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Superiority in Affairs of the Heart the
Final Test
Ty Julius
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am sure that very few will agree with Prof. Metchnikoff'a
comments on the relative merits, superiority, or inferiority
of ihe male Bex to the female Statements have been ad
vanced by champions of the sex that woman has been ex
cluded from all higher intellectual occupations, so that her
mind has become atrophied, her capabilities tuuntea, or
her talents stagnated. It seems to me that this should not
enter into the question at Issue. I cannot see what rela
tion this bears to the question of the superiority or infer
iority of either sex to the other. It is, as it always must be, that broad hu
manitarlanism, unselfishness, love and charity make for the superior man or
woman, and woman in this regard carries off the palm. She rules the world,
and she does so because she is superior. It is not true in any sense that man
has done anything to materially further the advancement of the home. He
Is entirely passive there. Nor has he any place whatever in that home when
compared with the divine qualities that motherhood carries. The home is
the arch of civilization and progress, and woman is its keystone.
In making a comparison of the sexes there is but one important consider
ation, and that is the qualities of the heart. When the professor states that
"women are superior to men in affairs of the heart, and that is a great deal,"
he states the case plainly and absolutely for her. With her strength of mind
and intelligence, with her goodness of heart, she must be classed as the su
perior to man. What advantage would there be to this world and its prog
ress in civilization and morality, if the qualities of the heart did not have
precedence? Of course, It Is Important to possess genius, but man, with his
genius for doing many things, lacks the goodness of heart and spirituality to
become woman's equal. Wlien the question at Issue here Is that of the su
perior man or woman, we must conceive that It is the qualities of the heart
that make for humanity and civilization, and that she decides the question.
Woman may lack genius, but never humanitarlanlsm.
If It Is true, as is said of woman, that "the hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world," what more can be said for her?
Woman's work in the home as wife and mother Is doing more for civili
zation and mankind than our sreatest geniuses In art, science and Invention.
Of course, superior attributes in man's recognized field of endeavor are evi
dence of the superior man. but it is the heart qualities that largely indicate
the superior bein?. How stupid to say because a man is a great craftsman
or a genius in his work, that lie is the superior being? Since when do we
measure humnnltarionUui and civilization by such standards?
$ Farm Boys
N a b-ooU 4B "Engtalid end the English," by Fred M. Hueffer,
he speaks of conditions in the rural districts as follows:
"With the spread of education, with the increase of
communication, there has come not the determination to
better the conditions of life in the country, but the simple
abandonment of the land. It is, I think, a truism to any one
who knows the country that there are whole
stretches of territory in England where a really full-witted
or alert youth of between sixteen and thirty will absolutely
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not bo found. I visited lately eighteen farms of my own neighborhood, cov
ering a space of about four miles by two miles, and on this amount of ground
only five boys found employment. Four of these were below the average in
telligence, and had at school not passed the fourth standard; th fifth was so
(stupid' that he could not be trusted to do more than drive the milk cart to
and from the station. And of all the farm laborers' families that I know well
some forty-six In number only two have youths at home, and one of these
has 'something the matter with his legs.' Of one hundred and twelve other
families that I know in a nodding way, not more than five have boys at work
in the fields. Making a rough calculation of the figures as they have present
ed themselves to me, I find that just over 6 percent of the country-born boyf
J have known have stayed of their own free choice on the land."
Mr. H. also says that all the old amusements of the countryside' th
lairs, the May-day celebrations, the cricket clubs and the like are dying out,
with no effort on the part of the rustics to retain them. Into the cities troop
the cleverest of the farm boys; what the author calls he "Anglo-Saxon-Teu-tonlc-iD.'ustrial-commerclallsm
that is Modernity" has taken them into its
grip.
Human Imperfection
1
Ey Charles G.
0HERE Is no perfect church, no perfect book, no perfect in
spiration, no perfect knowledge; and all for the reason that
there are no perfect human beings or institutions. AH our
organizations, whether we set them up in the name of lib
erty and Justice, in the name of truth and righteousness,
in the name of religion or of God, are composed of defective
members, and cannot help sharing the imperfections of their
parts. It is well to know it, fair to admit it; and It is no
misfortune to see things ae they are.
But now let us frankly recognize the value and uses of things imperfect.
There are no perfect marriages, because there are no perfect men and wom
en; no perfect societies, because nd perfect people to be associated.
We must not look for perfection in what now is. We must work. toward
It, leaving the things that are behind and reaching' toward the things that are
before. The anarchist, finding nothing wholly good, seeks to destroy every
thing; the wise man, finding the same, seeks to improve everything.
Yet the good cause is carried forward, as all human affairs are, by such
Imperfect agencies and Instruments as the Lord happens to have on band at
each stage of proceedings. This may explain why even we are permitted to
bear a part. The exceeding greatness of his power is shown by the good
(work done with such poor tools. Heavenly strength is made perfect in earth
ly weakness.
V
British and German
Physique
By Arnold White
EN millions of our people Inhabit dwellings inferior to'
the kennels provided for the hounds -. in - a well-managed
bunt. . The results of living in dwellings, unfit for human
habitation and the prevalence of a dietary scale from which
,' English meat, bread and milk are excluded are fatal to suc
cessful rivalry with a
culture Is fostered for
Having spent hoars
morning trains In Berlin and Hamburg,' I am appalled with the contrast be
tween the vigorous and well-set-op, broad-chested and healthy-looking clerks,
brawny shopmen and stalwart laborers on the other side of the North Sea
and the champagne-shouldered, cow-hocked, pigeon-chested, lack-lustre train
Tula of men of the same classes landed at Liverpool street, Victoria and
Charing Cross. London World. ', ' -;-5 " ;'
Go'.dburg
in England $
Ames, D. D.
virile and healthy race where agrt-
strategical reasons. ---
la watching the arrival of the early
Cartoon bv
ELECTRICAL SHOCKS TO DESTROY EVERY WARSHIP AFLOAT
Lewis Nixon Says Currents Flashed Through Air is Battle Method f Future-No
Danger From Airships-Destruction So Terrible That Nations
Will Be Forced to international Peace. .
New york City. Lewis Nixon,
shipbuilder, graduate of the United
States Naval Academy and for several
years one of the chief constructors of
the American navy, flouts the theory
that the airship in any of its forms
will become a formidable war ma
chine. Instead, Mr. Niton believes that
the death-dealing terror of the war of
the future will be the electric shock.
This conclusion has been forced
upon his judgment by a careful study
of the subject of new war agencies
and by closely watching the manoeu
vres of the Wright aeroplane as It
sailed up the Hudson and circled the
representatives of the world's great
est navies.
In Mr. Nixon's opinion warships
can guard against the danger of ex
plosives that might be dropped upon
them by airships by specially pre
pared armor. He believes, though,
that sooner or later there will be per
fected a gun or some other piece of
mechanism for hurling .1 thunderbolt
that will shock to death every man
aboard a warship, irrespective of its
protection.
"I am convinced," said Mr. Nixon
to a reporter, "that the thing could
be done now, but the mechanism is
so crude that the thunderbolt, or elor
tric Impulse, would kill the man who
should release it. as well as the en
emy. It Is possible, of course, that
some foreign nation already has per
fected the necessary machine with
which to hurl this deadly bolt. I
hope, however, that It has not been
done. When the principle is mast
ered the result will make war so hor
ribly destructive that the human race,
through the sheer force of nature's
first law self-preservation will
abolish war.
"The aeroplane Is mainly interest
ing now on account of the fnct of
what may grow from It. Possibly we
shall see them like swarms of giant
locusts flying over and beyond armies,
to occupy positions and to cut off
communications.
"For purposes of observation they
will be of great use. The helicopter,
owing to its smaller dimensions, seems
best adapted to such uses, especially
to be carried on men-of-war.
"Insofar as I can see, the dirigible,
which will combine much that the
aeroplane is now proving out, is the
ship of the future.
"Count Zeppelin has already crossed
STARVING ESKIMO
St. John's, N. F. Tragedy in the
icy wastes of the Far North formed
the burden of the news brought to
this port by the Hudson Bay Com-,
pany's steamer Adventure, which ar
rived with the crew of the lost Dun
dee whaler Paradox, in the story of
an Eskimo, driven to cannibalism by
starvation, who ate his child and shot
several neighbors who attempted sum
mary punishment.
The Paradox, one of the fleet of
Dundee whalers, met the fate of her
companion ship, the Snowdrop, which
was crunched In the merciless jaws of
the ice floes off Baffin Land early In
August a year ago. The crew, with
scanty provisions, made their perilous
way over the broken ice toward the
mainland and were picked up by the
EXPERTS TO ADVISE PITTSBURG.
Pittsburg. The Pittsburg Civic
Commission, fathered by Andrew Car
negie and H. C. Frlck, announces that
soon there will arrive in Pittsburg one
of the most Important and high priced
trio of experts to be bad in the coun
try for the purpose of giving advice
on Pittsburg's bad street car system,
her river front and on plans for lay
ing out the f 500,000 park which
Prick has given the city of Pittsburg
through his daughter Helen. Those
who have been employed to come at a
salary of $800 a day ago are Blon J.
Arnold, of Chicago; James R. Free
man, of Providence, and Frederick
Law Olmstead, of Boston, ':.
Mr. Arnold, who Is an expert on
street railways, will. do his best to
Xearly All Animals in Canadian .
Buffalo Herd Escape.
Calgary. ; Alberta. "Word was
brought here by a man named Ed
wards that the Canadian buffalo park
at Walnwright, Alberta, had beea de
stroyed by the prairie fire which has
been burning In that section.-.
. As the-fire burned the fence sur
rounding the parks the herds of buf
falo, estimated at 800 animals, and a
large herd of elk escaped. Many of
the animals were killed. ''
The fires caused' a financial 'loss
that will ran into millions.
1 "
O. William, in the Indianapolis News.
the Alps and made long voyages
against adverse conditions in all borts
of weather. His airship is larger than
the Bteamship of thirty years ago and
more speedy than those that are now
crossing the ocean in record breaking
time. I look to see airships of the
Zeppelin type half a mile in length.
They will not come down to the earth
any more than the Mauretania will
anchor in a shallow stream, but will
be anchored up in the air, possibly a
thousand feet or more.
"Explosives will not be dropped
down, as you could not hit a tug With
an anple from the Brooklyn Bridge,
: which is only 130 feet high. Electrl
' cal guns will be used, of course, and
I heavy ones like our present powder
' guns.
I "Ships at anchor will send up bal
I loons or kites to carry special lllum
I Inants, and in time of war the heavens
1 all around will be brilliantly lighted
I with special forms of rockets.
I "Men-of-war will be protected best
I by special armament for attacking air
j craft. The airship, however, will rap
ldlv develop as a peaceful device and
will soon be as much a necessity of
modern civilization as the automobile.
"The attraction of gravitation, be
ing a condition of matter, may soon
be comprehended in such a way that
the repulsion which some way or
some how balances attraction may be
utilized to man's advantage.
"The gas engine has made the air
ship possible. Years ago the French
found that each horse power could
lift thirty-two pounds, so as much as
we develop our horse power below
this weight so much net lifting power
shall we gain.
"But you asked me as to the mlll
try possibilities," continued Mr.
Nixon. "We are on the eve of a tre
mendous and far-reaching change in
warfare. As long ago as 1900 I
pointed out that soon thunderbolts
would he thrown. The significance
of a news item published about a year
ago of a man receiving a shock which
nearly proved fatal while talking over
a wireless telephone was not then
fully appreciated. It would be possi
ble at the present day to shock to
death every man on a vessel at five
miles distance, but so far the Impulse
cannot be projected at any one mark.
But direction and aiming will be mas
tered after a while, and then thun
derbolts will be thrown just as shells
are thrown now."
SLAYS HIS CHILD.
Hudson Bay Company's steamer Pell
can, which took them to Fort Church
ill, where they remained until the ar
rival of the Adventure on her regular
fall trip. The Adventure also brought
several missionaries, surveyors and
prospectors from the Northwest coun
try. The Adventure's report of the can
nibalism says the Eskimo's fishing
and hunting season had been a fail
ure, and. driven mad by hunger, he
cut the throat of one of his children
and then ate the little victim. When
the man's neighbors learned of the
'crime they attacked him, according
to the primitive law of their race. The
outcast beat oft all assaults, shot sev
eral of the attacking party and es
caped into the wilderness of ice.
figure out a way In which the transr
po rtation facilities of Pittsburg can
be bettered. . It is conceded that the
street car service if about the worst
In the country. 'Mr. Freeman is the
hydraulic engineer whom President
Taft is said to have paid $500 daily
for making the trip to Panama; and
he will take up the matter of Pitts
burg's water frontage and suggest
ways and means of saving the city
millions yearly lost through the riv
ers' overflow.- Mr, Olmstead will tell
the people of Pittsburg how they can
best beautify the park land given
them by Frick- It is understood that
Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Frlck share
equally the $800 a day paid to this
trio of experts. .
Coal and Coke Advancing;
s , - Roads Short of Can.
' Baltimore, Md. For the first time
since the early part of 1107 the rail
roads entering Baltimore, especially
those having a large coal tonnage, are
face to face with a car famine. The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began
distributing coal cars on the percent
age basis, in West Virginia scarcity
Of ears is more pronounced. 1 . ,
-Practically every mine in Maryland
and West Virginia Is being operated
to the capacity of the railroads. Prices
of coal and eoke are rising.
GROWN UP PEOPLE.. ..
. Margie's mother was sowing some
seeds and explaining how they, would
come up plants.
"Oh, yes!" exclaimed Margie, "they
go to bed babies and get up grown
people." Philadelphia Record. ": '
A TURTLE DAT.
I want to tell you about an experi
ence I had last spring when I had the
turtle fever and was very anxious to
find some turtles myself. I started
out one morning carrying a, net oyer
my shoulder In search of them. ' I
walked all around a little lake where
turtles would most likely live, but not
a trace could I find. I was about to
give up when I remembered a little
pond near the lake where 1 had often
ueen turtles. I walked cautiously
around the edge and then my heart
gave a leap, for there in the bottom
of the pond, right near the shore,
was a turtle. Now every one knows
that these reptiles dive into .the mud
at the least noise, and It requires a
cautious and quick movement to get
One, so I thought it best to catch It
with my hand. Slowly I reached to
ward it and then made a grab. But
ouch! such a slimy, horrid creature
I held. Not like the ordinary water
turtle at all, but a soft spongy shell
and a big head that twisted around
and tried to bite me. I never had
such an unpleasant surprise. ' I
BLIND
When I am out at play
Duke jumps and frisks about
Runs when he sees me run
Barks when he hears me shoutl
And when I trudge to school
Across the grassy fields
Who should it be but Duke
naliimnliin. at mv doolu
Written for the Washington Star by Marietta M. Andrews,
dropped the turtle, you may be sure,
but after so much labor I was deter
mined not to go home empty hand
ed. So I tried to take him home In
a handkerchief, but his ugly head
first peered out from one corner and
then from the other. He frightened
me so that I dropped him, handker
chief and all. Into the pond. For a
long time after that I did not try to
go "turtllng." Beulah Frances Pach,
In the New York Tribune.
ON THE MERRICK ROAD.
Life on the Merrick road, which
leads along the south shore of Long
Island, on a sunny Sunday afternoon
is a very exciting thing. At sunrise
the "honk" of the first automobiles
wakes the slumbering resident, and
from that time on till late at night
there is an endless procession of vehi
cles going to and fro. There Is every
thing from a 810,000 French car to
a bicycle.
At half-past 4 on Sunday afternoon
a 'bus full of fellows, who evidently
had been on an excursion further down
the Island, came lumbering along
the Merrick road. The occupants,
all very much intoxicated, were quar
reling among themselves. A couple
of them were half asleep. A small
boy, a brother of one of the men, sat
on the steps, paying no attention to
his comrades. The dispute became
more and more heated. . One of the
sleepers woke up, but, in spite of the
efforts of the rest, the other man
could not be aroused. At last, full of
anger and alcohol, the company fell
upon him and . . beat him until he
jumped out and ran up the road,
where, a free, for all' fight followed.
Numbers being against him, hessoon
fell down In the road, when four of
the men kicked him In the head. At
this a few of the assailant became
faint-hearted and ran off, breaking
down hedges, trampling over flower
beds and arousing all the dogs in the
neighborhood. '' .':'; 'r v
. .- ; By this time a policeman and a fire
man arrived and arrested four of the
chief offenders. . .Three they let go,
taking the drunkenest man to the
Board of Health office for the night
and to Mlneola Jail. ' The one who
had been Kicked was taken to a doe
tor, where he had his head tied up.
The road in the wake of the wagon
was strewn with sausages, beer bot
tles and tin cans.V The town officials
arrested fifteen automobiles for fast
.driving. ; This was an exciting Sun
day for Freeport. Harriet T. Mum
ford, la the New, York .Tribune. ;
' LOVE THE BIRDS. . -The
birds et different countries and
climes make a most Interesting study,
and the more' we learn of our little
feathered kinsfolk of the air the more
wUl we love them and bold their life
and liberty dear. To destroy the life
or a bird f orMe purpose of mere kill
ing to display one's marksmanship
is simply murder, and nothing
real,
more, even -though .the. .victim- be a
bird. Life Is given to all creatures of
the air, the waters and the land byt
our Creator, and not one should be
held lightly. Therefore, when chil
dren kill birds for the mere sake of
killing they are committing, very
grievous sin. And to capture and
cage them is even more wlekedp for
a blfd In a cage is the same as a child
In a prison, removed from all that It
holds dear in life. Every- boy 'and
girl who .reads this should try to. im
agine himself and herself kidnaped
by some great monster, with whom
he and she had no connection what
ever, and carried away from home
and friends and locked In a great iron
cage, just large enough to admit of
the prisoner having a few feet la
which to jump about and get exer
cise, to depend on forgetful monsters
for food and water, to have his or her
prison hung In cold or hot places, to
be neglected and starved, and again
overfed. When they have fancied
themselves in this unhappy captivity
the boy and girl will have some sort
of idea of the unhappy lot of an Im
prisoned bird.
Now, the world had birds to fly,
and to sing before man was created.
Birds are as much a part of the beau
tiful earth as are the flowers and
trees. There are so many kinds of
birds that to just read over the names
of a few of the varieties will rouse
DUKE.
And when ometimes I'm spunkea,
As every boy must be,
JJUKe, witn ms single eye.
Looks on right angrily;
He growls out: "Let that hoy be!
"Don't lick that little chum of mine!"
And then he licks my tears away,
With sympathetic whine:
any boy's and girl's Interest, and they
will at once desire to learn something
about each of these varieties, and of
others that will come under their no
tice when the subject has been takon
up. The tropical countries are richer
In variety than are the northern coun
tries. And the birds are larger and
more beautifully feathered in the
tropics. Many of them have most
curious habits, and form a never-ending
Bource of enjoyment to read and
study about.
A list of the names of different
families of birds, so to speak, is given
here, birds that are most interesting
to know about. They are the nightin
gale, the robin, the song thrush, the
owl, the nuthatch, the skylark, the
magpie, the trogon, the racket-tailed
motmot, the hoopoe, the bee-eater,
the hornblll (many varieties), the
laughing jackass, kingfisher, the
cuckoo, the mountain parrot, the
cockatoo, the kaka, the kea, the
swift, the morepork, the nightjars,
the hummingbird, the pelican, the
cormorant, the f rigatebird, the gan
net, the screamer, the pochard, the
sheldrake, the secretaryblrd, the vul
ture, the kite, the esprey and the
eagle.
The above list Includes birds of all
countries, and it will be a pleasure
for the young reader to sort them, ar
ranging them in their climatic order.
Then study them singly, thus becom
ing Intimate wtth our feathered kin
all over the world. Mary Graham, In
the Hartford Post.
Bretow Birthday Party. .
A. oirrnaay party 01 mvu, mvu
n and children, all the direct de
scendants of an old lady 100 years of ,
age, gathered upon the 100th birth- -day
of Mme. Anne le Cleach in the
UlUt village 01 uuiiviuov u iuu,hht ..
this week.' -'' '- ;" ' :
v The old lady, who is a widow now, -'V-was
married at fifteen. She had tour- :
teen children, six of whom are still -alive.
Mme. le Cleach's oldest grand- t
daughter has herself been a grand
mother for seven years. The whole "
family form rather more than a third
of the Inhabitants of their village and
Mme. le Cleach, who enjoys the best ,
of health., knows every one of them .
by sight and name. London Evening '
Bianoara. - . -v..- , '
1 , ' ' ' ' . 1 -; "
r Conceited Men Never Popular.1 - .
' A man who shows himself too welt .
satisfied with - himself is seldom '
pleased with others; and they. In re
turn, are not disposed to like him,
La Rochefoucauld.' " , ... ' '
Invisible Forces.
All great forces are Invisible and
silent; only their effects are seen.
The power of a true life, who can
measure ItT. ' 1 .,' -J.-.iLV.i::.;
In Chile there are regions where
there are so many Germans that the
native servants learn their language.