■-..——.
BOOST THAT WAS A KNOCK
Critic Knew Well That His Praise of
Novel Would Inevitably De
crease Its Sales.
In a discussion of the popular lit
erary taste Theodore Dreiser said at
the Century club in New York:
"Here 1b an illuminating episode:
A. preacher was talking to a critic.
The preacher said:
'“I thought you didn't like the work
of Potts, the novelist?'
"‘Neither do I,’ the critic answered.
‘“Yet in your review the other day
you declared that Potts’ last novel was
remarkable for its purity, that its high
moral tone was a splendid change
from the tainted fiction of the day, and
that you advised the public to turn to
the moral Potts, from the debasing
white slave fiction so much in vogue.
Why, now. my friend, if you dislike.
Potts, did you talk like that about
him?’
“ 'I did it.' the critic answered, ‘to
■poll his sales.’ ”
Birthdays of Prominent Men.
Andrew Jackson, seventh president
of the United States, was born in
Union county, N. C., March 15, 1761.
Grover Cleveland, our twenty-second
and twenty-fourth president, was born
In Essex county, N. .1., March 18, 1837.
William .1. llryan was born at Salem,
HI., March 19, 1860.
At the Show.
"Here’s my boy. Don’t you think
I ought to be proud of such a fine
little youngster?’’
"Ah. but you ought to see my flue
little roadster!"
A girl should make the most of her
birthdays. The time will come when
■ho won’t have nnv.
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ON CANADIAN PRAIRIES
Manitoba is now commencing to
produce considerable corn, chiefly for
[ feeding purposes. In some cases,
; where the crop can be matured into
the dough stage, silos could be used
and would be a profitable investment.
According to the Farm and Ranch Re
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of corn in southern Manitoba on Sep
tember 28. The com then was un
touched by frost and It stood on an
average eight and nine feet in height.
The corn had developed into the
dough stage, and the crop would easily
exceed 20 tons to the acre. At many
experimental farms, the same favor
able showing of the corn crop has
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perimental farm this year several va
rieties, all very good yielders, matured
into good silo corn.
Considering the success with which
corn can bo produced, and the advan
tages to be gained by so producing It,
should not it receive the serious at
tention of the western agriculturist.?
Corn is successfully grown in the
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to be any reason why like results
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ada. It is the opinion of many Ameri
can farmers of experience that tho
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up with mixed farming. More stock
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BROUGHT HER BACK TO LIFE
Remarkable Cure That Was Effected
by the Administration of Ar
dent Spirits.
On his return to his native heath
a year or two ago, I’. J. O’Keefe fouud
Nellie, the oldest woman In the parish,
was dying.
Her friends, arriving at her homo,
found her lying back in hor easy chair,
apparently about to pass over the last
threshold. Nellie, being a good house
wife, carried a bunch of keys ut her
girdlo and, thinking that she was now
gone, one of the neighbors reached
under the folds of her dress to find
the key that would unlock the closet
where her shroud was kept. As the
good woman was fumbling at the gir
dlo she felt a sly pinch of hor hand
and knew by that that there was still
a spark of life remaining.
''Perhaps," she suggested, “a woo
drop of brandy would revive her.”
A toaspoonful of brandy was ad
ministered, but with only a flickering
response. So the friends departed sor
rowfully, forgetting, however, to re
move the bottle from her side. On
their return a few hours later they
discovered that the brandy had van
ished and that Nellie had completely
recovered. She lived to be more than
one hundred years old. "Put that,"’
says Mr. O’Keefe, “was the story of
Nellie's dying."
The Movies In Italy.
Mascagni is writing tho music for a
moving picture film representing the
life of Garibaldi, composed by the So
cialist Depupty Ferri. The librett is
by D'Annunzio; it is one act and 1b en
titled "The Children's Crusade.” The
poet vaguely defines his work as fol
lows; “A pitiful and tragic medieval
episode interwoven with a popular
legend which in an age of violence and
heroism ended with the misfortune of
hundreds of poor children.”
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gripe. Adv.
Damned With Faint Praise.
An estimate of the valiant Roderick
Dhu as recorded by an elementary
school student of “The Rady of the
l^iko" was this: “His character was
pretty good because he always liked
hunting, he looked pretty lair, he was
useful in shooting and fight, and
was a truthful man.”
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' The Old, Old, Story.
Ilelle—1 hoar Hilly called on you last
night.
Beulah -Yes, he did. '
Belle—And did he toll you tho "old.
old story?"
Beulah Yes. he talked abcit the
1 weather the whole time.
Charming Hostess.
j "Did she make you feel at tome?"
"No, but tho made me wish i was."
| -Brooklyn Life.
I »
I* Wilson Says Some Day He
Intends To See Washington
President in Intimate Talk With Newspaper Scribes Tells
Them He Can’t Get Used to His Job and Discusses Re
sponsibility and Human Side of Himself.
Washington. Special: Woodrow
Wilson unbosomed himself to the mem
bers of the National Press club of
Washington last night. He told them
In a frank, conversational way, how he
felt as president of the United States.
It was an Intimate picture of Wood
row Wilson, the man, drawn by himself
on the occasion of the “house warm
ing" at the Press club's new quarters.
The president did not Intend to have
his remarks reported, but later, at the
request of the club, the unusual speech
was made public. It follows:
“I was Just thinking of my sense of
confusion of Identity sometimes when
I read articles about myself. I have
never read an article about myself
In which I recognize myself, and I have
come to have the Impression that I
must be some kind of a fraud because
I think a great many of these articles
are written In absolute good faith. I
tremble to think of the variety and
falseness In the Impressions I make—
and It Is being borne In on me so that
It may change my very disposition—
that I am a cold and removed person
who has a thinking machine inside
which he adjusts to the circumstances
which he does not allow to be moved
by any winds of affection or emotion
of any kind, but turns like a cold
searchlight on anything that Is pre
sented to his attention and makes It
work. I am not aware of having any
detachable apparatus Inside of me. On
the contrary. If I were to interpret
myself I would say that my constant
embarrassment Is to restrain the emo
tions that are inside of me. You may
not believe It, but I sometimes feel
like a fire from a far distant volcano,
and If the lava does not seem to spill
over It Is because you are not high
enough to see Into the basin and see
the caldron boll. Because, truly, gen
tlemen, In the position which I occupy
here Is a sort of passionate sense of
being connected with my fellowmen In
a peculiar relationship of responsibility.
Not merely the responsibility of office,
but (lod knows there are enough things
In this world that need to be corrected.
rear of Blundering.
"I have mixed first and last with all
sorts and conditions of men—there are
mighty few kinds of men that have to
be described to me, and there are
mighty few kinds of experiences that
have to be described to me—and when
I think of the number of men who are
looking to me as tho representative of
a party with the hope for all varieties
of salvation from the things they are
struggling in the midst of, it makes
ine tremble. It makes me tremble not
only with a sense of my own inade
quacy and weakness, but as if I were
shaken by the very things that are
shaking them, and if I seem circum
spect it is because I am so diligently
trying not to make any colossal blun
der. If I just calculated the number of
blunders a fellow can make In 24 hours
if he is not careful and if he does not
listen more than he talks, you would
see something of the feeling that I
have.
“I was amused the other day at a
remark that Senator Newlands made.
I had read him the trust message that
I was to deliver to congress some 10
days before I delivered it, and I never
stop doctoring things of that kind until
the day I have to deliver thorn. When
bo heard it read to congress he said:
'I think it was better than it was when
you read it to me.’ I said: ‘Senator,
tliero is one thing which I do not think
you understand. I do not only use the
brains I have, but all I can borrow, and
I have borrowed a lot since I read it
to you first.’ That, I dare say, is what
gives the impression of circumspect
ness. I am listening: I am diligently
trying to collect all the brains that are
borrowable in order that I may not
make more blunders than It Is inevit
able that a man should make who has
great limitations of knowledge and ca
pacity. And the emotion of the thing is
so great that I suppose 1 must wear
some kind of a mask to conceal it. I
really feel sometimes as if 1 were mas
querading when I catch a picture of
myself In some printed description. In
between things that I have to do as a
public officer I never think of myself
as tho president of the United States,
never had any sense of being identi
fied with that office. I feel like a per
son appointed for a certain length of
time to administer that, office, and I
feel Just as much outside of it at this
moment as I did before I was elected
to it.
How He Views Office.
“No mnn could Imagine himself the
government of the United States; but
he could understand that some part of
his fellow citizens had told hl;n to go
and run a certain part of It the best
he knew how. That would not make
hint the government Itself, or the thing
Itself. It would Just make him re
sponsible for running It the best he
knew how. The machine Is so much
greater than himself, the office Is so
much greater than he can ever be, and
the best he can do is to look grave
enough and self possessed enough to
seem to fill It.
“For example, take matters of this
sort:
“I will not say whether It Is wise or
unwise, simple or grave, but certain
precedents have been established that
In certain circumstances the president
must leave the office first and the peo
ple may give way to him. They must
not sit down If he Is standing up. It
Is a very uncomfortable thing to have
to think of all the other people every
time I get up and sit down and all that
sort of thing. So that when I have
guests In my own house and the public
is shut out, I adjourn being president
and take leave to be a gentleman. If
they draw back and Insist upon my do
ing something first, I firmly decline.
“There are blessed Intervals when I
forget by one means and another that
I am the president of the United States.
One of the means by which I forget is
a rattling good detective story, get
after some Imaginary offender and
chase him all over, preferably any con
tinent but this, because the various
parts of this continent are becoming
painfully suggestive to me. The post
offices and many other things which
stir reminiscences, have slcklied them
o’er with a pale cast of thought.’ There
are postofflces to which I wouldn’t
think of mailing a letter, which I can't
think of without trembling with the
knowledge of the heart burnings of the
struggle there was In connection with
getting somebody Installed as post
master.
“Now. if I were free, I would come
to these rooms. You know I never was
In Washington but a few times and but
a very few hours until I came last year,
and I never expect to see the Inside of
all the public buildings In Washington
until my term is over. The minute I
turn up anywhere, I am personally con
ducted to beat the band. The curator
and the assistant curators, and every
other blooming official turns up and
they show me so much attention that I
don't see the building. I would have
to say, 'StCnd aside and let me see
what you are showing me.’ Some day,
when I am through with this office I
am going to come back to Washington
and see it. In the meantime I am In
the same category as the national
museum, the monument, the Smith
sonian institution, or the congressional
library, everybody that comes down
here has to be shown the president.
As a National Exhibit.
"If I only knew an expression to as
sume- apparently I can assume other
privileges that do not show what is go
ing on inside—I would like to have it
pointed out, so that I could practice it
before the looking glass and see if I
could not look like the monument. Be
ing regarded as a national exhibit it
would be much simpler than being sha
ken hands with by the whole United
States.
"And yet, even that is interesting to
me. simply because I like human be
ings. It is a pretty poor crowd that
does not interest you. I think they
would have to be all members of that
class that devotes Itself to ‘expense re
gardless of pleasure' in order to be en
tirely uninteresting. These look sa
much alike—spend their time trying to
look so much alike—and so relieve
themselves of all responsibility of
thought—that they are very monot
onous, indeed, to look at; whereas, a
crowd picked up off the street is just
a jolly lot of human beings, pulsating
with life, with all kinds of passions and
desires.
"It would be a great pleasure if, urtr
observed and unattended, I could bo
knocked around as I have been accus
tomed to being knocked around all my
life; if I could resort to any delightful
Quarter, to any place in Washington
that I chose. I have sometimes thought
of going to some costumer—some the
^rical costumer—and buying an as
sortment of beards, rouge and coloring
and all the known means of disguising
myself, if it were not against the law.
You see I have a scruple, as president,
against breaking the law. and disguis
ing one’s self is against the law. but if
I could disguise myself and not get
caught. I would go out, be a free Amer
ican citizen once more and have a Jolly
time. I might then meet some of ypu
gentlemen and actually tell you what
I really thought.’’
I he president talked most informal
ly. He wore a sack suit and stood with
his hands in his pockets as he spoke.
He was in a happy mood, and his re
marks were constantly punctuated with
laughter and applause. Mr. "Wilson is
a member of the Press club, having
been elected as an author long before
he became president. Members of the
cabinet, Speaker Clark and many offi
cials also were guests of the newspa
per men.
I
Fortune Telling in China*
The "Annals and Memoirs of the
Court of Peking,” written by Edmund
Backhouse and J. O. P. Bland, and cov
ering Chinese histor> from the letrh to
the 20th century, have a human Interest
quite apart from their historical value
and may be read with pleasure lor the
many entertaining stories contained In
them.
One amusing anecdote, Is of a stu
dent who rushed Into the crowd gath
ered about a fortune teller, seized the
man, and shouted, “You have ruined
my career for good and all. Either you
or l shall die for It.” When an at
tendant of the emperor, who was there
Incognito, had separated the men, the
soothsayer explained:
“A few days ago this man came here
to consult me with regard to his pros
pects In the Impending examination,
and I promised that he would win the!
first place. Now having failed to take
his place In the examination hall, he
comes hero forsooth and blames me for
bis own unpunctuality. Much learning
has made him mad."
At this, the scholar broke In and said,
“Becauso you foretold that I should
come out at the head of the list, my
friends gave me a banquet at which I
became very drunk. When at last my
servant managed to arouse me, I got
up and hurried to the examination hall,
but the gates were already barred. Did
you ever hear of a non-competitor com
ing out at the head of the list? Are you
not, then, the sole cause of my un
doing?”
The dispute continued till the em
peror ended It by writing an order
which would secure to the tardy stu
dent admission to the examination hall.
The fortune teller agreed to punish
ment If his prophecy was not fuldlled.
The student went to his examination,
the emperor returned to his court, and
the fortune teller quietly disappeared.
The emperor, In order to triumph over
the fortune teller, had meant to give
orders that the student should not be
passed, but he forgot to do so. and the
examiners. Impressed by the student**
apparent influence with the emperor,
agreed that it would be disrespectful to
place any one else above him. So the
fortune toller s prediction came true,
biit when the emperor. Impressed by
his prophetic skill, sought his services
for the court, the man had vanished
and was never seen again.
44New Occasions Teach New Duties."
From the Washington Times.
Changed economic conditions not only
play havoc with the traditional pursuits
of women: they make sport of traditional
systems of education.
Time was when children learned the
major business of 1 Ifo in the home, on
the farm, or in the workshop. Nowadays
the homo has surrendered to the factory
its productive functions; the farm is out
stripped by the agricultural school: ap
prenticeship in the workshop is restricted
both by trades unions and by machinery.
We tend to seek in schools a substitute
for the outworn teachers of the past. The
burden of fitting a child for his environ
ment Is thrust upon paid specialists.
Domestic science, vocational training and
school gardening are crowded into the
curriculum, together with a host of lesser
subjects.
The expansion of the curriculum is not
without danger. Fundamentals must not
be slighted. If the school is to supervise
play as well as work, health as well as
Intellect—If It is to perforin its original
tasks and also the abandoned tasks of
other educational agencies. It must com
mand the resources formerly held by all
combined. It cannot force into 166 short
days the activities of more than 3iX) full
days.
That is the chief reason why the school
day should be lengthened and vacations
curtailed. Another reason Is that it Is
uneconomic to let valuable equipment lie
Idle. A very successful automobile plant
runs 7,300 hours a year and has profits to
burn; school plants run about 1,000 hours
a year and are Jeered at for Inefficiency.
A part-time system doe» not meet the
emergency in education as it does in man
ufacture. Each child needs school of
some sort morning and afternoon, winter
and summer; and tht school must re
ia»end to the demand.
BERLIN, ASHAMED OF
GAY NIGHT LIFE, IS
NOW URGING REFORM
Claimed Cabarets, Dance Halls and
Drinking Places Are Corrupting
Young Men and Women
of Germany.
Berlin. Special: For years Berlin
strove to become the greatest all night
city In the world. Now when it boasts
that distinction there are widespread
appeals for putting on the brakes.
Out of the 443 members of the Prus
sian diet 370 have backed the assertion
that the city Is a den of vice, and have
petitioned the minister of the interior
to “ward off the dangers to which the
bodies and souls of youths are ex
posed.”
The 40 members of the progressive
party In the diet have not joined in
the petition, but their spokesman de
clared that in a general way it ex
pressed their desires.
Baron Schenck zu Schweinsberg,
speaking for the conservatives, made
a bitter attack upon conditions in Ber
lin. The number of dissolute women,
he said, was Increasing tremendously,
with all the evils that follow in their
train. “Berlin by night” had become
an advertising slogan, known through
out the world. As a matter of fact,
Berlin by night was “the darkest spot
in Prussia and in the German empire.”
Cabarets, dance halls and dangerous
drinking places were destroying the
youth, and when a move was made
against them the cry went up that the
police were threatening business. The
baron also attacked the cinematograph
as a factor in demoralization.
A free conservative representative,
Herr Voster seconded Baron Baron zu
Schweinberg’s statements. The city’s
night program, he said, is made up as
follows: From 8 to 11, theatre; 11 to
2, wine restaurants or dance halls, 2
to 4, bars, and 4 to 6, “night resorts.”
The advocates of all night revelry, ho
said, defended their attitude by de
claring that Berlin is one of the world’s
great cities and must cater to visitors
from abroad. They overlooked the fact
that the public places in London close
at midnight and on Paris boulevards at
1 o’clock.
“He who knows our night life knows
what demoralization it causes among
our youth,” said the deputy.
Representatives of the clerical and
national liberal parties also attacked
existing conditions. Dr. Schroeder of
the national liberals deplored that fact
that these conditions were not confined
to Berlin. The smaller cities, too, are
becoming infected, he said.
Johann von Dallwitz, minister of the
interior, declared that there were great
obstacles in the way of a successful
campaign against the dangers of pres
ent conditions. He said the govern
ment was trying to reduce the number
of doubtful resorts and had actually ef
fected a considerable reduction in the
number of places holding all night li
censes. It was hoped eventually to
abolish entirely the so called “anima
tion bars,” where female waitresses
urge the guests to drink as much and
as often as possible, and he expected
the new measure about to
be laid before the reichstag for the reg
ulation of the liquor traffic throughout
the empire.
No earnest defender of the night life
of German cities in all its phrases has
as vet replied to the attacks in the diet,
but one apologist has directed atten
tion to a reason justifying later hours
lor restaurants and cafes in Germany
than in other countries. This is the
manner in which the working day is di
vided. The average business house
suspends operations for from one and
one-half to two and one-half hours at
noon, when the big meal of the day is
urken, and close only at 8. This forces
the employes to work into the even
ing, and if they wish to visit a theater,
moving picture show or concert, they
must go directly from their place of
business without pausing for supper.
The after-theater supper is not a lux
ury for them but a necessity, and they
make up a big part of the crowd that
fills the public eating and drinking
places from 11 until 2 o’clock.
Is Golf Too Easy?
From tho New York Tribune.
Mr. Herbert Fowler, who designs
golf courses in England, has started a
howl of dismay by calmly asserting in
print that ' golf has become too easy.”
The rubber-cored ball is. of course, the
cause to which he lays tills calamity.
And all the lengthening of holes and
Invention of diabolical pot bunkers he
considers quite inadequate to keep the
game in its pristine arduousness. Bet
ter guarded greens—trapped to test the
approach shot not only as to distance,
but also as to direction—and more cross
bunkers of the old and now unfashion
able type are his chief demands.
“Not for me,” has been the prompt
chorus in England in reply to Mr. Fow
ler’s assertion of golf’s easiness. And
we think there will be a heartful echo
here. Golf is. after all, a game—a
pleasure game, we are movd to add
having in mind bridge and other sports
which require a scientific education to
qualify a player. The backbone of the
game is the duffer, when all is said
and done. And a golf course should
be designed not for the perfect golfer
(who, by the way, doesn’t exist), but
for fullible human nature struggling
manfully against insuperable odds.
Make golf too easy? Frankly, in our
present despondent mood, the idea is
unthinkable.
Greediest Hoc;s Profitable.
The following interesting facts about
hogs are taken from the Farm and
Fireside:
“The Oregon station has found out by
actual feeding tests that the hog which
oats most greedily is the most profita
ble. Thirty hogs were divided Into three
lots, the heaviest eaters in one lot, and
the others graded according to their ca
pacity for consuming feed.
”A hundred hogs like tho heaviest
eaters, at tho rate of gain made and
recent prices, would make a profit of
$297.65, or almost exactly $3 a head. A
hundred like the poorest feeders would
have made a profit of $115.65, or only a
little more than $1 a head. They were
evenly graded as to size and sex. If
there is tills great difference between
the heavy eating hogs and the light
eaters—and most hog growers will
ngroe with the general proposition—It
would seem that breeders might well
devote themselves to breeding uppetito
In hogs. Instead of color or fancy
points. If the appetite makes the prof
its, breed appetite.”
Said of John Hay.
Joseph Bucklln Bishop.
He lived his own life with patience
charity, falrmlndedness. candor, modesty
and lnJefatiganle industry. A more con
scientious mar. never lived. To him as tc
the sternest Puritans the line which di
vides right and wrong was narrow as a
hair, as high as heaven, as eternal as the
stars. He drew It for himself, but never
insisted upon drawing It for others H*
was an individual conscience, not one foi
th* regulation of the human race.
[OLDEST! :SWINDLE
REVIV I IN ENGLAND
Truth About Fake Chancery
Court Claims Is Made
Public.
London. Special: The missing es
tate swindle is evidently again being
worked extensively in the United
States. The embassy here is over
whelmed with letters from American
“heirs” asking how best to secure es
tates due them. Some letters indicate
that victims were induced to part with
all their property to pay expenses of
pseudo representatives of the chancery
court.
Ten years ago the state department
at Washington received so many re
quests about missing estates in chan
cery that a special investigation was
made by Henry White, then first sec
retary of the American embassy here.
He reported that it would be practical
ly Impossible for any American to se
cure an estate from the court of chan
cery. The report showed that the large
estates constantly spoken of as “dor
mant in chancery” or “awaiting claim
ants in the Bank of England” were
purely imaginary, and usually the in
vention of swindlers, who obtain money
for the prosecution of claims to ficti
tious fortunes.
The funds in chancery open to claim
are few, averaging less than $1,800 each,
two only approaching $75,000, and most
of them inevitably w'ould consume
their value in the expenses of recovery.
The fullest proofs of genealogy are de
manded, and in the case of Americans
such proofs are almost impossible.
Even the clearest claims are' usually
barred by the statute of limitations.
About the time of this report the in
quiries became so heavy that they over
loaded the correspondence of the em
bassy, and a printed form of reply was
adopted and this is in use today.
Last year when one of these swind
lers persuaded a number of alleged de
scendants in America that the estate
of their ancestor Sir Francis Drake
was ready for distribution by the court
of chancery, the swindle was widely
exposed by the American newspapers,
with the result that the inquiries prac
tically ceased until within the past few
weeks.
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The Sawdust Trail and Reverence.
From the Philadelphia Public-Ledger.
Lilly Sunday, the evangelist, offends
the ears of cultivated people by his slang,
his manners and by words which come
unwashed from the vernacular of the
crowd ire is not the only offender
against reverence and good taste. Many
evangelists, and not a few preachers who
imitate them, lower the standards of pro
priety by indulging in expressions more
adapted to the barroom than the pulpit,
bam Jones was a pioneer in slang. He
spoiled more than one young minister
who imitated his way of putting things.
Gipsy Smith is an exception. His words,
selected with the greatest care, would
satisfy Addison, and his oratory would
match the refined standards of Burke.
A good thought deserves a clean, well
fitting dress. When the two are com
bined the result is a work of art.
Sunday stamps all he says with a per
sonality which excuses much that he does
say. In this sensationalism is not a lit
tle of his power. Many folk unfortu
nately like that sort of thing, just as
they prefer ragtime to the Ninth Sym
phony of Beethoven. Did Billy Sunday
deliver from memory sermons by Rob
ertson, of Brighton, he would fail. He
is sincere and natural, and sincerity and
naturalness in a strong individuality
make a winning combination. Twenty
five thousand converts in Pittsburgh and
a $50,000 testimonial are worth thinking
about. Better Billy Sunday and his slang
th^n some things much worse. Religion
is .more than rhetoric, the spirit more
than the letter. If the sawdust trail is
a path of light, well and good. It does
not. n?ean the decadence of organized
Christianity.
Do You Keep Books?
In a recent issue of Farm and Fire
side Clifford E Davis says that farm
ing is always a business but that the
average farmer keeps no books. He
pays a bill, makes no record of it, loses
the receipt or keeps it in one of a
dozen cluttered boxes where it can not
be found. Mr. Davis goes on as fol
lows :
‘‘In order to protect themsejwes In
case of sudden death the wite and
children should be made familiar with
every detail of the business. There is
recorded the case of a rich man who
deposited his mony in several banks,
was killed in an accident, and his fam
ily are living in absolute want because
they cannot ascertain where the money
was banked. Another instance is that
of a man who placed $30,000 in ty bank
for the assistance of his family, died
far away, and his folks cannot find
where the money is placed. One of my
most valued books is a large Hank
book In which I record every detail of
farm work with date of day, month,
and year.
Cricket for the Parson.
The tale of the curate who, in a mo
ment of forgetfulness, said: ‘‘Here
endeth the first innings," has recalled
many stories. “Should a parson be a
cricketer?" asks a contemporary. The
question is discussed by Dean Hole in
his book of "Memories." And the dean
says “Yes.”
“If I were a bishop,” he writes, -and
a young priest asked me the question.
I should at once give an affirmative
answer, with these restrictions: Your
cricket must never interrupt or abridge
your duty. You should not leave vour
parish, unless you have a curate, for a
match of two or three days’ duration,
because fatal sickness may come sud
denly, to the babe unbaptized, and to
those wtio most desire or most need
your help. You must be satisfied with
the ordinary costume of clean white
flannel (none so becoming), and not
array yourself in gorgeous or fantastlo
raiment. You must despise the habit
of ‘going in for a b. and s.‘ and let your
moderation be known unto men in to
bacco, as in all things else. When you
have made a good innings you will de
serve your pipe."
With An Eye Toward Economy,
From the National Magazine.
Mr. Perry had been out for a day's
fishing, as he proudly displayed the
contents of his basket to his wife, she
exclaimed:
“Oh, Alva, aren’t they beauties! But
I've been so anxious for the past hour,
dear.”
"Foolish little one!” said Alva ca
ressingly; "why, what could have hap
pened to me?"
“Oh, I didn’t worry about you, dear,”
said the woman; “but it grew so late
I was afraid that before you got back
to town the fish markets would all bs
closed.”
Marie Schwabacher, a pretty Ant
werp milliner, who was courted by two
brothers, promised to marry the win
ner of a game at cards, but eventually
aloped with the one who was beaten.