Greed of Gain Kills;
Jows Starved
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By the Reo. Dr. Donald Sage Mackay,
The Rector of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas,
New
OU might as well talk
a Riling na sneak of
gaining his world, forfeits his physical life and energy m
the attempt. Is money of so much matter to any man that
he should make himself a suicide for that one end?
We are living in an age which is steeped iu the com
mercial spirit. Commercialism has invaded every sphere
of human activity. The professions, the arts, our social
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man?" has come to be the supreme standard of success. "What is there in
; i for me?" is the test by which the average man to-day estimates the oppor-
inities of life.
; I Is the surrender of that life of yours, with which God has endowed you,
' I fair exchange for any achievement or success, whether in the realm of
' ealth, or fame, or power? As a question of profit and loss what does it
; roflt any man if he gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
' But again, there is the moral side of life, which, in these latter days es
.ecIalJy has been ruthlessly sacrificed by so many on the altar of material
success. This past year, in American public life, will be memorable in our
listory as a year of reappreclated ideals. It has been, in truth, the year of
i great ethical revival, and men who not so long ago sneered at such things
have been compelled to acknowledge the sovereign authorityt of conscience
asserted by the voice of the common people. It is not too much to say that
the revelations of these past months, following one after another in almost
every branch of commercial and industrial enterprise, shocking as they have
been to the moral sense of the community, have nevertheless cleansed the
moral atmosphere so that the young man of today enters upon his public
career in a more wholesome environment than at any time in the past twenty
five years.
What then shall we do to save this faculty of immortal life within us!
As a question of profit and loss, the soul of every man is worth saving. How
re you going to save it? I reply, simply by giving it a chance to live. Give
your soul a chance to live. Give it atmosphere so that it can breathe, and
remember that prayer is the atmosphere of the soul. The day that prayer
dies in a man's soul he commits spiritual suicide. Give it room, so that
it can expand; and remember that service for God and your fellowmen will
expand the narrowest soul.
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uamoiing ine iurse oj
Racing
Racing the Cause of
Gambling
nyvxrAr-c-V y John Gilmer Speed. 'ivVMMj
HE interest in horse racing is felt by a great variety of peo
ple, while the practice is as old as civilization. It has al
ways been regarded primarily as a sport, and it is generally
so looked upon today. But in New York the laws that have
been enacted to regulate it put the question of sport in the
background, and declare that its encouragement is "for the
purpose of raising and breeding and improving the breed of
horses." This quotation is taken from the first section of
chapter 57U cf the laws of 1895. This statute is popularly
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known as the Percy-Gray law,' and it establishes a state racing commission and
regulates the methods of race meetings within the state. By this law, and
under the decisions of the courts interpreting it, gambling, thouirh distinctly
forbidden is made permissive. Without such a legal paradox there could be
no bookmaking on the race courses;
those who attend the races to bet on
owners of racing stables and the proprietors of race courses, are all agreed
that the spcrt, as conducted at present
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'V" Granting this fact, the easy conclusion is that horse racing is conducted
for the sake of the gambling, and that the horses are used merely as part of
the gambling machinery as a roulette wheel, for instance. The daily news
papers, which give columns and pages day in and day out to the reports of
the races, strengthen this easy conclusion. Much more space is given and
much more emphasis laid upon the doings of the "betting ring" than upon the
performance of the horses that furnish the sport. The reporters, with great
industry and immense exaggeration, tell of the great wagers won and lost;
and the conversion of a "shoe-string into a bank roll" is evidently regarded as
a greater achievement than breeding or training a stanch race horse or riding
it to a well-earned victory.
This conclusion is easy, but it is not fair. Gambling is the great handicap
to racing indeed, it is not too strong to say that gambling is the curse of rac
ing; but racing is a cause of gambling rather than the desire to gamble is the
cause of racing. From The Century.
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WtQG4 T is a wonder seme
The way to get the most out of one's ability is to trust it,
to believe in it, to have confidence in it. But some people
seem to think that the best way to get the best results out
of the digestive apparatus is to constantly distrust it, pity it.
They swallow a mouthful of fear and dyspepsia with every
mouthful cf food, and then wonder why the stomach does
not take care of it.
Before the child can even speak plainly it is taught
"poor 'ittle tummic," and this nonsense is kept up through
to talk about its
life.
We often hear men talking about taking the best care of their health
when they' are really doing the worst thing possible for it. They are the
-worst possible enemies of their stomach when they are always talking about
their digestion and expressing a fear that they cannot eat this and they can
not eat that, when ttey are thinking all the time about how many bites they
-must take of every mouthful of food, and how long they must masticate it
before they swallow it.
What do you mean by taking good care of your body? Just to bathe it,
nd to weigh and measure your food with the same precision that a drug
gist would dangerous drugs, concentrating your mind upon what you eat and
thinking about what will hurt you that is not taking good care of your body.
Do you wonder that your stomach aches, that it is inflamed, when you
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about the mysterious Providence of
it in the case of any
man
who.
our business enterprises, sue i..
(vnip.il man of the hour is he
who
t - t
but can tell you the selling price
of
"Vh:lt doth it profit
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without book making, which enables
the results, the breeder of horses, the
and for many years past, could not
Marden.
people ever have any health at all.
.virifr nbont it. and expecting that ev-
SECRETARY WILSON'S IDEA OF A PROPER TRAINING FOR THE AMERICAN BOX
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CONGRESS AT THE
Appropriations Made by This Session Exceed One Billion Dollars Facing
a Big Deficit-Estimated Excess of Expenditures Over Rcceiptc
is $60,000,000 Fcr the Fiscal Year.
Washington, D. C This Congress
leaves behind a record of unprece
dented expenditures. Coming to
Washington fresh from the scenes of
the financial disturbance of the early
fall, it has pushed the appropriations
for the. first session of the Sixtieth
Congress above the billion dollar
mark.
Not so very many years ago Speak
er Reed and his billion dollar Con
gress startled the country. Now the
country has reached billion dollar
sessions, and it takes two ssssions to
make a Congress.
Not only does the billion dollar ses
sion follow closely the receding wave
of a financial flurry, but it comes with
a Treasury depleted and facing a de
ficit estimated for the fiscal year at
$60,000,000, and for the current yaar
ending December 31. 1908, at $100,
000,000. The official statement of
the Treasury Department recently
shewed a:i excess of expenditures
above receipts of $03,018,829.37.
The excess of receipts over expendi
tures was $C8,410,542.53 one year
ago, making a difference on tho wrong
side of the ledger of $111,423,371.90.
Nea:iy all the annual supply bills
have received consideration from the
House of Representatives, in which
they originate. Not one has been
passed by this Congress which does
not show a substantial increase above
the amount carried last year. The
increase runs from $300,000, added
to the amount of the Indian bill, to
$26,000,000 in the annual appropria
tion for the navy.
Evccetlir.g Last Session's Figures.
Making a conservative estimate,
and adding the actual increases
shown in those passed or under con
sideration, the appropriations of this
session exceed those of the second
session of the last Congress by $10 4,
300,000. To this sum must be added
the amount in the public building bill
demanded by those having closa dis
tricts, where the judicious distribu
tion of the contents of the "pork bar
rel" helps to turn the tide of votes. A
conservative estimate of the provis
ions of this bill is $20,000,000.
Added to the increases carried !n
the appropriation bills this gives un
aggregate of $124,300,000, and raises
the estimate of the appropriations
HOB WOMEN IN
N.wcst I'asUIoii
Too niucH For
I'olice Won't ObJe.
Paris. Disturbances which threat-, tional of them
ened to become a riot arosa at the
Longchamps race course on Sunday
from the appearance in the members'
enclosure of four young women at
tired in ultra-fashionable gowns. The
dressmakers of Rue de la Paix fre
qently boom their latest creations at
Longchamps, but Sunday's experi
ment wr.s too daring even for
Parisians.
The gowns W3ie so classic, so tight
fitting and so transparent that some
of the onlookers rubbad their eyes in
amazement. Others blushed, others
turned indignantly awp.y, while some
men laughed and jeered. The wear
ers had been sent by their employers
to advertise the so-called sheath
gowns, an attempted revival of the
Directoire fashion. The most sensa-
WIFE TAKES
Drags n Junk W'aifoit Around, Willi Husband Drivings and
Humane Soclelv is Powerless.
Chicago, 111. Harnessed between
the shafts of a wagon heavily laden
with old iron, bottles and rags, Mrs.
Frank Mulcaski, fifty-five years old,
wife of an Evanston junk dealer, has
taken up the task left off by the fam
ily horse at its death two weeks ago.
Supplied with specially fitted harness,
she has made it possible for her hus
band to continue in business.
Daily she draws the wagon through
the streets of Evanston and Wilmette,
responding with alacrity to her hus
band's cries of "whoa" and "giddap."
Philadelphia Doctor Says
'Fatal to Pick Euttercnps."
Philadelphia. That the picking of
buttercups is Injurious to the health
of children Is the theory of Dr. V.
W. Chalfonte. He declared at a meet
ing of physicians that some cases
called measles are noi measles at all,
but are the effects of gathering but
tercups and inhaling their perfume.
Buttercup fever" is the term Dr.
Chalfonte gives the disease. "In Ger
many and Holland there are laws for
bidding the growing and picking of
"'" l.&LLjJHLXjiyMclan.
by Eerryman, in the "Washington Star.
TWO BILLION
made and contemplated by the pres
ent session of Congress to $1,044,
24S.679.63. The total appropriation
of the last session of Congress
amounted to $919,948,679.63.
The increases, actual and esti
mated, are, in round numbers:
Navy $26,000,000
Pensions 17,000,000
Postoffice 10,000,000
Sundry Civil 1,500,000
Deficiencies 18,000,000
Agriculture 2,100,000
Army 16,300,000
Diplomatic and Con
sular 450,000
Fortifications 2,700,000
Indian 300,000
Legislative 4 00,000
Miscellaneous 4,250,000
Permanent annual ap
propriations 4,300,000
Public Building bill... 20,000,000
Total $124,300,000
Totals of Money Bills.
Some of the expenditures author
ized by Congress for the fiscal year
1909 are, in round numbers, $11,
000,000 carried in the fortifications
bill; $222,000,000 in the postoffice
bill; $98,000,000 for the army;
$123,000,000 for the navy; $163,
000,000 for pensions, including $15,
000,000 to carry the widows' pension
bill passed at this session; $106,000,
000 in the sundry civil bill; $8,000,
000 in the Indian bill; $33,000,000
in the legislative, executive and ju
dicial bill, and $24,000,000 In the
urgent deficiency bill.
The leaders have raised warning
voices and urged the cutting down
of annual estimates submitted to Con
gress. These suggestions have not
kept the figures down and have had
little good effect.
Democrats are already preparing
to make use of the figures furnished
by their opponents In campaign docu
ments, and are hoping for success on
the record of the party in power.
Most, if not all, of the committees
making up the money bill3 have
failed by many thousands of dollars
to meet the estimates made by the
executive departments. The tendency
has been always to Increase rather
than decrease the amounts expended
in former years. - -
"SHEATH" GOWNS
Parisians
at K,oxirclianips( Eul
have a divided skirt
showing
the
outlines of the lower
limbs.
The excitement became so great
that the police were obliged to re
move the young women from the en
closure. A blushing policeman
wrapped his cloak around a divided
skirt and conducted the owner to a
cab. Summonses were talked of, but
the police decided not to act. Director
Touny, of the municipal police, said:
"It" seems these dresses are the
latest fashion. I think them some
what daring, but if it is the prevail
ing fashion, there is nothing more to
be said."
One cynic remarks: "As Paris
thinks to-day, the world thinks to
morrow. This fashion will spread
over the whole world."
HORSE'S PLACE.
Mulcaski kept to the outskirts of
the town at first with his novel
"steed." As long as Mrs. Mulcaski
is willing to perform the task the
Humane Society can not interfere, it
is said, and there is no other agency
which would be empowered to act.
At times Mulcaski stops to consult
with his wife concerning purchasers
and routes to be taken. Iu addition
she is watchful for chance custom
ers, pointing them out when her hus
band fails to notice them. This is an
advantage he did not enjoy befora.
Squeezing of Heart May
Save VDrowned" Men.
Hartford, Conn. Wonders are pre
dicted by Dr. D. F. Sullivan for the
new method of resuscitation which
he employed on Nuncio Chlal who
was saved twice from death after his
heart had stopped beating by the
squeezing of his heart in time with
normal pulsations.
Dr. Sullivan believes that if a per
son who is apparently drowned could
be immediately operated upon and
the heart exposed, artificial respira
tion might be indueed.
Southern Agricultural Topics.
Modern Method That Are Helpful to
Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman.
Sheep Notes For Southern Farmers.
It Is wasting money, and doing It
fast, to keep sheep in summer where
they cannot have good shade to rest
in.
Sheep do not need expensive shel
ter at any season of the year, but it is
gainful to give them what they do
need.
Do weeds get a start in the pasture
every year where the horses and cat
tle run? If so, try using sheep to eat
off the weeds and make more grass.
A large part of the poor hill land
of the South would give a fair profit
if used for sheep raising, and ulti
mately the poverty of the soil should
be somewhat remedied.
It is rather well shown i.hat a
warm climate tends to breed wool off
sheep; and the South will in the main
do best by aiming first to make all the
mutton that can be made with a given
number, and after that breed for all
the wool that can be had without
sacrificing the mutton.
To let sheep go days at a time with
out seeing them is almost as bad as
planting a crop and not cultivating it.
If more Southern sheep raisers fully
understood how much profit there is
in giving sheep a little attention
every day, more profit would be made
and more sheep would be grown.
Rather than to throw land out, to
grow up in weed3 and brush, let
sheep or goats run on it; give them a
little care; and see how they will be
yielding a profit every year while pre
venting the land from getting over
grown with stuff that will be ex
pensive to clear off when wanted
again for cultivation.
Have a dog-proof pen for the sheep
to stay in every night. The pen will
cost little, the sheep will be 'safe
from dogs, and an opportunity will be
had every day of looking over the
flock to see what attention it may
need. It enables the keeper to give
the one stitch in time, which the old
proverb tells us saves nine.
Increase in population, in this coun
try has been followed by an increase
in general crops, cotton included;
also increase in cattle and hogs, but
not by Increase in sheep. We must
import about forty per cent, (two
pounds out of five) of the wool and
woolen goods used in this country.
The demand for wool will held its
own, as well as the price of mutton.
It helps both sheep and the pas
ture for them to be moved to new
pasture occasionally. The pasture
plants get a new start from a little
rest, the roots are shaded better and
are tramped less; so that the yield of
feed is considerably greater. The
parasites that infest sheep and often
make them sickly or destroy them do
less injury, since the sheep are not on
the old pasture to pick up a new gen
eration of parasites when the latter
must have sheep or die.
It gives one a comfortable feeling
to have a lot of early lambs to sell
about the time that considerable
money is needed for planting and cul
tivating corn or cotton. There is also
the wool to sell when sheep are kept;
and altogether the income of the farm
is- distributed throughout the year
conveniently. Alfalfa cannot be
grown on all farms, but the farms
that will not grow burr clover to
graze the old sheep and to develop
the early lambs are rare indeed. Any
body who has had a chance to ob
serve how burr clover grows fast into
money in spring when sheep are on it,
will not doubt the value of this clover
or of sheep. The two together, backed
by other suitable pasture plants, are
a fina combination. Progressive
Farmer.
Great Value of Cowpcas.
I have read with much interest the
many good and timely letters in re
cent Issues of your excellent paper, on
Improved methods of farming for
higher yields; but I do not think
enough stress is made on the great
importance of planting cowpeas,
which on the light soils of the South
is imperative in the intensive system
of farming. When we consider the
true value of growing peas, it is as
tonishing why this crop is so univer
sally' neglected by the average cot
ton planter.
The cowpea grown for the so'e pur
pose of improving the soil pays well
for all the expense incurred, even
when the seed are bought at high
prices, as they furnish two of the
most valuable things needed in grow
ing any crop viz., vegetable matter
and nitrogen even if the vines
should be cut for hay, which should
be done for ample home consumption.
There are thousands of acres of
poor soil planted in cotton each year,
that do not compensate the owners
for the expense in growing the crop,
while such crops in the aggregate
swell the surplus sufficiently to lower
the price of the staple. If the pea
crop was grown as much as it should
be, it would solve the much talked of
reduction of the cotton acreage,
tboueh it would not necppcrilv re-
Pert Paragraph.
What the peaceful man asks as his
right the strenous man takes by his
might.
If she says "I can never love
you." take hope. But if she says
"I'll be a sister to you," take your
hat.
Fruitage and rootage are closely
related and the man rooted in polit
ical prejudice will bear the same sort
of fruit.
duce the number of bales, since bet
ter attention could be given the re
duced acreage. If peas were planted
in all the corn and after all small
grain and on all this poor, cotton
starved soil that does not pay in cot
ton, we would soon see a great im
provement in the yields of all crops
and in the prosperity of the farmers;
and this is only one of the useful
points about peas. They make a rich,
nutritious hay, which all stock relish
and will thrive on; will save corn as
feed and are grown so much cheaper.
At the prices they have been sold for
years, they will pay on poor soil much
better than cotton, if grown for seed
to sell. When we take into considera
tion the wonderful value of the pea
crop, it seems surprising that it is so
commonly neglected. It is the means
to reduce the cotton acreage the most
profitaably. W. B. F. Lewis, Lewis
ton, La., in Progressive Farmer.
Plant Pumpkins in Corn Fields.
A common, way of growing pump
kins is to plant them in the corn when
the corn is planted, planting in every
fourth row of corn, and ten to twelve
feet apart in the row, letting a hill of
pumpkins take the place of a hill of
corn, tight to ten seeds should be
put in each hill. After danger from
the cucumber beetle and the squash
bug is past, all the plants except the
strongest one in each hill should be
destroyed. While the care given to
pumpkins under this method of pro
ducing them gives good returns, it
will pay to set apart an area to be de
voted to pumpkins entirely. If the
pumpkins are to have the entire use
of land, the hills should be twelve
feet apart each way, and two or three
of the strongest plants should be left
in the hill.
Pumpkins will produce well on any
class of soil that is reasonably fertile.
An old pasture or clover field, or land
on which cowpeas have been raised,
is a good place to grow them. Good
compost of well-rotted manure will
increase the crop considerably, and
when manure or fertilizer is used, it
is best to apply in the hill, mixing in
with the soil the same as lor water
melons.
Every farmer should grow a liberal
supply of pumpkins, as the make a
most desirable, healthy and nutritious
food for winter feeding, giving a
juicy and nutritious food to take the
place of green food during the win
ter. Wood's Crop Special.
A I.Iessing in Disguise.
In Northern Mississippi the farm
ers thought that the Johnson grass
that has overrun the country was a
great ci.'rse. But it has been a bless
ing in disguise in driving them into
stock feeding and out of all-cotton. I
do not like Johnson grass, for I pre
fer to have the control of my acres
rather than have them controlled by
a grass that I cannot control. But if
farmers in the cotton belt will not
farm and raise forage and feed it, I
am sure that the Johnson grass even
would be a good thing, though the
farmer who farms right does not need
it.
But for people to buy timothy
hay. the poorest cow forage on earth,
at a high price, when they could grow
peavine hay worth more to feed than
two tons of timothy, it would be bet
ter for Johnson grass to take their
lands and compel them to make hay.
So endeth this sermon. W. F. Mas
sey. Plant More Cowpeas.
Whilst you sleep the cowpea crop
is bringing down nitrogen (the cost
liest ingredient of fertilizers) from
the air.
The nitrogen bought in fertilizer
sacks is drawing interest whilst you
sleep.
Your cotton crop sends you to town
for fertilizers and hay, whilst the pea
crop grows hay at home and stores
fertilizer in the soil without cost for
hauling or application.
Heavy rains often leach out the
costly soluble properties of a high
grade fertilizer that costs $20 per ton,
whilst the pea crop is growing $20
a ton hay and $10 worth of fertilizer
to the acre.
The costly commercial fertilizers
force your cotton crop on the market
whether prices are good or bad for
both man and beast, whilst you wait
for better prices for cottcn. J. C
Stribling, Pendleton, S. C.
Plenty of Pure Water.
The hogs must have plenty of good,
pure water, obtained from well,
spring or flowing stream, and we like
to have a place for our hogs to "wal
low" during the hot period. We have
never seen that good clean mud and
water injured our hogs in the least,
and it certainly affords them a great
deal of pleasure to sink down in a
good sized mud hole where the water
is supplied from a spring. Pro
fvpccivp Farmer.
Here and There.
Most people who consult genealog
ists pay large fees to keep them quiet
about their ancestors.
If you expect to have to borrow
money, better borrow it before you
need it; it is easier to do so.
The cynic says there are two kinds
of people in the world bad ones and
those who have not been found out.
A man who will not work will
(work others. ', k i