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THE NORTHWESTERN. BEHttCHOTKK * GIHSON, Kdi ud P«b» LOUP CITY, • - NEB. '_L.-MJ_3 Thirty-five hundred dozen goatskins are transformed into leather every day in Philadelphia. Mrs. Davis, the only sister of John Brown of Harper’s Ferry fame, is still living at St. Johns, Mich. She was thi youngest of a family of sixteen chil dren. Herr Hauslian, a Vienese artisan, has arrived at Paris, wheeling in a harrow his wife, a woman of V8. and his child, aged four. The Journey has been accomplished in a month. The lonely Island of St. Kilds fs to have a postofBce and other innova tions. The postmaster, who Is the pastor, the schoolmaster, doctor, etc., will not have a great additional runount of work, as the malls only arrive at the Island two or three times a year. The w'ord "compound” which is used frequently In the war dispatches from China, means an inclosure. In that country and Japan it is customary to build high brick walls around facto ries, business houses, banks and resi dences for protection, and these art the “compounds” mentioned. According to a statement made In the English parliament 91,000 horses have been shipped to South Africa during the present war. The cost of an English horse on arrival is from $350 to $375, and that of an Argentine horse only $130. Altogether England must have spent anywhere from $20, 000,000 to $30,000,000 on horses for South Africa. The deaths in 1898 in Havana num bered 21,252 among a population esti mated at 250,000. The rate of mortal ity was 85 per 1,000. In the first month of’ American occupation, January, 1899, this was reduced to sixty-seven, and by December, 1899, to twenty-sev en per 1,000. The decrease continued until In April, 1900, It was less than *2.4 per 1,000. The every-day vehicle In which a baby rides is variously named. In Phil adelphia they are advertised as "baity coaches;” in the South they are often railed "baby buggies,’' wbtle in New England and in most parts of the West "baby carriage” is the name. It is doubtless all the same to the baby so long as he gets the opea air and sun light which the vehicle affords. Russia is considering a new mode for leasing the oil lands owned by the crown in the district of Baku, in or der to reduce the price of coal oil, which within the last few years has been raised exorbitantly. It is pro posed that after 1900-the lessees shall pay to the Government 40 per cent of the oil produced "in natura,” so that the Government can become a com petitor in the sale of the article. Here tofore the lessees paid a certain tax in cash. M. Ende has recently compared the figures for the motive power used at the different expositions which have been held in Paris. In 1867 the total horse power was 854, furnished by fif ty-two engines averaging 16 horse power each; in 1878 tho total was 2,583 horse-power, given by forty-one engines of 62 horse-power average. The figure for 1889 is 5,320 horse-pow er; only thirty-two engines were used, with a mean of 166 horse power. In 1900 the total power of the engines and dynamos used to supply the ener gy is 36,085 horse-power, supplied by thirty-seven machines, giving a mean of 975 horse-power. The French sec tion has eighteen machines, with a to tal of 14,435 horse-power, or 802 per unit, and the foreign section supplies nineteen machines, giving 21.650 horse-power, or a mean of 1,140 per unit. Prof. Herman V. IHlprecht, the Babylonian explorer, who In tlif Bpring of this year went to the east to superintend the excavations in As syria and Babylon In the name of the I'nlveralty of Pennsylvania, describes in a letter Just received the important results of his Journey. He says. "The results of our researches exceed ev erything that has so far bten known about Babylon. We found the great temple library and priest school of Nippur, which had been destroyed by the Klamltes 228 H. (’. The library consists of 16,000 volumes written on stone, and covers the entire theologi cal. astronomical, linguistic and math ematical knowledge of those days. We also unearthed a collection of letters and biographies, deciphered the in scriptions of manv newly dlstovert! tombstones and monuments, and es pied, finally, best of all. &.000 official documents of Inestimable value to the student of ancient history The net result of our Journey consists (u far of 23,000 stone writings." The tialvati >11 Army, however one may view its methods of arousing en thusiasm, must tje credited with much practical ability in well-doing for Instance, the shameful deeds of the "Ire Trust" had no sooner lieen ex posted than the \rmy provided at least n partial remedy la-pots were at one* established in New York and I'hi tago where ail pounds of he may Ue bought fur one rent, and the plan n 10 ho exit n ie • 0 ma t W*g«#e Sick child has keea rede ted ht this charity la aoi I'holy to object to tbs moats of lha wm and pass drum. TALMA UK'S SEItMO.N. GIVES SOME HINTS ON WHAT TO READ. ■lay* That the Greataat Weaving of a Nation la an Elevated Literature—It* Greatest Curse au Impure Literature— home Timely Suggestion*. (Copyright, 1900, by t.ouIs Klopsch.) Dr. Talmage, who has been spending a few days in St. Petersburg, sends the following report of a discourse, which will be helpful to those who have an appetite for literature and would like some rules to guide them in the selec tion of books and newspapers: text. Acts xlx, 19, "Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned tb/m be fore all men, and they counted the price of them and found it 50,000 piec es of silver.” Paul had been stirring up Ephesus with some lively sermons about the sins of that place. Among the more Important results was the fact that the citizens brought out their bad books and in a public place made a bonfire of them. I see the people coming out with their arms full of Ephesian literature and tossing it Into the flames. I hear an economist who is standing by saying: "Stop this waste. Here are |7,600 worth of books. Do you propose to burn them ali up? If you don’t want to read them your selves, sell them and let somebody else read them.” "No,” said the peo ple; “if these books are not good for us, they are not good for anybody else, and we shall stand and watch until the last leaf has burned to ashes. They have done us a world of harm, and they shall never do others harm.” Hear the flames crackle and roar! Well, my friends, one of the wants of the cities is a great bonfire of bad books and newspapers. We have enough fuel to make a blaze 200 feet high. Many of the publishing houses would do well to throw Into the blaze their entire stock of goods. Bring forth the insufferable trash and put It into the Are and let it be known in the presence of God and angels and men that you are going to rid your homes of the overtopping and under lying curse of profligate literature. The printing press is the mightiest agency on earth for good and for evil. The minister of the gospel standing In a pulpit, has a responsible position, but I do not think it Is as responsible as the' position of an editor or a pub lisher. At what distant point of time at what far out cycle of eternity, will cease the Influence of a Henry J. Ray mond. or a Horace Greeley, or a James Gordon Bennett, or a Watson Webb, or an Erastus Brooks, or a Thomas Kinsella? Take the over whelming statistics of the clrclulatlon of the dally and weekly newspapers and then cipher if you can, how far up and far down and how far out reach the Influences of the Ameri can printing press. What is to be the issue of all this? believe the Ixird intends the print ing press to be the chief means for the world's rescue and evangelization, and I think that the great last battle of the world will not be fought with swords and guns, but with types and presses, a purified and gospel litera ture triumphing over, trampling down and crushing out forever that which Is depraved. The only way to over come unclean literature is by scatter ing abroad that which is healthful. May God speed the cylinders of an honest, intelligent, aggressive, Christ ian printing press. <i<IO(l ItooliH U lllnilnv, 1 have to tell you that the greatest blessing that ever came to the na tions is that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge that has been of unclean literature. This last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to fill In sane asylums and penitentiaries and almshouses and dens of shame. The bodies of this infection lie In the hospitals and In the graves, while their souls are being tossed over Into a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror and despair! The London plague was nothing to it. Thajt counted Its vic tims by thousands, but this modern pest has already shoveled its millions into the iharnel house of the morally dead. The longest rail train that ever ran over the tracks was not long enough or large enough to carry the beastliness and the putrefaction which have been gathered up in bad books and newspapers In the last twenty years. Now. It Is amid surh circunistuni e i thut I put a question of overmastering importance to you and your families. What books and newspapers shall we read? You see I group them together. A newspaper U only a book in a swifter and more portable shape, and the same rules which will apply to l>ook reading will apply to news paper reading What shall we read? .Shall our mlnda lie the receptacle of everything that an author has a mind to write* Shall there be no distinc tion between the ire* of life and the tree of death Shall we *to>p down and i drink out of the trniiKii which the wickedness of men has nihd with pol lution and shame? Shall w« tuire >u Impurity aud chase fantastic will-o'* 'he w -pa acre s ti.e i vamps when : we might walk in the Idooming gar dens of (1<h| ’ oh no! f<<r the sake »f "Mr i>t■ ■*.),' and c-itng welfars I we must make an luiollig* ut and I Christian choice Standing as we tin rhtn deep In | ft'tltioua literature the q<e ctlon th 't young people are ashing is. "Shall w resd nosela*"* I reply There are n«* *ls that are pur* good Christian el calms Is the heart and eanotittag u * be life ttot | have still further !<• tay that I belie** that #*««ut> its out of the 100 novels in this day are baleful and destructive to the last de gree. A pure work of fiction is history and poetry combined. It is a history of things around us with the licenses and the assumed names of poetry. The world can never pay the debt which it owes to such writers of fiction as Hawthorne and McKenzie and I.andon and Hunt and Arthur and others whose names are familiar to all. The follies of high life were never better* exposed than by Miss Edgeworth. The memories of the past were never more faithfully embalmed than In the writings of Walter Scott, Cooper’s novels are healthfully redolent with the breath of seaweed and the air of the American forest. Charles Kings ley has smitten the morbidity of the world and led a great many to appre ciate the poetry of sound health, Htrong muscles and fresh air. Thack eray did a grand work in caricaturing the pretenders to gentility and high blood. Dickens has built his own monument in his books, which are a plea for the poor and the anathema of injustice, and there are a score of novellstic pens today doing mighty work for God and righteousness. Kunobllug »ml Purifying. Now, I say, books like these, read at right times and read in right pro portion with other books, cannot help but be ennobling nnd purifying; but, alas, for the loathsome and impure literature that has come in the shape of novels, like a freshet overflowing all the banks of decency and common sense! They are coming from some of the most celebrated publishing houses. They are coming with recommenda tion of some of our religious newspa pers. They lie on your center tables to curse your children and blast with their infernal fires generations un born. You find these books in the desk of the school miss, in the trunk of the young man. In the steamboat cabin, on the table of the hotel recep tion ro*m. You see a light in your child's room late at night. You sud denly go in and suy, "What are you doing?” ”1 am reading.” "What are you reading?" "A book." You look at the book. It la a bad book. "Where did you get It?” “I borrowed It.” Alas, there are always those abroad who would like to loan your son or daugh ter a bad book! Kverywhere, every where, an unclean literature. 1 charge upon it the destruction of 10,000 Im mortal souls, and I bid you wake up to the magnitude of the evil. I shall take all the world's litera ture—good novels and bad, travels true and false, histories faithful and Incorrect, legends beautiful and mon strous, all tracts, all chronicles, all poems, all family, city, state and na tional libraries—and pile them up in a pyramid of literature, and then 1 shall bring to bear upon it some grand, glorious, infallible, unmistak able Christian principles. God help me to speak with referenuce to my last account and help you to listen. 1 charge you In the first place to stand aloof from all books that give false pictures of life. Life is neither a tragedy nor a farce. Men are not all either knaves or heroes. Women are neither angels nor furies. And yet if you depended upon much of the literature of the day you would get an idea that life instead of being something earnest, something practi cal, is a fitful and fantastic and ex travagant thing. How poorly prepar ed are that young man and woman for the duties of today who spent last night wading through brilliant pas sages descriptive of magnificent knavery and wickedness! The man will be looking all day long for his heroine in the office, by the forge, in the factory, in the counting room, and he will not find her, and he will be dissatisfied. A man who givc-s him self up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be nerveless, inane and a nuisance. He will be fit neither for store, nor the shop, nor the field. A woman who gives herself up to the In discriminate reading of novels will be unfitted for the duties of wife, mother, ! sister, daughter. There she is, hair disheveled, countenance vacant, cheeks pale, hands trembling, burst ing into tears at midnight over the fate of some unfortunate lover; in the daytime, when she ought to b~* 1 busy, staring by the half hour at nothing, biting her finger nails Into the quick. The carpet that was plain before will be plainer after having j wandered through a romance all night long in tessellated halls of castles. And your Industrious companion will tie more unattractive than ever, now that you have walked in the romance through parks with plumed princesses or lounged in (he arbor with the pol ished desperado. Oh. these confirmed novel readers! They are unfitted for this life, which Is a tremendous disci pline. They know not how to go through the furnaces of trial through which they must pass, and they are unfitted for a world where everything we gain we achieve by hard uiul long continuing work. r«rti»u«r n.«ii itotiii*. Again, abstain from all those book* which, while they have some good 5 thing*, have also an admixture of evil. You have read books that had two ele ments tn them the good and the bad Which stuck to you* The bad Th* heart of moat people t* like a sieve, wht' h lets the smell paniclea of gold fall through hut hrepa th» great cin ders tune In awhile there la a mind . Ike a load clone which, plunged amid •t»e| and brant filings gathers up the steel and repel* the brass Hut It la generally vaactly the opposite If you attempt to ptuaga throuth a hedge if bur* to get i-we black irerry, you will 1 g»l more bar* than Ida* hirer tie* You ] i aun u afford to rea l a had booh bi»w* j ever g<»>4 you are Yuu uy “The In* i « it lira sti ff ant 1 tell you | that the •crate h of a pin hag aurwetimea I pr 4*r ed Ue-k|aw Alau. || through curiosity, as many <lo, you pry into an evil book, your curiosity is as danger ous as that of the man who would take a torch Into a gunpowder mill merely to see whether It would really blow up or not. In a menagerie In New York a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard's cage. The animal's hido looked so sleek and bright and beautiful. He just stroked It once. The monster seized him, and he drew forth a hand torn and mangled and bleeding. Oh, touch not evil, even with the faintest stroke. Though it may be glossy and beautiful, touch It not, lost you pull forth your soul torn and bleeding under the clutch of the leopard. "But,” you say, “how can I find out whether a book Is good or bad without reading it?” There is always something suspicious about a bad book. I never knew an exception—something suspicious In the index or style of Il lustration. This venomous reptile al ways carries a warning rattle. Again, I charge you to stand off from all those books which corrupt the imagination and inflame the passions. I do not refer now to that kind of book which the villain has under his coat waiting for the school to get out. and, then, looking both ways to see that there is no policeman around the block offers the book to your son on the way home. I do not speak of that kind of literature, but that which evades the law and comes out In polished style, and with acu*e plot sounds the tocsin that rouses up all the baser passions of the soul. Today, under the nostrils of the people, there Is a fetid, reek ing. unwashed literature, enough to poison all the fountains of public vir tue and smite your sons and daughters us with the wing of a destroying an gel, and it is time that ths ministers of the gospel blew the trumpet and rallied the forces of righteousness, all armed to this great battle against a depraved literature. • • • ChfrUb Uooil ttuokn. Cherish good books and newspapers. Beware of bad ones. The assassin of Lord Russell declared that he was led into crime by reading one vivid ro mance. The consecrated John Angell James, than whom England never pro ducts! a better man, declared in his old age thf:t he had never yet got over the evil effects of having for fifteen minutes once read a bad book. But I need not go so far off. 1 could tell you of a comrade who was great hearted, noble and generous. He was studying for an honorable profession, but he had an infidel book in his trunk, and he said to me one day, "De Witt, would you like to read It?” 1 said "Yes, 1 would.” I took the book and read it only for a few minutes. 1 was really startled with what I saw there, and I handed the book back to him and said, "You had better destroy that book.” No, he kept it. He read it. He reread it. After awhile he gave up religion as a myth. He gave up God as a non entity. He gave up the Bible as a fable. He gave up the church of Christ as a useless institution. He gave up good morals as being unnecessarily stringent. I have heard of him but twice in many year*. The time before the last I heard of him he was a con firmed inebriate. The last 1 heard of him he was coming out of an insane asylum—In body, mind and soul an aw ful wreck. I believe that one Infidel book killed him for two worlds. Go home today and look through your library, and then, having looked through your library .look on the stand where you keep your pictorials and newspapers and apply the Christian principles 1 have laid down this hour. If there is anything in your home that cannot stand the test do not give It away, for it mlgnt spoil an immortal soul; do not sell it, for the money you get would be the price of blood; but rather kindle a fire on your kitchen hearth or in your back yard and then drop the poison in it, and the bonfire In your city shall be as consuming as that one in Ephesus. (icntljr Rebuked. A good many people maintain that the only argument that really reaches a practical Joker is a stout club. Yet the Philadelphia Times prints an in cident of an Italian cafe which seems tc show that milder measures answer when there Is In the offender’s make up a spbstratum of manly feeling. In the evenings there was ulwuys flue music In the cafe, made by a man and his wife. She played on a stringed in btrumcnt, and after several selections, carried around a little filigree silver basket, In whleh she collected coins from the guests. One night, as the music began, a man seated at one of the tallies held »tp a gold coin. The woman smiled, and the man dropped it on the marble slab that covered the steam pipes. When she made her col lection she went first for the gold coin, but ss she picked It up she gave a cry, and dropped It again, for it had become heated on the slab. The nest evening, when the musicians ap peared, the woman's hand was ban daged. and she had some difficulty in managing her Instrument. When she made her rolled to u she avoided the man who had played the practical Jobe i on her; und night after night she did (he same thing in vain he of fered her apologies and other coins. ; but she merely bowed and stuped In p t»»lng him, and never allowed hint I to give her the *11* hirst donation Of I rotiraw one riu Inc mine the oflmder a | feelings. but who ran And fault with 1 the womans gentle, yet iltgniAed, re buke Youth s Pomp inion SftiMaai aa-iuiwo g-i-iru The total re-eipta uf the lletMbt foreign Missionary »<* let* for the Inst i *ear were |l lit lit tfT which Is i fc* , largest amount ever paid into the | trwasaiy in os# ynt THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VII, AUGUST 12—MATT. 18:21-35. UoldMi Text—Forgive l's Our Debts, As We Forgive Our Debtors—Matt. (I: 12— The low of Forgiveness—What Leil to Peter's Question. 21. "Then came Peter to him." Peter Haiti, "How oft shall my brother sin against me. and I forgive him?" How long should he continue to apply the same remedy that failed again and again? “Till seven times?" "Is seven times sufficient?” To do that seemed a great stretch of vir tu,e far beyond that of the rabbis. But he did not get hold of the true principle of forgiveness. 22. "I say unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven." "It is doubtful whether the original means four hundred and ninety or seventy-seven • seventy times seven, or "seventy times and seven," as In margin of R. V.). But in either case it Is a symbolical expres sion for never-ending forgiveness. 2.3. Ther»<ore." In order to Illustrate the duty of forgiveness. "A certain king, which would take account of." Better as R. V„ "make a reckoning with" "his ser vants," his officers, as governors or no bles who were farmers of taxes. 24. "One wss brought unto him." Un willingly; such a debtor could not come of his own accord. "Which owed him ten thousand talents." A talent was a weight, not a coin. Hence a tulent of gold would naturally be worth about six teen times as much as a talent of silver. According to The Illustrated Bible Treas ury (Nelson’s), and the Oxford Helps, a Hebrew silver talent was worth 3,000 j shekels, or 12,000 denarii (the pence of v. I 2M. The 10,000 talents would, therefore, be Worth *19,000,000 or *20,000,000, a sum Im possible to pay. A Greek talent would be about half as much. 26. "Commanded him to be sold . . , and all that he had." So in Syria now, when the debt grows till |t equals in val ue the entire property of the debtors, the creditor seizes all they possess. "Their houses and lands become his, and they, in their new relalionshlp, work for him as his serfs and slaves. , 26. "Worshipped him.” Prostrated him self before him. forgave him the debt." There was no other way of dellveranee. The king, of course, represented God himself. 2*. "The same servant went out," From h!s king's presence. He could not commit the outrage which follows in the presence of his benefactor. He must first forget him. "And found one of his fellow ser vants." An Inferior officer. "Owed him an hundred pence." "Shillings" or "francs" would give us a better Idea of the sum than pence. The silver penny, worth about the same us a denaftus, the "penny" of the Bible, was the common coin among the Anglo-ttuxons, and was In use. In reduced weight, at the time our j Bible was translated. Copper pennies ! were not coined till 1797. A hundred pence was worth $16 or $17, about one millionth i part of the debt the unmerciful servant had owed the king — Broadus. "Took him by the throat." This brutal custom was Itomlsh and not Jewish, but has Its coun t< rpart In Syria today. 29. "Fell down at his feet. ... I will | pay Ihee all." The very act and words he himself had so lately employed to his creditor. And this fellow-servant could pay In time, for It was only about three months' wages that he owed, while he himself could never have paid his debt. 30. "And he would not: but went (went away) and cast him Into prison.” "When the threshing season comes round, the usurious creditor secures the services of a band of bashlbasouks. These ride Into the defaulting village, stable their horses In the people's houses, lie In their beds eat their fowl and fatted sheep, Insult their wives and daughters, till the usurer Is satisfied. 31. "His fellow servants." The scene changes again. The other servants felt great pity for the unfortunate roan, "and told unto their lord," who they were suro would listen, since he had been so com passion tte toward the first debtor. They were not revengeful, but grieved and dis appointed at the oppression of the weak, and the monstrous ingratitude of the of ficer. 32. "O thou wicked servant.” Hard hearted, hypocritical, ungrateful, selfish. 34. "And his lord was wroth." Angry, Indignant, and Justly so, at such miscon duct. "Delivered him to the tormentors." Not simply "Jailers," but those who (among the ancient Romans) sought by legal tortures to find out whether the debtor had any concealed hoard.—SchafT. 36. “So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts." Not merely In form and In word*, but from sincere love, with true forgiveness. (1) Forgiveness only Injured the man, and confirmed him in sin. The forgiveness only made him proud and selfish. Therefore love to him must ex press Itself lti punishment as the only ( way to touch his heart and save him from Ids sin. (2) God's anger Is not passion, | but a righteous burning Indignation : against sin. Kru.ip llu* a <•<»><! Thing. Some time ago Krupp furnished field guns for the German government at $1,145 each. Competitors afterward re ceived orders for the same kind at $404.30. Thereupon Krupp reduced his ! price from $1,145 to $452 each. For shrapnels Krupp received $2.03. His competitors furnished them at $1.19. Krupp furnishes nickel plates for the ^ navy at double the price they would cost If competition were possible. The process is known to every intelligent manufacturer, but the navy depart ment imposes conditions that render competition out of the question. I'rotil* of Mew torli Hocks. I'p to 1895 the dock department had spent the sum of $*>,508,292.50 in ac quiring and Improving private proper ty from which the rentals received amounted to 1482.228 54. or 7 1-10 per cent per annum on the total outlay. As the average rate of Interest oil the bonds Issued to pay for these improve ments has been about 3*4 per cent per annum, these rentals represent a prof it over such Interest charge of morn thet a quarter million dollars per an num or sufficient to retie*1 in the prla t tp.il of the bonds In les* than twenty years. V,/ w. ra 19 I **•%-«*. The of IoIki io 9«*it4» ft. waste the nerve force and the brain j force, and In thousand# of >*••* there 1 r#«» tie no question but that II squan j dera life by leakage right from the *en ter, and you do not know whether you at* the one In hve that will u pm •oned wad prematurely destroyed o| noi If you have just begun to smob • uk jr.iur»vlf what earthly good It will do you. and If you fall, as you *111. tv had a good si* ua# for coattaulag the habit, leave It off ONE HUNDRED YEARS k the Ambition* Age for Member* of Till* C lub. Chicago correspondence Philadelphia Times: Chicago boasts of many strange :hings, but the strangest of all Is a club that was organized here last week. It Is called the One Hundred Year Club, the members of which are honorably bound to live one hundred years, llachelor clubs, old maid clubs, sui cide clubs, the Thirteen Club, and, in fact, every form of club imaginable has been organized here in the Windy City, but this Century Club Is the odd est of them all. The club Is open to. both sexes and already has over twen ty members. Among them Is Fernando^ /ones, a millionaire real estate man, who prominently figured in the organ ization of the club. To your corre ipondent he saM there was no reason' why people should not live a hundred years. “For one thing," he said, “I don't believe In snoozing In the day time to lengthen life. I never go to bed the same day I get up, but I do get up the same day 1 go to bed. It is the sluggard who sleeps in the day time. People, I think, sleep too much. Even at my advanced age 1 find that six or seven hours' sleep is sufficient. Another thing. 1 never drink raw water. I haven’t drunk a pint of raw water In twenty years. I drink most everything else except raw water. Too much stress Is put on the necessity for fresh air as being the great life pre server and prolonged This talk about sleeping with open windows, winter ' and summer, is a mistake. Even birds, whose brains are small, know that it is wise to put their heads under their wings, protecteu from fresh air, when they sleep.” Judge L. D. Otis, 80 yeara old, said: "One of the most Important steps any one can take who is ambi tious to round out a century of life Is to Join the ‘Don’t Worry’ Club. Don’t worry about the things that you can’t uny, in uiuvr yeuyie uu uie wurryiur. Three-fourths of man’s troubles are borrowed. The things that he fears in anticipation don’t come to pass. It shortens life to carry the burden of an ticipated troubles which never come.” Mrs. Mary Ann Otis, the first woman to join the club, said: “No pies nor cakes for me. I shall be 98 years old on April 21, and I expect to be the first member of our club over the century mark. I attribute my long stay oa earth to plain food and a quiet, domes tic life, free from the fret and worry und heartburnings of society. If I were asked what one thing more than any other has contributed to my long life, 1 would say moderation In eating.” Amateur Millinery. A certain seaside's belle last sum mer—the marvel of the place by rea son of her seemingly limitless supply of hhts—she never appeared twice with the same thing on her head—whis pered gleefully at the season’s end to one of ihe mystified: "Would you know a)bit of a»sesret about me and my ‘wild extravagance' in hats? Well, listen; Besides my utility knockabouts —I've exactly two: a white Leghorn capable of every possible contortion, and a black straw, wired into endless capabilities of contour. 'Voila tout!’ But wait; I have a whole trunk full of millinery stuff und a whole body full ot 'contrivance.' I'd shape and trim these two hats fresh for every single ■toilet, and, of course, the combination would never happen to be twice alike, though the materials Individually ovould be used over and over again. I’liick and Industry, my dear, are equal to French millinery, and a good deal cheaper! ” Np«*<*!ttl ffrrth llullt. Among the passengers who arrived at Hoboken by the North German Llody steamship Lahn was a couple who attracted general attention, says the New York Times. They are Mr. and Mrs. Chauney Morian, of Indian apolis, Ind. Mr. Morian is 33 years old and weighs 450 pounds. His wife, who is 26 years, weighs 250 pounds. Mr. Morian said he was glad to get on solid foundation again. He was afraid, he said, to take exercise on board the ship, and as a consequence he gained 20 pounds during the trip. As there was no berth in the ship large enough for him to sleep In. a special berth was built in a cabin and adjoining the maiu saloon. A special seat was also pro vided for him In the dining room. After their baggage had been passed by the Customs Inspectors Mr. and Mr*. Morian went to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Jersey City, where they boarded a train for their home. Hlnrair Mattery llglitnlii*. Recent developments in train light ing with the storage battery as an Im portant adjunct warrant the belief that the electric light will at no distant day be universally used for iilumlnatlug day and sleeping coaches on all steam rallioads Not only la this true of the I'nited States, but one of the largest railway companies In Ragland is al ready equipping fifty of its day roar he* with dynamos and stor.ig-- batteries of a system which ha* been successfully tested for some months past, MrtIUH l.ut. riiu.r |.l | tuirl*. The liritlsh government is the owner of over S&.M0 camels. Several thou sauds are u»«d in India to carry *t„t, „ and equipment when the regiment* are 'hanging quarters by the Him of at ax eh S«mM HmsIi tfciMaen.ua. A Merita pbtsieiaa h«* wrttt*a aa article <m the iMugets resulting hum what ax* «. u* d*re | l*algnih*»,*»| • ouada |br lastaa.v, la II »..untg in the thumb, pe.maaeat diaahtitt/ fol.vssd ta It per seat uf the •*•■*
