several Important posi
tions in Now York City, and is a well
known corporation lawyer. Ills wife
is Emma .Inch, the well-known opera
singer.
The Bookman pokes irreverent fun
at the "Chats with Authors," which
appear as features of certain news
papers, and which Includes pictures of
his library table, his front door, his
legs and his library table, etc., declar
ing that "not a tumultuous or self
willed person at any time, tho Ameri
can author fades completely away in
theso Interviews, becoming a Jelly lih
floating in the current of universal as
sent." Most readers of "Tho Golden I'Mood."
the remarkable story by Edwin l.
Fevro, recently published In MeClure's
supposed him to be a new writer. n
tho contrary, he had some verse and
a rather larger proportion of fiction
to his credit before IflOO, when he be
gan writing "Wall Street Stories." Mr.
Le Fevro was born at Colon, Panama,
in 1S71 of old Huguenot stock, and was
educated chiefly in San Francisco. lie
Is at present connected with the New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Mrs. Reginald do Koven is not eon
tent with the celebrity Mint arises
from fortunute birth, marriage with a
successful man and social prominence,
but aspires to literary honors. She
lias done excellent maga.lne work, and
is the author of two novels, "A Saw
dust Doll" and "Hy tho Waters of
Rnbylon," and has translated Pierre
Lotl's "An Iceland Fishorwoman."
Mrs. Do Koven's homo Is in Washing
ton, where her husband has an elegant
residence.
When Rose llartwlck Thorpe wrote
her famous versos entitled "Curfew
Must Not. Ring To-night," slie had in
mind the historic bells of Chertsey
Parish Church. An English newspa
per informs us that these bells have
lately stopped ringing, as tho frame
of the belfry has boon pronounced un
safe and must bo rebuilt. There arc
eight bells, of which two are at least
000 years old. One of these, called the
Abbey bell, sounded tho surfew in tho
old days when the sound of the cur
few meant something.
T.io Soon or Alarm.
ji' am afraid I may havo to go to
jar," walled tho prominent packer.
'Why so?" asked the sapient senn
f.ir. "I've been indicted."
"Pooh! Look at me. I havo been con-vtcted."-ritt3lurg
Post
When it begins to ruin In this coun
try, It seems na bard to quit ob tho to
bacco habit
THE.SARGLE GENEALOGY.
Ono or tlie Ak'WI MHicrn uhcii it u a
Sleeping Potion.
Some women are born genealogists;
some havo genealogies Uirust upon
them usually unoffending relatives of
the born genealogists.
Miss Myra and Miss Caroline Hargle,
sisters, are of long descent, carefully
traced, and with a wide-branched fain
lly tree, among Uio twigs of which It
is Miss Carolln's joy to flit familiarly,
even in casual conversation. Sho sel
dom talks for flvo minutes without
some referenco to the SUloman branch.
or the Abraham Hargle descendants, or
Great-grcat-Grandtather Hiram Barglo
ho who transported tho gunpowder
for General Washington, or Great
Grandmother Judith Hargle sho who
had nineteen children and died of
smallpox.
To all Miss Caroline's disquisitions
Miss Myra liuteua with a ccrUln vttguo
and gentle lirlde in worUiy ancestry.
but it Is quite Impossible for her to re
member complicated lines of descent r
to distinguish (he personalities of as
sorted ancestors of a century or moro
ago. Sometimes even a bored expres
sion steals across tho face when Grcat
Grandfather Hargle makes an unex
pected entry Info a conversation prom
Islugly contemporary In Its early
Ntages. Hut lately she has discovered
a new use for genealogy.
She is often troubled by wakefulness
in the early part of the night. Now,
Instead of resorting as formerly to
counting sheep jumping over a fence,
or any of the other accepted Blcep-p
during devices, she gently pokes Wc
sister awake and Inquires:
"Caroline, how Is it we are descend
ed from all three of those Ingraham
sisters? I'm afraid it isn't quite clear
in my mind."
At once Caroline rouses with alac
rity to reply, and by tln Umo sho is
well launched upon her explanation
she Is far too well satisfied with It to
observe that Miss Myra's thanks ar
no more than a sleepy murmur or a
comfortable silence.
Another night it will bo: "Carolino,
dear, I'm afraid I never really under
stood about that powder Grandfauicr(
uargie Drought. Irs very stupiu or
me, but would you mind explaining?"
Then Caroline willingly explains to
the bed curtains for a half-hour or
more, murmuring steadily on to tho
end of the Btory long after Miss Myra
Is breathing with suspicious regularity,
and occasional mild whistling sound
begin to emanate from her nrlstocratto
Hargle nose.
"If Caroline minded about not bolnjr
listened to," Miss Myra confided, apol
ogetically, to Cousin Jane, "of courso
I wouldn't lead her on to talk, but tru
ly, Jane, she doesn't. Just going back
In her mind among tlie dead-and-gouo
Harglcs Is enough to make her happy,
and If it puts a live Hargle to sleep,
too, I don't see there's any harm, do
you? Genealogy Is downright exciting
to Caroline; but the best I can make of
It Is when It's soothing, so I might as
well let It soothe." Youth's Compan.
ion.
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
la It Dolrijr the Crcntc-Ht Good lo the
Greatest Number?
The figures for tho fiscal year tndb
onto that tho Postofllce Department
will show a deficit to the extraordinary
amount of ?in,000,000. This shortag
has not before been oquuled. It U
largely attributable to the expenditure
made for rural frc dollvery. Thli
branch of the servlr obviousljr brlngr
very little revenue. Ir is tratntalncO
for tlie pub'ic couvutnnr, and tw.
benefits it affonlM, oapottiiUj to A
farming class. The tautltution a
questionably is benofl-cni. cJyllltfng. ix)
the line of modern progress. Still, tb"?t
Is a limit to the monj the countrfl
can nn'ord to expend for this wort".
and now thai it. has become so costly
as to lie a burden to tho department.
there are questions which might wiso
ly bo inquird into--whether otho
branches of tho pontal service are not
suffering because of the absorption of
so much of the funds by this one. and
whether the expenditure is apportion
ed In a manner lo do the greatest
amount of good for the greatest num
ber of the people, or, as has been se
riously charged, to further political In
terests and strengthen party position
hy the enlistment of a host of mission
aries in the uniform of rural carriers.
Tho routes are alleged to be multitudi
nous In sections represented by Con
gressmen of powerful Influence afc
Washington, and again often very few;
In sections where rural free delivery is
as fully desirable. There is reason for
suspecting that in many cases free do
llvery routes have been established
quite for the sake of making place
for applicants for the positions as car
riers, rather than because of a demand
for the service by the peoplo of Uu
neighborhood. Rufi'alo Courier.
IViot'8 of DininondH.
In 17.10 diamonds were sold in Eu
rope at i?lo a carat, says the Philadel
phia Record. In 1770, when Hrazlliaus
stones were poured on tho market,
first quality diamonds sold as low as
fT a carat, and In 1700 they had in
creased to ftiO, and remained about)
this figure until 1&I8, when from $15
to !?20 a carat was asked.
From 1800 on the price of diamonds
advanced, according to the Indianapo
lis News, and with the world's dia
mond mines practically In tho control
of ono company during the Inst ten
years, the nrico lias steadllv 1 nernnnrwl
until tho present time, when llrst-wnterjk.
diamonds aro quoted at SUO a carat or Ox
more.
Nn tu rut Mistake.
Farmer Foddershucks Well, Uieni
actresses Is pretty, an' they're cortalnly
rigged out scandalous enough for any
body, but I can't understand more'
.alf they say. They're all talkin' at
oucet. What's the show about, nnj
how?
His City Nephew Sh-h! Why, unt
tho curtain hasn't gone up yet you'ri
looking at ono of tho boxes! Cleveland
Loader.
There la no contempt equal to th
contempt men have lor tho man wh
goes about delivering lecture 'for
"women only."
fTen days' trial teJla tM vwrf
t