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Ml Eiroi Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. k-..,ti,.4.,t.,,,t,4..,,,4.4.lt,tl,tl,,,,li,t,,,,,t,4,4,..4,4.j.,l,t,.l,.l,,,. Wage-Earning by Married Women. HE American prejudice air.iinst waue-e.iriii!c f 1 I by married women appears In the elTort oeca I I Isionally made to make the employment of 1 teachers la the public schools terminate with marriage, nut uiousanus or American tn irnxl women do earn wages, thousands more wou'd g'.adly do so if they could, and otlif thou iitmls lid be happier and better off If they did. The prejudice Inst it seeing disadvantageous. American men, an a i, prefer to supjiort their wives if they cau. Jf au rrlcan married woman works for pay. It is either be ne it gives her pleasure or because her husband's ln ie is insufficient She doe not do it as a maker of rse. How long he can keep It up depends tip-ni what work is, and upon other circumstances. If she hris tlren, that of course, interferes with her wage-euiuiiig t does not stop It altogether, and general acceptance of istoni which would restrict or discourage child bearing lt to the public advantage. Marriage tends, and should I, to withdraw women from wage-earning, but It need top it per se and abruptly. To make marriage a bar future wage-earning by a woman operates in restric ts of marriage, and that Is at least as much against Pt Jllc policy as restriction of child bearing. It will always dijiid on circumstances whether a young wage-earning VHi9 who marries had Ix-tter go on with her work, but Dr.. Patten seems to be right in holding that it is often beet that she should do so. and that It Is often better nacelic should niar.-y and still earn wages than not marry. Prejudice should not determine conduct In these matters. ItTj'e should be a freer choice. Harper's Weekly. Waste Lands and Criminals. ASSACIir.SETTS la about to try a new experi ment in the Industrial management of Its con victs. Instead of employing them in manufac turing goods to compete with the products of non-criminal lalr, it Is proposed to establish industrial camps and set the convicts to re claiming waste and worthless laud, of which t&illay State possess enough to keep them at work for gCrations. Stlie plan Is a tentative one, the first camp having Just be p established near Rutland, but on the face of It the (me appears to possess two merits. It furnishes otit ic work for the convicts without subjecting them to the at illation of constant public observation, as would be ttf ease If they were employed on the afreets and ulgh- is, and the work performed will 1x? useful work. If tC i re able to make two blades of grass grow where. or none grew before there is authority for the claim they will be transformed from malefactors into bene-rs. he experiment will be watched with a good deal of est for various reasons. While no aane person would ate the maintenance of criminals In Idleness, no one as yet found a way of employing them that is entirely Isfaetory. The farming out of convicts which has been rtlced in some of the Southern States has been shown l)c subject to glaring abuses. These abuses could be Imized if not entirely avoided if the State did the Suing under wise and honest management. Every State an abundance of waste lands, which would be worth atnatioii, and which, If reclaimed, would add to tiie ile wealth. I'hiladelphla Bulletin. Automobile Nuisances. til? tt'lf. itf a rHurni- rnfKrnatA In Wiv Vrtrlr y I I lias been nearly killed by a stone thrown at her I I I head while riding In an automobile. The Police v-ommis;.ioiirr, uiscuiuiiug uie event, says, l ne automobile people must be protected. This mat ter of hatred that has been growing among the mob gangs of the lower and upper East Side got to stop if I have any power." Of course there Is possible excuse for such an action as throwing a stone lady's head, but we wonder if It has occurred to Police himlssloner McAdmi that there are other people besides automobile people, who need protection; that there st be a cause for the hatred between the automobile pie and the gangs. At the present time some of the streets of Montreal and the suburban roads are Infested with automobiles, in the possession of a lot of bowling Yahoos, who tio out of tli 'ir way to be offensive to people who do not happen to like the smell of gawline. They de liberately try to frighten horses; to scare pedestrians, and to splash them with in ml. It would be Interesting to know bow some of the cads come to Is? In even temporary pos M'ssiou of tiie machines. They certaimy do not belong ta the class that can afford to own or to hire such luxuries. It would be worth the while of all respectable people who are interested in automobiling to make a combined effort to suppress this nuisance. Anybody walking along a highway frequented by autouiohillsts can readily understand why hatred has grown up lwtween the East Side gang's mid the New York uutomobllists. Montreal Star. yt&&cience vfflVcntion ' lis.. J i B The Insurance of a Man Hanged. Y the ruling of a Pennsylvania court an In mranee company has been freed from the necessity of paying the policy of a man hanged for crime. The man, of course, was beyond the possibility of having any concern In i he matter. Ills heirs were not and they are the ones who must suffer. In China, not a highly civilized country, the relaiives of an assassin are forced to share the penalty with him, or Indeed to bear all of It in case of the criminal's escape. The courts of Pennsylvania may understand law and "YC 1 .1 C G .J . , . ; y to Cuu.uuiJ ji. x Bum imiiL a tuejr are entitled for acumen, purity and fearlessness they are heartily welcome. And doubtless ou the lofty plane which they operate In the Interests of Justice they are above feci Ing a iang of discomfort at the intimation that the Chinese theory, refined and modified and made presentable by a set ting of words, appears In this decision. It would be unfair to hang the Innocent wife of a murderer, or send his chil dren to prison. It Is not more dazzllngly fair to starve them or send them to the poor house. Nobody desires the Insurance company to be deprived of any legitimate protection. As a rule, It does not suffer much. Generally the rare swindler Is caught and a heavy penalty exacted. Policies carried for a certain time become "Incontest able." That Is to say, the company will not contest them unless through some circumstance, probably a technicality, It sees ,. reasonable chance of beating the claim of the heirs. If It has agreed to pay a certain sum upon the death of a certain man, and the man, having fultilled his share of the contract Is dead, nothing remains but the payment of the sum or a dishonorable attempt at evasion. In the Instance under consideration the man had com muted murder. Tills was the business of the company only as It was the concern of all law-abiding citizens. It Is a folly to assume that he committed the murder with the purpose of getting himself hanged, and thus securing for his heirs a sum of money. The law prescribes the pun ishment for murder. It stipulates, In Pennsylvania, that the guilty shall be hanged. It does not add "and bis heirs deprived of the Insurance upon which he may have paid premiums." New York American. s Educated Business Men. TUUKXTS of the history of education are fa: miliar with the time when the object of the collegiate foundation was amost solely to train young men for the priesthood or the ministry. Then the desirability of general scholastic cul ture as a preparation for entry Into the law was recognized, and lastly, as a preparation for entry Into medicine. The ministry, the law and medi cine these almnxt op to our time have been the three learned professions. Except for the comparatively small number attracted by the notion that an academic education was fitting to gentility, the vast majority of academic pu pils were destined, In the order named, for the surplice, the robe and the chaise. From the three typical American universities the greater number of graduates now look for ward to business careers or to technical pursuits which are closely related to business. The business man of the future is plainly to be a man of scholastic education. This ten dency Is likely to have an effect on business as It already hss an effect on our universities. New York Globe. )H-t-HHHt' LACKED JUST WHAI HE WANTED, t H--M The agent for the "Inexhaustible rclopedia. In Twelve Parts," ap- I'fH'bed Mr. Hansom with a light and ingy step, and was greatly cheered lieu be received nn Invitation to Irawr up an' show your wares," und other rocklng-chalr on the shady Irch was pushed towards him. You say there's everything anybody lints to know in It," said Mr. Ransom, finally, when the agent's flow of con ization bad ceased for a moment and looked hopefully at bis bot "Well, kues J shall have to buy It Lawz.ee, can see how easy the pay nts'llbe. ltut now I Just want to Mike sure o' one or two tilings before lllllf . I .1 . ... Ii'"' j v uuwu uie iusi money. "Re's see, what parts have ye got itii ye? 'Vol. One, A to Com;' that Irlght Now you find me the place here it tells about ant-hills, and the st wav to riil vnur d ,orvnril of 'ein. ve tried more'n forty different ways ready." , Mr. Hansom leaned comfortably ek In his chair and rocked with a ud creak while the agent searched ie pages of "Vol. One," with an unx u s face. "It doesn't tell alwiut them," he animered at last "You see " Hut tr. Hansom raised bis band In protest. "It's too bad." be said, "but prob 'ly that slipiH-d tbelr minds. Jest turn t to the b'a, and 11 nd 'butter.' Now how you can make It come when i contrary, same as It la sometimes ien you're In a hurry to get through timing." AiWln he regarded the agent's red- ning face with calm and genial Not there!" be said, when the re- It of tae search was reluctantly ad- iumL "That aeoma eur'ous, don't Itf 11 Mill I'll give 'em another chance. W yl tan asr tka e'a Mil ran come to 'cats.' There, you've got It Now how do they undertake to keep a Malty cat from shedding all over vis itors' clothes and the furniture, so the whole family won't be picking an' eat ing gray hairs the enduring time?" The agent shut the book with a flam and rose abruptly, in spite of Mr. Ran som's benevolent smile, "You stan' there a minute till moth er fetches ye a glass o' lemonade; It's n warmish day," said Mr. Ransom, cor dially. "But as to the book you're peddling, why, mother's got a 'Helps to the Handy that her mother had be fore her that you'd ought to take a look at some time. What with that an' the World's Atlas an' the diction ary, I guess mother an' I'll make out to get along without any cyclopedy, young man." NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE. Traffic on the MlaaiMlpiil Has Experi enced a llecllne iu Kcceiit Year. The best days of the Mississippi River tralllc are long since past, und the scenes that once endeared that stream have apparently goue never to return. The best year for steamboat busi ness on (he Mississippi Is said to have been the one Immediately before the outbreak of the Civil War, says Mr. Chltteuden In the World To-day. Dur ing that conflict, until the North gain ed control pt , the river, commercial Until iig below the mouth of the Ohio was broken up entirely. On the Mis souri a new source of business sprang up In the early years of the war by the discovery of gold at the head waters of that stream. Then began that most remarkable episode lu the history of river navigation, the send ing of cargoes from Ht Iula to the base of the Rocky Mountains, more than 2,000 miles distant and half a mile vertically upward. Lone before the steamboat business on the Mississippi and Its tributaries bad reached Its maximum the forces which were to accomplish Its ruin had begun to operate. The beginning of practical railroading followed many years after that of steamboatlng, but when it once got well under way its progress and development rapidly out stripped those of its older rivals. Here was a steam engine that could go with its load anywhere. It did not have to follow water courses. It could climb mountains if they were In its way. It could serve the Inland town as well as the river port Its speed was four times or more that of the steamboat It was not put out of commission by the winter's Ice, but served the public the year round. Clearly, the steamboat stood little show In Its struggle with a rival like this. Kor many years, from one cause and another, the boats held their own; but Anally the railroads 'got the up per hand, and their vast development In the twenty -live years following the Civil War practically drove the steam boat business from the rivers. The commercial Interests of the country have always looked with re gret upon the disappearance of the steamboat. There Is a deep-rooted conviction that our rivers have some value In the commercial economy of the country, as regulators of freight rates If nothing more, and there has been a strenuous effort to maintain active navigation. There Is a hopeful belief that the future will see the rivers again teeming with boats, as they do In Russia, Austria and France. But the logic of statistics la against It. TraMo on the Snrs Canal. In splta of the reduction of trans portation charges of 10 cents a ton, the receipts from the traffic of the Suet canal for the year 1903 are only a little less than those of the previous year, so a further considerable In crease of traffic can be stated. The receipts were $20,700,000, or $20,000 less than la 1902. A color scale prepared by J. K. To her, F. I. C, for classifying hair. lep esents 'Si different colors of human la ir. To prevent train derailments a Ger liau railroad otticinl, Hcrr Gehrieke, las Invented au adjustble rail, to be ittnched to the trucks of cars parallel ivith the axles, and carried ubout au 'nch above the track rails. If the wheels Jump the track the cross rails iu.it described will immediately rest Jpon the track rails and prevent the wheels from touching .ae ground, and the car will slide along, borne by the koss rails. To diminish the jar the ?ross rails are supplied with springs. ind projections beneath them are cui- ?ulated to prevent the derailed car from swinging aside from the track. Not all fishes are dumb, but many ipecles emit sounds and a few give re markable concerts. Instances of the latter have been collected by Henri Coupln, a French author. On the western coast of P.orneo. Prayer one night "heard musical sounds varying from the resonance of an orpin to the soft tones of an Aeolian barp; and In the China Sea, a United States naval officer was struck by an extraordinary blending of the low notes of an organ, the noise of bells and the sounds of a great harp, the Intensity causing the vessel to quiver. The pogonias or tambours of the tropical western coast of the Atlantic sometimes congregate about vessels, producing a maddening i-horus. The destructive power of naval funs becomes every year more terrible. The latest type of gun Introduced in !he Hrltish navy is remarkable for its great length, over 37 feet, combined with Its relatively small diameter, 30 inches at the breech and IS Inches at '.he muzzle,' and its comparative light ness, 28 tons. Its bore is 9.2 Indies, Its projectile weighs 30 pounds, and st 3,000 yards this missile can be driv en through 11 Indies of Krupp steel. The barrel is made up of an inner tube, enclosed In a jncket of wound teel wire. This gun la reckoned equal In destructive power to the 13 Vi -Inch bore guns that preceded it, which have more than double its weight. The muzzle velocity of the projectile Is 2, Dini feet per second. The success of the ostrich-fnnus In California has recently led to the es tablishment of a similar farm In Ari zona and another In Florida. It Is said that the feathers of these Amerlcan aised birds are actually of better quul ity and command higher prices than those of South African ostriches. The birds on the farms are larger than those seen In traveling menageries, their weight running from 200 to 400 pounds, and their full height with head upraised, from 0 to 8 feet. A blow from an ostrich's foot is dauger ius, but It may be avoided by stooping low, as the birds cannot deliver au effective kick under a height of three feet. For this reason they are easily driven by dogs. In Florida a team of jstriches, broken to harness, is said to iave paced a mile In 2:30 TO SAVE CHILDREN. Physical Culture aa a Means to Ward Off Tuberculoala. An athletic club, which fixes Its dues it the extortionate figure of one cent a veek, suggests an unusual departure n the world of clubs. Moreover, for uany other reasons, the Children's Uhletic Club of I'hiladelphla, corn losed entirely of the children of the joor, organized to fight by physical .raining the ravages of tuberculosis, narks an important Innovation In the harltable work of that city. Mrs. Florence L. Williams, the founder ot .he club, has certain definite objects :o accomplish with the sixty little pn lls under her charge. That she Is ible not merely to bring muscle and lealth In place of weakness and even lisease through a careful system of iliyslcal culture, but also to develop a rick team capable of performing acro latlc feats of no little difficulty, proves :he cfUeacy of her methods. For her clientele Mrs. Williams de fends entirely upon the children of the -rowded quarters of the city, where loor food and unhealthy surroundings render child life unwholesome and uake physical development Irapossl jie. From the children of these quar ters of the city Mrs. Williams has or (antzed her classes, the. membership if which has grown from three to slx :y. But even here the selection of ne'mbers Is made from the weaker and ;he more anaemic; from the chlldreu who already show signs of the luva tlon of the "great white plague," whose tiny arms and hollow chests ln llcate lack of vitality. With such subjects It Is natural that tt the outset the exercises of the class es should be of the mildest sort Ave nlnnte drills with the lightest of lumbells, Interspersed with frequent ests. Special breathing exercises are prescribed for the new members, and they are expected to continue this ex srclse at home. One of these exercises Kinslsts In the usual exhaling and In haling, but the method of accomplish ng It Is novel. The children are ranged n rows, with their hands on their tips, and each child puts a quill tooth pick In Its mouth. Then, at a word of command, they Inhale deeply through lie nostrils and then exhale - slowly li rough the toothpick, this device nnklng the exhalation slow and avoid ng all chance of strain. Toe Ore drill Is another Important exercise In the development of lung jiower. As the little arms and legs get hard and the beets are developed the more advanced pupils are taught to take the weaker oues across their shoulders and carry them out of the reach of the fancied flames. But the ideal, of all the children who belong to these classes is to develop strengih and skiil enough to Join the trick team, for when the danger of disease has been banished and the puny little figures with narrow chests and round should ers have been developed into erect, sturdy bodies, then the gymnastic feats of the more pretentions athletes are attempted and achieved before ad miring public audiences. The development of muscle is at tended with a eijiiiiar UmuiHliou of the moral side of the child, and It is to accomplish the latter Uiat the penny weekly fee is charged, giving the chil dren a sense of membership and right ful claim to the advantages of the club, which is lacking in the mere charitable work, which does not per mit even the slight contribution of the children themselves. The results of this physical training are striking. Children who, when they Joined the club, were too weak to endure even the least tiring of the exercises, under this regimen develop strong, healthy and even athletic frames. Moreover, the tendency to consumption is checked, and with the Increase of physical strength there Is a corresponding men tal and moral development Finally, the lessons of the gymnasium, the knowledge of the proper method of breathing and of walking, are remem bered long after the actual class work has eudud, and serve to keep the health the exercise has won. New Y'oik Tribune. V SAA3ALHOO0L V SAA3ALvYOO0l THIS CAT IS A PARADOX. Adopted Four Mice Instead of Making: a Dinner of Tliem. Busy Body, a big Maltese cat who makes her home at the Indianapolis Union Railway Bhops, and Is the pet of every one from the president down to the humble employe of the road, after establishing a record of killing more than 10,000 rats and mice, has, with charming feline inconsistency, adopted four tiny mice. The case Is one of the most remark able on record and It Is doubtful If scientists or menageries can point to a like one. Three weeks ago Busy Body gave birth to four kittens and with them seemed in an element of happiness. But the little fellows required such a large amount of nourishment that she began to look emaciated and a good rat or mouse diet was suggested for her. Thursday afternoon workmen about the shops discovered a nest of six mice In a sawdust pile, and, thinking of the faithful "tabby," caught them for her. They were alive and thrown Into her box and the men expected to see an immediate slaughter. Imagine their surprise when Busy Body merely looked up rather sleepi ly, took a look at the mice, carefully licked them over and then as they nestled beneath her, went back to sleep. Since then she has looked after them tenderly, as much as she has her kittens, and the kittens and mice take their nourishment side by side. One of the mice died and another lost Its life through an experiment. The men thought that if a cat would act so remarkably with a mouse that a dog would surely do likewise. One of them was carried to Fanny, a dog who is nursing a litter of pups, for her Inspection. The Inspection was a brief one, and before the men could prevent her Fanny had swallowed the mouse whole. It has not been decided what will be done with the mice, should they grow up, nor are the men about the Bhops sure that Busy Body will not regain her old appetite for rodents and eat her adopted babies. Busy Body belongs to Master Me chanic O. II. Jackson and is C years old. She was taken to the Union rail way shops three years ago after she had lost an eye which disfigured her countenance. The shops were former ly overrun with rats and mice, but she has gaiued a remarkable record for killing them and it Is asserted that no lees than 10,000 is the number of ber victims. Indianapolis Star. A Beautiful Custom. In the mountains of Tyrol, it is the custom of the women and chlldreu to come out when it is bedtime, and slug. Their husbands, fathers, and brothers answer them from the hills ou their return home. On the shores of the Adriatic such a custom prevails. There, the wives of the fishermen come down about sunset and sing a melody. Af ter singing the first stanza, they listen awhile for nn answering melody from off the water, and continue to sing and listen till the well known voices come borne on the waters, telling that the loved one Is almost home. How sweet to the weary fishermen, as the shad ows gather around him, must be the songs of the loved ones at home that sing to cheer him, and how they must strengthen and tighten the links that bind together these dwellers by the sea! It Was Himself He Saw, "Honest, now, Jones, did you see a burglar in your room when you called the police?" "No; my wife had shifted the mir ror In my room and I didn't know It" Detroit Free Tress.' The Main Consideration. "Young man, have you stopped to think where you will go when you die?" "Gad, no I haven't even thought where to go on my summer vacation." Puck. Erromango Is one of the larger Is lands of the New Hebridea, from wlii-b were formerly brought large quantities of sandalwood. The t-are-lessiier-s of tiie natives In proiexting the forests reduced the product, until now Ciere Is v.ry little valuab'e w o ou the isiaud. Rev. II. A. Robertson, in "Frroinango, the Martyr Isle." gives a brief history of the sandalwood trade. The ICrrouiaiiguiw for grnerationi used the sandalwood as they would any other, for fuel, and had ho idea of its vaiue until totelgut-ra tame and asked for it The o:i!y price that vai at lirst given was a small bit of hoop iron, from three to four inches in length, and this for a great boat load of wood. The ravages were greatlf takeu with the Iron, for by sharpening it on a stone aiid fastening it to a piece of wood tl.ey made themselves rough, light hatchets. Before that they had nothing but their ancient imple ments of stone with which to work. Netai, the great chief Netai, of Cook's Ray, used to delight to tell mo of tiie olden times on Erromango, and how slw were the methods of cutting trees for their houses and canoes. Every tree had to be burned at the base, and when that was done there still remained the slow work of hack ing with stone axes to sever It from the slump. Such was the early Erroman gan method of hewing wood, and tho sandalwood had to be cut in this way. The ships carried great lengths of hoop-iron bound toijeiher. Amid the babble of voices from swarms of naked, painted savages clamoring for their pay, and the confusion and shout ings that arose as the huge logs were swung into place, there could be heard the click of the hammer as It struck the anvil; the Iron was being cut into the coveted lengths. After the logs were burned and cut down, they were carried to tho bay on men's shoulders. The biggest lugs had to be dragged down the rocky mountain tracks. At the present time the sandalwood tree, once so plentiful, is fast disap pearing, and there is little to remind one that sandalwood once grew ou every hill and clustered In every val ley of Erromango. In appearance the bark, which is rough and of a light-brown color, Is somewhat like that of the cherry tTee. The narrow leaves, which are of a rich green tint and smooth, shiny sur face, are not more than three inches in length. There Is no odor until the tree Is cut and the young limbs have none at all. It Is said that unless the bark Is removed the wood loses tho sweet scent and becomes valueless. It Is almost Impossible now to secure a fairly good specimen. Intertribal wars, as well as the traders, have helped to destroy the tree, and the habit that natives have of setting fire to every thing and anything has nearly complet ed the ruin. HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMAN. It Makea Tbem More Independent and Belf-Supporting. The higher education of women marks the greatest social advance that this country has made during the last half century. During that time we have come to make a general ap plication of the Delphic Inscription: "Know thyself." We are giving both sexes the benefit of It It Is not the least but one of the greatest advan tages of this higher education that the woman of to-day does know herself much better than did her mother or grandmother, and with that self knowledge comes a better under standing of her relations to the world about her. The college girl of to-day Is health ier, stronger, saner, more Independent, more resolute and more useful than were the social butterflies or the household drudges of her grandmoth er's time. In the experimental stages of this new development there may have been danger, but the education of the body as well as of the mind, Is now well looked after In all our girls' colleges, Indeed, much better than In colleges for the other sex. Their ex ercise Is regular and not carried to excess, and the percentage of Illness In these Institutions is generally much less than It Is among the same number of girls of equal condition out side of them. We don't know whether as large a proportion of college girls marry as of those who' finish their education earlier. Perhaps not They don't have to. That very Independence of which we have spoken gives them more latitude. Moreover, as a rule, It takes more of a man to marry the educated than the uneducated girl, but when the right one applies there Is no danger that she will be afraid of him, while, other things being equal, he is especially fortunate In his choice. If there Is any one thing that has come to stay and broaden In Its application, It is the higher education of women. Sent the Ijetter Anyway. James 11. Hyde, of New York, treas ures a letter that was recently re ceived by the Insurance company with which he is connected. This letter runs as follows: "Gentlemen I am sorry to Inform you that I have lost my insurance pol icy. Will you be kind enough to send nie a duplicate policy at once? Yon will And a stamp Inclosed. "P. 8. Since writing the above I have found my policy. The duplicate, therefore, need not be sent. Pray do not trouble to return the stamps Washington Post v.; 1 " 1