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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
The Ministry.
F the 20,000 men and women who graduated
I I from our universities and colleges last month
I J lonly 1,500 aspire to preach the gospel. As
a* there are some 74,000 engaged In preaching in
the United States this conti’ibutlon Is Insurti
elent to keep up the supply. Here nnd there
are men and women who have never had a col
lege or theological training who are discharging the duties
>f the pulpit, but they are few compared to those who have
Had these advantages, so that virtually the nnmber of as
pirants is a correct measure of the extent of the minis
terial ambition.
The principal reasons why the number of candidates
lor the clergy is growing less relatively year by year are
that congregations are getting more exacting, that the pay
is small and the occupation the least attractive of the pro
lesslons. This Is tin- selfish point of view. Then, the con
icientlous student who may be religiously Inclined and who
lees great opportunities for doing good In the calling, sorne
dmes Is deterred because he cannot satisfy his conscience
If the truth of some of the doctrines of Christianity. Sootr
w than preach something which he cannot believe In Ik
hints ills talents to Another calling.
Another hindrance is that the religious unrest, so palpa
ble In the world, is much more pronounced in the higher
trails of learning, itere agnosticism, materialism, indlffer
intlsm, are at work sapping the early religious training
xnd turning the mind In Its formative stage against the
pulpit. Much harm is wrought here by the scoffer and the
unbeliever who are never so happy as when reviling
Christianity and everything pertaining to its mlssiopal
idvancemeht.
The world was never so generous in Its support of
Christian chureh.es and charities as it is -to-day and no
where else is this extended with the generosity of that of
ihe United States. Yet the disposition to preach Is not
beeping abreast of this sentiment. If it were, the candl
lates for the priesthood this year would number 4,000 or
I,ooQ,iostead of I,soo.—Utica Globe.
The Profit of Good Roads.
that the country Is measurably well sup-
N plied with railroads which haul the farmer’s
products to marl;e: at an average rate of a half
_— a cent n ton per mile. It begins to be of prime
PjJUjSiWJg importance that the average cost of hauling
from the farm tn the railway station, which
is about twenty-five cents per ton per mile.
Ihottld Ite reduced. The Depart nent of Agriculture claims
that this cost could be redu 1 two-thirds by the simple
lubstitution of good macadamized roads for the ordinary
lift highways now in use.
Pennsylvania's new road law. which divides the'eost of
Baking permanent roads between the State, county and
township, was Inspirtfl by u desire to begin the solution
of this problem in a way that would prove least burden
lome to the farmers themselves. So far. however, Its pro
rlslons have not beeti taken advantage of as widely as
was anticipated. It seems worth while to cnil attention to
the fact that practically similar laws are already in opera
tion, with excellent results. iH New York. New Jersey.
Massachusetts, California and elsewhere. In the State like
New Jersey, where the law has been in operation longest,
the benefits are marked.
It is the first step that costs, however, in road-making
is in everything else. When a few experimental sections
of really good highways have been provided as object les
sons. it Is to be hoped that Pennsylvania farmers will fall
In Une with ^hose of other States, where permanent road
laws have been longer in force.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Our Illiterate Citizens.
mH ERE is foixl for thought in the figures of the
United States census report dealing with edu
cation. Thus we learn that in 1900 there were
the age of 21 or over who
were unable to read or write. This great
(WTlLrSftj army of illiterates constituted 11 per cent of
the voting strength of the nation—an electorate
In Itself sufficiently strong. If suitably distributed, to de
termine national principles and policies.
Of the total 977.000 were .negroes and 1,254.000 whites,
a percentage which when compared with that of thirty
WOODS INDIANS.
The Woods Indians, as Stewart Ed
ward White calls the Ojlbways and
Woods Qreea north of latke Superior,
are distinctly poinudic. They search
out new trapping grounds and new
fisheries, they pay visits, and seom
even to enjoy travel for the sake of
exploration. This life, says the author
of "The Foreit,” Inevitably develops
and fosters an'expertm*ks of woodcraft
'' almost beyond ’nellef.*’'
Another phasCof tills* almost perfect
correspondence to environment Is the
readinesk . with which an Indian will
•meet an emergency. We are accus
tomed to rely titst of all on ths skilled 1
labor of some one we can hire; second,
if we undertake the Job ourselves, on
'the tools made fur us by skilled labor;
and third, on the shops to supply us
with the materials we need. Hardly
once in a lifetime are we thrown en
tirely on our own resources. Then wo
bungiingly Improvise a makeshift.
The Woods Indian possesses his
knife and his light ax. He never im
provises makeshifts. No matter what
the exigency or bow complicated the
demand, his experience answers with
accuracy. Utensils and-tools lie knows
exactly wtiere to find. I Hi;Job Is neat
and workmanlike, whether It Is the
construction of a bark receptacle, wa
ter-tight or not; the making of a pair
of snow shoos, the repairing of a badly
smashed canoe, the building of n shel
ter. or the fashioning of n paddle.
About noon one day Tawablnlaay
broke bls ax-liolve square off. This to
sms would have been a serious affair.
Probably If left to ourselves, we should
have stuck In some sort of u rough
handle made of a straight sapling,
which would have answered well
enough until we could have bought an
othsr. By the time we had cooked
years before showk up to the manifest disadvantage of
the dominant race. Thus in 1870 the excess of illiterate
negroes over Illiterate whites was 90,000. while now. thirty
years later, the latter outnumber the former by 277,000.
■Nor can we Justly retort that these illiterate whites are
aliens dumped upon our shores through the ageucy of Im
migration. Of the total nnmber of white Illiterates only
565.000 are f.V£lgn born, while the native born number
658.000. or an excess of 113.000. Nor Is this the worst of It
The report shows that the percentage of Illiterates among
the native born sons of American parents Is nearly three
times ns great as among the native born sons of foreign
parents. Evidently our foreign born citizens have a higher
appreciation of the advantages of education than many of
the native stock.
At no time In our history has the percentage of illit
erates been as groat as to-day. During the past sixty
years the percentage of this class of citizens has Increased
from 6.15 to 6.60, despite onr free school system and the
earnest efforts to popularize education. The State having
the largest number of Illiterates is Georgia, as might be
expected, with its great negro population nnd Its large
number of struggling whites. Pennsylvania Is ne^t, having
139,982 Illiterates, as compared with 158.247 for Georgia.
The percentage of Illiterates among the native born voters
of New Mexico Is 25. —Utica Globe.
The Disappearance of the Male Teacher. -
one will deny that many of the best school
I AT I teachers In the country are women. There are
| I parts of the delicate and hlgltty Important
|^___Jtask of training the young which can best be
•SVy^^ldone by tactful and gentle women. But It Is
Jj4jgjg£S|also the serious opinion of experts that grow
ing boys should very largely be under the care
of men. There is a certain Inspiration of manly leader
ship which a boy greatly needs, and which he can only get
from a manly man. The influence of a thoroughly robust
school teacher upon his class of boys cannot be calculated.
He puts before them constantly a model of manliness, and
high honor, and attractive industry, and clean courage,
which leaves Its stamp upon their forming minds through
all the rest of their lives.
The generation of boys which must always go to
wbool to women, and to no -one else, will lose something
very valuable out of their school-day training. They may
get as much arithmetic and grammar and history and the
rest of it from the women as from the men, bus they can
no more get the quality of manliness -from women than
they can get the qnallty of refinement from men. Our
schools should be "manned" with men as well as women,
and if wo have permitted the financial attractions of the
profession to fall so far behind the increasing attractions
of competitive callings as to allow all the young men to be
drawn away from this profession, we have been guilty
of a serious betrayal of trnst to the generation which Is
now growing up. Our fathers did not so misuse us.—
Montreal Star.
Wireless Telegraphy in War.
qg question of the value of wireless telegra
*' M ' Phy 111 war has already been considered. Now
F it is supplemented by that of its legality. The
. ' _ . Russian Government has practically served no
tlec " fesnrds it as Illegal At any rate,
SSilS© the use of such a device at the seat of war will
be treated as a breach of neutrality. Corre.
spondents telegraphing without wires will be shot as spies,
and vessels equipped with wireless telegraphic apparatus
venturing near the scene of war will, If caught, be con
fiscated as contraband of war. So far as correspondents
accompanying the Russian army are concerned, we may
unhesitatingly concede the Russian the right of censorship.
That Is a matter of course. A belligerent power has the
undoubted right to decide whether it will permit corre
spondents to accompany its army at all and It It does let
them do so It can, of course, prescribe what matter they
may send through the Unes, and how. Similarly, It may
exercise a censorship over news vessels entering Its terri
torial waters, or the waters Implicated in the sphere of
belligerent action. But a general outlawing of wireless
telegraphy In that part of the world would be a much
more extreme matter—New York Tribune.
dinner that Indian had fashioned an
other helvo. We compared It with a
manufactured helve. It was as well
shaped, as smooth, as nicely balanced.
In fact, tie we laid the new and the
old side by side, we could not have
selected, from any evidence of the
workmanship, which had liven made
by machine and which by hand
Tawablnlsay then burned out the
wood from the ax. retempered the
steel, set the new helve, and wedged
It neatly with ironwood wedges. The
whole a'ffalr, Including the.cuttlng of
ttfe timber, consumed perhaps half an
hour. • . ,
TO travel with a Woods Indian-is a
constant source of delight on this a<;-.
coufltl The Indian rarely needs to hunt
for *, the materials he, requires. He
knows exactly where they grow, and
he turns as directly to them as a clerk
would tym to his shelves. No prob
lem of the living of physical life is too
obscure to have escaped his varied ex
perience. You may travel with Indians
for years, and learn every summer
something new and delightful about
bow to take core of yourself.
COSSACKS A^E A BUGABOO
Facta the Jupunese Ucarued Before
Opening Hostilities.
The care taken by the Japanese to
make sure that they were right before
going ahead Is shown by the fact that,
previous to the war with Russia, they
took the greatest pains to ascortaln
the actual value as a lighting force of
the much vaunted Cossack cavalry,
suys the army and navy register. The
conclusion was, to use the language
of the Japanese official from whom we
obtain this Informptlon, that they
were “a mere bugaboo.” It was found
that the custom of the Russian gov
ernment was to furnish each Cossack
in Manchuria with u fixed sum for the
purchase of a horse. One-half of this
sum he put Into bls pocket and pur
ehasad the best horse be could with
the remainder. The money given for
the purchase of fodder was treated in
the same way and the horse left to pick
up a living as best he could.
The result was shown in a serious
deterioration. In the efficiency of the
Cossaeks. Similar dishonesty was
prevalent In the other departments of
Russian army administration, an illus
tration of which is found in the story
of the Russian officers .found guilty
of selling powder to th<* Chinese and
putting sand ip Its placQ,
. The Japanese even ajsert that the
number of troops under the command
of Konropatkln was .inlsrejifesentM,
sp. that money might be p/nde hydraiv
ihg .supplies t<>r lietitlous warriors. To
make full allowance for contingencies
the Japanese estimated the number of
Russians they, would endpunter on the
Yalu as -hff.OOO in all and sent (it),000
troops against them. It was-found In
the end Hurt the Russians had only
20.000 ipen to oppose the ( tossing of
the river.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Some Aiuusenient Schemes.
The railway companies of tlie coun
try are engaged In all kinds of amuse
ment schemes, with ttro Idea of attract
ing patronage, and the latest Innova
tion of tills character has taken place
in Cleveland, where the manager of a
street railway company has ilrganTzed
a baseball league. Each of the towns
along the line line a nine, and n reg
ular schedule hus been arranged. Ths
railway company has supplied the uni
forms and offered other substantial as
sistance Iswldes undertaking m carry
the players free to and from th? games.
Thg.company, however, does not par
ticipate In the points of the team, but
Is repaid merely by the Increased busi
ness resulting from the games.
If you go around exploiting a fool
belief, people will notice it, and talk
uliout It People who have fool beliefs
are not accorded as much charity —
formerly-
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
humorous sayings and do
ings HERE AND THERE.
Jokes nnd Jokeleta that Are Supposed
to Have Been Recently Born—Saying*
and Doing* that Arc Old, Curious and
Laughable—The Week's Humor.
Biggs—Did you ever notice what n
healthy-looking man Dr. Peljet Is’?
Diggs—Y’es; he looks so different
from bis patients. I wonder who his
physician Is?
Force of Habit.
"1 appreciate the fact that you have
honored me with a proposal," said the
dear girl, "but are you sure your love
for me Is the real thing?"
“Perhaps not.” frankly replied the
young drug clerk, "but it Is hiss expen
sive and Just as good."
Equal to the Emergency.
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Mr. Ix>velorn —Oh, Miss Matilda, me
heart is on fire for thee—it is burning!
\ >
Miss Matllda-4-Sakes alive! Thet
ought to put it out nnd cool ye, too!
His Explanation,
"But why," I asked the good wife,
"are you so anxious to secure the top
fiat in that ten-story apartment
House?”
"Because," explained the household
freight payer, “the elevator would l>e
a great help to us in bringing up the
children.”
Such Dear Friends, Too.
Clara—l'll tell you a secret, dear, if
you'll promise never to repeat la.
Maude—All right. Out with it.
Clara—Fred proposed to me last
night.
Maude—Oh. say, doesn't he do it
awkwardly, though?
Feminine Charity.
Mrs. De Playne—When 1 married
my husband his eyesight was very
poor.
Mrs. Dimples—Yes, it must have
been.
It booked that Way.
Mrs. Henpeek—l don’t think she'll
ever marry him.
Mr. Henpeck—Why not?
Mrs. llenpeck—Oh, she quarrels
with him so and Is so domineering.
Mr. Henpeck—lndeed? I'll bet they
have been secretly married already.—
Philadelphia Press.
Billville Literary Note,
A Billville literary note reads ns
follows:
"While on- of our leading authors
was peacefully plowing In the field
some miscreant stole his shirt, his
shoes and six poems. Verily the way
of the literary man Is not as smooth as
a railroad."—Atlanta Constitution.
What Papa Said.
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Il t i?y_
Willie—Why! grandma, are you go
ing home? Papa Just said yesterday
that he thought you w ere going to stay
forever.
Not Uneto-Uatc.
"He has a promising future. He’s a
very eloquent young preacher."
“Oh, he’s too old-fashioned. He will
Insist upon taking his texts from the
fclble.”—Philadelphia I*rp«s.
Possible Explanation.
Miles—There i« Raid to be n race of
savages hi Africa whose vocabulary
consists of blit elghf. words,
Giles —WhaJ! iJO'.vbu mean to say*
there are .no'Kmmles’aniohg them?
—~ I
Hereditary.
“1 hear,” said the friend of the futn
ily, “that your son is so whig wiki oats
broadcast since he went taihe city.”
“Takes after his ole dad. I reckon,’*
implied old man CorntoMael. ‘*Th* farm
er In him nlr bound tew crop out, by
hen!”
Advice.
••Anybody klu give advice," said Un
oi, Eben, "but It takes a right smart
w u to pick out de right kind an' take
—Washington Star.
Abeent-Mlnded.
Mrs. Schoppen— I want five pounds
of sugar, please.
Grocer—Yea'm; anything else?
Mrs. Schoppen—No. that’s all; I'll
take it with me If it isn't too heavy a
package.
Grocer—Oh, It'll only weigh three or
four pounds, ma'am.—Philadelphia
Press.
Where He Wan Lacking.
“Br’er Thomas wuz always singin’
dat song ’bout ‘De Yuther Side of Jor
dan,’ but you orter heerd him w’en de
doctor tol’ him hik time had come ter
go dar!”
“What he say den?”
“Bellowed lak a bull, en’ hollered: “I
can t swim a lick! I never did take no
swim min’ lessons!’ ’’—Atlanta Consti
tution.
Unabashed.
It Is fainted,” said the close adviser,
"that there Is no reason for your hav
ing so much money.”
"My friend." answered Senator Sor
ghum. "those people don't understand
our social system. Nowadays it is a
waste of time to expect n man to stand
up and apologize for having money.”
Washington Star.
AV hat Did She Mean?
“If you feel chilly.” said he. as they
strolled, "remember I hare your shawl
here-on my arm."
"You might put it around me,” she
saki. demurely.— Philadelphia Press.
Prudent lions.
Ibo contractor frowned up at the
bricklayer sitting dangerously near the
edge of the scaffold.
“Git off av thor, Thomas Murphy!”
lie finally bellowed. “First thlrfg O 1
know ye will fail tin stories, break yez
poipe awn want, an hour to go out awn
buy a new one.”
On the Jersey Coast.
“I'm not going to remain nt this
hotel another night.”
"What’s the trouble?”
"Why, do you know that object in
our room we took to he a trolley car
fender?"
“Yes?"
“Well, the landlord says it’s mos
quito netting."
Future Assured.
"Yes. we found the baby playing
with a volume of verse."
"Indeed?: He will probably turn out
to be a poet."
"But he tore the verses up and
tossed them out of the window."
’.’Did, eh? Well, that shows he's go
ing to lie an editor.”
He Head It.
The Deaf and Dumb Beggar—A
friend told me this morning that the
police are going to stop begging on the
streets.
The Blind Beggar—Yes; 1 read that
in tlie paper yesterday.
Willing to Repair.
“Young man,” said the stern father,
"you have been calling on my daughter
until you have worn out the sofa. You
know what that means, don’t,you?" <
“Certainly, sir.” responded the young
man, “I’ll send up an upholsterer to
morrow." ,
Given a Raise.
With tender hands they took him
from the topmost branches of a tall
pine.
“What happened?" he gasped feebly.
"You wore toast'd by a bull,” they
responded.
"Then It's not so bad. I thought I
was tossed by a racing automobile.”
Trial, of Cupid.
"Yes,” related the romantic young
man, "as we sat on the park bench 1
leaned over and planted a kiss on her
ruby lips.”
"Planted, eh?" remarked the buffoon
friend. “Did you raise anything?”
“Yes. A policeman saw me nnd
soon aftertvard I hud to raise $lO for
a tine."
l-ove in a Flat.
“Why does Harker look so cross
these .days?" , „■ . .
"He’s married*mid-'h’n* llir<*-'littl?
( tn A” • ■ ''
"I don’t see why threo" children
should put him In n bnd humor.”
"Who said anything alieut children?
lie is married und has, three llttlo
rooms.”
Taken for Grunted.
Judge—Why did you arrest this
man? .
Officer—Ear profanity on the street.
Judge Did you hear him using it?
Officer -No. but lils shoestring broke
twice ns he was running for a car.
It Would Seem 80.
"Truth." remarked tlie morallzer, "is
stranger than fiction.”
"Yes," rejoined the demoralizer,“and
the majority. of men seem to lie shy of
associating with strangers.”
Up to Her.
"What would you do If I were to
die?" asked the bride of six months.
“That’s for you to say, my dear,” re
plied the other half of tlie sketch.
“Which would you prefer—burial or
cremation?"
Himself and Another.
Him —There are tw6 men of my ac
quaintance whom I really admire.
Her —Indeed! And what Is tho name
of the other one?
Uranus is the only one of our system
of planets which rotates backwards.
Peat has about half of the heating
power of coal and double that of wood.
A farthing has been found In ihe
stomach of a codfish at Eyemouth,
England.
Timber Is now vulcanized In Eng
land by forcing a boiling solution of
sugar Into its pores.
The propellers of the Turblnla, at a
speed of 34% knots per hour, made
two thousand revolutions per minute.
The proportion of policemen to pop
ulation Is one to 307 in Paris, one to
•108 In London, and one to 458 in New
York.
Cress is the quickest growing of
plants. Under perfect conditions It will
flower and seed within eight days of
planting.
Mrs. Abram Van Howe, of Codus,
N. Y„ 81 years of age, has cut her third
set of teeth. Recently she experienced
a peculiar soreness in her gums where
her teeth had once been, although she
lost them all many years ago. A phy
sician was called In and found tlint a
full new set of teeth was struggling to
get through the gums on both Jaws.
Prof. Woodward has gone over the
calculations of Ixtplace by the ahi of
modern data, and concludes that
though in theory the length of the day
on earth must be increasing owing to
the Increasing mass of the planet due
to the constant deposit of meteors, etc.,
yet the change Is so infinitesimal that
there has not been a half second of
difference In ten million years. ’
A British physician. Dr. C. Temple
man, has been making an elaborate
study of the statistics of cancer, and
finds that the death rate from that
cause has doubled in twenty-five years.
Perhaps the most striking point that
he makes is that tile Increase has been
chiefly in parts of the body accessible
to infection, and he urges this as evi
dence that the disease Is due to a
microbe. Dr. Templeman discredits
smoking as a cause of cancer of the
throat, and thinks that worry, to which
some have attributed the increase, is
not responsible. Perhaps no disease is
attracting more scientific attention now
than cancer, and such statistical in
vestigations as this help to clear the
ground and suggest promising Unes of
study.
ON HOUSEBOAT TO FLORIDA
Trips Are Now aw Clearly Marked Out
on the Coasters*.
A houseboat route to Florida! Many
will scoff at this idea, and not without
reason, too, for there are many sailors
plying north and south in the Atlantic
year In and year out who ridicule the
reality of it And yet there is a house
boat passage to the South as clearly
mapped out as any pathway of the
sea.
The Florida trip may be made in two
weeks, but usually pleasure seekers go
South In from four to six weeks. Many
stops may be made on the way; there
is good fishing in scores of places and
here and there excellent shooting may
be had. At first thought tlie Journey
seems beyond the reach of persons of
limited incomes, but the cost depends
largely on what one desires to spend.
If extravagance Is favored, thousands
may be expended on lavish entertain
ment on the houseboat and in the
towns and cities passed through; If
economy Is the rule, then the total cost
may be limited by contentment with
the Joys aboard the boat and an addi
tional saving may be done by mem
bers of the party taking turns in help
ing with the “housework." Some may
imagine that on such a trip no guest
would think of lending a band in the
management of the boat, but it is an
odd feature of all houseboat parties
that there Is a general desire to fall to
and help in the work of "cleaning up"
and other little details of operation.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
Wom-.-n as Educators.
As to the Charge made that women
should not become teachers for the
reason! that they only regard the pro
fession as a makeshift while awaiting
settlement '‘through marriage much
may be said. If teaching bus been
done by women us a "makeshift," R
lins been done us often by men for
that sama reason. This is proved by
thej life records ot ’many prominent
men, dot Ro mention. Those übt proihl
nent who have done tutoring and odd
Jobs at teaching to "help along." The
head of one of the large boys’ schools
In this State could be mimed ns an
example. Indeed, I think || is sale hi
say It is the exception when u man
starts from Ills university with the
Intentlou of teaching continuously.
As a mutter ot fact, there are gradu
ated as professional teachers yearly n
greater proportion of women than of
men. That many of these women ex
pect to marry, und to give up teaching
when they do, does not Imply that
they mean to marry merely to escape
teaching. It means chiefly that. In
looking to the natural and desirable
compleqiimtlng of their natures, they
reeognlztk that the duties, as well as
toys of wife and mother, will confine
their activities- mainly within the
home. Just because touching Is a call
ing that, unlike Journalism or lectur
ing, cannot now be entered without
training for It. those women who take
It up are more apt than not to con
tinue its pursuit, for even marriage
does not always interfere with its
prosecution.—Harper's Weekly.
If we knew a man who loved his
enemy, we would despise him That’s
••king Too Much.