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OPINIONS OP GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
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Perils of tho Dross Suit.
ORRHSPONDENTS of a New York newspaper
CI have been discussing In Its columns tho import-
ant question whether a young man on a Biliary
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earnest philosopher at Seneca Falls sees in the
dress stilt a peril when owned by a young mnn
who has this modest Income. He does not
consider tho "spike I all" coat a menace per se. Tho danger,
he conceives, Is In the expenses Jta possession Involves,
Perhaps thcro Is something In this. When a man has
got a dress suit ho must have dress shirts. When ho has
"them he must have studs, niodest or resplendent. Calf
shoos donl look well with a dress stilt; so Its owner must
havo patent dross shoes. Ho will regard his evening dress
as incomplete until he has the proper kind of hat.
Tho possession of costly and fashionable raiment im
plies Its use. A young man flushed with bis first dress
suit and opera hat is likely to find the street car too vulgar
n conveyance. Ho must have a carriage to tho theater. A
Back coat raises no objections to a scat In the' gallery, but
tho "swallow tall" protests that It feels out of place there,
and that If it can't loll In a box, It at least must not be
taken above the ground floor.
Dress shirts, dross shoes, silk hats, carriages, $1.50 or
'$2 seats at tho theater these aro but a few of tho costly
accessories of tho dress suit. The Seneca Falls philosopher
pursues tho theme,' A young man, he reasons, can't afford
to have theso things on $15 a week. II gets In debt, robs
Ws employer's till, or commits forgery. The dress suit of
tho $15 young man thus bocomcs the Innocent cause of its
owner going to Jail, whero ho will not have much use for it.
Whether the $15 a week young man's dress suit gets him
in Jail or not and there are many such young men who
havo dress suits, and yet probably never will go to Jail
it Is pretty sure, If 'he Mves up to It, to keep his finances
depressed. Tho dress suit Is all right. It Is a thing of
beauty and a Joy forever, although certain esthetic people
do say It would be more beautiful and Joyful If knee
trousors wero substituted for pantaloons. Tho accessories
of the dress suit are unobjectionable. Life would be less
worth living without them. Hut It seems tolerably plain
that the $15 young man iiad better postpone Indulgence In
tlieni until his salary shall have been considerably In
creased. Tho attempt to carve out a dress suit career on
a sack suit Income 'has kept muny men busy dodging cred
itor the host part of their lives. Chicago Tribune.
and, at tho samo time, to the watching heart nearby, burn-
ng with tho anxiety of love.
Trim hoorlsm nil fho mnro so hocfltisn It Keldom has
the encouragement of deserved praise is the rule among
physicians. Philadelphia North American.
The Heroism of Physicians.
T may bo truly said that no class of men risk
death so frequently or so freely, and there Is
no gainsaying that the motives which impel
them are of tho highest and most unselfish sort.
For they not only dare, In tho cause of human
ity, such swift and fatal torture as marked
this case, but more terrible to contemplate,
they unhesitatingly lay themselves open to long years of
-Ikopcless and helpless suffering.
For the most part, tho world knows little of this. Tho
common tendency is to think of doctors as immune against
those ailments and afflictions with which they must so
often come In contact. Tho popular mind conceives them
as charmed beings, forgetting for the while that suffering
and deatli are no respecters of persons, and as a natural
consequence, the thought of heroism Is seldom coupled with
that of healing.
Other men who are Independent In business can select
their own times for coming and going. Tho doctor cannot
They can cater to the class of trade they desire. The doc
tor cannot. They can, when they will, decline to dispense
their wares and their services. The doctor cannot. How
evor heavily the day's toll has weighed upon them, the
ovenine and night nre theirs for recreation or rest. Tho
doctor's are not.
. Beyond certain limits of special practice, which any
emergency can shatter, he has neither choice of what or
with whom ho shall deal, and under any circumstances he
can never call one hour, night or day, his own.
Ills Is a heroism of constant service not tho kind that
does one flaring deed which makes men staro and shout
and then reposes peacefully on beds of laurels, but the
kind that Is never wanting In tho moment of need; the
kind that Is content to walk In the byways as well as the
highways of life, tho kind that knows no distinction be
tween rich and poor, humble and proud; tho kind that
means comfort and relief to the body burning with fever
A Peril to the Church.
T Is fortunate for the churches of this country
that clergymen generally take emphatic ex
ception to the attitude of the Board of Mis
sions, wAlch Is said to have decided unani
mously that it will accept Mr. John D. Rocke
feller's gift of $100,000, and to the attitude of
those other clergymen who have tho temerity to
come out boldly and declare that they want Mr. Rocke
feller's money whether It Is., dirty or clean. It Is fortu
nato for the church that this utfdlscrlmlnatlng greed is so
roundly denounced, because, when all is said and done, it
s not the Mr. Rockefellers, or any other money kings, who
support the religious institutions of this country. The
hundred thousand dollars that a multi-millionaire may
glvo here or there at Intervals to excite commendation of
his religious spirit or to mollify bitter criticisms of his
business methods count as nothing against the small but
steady contributions of tho millions of plain American clt-
zens who are tho true supporters of tho church, both with
their financial aid and with their moral principles and
practices.
Let the American people once understand that the
church can be bribed to withhold Its condemnation of in
justice, oppression and crime for every one of these is
In the Indictment against the Standard Oil Company and
they will as surely set their faces against the church as
they have against tho men who extort their hundreds of
millions from tho public, contributing of these robber gains
the smallest fraction, cither In penitence or with the char
latan's aim of hoodwinking otherwise good people Into a
sort of public approval of their acts. New York Press.
0LD I
Gentle Annie.
Thou wilt como no more, gcntlo Annie,
Till.o n flower tlir snlrlt did depart.
Thou art gone, alas, like tho many
That nave bloomed in the summer oi
my heart.
Shnll we never more behold thee,
Never hear thy winning volco again.
When tho springtime comes, gentle
Annie,
When tho wild flowers are scattered
o'er tho plain.
We havo roamed in youth 'mid tho bow-4
erg,
When thy downy checks wero In their
' bloom,
Now I stand alone 'mid the flowers,
While they mingle their perfume o er
thy tomb.
Shall we never more behold thee, etc.
Ah! tho hours grow sad while I pander
Near the silent spot where thou art
laid,
And my heart bows down when I wander
By tho stream and the meadows whero
wo strayed.
Shall we never more behold thee, etc.
Stephen O. Foster.
Money Worship.
IIM cheapening effect on human nature that
money worship has cannot be declared too
often. Money worship overlooks good deeds
and honest hearts. It snubs deserving men
and shows no respect for women. It mistakes
clothes for the man and showlness for brains.
It Judges no man by what he is, but every
one by what he has. To the money worshiper externals
are everything; character Is no badge of respectability.
Have money and you are somebody; be without money and
you aro not worth considering. The money worshiper
professes a love for art because ho thinks it tactful, but
ho disdains the artist if tho artist has genius sans money.
He calls Immorality "bohemlanlsm" and sneers at "the
simpio life" as being plebeian. Ho Is narrow, selfish,
proud, material and unimaginative.
All tho energies of the pulpit and the rostrum, the
school and the press should make war on this stifling
tendency of the age. It is a matter that affects the very
life of the human race. If the subject is old, the war
should not for that reason be dropped. On the other hand,
because It is old, the attacks should be continued with
growing earnestness. Louisville Courier Journal.'
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Mortality in Modern War.
HE mortality In modern war, notwithstanding
tho marked progress that has been made in the
construction of rapid fire artillery and maga
Jzlno rifles, does not seem to exceed that of for
, a i i . t JW
im mnn siti 1 1 1 ir a r run n i inrrnii iruccinrt nnwM'ii iitr,
ures on the subject are measurably correct.
Thus it is asserted that out of a total of K10.000
otllcers and men ill and wounded 77,000, or more than one
half, have returned to actlvo service, while about 21,000
are still In the hospitals. The killed in combat during
a year's hostilities, which Include several bloody battles,
are placed at from 40,000 to 50,000. This Is a heavy toll
of death, but It would undoubtedly have been much heavlor
but for tho fact that the small bore rifles, now In use, kill
fewer men proportionately than the big caliber muskets
formerly employed. As for the Japanese, the proportion of
recoveries both from Illness and wounds among them Is
described both by oulclal and non-oflicial observers as sur
prisingly large. Philadelphia Bulletin.
TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY.
FASTEST WAR VESSEL AFL0A1.
T. It. NKVHF.1UIY.
Mlchliftiii Mnn Appointed AnnlHtnnt
Secretary of the Navy.
Truman II. Newberry, who has
been appointed assistant secretary of
the navy by President Roosevelt, takes
tho post which
Mr. Roosevelt
himself had at
the outbreak of
tho Spanish war.
II o sue c o e d s
Charles IT. Dar
lington of Ver
mont, who resign
ed in order to ac
copt another Fed-
oral appointment
and also to de
vote hlmsolf to tho practice, of law.
Mr. Newberry was born In ISOi and
graduated from the scientific school
of Ynlo University In 18S5. For sov
eral years after his graduation ho was
engaged in railroad construction in
Michigan with his father, tho Into
John S. Nowborry. Ilo enjoys a high
standing and largo influence in busi
ness circles In Detroit and tho Middle
West.
Though his principal activities havo
been on land he has obtained consid
erable knowledge of navnl affairs both
front study and from actual service,
as ho was one of the organizers of tho
Michigan naval rosorvo battalion, and
during tho Spanish war served on tin
auxiliary cruiser Yosemlto with the
rank of lieutenant. He has been a
friend of President Roosovelt forsomo
. Tho new British scout ship Sentinel, shown In Uto picture, Is now tho
speediest war craft afloat. In her recent trial trip sho mado 25.5 knots an
hour. Tho Sentinel Is 300 foot In length and 40 foot beam and with all her
equipment aboard has a displacement of 2,020 tons. She Is very low amid
ships and aft In order to bo out of sight of tho enemy. Sho Is provided with
a signaling foremast, wlroless telegraph gaff and a semaphore truck. Her
bridge Is so lofty that, whllo her hull will lie below tho horlzon'of the enemy,
hor lookout will bo ablo to discover tho higher bulk of a vessel approaching.
years. Mr. Newberry Is married and
has thrco children, a daughter aged
sixteen and twin boys aged fourteen.
Mrs. Newberry Is a daughter of tho
lato General Alfred C. Barnes, of
Brooklyn borough, New York, and a
granddaughter of tho famous publish
er, tho lute A. S. Barnes. As Miss
Harriet Josephlno Barnes sho was one
of tho belles of Brooklyn. Mr. New
berry Is several times a millionaire
and his wife Inherited a largo fortune
It Is predicted Unit ho will be one of
tho most influential ofllclals connectei
with 'the administration, and that ho
will In tlmo bo promoted to be heat
of tho Navy Department
Too many Jags mako vags in rags.
ma. Bess Knows neaps sue s mat
kind. Thank you. miss."
Tho hnv ran down the stens whis
tlinir. and MIss Starr went back into
tho house. All the evening she thought
t,,,- TJnaa tinrt fho "rilffc." SllO llllfl
had no idea that people Worpsojjhter-
estlng. Sho wondered If the boy who
brotiirht her milk had a sister, too; per
haps she would ask him some day.
Sho never euessed it, but sho bad
put her hand upon one of the great
doors of life, and It was opening at her
ouch. Youth's Companion.
Serenade.
Stars of the summer night!
Far in' yon azuro deeps,
Hide, hide your golden light!
Sho sleops! 1
My lady sleeps!
Sleeps!
Moon of the summer night!
Far down yon western Bteops,
Sink, sink in silver light!
Sho sleeps!
My lady sleeps!
Sleeps!
Wind of tho summer night!
Whero yonder woodbine creeps,
Fold, fold thy pinions light!
She sleeps!
My lady sleeps!
Sleeps!
Dreams of the summer night,!
Tell her, her lover keeps
Watch whllo In slumbers light
Sho sleeps!
My lady sleeps I
Sleeps!
-Henry W. Longfellow.
THE DOOR OPENS.
Miss Sarah Found the Way When She
Icaat Kxpcctcd It.
Looking back. Sarah Starr could not
ten when the doors had begun to close,
At first, in those years when tho nos
session of youth seemed tho nledco of
tho fulfillment of her dreams some dav
the very dreaming of them had been
so delicate a Joy that only an occn
slonal shadow of wonder or impatience
at the delay of life had clouded their
radiance. Later. In the bitterness of
awakening, she recounted tho con
straining circumstances tho lack of
all social life in a singularly solitary
homo, a shyness bred by the solitude
In which she had grown up. the lone
years of ministry to an Invalid mother
xci someuow through it all she had
kept till pathetically late her belief
that something would "happen." She
did not realize that things nevor enter
except by open doors. So nothing over
had happened, and hero she was 40
and alone and bitter.
One day the minister called; he was
almost tho only one who ever did call.
Yielding to an unwonted impulse, she
spoke her thought:
"I'd better be dead. It Avould make
no difference to a soul In the world
I'm no good to anybody upon earth."
The minister did not reproach hor
ns sho had expected. To her amaze
ment. he threw back his head and
laughed.
"My dear Miss Starr," ho said
"that's tho one thing in the world you
can't be useless. Tins world is so
constructed that unless one lives alone
In the wilderness he must, by tho very
necessity of living, bo helping along
othor people. Count up some time the
peoplo whom you help furnish dally
bread and Joy."
It was a queer Idea. Studying it
over after tho minister had left, she
wondered if it was "orthodox," but it
certainly was interesting. Then sud
donly something happened.
It was only tho boy from the tea
store with her tea and butter, and n
big tinsel-bedecked cardboard Santa
Claus the tea firm's Christmas souve
nir. Ilo handed it to her with a linger
ing look. Miss Starr, to her amaze
ment, heard her own volco call him
back as ho was turning away.
"Here," sho said, "do you want this
thing? I don't."
Tho boy looked up alertly. "That's
tho third," ho said. "You see," he ex
plained, "I told Bess I'd save all I
could for tho Christmas tree she's giv
ing her rats."
"Rats?" Miss Starr repeated, help
lessly. "Alloy kids," Uto boy explained.
"Youngsters that wouldn't havo Christ-
STEPPING OUT "SASSY."
First Step Toward Success Is Proir
' Sclf-Confldcnce.
For generations the Randolph Jcffer-
sons had been celebrated for the beau
ty and charm of their women. Betty
Jefferson had been declared tho most
beautiful woman at the Governor's ball,
and Betty's daughter had been the
belle of threo counties, and Botty'a
granddaughters thrco of them at
east claimed tho family reputation as
a matter of course. Tho fourth ono,
Virginia, was different. Shjuwas plain
and shy and awkward. ThofMfcsons
always looked puzzled wUM&ihey
thoucht of her a homely rJmtrson
wns such a strange misfit,
So Virginia lived her shySloncf
an alien among her owipeople?
sho was not quite alonegpUhcr. Ouo
friend she had, old Aunjj Charlotte,
who fought desperately tt5,mako tho
girl conquer her fate instead of yield-
ng to It. zE&:
" 'Tain't yo' 'pcarancelfeliss Fagln-
ny," she urged, day in andsday out
"hit's jes' 'causo yo' Mowsfthlngs tor
tromplo on yo'. Hoi' upiyo' hald,
lirmm nn' ufnn mif ccv. Tlnt'll fnfph
'em ov'ry time."
While Virginia wns still a young girl;
tho wnr swept over tho South. For a
few years the family contrived to keep
together, but ut last it was necessary!
for them to separate, and Virginiat
went to cousins in Philadelphia, who
wero confident that they could help her
to music pupils. Tho-weeks that fol
lowed wero crowded with agony for
tho homesick irlrl. If alio had" heon
shy at home, sho was a thousand tlmos
worse facing stranger. It was noi
strange that only failure followlahe
efforts. it
Ono day she went to see a Mrs. Deii
more, who had threo little daughter
for whom she wanted a music teachac
For various reasons Virginia realh
hoped for success there, but tho resxuj
was the usual polite regret. Tho girfi
eyes filled with tears, and sho bow4
silently; then suddenly, to tho ladra
surprise, sho began to laugh nervou
"I I beg your pardon," sb&fitauv
mered, meeting the look In the'other'?
face. "I was Just thinking of the ad-'
vlco of my old mammy at homes j
'Hoi' up yo' bald an' step out sassy.' V
suppose I ought to havo thought of
that at flrst."
To Virginia's amazement, Mrs. Dens
more turned and motioned her back to
her seat
"If you don't mind, Miss Jt erson,"
Shft Wild. "VO will tnlfc tlilo ni'nr n Itt--
tle more. To toll you the truth, it yis
your evident lack of self-confldenco
that mado mo distrust your ability to
teach; but If you can 'stop out sassy' "
and ten minutes later Virginia left
with her first pupils secured.
Many years after sho told the story,
and declared it the turning-point of
her life. "I learned," sho said, "that
4 1 . , t .... i- i l t T
to 'hor up yo
panion.
hald.'
Sane or Insnno?
"Is there any sure test by which to
toll tho sane from the insane?" in
quired a student of tho famous French
Alienist Esqulrol. "Please (lino with,
mo to-morrow at 0 o'clock." wna thn
answer of tho savant. The student
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Ilooh Has Many Imitators.
An c.stliiinto nf tiwi frtf.ii iw"
uesertea wives In and nhout fihlcv
based
police concerning the Hoch case, load)
tho authorities to believe there aro fi
least 1,000 womsn who havo been vl(
thus of all sorts of matrimonial ac
ventures. Hundreds of letters nre nj
celved dully from women In nil jiir''
or the country asking for a desci$tio j
of tho alleged bigamist. The write, jj
recite tuo samo general story of ha A
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slon of their money.