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TRIALS OF THE ACCOMMODATING MAN
WHO HAS A TELEPHONE AT HIS FARMHOUSE
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Are Advantages Disadvantageous.
A RE wraith and ancestry handicaps which so heav
ily weight an aspirant for success and honor that
when lie wins in spite of them, he In entitled to extra
credit? Frankly, we do not believe ft-Tie number
of those of obscure origiu who attain conspicuous success
'in life Is very much greater than the number of those born
to the advantages of wealth and a distinguished ancestry
who do this, for precisely the reason that white sheep yield
more wool than black sbeej there are a great many more
jf them. It should also be remembered that to maintain a
high level of Intellectuality and general capacity is much
less conspicuous than to rise from the obscurity of poverty
and Illiteracy to a place of influence and honor.
To say that wealth and a distinguished ancestry are a
handicap to one who wishes to be In the highest degree
useful In life Is no more true than It would be to say
the same of a good constitution or a system free from
'hereditary taint. To say that they diminish the Incentive
to struggle with and overcome obstacles is true enough,
since one who starts with great advantages does not have
so f;ir to lift himself and need not do as much hard work
In hand over hu ml climbing. That In many Instances the
sous of rich and even great men show degeneracy and
relapse Into obscurity is unquost louably true, but It would
not be difficult to show that poverty, an illiterate ancestry,
and the lack of incentive to self improvement hold millions
annually at the bottom round of the social ladder, because
they are Incomparably better lilted to stay there than to
ascend. Heredity counts for a great deal, and it Is a safe
generalization that the better a man's ancestry the better
his chances of developing a high, well directed, and sus
tained ambition. That this Is not an Inflexible law of
Datum Is a cause for congratulation. If It were, society
would gradually stratify Into castes. As it is, the fact
that some are steadily sinking from the top to the bottom
while more are as steadily, and much more rapidly, rising
from the bottom to the top. and that between the bottom
and the top Is the great mass of solid, common place, right
minded citizenship to which the highest and the lowest
strata contribute with every generation, establishes the
existence and operation of a law not founded on a senti
mental oiiicept of the disadvantage of advantages nor of
the advantage of disadvantages.-New York Times.
Schools Slur Study of fnglish.
NGI.ISII Is one of the most tillable and adaptable
Lof tongues. It has plundered all languages of their
riches.' It has the greatest; of all literatures, save
that of Greece, and It has the advantage over Gre
cian literature of being concerned with modern life and
being a living speech. English, probably, will become one
day the universal language.
I'm 11 very lately our pedagogues seemed to have over
looked English as a medium of education. Earlier schol
antic curricula made Latin and Greek the main forces In
the higher education. The college boy of twenty years ago
was stuffed with Cicero and Virgil, Demosthenes and
Homer. . . .
Then came the scientific movement In the schools.
Laboratory work was declared to be the great educational
method. Physics, chemistry and political economy took
the place of Latin and Greek. The humanities fell Into dls
r.r,ut iitwl nliniiHt fiifn itenetnfie. The old eolloce crrfldnati
felt almost ashamed of his classics In the presence of the
-supercilious young man that had been brought up on
physical science.
Hut physical science, it Is now admitted, Is not suffi
cient for liberal education. A writer In the Popular Set
nice Monthly confesses that there is undoubtedly too much
narrowness, and too little general culture, an outward and
visible sign of which Is the bad Latin published by many
of the younger men In the form of zoological names. Ex
perience proves that language and literature are necessary
studies to produce clear and exact thinking and its correla
tive, clear and exact expression.
Why not, then, make English supply the necessary hu
manitarian element In education? English has been slurred
hitherto lu the schools, for the student was supposed to
pick It up casually. The result was that the average stu
dent In the scientific courses did not pick It up at all and
left college with but scant knowledge of the English tongue
and literature.
; If English were a prescribed study In all schools and
colleges and were taught thoroughly the common speech of
the land would soon Improve and the diction of our
writers would become correct and more elegant. We lack
pride in our language and conscientiousness In the use ot
It. It Is time some literary mission work were done.
San Francisco Hulletln.
The Panama Canal.
THE treaty signed by Secretary Hay anil Dr. Ilerran.
the Colombian .Minister, is a long step taken toward
the construction of the Panama Canal by the I'nlted
States. A special session of the Colombian Congress
will be hetd In the spring to consider the treaty, and the
option of the French company, which will undoubtedly be
extended.
The cannl will cost the United States: (1) $40.000,imi)
to 1)0 paid to the French company, the present value of its
charter and construction work as computed by the Walker
commission; (2) $10,000,000 down and $2."0,000 per year
after ten years to the Colombian Government for the con
cession, including the Panama Railroad; and Cb the further
expenditure of JM.VMHi.'HKt on the canal is authorized by
the act of 1'.MI2; more may be needed. The lease from
Colombia runs loo years and is renewable by the t'nited
States. And by an arrangement with Great P.ritain most
creditable to the common sense of her statesmen the United
States will have exclusive control of the canal strip, sub
ject to arrangement with Colombia.
Of the 4d.5 miles of the canal one-half will lie at sea
level, and this portion is nearly completed. Thirteen miles
more will run in a lake created in the vnllcy of the Chagres
by a dam at Rohio, which will Impound half a cubic mile of
water. The remaining ten miles, the famous "Culebra
cut" across the backbone of the continent, presents the
greatest difficulty. It will probably be passed by a section
about seventy feet above the sea. And the sides of the
cut will tower more than .loo feet even above that level.
The canal will be nowhere less than 120 feet wide at the
bottom and usually considerably more. The locks planned
by the French company were to be 738 feet long, but the
rapid Increase In the size of ocean craft may dictate a
greater length. The minimum depth of ten metres (.TJ.S
feet) planned by French engineers may also be increased.
These facts convey some impression of the magnitude
of the undertaking. Us total cost will be more than twice
that of, the Suez Canal, more than five times that of the
Kiel Canal In Germany. From an engineering viewpoint
It will be tine of the wonders of the world; its usefulness
to trade will he vast and rapid In growth. New York
World.
A Woman's Happiest Day.
WHAT Is the happiest day In a woman's life?
Three hundred New York club women met re
cently to find out. One woman plumped for the
day and moment when the carriage arrived to
take her on her honeymoon, "because he was leaving all
her old clothes behind her, although she would probably
want them again In a month or so." Another speaker de
clared boldly that the happiest day of a woman's life was
when she struck a real bargain. In support of this she
Instances the woman who, on hearing that a bank had
lowered Its Interest to 3 per cent, scraped together all
the money she could lay hands on, and deposited It forth
with. The demoralizing effect of feminine clubs was seen
In the contention of a third orator, who argued that no
woman was so happy as when she had rend her' first paper
at a woman's club meeting, and had seen an account of It in
the papers the next day. A fourth said the happiest day
never came, because It was always In anticipation; and a
fifth declared It wasn't a day at all, but a moonlight night.
On the whole, a man Is more puzzled than ever as to how
to trim his sails. London Chronicle.
WOODEN LEGS AND REAL ONES.
Modern Invention Counterfeit Na
. tore Almont Perfectly.
In the case of a man who had been
awarded ?3.000 for the loss of a leg by
a railroad and who bad appealed the
ease, dei-ming the compensation too
small, a Chicago Judge has decided
that artificial limbs should be accepted
as part ricompeiise for the loss of n al
one. During the trial, on appeal, wit
nesses wi re introduced by the railroad
who testified that though supplied with
artificial legs they could get around as
lively as persons with real ones, could
dance and ride the bicycle. To this tmtl
xnony the appellant strongly objected,
whereupon the court handed down this
ruling: '
"Art and Invention have done nine!)
to mitigate the Inconveniences occa
sioned by the loss of limbs and to restore
the power of locomotion and the earn
ing capacity which otherwise might be
greatly lessened or lost, and evidence
tending to show facts of that nature Is
competent for the consideration of the
Jury."
During recent years the progress
ma le by artificial limb makers has
been wonderful. An interesting story is
told In this connection of s man who
was lost In a blizzard In the wilds of
the Dakotas. When he was finally
picked up he was so badly frozen It
wail thought he would die, but by care
ful nursing a part of the man was
g,,ved that Is, his trunk and his head,
both In a damaged condition. It so hap
pened be had some money and ivtis able
to pb ee hltuM-lf out.
AftT he was sufficiently ri-covered
from his Injuries hu was brought to
Chicago and taken to an artificial limb
maker, who was told to go to work on
the foundation and see what he could
build. In the first place bo put on two
artificial legs, and the ninn could walk.
The next job was to furnish the man
with two arms, and this wtf done afir
much work, and the battered trunk,
dressed In the latest fashion, began to
look quite like a hiimin being once
more. The man was "till minus both
tils enrs and hi nose and one eye,
while tils lislr had all fallen out The
artificial limb maker sld be could III
tb ears and nose all right, and lie
-went to work and made pair ot ears
for his man, fitted them on and then
took up the task of a nose! This was the
most difficult of all, but finally a very
neat celluloid proboscis was made,
which was held in place with specta
cles. The man next got a wig ami a
glass eye and went out a new man In
the real sense of the word.
Wonders are certainly performed In
the way of making artificial Ilmlis.
Time was whim the peg leg was the
only thing known, and the man who
lost one of his lower limbs bad to go
stumping through life with a wooden
peg. Now he takes $100 and goes and
gets him a new leg, and one that Is
about as serviceable as a flesh and
blood one, not subject to corns, rheu
matism, and the other ailments to
which flesh Is heir.
It Is only about a century ago that
the first artificial leg was made, and
it was considered one of the wonders of
the world. It was called the Anglesea
I' g, from the fact that It was made for
the marquis of that name. This fl st
limb was wonderfully and fearfully
made, as heavy as lead and as clumsy
as an iron leg. Since that time great
Improvements are made, until to-day a
man with an artificial leg can walk,'
run, jump. Imp, skip and do nearly ev
erything that the' man with flesh an 1
blood legs 18 able to accomplish.
EASY FOR PITCHERS NOW.
Tbey lluve a HtiapCompured with Star
of liyuone Ijr. '
P.uselmll pitchers lu these days think
they are performing wonders If they
officiate In two games a week. If they
were asked to go In the box more than
twice tbey would imagine they were
being worked to death.
Looking buck, however, to the days
when John Chirksoti, Tim Keefe, Char
ley Itndbourne, Ed Crane, Charley
Sweeney and other famous boxmen
were In their prime one cannot help
feeling that the star pitchers of mod
ern times are enjoying a comparative
snap. When Hudliouriie was u mem
ber of I he crack Providence team lu
the National League he was called on
to pitch every day. The Imjj was only
fifty feet from the plate, to be sure
but "Old Had" lind the best batters
In America before Mm day after day,
Ho bad marvelous speed when he
wanted to use it, a wonderful slow
bull, great curves and a head tilled to
overflowing Willi gray mutter. Day
after day "Had" pitched, whining con
stantly and soon creating a furore In
the bnsebiill world. Providence, as a
result, won the National League cham
pionship In l.NSl, and ltadlsiurne was
famous all over the land.
In l.HIM, when the New Yorks were
making a great bid for the pennant,
which was won that year by the Ibiltl
niores, Manager Ward during the hist
month of the campaign Induced Amos
Kusle and .lotiett Meekln to pitch evfry
other day. Roth were giants In build
and depended chiefly upon speed. They
pitched phenomenal ball, and with an
other wiek added to the schedule they
would have landed the pennant In the
metropolis. As It was though the New
Yorks came second. Ruslo and Meekln
practically won the series for the fa
mous Temple Cup by their fine work In
the points. Hut that was 1he lust year
either showed the form which had
brought him fo the front rank of pitch
ers. As lute as lDtst McGlnnlly, the "Iron
Man," consented to pitch every day
for the Hrooklyns toward the close of
the season, for IMtilon thought lie had
a chance of wliinln .he pennant. Mc
Glntilty did not appear to be affected
by the extra work, but on the contrary
appeared to relish If, as he received a
bonus for the Job. Put even since then
the "Iron Man" has not been the same
In point of effectiveness.
Managers of top-nolch reputation
have profited by these Incidents In
baseball history. They want to ire-
serve thelr-valnalile pllehers as long
us possible, so they readily consent to
the two games a week proposition and
proceed to hire half a dozen boxmen.
We'll 1'orget,
We'll forget the winter Its wrath nud
wrong
When the sun comes out anil the days
urc long,
When the blooms bend down
With the bees in brown,
Ami the wind to the river sings Its song
And the blooms fill thick where the'
daisies throng!
Atlanta Constitution.
Before you let a boy sit In front of an
electric fan, tie his fingers.
FAVORITES 1
The Wearing; of the Green.
), Paddy dear, and did you hear the
news that's going round'
the shamrock is forbid by law to grow
on Irish ground.
laint Patrick's day no more we'll keep,
his colors can't he seen.
fur there's a cruel law against the wear
ing of the green.
i met with Napper Tandy, and he took
nie by the hand.
ind he said, "How's poor old Ireland,
and how does she stand?"
Ilia's the miSt distressful country that
ever yet was seen.
fhey are hanging men and women for
the wearing of the green.
Dien since the color we must wear is
England's cruel red,
lure Ireland's sons will ne'er forget thp
blood that they have shed.
fou may take the shamrock from your
hat, and cast it on the soil,
But 'twill take root and nourish there,
tho' underfoot 'tis trod.
IVheu law can Mop the blades of grass
from growing as they grow,
Ind when the haves in summer time
their verdure dare not show,
Chen 1 will change the color that 1 wear
in my cauheen,
But till that day. please God, I'll stick to
wearing of the green.
Cut if at last, our color should be torn
from Ireland's heart,
tier tuns wiih shame ami sorrow from
their dear old isle will part;
I've heard a whisper of a country that
lies beyond the sea,
tYhere rich and poor slaod equal in the
light of freedom's day.
0, Erin! must we leave you driven by a
tyrant's hand?
Must we ask a mot tier's blessing from a
ftrange anil (list ant land?
tVhere the cruel cross of England shall
nevermore he seen,
ind where, please God. we'll live and die
still wearing of the green.
The Old Armchair.
love it, I love it! and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old una
chair?
I've treasured it long as a sainted prize,
I've bedewed it with my tears, I've em
balmed it with my sighs;
'Tis bound by a thousand bunds to my
heart;
N'ot a tie will break, not a link will start;
Would know the spell? A mother sat
there!-
And a sacred thing is that old arm chair.
In childhood's hour I lingered near
The hallowed seat with listening ear;
And gentle words that mother would give
To fit nie to die, and teach me to live;
Klie told me that shame would never
betide
With truth for my creed, and God for
my guide; 1
t-he taught me to lisp my earliest prayer
As I knelt beside that old arm chair.
I sat and watched her many a day,
When her eye grew dim, and her locks
were gray;
And I almost worshiped her when she
smiled.
And turned from her Bible to bless her
child.
Years rolled on, but the last one sped,
My idol was shattered, my earth star
fled!
I learnt how much the heart can bear,
When 1 saw her die in her old arm chair.
Tis past, 'tis past! lint I gaze on it now
With uuivering breath and throbbing
brow;
"IVns there she nursed me, 'twas there
she died, ;,
And memory Hows with lava tide.
Hay it is folly, and deem me weak,
Whilst scalding drops start down my
; cheeks;
Put I love it, I love it, and cannot tear
(My soul from a mother's old arm i.iir.
Eliza Cook.
Triumphant In One Field.
That a girl cannot throw a stone,
drive a nail or spin a top as success
fully as a boy Is pardoned, by a writer
lu the Washington Post, because she
can accomplish one marvelous feat
which, he declares, no man or boy can
ever eiuul.
There Is one thing no man could
ever accomplish, even if he were a
noted contortionist, and that Is but
toning a waist that has the buttons
'sewed on tho back!
A inn n doesn't II ve who could but
ton a shirt up the back without going
)iiad. I have watched my wife, and
every time she accomplishes this feat
it buttoning her waist In the buck the
feeling conies over me that, nfter nil,
compared with women, men are a lot
of Impatient and worthless beings.
Why, I can't button It standing behind
her with both hands free. 1 tried one
evening, when we were In a hurry. I
won't say that there were a million
buttons, each about ns big as a pin
hend, but there were a good many of
them.
"Look here," said I, "let me fasten
that dress," and 1 began. 'In five min
utes I had bultoned three buttons, and
my wife remarked that I was not milk
ing much progress, and in two minutes
she had fastened every one of them.
A woman's arms must be put In
very free In their sockets to permit of
her reaching back that way, and slip
ping those tiny buttons Into the but
tonholes without ever getting led In
the face or trying to kick the cat or
doing anything like that.
Women may not be deft In a few
tittle things that there's no occasion
for them to be deft In, but for pati"iice
(i nd self-control men cannot compete
Willi them.
CITY people whose neighbors use their telephones think they know al!
about trouble," said a mddy-faced amateur farmer, "but I'll compare
notes with them any day. If you are not obliging to your neighbors
in the country you would better move back to town; so this Is what
wo go through with iu order to be obliging. We have the only telephone
In' our vicinity; and my wife and I ought to draw salaries as rural mes
sengers. "The other day a call came to our telephone for some one In town who
wished to talk with Mrs. Jinks, our tenant's wife. So my wife had to leave
her sewing, don her siitibonnet and plod across the rough fields a third of a
mile to tell Mrs. Jinks to come to the phone. When Mrs. Jinks got ready
shs lumbered up to our house with a fat baby under each arm, and found
out tliiif Rosy.' a friend of hers in town, wanted lief to crime and bring her
out to spend the day.
" 'Naw,' bawled back Mrs. Jinks, 'ain't got no boss.'
"In a day or so another friend of the Jinks family telephoned out to
say that she and three children would spend .Sunday with the Jinkses, and
Mr. Jinks must come In with the wagon to bring them out. My wife could
not answer that the Jinkses had no horse, as they had just got one; so she
promised to deliver the message. She gave the errand to the Jinkses over
to me; I intended to attend to it, and forgot it. The folks In town got ready
and waited all day Sunday, but no Mr. Jinks appeared. Aliout Tuesday
there was a great disturbance on the farm, involving all the Jinkses, my
brother and myself, mid both of our wives. The message hadn't been car
ried, and everybody was to blame.
"This is only a sample," said the amateur farmer, according to the
Detroit Free Press. "We have other neighbors near and far; but our house
is the telephone ollice of tho district. People in town get mad at us and
people iu the country get mad at us; our lot is hard."
jSllVention
Women In Dublin University,
Women, It Is reported, are about to
be admitted to graduate at Dublin Uni
versity. After a man passes fifty, nothing In
the show lino Is very good.
A new process for drying fruit and
vegetables already in use for drying
hops consists in drawing air through
a gridvvork of steam pipes into a cham
ber below the slotted floor holding the
materials to be dried. Absorption of
sulphurous gases Is avoided, while
burning is impossible. In a test at
Worcester, England, samples of cur
rots, potatoes, sliced and shredded ap
ples, and other frvits and vegetables,
were kept nt temperatures of !)0 to
100 degrees for six hours, reaching the
ordinary commercial state of dryness.
The cost of working being small, it is
expected that an Important new indus
try will soon develop in England.
The curious phenomena of "symphll
Ism" are being investigated by E.
Wasmaun, a German zoologist. This
lis the harboring of foreign species of
insects, etc., in the nests of ants and
termites, and it Is found that more
than one hundred species of arthro
pods, or creatures with jointed legs,
are thus associated with the ants, at
least, eighty-five or ninety species be
ing beetles. All are recognized easily
.by certain peculiarities. Most notable
among the characteristics of these bee
tles are their oily reddish-yellow or
reddish-brown color, and special exu
dation organs or pores with brownish
hairs, but there are also modifications
of the mouth and other parts.
Some of the discouragements and
failures of amateur photographers may
be due to such imperfections of shut
ters as were disclosed in a paper road
at the recent meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science by E. W. Morley of the West
ern Reserve University and I). C. Mil
ler of the Case School of Applied Sci
ence. The better crude of shutters
were found to be fairly constant iu op
icration, but the actual duration of ex
jposure was often not even approxi
:mately that indicated by the maker.
'Different shutters of the same make
land form gave widely different exoos-,111-es
w hen set for the same time. With
the best shutters of the diaphragm
class the duration of exposure was
nearly independent of the aperture of
the opening. Some shutters of the
cheaper grades, designed to give long,
medium ami short exiosures. gave
equal exposures in the three cases.
The effects of the swift advance of
knowledge, which sometimes causes a
new book on some branch of science to
appear a back number shortly after
its publication, are felt no less In
practical scientific undertakings. A
striking illustration Is furnished by
the enormous new coast-defense gun
recently tested at Sandy Hook. This
gun was Intended to be not only the
most powerful in existence, but also
the representative of the most ndvunc-V-d
type of such weapons. Hut after It
had been planned a special plant hud
to be established for Its construction,
and the few years' conseiiuent delay
before it could be completed sufficed
for such Improvements In gunpowders,
and In the designing of guns for their
use, that now the finished monster Is,
In some respects, out of date before
It has fairly been mounted for service.
The new gun is of H! Inches' bore and
49.7 feet long. It Is calculated that
It can throw a 2100-pound projectile
twenty-one miles.
CROW WITH LIVES TO SPARE.
It Tormented lloirs anil Caused a
1 Farmer No Kncl of Woe.
"Say you seed a hundred crows In
one flock?" asked an Illinois farmer
of a man who was telling him of a
visit he had made to the country a
few weeks ago. The farmer leaned
over In his chair, took aim nt n ctispi-,
dor half way across the lobby of a
Dearborn street hotel, and turned
again to tho city man. "Seed a hun
dred? I've seed millions on 'em. Hut
you don't see 'em any more. Crow day
Is well nigh gone. Time wu when
the pesky birds mighty nigh eat us
oiitcu house an' home. I alu't seed
'em so thick fer five or six yeurs or so
an' I reckon they ain't a-goln' to be so
plentiful ngaln. I lamed a good many
Idees about crows when they used to
be lots on 'em.
"You may not know that a crow Is
tho thing that comes clostest to a ent
lu bavin' Its life repewed a lots of
times. It's a fact. When the corn belt
was simply a-swarniin' with them, an'
you couldn't hear yer own ears fer
tile cawin', they would almost eat oup
hogs up.
"One year I had a bunch of fine
porkers and the crows would light on!
the backs of the hogs and peck away
until they nearly killed 'em. 1 stuck
up' all kinds of scarecrows, but that
didn't do a speck of good. It got so
bad ut Inst that I had to lay out in the
hay mow by the winder and shoot
crows all day. They are mighty shy of
the smell of gunpowder, but they will
risk a good many feathers fer a bita
of live hog.
"One day I seed a big, fat sboat
come a runnin' across the lot a squeak
in' and on his buck rode a crow a
peckin' away fer dear life. I run out
and scared the bird away, but It
wasn't long until here he come a-ridia'
in on another. He kept it up till I
got tired of chasin' out and I got my
old rifle and hid behind the woodshed.
In a few minutes 'long come another
hog a-squcalin' and the same old crow
a -peck in' holes in his back. I knew I
could plug a chicken hawk on the fly,
so I took aim at old Mr. Crow. The
rifle went 'bing' and I'll be durned If
that hog didn't drop as dead as a dooe
nail. The crow flew away cawln' at,
me, and I was so all-fired mad I hit
the gun over a post and knocked It Into
smithereens.
"After that I got a dozen shots at
the same crow with an old mu..ls
loader and I knocked enough feathers
out of the bird to make a suit of -mournin'
fer an Indian. One day I
kind o' crept up on him, took good aim;
and blew his dad drated head often
him. That bird had nine lives if he
had any at all and I ain't so sure be
wouldn't have got away after I shot
him if I hadn't tied him on a pole-.fet
a scarecrow."
DIVORCE HAS A DEFENDER.
Marriage Needs Keculation More thaa,
the Dissolution of the Tie,
There is a general demand through
out the United States for the enact
ment of more stringent divorce law a,
A recent writer iu an Eastern maga
zine, however, presents some reasons
for regarding divorce ns the only prac
ticable way out of an unfortunate sit.
nation in ninny cases and points out
what he considers to be the true solu
tlon of the matrimonial problem. Ha
says;
"We are told that the institution ot
divorce separates husbands and wives
and breaks up homes. Nothing could
be further from the truth. Divorce
never separates, just as the marriage,
ceremony never unites. Each is but
the symbol, the sign, which sets its
seal upon that which took place be
fore. If the husband nnd wife find
that they have made a mistake and
that the lives of both are made wretch
ed by the mutual companionship It la
their duty to separate and obtain free
dom by legal process.
It is a mistake, a perversion of tin
truth to make the statement that
homes are being wrecked In this way.
No home that is n home Indeed has
been broken by divorce, and none will
be, for this legal step Is but the clos
ing scene of the last net In a domestia
tragedy, it Is a crime to rear children
In a home life where father and moth
er are mutually abhorrent, where love
dwells not, where the contact of pa
rents serves to bring out all the Innate
evil of their mil tires instead of being
mi inspiration to virtue, S
"The rational, reasonable way to;
minimize divorce Is to place barriers
against easy matrimony and make
marriage a bulwark of sincere and
holy purpose against which the wave
of youthful Impetuosity and unripe tit
feet ion will dash In vnln. The greatest
social evil In our country Is the marryj
Ing habit, There Is practically nij
check on marriage, nnd young people,
wed at will and at times In bastej
with nn angry parent In pursuit Even
those below lawful tiges find little dIM
liculty In getting the protection of law
and are pronounced married.
Making Cnnlious Approach.
"Advise me. Uncle Jack."
"(if course; wluit is It?"
"SI, nil 1 nsk vou for 125 or IMF-
Life.
When you see n man going to work
as If he were running to a lire, yon wl
find from his employer that he need
more prodding during the day than aa
Iwdy.
