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V, ..;- i , t .'- V' ; rr..: : t U rvMii rvnii irul rv m ATI id f ;M t ..i il. : l yu ti l wi i vr t , rantic Endeavor Retards '-My - .. - : - I- .1 I V. l , " A" l l" n Germany Fast Outstripping Both England J and United States nA!Ww y Dr. C H. MERICAN hustle is really1 deserves to he called substantial American progress. We have recently been informed bv one who has had excep- TV tional opportunity to yW I with all the crowding A I American schoolroom, secured by the more German instruction. A German is never an American, and does it better and more thoroughly and' with less wrench to himself and to other people. . We call him phlegmatic, which means,. It l)n;jeily understood, that he is to such a degree master of himself that he c;ui t over a great (leal of ground without going all to pieces in the process. Ami whatever llings we have made at German inertness, we are all. prepared to ;ay that Germany Is still o a considerable extent the world's schoolmaster iii .ill matters of profound thought, that land and America in the field of industrial competition, and when it comes to a ijiH'-tion of military genius and preparation Germany would quite likely be aiile to whip all the rest of Europe. Hut the most serious feature of frenzied American activity is not that we are not doing as good and solid work as would be accomplished were our ac Tiv y of a less wearing and distracting kind, but that it leaves the minds of ti t pernio in that tumultuous condition that tends to render them insensible to any influence except such as emanate from the field of material interest and ambition. This is not a season when men are deeply'meditating, it is not a season win n m n are praying. And that is not simply because they are in. too much of a hurry to think or pray, but because their strain and distraction destroy their capacity for reflection and.devotion; and material results, all our country through, are being purchased at the expense of physical exhaustion, intellec tual (onfusion, moral debility and spiritual sterility. . Kveryl ody deprecates this condition of things, but everybody, or almost eveiyl.udy, gives way to it. We have-acquired the habit of being in a hurry. It has hecome a kind of second nature with us to do as much as we can do naturally and then to add another stint to It and to hold our watch In our ha!:ds while we are doing it. The shortening of the time by one hour for rutin i..:; a steamer from New York to Queenstpwn sends a thrill through the 'iitiiv body of what we call modern civilization. I'i'-ilization is one of the severest diseases from which the race is suffer ing, -.rid the irrationality of the situation is evdenced by the fact that the feelini; of the people geneally Is that the present pace is a pace that kills and the severer the tension the less there is to show for it in the way of comrort and r-atisfaction. In point of hustle and nervous perturbation, Heaven were to be like New York or almost any American city except, perhaps, Phil adelphia we should pray to be sent somewhere else. It is not work, een hard work, that puts people out of sympathy with the thinss that are finest and best. Work rationally indulged in is a means of grace, hut frenzy is a kind of interior cataclysm' that knocks everything out of rl ice and involves men in unintelligible and unproductive confusion. Chris tians, in particular, ought to set th" example of reserving to themselves suf ficient leisure and maintaining in their souls and atmosphere of quiet to ena ble l hem to come often into fellowship with God. The spirit of the times is in these respects bad. You know it. The en forci d and nervous pressure is disastrous so far as relates to what Is best in life and finest in the individual soul. Christianity rose In successful revolt against Paganism. Now the temper of today's spirit In all this matter of nervous hustle and conscienceless rush is pagan, as truly so as though It were beinz practised in old Borneo or Madagascar. And it is for the church, and for Christians and for you to lead off In an old-fashioned apostolic revolt against !hi despotism of pagan frenzy and to settle down into that rational nxi:!' of lite whose very quietness shall carry in it something of the spirit of Jesus. to h to to rnrncr at - Segment of Jlmerican Literature. & HE annals of American poetry are a remarkable record of longevity. The poets of our first rank, barring tragic Poe, have lived to an honored and benignant old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was no exception in the calendar of years, yet even at three score and ten it was bard to think of age and him together. Blond, erect, ruddy, alert, he seemed at seventy untouched by mortality. More-than Lowell even, ' he was the perennial boy. And o his biographer, carlously Inquiring into the vanished days of that long singularly for tunate life, the image that overlays all others is that of "Tom Balleythe bad boy, who was yet "not such a vers bad boy." The exquisite lyric poetth In imitable story-writer, the accomplished editor, the witty, urbane' man of let ters, all take in the mind a coloring of sincerity and soundness, or mischief and mirth, from that Portsmouth boyhood which makes his whole llfejseem not only its fulfilment, but in strange sense Its prolongation. . . ' , 7; - It Is, then," with a certain surprise that One ..becomes, aware of the wide segment ot American literature that his life touched. And it is precisely la this thftf brje prime interest of his letters lies. ...Through them, as through tht candid' eyes of Ten 'Bailey, we watch the flow and ebb ot the literary tides of more thaii fair'a" "century. From the Century,,: v. , It to r:. Thrift Zy Ramsey HRIFT was discovered by a Scotchman wboe name has not --come down to us. The modern tendency is to forgive him, " on the. assumption that be could -not possibly know what he -did.- V" v ' - : ;-:-r ' . ... . " .- " -'v.:. Thrift was brought over'to this country In the May flower; which gives It a certain claim upon onr respect TUe ' cavaliers ot Carolus Rex were, making it hot in .England tor . thrift, sobriety, decency and ail the rest of that merry crew, ..-,,- ud'tnat is, why these were seeking a home in the New World. - They jeft nns.talned what therethey found, to wlC freedom to Wor shin God. without. baring to dig up for mcenseanVcMUy VestpieBU. : In a kingdom power derives from prescription, but la a democracy from Hhrift.'" Th men who" ran things with, as make nodenlal thaihrift has put them where they are, with a trifle of judicious speculation, from time to time, a the opportunity has offered,X' , " : :. -V:LZ . - Thrift dominates ourjiaUonal councils. Witness onr .40M00,000 nary, Staving off a 500j00,00d war, and leaving us J100,000,000 ahead, not to speak , of the moral uplift " ' 'iV.;,": ' - ' ' "1 .' ' ' , Thrift is what the fclew Englstti theologians really mea,n whittrthfey'lpeak of saving graces Faith, hope and charity are graces, but they aTe'nofsd'Wy Having. speoially charity.the greatest of these. From Life. j . - - - in Industrial Field. Park hurst putting Its blight upon everything that acquaint himself with the facts that and prodding that distinguish the there is less to show lor it than is steady and composed discipline oi in a hurry, but he does as much as Geimany is rapidly overtaking Eng U a 1 Aenenlu h Benson. 1 1 908 Made Big 10,852 Persons Ended Their Lives, Mak ing New Record In Line of Endeavor, Chicago. The crime and casualty records for 1908, a3 collected by the Chicago TrlbUne in Its annual sum mary, show some interesting phases. Probably the most ' striking feature is the steady increase in the number of suicides, and the great percentage of these that are traceable .to the business depression and embarrass ments of the year. Self-destruction due to these causes grew fivefold over the record of the year before, despite the fact that the financial squeeze be gan early In the fall of .1907. As a weapon ot self-destruction the revol ver gained greatly in favor. Embezzlements involved a larger total than in 1907, and a peculiar phase of this record Is that more than two-thirds of this crime, figured pn a monetary Dasts, is cnainea up against bank officials and employes. The re form wave seems to have had a good effect on public officials. The homicide record deaths ot all kinds by -personal violence rln creased over 1907, but fell short of that of the previous year. The death toll for holiday sports aggregated 63 deaths and 3820 injuries. The number of suicides for 1908 was 10,852 as reported in the public press. The following list shows the steady increase of self-murder: 1899, R340; 1900. 6736? 1901, 7245; 1902, 82U1; 1903.8597; 1904. 9240; 1905, 9982; 1906, 10.125; 1907, 10,- 782. and 1908, 10,852. The causes of these suicides are stated as follows, the classification, as In tho case of homicides, being a general one: Despondency, 5318; un known, 1541; insanity, 810; domes tic Infelicity, 778; 111 health, 718; business losses, 632: liquor, 636, and disappointed in love, 519. Three thousand one hundred and two persons shot themselves. In the remaining cases 2735 died by poison, 1936 by asphyxiation, 1041 by hang France Is the World's Banker Enormous Yearly Savings Great Invest- "; rnnis Is $ 1 1 00 Per. Capita. - , Paris.' ri Kuough ; "general trade conditions in Franee, as in .other European countriesr suffered in 1908, largely because ot the. reduction in American . demand, following the financial erlsls, figures submitted by M. Leror Beaulieu and other statis ticians at the end of the year regard ing the wealth .of the French people demonstrate the imposing strength ot France's financial position, and her right, to the title ot 'the world's banker." ' France's fortune Is grow ing steadily, as the result ot an an nual saving of $1,000,000,600, much ot which , must v seek - Investment abroad. . .... . - M. Leroy Beaulteu's figures show that France now receives $3(0,000,- 000 as an" annual Income from for eign holdings, which are principally government stocks, the amount hav ing been almost doubled in the last fifteen years. . He estimates the pres ent wealth of the French people at 845,000.000.000. or more than siioo for every .man,, woman and child, and as the estimate is based on Sergeant Draws' Big Bum . . ? : -ifN ' ' i.'- Through Army Deposit Flan. : San Francisco, Cal. Charles Har vey, a retired soldier,- who has been post:quartermaster sergeant at Fort Rosecrans for-some time, drew, from Colonel George R. Smith, chief pay-" master, $13,000,. the aamint he has saved from his pay through the army deposit plan. - This is the second largest sum the chief paymaster of this department has ever paid 'to a soldier. - Besides this amount Harvey will receive, for the rest of his life 67.50 a month. 'j- Cartoon by Robert Carter, in the New York American. " SuicldeGains ing, 1004 by drowning, 825 by cut ting throat, 85 leaping from-foofs or windows, 65 by thrpylng themselves in front of engines, 3$ by stabbing, 27 by fire, 3 by dynamite and 1 by starvation. " Embezzlements, forgeries and bank wreckings, amounting to 113,555, 538, are in excess of, those of last year. Ten bank presidents, twenty eight cashiers, eleven bank clerks and four brokers have made way with $10,085,472, while agents, forgers, postmasters, public officials, loan as sociation managers and . ordinary clerks combined- have stolen only about $3,500,000. Some slight moral compensation was made on the- part of thirty of these fifty-two financiers, who committed suicide. A noticeable feature of this record Is the steady increase of murder by highwaymen and thugs, being 101 more than in 1907. That more care has been exercised In hunting is shown by the decrease in casualties. During the bunting season proper 75 persons were killed and-91 Injured, and out of Beason 109 killed and -3 5 Injured, a total of 166 killed and 126 injured, as com pared with 191 killed and 165 in jured in 1907. The principal epidemic was the cholera, which prevailed in Russia and Eastern.. Asia and the .Philippines;- 7700 died in Russia, 12.000 In the Philippines and 30,000 in China. In the, innumerable baseball fields 65 were killed and 69 seriously in jured, nearly all of whom belonged outside ot the league clubs. In the football field 18 were killed and 318 Injured. The persons who rock the boat have drowned 8. and the criminally reckless who didn't know It was loaded have killed 41 and wounded tl. clared .succession taxes, it la ad mittedly far below the real figures. In . addition, ' Mr. Leroy Beaulieu takes no account ot the. great amount of .gold and securities which the French, especially the peasants, keep concealed. These probably rjval the hidden treasures of India, i During the last afteen years $521, 400,000 In gold was loaned abroad, yet the excess' importation amounted to $785,800,000. In 1900 tho gold holdings of the Bank of France in creased by $200,000,000; they now stand at $700,000,000, vthe largest In the history of the bank. The other banks bold $838,800,000. , ,: ' - Tho balances of trade, which in 1893 amounted to' $140,000,000 against France, are now in France's favor. Increased taxation, however, keeps pace with the increased wealth, the budget of 1909, owing to the pur chase of the Western Railroad and extraordinary expenses in -connection with Morocco, being the. highest in Che history of . the country, not ex- de-ceptlng the war period. i Color Bays Cure Fof'-.Wd Crime. 7 V . . . Inebriety and Crime. . .- Philadelphia. Cases ot drunken Bess and of juvenile depia-tity cured by application- of varl-coiored lights were presented by Dr. J. Frank Wal lis, of the Norristown State Insane Asylum before the Philadelphia Medi cal Society. " ' "Light starvation the doctor de clared, "causes criminals. .- - "With the development of the use of light energy as a curative agent drunkenness and crime will disap pear." . STAYING UP LATE. -. i One evening when my bedtime came I didn't want to co. Eoniother said I might stay-ap . or just ttu once; you Know. And so I stared and stayed and stayed, . Through all the night, I think, - And never went to Bed at all- - i JJpr slept a little wink. -' . , , But when at last the ran arose, A-shining -warm and red, found l oad my nighty on, ; And was aittinir .ub in bed. i Alden Arthur l&ipe, in St. Nicholas. A HOME MADE DOLL HOUSE. . It sounds very ambitious to- make a doll s bouse as well as all the f urn lture at home,, but it is not at all dif ficult, and a very delightful; way of amusing one's self and otherss wall. It will certainly prove a most fascin ating ocupatlon for the long dull win; ter days. .' .. ...- . , v. The doll's bouse sheuld.really.be made -first so as. to have a place to put the furniture in .as you finish it There are. several . ways .of making the doll's house, and we will ."describe two of these. - To make it in card board yoO will want 'four, small hat boxes all the. same ..Size, and of as strong a cardboard as you can. get; these can be had at a draper's shop for a few pennies. .They are then glued together two on top of each other', so that you have' tour rooms. To make them. firmer it lg a good way tq put a piece of millboard, between t$e. two top and bottom rooms; this must of course be glued on; Jt makes the floors so much stronger; also cut a, piece of the millboard an inch big ger, all around 4.0 go on the top of the house; this makes the eaves, and the root is then put on to this. The roof Is made of two straight pieces of cardboard Joined together,' with theJ two ends also glued on. - The best way. ip join them is to glue a -strip of coarse tape oh to the two pieces of cardboard, forming it into the right shape and gluing the two side pieces on in the same way. The next thing Is to paint the -house; it must be sized first or. the-paint will sink 'In too touch; then paint the roof, the two sides and the baclf. The root iuuks oest in oiaca wnn a wniue chimney pot The front part of the house, which opens, is made with two pieces of millboard glued togeth er to make it stronger; they should be cut the "size of the front of the house; any; stationer will do this for you, as It Is rather, hard to cut your self; this is fastened on to the side with two small hinges, The windows and door are drawn 'in before the front is painted, and these" are done last; the .door might be dark green with the panels picked out In a light er shade; the windows are painted gray to represent, glass, with white lines across to divide the panes . of glass, and curfatns may also be paint ed to give it a more borne like and furnished appearance these could be either white , or yellow. The house would require two coats of paint but need not be varnished. When the paint is quite dry the rooms are to be papered each a different cblor, and then the furniture can be made to match each room. The ceilings should be all papered in white; the bedroom carpet might" be . of some pretty chlnts, the dining-room a and drawing-rooms pi some thin serge or any -other, suitable material you may have;- you can get samples of floor cloth in paper which. do splendidly for the kitchen; most drapers hare this and would give you a piece. . . A more elaborate way of pointing tho house is to first put on a good thick coat of white paint, and when this is dry to put a thick coat of red paint orer this, and before this is dry. to mark out the bricks with a piece, of stlct pointed, a the end. This requires care, as you must not. put your hand on to the red paint but it looks very pretty when finished. , To"- make .the. other doll's house you would want a sugar box from the grocer's or a good sized soap hot; then you put in one or two shelves according to the size you want your rooms to be. The shelves are made ot a much- thinner wood,- and-Mt '; is best to get carpenter to cut these out tho correct else; then, nail some thin strips of wood on the two sides and back Of the house on to which you slip the shelves and fasten them down, firmly on to these with nails. Partitions can be put between; the rooms if thought necessary, la.? the same way that the shelves were put In. The lid on the box does for the door," and the whole-7 must . be sized. before painted, and then proceed fn the same manner as for the other house. This makes a stronger house, but is more difficult to make,, and the other way is a very good one, and cannot be broken very easily.- The Girls' Own Paper. -'.. HOW THB DOLLS HELPED ISABEL Monday morning la vacation is hor rid..; Isabel thought so as she rue fully eyed the big pile of breakfast dishes. Washday mamma always did the dining room and kitchen work; while Janet was busy In the laundry, and always in vacation time Isabel bad to help. - To-day" mamma had some extra work, and it was Isabel's task to wash and dry' the dishes r.ll alone. ' ' "They're just mountains high! " she declared. . '- ,' ' '' They Weren't at all, though J must confess that there sere a good many ot them. , . i .- - - When mamma had called to her the dishes were ready, Isabel was busy playing with her numerous fam ily ot iolii. Very reluctantly she laid Gertrude Maud back into her bed, and-covered Gladys 'Emily carefully; - . in the doll carriage, and started with, , lagging footsteps toward the kitchen. ; -She filled the big dishpan with hot . f water, and gave the glasses,, then the " ' - slWer.ithelr morning bathi -omvt-how the large kitchen Seemed lonely,;, without either mamma or' Janet, in " . -spite of the fact that' the sunshine was w , streaming .in -.brightly.? through the' , windows. Then a sudden, thought . came to her. -1..:-5 - v - ;T11 bring. the dolls out here andA. maksbelieve they are helping me," -, r -she Bald to herself, x, - "--.-".'.' " -'; So Gertrude "."Maud". and ' Gladys Emily, and the smaller dolls, Hetty, and Lillian,; and black Alice : with, her apron and turban, looking, very,"." - much fitted - for ; herUk were all seated In a row on the big table, with -their back against the' wall and their fee! ckl4g put straight itt front of ' ' thenufT Wr-.ivi.i " ' ? - i ;Then Isabel teganlier game.-""Tlo plates you shall. wash and wipe," she",' said,r addressing Gertrude Maud "W " 'cause you're thebiftest? -j .- - . C i So Isabel 5 caroIuUy washed and , , wiped, the platSsT and placedthenin , , . front of Gertrudec'f'vt'iV-''"'' Vf-.rl . ,"And the-cups and-saucerjf, belong . .'f to yon, , Gladys.. Be sure to do them.'c-. nicely," he.saldj ". Then they were done, and piled on J the table by Gladys.' Han. (had the little butterpiates and v -" -'-c oatmeal dishes to do, .'It was great fun. ' ' " '- Isabel made be- Here that they didn't want to do them t all, and tben had to scold them a ; little and remind them that such tasks bad to be done by little girls -and it was well to -learn how to d Lthem properly. ' ri , Black Alice bad the frying-pan and oatmeal pot to do. But the next time' Isabel had the dishes to do alone. and the dollies helped, Gertrude Maud did the pans,' " 'cause It doesn't seem fair, Just 'cause she's black r for her -to do the.hard part always. ? .V ' When mamma came in and saw the raw of dollies andJLbe nicely washed dishes, .she was much pleased with -, Isabel's little game , pi .dishwashing and dolls. Woman's Home Com panion. " . " ' " IN OLD HOLLAND: " , It was an Englishman who said; "The children of .Holland take pleas ' ure in making . ; , . What, the. children of England tak , pleasure in, breaking ; i p a If he. had seen tbe Breiben School of Laren he could have made a newer, and a better proverb, says St. Nich olas, r. Every bright day four little Dutck ' maids sit on the bench before Mev rouw: Kosta's . door and.. Janikc teaches them to knit. 1 Anna, who 4s ten, clicks her needles fast and event,;"' ly, but Wllhelmina, who Is only lx,' crooks ber fat, pudgy fingers paln-v- fully round the yarn and Sighs.- ' r She knows well that It Is necessary. r. to be clever to Ure In Laren, for -Laren, let me tell you, is a most dis tinguished place, very different from the rest of -Holland; and Wllhelmina u 7. knows It is quite mountainous there for it is thirteen feet above the sea. -? But to" be- clever It' is necessary to knit , heels-as well as legs-of stock- 1 lugs; so she keeps at it, while. Inside xv the cottage, Mevrouw Kosta is spin-v nfng yarn on a big spinning wheel, , and you can bear, the cheerful bum ot the bobbin.-?- ' i- - When the sun sends out long, level rays across the flat, green fields, and the windmill throws Its queer a had-. ow down the bard, white road, Wll- ' " helmlna's and Nettje's -i plump legs' carry them. home with a right good. " . ill, their wooden , shoes clattering. down the road toward the sunset, M the ong Dutch twilight begins. What Teetb, Answer For. , " , . Jt I to the teeth that the patholo gist should first look for an explana-. Uon of. those emotional crises in tho lives of all ot jos which assume now. the .form of -an exaggeration of the . -sentiment, ot romantic, love, again an intensification of insomnia and some times a development of religious sen sibllity to the boundary line of mania. . In making good this theory the pro fessor ot diseases of the nervous sys- i tem in the Western Reserve Unlver- . . sity, . Dr. Henry S. Upson, ascribes many of the ordinary cases of nervous v wreck met with in daily experience to misunderstanding of the dental - mechanism ot man. Not only Is tooth-' ache the cause, but disease of a dental nature Involving no pain whatever to - ; the victim, works its havoc and leads " men and women to madhouses, do- , mestic miseries and every kind .of ' - excess. Current Literature.' Saving Street Car Patrons. r ' The pay-as-you-enter cars possess other advantages besides that of se-' cuxlng fares which are ordinarily lost' to the company. It is reported that- the Introduction ot this type on the Chicago City Railway had reduced the number of fatal accidents by over six teen per cent It has also reduced the number ot less seslous accidents due flo getting on or off the car. Scien tiflo American.' - . " - Perfectly Honest. ' "I hadn't been talking with "hlri three minutes before ha called me an ass. What sort of a person 13 he?' 'Well, I never' knew Lii to t;;l a He." 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