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Here was a place where most men would have considered discretion the better part of valor. Here was a change for compromise in externals for the sake of saving one's life. Here was the supreme test of their characters. They might have made excuses for themselves to their own minds and to God. and have wor shiped the golden image. They did neither. They were true .TewB. They served the God of Israel, who had said unto His people by the mouth 3f Moses the deliverer and law-giver, "Thou shalt not bow down unto them nor serve them." Therefore, they stood erect when tho sound of "all kinds of music" made the multitude fall down. And standing, they are monuments to moral heroism. Heroism has great value In life and m Is varied. Without it we could not make much, if any progress. A man may be aa a prophet In his percep tion and comprehension of divine truth, but if he lack heroism his pow ers are largely unavailable to society. Conviction needs courage to become living force. It Is one thing to have a vision, and another to declare it. It is one thing to have knowledge, and another to expound It. It is one hlng to have a valid and substantiat ed opinion, and another to state It. It is one thjng to detect sham and sin, and quite another to unmask them. The world is full of men who could do evil to the death In many a place did they only dare. But it Is o mani festly one thing to know the truth and another to stand up for it and to proclaim it. The value of heroism cannot be de nied. With It Moses faced the terrors and the torments of the desert and Ihe threatenlngs of the wandering people of God. With It Isaiah and the prophets assailed mighty sin In the name of Almighty God. With it Columbus sailed the wide, uncharted seas, and discovered America to a ready world With it Luther hurled defiance to the machinations of Ro man ecclesiasticlsm and marked an epoch In the majestic march of man hood toward our present liberty of thought. With it the heroes of Val ley Forge kept the faith for civil lib erty and under the impulse of its spirit the slave was freed. Without It Jesus would never have become our vlour. Valuable as heroism Is, It Is not less varied. For heroism Is Individ ual and social, physical and moral, lustrous and humble. The men of Lexington and Santi ago, of Trafalgar and of Waterloo, the heroes of Hebrew history and of the Crusades, the hosts who followed Napoleon or Wellington or Washing ton or Stonewall "Jackson or any of the famous captains of armies, an cient or modern, are examples of what we may term physical social heroism. Many were the instances of humble, individual moral courage dis played by soldiers serving under all these military geniuses. And yet, In tho last analysis, their heroism wob that of brute strength let loose and dependent, as much ns upon anything, upon the flags, nnd the fanfare, and the smell and sight of blood, and the crowd moving together to the battle for Its Inspiration and its sustenta tion. It is not my purpose to insin uate tha: even under these conditions It is an easy thing to faro forth to try conclusions with fate. But in comparison with the pluck needed to do many another deed it is easy. There is, too, an Individualistic, lnsirous heroism which Is even leBS trying and exaoting. He is a hero, I care not who he may be, who will lead a willing army on to a tight where victory Ib sure, or who will point the way to a moral victory to men who are with hltn and Vho sight the same truth that he sees. Kor many a man has lacked the heroism to lead even though the skies were full of portents of success. It is so much easier to relinquish the respon sibility or 1 ladarahlp to another. Officers are marked men. We must admit a great measure of physical heroism In the action of the man who will test his strength against the wild animal that would take his life. It takes nerve as well as muscle to meet a bully who richlv needs and deserves a thrashing, and make him eai the du-ii. But in tho category of heroic virtues thesu are the least. At this time I would call your at tention to the heroism? which we have and need In our dallv life, the heroisms of the humble, moral host who constitute the mulnstav of this land and who are the backbone of America, the men and women and chlMr ID who It, art inconspicuous, but MM the lew efficient , fashion, give themselves as living sacrifices upon the altar of devotion to God and home and country. I would have you agalu remember if you have been so un gracious as to forget the offerings of that countless host of simple, homely , Pople who daily live for the common good and tha public weal. I would call to your attention the leaders of our day who. In the face of sin and of opposition and of militant and Im perious self-satisfaction, are effecting the salvation of America and teaching her peoplo how to help themselves. For we have much heroism of this - '. In this land. 1. 1 more It Is easy In a way to fall into ii.i 1 hnd to murch down to the war wliei the summons comes and '.be music plays and the people cheer and wi know that death will earn us death less, though perhaps not Individual, fame. But what Is the courage of tho loader or the soldier in the front line of the fierce fight to that of the toller who, day by day, works and plans and slavsa and lives that children may be reared and prepared far life and the bom he kept Intact? That father yonder who, from sunrise to sunset, day In and day out, In health ami sickness, when sail or glad, tolls for vlfe and family; Is be not heroic? That mother, witn ner rieaniy brood of six, the sole manager and dispenser of a priiiceiy, gross sa'ary of $10 a week, up with, or before, the first streaks of the earliest da7, resting only when all are sleeping, cooking, washing, nurBing. caring for them, with smiles for each and tenderness for nil. staggering beneath a burden more than man has dared to bear, who shall deny her praise? That widowed mother, with a flock and a pittance; that child who alone sup ports a home; that maiden who Is pure and sweet upon wag's that are criminal before the living God. who shall deny the sublimity of their humble heroism? To my mind the heroism of the plain people, who have little but who serve so much, to whom life offers such a meager portion but who make it go so far, is a most sublime, as It Is a most compelling, fact of human life. I can conceive of nothing harder, day by day, to arise to face the Impenetra ble wall of hardship ami of approxi mate poverty which dominates tho horizon of so many lives. I can pic ture nothing more unutterably tin bearable than, day by day. to be com pelled to undergo the refined slavery that is unquestionably characteristic of so much of our modern life. To desire to live In the faco of it, to de cide to struggle ngalnst It, to hope even against hope, to live and to love, to get a little and to give a little, to retain and to augment the diviner characteristics that alone differentiate humanity from the beast, to plan for posterity and to have faith In God In the midst of the relative riches that constitute the poverty of our ttmcjs, is heroic. We should ;!innk Got! for the heroism of those among us who have so little and who live so largely, in proportion as they have capacity and opportunity, for the common weal. We should thank God that they are faithful, that they know how to live simply, that they are moral. For If ever the men and women who are the burden-bearers In the world's work become saturated with the vices, the follies and the fallacies concerning life that infest the minds of those who constitute the topmost nnd the nethermost strata of Society, tho world will have short shrift. Another sort of heroism that we must never fail to remember and con sider and to which we pwe much, Is that moral heroism among the polit ical and religious leaders of the coun try that is increasingly obvious and actively at work. For that heroism Is real. The forces of unrighteousness are Intrenched. The army of greed at any price is already in the Held. The plunderers of the public are as busy as the vultures that prey upon the dend. The camn followers who are out for petty graft are busily at Work. The sleek. lelf-satlsfled captains of political and commercial piracy are at tho front. They are all the more dangerous because they have per suaded themselves that they are sin cere, that the benefits they have un doubtedly been Instrumental in bring ing to society excuse and justify the rapacity of which they haw been and to-day are guilty. They scorn gov ernment, they laugh at law, they off at the rising tide of popular disap proval. Their special pleaders are hired, their subsidized papers ure already bought, many of their books are burnt. They invite the test and even dare to threaten. In pulpit and In pew, on the forum and In halls of learning, wherever there Is an Itching palm or a callous heart there their chamolons may be found. It Is need less for me to expand the story by telling you of the governments, mu nicipal and state, that they may al most be said to own. the legislatures that they have bought or have tried to buy, of tho defiance that they throw into the very teeth of adminis trative officers who with honesty and singleness of purpose attempt to bring them to account. We are face to face with no theory. We are confronted with the l.-.ost un palatable facts, when everything is considered, with which any nation has ever had to deal. There Is no use In waiting for a declaration of hostil ities. The war is already on. Tho enemy Is in the field. Heroism is roquired to go up against him for "the sake of our cities nnd for the people of our God." Heroism has al ready been shown. It has already cost some met. dear. Tho dictum Is to pulpit and press, to politician and statesman, to the financial and the business orld. to labor and to capital, to the world at largo: We have erected our golden image, it suit us, bow down ir be con sumed. And woe betide the man with the information and the heroism nec essary to refuse to bow. Men have re fused. They have bean consumed. The thrMt to-day is bow down or be ruined. Touch us not lost tho country die. Forsooth we shall re frain to eradicate the vermiform ap pendix of financial and commercial ami political indecency and disease because of the shock to the patient. Thank God we have men of heroism nt hand, men who have wisdom, who have the hand and the nerve and the experience and the wisdom to disobey our modern Nebuohadnezzars and to operate. And they will not be burnt. Their heroism will not spell their death. It will not Invite disaster. It will save the patient from uglier ills and worse torments. The sort of heroism that can live humbly In the contemplation of such evil with trtis; in God and confidence In the heroism of the leaders that are called Is the sort that has made America a power. The heroism that remains steadfast and faithful in the face of regnant wrong is tho heroism that illuminates her history. She has much of It. She needs more of It. It should be rewarded. It should have our support. We should have It. For It Is the heroism of tho Christ. REVIVING A TIRED HONEY EEB. The hoaey bee Is .proverbially In dustrious. When everything goes well with it, no form of nnimal life has more vigor, works more zealous ly, nor defends its homo more orave ly. But tha bee soon loses its activ ity when separated from Us home so that It cannot return, as, for example, when it gets into a room and falls to find its way out. Cold rain or lack r.t food also soon nut it in,. . ..ki.. ! or exhausted condition, making It uppcar as u 11 were discouraged. But nearly all of It usual activity may be restored by a little sugar of honsy, From "Nature and Science," In at! Nicholas. I VTI'lt NATTOXAIi LESSON COM-Ml-: NTS FOR OCT 13 HV THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. ECONOMICS. The Coming Quest "I understand you charge a dollar and a bait a day for a room. When I was here In De cember you only charged a dollar a day." The Landlady "Ah, but the days ( are longer now." Harper's Weekly. Subject: Israel Enter" (be land of Promise, Josh. :l:.VI7 Golden Text, P. 107:7 Memory Verse, 17 Commentary. In accordance with the promise of God. Israel enters the land of prom ise. Under the direct and marvelous manifestation of Ood's providence they cross the Jordan and stand within sight of the walls of Jericho. Joshua's words, ns given In the fifth verse of our lesson, compel our attention. "Sanctify yourselves, for to-morrow the Lord will do wonders among you." It Is a call to conse cration because God Is to work won des among thorn nnd because God will not manifest Himself, and can not, except tbey are prepared. Th dedication of themselves was followed as we see by a transcendant manifestation of the providence and potency of God. The rite of sancttfi cation was fitting. Isrnel was upon the threshold of a new experience. She was about to enter Into a new life. The hopes of generations, the promises of centu ries were about to be consummated. It wnB a solemn time. The day was momentous. History was In the mak ing. Joshua was aware of It. Tne wandering multitude must have been impressed by it. A new epoch was about to begin. A nation was com ing to its own. To-day, the wilder ness. Its memories, its hardships, its discouragements, the vision of a promised inheritance! To-morrow, Jordan passed, hopes realized, prom ises fulfilled, memories translated In to hopes. It was a mighty moment. It was proper that they should be peculiarly prepared. It was right that they should be Impressed by the greatness of the occasion. The event was too tremendous not to be sol emnized nnd signalized by a special ceremony. The God who had led them so far, so patiently, so decisive ly, was entitled to the dedication and the thanks of all Israel. They had to consecrate themselves because God was about tcj exalt them, because the manifestation of Jehovah's power was Impossible without their submis sion entirely to His will. So it has ever been. So will It ever be. No man and no nation has enjoyed the revelation of the pleni tude of the power of God except the Individual or national will has been subordinated to the dictates of Di vinity. And no person or people will ever experience a satisfactory knowl edge of the Inspiring providence of God except the personal or popular volition be subjected to the mandates of the mind of God. Whenever and wherever persons or peoples sanctify themselves before God, acknowledg ing their indebtedness to Him, recog nizing their obligations under Him, pledging their faith In undivided loy alty to Him, then and there God has ever manifested Himself and done wonders. And what time men or na tions In future determine to thank God and to hall Him and to serve Him then will Jehovah manifest Him self mightily. Israel has proved it. America has proved It. It is to be hoped that America will demonstrate the truth agnln. For along the highway of human progress America has traveled under the espionage of God to national greatness. We have triumphed over difficulties and been victorious over oppositions and gone through dis tresses and afflictions and despair. We are now upon the border of a larger progress and of an Increased national prestige. No man of vision can fall to discern in the signs of the times limitless opportunities for the development of our national re sources In money and men. in Influ ence and character. The achieve ments of America of to-day are but slight adumbratlous of the glories that may be hers In coming years if she will, as she stands on the thres hold of nobler things, sanctify her self In spirit and In truth. We cannot be fit for larger useful ness except we are right with God and dedicated to Him. Jehovah can not utilize us more until we Bubject ourselves to Him. In order that we shall be ready for service and prepared for tho further ance of the projects of the Almighty as they concern America we must pay heed to the command of Joshua to IsraeJ as given in the ninth verse of the" lesBon we are studying: "Come hither and hear the words of the Lord your God." For we cannot build without plans and specifications a building that shall be durable and beautiful. We cannot do God's work until we hear God's message. To serve efficiently we must hear the captain's orders. If we would labor for God we must listen to God. Much of the leadership of America llsteus little to God. In the measure that we have a leadership that is deaf to divine directions, we are mis led, we are handleaped. For pro gress Is only possible when we are in harmony with the will of God. We cannot know God's mind except we listen to God's voice. The task that God has delivered to America, the future that He has pre pared for ber, Is too great to be ac complished without His Inspiration, His direction, His sustentation. America's future Is cut after a divine pattern. Only Divinity can effect Its realization. Only that humanity that is surcharged with divinity will ever enjoy the vision of it. Let us there fore listen to the word of the Lord our God and with sanctified souls go on and up until this land shall be in deed God's country and the future of our fatherland shall be secured. "Papers" Room With Oyster Shells, Among the oyster enthusiasts who patronize a Seventh street establish ment Is a queer customer, who cuts at least three dozen raw primes a duy. After satisfying his appetite the inuu asks one of tho waiters to wrap up the shells for him. The first few times be did this the waiter did not question him. but finally curiosity got the better of the waiter; and when the patron next made the request the waiter asked, good naturedly, "What in the name of senses do you do with the old oyster shells?" "Why." re plied the customer, "I have a mania for queer furnishing, and I use the shells to paper my room. Every wall Is shells from floor to ceiling. There are spaces here and there which are filled with pictures of the sea, sailing vessels, and ao forth, and my celling Is almost covered with starfish. The floor of my room Is carpeted with tar paulin, and I have curtains of ship rope. When I was a boy I followed the sea, and I like to have things con cerning 11. constantly around me. Pass the horseradish, please." Philadel phia Record. Membership .In the Church (John 15: 1-8. Passages for reference: Rom. 12: 4. 5; 1 Cor. 12: 12-28; Rev. 21: 27. Tho church Is irot a perfect organ isation of perfect people. Judas, the traitor, Peter, the coward, turncoat. John, tho heart-cooled lover, were all members of tho first one organlzoc'. by Jesus, ft Is composed of peoplo doing their host to fellow Jesus, not ashnnnnl of a felt need of his help nnd tho encouragement of a brother's hnnd. and proud to wear his name ns their loader. Joining tho church brings us out Into a clear stand and thus helps burn the bridges behind, so that It Is not ensy to go back on Christ. It shows tho choice of. and Identifies personal Interests with, good company. The purpose, rjf the church Is to enable ns to bear Christ's fruits In a vineyard whoso Husbandman Is definitely known. If we are outside of membership the world may con clude that the "fruits" are tho re sults of "ethics," ''science and health." "will power," or what-not. Christ neods us as the vine needs branches: without us ho cannot show the world what sort of fruit can bo grown In ordinary human lives. Tho rhurch of the right sort will have perfect unity. Having a com mon life, they will have common In terests as dries the Ideal family. If selfishness or Jealousy comes In, tho Indlvldunl harboring It will suffer There must be love if there Is ft fruitful life. Worldllnoss. valueless friendships, over-engrossment In busi ness, may be useless shoots which the Husbandman may desire to cut off. If one does not get along with foil: there Is something wrong with the personal life. If we are pnrt of the vine we will be Joining hands close ly and gladly with nil the other branches to bear fruit. If one Is not Interested In the church and Its ac tivities, there Is a blight at work which will make of that person a withered brnnch. Search for It ns the gardener does for the tomato worm that eats off all the blossoms A healthy religious life will manifest Itself by Interest In all religious things as surely as good health shows Itself In the child by a desire to play. CKflHEKuil NATES Not Man's Work. Moonlit and springtime moods all to the contrary, the fact remains that marriage is not man's work, but one of his deArest delusions, fro: 11 which he parts begrudglngly. More over, It Is not even necessary to him In the accomplishment of those things which are his work. It is generally no more than his dream of prolonging through years a humanly Improbable condition. Happiness as a husband nnd father has always been his scarce ly whispered prayer, his dearest se cret hope, toward which all his Ideal Ism yearns. That numerous other and very potent motives enter Into men's hearts Is not In the least over looked; it Is only claimed that to the average man his future marriage is little more than a very beautiful dream. Anna A. Roberts, In the Atlantic. OCTOBER THIRTEENTH. Topic Remember eternity! 1 John 2: 15-17, 24, 23. Judgment in eternity. Acts 17: "0, M. Judged by Christ's word. John 12: 47-no. Separation in eternlt Mat', tit 47-49. Rewards and punishment:-!. I.f.;e 16: 22-26. An eternal homo. John 14: 1-4. Life everlasting. Gal. 6: 7. 8. The love of this world may easily pass Into an ilolatrv, taking tho place of tho love of God who made this world (v. 15). Let there be no soilness In the thought that this beautiful world li passing away, for It boos only that a world far more lovely may 00:110 (v. 171. Tho foundation of all pormanonro Is tho word of God, end whoever Is built thereon shall never be moved (v 24). f eternal life were a task to be ncMevod. it would be a honeloss tusk; but It Is a promts, to be re ceived (v. 25). Suggestions. Vo man can set before himself a loftier ambition than to live worthily of bis own Immortality. Wo show bv our reluctance to die how profoundlv we value the gift of this temporal life; what, then, should be our dolht In etornnl life? Tt Is a wise plan to set apart a few minutes at tho beerlnnlne of every day to think nbout the endless years, nnd how the day may help to get I ready for them. There are two comrade thoushts which are tho greatest that a man can cherish. One Is eternity; tho other Is Christ. Illustrations. If you expected tn go to France to-morrow, you would be preparing for your journey. How are you mak ing ready for that sure Journey to the next world? Count every drop In the oceun. nnd let each of them all represent a cen tury: still you will not have begun en count the reaches of eternity. Eternity Is like a sun, even now In the sky, but not yet risen over n mountain. We may climb the moun tain and see It. Even n page Is Important tt h" heralds, an emperor; nnd thus ' the smallest moment heralds eternity. Originals. Tea came originally from India. Sugar came from China. Yeast bread was made first in England. To bacco was a common weed, first grown by the IndlanB tn Virginia. Forks for eating were first usod In Italy. They were needed for rolling up macaroni. Gunpowder was used by the Chinese shortly after the death of Christ. Mirrors with silvered backs were Invented by Praxiteles 228 years before Christ. The bac ks of our mirrors of to-day are paintei! with u composition, a miserable cheap stuff that soon peels off. II luminuUug gas was Invented In Eng land in the eighteenth century. The original waterground corn moal was -au Invention of Bellsarlus when Rome was besieged by the Qoths lu 555. New York Press. he per lute Than the Doctor's. A few years ago, on Sutter street, in San Francisco, an ambitious young Japunese had a little store stocked with goods Imported from his native land, in his show window was a stack of decorated mush bowls, und leaning against their frout was a cardboard sign bearing In steucilled I letters this announcement: "Pine bowels, titty cents a set" Llppiu-cott's. The Qnrcn of Chess. Mrs. Balrd, who has been called "The Queen of Chess," has published 1200 chess problems, and no woman has eclipsed the position which she holds In the chess world. She pos sesses about fifty prizes recured In open competitions, and of them she has said: "These are the product of a combination of labor and recrea tion. I say labor because I am not such a chess enthusiast as to believe that problems to stand the public test can be produced without persistent application, partaking of the nature of work, and recreation because the work has been a pleasure how great a pleasure only a problem composer can fully realize." Mrs. Baird's father, mother and two brothers share her enthusiasm for chess. She has other recreations. Including arch ery, tennis and cycling. Kansas City Journal. Take Your Choice. Who shall say which is the proper way for a woman to ride a horse, cross-saddle or side-saddle? There are advocates of both methods, but the Eastern eye twinkles with humor at some of the Incongruities of the Western methods. A young man of Boston took up life In a Colorado town next door to a dear old lady of seventy. She was of the patient, do mestic type, with smoothed, parted hair, knitting or darning always In her bands as she peacefully rocked the hours away on her front porch. The young Bostonlan watched her thus and made sentimental con jectures about the sad Inertia of her declining days and the helplessness of old age. But when the morning work was done, knitting laid aside and dinner eaten, this gay girl put on divided skirt and sombrero, called a pony, lightly threw a leg over the Mexican saddle and loped off to see t friends. Woman's World. Chinese Girl to Attend College. Chinese women who have been ed ucated in America will receive a dis tinguished recruit when Miss May Liang Cheng, the only daughter of Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, the Chi nese Minister to the United States, re turns to her native land. Miss Cheng is a particularly bright young woman and has attracted much attention in Washington. It Is announced that the piquant little Celestial maiden will be educated in Barnard College, although It is said Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., is a possible candidate for the honor of instilling the Ideas of Western civilization In the pretty Miss Liang's head. Wells College is tho alma mater of LI Hung Chang's grandduughter, Miss LI, now Mra. Blen. Miss Cheng is under sweet sixteen and dresses In Oriental style, as becomes the daughter of the Chi nese representative to this country. She speaks English and has shown marked ability in music, says the Broadway Magazine. The Minister has a Bummer home In the diplomatic colony at Amherst, Massachusetts, al though It Is unofficially announced that he will return to China for a period of mourning prescribed by the customs as a mark of respect for his recently deceased mothar. In that event he will be succeeded by Liang Tun-Ten. taotal of customs at Tien tsin, a Yale graduate, and Mlsc Liang will be left to complete her education In charge of Mrs. Kwal, wife of the secretary of the legation. seem so, after these statements. Un luckily for the statistician, the name girl may bo seen to-day In Germany, In England, Ireland. Scotland, France, Italy, Austria. Northern women arc of splendid physique. The truth Is that the feminine movement Is world wide " TI10 Woman of To-Day. Writing on the subject, "Is Thera an American Type of Feminine Beau ty?" In Everybody's, James Huneker says: . "Twenty-five years ago blonde women (real blondes) were far from rare; a careless observer can see at the present that American women In pigmentation are becoming darker. Up In New England, out In certain parts of the West, the thin, nervous, plain-featured, earnest, underfed and overworked female was In the ma jority. Her voce reached ub across picket fences, her hand was in overy pie. Above all, she sang In church on Sundays! When Mr. James and Mr. Howells began to write pf her she was already vanishing. Where has she gone? You encounter Isolated specimens to-day; and her feminine contemporaries make mock of her queer bonnot and her Puritan con science. "Every decade Is adding Its quota of derangement of the normal na tional woman as we once saw her. What has become of this average American woman? Where Is the waist of yeuter-yearT Women's hands and feet are larger; the skel etal formation Is said to be bigger. They are not afraid of the winds that tan, tho sun that freckloB. Ttssy motor and goff; tbey swim, row, wrestle. They play Chopin, despite all these things mlrablle dlctu! They stand the strain of college study, and there see ran to be no marked din million In the birth-rate. They are taller, broader of chest, and their eye Is as soft as thoir mother's (for the happy chap, of course). Is there an American type?. It weald English Women. I am an American tourist, not of the wealthy variety which comes here every year, but a man who is making the tour of his life. The greatest surprise I have ever had In my life Is the appearance of your women over hero. Their beauty, elegance and smartness Is a revela tion to me. The fact of the matter Is that we Americans are so fed up on a lot of bunkum In regard to our women that we honestly believe there is nothing worth seeing In that line outside U. S. A. After cruising around pretty exten sively this summer I say without hesi tation that London beats the world with her women. The surprise Is not so much that they are good looking; It Is generally admitted that English won en take the palm for regular, delicate features and for good com plexions; but It Is their dress and genoral get-up, their style, chic, or whatever you choose to call It. Since I came here I also notice that the American women have gone off on a wrong tack in the matter of dressing. Their style is too stiff, too artificial. The finished product, such as repre sented by the London women of to day, is more attractive than anything that can be seen In any city in Amer ica. G. F. ; a letter evidently written In tho offlce of the London Event' News. What Women Do For a Living. That the 4,000.000 women workers In the United States are engaged in no less than 292 distinct occupations will be surprising news to some, says Marper s Weekly. No women, natur ally, are reported as United States Boldiers, sailors or marines; nor were any reported as members of the fire deportment, or as Btreet car drivers (though two were reported as motor men), or as telegraph or telephone linemen, or as apprentices or helpers to roofers and slaters, or as helpers to steam boiler makers or to brass workers. But tho reader may note with interest, and perhaps with some astonishment, that five women are employed as pilots; that on steam railroads ten were employed as bag gagemen, thirty-one as brakemen, seven as conductors, forty-five as en gineers and firemen, and twenty-six as switchmen, yardmen and flagmen; that forty-three were carriage and hack drivers; that six were reported as ship carpenters, and two as roofers and slaters; that as many as 185 were returned as blacksmiths, end COS as machinists; that eight were boiler makers; that thirty-one -vere char coal, coke and lime burners; and that eleven were well borers. Qf course these figures have little significance beyond Indicating that there-are fow kinds of work from which the female sex Is absolutely debarred, by cither nature, law or custom. There were 125 occupations employing over 100") women each, and sixty-three employ ing over 5000. From the Reader: The killing of people on railways continues to make a horrible record. Rather more than a death for every hour of the day and ten persons maimed for every sixty minutes is something a people not seared against slaughter should find to trouble sleep until It Is remedied. Every ninety minutes there Is a colli sion or derailment. During a year there Is one of these accidents for every sixteen miles of track. Of em ployes or railways one out of every twenty-eight Is Injured every year, and one out of every 371 Is killed. If this Is true of railway employes In general, the risk In the more hazard ous branches of the business must be terrific. If the people killed and maimed were placed along the track age of the United States at regular In tervals, there would be a fresh grave every twenty-one miles, every year, and a cripple every two or three miles. In twenty-one years the gravestones would become milestones, tf thw slaughter goes on, and the maimed would be within an ordinary city block of each other along every mile of right of way. Such battles as Bull Run. Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Get tysburg fill us with horror and con sternation, as we hear or read of windrows of slain, streams running red to the sea and the sickening waste of human life. But for the year end ing March 81, 1906, the railways of the United States killed and wounded 95,801 people, while the killed, wounded and missing of both Confed erates and Federals for tho battles of Gettysburg. Shiloh and the first bat tle of Bull Run all combined amount to the less heart breaking total of 92,300. The worst (or best) of it Is that other nations run their railways without this dally carnage. Why do t we? WORDS OF WISDOM. The Unking of the Green. Many years ago there was observed a unique custom in the ittle town of Guilford, Connecticut. On one day in the fall of the year the women of the town assembled on the village green. Each carried a wooden rako, decorat ed with her favorite color, and each was dressed In white, decked out with colored ribbons. It was a day of fete, and It was called "The Raking of the Green. " Then with song and laughter and with many a Jest this band of women cleaned the village green of all the leaves and refuse and dirt of a year's accumulation. When the Job was done, they adjourned to the Town Hall, where they were joined by their husbands and brothers and the vil lage fathers. A public banquot cele brated the occasion. While this was not the first char tered Village Improvement Associa tion In the country. It was probably at that time the most enthusiastic, and had perhaps the largest attend ance. New Haven, Connecticut, can rightly claim the flrBt effort In vil lage Improvement, while Stockbrtdge, Massachusetts, should be remembered as offering the second. More than a hundred years ago James HUlhouse, of New Haven, or ganized what he called the "Public Green Association." He raised $1500 for grading the green and for plant ing elms. One man is said to have donated five gallons of rum for this purpose. James HUlhouse was also United States Senator for twenty years. Almost every one had for gotten what be did at Washington, but no one is likely to forget his ser vices In making the city of New Haven classic by the beauty of na ture's Gothic architecture. The whole country owes him a debt of gratltuda that can only be paid by planting elms In his memory. H. D. Ward, in Woman's Homo Companion. People good enough for self-government have it. The olH world may be wrong, but It cannot be righted In a day. Independence tn men or In nations t Is an achievement, not a bequest.- There is only one thing worth j fighting for, and that Is freedom. Humanity enjoys more freedom to- day than ever before since the world began. Every government exists by the consent of the goyerned, and peoplo get about the kind of government ; they deserve. If some men had not questioned the justice of the law and defied the 1 law, there would be to-day no such I thing as freedom. j The law in America Is for the peo- pie, of the people, and by the peo- pie, and when this la not the case ; the people are themselves to blame. Wo are all Just getting rid of our , shackles. Listen closely anywhere, even among the honest and intellect ual people, and you can detect the j rattle of chains. For the first time in the history, of the world, it Is the general feel I lng of mankind that freedom of thpught and speech Is a good thing, and that the masses can safely be trusted with it. I No power is great enough to bind 1 the mind thought forever escapeB. I Give civil liberty to all, not by ap- proving all religions, but by permit ting In patience what Providence al ; Iowb. From "Thoughts on Liberty," j by Elbert Hubbard, in Llpplncott's. Bacteria in Milk. Still more Important than the mere 1 carriage of dirt or filth, stands the j power of milk to give lodgment and j nutrition to tho bacterial hosts. I These bodies are about us every where, lurking In the dust of the wlndow-slll, floating In the sunshine, 1 lying on the ground; they exist in ; such countless hordes that words like billion or qulntilllon utterly fall ot significance when the number in an I area of any slzo is to be considered. These Invisible myriads of the air, moreover, increase with tremendous rapidity onco they encounter favor able conditions for growth, such as moisture, warmth and food. All those ! are furnished by milk. Raise barn yard dust near an open milk pail, and the whirling masses which have been lying In the refuse of the barnyard floor pour down upon the liquid as the destroying Huns of Attlla poured down upon Europe. Hollis Godfrey, tn the Atlantic. The Cardinal's Wife. Cardinal Glbbqna. the venerable head of the Catholic Church In America, is one of the most demo cratic mon In the country. He also enjoys a good joke, even when told at his own expense. He once related how a Baltimore newspaper man who may hare been more zealous In jour nalism than learned In religion called at the cardlnal's.house one day to ask his eminence for information con cerning some oburch matter. "The cardinal Is out of the city," said Father Fletcher, who received the caller. "Then may I see Mrs. Gibbous?" was the startling request that fol lowed. Lip; acott's. Exclusive Privilege. The late General Shafter used to enjoy telling how, during the Civil War, several wounded officers and a few privates were going up the valley of Virginia, when a rain came on, forcing all hands to take refuge all night In a school house. It chanced that during the night a skunk had found Its way under the floor, and by and by had announced Its presence after Its well known ef fectlvo manner. The officers all waked up, but, be ing gentlemen and each supposing that the others were still asleep, they, kept silent. At last ono of the pri vates, a German, could restrain him self no longer. "Meln Gott!" he exclaimed. "DU Is awful! Dey sbleeps und I vakes, und I baf got to sbmell it all!" 1 Llpplncott's. A Waste. Bobby's mother was often dis tressed by her small son's lapses from correct speech; all the moro be cause bin reportB from school were always so good. "Bobby," she said plaintively, one dy, "whydo you keep telling Major to 'set up' when you know 'sit up' la what you should say?" "Oh, well, mother," Bobby an swored, hastlly,'"of course I have lots of grammar, but I don't like to waste it op Major when ho doesn't know the difference, being a dpjV Harper's Weekly. In France 4,000,000 tons of pota toes are annually used In the manu t n . Hu e of starch and alcohol.
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