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Interesting Bits of News from
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New Hotel for Boys Only Is Opened
BOYS vTv- jl
Cg- HOTEL M$ IT3
NEW YOUK. Tho only hotel In tlio
world exclusively for boys began
business In tills pity the other dny. '
Is nt Ixxlnston nvenuo und Ono Hun
.tired and Twonty-bovonth street. Fifty
boys are registered thoie already, and
there Is iooni for 100 more. The
minimum Kite Is $1.0." n week 15
cents ti day and that Includes, be
sides lodging, breakfast and supper,
bath and. .Jaundry. The most that a
juvenile plutocrat ono whose Income
Is, say, 51.50 a. week can spend there
is 10 cents a day. This Inci eased price
affords him tho luxury of greater priv
acya bedroom and a sitting-room
all for himself.
The handsome five-story flrepioof
hotel building and the ground on
which It stands representing an ex
penditure or about $150,000 in all
is due to tho generosity of a woman
who will not allow her name to bo io
vealed. Sho lurnlshed tho money for
tho establishment nnd equipping of the
enterprise, which will be maintained
by the Children's Aid society. This
home for boys, however, is a hotel
not a lodging house or a charitable
institution. It lias on its walls no
printed rules of conduct for tho guid
ance of its guests, any more than tho
Thaw's Trials Cost
U IN papers submitted to Justice Mills
1 at Newburg tho other day when ho
was asked for an older to show causo
why Harry Thaw should not bo
brought to this city for hearing on
the question of his sanity, tho ex
penses of tho trials so far hold hero
became known for the ilrst time. In
nil, the shooting of Stanford Whlto
. ha? cost Now York county $51,837.15.
y ji suvuiiu wuuhh HK" mo justice tie-
vM'i(ieu 10 noiu mo sauuy iiku ucioner
12 when ho Is sitting in Westchester.
Tho district attorney opposed tho
move, claiming tho action should be
brought to this county. In making his
Boy Steals Deadly Germs from Hospital
ENOUGH germs of dlsonsos to kill all
Now York If thoy wore let looso to
multiply were found by two venture
some but shaky detectives when thoy
broko In upon a boy of 11 years, who,
In his actlvo pursuit of bacteriological
knowledge, had stolen nnd was gloat
ing over dozens of glass slides.
Thoso llttlo transparent plates,
viewed by n person who didn't know
where tho boy scientist had purloined
them, would havo called forth only
tho remark: "Kind o dirty, hoy?
Need to havo thoso llttlo specks
'cleaned off."
Dirty specks! Tho man who said It
would havo turned gray with terror
had ho known that thoso pin-point
sized blotches wero bacilli of small
Mrs. Clarence Mackay Now a Suffragist
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joined tho Intorurban "Woman Suf
frage council a few days ngo. This
was hardly surprising In view of tho
fact that sho has been elected twlco
T. In (tin cr-linnl linnrrl nr Hnalvn ,. I..
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'. mill nus recently uiiuiuu n imsu iu
f tho public school pupils of that town
for tho beat essay on woman suffrage.
Still when sho appeared at tho suf
frage hoadqumtors at tho Hotel Mar
tha Washington nnd olgnifled hor do
slro to join there was n iluttor of In
torcst. Sho wroto hor namo on tho
members' book, paid her dollar nnd
then asked if thoro was anything sho
could do to help.
Sho was Interested In tho plans for
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tho bazar to bo held In November. Sho
had a bazar for a charity nt hor homo
a few years ngo at which $11,000 was
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of Gotham
Waldorf or tho St. Regis has. if a
guest makes himself obnoxious to the
others In the house ho Is politely re
quested to leave, Just as ho would bo
If he were older and lived In a hostelry
where rooms were six dollars a day.
"A youth up to IS years old is con
sidered a boy here," said Superin
tendent Abel C. Kenyon. "We have
some boys as young an ten years, but
there are few under 12. This place Is
designed to appeal to the homeless
oungster who wants to do something
for himself, no matter whether he is
city born or comes from tho country to
seek his fortune. Whoever he Is we
try to help hlm over the hard places.
Another object of this hotel Is to aid
the lads in building up good charac
ters, to show them what good conduct,
discipline, order and cleanliness mean
and what they sue worth. Every
thing. In fact, that goes toward the
making or a good man and a good citi
zen. 'I hat Is what we try to give In
addition to the hotel accommodations.
If we simply furnished cheap and clean
lodgings and food for boys and paid
no further attention to them we would
of course be doing something, but we
aim to do not only that, but a great
deal more. If a boy Is out of work we
try to help him get something to do."
Cleanliness Is insisted upon, though
n boy docs not know generally that he
is being forced to bathe. Hut tho In
iluouce of those around him and tho
firm and gentle guidance of tho super
intendent, added to the sumptuous
marble and njckol pinto of tho bnth
rooms, makes him want to strip nnd
get nailer the shower na soon as ho
gets his locker key.
County a Big Sum
motion ho said Thaw Is now suffering
from paranoia, and Is dangerous to
any community. He stated important
witnesses would not be able to ap
pear at the trial if it was held at
Westchester nnd that tho caso would
suffer. Tho expense, he said, would
bo much lnrgcr, and could not bo
borne by Now York county.
Ho mentioned to the justice tho cost
of tho trial here, saying stenographers
alone coat $7,2111.15 and alienists $21,
799.80. Mr. Jerome then went Into
detail as to what the physicians testi
fied and says nil sworo that Thaw
was a paranoiac, Incurable and dan
gerous to any community. Ono physi
cian, he says, was paid $3,102.50, and
he was not called upon to testify.
This nmount was paid for tho study of
diseases.
Continuing, tho district attorney de
clared n number of the witnesses were
out of tho state and that commissions
would havo to be appointed to take
this testimony. This, ho ssorted,
would add greatly to tho cost.
pox, typhoid fovor, diphtheria and tho
still deadlier typhus.
-Ambition to become, a great scien
tist hail so seized upon young Irving
JJeuton of Drooklyn'that ho was de
termined to get material for his
studios, no matter how he got it. His
mother Is a scrubwoman, earning so
poor a living tlint If cirrhosis cultures
wero on snlo nt bargain counters for
a (Unto n tubo she could not afford to
buy one atom for her boy.
So, handicapped by poverty, but de
termined to get material for study,
tho boy stolo It. Ho was arrested at
his home, whero ho had fitted up a
laboratory. Ho was working over n
culturo of typhus germs when tho de
tectives entered tho house.
At police' headquarters tho weeping
youth admitted that ho had stolen a
microscope, an X-ray machine nnd tho
bacteria slides, to equip himself for a
sclentltlc career.
Ho snld ho could not nfford to buy
tho apparatus nnd his doterminatlon
to study and his poverty drovo him to
tnko tho npparatus from tho labora
tory. cleared, and she said sho know what
It was to get up a bazar.
"Mrs. Mackay bollovos thnt woman
suffrage Is sure to como In tho United
States, and that it will bo a great
consorvntlvo force," said a woman to
whom sho explained hor reasons for
Joining the council. "She believes
that tho power of tho mothers-' voto
will bo a strong factor In tho futuro
development of American civilization.
"She believes It unjust that tho class
which gives tho best years of its Ufo
to tho caro and nurture and mental
and moral development of tho next
generation should havo no voto to ef
fect tho conditions which surround
that genorntion nnd tho laws which
protect Its Interests. It Is tho moth
er's sldo of tho question which np
peals to hor nnd forms tho ground on
which sho bases hor demand for tho
ballot."
Mrs. Mnckay will bo ono of tho
patronesses of tho bazar in November.
Good Substitute.
Customer (In book Btoro) Havo
you Danto's "Inforno?"
Clerk No, but I can give you
"Who's Who in Chicago." Life.
EX-MAYOR OF
l'hoto lijr JloiTcU Hluilln.C'lilcitKO.
Seth Low, mayor of Greater New York for the two-year term beginning
January 1, 1902, has a national reputation as an educator, being president of
Columbia University. He was mayor of Brooklyn from 1881 to 1385. Mr. Low
was a delegate to the Hague Pence conference In 1809; he io 53 years of age.
GO AFTER
ENGLISH COMPANY IS SEEKING
$2,500,000 IN GOLD.
Novel Machine Perfected by Which
It Iq Hoped to Recover Vast
Sum Known to Be In
Ocean's Depths.
London. To tho mouth of the River
Colne, off Urightllngsoa nn extraor
dinary machlno has been towed and
anchored. It Is to ho used in a final
nttempt to recover tho $2,500,000 treas
ure of gold, In coins nnd bars, which
is said to havo gone down in II. M
S. Lutlno In 1797 near tho island of
Tcrschelllng, off tho const of Holland.
A portion of tho treasure has been
recovered, but any ordinary dredging
plant is now useless, as tho vessel
has sunk into tho sand. Tho new
dovlco Is a great steel tube, nearly
100 feet In length and wide enough
to allow n man to walk erect down
its center. At ono end Is a metal
chamber provided with windows nnd
doors nnd at tho other a medley of
giant hooks and other tackle.
Tho npparatus has Just been com
pleted, nftor years of work by Forrest
& Co., shipbuilders, in their Wyveu
hoe yard.
"Ono end of tho tube," explained a
member of tho .firm, "will bo clamped
to the sido of a steamship or barge.
Tho other end, by means of watcr-bal-.
last tanks, will bo sunk until it
touches tho bottom. Then, by means
of compressed, air, all tho water will
bo forced from tho tubo 'ami' also from
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MAIL-ORDER COUPLE HAPPY.
Oklahoman Went 2,000 Miles to Wed,
"Sight Unseen."
Hobart Okln. Traveling 2,000 miles
to marry a girl whom ho had never
soqn, but whom ho had courted
through tho malls, Is tho oxporionco
of Ben M. Southern, a rural mall car
rier out of Mount Park, a small village
soutli of Hobart.
Five years ago Southern moved to
Mount Park from Dallas. Ho was 21
then, an honest and hard-working boy,
but unpolished nnd scarcely ablo to
read or write his own namo. His ad
mirable qualities attracted tho atten
tion of Grant Mitchell, tho only at
torney in tho village. Mitchell took
an interest In the lad from Texas, and
many tedious hours wero spent by
tho barrister in instilling into the
mind of his protege tho principles of
education.
Southern read in a Chlcngo matri
monial paper an offer to insert an ad
for a wife for any man who would
send them two dollars. Southern sent
in a money order for tho nmount, and
a week later tho paper found its way
Into tho homo of William Dutcher, a
retired contractor In Halottsvlllo, N.
Y. Bessie, young and pretty and tho
favorito daughter, rend tho ad. of tho
loncsomo Oklahoma youth. Dcsuto
took a dare nnd wroto hor first lotter.
This was tho beginning.
Tho parents gave tho consent to tho
marriage of their daughter providing
tho prospective groom proved all that
they had hoard of him. Would South
era como east? Certainly.
Southern stnrted east, arriving at
tho quaint old Now York town n fow
days later. Ho met tho approval of
tho parental eyo und tho mail-order
girl was married to tho mail-order
youth.
Southern returned to Oklahoma with
his brldo, who, although hut 1G and
unused to tho customs of tho world, Is
happy and content to spend tho re
mainder of her years In Oklahomn
with hat mail-order husband.
NEW YORK
TREASURE
the chamber at the bottom of it, which
will be Hush upon tho bed of tho son.
"Divers will walk down n stairway
In tho center of tho tubo until they
reach the submerged chamber. Hero
they will don their diving costumes,
nnd opening n series of wuter-tlght
doors will step straight out Into the
water. Engineers will bo stationed In
tho chamber, and following tho Instruc
tions of the divers, who will communi
cate with them by means of portable
telephones, they will opornto tho me
chanism of two powerful suction
pumps or dredgers which are lltted to
tho sides of the tube.
"These diedgers, it Is hoped, will
suck away the sand around tho sides
of tho heavy chamber until It gradual
ly sinks by Its own weight right down
on to tho deck of tho wrecked ship,
"Then the divers, making their way
from tho chamber to tho deck of the
ship nnd thenco to the hold, will he
ublo to transfer tho treasure from the
ship to tho chamber by easy stages."
"In connection with the attempted
salvage," an otllclal at Lloyd's ex
plained, "an arrangement exists whore
by tho salvors, if they do bring up
tho sunken treasure, will receive an
ndequuto roward for their arduous
work.
"Unllko many tnlos.of treasuio upon
the sea bed, thoro is no doubt at all
that the gold coins and ingots are In
tho hold of Iho Lutlno. Iloforo" 1Kb
ship, sailed upou hor Ill-fated voyage
a list was compiled of the bullion she
contained Tho work of salvage, how
over, promises to bo a tremendous
task.'' - '"'' i l'
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Long Street Railroad Tunnel.
A tunnel moro thnu a mile In length,
said to bo the longest In existence for
uso by a municipal electric railroad,
has been opened for operation by the
Genoa street rnllroad. It connects
Genoa with tho adjacent largo com
mune of Hlvnrolo, which previously
was reached by circling tho moiintnln,
tho dlstanco being now shortened 1 1-3
miles, and the trip is made in 15
minutes' less time. Construction be
gan Juno 1, 1905,
SCENE IN THE
Krom troorpti,cop7rlKlit, J Underwood & Underwood, N.T.
Filipino nlrln picking edible plants In a branch of the Paslg river near Manila.
FRUIT-EATING BATS
QUEER CREATURE FOUND IN THE
PHILIPPINES.
Returned Soldier Tells of Shooting
Combination of Dlrd nnd Beast
Unlike Anything He Had
Ever Seen.
Los Angeles, Oil. "I think tho hnrd
pst thing to kill In the Philippines Is
a Hying fox or fiult-eutlng bat. Thoso
fiult-eatlng bats como Hying over by
the thousands fiom tho Island of lias
salan to tho Island of Mindanao just
at sunset, and fly back between four
and live In the morning.
"I went out hunting with two ship
mates about two miles outside of Zam
boanga one day, and about three
o'clock In tho afternoon tho natives
took us to some ilce paddles, where,
about live o'clock, the doves nnd rlco
hens wero flying mound so thick wo
sat In one place and kept on shooting
till our shells were very near all
gone." says a returned soldier from
the Philippines.
"Just as we wero going to start
back to the ship a Mora told ono of
the Filipinos about nonic big birds
which roosted nt night In tho trees
close by. As near as wo could make
out It was some kind of a wild tur
key, so we concluded to try to get
one.
"While vn wero silting there wait
ing patiently for turkeys tho Moro
camp running up nnd pointed Into one
of tho big trees, nnd what did we see
but n big frult-enllng bat sailing
mound the tree. My two partners
weie disgusted over the funny turkeys
and wanted to start back, but I want
ed to get a bat and see what it looked
like.
"After wanting a box of shells 1
finally succeeded In breaking one's
wing. When ho came down he started
tn screech, or rather l don't know
what kind of a. nolso you would call
It, till we couldn't hear. I lilt him un
tho head with the gun barrel about
four times, and it didn't Bccm to
feazc him. Ono of tho Moros said no
wanted him for 'chew eat, so I blow
tho bat's head off and gavo It to him.
"These lints nro about tho slzo of a
half-grown cat in body, and this ono's
wings spread from tip to tip about
three feet. They havo a head Just
like a fox, and their bodies arc cov
eted with lino fur, something Uko a
muskiafii, hut not as thick. They
havo two hind legs with heavy claws
on them for hanging on trees, nnd
they also havo n hook on ench joint of
their wlngB, so they enn hang either
way.
"I examined this bat and found out
it had no stomach. I wanted to find
what they lived on, but all I could
find was water of tho fruit. I think
all they cat Is fruit growing wild in
the mountains.
"Their wings nro Uko flno rubber,
and you can 1111 them full of holes and
It won't fenzo them. If you hit them
bad in tho body they will Bail off and
drop so far away that you won't bo
ablo to find them.
"The only way to get them Is to
break a wing, or go whero they hang
In tho trees in tho daytlmo nnd kill
them with clubs. 1 never Baw them
hanging in tho trees in the day time,
but Boldlers told mo they saw them in
tho mountains hanging on trees, bo
thick thnt the brandies wore about
to bieak under their weight.
"Tho .iur bearers "out there don't
amount, to much. The only thing I
saw that might bo of any uso wns a
mo'iinFafn cat and thoso flying foxeB.
The-'iVedr hides liavo only got coarse)
linIr"onthcm, and they hnvfen't got n
nlco'PQltUke tho deer in tho states."
Unexpected.
Mrs. Gramorcy What do wo need
for dinner?
IJrldgot Sure, mum, Ol tripped over,
the rug nn' wo need a new sot of
dishes. Puck.
Table Luxury.
"How was tho table ut your summer
resort ?"
"Splendid! Never hnd such canned
goods In my life!" Life.
PHILIPPINES
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THE JOY OF
FORGIVENESS
Sunday School Lcuon for Oct. 25, 1908
CpoJally Arranccd lor This Paper
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lit t to liryniiil the iiiIiIiIIk nt tils rnlffn,
iiiiotit li c tail lui'iuiliiu; to (lio nmi-Kln
of out IIIIiIi-m. IIIh capital ami puluco
writ at .IcriitmlcMi. Iinxlit wun almost CO
vimim old, sMirri-mftil ns ii Ki'tii'riil nml n
r.llltl'HIIHIII Till' lllltllllt- (if till' l'HIlltll W'llH
pi-olmlily O.ivlil, with poHHllilc mlilltlniiH
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i'iimIiuih, un uflcii nee urn In our liyuiliM.
IM.ACi: .IctiiHiiti'in.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
Some time in David's later life, look
lug back fiom the llculah laud heights
of the icstoted favor of God, as tho
Prodigal Son after ho had returned
Io his father's home and love, King
David puts into n hymn his own ox
peilenco for the comfort and encour
agement of nil who havo iilnnud anil
long to be resloied to their fnthor's
home nnd heart. For like Adam and
Kvo. he hud been driven out of Para
dise for disobeying God, and tho
llamlng cherubim had kept hlm from
(ho Tree or Life. Hut he had at last
found the waters of lest and tho greeu
pastuies of forgiven sin. So ho ulngs:
V. I. "Mlessed." The word here, as
In Phii. 1:1 and Prov. a: 111, Is In tho
plural, Oh the blessednesiies of him
whose, etp, "to denote the most sit
pn'ine mid pei feet bleititedness," and
"Io express the manifold naturo of tho
blessedness, tit all times, fiom nil
noiirceB, In all ilepaitnients of life,
In all. circumstances; blessed In body
and In soul, In time and In eternity."
'Transgression . . . iiln . . . Iniqui
ty" (2). "Sin Is hero (as In Kx. !M:7)
spoken of under three appellations,
so as (o Include the whole Idea of sin
In all Itii manlfestntlons." Perowne.
"Forgiven," That Is given away,
removed. "This Is, according to tho
Hebrew conception, tho taking up of'
transgression ns a burden, a heavy (
load, resting upon tho tinner, and
.hearing it away from hlm to a plnco
whero It will trouble him no moro."
O. A. Iliiggs, In Int. Crlt. , Com.'
"Covered," so ns to htdo it nnd oh- '
literate It. "It is commonly used in
coiiiu.'ctlon with sacrifices, as staining
and defiling the divine altars, wns
coveted over by the application to
them of tho blood of tho victim of tho
sin olTeiing." Prof. C. A. Hrlggs.
V. 2. "Iinputoth not." "Docs not es
timate, consider, or think of in con
nection with the sinner." Professor
Hrlggs. "In whose spirit there is no
guile," no deceit, "who concenls his
sin neither from God nor himself."
Pi of. S. H. Driver. Other Iilblo words
for forgiveness nro remit, send away,
destroy, wash away, cleanse, make
them ns If they had never been.
V. .1. "When 1 kept silence." Try
ing to hide his sin; refusing to ac
knowledge It to himself, to others, or
to God. ".My bones (tho most solid
and enduring part of his body) waxed
(became Increasingly) old." Exhaust
,0(1, enfeebled, worn out. Tho secret
sin wore him out anil madu him sick.
"Through my roaring all tho day
long," "The llguro Is drawn from tho
loud nnd unrestrained outcries of ono
sufforlug Intolerable und unremitting ...
pain. Ho wns enduring, nn . agony . .
which1 forced from him Bobs and -gronns
that ho could not stifle." W.
II.. Green. - $ r
"A sin concealed Is Uko nr-hidden
flro. It eats Into tho very life." Van
Dyko. . jc
"Tho Spartan boy hid tho fox bo
ncnth his coat, ami denied tho theft
until ho dropped dead, tho fox all
tho while gnawing at his vitals. David
felt tho gnawing of romorso, nnd It
wns enting out his heart." Dr. W. K.
Harton.
V. -1. "Thy hand was henry upon
mo." "God would not Icnvo him to go
on in sin. God's hand wns heavy upon
him In chastisement in order to bring
hlm Into a better mind, ns n father
chastises his child in lovo (Hob. 12:0
11.)" "Not merely by its pressure of
weight; but, as tho context Implies,
henvy because of heavy strokes Binlt
Ing him ngnin nnd again with his pow
erful hand, so ns to mnko hlm ronr
with tho ngony of suffering." Prof. C.
A. Ih legs.
"My moisture" (v. 4), otc. This
sentence Professor Hrlggs translates:
"I was changed (from a formor condi
tion) Into mlsory ns when thorns
smlto me." Tho blows of God's linnds
aro very appropriately compared with
tho Binltlng of tho body with thorns,
ns when Gideon taught tho cldora of
Succoth with thorns and briers (Judg.
8:10.)
V. C. "I acknowledged my sin." Wo
havo Been nbovo how tho bitterness
of concealment and tho reproof of tho
prophet led David to tako this stop.
'Sin . . . iniquity . . . transgres
sions." Tho threo forms of sin men
tioned In vs. 1, 2. "Acknowledged . .
. not hid . . . confess." Tho threo
words expressing tho completeness
nnd thoroughness of tho confession.
Nothing was withhold.
Forgiveness.
1. Wo nil need forgiveness, for sin
keops us from nearness to God; wq. ,
cannot look him In tho face.
2. Forgiveness takes away tho bar
rier between us and God. It is1 a
restoration to God'B family.
3. I-'orglvoncss Includes tho wash
ing away of Bin and tho lovo of sin.
It will bo remembered no more,
4. Forgiveness, whether by God or '
man, does not romovo nil tho conso-
quenceB of sin, nt least immediately;
but it does romovo tho punishment of
eln in tlmo; it docs Immediately tako
away its blttereat stltiQ',
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