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Posterity:
The Jew Superstition
2 By Benjamin De Casseres.
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R- GOLDWIN SMITH In his letter in a recent Sun asks,
"What brute shows any regard for posterity?" and quotes
approvingly "E. W.'s" remark that posterity should be an
object of our interest and care. Are we not overworking
the posterity decoy? The fact that the brutes are not con
cerned about posterity may not that account for the fact
that they have made successes of their lives, while the hu
man Las failed?
The East worships its ancestors; the West worships
.posterity. The East lies prone on its belly offering its tributes to ghosts; tho
."West bows its head in adoration to the ghosts not yet born. Ancestor worship
3s the old superstition; posterity worship is the nwv superstition. The old
fcotues are filled with new wine, but the labels are the same, and the new
wia& Is of the same vintage as the old wine, the vintage of man's indestructi
I3e illusions.
- "We are told to live for the sake of posterity, we must breed for posterity,
eat for the sake of posterity, be moral for the sake of posterity, dress hygien
icxlly for the sake of posterity, and even die when necessary for the sake of
posterity.
We legislate for posterity, rear a child with an eye to posterity, tinker
.with the social system for the sake of posterity, tamper with individual liber
ty for the sake of posterity, construct Utopias for the sake of posterity, vote
"the Socialist ticket for the sake of posterity, meddle with everything for the
-sake of posterity.
It Is the fetich, the Moloch, the Golden Calf of our civilization. We who
are living, palpitating in the flesh and blood present, have no rights; ve are
only straws to show which way the sociological and. evolutionary winds are
blowing; we are only the bricks and mortar that shall go to build the mar
red ou3 edifice to house that great family Posterity. Bricks and mortar, we are
told; nothing but that, and our deeds have no value unless they feed the bulg
iag belly of the future; we are as scraps of bone and meat tossed to that bag
eyed glutton the Future.
We are to be systematized, badged, classed, grooved, wired,, stuff e.d; our
.instincts, our very marrow, are to be inoculated with the virus of altruism,
aed our faces beatified with posterity light, made to glow with the shine of
"Vigbt Kving" all because the quacks that rule our sociological and political
3IIa Lave dreamed of that wondertime, posterity!
Man is always grovelling before some word. Now it is posterity!
Weak, impotent, helpless before the immovable present, he salves his
Bore spots with hopes for the future; not being able to regulate his life to
day, lie promises himself a virtuous tomorrow ; finding his life a failure, he
.promises himself, with ecstatic eye and lolling, anticipatory tongue, a rapture
calied posterity something that no one ha,s ever seen, something that no one
ican define, something that could not possibly exist.
Our . .
Railways Support
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20,000,000 Persons $
By Chairman M. E. Ingalis, of the C, C, C.
and St L. R. R.
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OU may abuse the railway men you may force into bank1
ruptcy railway lines, but you cannot wipe out the great
transportation industry, the great business, .represented by
the railways, without destroying the business of your coun
try. There is nothing else that I know of that so permeates
the life, the health, and the happiness of the nation as its
transportation interests. Over a million of men are em
ployed directly by the railways; at least five millions are
employed by the railways and the companies which are sub
sidiary to and producers for the railways. Twenty millions of people, or one
3bvrth of all the inhabitants of this country, are dependent for their daily
3read, their health, their happiness upon the prosperity cf the railways.
rTherefore, he is a very careless man and no lover of his country who turns in
jand joins the crowd of demagogues who today are howling and abusing the
railways. Your Congress, your legislatuies, your courts, must consider that
"this is an enormous question, and one of those which go to the very vitals of
tthe life of the country. If the present condition of affairs is prolonged, it
.means panic; it means suffering; it means dull times, ldng hours, and poor
"wages for the working people. Never is the country so prosperous as when
the railways are prosperous. The talk that their tariffs must be reduced, that
the railways are charging too much, i3 the most foolish of all. Your railway
rates are less than those of any country known to civilized man. A trifling
jrednction which you would be able to get would not secure happiness or com
'.fort to the great mass of people, but might cause great suffering. It might
Toaean a trifling sum of money to some shippers, but it would be productive of
.'lass to the great mass of workingmen.
Fountains of Friendship
Ev President Wcodrow Wilson.
fj!Sfs of Princeton. -tOfcQ
RUE friendship is cf a royal lineage. It is of the same kith
and breeding as loyalty &nd self-forgetting devotion, and
proceeds upon a higher principle even than they. For loy
alty may be blind, and friendship must not be; devotion may
sacrifice principles of right choice which friendship must
guard with an excellent and watchful care. You must act
in your friend s interest whether it pleases him or not; the
object of love is to serve, not to win. It is a hard saying,
I know who shall be pure enough to receive it There
.r3s but one presence in which it can be made plain and acceptable, and that
3s the presence of Christ, where it may stand revealed in the light of that exam.
,-yle -which makes all duty to shine with the face of privilege and exalted joy.
To one deep fountain of revelation and renewal few of you, I take it fpr
agiraTtted, have had access yet I mean the fountain of sorrow, a fountain sweet
-tir bitter according as it is drunk in submission or in rebellion, in love or in
'resentment and deep dismay. I will not tell you of these waters; if you have
iaot lasted them, it would be futile, and some of you will understand without
-word of mine. I can only beg that when they are put to your Hps, as they
. aaast be, you will drink of them as those who seek renewal and know how to
snalte of sadness a mood of enlightenment and cf hope.
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Defence of the Idler
By John H. Wilstach
E thought, as we lay at rest cn a grassy knoll, that idleness
Wi neeueu no ueieucw; mutcu, v vuteu juuices iu own in
ward, and felt pity for those dead-alive people about whom
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their nature is not generous enough; and they pass their
hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious
moiling in the gold mill."
Yet, about this time of the year people feel called upon
to tell us not to let up on our work; that we can gain by
IojIIbs ia the hot summer months. Still, curious as it may seem, some are
jvcxo are who actually apologize for their idleness. If we cannot be happy
without being idle, idle we should remain. The industrious man reaps trouble
sand xiervou3derangement, and meanwhile what cf the idler-? He is a man
Ht for the company of the Immortals. To Plato and Aristotle idleness seemed
-3 noblest form of energy. Action Is the last resource of the man who can-
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FULL DINNER PAIL
IS 'UP SI A v
Boarding Houso Union Boosts Rates and
Won't Except Hungry School ma'ams.
Springfield, Mass. Twenty West SpraigfleH boarding-lvvjse m!
resses met at the homo of Mrs. Chrri?s Clark. Jr., ami voted to form a
Boarding-house Union. A score of boHrding-hcus? proprietors who were
unable to be present sent word that they would stand by any actioa taken
by the meeting.
Tlia union decided to raise the pries cf board from $3 to G a week
and to put the new rate into effect at once.
One of the chief causes of dissatisfaction was the full dinner pail. It.
was asserted that railroad men who carried their dinners provided them
selves with pails as large as wash-boilers and expected the boarding-house
mistresses to fill them with "lunch." It was explained that the medium
sized pails held two quarts of coffee, eight or nine sandwiches, half a pound
of cheese and six doughnuts, and that failure to iucluds two pieces of pie
was considered justification for prolonged grumbling. One of the women
declared that the late Mark Ilanna was to blame for promising the mn
"a full dinner pail." A long-faced landlady of Republican tend?ncies, said.
Senator Hanna merely meant enough to eat, and nor. a wheelbarrow load.
One boarding-house mistress suggested that a special rate should be
made for school teachers.
"A school teacher's appetite is as good as anyone's elsa aid they are
more bother than two men," was the prompt reply of a maiden lady.
It was voted unanimously not to make an exception ia favor of school
teachers.
As practically all the boarding-houses in West Springfield p.r includes
in the movement, the boarders have the alternative of paying 51 a wt'cJ'
more or of moving out of town.
SUICIDES OF CHILDREN CAUSE W0RRY--IH --GERHINY
Frequency of Self-Deslruction Among the
School Boys and Girls Alarms.
Berlin. The frequency of suicides among sclicol boys and girls is at
tracting much attentiou in Germany. The Prussian Ministry of Education
has recently ordered that a thorough investigation of the matter bo under
taken, with a view to find causes and remedies.
Statistics of such suicides show that in the twenty-one yenrs,
1903, there were 1125 suicides of pupils of the gymnasiums and common
schools, making an average of nearly fifty-four uer annum. By far the
greater number of suicides were of children under fifteen years -old, the
average yearly number for these alone almost reaching forty-two. Less
than one-fifth of these were girls.
The greater frequency of suicides below fifteen yers, however, was
due wholly to the fact that tha pupils below that age so far outnumber
those above. As a matter of fact suicides above fifteen years are four times
more frequent reckoned as a percentage of the total number of pupils
than below that age.
The official statistics do r.ot give the causes of the suicides except in
284 cases. The causes stated for the lower schools were fear of punish
ment, mental derangsment and harsh treatment by parents, relatives or
teachers. In the higher schools the causes were dread of examination?,
wounded self-esteem, mental derangement, fear of punishment, love affairs
and melancholia.
Not less than twenty-eight per cent, cf the suicides were of children
whose parents were epileptics, drunkards or mentally unsound. In more
than forty-eight per cent, of the cases it was found that the character
peculiarities of the children rendered it difficult for thcru to accommodate
themselves to the rules and regulations of the schools.
One group of these embraced pupils whose mental carsoiMos did not
ft them for the school work or for the profession for which they had
chosen to prepare themselves.
Another group contained those who were led astray thronzh moral
defects, through love affairs or through premature addiction to drink.
LORD ROTHSCHILD LAYS MAUL UNEASE TO ROOSEVELT
Head of Banking House Says Speeches HavO
Frightened Away English Investors.
London. "Stocks are low," said Lord Rothschild, h??d of the famous
ranking house, in an interview, "becausa Governments all over the world
are hitting at capital."
Lord Rothschild demurred at the suggestion that the ondition of the
money market is due to a boom iu trade, which leaves little cash free for
investment. He referred to the Socialistic denunciations of capital and to
various questions, such as old age pensions, the Scottish land tenure
projects, and the projected licensing bill, as having an unsettling; J-nluencj
on the British mousy market, and in reply to a suggestif..! that the trouble
was not particularly British, but was international, said:
'"Of course, President Roosfrvelt's speeches against the conduct cf 1ha
American railways are greatly disturbing that market. Wo must all aimit
ihat the manipulation o! railroad stctk in the United Slates has vt a!-p.y3
"ieen quice what it should have bear, but this dosn not- detract fi'cm tlie
serious character of tae President's campaign. It Js difKoult, nay, al'cost
'moor-si!; If. as things stand, for na vx furnish from, this ;uu;ito' frrjsii cap
ital lev railway development across tha witer. "
Sr;?.vkirs generally, would you say tnsit I hr prlCT o" In'-vi secur
ities fire likelv to improve as th? itutir.ua progivpss.s?" va ask;d.
"Ah," replied Lord Rothschild, as he shook hio hoa, lauyhii;-, "it is
11 truest wisdom never to prophesy. I am told thaf. invasion in .'.cw
York are hr.arclirg monpy until ihey EC2 how oveniv 1 urn nud t '';; tliy
;.?ay u'.-jway greater cinfidsncf; whe' the spriug comes, Lul, ai'lm- all, uo.;j
of us id in a poaiUou to indulge in forecasts."
Year's Wheat Production
Is 25,507,000 Bushels.
Washington, D. C. The Agricultu
ral Department reported that the con
dition of corn on October 1 was sev-fenty-eight
per cent., as compared
with 80.2 per cent, last month, and
i)0.1 on October 1, 190S.
The avera ge yield of spring wheat
is 13.1 bushels per acre, as compared
with 13.7 bushels for 190 6, and 14.7
bushels for 1905. The production
of spring and winter wheat combined
is about 625.5C7.000 bushels.
Once Poor Now i;ih, ut
ril'ty-scven Goes to C.-rlle.rjr'.
Washington, Pa. Peter Murray,
of Buena Vista, at the age of fifiy
seveu, bras gone to college.
He is a student at Jefferson .Arad-
emy, Canonsburg, and the teachers
say he is one cf their most diligent
pupils.
Ik his youth Murray had to work
for a living and sacrifice his school
ing, lie has accumulated money till
his large business interests, he sa3's,
demand that he be better educated.
GRANDMOTHER'S MEMORIES. '
Grandmother sits in her easy chair,
111 Dip ruHiiv imnltftlit 'a n)mv
er thoughts are wandering far away
In the land of Long Ago.
Apain she d7clls in her father's home,
And before her loving eyes
In the light of a glorious summer day
Tl le gray old farmhouse lies.
She hears the hum of the spinning wheel
And the spinner's happy Kong;
She sees the bundles of liar that hang
From the rafters dark and long:
She sees the sunbeams glide and dance
Across the sandal iloor;
And feels on her cheek the wandering
breeze
That steals through the open door.
Deyond the flowers nod sleepily
At the well-sweep, paunt and tall;
And up from the glen conies the musical
roar
Of the distant waterfall.
The cows roam lazily to and fro
Along the Rhnrly lane;
The shouts of the reapers sound faint and
far
Prom the fields cf golden grain.
And grandma herself, a happy girl,
Stands watching the xettinj? sun,
While the spinner rests, and tht reapers
cease.
And the Ions .day's work is doue;
Ih en something wakes her tha worn is
dark.
And vanished the sunset glow;
And grandmother wakes, with a sad sur
T, pnse,
Irom the dreams of long bto.
He!en A. Byrom, in St. Nicholas.
its emaciated body was found on the
threshold.
TRAPPING RABBITS.
"There are lots of rabbits in the
woods back of the rye-field, and I've
got six box-trans in the barn. If vou'll
see to 'em every morning we'll set the
trap now." . This proposition made to
a fourteen-year old boy, says Mr. Fred
Mather, the author of "Men I Have
Fished With," seemed a fine propo
sition, and the boy instantly agreed.
He was to put the captured rabbits in
a bag, and the. man who owned the
traps was to take care of them. The
toy tells the story:
The next night was clear and crisp,
and oh! how cold that morning was!
Tie first trap was unsprung. The
second actually held a rabbit. There
w-as the game crouched in the far end.
I let the trap down, and for a few
moments enjoyed my triumph. I was
a mighty trapper!
I carefully adjusted the bag over
the trap, and then opened it. There
was a thud in the bottom of the bag,
and then a glimpse of something gray
end a sound of "Zip! zip!" and if
that really was a rabbit it was gone.
The third trap held a rabbit, and
with the last failure in mind, great
care was taken ia arranging the bag,
but somehow the same thing hap
pened again. The next two traps were
empty, and the sixth was sprung.
Remembering what Garry had said
about a rabbit not biting, I put in a
hand and brought the animal out
some way, memory fails to record
how, but it does bring back the piti
ful cries that rang through the woods.
But I hardened my heart and dropped
the game" in tbe bag, and started for
home with my prize, In triumph not
unmixed with other feelings.
After pondering for a while on the
escape of the other two rabbits, the
recollection of those nitiful cries came
-up in full force. Then I seemad to
realize that they came from a poor,
terrified and harmless thing that I
was taking to be killed without the
excitement of the hunt. ,
I peeped into the bag. Two larze
eyes and a trembling form were' in
the corner. Somehow the grip on the
mouth of the bag wa3 loosened, the
bottom was turned up, and a white
lump of cotton in a field of gray went
bobbing off into the brush.
When I entered Tom Simmonds'
store, I said to Garry, "Here's your
bag. I haven't got any rabbits, and
don't want any."
FOUND ITS WAY HOME.
The story of a pet seal, captured
when a pup by a lighthouse-keeper on
the coast of England, is given in
"Reminiscences of a Sportsman."
The young seal was fed, and allowed
to have the range of the kitchen, and
the members of the household be
came greatly attached to it..
It would make its way daily down
to the water, and pass many hours
swimming about. It secure more or
less food in that wa.y, but always re
turned to Its place in the kitchen at
night.
Blindness finally came to the seal
with old, age, but it continued its
journeys to the sea, and " returned
home as regularly as before.
As old age increased, it caused an
noyance by its peculiar cry for food
and it3 lessened ability to get about.
At last the family decided they must
part with it, and not wishing to kill
it, they arranged with a'fisherman to
carry it well off some twenty miles
and drop it into the sea. They ex
pected that it would come to a nat
ural death in that element. But on
the second day it appeared again at
its accustomed place.
Another effort was made to get rid
of it by arranging with a sailing ves
sel to take it several hundred miles
out to sea and then drop it in. This
was done, and some time passed away
without any sign of the seal. But
sevon days after its departure the
kitchen maid, who slept near the
door of the kitchen, fancied during
the nizht she had hpard th nlaJnHvo
w i ... . ,
cry of the ssal; and tjie nsxt niornipj:
FLOWER-GUESSING GAME.
1. My flrBt wears my second on,
her foot. Lady's slipper.
2. A Roman numeral. IV. (Ivy)..
3. The hour before my English,
cousin's tea. Four o'clock.
4. Good marketings. . Eutter-
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5. A very gay and ferocious ani
mal. Dandelion.
6. My first is often sought for
my second.' Marigold.
7. A young man's farewell to
hi3 sweetheart. "Forget-me-not."
T. Her reply to him. Sweet:.
William.
9. The gentler sex of the FrIonJ
persuasion. Quaker ladies.
10. Its own doctor. Self-heal. ,
11. My first is as sharp as aped les.
my second is as soft as down. This
tledown. 12. My first is a country in Asia,
my second i3 the name of a prominent
New York family. China Aster.. -
1 3. My first is the name of a bird,.,
my second i3 worn by cavalrymen
Larkspur. .14. A church offlcial. Elder.
15. A very precise lady. Prim--"
rose.
16. A tattered songster. IlaggedS.
robin.
17. My first is sly but cannot wear
my second. Fox-glove.
18. The color of a horse. SorreL
10. A craze in Holland In the sev
enteenth century. Tulip.
20. My first is an implement oV
war, my second is a place where mon
ey is coined. Spearmint.
21. A disrespectful name for a
physician. Dock.
22. Fragrant letters. Sweet peas.
2 3. My first i3 a white wood, my
second 13 the name of a yellowish.
Ilbenish wine. Hollyhock.
24. What the father said to hi,
son in the morning. "Johnny-jump
up."
HIS OWN KNEW -HIM.
One of the occupations in Austra
lia is sheep-raising. There are large
ranches upon which many sheep and.
lambs find food, and the .'shepherds
guard their own.
One day a man was arrested for
stealing a sheep. The. man claimed
that the sheep was own, that he
had bean missing from the flock for
some days, but, as soon as he saw
the animal he knew him.
The other man claimed the sheep
and said he had owned him since he
was a lamb, and that he had never
been away from the flock.
The judge was puzzled how to de
cide the matter. At last he sent, for
the sheep. He first took the man In.,,
whose possession the sheep was
found to the courtyard, and told him,
to call the sheep.
The animal made no rosponse, only,"
to raise his head and look fright
ened as if in a strange place and
among strangers.
Bidding the officers to take the
man back to the court-room, he told
them to bring down the defendant.
The accused man did not wait until,
ho entered the yard, but at the gate,,
and where the sheep could not. see
him, he began a peculiar call. At
once the sheep bounded toward the
gate, and by his actions showed that
a familiar voice was calling.
"Hi3 own knows him," said tha
judse. Tho , Sunday Companion.
THE ANGELUS BIRD.
One of the most interesting of the
feathered inhabitants of the forest
of Paraguay is the angelua bird.
known to Spaniards as the "bell
ringer," but more appropriately
called the angelus bird, for its bell
like song is heard, like the angelus,.
only thrice a day at morning, noo.
and night
Its song consists of sounds like the
strokes of a bell, succeeding each,
other every two or three minutes so
clearly, and in such a resonant man
ner, that the unwary stranger would
inevitably suppose himself to be near
a convent chapel. But tho chapel is
the forest and the bell a snowy white -bird,
sayE Home Notes.
It is a beautiful bird, swift and
graceful in movement, and about the
size of a thrush, with a conical tuft
of black arched feathers on its head,
which greatly add to its appearance.
AMUSING CONUNDRUMS.
What is that which is full of holes -and
yet holds water? A sponge1.
When is a clock on the stair dan
gerous? When it runs down and.
strikes one.
When does a farmer bend his she?r
without hurting them? When he-'
folds them.
What is that of which the common,
sort is the best? Sense. 4
What animal would you like to be-'
on a cold day? A little 'otter.
Why are hay and straw like spec
tacles? Because they are for age.
When i3 a ship like a tailor?.
When sheering off.
What burns to keep a secret?"
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