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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Alarming Immigration. ALMOST every nation In the world Is sending an In creasing number of immigrants to the United States. Last month the newcomers numbered 'M,'i0. being 30,0O more than for April of The total for the year may reach l.fJOO.isH), o; half the population of Chicago, the second largest city in the country. Is so great an Influx of foreigners natural or desirable? Many in a condition to know say that Immigration ia pro moted largely by niineowuers and railroad managers, who wish to be kept suplied with cheap labor, and w ho do not care particularly whence it conies or whether it will be desirable material out of which to make American citizens, or whether Its presence may not contribute to social or in dustrial disorder. Many of the great railroad (systems approve of unre jted immigration because It swell their profitable emi grant business. They have their agents in Kurope soliciting that kind of business. The greater the numler of men and women that can be induced to come to this country and to buy tickets to Interior points the more money the roads make. They offer low ocean and rail rates, which tempt the emigrant and yet are profitable to the roads. While some great employers favor unrestricted immi gration because it gives tliem cheap lalsir, the labor unions may reach the conclusion that for that very reason unre stricted immigration must be harmful to their interests because It will lead inevitably to a reduction of wages. When the supply of labor is much -in excess of the demand the maintenance of a high wage scale becomes impossible. While a large percentage of the immigration is unskilled labor, it must be remembered that many unions are com posed of men who do that kind of labor. Numbers of women and children are corning from "sunny Italy" and are offering their services to whoever will buy them. They come with no industrial experience, but there are hundreds of kinds of work requiring little skill they can speedily be taught to do. They have strength and willingness to work. Wages which seem low to Americans seem at tirst high to the Italians. The adult Italian or Slav may be willing to spend his days in a coal mine or a railroad construction camp. The children will not be. They will look for occupations of a higher order. Some of them will learn trades ami increase the number of skilled workers. When times grow dull there will be an excess of workers and wages will go down. The labor organizations belonging to the American Fed eration of Labor asked the last Congress to bar out Illiter ate immigrants. The object was to keep down the unde sirable cheap labor immigration. The steamship com panies, which make money off their steerage passengers and drum up business throughout eastern Europe, and some Western railroads which are extending their lines, protest ed against and defeated the legislation, "organized labor" petitioned for. Considering the swelling tide of immigra tion, much of it of an undesirable nature, the labor leaders probably will ask the next Congress in emphatic language to order the exclusion of illiterates to protect American labor and the high standard of American citizenship. Chicago Tribune. A Word About the Quiet Life, Rt'SH and strenuousness are the striking characteris tics of life in this epoch. Success, according to the prevailing notion, consists in .getting something, whether it be wealth, public Office, social position, notoriety or power, which lifts the possessor to eminence'. Failure, in the general opinion, consists of not rising alsove the ruck. To be undistinguished is to be unsuccessful; to be contented In obscurity is to he contenmt;hin Ia all this jostling', pushing, scrambling, elbowing scrim-' mage which we call the strenuous life, a man has little opportunity to step aside and look at the the side-lines. Let a man stop a second for breath to get Into the game. If he lags a moment, if he stands irresolute Instead of following the ball, lie is sent off the field and an eager substitute takes his place. The best success, and the kind most 'worth having, con sists rather in being than in doing or getting. To most men this knowledge comes with years and wisdom when It Is too late to begin again. The men that have made the great est success in the world's eyes have borne witness to the wisdom of those contemplative men -.ho seek contentment In their own minds and not In striving for things outside of themselves. To grow Inwardly Is to be successful. Sue- I MAPLE-SIGAR THATWA Many a New Englunder brought up in the country has passed a confection ary store in the city where he has been exiled and has stopped to look nt the cakes of brown sugar with scalloped edges ingeniously marked, "Maple Sugar." NV doubt .he has wished that the sign' told the truth, nnd has goue on his way. shaking his head and re membering the tiuie. when real maple agar was plenty. Iu his father's house. The method of making maple sugar, the days and nights In the woods, tin? boiling down of the sap all this hearty good story has been told many times, and there Is nothing to mid. Put there Ore two aspects of the difference be tween the old sugar and the new which Me not so generally known. Ia the old days maple sugar was aot limply an abundant luxury; jt was necessity. And strange as it seems to OS, the luxury was cane wngar. such M wt buy now for few cents a pettnd. ' Before the time of modern manu facture and cheap freights, "store Mgtr" was expensive In the north. . nasi especially In tbe country. Many M old New Englander grew np with Mt aay sugar except that v h;. u was Caaofsctnred In bit back yard. Maple mmmv wiMM then t til tlfitthern raiiiti. tsyawa a necessity,, like iiotatoe and fTt It was only when white sugar i twimn a coiumwn commodity the c CtcM ore that the Risking of uuiple V'PCn became s sort of special in 1 vfjr to sapply a confection for city . riata, and a part of the stock of jr.f "J thick manufactured stuff sold In m maple syrup. "iT-fhrr ebanay took place in the datr of real maple sugar. "2as)tfaat has robbed It of some ) dS Cam. Instead of the word '" Csbmi irto tha trees to eon- cess comes from within and does not depend on circum stances. It would le well If every man, once or twice during a year, would project himself, mentally, out of the melee and endeavor for a short while to get a broader outlook and take his spiritual bearings. Retiring into the recesses of his soul he might compare his present self with what he has been and what he hopes to be, and subject himself generally to Inward scrutiny. His examination of con science might be aided by the reading of some meditative book. -San Francisco Hulletiu. Good Roads. AGt.ui mad is one that will reasonably meet the peculiar demands of the locality and its conditions as to character of tratiic, topography, available mate rials and financial resources. For many routes a very narrow roadway will suffice. Willi Infrequent travel of comparatively light vehicles only, a light construction nc a corresponding cost will be permissible. At the other ex treme, fur mads over which many wagons heavily loaded with ore, metal or qliarry products, and drawn by many mules or horses, even the most substantial form of the ordinary classes of construction, at ail within financial possibility, is often inadequate, and in such places some form of steel road may be found more economical, in lirst cost as well as In maintenance. Some localities are favored with good gnivel or stone with which hard roads can be built at small expense, and their topography and soil are favorable to easy and thorough drainage, an important con sideration. The people need, also, to be taught how to use good roads after (hey are built. One little example of what should not be done is the habit of following the same track in the middle of the road, which soon produces ruts by concen trating the wear both of the wheels and of the horses' feet. To meet this difficulty, in some parts of the country signs have been put up alongside the roadside with admoni tion: "Do not keep in the middle of the road," or some sim ilar suggestion to distribute the traffic over the whole width of the roadway. Experience with various materials. Im plements, methods of construction and maintenance, and types of bridges ami structures is yielding useful knowl edge which should be made as widely available as possible for the benefit of tho.-.e tuning charge of road hi, 1 street work, 'l i e Engineering lleeord. War and Long Life. IT is ii..t always true that war shortens life. Tie- sole survivor of the Creek War of Independence, who was brought to the notice of King George the other day. is said to be V) years ci,', and the last survivors of oar wars have often reached much greater age. Sir Joseph I'ayrer, one of the King's physicians, has ssken to a man who fought in the battle of Ptixar, which took place iu 1701. William Gillespie, who saved the colors at Preston Pans, and is on the roll of Chelsea pensioners, died in Dumfries at l''.', and the last survivor of the capture of Gibraltar lived to be 11.",. Thomas Wimins, who died In 1791, near Tuarn, In Ireland, had fought in the battle of Londonderry in 1701. and Phoele Ilessel, the Amazon, who received a bayonet wound at Fontenoy in 1715, lived to be 108, receiving a pension from the private purse of Georgs IV, until her death. A veteran of Culloden drew a pension for sixty years and died aged 10, and a man, whose horse was shot under him at Edgehill in 10-12 died, ninety four years later, aged 113. There is now no survivor of Water loo, but Madame GIvron, of Viesville, Haiiiault, saw the ground drenched with blood, and Napoleon riding "as if in a dream." -London Chronicle. Protection for Willing Workers. THE cure for the paralysis of Industry which is caused everywhere by the locking of horns between employe and employer is available whenever the public is ready to apply it. It consists of full 'protection for the thousands of laborers who always prefer work to Idle ness. Protection, however, does not lie only in long sticks carried by the police for use In moments of positive vio lence. It lies first iu public opinion so general and so de termined to give men their rights under the law that the misguided sentimentalist who keep pouring the encourage ment of praise on the leaders of coercion shall not prevail against It. Where law rules Idleness cannot last for any length of time in any civilized community. New York Sua. THE "STAR-SPAGLED BANNER;" AN EPISODE 0E THE PHILLIPINE WAR. THE music ceased. Every man listened. There was a hush in the air, and the descending sun cast long shadows in the held. Through th tangled masses of tree that hid the Philippine musicians, a few figures could be seen moving boldly nut on the enemy's works. Then a beautiful thing happened: From the distant camp came a rolling throb of drums, and the insurgent baud swung grandly Into "The Star Spangled Bauner." There was a moment of yawning surprise, and than the whole Kansas rcgln ent. stretched out for nearly a mile, leaped from the trenches and stood on top of the earthworks. Every soldier drew his heels together, uncovered, and placed liis hat over his left breast. It was the regulation salute to the national anthem. As the music rolled forth, clear, high, splendid, the Kat saus straightened themselves and re mained motionless while the enemy continued to play the one supreme psalm of America. The whole Hue was exposed. Not a man carried a weapon in bis hand. Yet not a shot was tired. The Filipinos watched the bareheaded American regiment, and played on. It was one of those psychological moments when some profound sentiment unites thousands of hearts when the pentecostal spirit descends, and the passions of men are stilled In the presence of a com mon altar. "Oh, say, does the star spangled lwnner still wave O'er the land of the roe, and the home of the brave?" What was it that stirred the insurgeut Asiatics to play that anthem? What was It that Inspired a whole regiment to bare its breast to the enemy in order to salute the music? What power held the forces of death in leash while Kansan and Malay faced each other that burning day? ' ' Why did the rugged men In khaki shed tears? And when tbe anthem was dose, and tbe splendid line still stood erect and uncovered on tbe breastworks, why did that roar of applause ascend from the Philippine camp? v Never was there s loftier scene on a Qeld where men were met to shed each other's, blood s noble challenge, nobly met. When It was over there was an Interval of silence: but as tbe light died out of tbe sky, and the stars appeared, the sound of rifles was heard again. The Great Highway. vey the sap. Iron ones are now used, and Instead of a hollowed half-log to catch tbe sap, tbe modern maple sugar maker uses an Iron pall. This may seem Ilk mi Improvement, and thesiirn,' old sap. of course, flows into these modern receptarlea. But It way be that maple sap, like other delicate fluids, takes part of Its flavor from the vessel that holds It. ' In boiling down tbe sup sheet Iron are used Jn Disc fit tbe old Keme, Ana mere is a complex gaa pipe apparatus through which the sa insm i rum me nivnni uni 10 Tom warming pan. . Tbe syrup of io-day, made In tha wholesale fashion of all modern food production". Is light in color, thin and dear, nnd has not that smell and taste of the woods which belonged to that made In I be cruder way. 1 feSgterScience A lately tested section of the sub marine cable, laid twenty years ago between Cienfuegos ami Santiago, is In excellent condition, proving the dur ability of rubber-covered cables. Modern science sums to show that leprosy, the louthsome scourge of many lands In the past. Is among the dis orders that may be easily prevented. His late investigations in South Afuca and in India have convinced Dr. Jona than Hutchinson that the disease Is rarely, If ever, transmitted from one person to another, nnd have confirmed the theory that the cause Is the eat ing of badly cured and p-sirly csiked fi.-h. The Kaffirs, who furnish very many victims, have a depraved ap petite for rotten fish. The gradual disappearance of locusts in Rhodesia ami other purs of South Africa is attributed by J. M. Orpin, a writer on the agriculture of the region, to a rapidly growing mould. The in-vl-ible seeds are scattered by the wind, and in favorable weather the growth attacks and destroys vast swarms of the Insects. Since the discovery during the lust locu-il invasion, the mould has b-eii regularly distributed by the Ht patlioint of Alt!cu!: urc. The disease thus artificially spread has been very effective, bin dryness has caused some failures. A crystalline lens taken from the eye of a bullock has been found espe cially useful, s-i.vs Prof. W. Watson, f'lf plioiogiaphing objects which are too small for the common camera lens iiml yet ti o large for ordinary photo micrography. Good photographs of in sects have been made with such a lens, but the manipulation is difficult. Even the Composite eye of a beetle, which In some sptcics consists of as many as ".".) separate lenses, each prod. icing an Independent image, can be used for making photographs which are curious rather than useful. They raise the question: "What dots the beet It' gain by having thousands of images of the same thing projected on its retina?" Quite astonishing is the rapidity of working of brain and nerves Iu modern piano-play ing. At the conference of musicians. In Dublin It was shown that the ordinary player must cultivate the eye to see about l."sj) signs per min ute, the fingiTs to make about two thousand movements and the brain to perceive tin- 1 .."ssi signs while Issuing two thousand orders. Iu a part of Chopin's "Etude in E Minor." the tate, of reading must reach 3.'.i.V) signs in minutes. This Is isjuivaloiit ,to iibout twenty-six notes per second, nnd, h 'he pJ"e can receive only about ten const cutlve impressions per second, it appears that In very rapid music the notes must be read in groufis Instead of singly. A scientific investigation of extraor dinary interest is about to lie under taken in the Philippines, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institu tion. Ethnologists aver tlmt the vari ous tribes In those islands represent a mixture of the bloisl of nil the races and varieties of mankind. The white, the black and the brown have each contributed a share. In the combina tion of bloods are found tlie Negrito, the Papuan and the African: the Malay and the Polynesian: the Chinese, the Japan sc and the Cambodian; the Ilamite, the Semite nnd the Aryan; the Caucasian, and even, in a slight de gree, the American Indian. The pro posed research Into the origin nnd development of this blending of laces involves a study of habits, relies, pre historic n mains, tribal legends and oc cupations. CONSIDERATION FOR PEOPLE. How the President I Alumri thow Inic 111 liitf-llearte Jncai, "Here are Instances of one day iu President Itooscvelt's itinerary which show that he has n great big heart." was the remark of a western repre sentative the other day. "The Presi dent was passing through the lower tier of counties in Iowa. It was rain ing, but at every station there were thousand of people who had come many miles iu their wagons to see him. Several speeches had been sched uled, nnd open stands erected, so that a good look at the President might be obtained. At the other towns where not even stops had been ar ranged, the President ordered his train to pass through fit the pace of a man, and he stood on the rear plutfurtu. At a watering station where the train stopped only a minute, there was a large crowd and the President was asked to make a short speech. Mr. Roosevelt began, but all of a sudden he stopped talking. "I will not go on until that old gentleman Is given a sent," he declared, pointing to a decrepit old mab standing In the cen ter of the crowd. Home one rushed away to a nenrby house ami buck again with a chair, and the President concluded his little talk nmld a gen eral exclamation of approval for his act . "When the town where a sm-ccIi had been arranged for was reached, it was raining hard. The stand was only a few steps from the train, and tbe President might have stood on the train pis t form and have kept dry. but the people could have not seen him so well. Without hesitating lie got off tbe train and stood in the rain and delivered hi address. At the next place, .where a mile and a half carriage ride was s part of th,- local program, and it was still raining hard, a closed carriage had Iteen provided. 'Can't this be opened?' asked the Pre. Ident, 'If these people can stand ojt here In the rsla to see me I goess I can ride in tbe rain to give tneu the opportunity,' The carriage top wt.. thrown open and the President rode In the rain during tbe entire dis tance." Washington Star. MOMSTER LOBSTER 1$ CAUGHT AITER A TIGHT. This fish story is about a lobster, but It's all right and Its veracity is vouched for by Opt. Emery Gray, one of the most hardy and daring fishermen on the island of Vinalhav en, ofT the Maine coast. In fact, Opt. Gray is the hero of the story, or, at least, shares first honors with the lob ster. One morning, so the tale runs, the doughty captain was strolling along tlie shore near the mouth of Indian creek with a clam hoe In bis hands, when he caught sight of a lobster claw protruding from the sand. The unusual side to this discovery was that the claw was about a hundred CAI'T. OIIAV AND HIS MH.h'Tt'U, times larger than any whole cnisteceati the captain bad ever encountered. Thinking It was but a lifeless relic of some species belonging to ages a go;:e, the captain gave the claw a sharp blow with the hoe. it proved to belong to tlie very ac tive present, however, and snapping its claw on the offending weapon, the lobster nearly wrenched It from (.ray ii hand. The timely appearance of nn-j other fisherman enabled the captain to dig up the giant beast from id hole in the sand. Securing the loli stcr with heavy flshlitie, the men dragged it home, where it immediately became the center of u group of as tonished natives. The lobster wai fastened to a pile supporting a dock, but the following morning there was a p'lc missing; also the lobster, which had been named Hercules because of its immense size. A searcVi soon re vealed the crustaceans w'.ierea bouts from I lie roily water caused by drag ging the heavy pile, and he was re captured after another fierce struggle iu which the fishermen's boat was; nearly wrecked by the beast's tremen-j dous struggles. The animal died soon after being recaptured, however, not standing captivity well. TOMB OF A KING OF THEBES. Last RentinfiT Plc of Thotbinea IV. t'nearthed in Kgjrot. T. M. lntvles. an American, who ha for t wo years past bei n excavating ia the valley of tbe tombs of the kiug4j at Thebes, Egypt, has just discovered) a previously unknown royal tomb, tlmt of Thothiiies IV, a phuraoh of t'a eighteenth dynasty. This king's mum my has been for some years; lit th Cairo museum, having been found ic the tomb of Aincu-liotcp 11, to which It had been conveyed for concealment, probably in the period of the twenty-j Iirt dynasty. Mr. luvies found i;i the new discovered tomb various wall paintings, a magnificent granite sar coph.tgus with texts from the Hook "1 the I lead and mummilied ducks, geese, legs of mutton and loins of beef of ferlngs made to the dead king sonu ;j.."si years ago. Clay seals attached to the door; show that the Egyptians of the eight eeuth dynasty had to some extent an ticlpated the printer's art. as the raiseij part of the seals had been smearei with blue Ink before being impressed on the clay. An Inscription dated li the eighth year of King Hor-em-liel stated that the tomb had been pluu deri-d by robbers, but restored as fat as might be by that pharaoh.- Tin robbers doubtless "got away with the Jewelry and other precious object! deMislted with the mummy, but tnttci whs left for the archaeologist of to day. The floor was covered Willi vases dishes. iMMiiuermiKs, symiiols of life any other objects 111 blue faience, nearly a!! wantonly broken. Among the rest wen cups ami vases of blue ami varlegatei! glass nnd also of opaque white glass wjth pieces of what looked like mod ern beer Imttles. There was also a piece of cloth it which hlerglyphlc characters hn been woven with wonderful skill. Tin chief "find." however, was the acfua chariot of Thot limes used by the klut in bis dally drives at Thebes. It wit of wood, covered, with papier much' and stucco, carved Inside and out wltl scenes of the king's battles in Syria Along with the chariot were found tin phiinmh's driving gloves. Haltimor Hun. Winter at Cape Henry. It is Announced that the govi ment will erect the greatest wlreh s, telegraph station In the world at Cupi Henry. The principal ue of the sin Hon will m to communicate with wa vessels at sea. Tamps, Key West am Pry Tortugss nnd northern nav) yards. . The poles will le 'JU0 feet high His Turn Too Often. Fllgg-1 see they're going to open I "trestless tavern" In New York. Hagg-Well. Hint will bo a treat Philadolphlrt Molletlu. When two women talk the subject ot their conversation la conspicuous!.' absent. WEEDING THEM OUT. flow tbe WinUtrr Found tbe Mas Wfctf Didn't )(. "I smile over it even now," declare the well-known minister of the goRpei w ho was m a reminiscent mood. "II was my first church and I was am bitious to make a good showing. Wi were sadly in need of a new church and I decided to make ati attempt to get one. The congregation was ii"t a wealthy one ami 1 fully realized that It would be a difficult mutter to secure the needed funds. Knowing that many are sensitive over the fact that they are not able to give as much as others. I tried the plan of Iiiivlm.' 'hem write the amount they were willing to give iifMin a card and put it in a small en velope that I furnished. "Well. I collected the euvelopes and took them In my study to look over. The amount pledged was very satlsfac tory but there was one card calling for fluo that was unsigned. At first I thought this was an oversight then thinking 1 recognized the writing. I was not so sure There was only one member who wrote a hand like it ami that was lieacon Jones, a man who had a reputation of being very close. Now $b uns none too much for him to give, although I had mt expected to get more than -'o from him. I dis tinctly remembered seeing hint make n great show of dropping his envelope In the hat when it was passed nnd ns there was no card with his miuie 1 felt sure that the unsigned card was his and that he nas aware that lie hud not signed it. "Well, the next Sunday - remcmlier I was young I resolved upon n li!d plan." continued the minister, accord ing to tlie Iictroit Free Press. "I aroso and requested all those who had hand ed Iu an envelope the Sunday before to stand up. This they did, the deacon among them. Then, as I read a list lof givers I bail made from the curds. I requested them to be seated. )m by one they sat down, ami when my list was exhausted only the deacon was standing, and he was pretty rod iu the face. I blandly explain d mat ters. Invited the deacon to sign bis card, and after he had done so, much tigaitist bis will, I announced flu' hymn '"Praise God from Whom All lllcsslngs Flow.' " t THE HOME-MADE BAIL. Two grown-up boys of sixty wero landing In front of a window in which wen1 displayed all sorts of games and sporting goods. There were several boxes full of baseballs which ranged in price from feu cents to a dollar and in half. "Our-young fellows have too much of their fun rcidy-made for theui,' said one. "Look at those baseballs, which my young gentleman of ten or fifteen with Ills allowance of several thousand dollars a week," the other grinned "more or less, buys by tha dozen, throws around and loses. I doubt If he has so good a time as I did. Ever make a baseball'?" "Hundreds of 'em. Hundreds of 'cm. Do yon remember how we used to watch for old rubber boots so we could use the heels'?" . "Yes, Indeed Heal rubber, they wero then, too. Made a tine core. If you didn't stnrt with a good core, the other fellow's ball would bounce higher. A fellow was pretty poor stun" that couldn't bounce his ball over Hie shed." "And mother used to give us tho yarn. That never seemed extravagant her. although maybe she objected If we silent a nickel for candy." "1 used to get enough yam to mke a ball from my old Aunt Emma, lis pay for bedding five skeins." "Pid you put hard twine on the out side before you put on the cover?" "Yes. Fine, hard twine or small lisli line. That was n little more expensive, but -Well, I made great bulls!." "So did I. My brother taught me to cut the cover from old loot tops, (nar ters, you know -pieces shaped lika pieces of orange peel." "Yes, I've made 'cm that way, too, but sometimes we cut the leather In two dumb-bell shaped pieces, like those balls In the window there. Then we sewed 'cm with waxed thread." "Sny I'm going to tench t hat boy of mine to make a baseball. There nro some tilings absolutely necessary t(, a liberal education. Good by!" "Gisiddiy! I suppose 1 shall see you it the directors meeting at four"?" "Ileal Indian." A young woman recently received instruction in the art of Indian basket ry, and hud made several copies of Indian baskets of which she was rery" proud. A friend, who had been living in Arizona, called upon the young wo man, who showed the baskets with considerable pride. "They are really very well done," commented the visitor, "but of coursj they arj not the real Indian bat kts." "Why, Mrs. Hawyer," Indignantly 'iclalmed tho maker, "bow can yoii say that, when I Just told you that i TUlde tbetn myself?" , IMplomao. I Mrs. lloiisekeepIt'g almost Impos lible to get a servant girl these days. You've got to keep telling theui wlmt they must do and even then they won't toy! Mrs. Ilakt Craclogs, no! I only manage to keep mine by eotist.iiitiy felling them what they are respectful !y requested to do. Philadelphia Press. When some women get Into tbe back. numlM-r class they visit a beauty par lor and have reprints made of themselves,