The Port Gibson reveille. [volume], July 02, 1908, Image 5

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A MES qaGE.
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cornfe from the fortresses of granite
rv,™ 1 ln 5 halï tl,e w 01 " 1 «! out, hair the skies away;
"ÏÏ® where the low land, open by the shore-side,
uirers to its children what a treo land may!
land, leagues of grass and clover,
Kanxs or shining corn-blade and tall tossed plume,
^.TKj reda j sentinels for long tiles of forest.
Goldenrod afire in a smoke of aster bloom.
,nnd - l®vel for their coursers
Vnrta n ™? s 2 c cr th P' oome with smell of soil or sea;
, winds . whatsoe'er their quarter,
m**" 8 - 1 *»"* rush their cavalcades—straight, strong, tree.
m ® et,n S-place of world's marge and heaven,
Mm U î^ e f. the honzon dne, perfect to the view;
Hill crest nor mountain breast breaks
Round lies the planet 'neath
the mighty circle—
a hemisphere ot blue.
* the glory of the level-lying wide lands,
nw,r S J t s .K he s P' endor that no steep lands know:
° JHl? , patlls where In clear hémicycles.
World-rim to world-rim, the constellations
GBOlde „ n bright In the sumptuous west land
nrZJlf' I i F 5i le 8l L n8ets blossom, they bloom around the sky—
am ber northward, rosy in the east-realm.
Amethyst where amethyst the southern waters lie.
?*yin swords, musketry or rain-bursts—
midnight battle-crash the whole vault fillsf,
,P a &eant of the white cloud masses,
Gorauer and Jovlier than snow-embastloned hi 11«
® 0 -cjLmÎ^ breeze and scents of the clover,
ro , s ® and clethra and bayberry's breath,
** uP-ifi *he sea-shine, witchery of mist wreaths—
Hark, they are calling and the summer hasteneth.
so.
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Come, dear, come from the shut and hampered valleys,
Come where the waves on the long beaches run.
Come where the bosom of the warm earth is breathing
Cool breaths of ocean in a broad sweep of sun!
—From The American Magazine.
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How the Light was Turned.
By C. H. CLAUDY.
Eight or ten short, sharp blasts of
a discordant whistle, instead of the
three solemn notes of salute he ex
pected, made Alec jump from his chair
to the window. "It's the , Newport,
Tom,' he said.
Let's get the boat
out.'
Outside the little lighthouse a sullen
sky and a purring, sluggish sea gave
promise of bad weather. Close by
passed a freighter, from the deck of
which fell a package to the water be
low. The kindly captain was sending
a present of some kind to the light
keeper and his assistant.
Tlje two men swiftly lowered their
small boat, picked up the package,
gave a friendly wave of the hand to
the departing vessel, and
Cob's Point Light, commonly called a
"bug-light," or, more properly, a screw
pile light, was nothing but a tiny two
story house, with eight sides, mount
ed on eight iron legs sticking up out
of the water. It marked the limits of
the eastern channel and the entrance
returned.
of the river from the bay. It was a
particularly lonely bug-light, because
it was four miles from the shore
where the town of Winton stood, and
on the other shore, Cob's Point, was
nothing but a lonely fisherman's hut.
And to row four miles is no joke even
in smooth waters.
Papers and a piece of beef—yester
day's paper, too. Now if the weather Is
favorable, I'm going ashore today or
bust?" It was Tom, the keeper, speak
ing. He had a sickly wife and two
children ashore, whom he had not
seen for a week. "And the weather
man says 'colder,' " he announced,
gleefully. "No ice will come for a day
or so, then, and if you will just take
an extra trick for me, I'll go now, and
get back at midnight tonight or to
morrow morning."
"Of course," answered Alec. "Bet
ter keep a sharp lookout, though ; drift
ing ice is nasty to row through." But
Tom was already making preparations,
and did not hear.
In a few minutes, in the little row
boat which was their only means of
communication with shore, Tom had
put off for his long row, leaving Alec
alone to tend the light.
Alec looked incuriously at the sea
and sky, and entered the house. Storms
he did not fear. But ice—the ice which
right break up and come down from
the river—that was another matter.
The little screw-pile lighthouses are
built on piles, their steel framework
screwed tightly down and no sea or
wind can do much to them.
But ice collects among the spider
like legs and crœs-beams, which give
the light its name, and pushes upward,
up and to the side with irresistible
force—and when the light tips and goes
the keeper is usually drowned. But,
worse than all, the light goes out.
And for a light to go out, particularly
in a bad night, is hue signing the death
warrant of who knows how many ships
and men?
Cob's Point Light was a revolving
light of the fourth order. It showed
red for ten seconds, a blank for ten,
and a white for twenty seconds—then
a blank of twenty and repeat. A cage,
with four lenses and prism sets, re
volved about the burner, and alternate
lenses were red and white, and faced
inward, so that they acted as reflectors
and threw the light back acros the
flame.
The whole was worked by clockwork,
but had to be watched all night, for
fear of some accident, like a melted
chimney or a bit of dust in the mechan
ism.
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Now it happened that this was one of
the times when the weather prediction
was wrong. It turned warmer—much
warmer—and it also raiped. And by
morning Alec could see that the ice
was coming. Already stray chunks
floated by, and farther out, in the chan
nel, he could see great jagged masses
Yrom the edge of the ice-bank up the
river, floating heavily down to sea.
Still he did not anticipate any
trouble. He bad seen ice go out be
fore, he felt it seize the lighthouse in
its mighty grip and wrestle with it,
only to leave and seek other victims.
But that was in a slow break-up. If the
ice came down too fast—if it piled up
on the projecting ledges of rock and
wedged beneath the house faster than
the water could free it—if by
chance a wind should blow from the
south and push against the ice, then
there might be trouble.
At seven o'clock Alec had the light
cleaned and refilled and his simple
breakfast cooked and eaten. House
work took the rest of his hour to bed
time—eight o'clock—and- then 'he lay
down by the bell rope and went to
sleep. As a matter of fact, three
usually man such a lighthouse, but one
was off on leave, and the head keeper,
as has been said, was away. Alec could
not watch the light all day and ali
any
men
night too, so the courtesy of the salutes I
had to go by default. All such light
houses salute passing steamers, with
three strokes of their fog-bell, and the
omission means either absence or inat- I
tention.
of
the
ex
chair
boat
Alec slept until two o'clock, when the I
noise of the ice roused him. The
house was shaking violently, shudder
ing like a strong man in the oold—
gToaning and moaning and creaking, |
like new cordage ai sea. Outside there I
was a mass of ice tossing on the fit
ful swell from the bay, and grinding,
crushing and turning, in its struggle
for liberty and open water. And there
were over a hundred miles of it be
hind to come! I
For Tom to get back was impossi
ble. No rowboat could push through |
such a jam; in fact, a steamer would
make but poor headway against it. Yet |
sullen
gave
by
of
be
light
their
to
a
two
out
of
boats would not hit the ice anyway.
So he had nothing to do but face an
other night witn the light. I
nothing ever stopped the big inter-city
boats, Alec reflected, and the bay-line I
, ,
But It was to be a dlfflerent expert;
ence from the night before. By six
o clock the ice was massed beneath the
house, completely covering the pro- l
tecting ledges of rock, and the wind
was from the south. It still rained.
and the violence of the ice-pound was
greater every minute. By set en o'clock
the lamp rocked so that Alec had to
replace three broken chimneys in five
minutes—a thing that was unheard of
in cold weather, and that could only
have happened from excessive jarring.
By eight o'clock Alec had to forget the
ice—his every minute was spent on
the lamp. Now it was a new supply of
chimneys to be brought up—a tortuous
if short, passage it was, down through ly
the roof to the top floor, and from there
to the floor below. He brought up
three spare burners and wedged them
in the light-room with the spare sail I ^
of the rowboat and saw that his pock
ets were well filled with matches. He
got all the chimneys he could use,
packed, ready to hand, and provided
himself with a bottle of drinking water by
and some bread. I
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and
was
hut.
even
Is
or
two
not
day
and
to
But
of
sea
or
"Better do these things while there
is time,' he said to himself. "If this
business keeps up, I'll have to turn
her by hand before morning."
He meant that if the violence in
creased much, the clockwork, strong
as it was, might fail, and require that
he turn the cage by hand.
Why, if the liglvt stopped turning for
one night would it matter much? It is
like a street sign. If you are in
strange city, and are told to follow a
-certain street, and suddenly the sign
changes, you are lost The lighthouses
are the street signs of the water. Each
individual light is marked on the chart.
And if a mariner saw a stationary red
or white light, where he expected to
find a revolving light, be would hunt
for the nearest stationary light on his
chart, and decide he was out of his
course. That is. he might do that—
in which case he would be wrecked,
in all probability,
service knows that, acts of providence
alone to the contrary, the lights will
turn and burn according to schedule.
And at 10 otelock Alec's prediction
came true; the clockwork did not break
of itself, but two of the screw pile
legs, strong as they were, gave way,
and slowly but surely the ice lifted up
one side of the house, and slowly but
surely it tilted—tilted until the floor
was like the roof of a house, and Alec,
hanging on with one hand, could see,
through the storm glass, the light
striking on the water which was be
neath.
Patiently Alec waited for develop
ments. That he was in imminent peril
of his life he knew well. That the light
was in imminent peril of going out or
ceasing to revolve he also knew. Yet
with the knowledge that with
and a rope he might wreck the lower
floor for a raft for himself, he held to
his post on the steeply sloping floor,
and worked over the mechanism
make the cage turn again v For of
course the tilting had fouled
weight-line, and there was nothing to
turn the light now. Nothing? No,
but some one to do it for the ma
chine—some one with a cool head and
a brave heart.
Finding he could do nothing with his
hands, Alec hurried down the broken
winding stair for an ax. He pulled at
the splintered boards which blocked
his path, tore his clothes md hands
on splinters and nails, and, with infin
ite difficulty, made his way across the
sloping floor to return with the prec
ious tool. Getting back was worse
than going down, but he managed it.
With the àx he soon loosened the pin
which held the rope to the drum, and
then it was free. "Now for the light.
A new chimney—hope it doesn't break
—a match—soratch—it's lit."
Then, watch in hand, ho tu mod th«
of
by
and
a
a
to
But the marine
tsin,
plied
639
lons.
land,
hands
after
of
an ax
so
It
which
or
to
the
cigars,
some
been
Great
A
vised
talent
upper
dented
shears
one
cage, steadily and slowly, one fall
minute to the revolution—ten seconds
of -red, ten seconds of blank, twenty
seconds of white, twenty seconds of
bl^nk—and so on indiflnitely.
t What was he thinking of all
time—this young longshoreman
drew forty dollars a month for the
privilege of working day and night in
a lonely station set in the middle ol
the water? Himaeif—the light—Tom
—the ice—his danger? "If the good
Lord'll only keep that light tram tip
ping any farther, and keep the ice
from climbing up any higher, I reckon
I can worry through.''
That was his thought—to keep the
light turning—to keep faith with the
I department which had trusted him,
and with the one, mayhap the hun
dreds, of vessels on the bay which
would look for the light and steer by
this
who
it.
His position was cramped in the ex
treme. He had to lean against the
storm glass and work with his arms
above him, or else, climbing above the !
light, to wedge nimself against the
pedestal and hang on with one hand.
Either position cramped him, and one
made him very warm. So he settled
on the lower side and bore the dis
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comfort.
All this time the ice was beating and
pounding, the broken house swaying
and lurching; and Alec, inside, felt
that any moment it might collapse and
plunge him into the ice and water.
So the night wore on. At three in
the morning he had to stop turning the
light for a few minutes and rub his
back and logs, so cramped by the po
sition he was forced into that the tor
ture was unbearable.
Guess a couple of misses won't
I matter," he said. "Any fool would look
hard at a hght on a night like this."
And then he was at it again. "Only
three hours more now. Hope nothing
I breaks after all."
Nothing broke. The machine-like
I motion never faltered, the ice, released
by the giving of the two logs, did no |
further lifting of moment, and morning
carae at last. j
| Stiff and sore, a bad burn on one j
I hand, where he had been thrown !
against the light when changing sides, 1 a
Alec clambered down, and weakly—for
he was exhausted—rang the fog bell |
tb e quick, sharp strokes which betoken
distress. An early morning boat heard
I and reported at the city, twenty miles 1
below; and a.t eleven o'clock came the j
| Powerful lighthouse tender—with re- !
P 3 * 1, men and a doctor—to make Cob's
| Point light whole again.
Medals? No. He did his
duty, j
in
P° se the boats which passed in the 0
ni sht knew? How could they? Pro
I motion? Yes, a little one—from sec- !
I Purse? From whom? Do you sup
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»»a to first assistant keeper, and the oB
Promise of more in time-but that was
?«■ Ali, except the knowledge-present j
l * unformulated and unspoken—that by ,
sticking to the light, and managing
alone to turn it. under unheard-of dif- .
Acuities, he had played his part in a
great system, and proved anew ttat ;
men could not exist if it were not for [
manhood.—Youth's Companion. j
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If
only QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
the Switzerland has now prohibited th®
on manufact ure and sale of absinthe.
of -
Egyptian cotton land produces near
ly four times as much per acre " that j
^t^' i
up -
The great Oxford dictionary, which
sail I ^ as h^cn under way for a generation,
has reac hed 'pre."
He , j
use, e carcass tb e a\erago horse
yle ^ s 3 ^ 9 P° unds meat, as shown
by the observations of the French hors®
I butcher.
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A motor vehicle purchased by the
town of Tynemouth, England, can be
used as a prison van, fire apparatus or
ambulance.
Tiverton has the oldest water works
of any English town. They were made
by Amicia, Countess of Devon, in 1240,
and presented to the town.
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Statistics show that, though fair- ,
haired people are as a rule less strong
than those who have dark hair, yet the
former live longer than the latter.
Edward C. Myers of McKeesport, Pa.,
a brakeman, drew his pay and stopped
work to get married, and a short time
later was instantly killed by a train.
It cost her accuser $30 to bring Edna
Park, a nurse, from Sewickley, Pa.,
to Philadelphia, to answer a charge of
stealing a corset cover worth 50 cents.
New York City has 113 public parks,
varying in size from a few square
yards in the angle at the crossing of
streets, up to Pelham Bay Park, con
taining 1750 acres.
Last year (1907) 23,395,634 gallons of
kerosene oil were imported into Tien
tsin, of which the United States sup
plied 11,689,348 gallons, Sumatra 9,858,
639 gallons and Borneo 1,847,647 gal
lons.
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John Copping, who claims to be the
oldest police superintendent in Eng
land, placed his resignation in
hands of the Huntingdonshire justices,
after an active and meritorious service
of 55 years.
the
Trial trips have been made on a new
railway up the Wetterhorn, which is
so steep that it is called an "elevator."
It rises 450 meters, in a length of 600,
which is a gradient of 3960 feet a mile,
or 75 percent
Court dresses, hams, costumes,
cigars, cameras and cheese were among
some of the articles alleged to have
been stolen by William F. Eggleston, a
Great Northern Railway platform in
spector who was remanded at Retford,
England.
the
he
one
at
At
the
A pair of carving shears has been de
vised especially for those Who find the
talent of carving hard to acquire. The
upper blade is a carving knife and the
dented lower blade forms a clip. The
shears are easy to handle and permit
one to attack any part of the fowl.
Andrew Lang, the great student of
folklore, celebrated the other day his
sixty-fourth birthday anniversary.
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i LARVÆ OF MANY
i SPECIES COLLECTED I
? BY ENTOMO LOGIST 1
; Ninety Separate Kinds of J
J Mosquitoes Now Known
to Exist Along the Ca
nal Route—The Yellow
Fever Mosquito Nearly
Exterminated—Method
Warfare Adopted. |
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$ of
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the
arms
the ! down on the isthmus of Panama ool
the looting mosquitoes in the Capal Zone,
He secured larvae of eighty-three spe
one c ies, of which thirty species -ware
n0W to science. With seven addition
dis- aj spe cies already known, this con
stitutes the largest number record
ed from any one locality on earth.
Anybody who is interested may see
the mosquitoes for himself in the Na
tional Museum, Washington, where
they have been deposited.
Busck is the name of this scientific
collecter who now holds the
qirito record. He spent three months,
on the Isthmus during the mosquito
J breeding time, covering the end of
i the dry season and the early part of
the rainy season.
It has cos':, and is costing, a lot of
money to protect the lives of the
men working in the Canal Zone from
the ninety separate species of
quitoes now known to exist along
the route of the waterway.
A government hug-hunter has been
and
felt
and
in
the
his
po
tor
August
mos
mos
no | toes do not fl y *ery far from the
Pia.ce where they are born. They
j heep close to theiç food supply. Those
j that affect the inhabitants of a town
! or camp normally do not come from
1 a distance greater than two hundred
yards. It is this fact that renders
| the sanitary work of the Canal Com
mission possible,
The land about every settlement Is
1 cleared by the removal of all brush,
j undergrowth and grass; only shade
! and fruit trees are left, and these
Mosqui
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go
are thinned out to admit sunlight and
and free ventilation.
When practic
j able, swamp3 and low lands are filled
in with some of the immense supply
0 f material taken from the Culebra
!
cut. Then the whole area is drained
, 80 that the surface water will run
oB Ditcies and s]ow . flow)w streams
are kept clMr 0 , mo iMes by M
j plags pf OI| or of
, an , nno] .. . . . .
on'eTweek ^ater b^e., buS
. _ •®_*' ^ uoi '
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[ ' he Jj 1 *-acMnes. e™sh
j s ° f * ren ?h occupation,
H f ? U * Wûter '
If maH f fnf ® ct
. 1 s ^ carrying
out these methods of general extermi
nation exceptionally thorough results
ha ^ e alread >' been obtained.
One important feat has already
j hsea accomplished. The yellow-feyer
i mosquito, the only kind in America
spreading this infection, scientifically
called steg*myia, Is very scarce. It
is possible to live for weeks on the
line of the canal without seeing a
j single specimen,
a strictly domestic insect, never found
away from man. It breeds only in
artificial receptacles, such as barrels,
water coolers, bottles, tin cans, etc.,
in and around human habitations.
Knowing this, it is well within the
power of the authorities to eliminate
absolutely this dangerous insect and
render a yellow fever epidemic Im
possible on account of the total ab
sence of the only agent which spreads
w
by
a camp or
big?
sent
you.
This mosquito is
it.
it.
The malaria carrying varieties, In
cluded under the general name of
anopheles, are also subject to rigor
,
0,18 attnok. Usually the species of
the group deposit larvae along the
edges of slow-flowing streams and
stagnant pools, but specimens
also secured from the bottom of an
old boat, from an abandoned dump
car; from holes in trees and In sim
ilar out-of-the-way spots. It has not
yet been determined whether all of
these are Instrumental i p carrying
malaria, and therefore they may fur
njsh a fertile field for Investigation.
Certain genera, technically caked
hinu*. psorpphora, and luttfa,
were foamd, which, instead of epread
la* any disease hostile to men, wage
war on their weaker cousins and at
tiiine® even on their brothers and sis
ters.
wore
of
mi
of
They are cannibals of their
sort.—N«w York Post.
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HOUND'S LONG CHASE.
Followed a Fox for Five Days and
Nights Over Cape Cod Sands.
Following close on the heel« of a
big gray fox, running for five day«
and nights, covering a distance of
probably 200 miles through the woods
and along the sandy shores of Capo
Cod, only to have the fox escape by
wearing him out, is the reoord of a
bound 4 years old, one of three val
uable dogs that a parly of huntsrs
recently took with them to hunt foxes
in the woods at Wellfleet.
The dog chased the fox,
haps several foxes—fer it may have
switched off from cue to another in
its travels—'and did not show up af
ter starting the fox.
for hours for the dog to return the
hunters went back to the village
pecting the deg would give up the
chaae. Night came on and they be
came alarmed fearing the dog had
been lost.
or per
After waiting
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A local gunner who accompanied
the fox hunters tat® the woods said
he would find the dog and ship frfoy
home the n®xfr day. Inquiries 4
made through the villages, but
one bad seen the dog and it appeared
at if he must have been drowned in
crossing the swamps qn the thin ice.
At the end of five days a dog was
seen tallowing a big gray Co* through
the village of feast Wäret
The man who saw the
were
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no
as it'
V
lïmped through his back yard rush
0 ed into the house for his gun. as
B ho came out he saw a hound limping
£ along and vainly trying to bark; tile
fox had disappeared and the deg,
which could h&rdly stand, dropped In
its tracks nearly dead from exhaus*
tion. The man gave the crog too a and
- drink in «nail quantities and in a few
day* It seemed to bo all right. On
the collar was the name of the own
er, to whom the man wrote, and In
a few days he came after It. It
was then learned that the dog start
* ed tho fox in Wellfleet and for five
days and nights had been chasing.
He had been seen chasing the fox
at Ellis ville, on the shores of Cape
Cod Bay, and near White Island in
the cranberry district; he had cross
ed tho barboTs and rivers and had
given up when nearly dead in East
Wareham, sixty miles from where
the hunt was started. ' It was said,
"The deg was a mere skeleton and
the fox seemed as If he had been
running for a month.''
There are instances on Cape Cod
where dogs have followed foxes for
days at a time, but none cjC the old
gunners remember any such perform
ance as this one.—From Forest and
Stream.
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was the reply, "I was
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of
of
A Misunderstanding.
His name was George Arnold, and
he was arraigned in the police court
on the charge of stealing a ride on
a train to Dagupan.
"Where were you?" asked Judge
Low, referring to his formier place
of abode.
"In Manila,
waiting."
"Waiting for w r hom?"
"Just waiting."
"What were you watting for?"
"To get my money.''
"Who from?''
'The man I was waiting for."
"What did he owe it to you for?
"For waiting.
"How did you start in waiting?"
"By beginning to wait.
"What do you mean. Explain your
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self."
"I though you knew I was waiting
in a restaurant.''
"Oh!
pines Gossip.
gasped the Judge.—Philip.
Pumping In the Squeak.
(Small automatic pumps, very in
geniously contrived, spirited air in
between the layers of the soks of
each finished pair of shoes.
'That beats me," said the visitor.
"I never saw atr put in shoe soles
before. Pneumatic like that; are they 1
springy?" \
"No, they're noiisy," answered the
foreman of the Lynn factory. 'These !
shoes are for the export trade. They 1 s
go to Africa. A native African judges
the white
man's shoes by their
squeak. The louder they squeak the
finer the article. In fact, the native
won't wsar a non-squeaking, silent
shoe. It is wind between the soles
that makes shoes squeak. Put in
enough and your footwear will be as
noisy as two pigs under a fence. We,
w v . , . '
by adding this chsap wind to our
tv,...,. .. v , ^
York P * rou« out would. New , ,,
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me the otbeT day ' I
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big?
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Ttfo, but " ;
Any mistake in the figures?" j
No; its not that. It's-" j
Don t you think that bill has been
running long enough?" as
"I reckon so, but-"
'Then what are you kicking about?" the
'That's what I'm trying to tell you.
There's a mistake in the name. You
sent it to the wrong man, oonfound
you. I don't owe you a cent, and
In Freneh Hlatory.
So far as France is concerned It is and
the number fourteen that has played
a conspicuous and portentous part the
dn her history. On May 14, 1554 , the
» i
never did!"
"O!"—Chicago Tribune.
Rue de la FwronpJ§re
by order of Henri II, and four times
fourteen years later Henri IY was
assassinated there by Ravaillac, name
ly, on May 14, 1615. Henri had lived do
wa§ enlarged
four times fourteen years, fourteen |
weeks and four times fourteen days
ie., fifty-six years and five months i of
the
Then Henri's son, Louis XIH, died
May 14, 1643 (the same day and month !
as hiis father). And 1643 added to
gether equals - fourteen ; just as 1653 flue
(the year of the birth of Henri VI) dev
equals fourteen. Louis XIV ascend- i wh
ed the throne 1803, which, added to- ls
gather, equals fourteen, and similarly I
ters
any
the year of bis death (1715) equals
fourteen .—From P. T. O.
I •
More Marriages in England.
Many (Interesting details as to the
marriages which took place in Eng
land and Wales during 1986 are given
in the registrar general's detailed re
port for that year. There were more
of them than in the previous year, but
the increase was not conspicuous in
the case of widowers, while there waa
no increase at all In that of 'Widows.
As already recorded, the birth rata
was abnc-rnjaHy low, while the death
rate was higher for the year. The
marriage rate shows an increase of
0.8 over 1905, but was 0.2 below the
average fey the ten years 1896-1805.
The birth rate was the lowest evor re
corded, being 0.3. less than in 19Ö5
and 1.6 lower than th? decennial
average.—London Chronicle.
on
cause
j
a
fact,
into
ing
nifies.
to
. be
I
!
these
j way,
idea
its
Its
of
Time and Eternity.
"On one occasion, when in
gress." said James F. Banks, of Bost
ton, "Gen. Btnjaanin Butler %rose in
his place and fell mated that the mem
ber who occupied the floor was trans- parents,
gneseiog the ttoatts of debate. , nence
Why, General,' said the member, chiefly
reproachfully, 'you divided your time to
with me.'
con*
« C
I
nation.
child
to
-- equal
The trouble in too many homes,
miised fàa Galvoççon News, (s the ize
| P oo mp®Atblïîty of Imported miMinery She
and doéi«**4* allowance«, that
'"I know I did,' rejoined Butler,
grimly, 'but I didn't divide eternity
with you.' -Washington Herald.
4U
HAPPINESS NOT THE
SUPREME END OF MARRIAGE,
11
Says Felix Adler, Who Finds in the Divorce
Records a Sign That Americans Need a
New Doctrine of Marriage" and a Better
Understanding of the Real Power of Women
h
!
"What we need is a doctrine of
marriage. At present there is no ad
equate doctrine of marriage,
trouble with modern marriage is that
the masculine element predominates
in the ceremonial. Neither the hus
band should obey the wife nor the
wife the husband. They are equals.
I do not deny that they are different
in mind and temperament, but they
contribute equally an indispensable
influence on civilization, though in
different ways."
This statement, issuing from Dr.
Felix Adler, leader of the Society for
j Ethical Culture and author of many
I books, that we need a doctrine of
I marriage is certain to excite contro
versy, and coming in the wake of
the divorce report of the Census Bu
reau of Washington, is sure to cre
ate widespread interest and attention.
These are the figures: From 1887
to 1906, a period of twenty years,
there have been 1,300,000 divorce
suits brought in the United States.
In the twenty preceding years, from
1867 to 18S6, there were 320,000,
or 1,000,000 lower. This is an av
erage increase of 50,000 divorces a
year in the United States. Of these
1.300.000 suits for divorce nearly
900.000 have been granted, and a
■ whole army of clerks and investiga
tors has been employed by the Cen
sus Bureau getting in order the com
plete official report. One hundred
and forty clerks are still employed
by the department, and at times the
Census Bureau has had three thou
a
for
to
its
in
not
the
the
be
a
his
One
sand and more investigators and
! clerks working on this report.
The divorce question is being agi
: tated on all hands, and political econ
omists consider it to be one of the
! most vital of all sociological pro'o
j lems.
"A short time ago I saw an ac
count in the papers," Professor Adler
continued, "in which a young woman
in Chicago received her fifth divorce.
She was only sixteen when she mar
ried, and she soon was divorced, but
she remarried her husband.
second marriage, did not last very
1 roach longer than the fir3t. She then
took a second husband, but she soon
became divorced from him to remarry
her first husband. No sooner had
s h e returned to him than she di
forced him again, and although she
married a third husband the courts
have just declared her free.
The
. . ,
^ ! s often mis ead n 5' We say wom -
have great mtui j tlon - but <we de «y
'm great reasoning power.
_ - a have lhe glf \ 0t s ^ s '
tuned and strenuous reasoning, but
j i. . . ... °
we deny them swift intuition.
"We S ay that women observe the
,, e tails of things better than men can
but that they cannot apprehend uni
versai triiths of science and philos
ophy as men can. We say women
1)art icularize; men generalize.
say women are all feeling, that they
depend on their emotions and im
"The popular way of explaining
the difference between men and wom
We
We
pulses, whereas men act on cold, hard
scientific principle.
"it is not exact to make such dis
tinctions, nor are they very sat^sfac
tory. Women are intellectual as well
as emotional. Some women in the
the most difficult intellectual feats,
and if there have not been greater fig
ures among women in art and science
and philosophy it is perhaps only be
cause they have not had the oppor
tunities that men have had, and not
because they are naturally incompe
tent to rise as high as men.
"Men also are capable of the finest
and most delicate emotions. If they
not, how shall we explain that
the greatest interpreters of the emo
tional life, the great poets, the great
musicians, have been men?
"Thir is what I consider to be thf
right relation between the man and
woman. This is what they should
past have shown themselves equal to
do for each other ' The woman should
' woman
rouse all the dormant intellectual en
ergies, all of the inmost capabilities
|
i of the man ' 80 that he can appreciate
the needs of humanity and work for
! ' ' • ^ ***&■*•
"The woman by her spiritual in
flue R ce over the man shall tend to
dev sJop in him that love of obedience
i wh ich submits through love of what
ls right and not through fear,
I " She sha11 be c° m e his bride in mat
ters of intellect and of mçrals, not by
any formulated code, but by the
things that sjie a pprov es or disap
proves. On the other hand, man
should by his intellectual influence
on woman widen and deepen and
cause her to raise continually the
standard by which she judges him.
j "People should not marry without
a thorough understanding of each
other's disposition and character. In
fact, marriage should not be entered
into without a thorough understand
ing on the part of both the man and
woman as to what the institution sig
nifies. There are spiritual meanings
to marriage. The feelings need to
. be instructed by the far seeing mind.
I "The old idea of marriage was in
culcated and secured through two
fundamental principles
submission to parents and the under
standing that marrigae was to be per
! manent. Under present conditions
these are no longer tenable in the old
way, for the first was founded on the
idea that the child had no rights of
its own except through its parents.
Its position was one of subservience,
of unquestioning obedience to the
absolute
parents, and as regards the perma
nence of the marriage tie it was
chiefly a bond that tied the woman
to the man.
"Her position was one of subordi-
nation. To-day we admit that the
child has rights which we are bound
to respect and that the woman is the
equal of the man.
"The place of woman is to human
ize science. She is to set his tasks.
She is to inspire him to express all
that is best in his soul and mind.
of
ad
that
hus
the
in
Dr.
for
of
of
a
a
Women have always Inspired great
{nen to develop what was best in
them,
"The one great flaw in modern
marriage is that we are losing sight
of the social significance of it, be
cause we look at it aè a matter of
individual happiness. Love has to
be reinterpreted. The popular con
ception of love is that of a purely ro
mantic passion. This is not real love,
and when the first glamor has worn
off, there is bound to be disillusion
and discord.
• "The difference of real and romantic
love is that, under the deceptive light
of romance, the lover sees in the ob
ject of his affections an exaggerated
perfection which does not exist.
"Happiness is simply an incident
in marriage and it cannot be made
the supreme end without arriving at
the intolerable position, that couples
may part a3 soon as their happiness
ceases. The great end of marriage is
the perpetuation and development of
ehe spiritual life of the race.
"The good of society demands that
we consider marriage a permanent
bond. The individual's happiness is
not. of as much account as the wel
fare of the race. I deny emphatically
that happiness is the highest aim of
marriage.
"Marriage is a natural tie, and to
consider it apart from the perfecting
and propagating of the race is to mis
understand it. I believe in separa
tion, but never in divorce.
"People enter into the married
state nowadays with no other thought
than that of their own private bliss,
and leave the social side of the family
to blind chance.
"The true purpose of marriage is
the growth of character, of the feel
ings, of the whole nature in the
higher direction.
"Plato believed that man and wo
man represented each one-half of a,
soul distinct from the very begin
ning to make a whole. Marriage is
designed to harmonize whatever dif
ference in temperament and taste
there may be between a man and a
woman.
"No matter how accidentally they
first met, with the help of the ethical
ideal, a permanent union can be es
tablished. It is very seldom that a
man and a wife match each other
so perfectly that they realize Plato's
dream. The vision of Tennyson, 'She;
shall set herself to him, like perfect
music unto noble words,' is seldom
realized.
"I do not deny that there are great
disparities, profound incompatibili
ties between husbands and wives,
just like two persons whose gait is
different when walking. One takes
a long stride and the other a short
stride; but I maintain that where
there te a serious sense of duty,
where the ethical ideal is strong,
these disparities can be eventually
overcome.
"Marriage should be permanent,
for the sake of the children. Where
husband and wife disagree they
should make supreme efforts to come
to an agreement for the sake of iheir
children.
"A child needs both its father and
its mother. The greatest happiness
in marriage comes to those who do
not make happiness the supreme aim.
"The best happiness is that which;
comes incidentally in the pursuit of
growth and development.
"The best thing that husbands and
wives can do for one another is to
bring out the highest manhood and
the highest womanhood each in the
other.
"The social side of marriage and
the individual side of it are not con
tradictory of each other. It must not
be said the individual is sacrificed to
a social end. The individual achieves
his own highest good here a3 else
where in serving the social good."
From the New York World
One
■
en
*****
«r*"'
for
Assets.
There is a young fellow in Pius«
burg who will undoubtedly "get
along," although, as yet, he has not
succeeded in amassing vast wealth. 1
In Yact, he receives a weekly wage of
$15. He is, however, an extremely
good looking and entertaining young
man, and not long ago succeeded in
making such an impression upon the
daughter of a well-to-do manufactu
rer that it was decided between them
that he "should ask papa." This he
proc eeded to do, and, to his surprise,
was received not unkindly.
"Well, let's see, my boy," the old
man remarked, pushing up his
glasses. "What is your annual in
come?"
"Well, sir, I should estimate it at
$2000," the young man replied.
"Well—not so bad, not so bad,'*
the old man said. "That added to
her interest at four per cent, on tho
$50,000 I have always said I woaig
settle upon Mary at her marriage
would give you $4000. You should
be able to get along."
"Well, sir, to tell the truth," the
young man interrupted, "I took the
liberty of figuring that interest int«
my estimate."—Harper's Weekly.
?1
in
to
by
the
I
the
In
to
in
»
The Reason.
Wiggins (to h;s new neighbors
son)—"Where did you live before
you moved here?"
Johnny—"Louisville.
We moved
there from Memphis, and before that
we lived in Mobile."
"My!
Your folks move around
some, don't they?"
"Yes.
We're huntin' for a place
where pa'll find it easier to work."--*
Woman's Home Companion.
For Mothers.
Don't forget that you are, or ought
to be, your children's ideal of all that
is perfection, and that it is your duty
to live up to their ideals in every pos
sible way. Not an easy task, but
wonderfully inspiring.