A GREAT LIFE COMES TO AN END A Man Who Was Known In Every Part of the United States. The Brooklyn Eagle, of a recent date, gives the following article of this noted man: Edward Everett Hale was known In every part of the United States and in the colonies belonging to them. Wherever ho was known at all he was highly respected. Where over ho was known well ho was ad mired. Wherever he was known Intimately he was loved. He touch ed many interests, ho affected many lives, he stimulated reading, think ing and effort on many lines, all of them benign. .Comprehensive biographies of Mr. Hale have shown the distinction of the stock whence he came, of the stock Into which he was married and of that which he begat. All the strains owe their distinction to public service, to patriotism and to versatility of talents. Through them all has run a democracy of purpose and feeling which made them and him brothers of the race and uplifters of the world. Some think of him as a teacher, some as a pastor, some as a lecturer, some as an orator, some of them as an organizer of effort, and all of them as Edward Everett Hale. The role he probably most cherished was the one which showed that he was the pioneer of peace through arbitration that war might cease between na tions and good will abound among men. There are Hague and other tri bunals. He anticipated them. There Is a growing movement with in religions to emphasize the fath erhood of God. He exemplified and magnified it before it was made the aim and effort of organizations. There are grand endeavors for the reform of prison management, the civilization of charities, the pre vention -of cruelty to children and to animals, the preservation of bird life and bird lore, but he anticipated them with pen and voice. He took less than little care of causes, after they had passed under the charge of those gifted with the talent, the leisure and the patience for minute care. Ills was pioneer work in the next new field. The hackneyed phrase "so many years young," well fitted the man, who was never old in aught but years. Duration he had, but not age, for he was always young in heart and mind. Without detracting from others, it can be said that he demanded civil service reform before any re formers sought to set it in law. He started emigration for freedom to Kansas a little before even Lin chpin saw its value. He dreamt the dream of "Go West, young man, go West," before Greeley wrought it into words, and parties formed around it. Gerrit Smith, Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips pre ceded him in Abolition, for they were born before he was, but he uever, as some of them did let go of the conviction that Union and Emancipation could be maintained under the Constitution. He missed the distinction of being the father of any one great move ment, by confining himself to none. He sowed seed that grew to harvests garnered by others, while he was sowing other seed. The apparent volatility of his zeal was due to the pioneer character of his thought and to the rare freshness of his heart and temperament. Anything not started, which ought to be started, ho would project and predict and promote. Once started toward as sured development, it would be left to others by him, while he was on his way to further moral territory. He would recur on call to the an nual occasions of causes that he had spiritually launched. He would give to them blessing, while they gave to him reverence and saluta tion, and then he would commend to them the next new and needed thing to be wrought into the life of the nation or Into the lives of the churches or of cognate organiza tions. His usefulness was diffused, not concentrated. His sympathies were not only notion-wide, but world wide. Humanity was his client. Everything that brought God to man or raised man toward God was his cause. Any well-minded institu tion was his helper. None of them was his master or prison or chapel of ease. Some of his brethren thought him a scatterer. Maybe he was; but he sowed truth only. Everywhere it fell on good ground. Nowhere could the thorns or briars choke it, for where they sprang up he cast in no seed. He is said to have not been always profound, though always confident. Well, he learned and told enough to be ef fective and suggestive and inspiring. He let the rest go. They say that he mixed his imagination with his facts. Perhaps, but he did not in tend to do so, and if the poet or novelist in him was confluent with the student and thinker in him, the double flow was double service to causes well deserving both. His was the contribution of a great personality to the world. It shone in his stories, in his poems, in his lectures, in his very presence. The readers of his thought or fan cies and the hearers of them passed under the spell of him. Nature cast bim in a gigantic mold. As the temple of his mind and heart his frame was a tenement that reflected both and was glorified by both. Born before steam was a motor on land, gradunted beforo electricity was a medium of communication, a man before the dogmatic had yield ed to the scientific in educntton, Dr. Hale lived to learn and hall the latest word in physics, in ethics and in hope. He was alert and alive and optimistic every day of his many years. Every cause he es poused had progress in it, better ment in it, mind-freedom in it, heart-enlargement in it. He explor ed history to get at the Becret of truth in it. He moralized the pres ent to learn and enforce the high est duty it had in it for man. He forecast and forefelt, the future only to command and to hasten the golden age of the faith that is to be love and of the love that is to be faith. If to Boston he was a prophet and an apostle, to Brooklyn ho was a friend and an inspiration. No great man was more loved in our homes or more welcome to our halls of as semblage. In no place had he a larger dtsclpleshlp or a more af fectionate following. Nowhere was his return more grateful or his mes sage more inciting and ennobling. The years to come will long be rich er here because of the memory of him In the years now passed. That memory will be, as his presence it self always was, a benediction; and Brooklyn's reason for faith in God and- for pride In man and hope in humanity will be larger because of him who personified the qualities he advocated to those who loved him for his life and for his trans lation of it into his thought. TWKXTV YKAHSTO MAK10 JIOX. Took This Long to Complete This Work. A little box six inches wide, six Inches deep and twelve inches long represents twenty years' work by Peter Bates, a farmer of Beaver county. This is explained in part by the fact that the box contains specimens of every hard wood that grows with in the range of man's habitation. Another cause for the many years of work Is that .Mr. Bates only devoted his spare moments and evenings to the tedious task. The box is probably tne most re markable thing that has ever been seen in this country, or even in the world. It is made of 10,700 little wood blocks. Some are diamond shaped, but most are cubes of one eighth of an inch, while others that form the various figures are of every design imaginable. Though no paint, stain or varnish was used, the box carries almost every shade and color. The dark woods and light woods are so placed together as to produce an artistic effect. The sides are as smooth as a window pane, which is an evidence of the careful workmanship in carv ing out these thousands of apparent ly Insignificant little blocks. They are so arranged as to Indicate a checker board on one side, a pile of blocks on the other, and In one end the blocks appear upon first glance to be piled up promiscuously and very uneven. The top of the box was patterned after the bottom of a cut glass dish. Three vari-colored stars are the at tractive features of this portion. On the front of the box are emblems of the Odd Fellows and Masonic ord ers, of which Mr. Bates Is a member. Mr. Bates is seventy-seven years old and finished his task only a few weeks ago. When he began the work it was his intention to make a collar box and present it to his son. Since It Is such a masterpiece of art it will probably be placed on exhibition in some institution. Mr. Bates was for several years chief engineer for the Allegheny Water Company. Aban doning that position he purchased the farm where he has lived ever since. WAY KOMAX CAXDIjKS ai:i: MADE. In America the manufacture of fireworks has become almost a fine art, and no doubt the youth of our country could find this sort of ex pression for their patriotic enthu siasm on the Fourth of July with out drawing on the products of foreign ingenuity. A glance at the catalogue of any one of the twelve or fifteen large firms engaged in making fireworks in this country discloses almost endless lists of de vices. Every one knows what a Roman candle is, but few know how this indispensable adjunct of a Fourth of July celebration is made. First of all In the making comes the pasteboard cylinder, which is plug ged up at one end with clay. Af ter the clay comes a small charge of powder. Then a "star" is push ed down tight on the powder, and charges the powder and stars alter nate until the cylinder is filled. Then a fuse is attached which com municates with the powder nearest the top of the cylinder, which, when it is exploded, sends its star sail ing upward. A fuse running through the candle connects other charges of powder with the first and explodes them one at a time, each one shooting out the star which is next above it. The stars are made of chemical mixtures, which vary with the col ors which are produced. A red star is sometimes made by mixing four parts of dry nitrate of strontla and fifteen parts of pulverized gun powder. Copper filings change the color to green. Rosin, salt and a Bmall quantity of amber make It yellow. Small particles of zinc change it to blue, and another and perhaps better red can be made by using a mixture of lampblack and niter. BURNS COST 6,000 LIVES EACH YEAR How to Trent People Who .Are Burned. An Interesting and Instructive pamphlet has been Issued from the office of State Fire Marshal W. S. Rogers, of Ohio, which gives valu able advice as to first aid to the injured and burned at fires. It reads, in part: "More than six thousand persons are burned to death every year in the United States. Many times that number are badly burned. "A burn of the first degree hurts only the outside of the skin. The burned place Is red, painfully hot and tender. When it gets well the outside layer of the skin peels. This outside layer of the skin is made of Bcales like those of a fish, but very much smaller. "To stop the pain from such a burn the air must be ke.pt away from it. Lint or cotton wet from a pint of water into which a teaspoonful of baking soda has been stirred should be put over the burn and held by a bandage. If there Is no soda use sweet oil or molasses. Many mothers use scrapings from a pota to. If a burn of this kind covers a large part of the body it Is danger ous and a doctor should be sent for. "While waiting for him an exten sive burn should be wrapped In cot ton or covered with flour. A very large burn which only makes the skin red without blistering It may cause one to sink and die from shock and pain. Big burns that are not deep often come from gas and gaso line explosions in which the heat only lasts a moment. "In burns of the second degree there are blisters. Blisters are made by water from the blood being poured out to cool the burn. The skin over the blister should not be taken away, but the water should be let out of it by a needle prick at its edge. Clothing should be taken off with care not to break any blist ers. The skin over the blister is the best covering for the raw spot un der It until new skin grows. "Burns of this kind should be covered with soft rags or cotton dip ped in carron oil, which can be had at any drug store, or by cloth smeared with tallow. Over the cloths a bandage should be put. "Burns of the third degree take the life out of all the layers of the skin and sometimes out of the flesh under them. The skin is made hard like stiff paper. The dead skin and flesh is gotten rid of by matter form ing under it. While these deep burns are healing the llesh under them may draw up so that a joint cannot he moved. They always leave bad scars. "Any deep barn should have the care of a doctor quickly. Until i.e gets there the burned one should be wrapped In a blanket or put into a bathtub of warm water. Many per sons say a burn should be held near a flame "to draw the fire out of it.' That is foolish. "Most of the deep burns are suf fered by persons whose clothing Is ignited. This is Decause the flame is kept against the skin so long. "Children whose clothes take fire are usually burned to death. "Scalds are burns from very hot water. They are not likely to be deep because the water runs off. If the fluid is thicker than water the scald is deeper. Burns and scalds are most dangerous to children if on the chest. "Water will scald long beforo it gets as hot as a flame. Water heat ed to 130 degrees is as painful to one's hand as the blaze from a match, which is more than (100 de grees. Passing one's hand through a blaze that hot gives little pain, but one would drop a pan heated to 175 degrees. "Tablespoonfuls of coffee or soup heated to 130 degrees can be, swal lowed from a spoon without hurt, but If the spoon touches the lips it burns them. Although the skin on the soles of the feet Is the thickest on the body, one cannot stand on a hot plate which he could hold In his hand without discomfort. DIG KOI! HIDDEN GOLD. Pay of General Morgan's Troops Said to be Under Old House. Cincinnati, June 13. The work of excavating for the structure of St. Francis's Church, at Dayton, Ky., is being watched by scores of residents who expect the workmen to dig up a pot of gold which tradition says has lain burled under the site since the raid of General Morgan and his band of Confederates near the close of the Civil War. The property formerly belonged to the late Matthew McArthur, a South ern sympathizer. The old homestead was famous as an underground sta tion for Confederate refugees. The money was left there, it is said, by a Confederate spy, who had been sent North to pay the troops of General Morgan. His presence at the McArthur residence being dis closed, he secreted the gold, said to amount to several thousand dollars, and escaped, intending to join Gener al Morgan, the latter being killed about the same time. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. tin Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of uiS&&cjfa PROVED IT ON THE SPOT. A Sculptor's Demonstration In the Mud and Slush by a Lantern's Light. The following characteristic anec dote Is told concerning E. C. Potter, the sculptor: "I saw him one evening paying a call upon comparative strangers. A plaster cast of a horse stood at one side of the room, a little pleoe full of poetic Imagination, but done loose ly and sketchily. Mr. Potter sat down, but his gaze kept returning to that horse. "He harc.y heard what was being said to him as he studied it again and again. At last his Interest In It broke out. He jumped up and walked across. " 'Of course, it has feeling,' said he, quite irrelevantly. 'I llko it. But look at that head,' "His fingers travelled sensitively over the plaster. " 'No horse was ever constructed In that way. He clmply couldn't have those great holes over his eyes.' "As he felt It, he warmed up more and more. " 'Why, come out here and I'll show you,' he exclaimed. "So he took his companion out to where his own horse was standing and, regardless of the mad and slush of a winter night, got down off the porch to show I . the lantern light the bony processes that really modified the cavity In question." Ducks Plentiful In China. There are more ducks In China than in all the rest of the world, says "The Dundee Advertiser." China, literally, is white with these birds, and day and night the country re sounds with their metallic and scorn ful voices. Chhuren herd ducks on every road, on every pond, on every farm, on every lake, on every river. There is no backyard without Its duck house. There Is no boat, little or great, without its duck quarters. Even in the cities of China ducks abound. They dodge between the coolies' legs. They flit squawking out of the way of the horses. Their indignant quack will not unssldom drown the roar of urban commerce. All over the land there are great duck hatching estab lishments, many of them of a capacity huge enough to produce fifty thou sand young ducks every year. The Chinese duck is extremely tender and delicate the best tame duck for eat ing in the world. Duck, among the Chinese, Is the staple delicacy. It is salted and smoked like ham or beef. Sickroom Mirrors. "Only t. hand mirror should fl-ia place in a sickroom," said a doctor, "and it should be one flattering to the patient the kind, for instance, which if the face is too broad will lengthen' it a little. And the patient should only be allowed to look in the mirror at propitious times. Many r. patient has been frightened literally to death by his haggard reflection has looked, sighed, and renounced hope. But many another patient in a really bad way really desperate, tco being giv en a look at himself just after he has taken a stimulant, has bucked up wonderfully. In fact, a sickroom mir ror, wisely handled. Is a curative agent, while recklessly handled it may kill. Naval Wireless Badge. A wireless telegraph corps has been formed in the British Navy, and any seaman may earn proficiency marks in it, as he may in marksmanship or other specialties of the service. A badge for proficiency is given, to be worn on the right sleeve just above the elbow. To win it the seaman must pass an examination on board H. M. S. Impregnable at Devonport. The badge is a pair of wings crossed by a flash of lightning, worked in gold. A fully qualified wireless telegrapher adds one star above the badge; a flrst-olass petty officer, two stars, and a chief petty o,..:er a 'small crown. Romance in the Ring. No article worn upon the person has more romance and sentiment con nected with it than the finger ring. Not only love and fealty, but hatred, murder and magic are associated with the golden circlet. Caesar Borgia had a ring with a receptacle for poison behind the stone, and with this it was his pleasant custom to deal death to his guests as they sat with him at No Man Llveth to Hlmseif. There Is no sort of wrong deed ot which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself, and say that the evil which is In you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thor oughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as nec essarily as disease. Every sin causes suffering to others besides those who commit it. George Eliot. That Strange Lake In Africa. That strange African lake, Lake Tchad, has been the subject of re newed attention within the last two years, and the fact that in a period of twenty years it alternately Increases and decreases in size and depth seems to have been well established. Historic Dagger Sold. The dagger presented to Lord Darn ley by Mary Queen of Scots In the year they were married, and believed to be the one with which Rlzzlo was killed, was sold at Sotheby's, Lon don, recently, for $50. Doctor's Second Call. An Aberdeenshire doctor who re cently attended a woman was some what staggered at reoelpt of the fol lowing epistle from her: "Please come and vaccinate the child you gave birth to last week." Caledonian Medi cal Journal. ROYAL COMP08ER8. Henry Vlll.'s Anthems Sur.g by Cathe dral Choirs Prince Albert's Works. "The first of the English sovereigns who won fame as a composer was Henry VII. Many of hla anthems are sung tn-day by cathedral choirs. Ho also wrote a melodious effusion, 'Now Fayre. Fayrest off Every Fayre,' to quote tho original title, for the mar riage of his sister Margaret with tm ues IV. of Scotland," said Miss A.s Lorraine. "Charles I. was another composer, and I am including in my programme his effective setting of Thomas Ca rew's poem 'Mark How the Blushful Morn.' "I think everybody knows that Queen Victoria was a fine singer and a good pianist, and the late Prince Consort was most zealous in popular izing the art in this country. The ma jority o! Prince Albert's compositions have been collected and published. Of the present members of the royal family the most distinguished as a composer Is Princess Henry of Bat tenberg. "Turning asidi to foreign courts, the German Emperor has won some fame for his 'Song to Aegir,' which is included m my programme. The late Duke Ernst II. of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. the brother of the Prince Consort, composed several operas. "Marine Antoinette will be repre sented In the programme by her set ting of Florlan's 'C'est Mon Ami,' and from the many works of the Saxon monarch Anthony the Good, who died in 1836. I have choser a Bong he com posed In celebration of the birth of his nephew. Prince Clement. "Who was the greatest royal com poser? Well, I should think that hon or might fall to the nephew of Fred erick the Great Prince Louis Ferdi nand of Prussia who was killed at the battle of Saalfeld." Disadvantage of 3eauty. "One disadvantage of being gooa looking," said the woman who admits that she knows she is handsome, "Is that I never get a chance to beat my way on the street cars. Just because I am good looking the conductor spots mo when I enter the car and he bus ties right up to ask for my fare." Sur Large Stock;of HIGH ART CLOTHING for Spring Tells the Story of our Commercial Supremacy ! NO OTHER STORE clothes for stylish men as is snow sucn an assortment because no other store CAN SELL .AS MANY suits as we do. Measured by sales, measured by value-giving, meas ured by style and distinctiveness, we are com k. 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