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DEATH OF OH. TAU1AGE
Make3 Ap pror.ri i'.e Fprinling
his falious mm
Considered by Many the Mas
terpiece of the Great
Pulpit Orator
"On Hie Choice of a Wife."
Marriage ot For All M ull it tulei Who
Neter Wll Marry, Who Are Not l it
to Marry Some Imminent lUunrierer
Avoid Matchmakers K.nt lul finali
ties Beauty Bened Id Ion.
Washington, D. C The follow ins
diacourtte is one of a aeries of sermons on
dcnirstic life delivered several yenrs ngo
by the late lL'v. Dr. T. De Witt Tahnajre.
and by many admirers in considered his
ru!))it masterpiece. In commemoration
of his death it is now republished. It was
founded on the text, Judges xiv, 3: "Is
there never a woman anions the daugh
ters of thy brethren, or among all my
people, that thou poest to take a wife of
the uncircumcised Philistines?"
Samson, the giant, is here asking con
sent of hia father and mother to mar
riage with one whom they thought unfit
for him. lie was wise in asking their
counsel, but not wie in rejecting it. Cap
tivated with her looks, the big son wanted
to marry a daughter of one of the hostile
families, a deceitful, hypocritical, whining
and 6aturnine creature, who afterward
made for him a world of trouble till she
quit him forever, la my text his parents
forbade the banns, practically saying:
"When there are so many honest and
beautiful maideus of your own country,
are you eo hard put to for a lifetime part
ner that you propose conjugality with this
foreign flirt? Is there eueh a dearth of
lilies in our Israelitish gardens that you
must wear on your heart a Philistine
thistle! Do j'ou take a crabapple because
there are no pomegranates? Is there never
a woman among the daughters of thy
brethren, or among all my people, that
thou goes't to take a wife of the uncircum
cised Philistines J"
Kxcuseiesu was he for such a choice in a
land and amid a race celebrated for fe
male loveliness and moral worth, a land
and a race of which self-denving Abigail'
and heroic Deborah, and dazzling Miriam,
fend pious Esther, and glorious Ruth, ana
!Jfary, who hugged to her heart the blessed
Xord, were only ' magnificent specimens.
"The midnight folded in their hair, the
"lakes of liquid beauty in their eye, the
.gracefulness of spring morning in their
posture and gait, were only typical of the
graler brilliance and glory of their soul,
likewise excuseless is anv man in our
time who makes lifelong alliance with any
"one who, because of her disposition, or
heredity, or habits, or intellectual vanity,
or moral twistification, may be said to be
of the Philistines. '
The world never owned such opulence
of womanly character or such splendor of
womanly manners or multitudinous in
Btances of wifely, motherly, daughterly,
sisterly devotion, as it owns to-day. I
have not words to express my admiration
for good womanhood. Woman is not
only man's equal, but in affectional and re.
ligious nature, which is the best part of
us, she is seventy-five per cent, nis su
perior. Yea, during the last twenty years,
through the increased opportunity opened
for female education, the women of the
country are better educated than the ma
jority of men; and if they continue to
advance mentally at the present ratio, be
fore long the majority of men will have
difficulty in finding in the opposite sex
enough ignorance to make appropriate
consort. If I am under a delusion as to
the abundance of good womanhood abroad,
consequent upon my surroundings since
the hour I entered this life until now, I
nope the delusion will last until I embark
from this planet. So you will understand,
if I say in this course of sermons some
thing that seems severe, I am neither
cynical nor disgruntled.
There are in almost every farmhouse in
the country, in almost every home of the
threat town, conscientious women, worship
ful women, self-sacrificing women, holy
women, innumerable Marys, sitting at the
feet of Christ; innumerable mothers, help
ing to feed .Christ in the person of His
suffering disciples; a thousand capped and
spectacled grandmothers . Lois, bending
over Bibles whose precepts they have fol
lowed from early girlhood; and tens of
thousands of young women that are dawn
ing upon us from school and seminary,
that are going to bless the world with
good and happy homes, that shall eclipse
all their predecessors, a fact that will be
acknowledged by all men except those who
are struck through with moral decay from
toe to cranium; and more inexcusable
than the Samson of the text is that man
who, amid all this unparalleled munifi
cence of womanhood, marries a fool. But
eome of you are abroad suffering from
such disaster,' and to halt others of jou
from going over the same precipice, 1 cry
out in the words of my text: "Is there
never a woman among the daughters of
thy brethren, or among all my people, that
thou goest to taKe a wiie 01 me uncir
cumcised Philistines?"
That marriage is the destination of the
human race is a mistake that I want to
correct before I go further. There are
multitudes who never will marry, and still
greater multitudes who are not fit to
marry. In Great Britain to-day there are
nine hundred and forty-eight thousand
more women than men, and that, I un
derstand, is about the ratio in America.
Py mathematical and inexorable law, you
(pee, millions of women will never marry.
The supply for matrimony greater than
the demand, the first lesson of which is
.that every woman ought to prepare to
. (take care of herself if need be. Then there
pre thousands of men who have no right
to nrnrry, because they have become so
:corrupt of character that their offer of
Imarriage is an insult to any good woman.
Society will have to be toned up and cor
rected on this subject, so tLit it shall
(realize that if a woman who has sacrificed
her honor is unfitted for marriage, so is
'any man who has ever sacrificed his pur
ity. What right have you, O masculine
beast! whose life has been loose, to take
under your care the spotlessness of a vir
'gin reared in the sanctity of a respectable
home? Will a buzzard dare to court a
dove? ... . ,
But the majority of you will marry, and
have a right to marry, and as your re
ligious teacher I wish to say to these men,
in the choice of a wife first of all seek
divine direction. About thirty-five year
u-, hfti Mirtiri Fiirquhar Ttipprr, the
1 .iiti-h mi(I, .iijt"! men to T.irr l'i'f.i!i
they dvi.'d upon m.itl'ilii'im.il -1 ' i-i.i 1 1 . T. ,
l"'M.le l.i -lull - . And Home of them Imvr
lrid t i l.mli on the oilier hide of their
h.
'Mm need of divine direction I nrznr
from tin1 fart thnt no many men, und
nine of them strong and wine, hnvt
wicked their liven at this junctor. Wit
liens Siimn and this wonuiri of Timnnth!
Witness Koeriiten, peeked of the histories.)
X(Hiti pe! Witness Job, whose wife had
nothing to prescribe for hi cai hum-li-i
but allopathic doses of profanity! Witnim
Ananias, a liar, who imnht perhaps hnvt
been cured by a truthful ppouse, yet mar
rying as jrreat a bar as himself Sapphira!
Witness John Wesley, one of the best
men that ever lived, united to one of th
tiuiht outrageous and scandalous of women,
who sat in City Hoad Chapel making
mouths at hini while he preached! Wit
ness the once connubial wretchedness ol
John Kuskin, the great art essayist, and
Frederick W. Robertson, the great preach
er. Witness a thousand hells on earth
kindled by unworthy wives, termagants
that scold like a March northeaster; fe
male spendthrifts, that put their hus
bands into fraudulent schemes to get
money enough to meet the lavishment of
dometi(j expenditure; opium-using wo
men about four thousand of them in the
United Mates who will have the drug,
though it should rause the eternal damna
tion of the whole household; heartless and
overbearing, and namby-pamby and un
reasonable women, yet married married
perhaps to good men! These are the wo
men who build the low club houses, where
the husbands and sons go because they
can't stand it at home. On this sea of
matrimony, where so many have Wrecked,
am I not right in advising divine pilotage?
Especially is devout supplication needed,
because of the fact that society is so full
of artificialities that men are deceived ns
to whom they are marrying, and no one
but the Lord knows. After the dress
maker, and the milliner, and the jeweler,
and the hair-adjuster, and the dancing
master, and the cosmetic art have com
pleted their work, how is an unsophisti
cated man to decipher the physiological
hieroglyphics, and make accurate judg
ment of who it is to whom he offers hand
and heart? That is what makes so many
recreant husbands. They make an honor
able marriage contract, but the goods de
livered are so different from the sample
by which they bargained. They were
swindled, and they backed out. They
mistook Jezebel tor Longfellow's Evange
line, and Lucretia Borgia for Martha
Washington.
Aye, as the Indian chief boasta of the
scalps he has taken, so there are in society
to-day many coquettes who boast of the
masculine hearts they have captured. And
these. women, though they may lhe amid
richest upholstery, are not so honorable
as the cyprians of the street, for these;
advertise their infamy, while the former
profess heaven while they mean hell.
There is so much counterfeit woman
hood a-broad it is no wonder that some
cannot tell the genuine coin from theJaseJ
Do you not realize you need divine guid
ance when I remind you that mistake is
possible in this important affair, and, if
made, is irrevocable?
The worst predicament possible is to be
unhappily yoked together. You see it is
impossible to break the yoke. The mora
you pull apart, the more, galling the yoke.
The minister might bring you up again,
and and in your presence read the mar
riage ceremony backward, might put you
on the opposite sides of the altar from
where you were when you were united,
might take the ring off of the finger, might
rend the wedding veil asunder, might tear
out the marriage leaf from the family Bible
record, but that would fail to unmarry
you. It is better not to make the mis
take than to attempt its correction. But
men and women do not reveal all their
characteristics till after marriage, and
how are you to avoid committing the fatal
blunder? There is only one Being in th
universe who can tell you whom to cnoose,
and that is the Lord of Paradise. He
made Eve for Adam, and Adam for Eve,
and both for each other. Adam had not
a large group of women from whom to
select his wife, but it is fortunate, judg
ing from some mistakes which she after
ward made, that it was Eve or nothing.
There is in all the world some one who
was made for you, as certainly as Eve was
made for Adam. All sorts of mistakes
occur because Eve was made out of a rib
from Adam's side. Nobody knows which
of his twenty-four ribs was taken for the
nucleus, If you depend entirely upon
vourself in the selection of a wife, there
are twenty-three possibilities to one that
you will select the wrong rib. By the fate
ot Ahab, whose wite inaucea mm to sieai;
by the fate of Macbeth, whose wife pushed
him into massacre; by the fate of Janqs
Fercruson. the philosopher, whose wife
entered the room while he was lecturing;
and willfully upset his astronomical ap-.
paratus, so that he turned to the audience
and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I have
the misfortune to be married to this
woman;" by the fate of Bulwer, the
novelist, whose wife's temper was so in
compatible that he furnished her a beau
tiful house near London and withdrew
from her company, leaving her with the
dozen dogs whom she entertained as pets:
by the fate of John Milton, who married
i termagant after he was blind, and when
some one called her a rose, the poet said:
"I am no judge of flowers, but it may be
jo, for I feel the thorns daily" by the
fate of an Englishman whose wife was so
determined to dance on hia grave that he
was buried in the sea: by the fate of a
village minister whom I knew, whose wife
threw a cun of hot tea acrosa the table
because they differed in sentiment by all
these scenes of disquietude and domestic
calamity, we implore you to be cautious
and prayerful before you enter upon the
connubial state, which decides whether a
man shall have two heavens or two hells,
a heaven here and heaven forever, or a
hell now and a hell hereafter.
By the bliss of Pliny, whose wife, when
her husband was pleading in court, had
messengers coming and going to inform
her what impression he was making; by
the joy of Grotius, whose wife delivered
him from prison under the pretence of
having books carried out lest they be in
jurious to his health, she sending out her
husband unobserved in one of the book
cases; by the good fortune of Roland, in
Louis' time, whose wife translated and
composed for her husband while Secretary
of the Interior talented, heroic, won
derful Madame Roland;-by the happiness
of many a man who has made intelligent
choice of one capable being prime coun
selor and companion in brightness and in
erief pray to Almighty God, morning.
noon, and night, that at the right time
and in the right way He will send you a
pood, honest, loving, sympathetic wife; or
11 sne is not sent to you, mac you may db
sent to her.
At this point let me warn you not to
let a question of this importance be set
tled by the celebrated matchmakers flour
ishing in almost every community. De
pend upon vour own judgment divinely
illumined. These brokers in matrimony
are evtr planning how they can unit iin-
perunious innocence to an hcirrs, nr cHi
bate w ..ii. hi to million uie or 11..11 j i . an I
that in many c.i-cs iiuikcs bio a it iinliiippi
lic. llow ii:i any hum. in bc.ng, 1m
Know licit her of the to partus us God
known tliuii, and who is ignorant of tht
future, give such direction m yuu re
quire at such a crisis?
'Jake the advice of thp earthly match
maker instead nf the divine guidance, and
you may some diy be led to ute the wor.ls
of Solomon, whose experience in home hie
was as melancholy as it ua multitudinous.
One day hi palace, with it great wide
rooms nnd great wide doors and great
wide hall, was too small lor him ami the
loud tongue of a woman belaboring him
about some of hi Mylects, and he re
treated to the housetop to get relief from
the fungal bombardment. And while there
lie saw a poor man on one corner of the
ioof with a mattress for hi only land-
lure, and the open skv fns only covering.
And r-olomon envies him and cries out:
'It is beter to dwell in the corner of the
"housetop than with a brawling woman in
ii wide house." And one dav during the
ainy season the water leaked through
the roof of the palace anil began to drop
'in a pail or pan set there to catch it. And
it one NiUe of him all dav lone the water
went drop! drop! drop! while on the
ther side a female companion ouarrelinir
labout this, and quarreling about that; the
'acrimonious and petulant words falling on
his tar in ceaseless pelting drop! drop!
drop! and he seized hi pen and wrote:
"A continual dropping in a very rainy
day and a contentions woman are alike."
If Solomon had been a prayerful at the
beginning of his life as he was at his
close, how much domestic infelicity ho
would have avoided?
But prayer about this will amount to
nothing unless you pray soon enough.
Wait until you are fascinated and the
equilibrium of your soul is disturbed bv a
magnetic and exquisite presence, and t,hen
you will answer your own prayers, and
you will mistake your own infatuation for
the voice of God.
If you have this prayerful spirit you will
surely avoid all female scoffers at the
Christian religion; and there are quite a
number of them in all communities. It
must be told that, though the only in
fluence that keeps woman from being
estimated and treated as a slave aye. as
a brute and beast of burden is Christi
anity, since where it is not dominant she
is so treated: yet there are women who
will so far forget themselves and forget
their God that they will go and hear lec
turers malitrn Christianity and scoff at the
most sacred things of the soul. A good
woman, over-persuaded by her husband,
may go once to hear such a tirade against
the Christian religion, not fully knowing
what she is going to hear; but she will
not go twice.
A woman, not a Christian, but a re
specter of religion, said to me: "I was
persuaded by my husband to go and hear
an infidel lecture once, but going home
I said to him: "My dear husband. I
would not go again though my declination
should result in our divorcement forever."
And the woman was right. If after all
that Christ and Christianity have done
for a woman, she can go again and again
to hear such assaults, she is an awful crea
ture, and you had better not come near
such a reeking lenress. She needs to be
washed, and for three weeks to be soaked
in carbolic acid, and for a whole year
fumigated, before she is fit for decent
society. While it is not demanded that a
woman be a Christian before marriage,
she must have regard for the Christian re
ligion or she is a bad woman and un
worthy of being your companion in a life
charged with such stupendous solemnity
and vicissitudes.
What you want, 0 man! in a wife, is
not a butterfly of the sunshine, not a
giggling nonentity, not a painted doll,
not a gossiping gadabout, not a mixture of
artificialities which leave you in doubt as
to where the humbug ends and the woman
begins, but an earnest soul, one that can
not only laugh when you laugh, but weep
when you weep. There will be wide, deen
graves in your path of life, and you will
both want steadying when you come to
the verge of them, I tell you. When your
fortune fails you will want some one to
talk of treasures in heaven, and not charge
upon you with a bitter, "I told you so."
As far as I can analyze it, sincerity and
earnestness are the foundation of all
worthy wifehood. Get that, and you get
all. Fail to get that, and you get noth
ing but what you will wish you never had
got.
Don't make the mistake that the man
of the text made in letting his eve settle
the question in which coolest judgment
directed by divine wisdom are all-important.
He who ?ins no reason tor Ins
wifely choice except a pretty face is like
a man who should buy a farm because of
the dahlias in the front dooryard. Beauty
is a talent, and when God gives it lie in
tends it as a benediction upon a woman s
face. When the pood Princess of Wales
dismounted from the rail train last sum
mer, and I saw her radiant face. I could
understand what they told me the day
before, that, when at the great military
hospital where are now the wounded and
the sick from the Egyptian a-ul other
wars, the Princess passed through, all the
sick were cheered at. her coming, and those
who could be roused neither by doctor nor
nurse from their stupor, would get up on
their elbows to look at her, and wan and
wasted lips prayed an audible nrayer:
"God bless the Princess of Wales. Doesn't
she look beautiful?"
But how uncertain is the tarrying of
beauty in a human countenance! Explosion
of a kerosene lamp turns it into salifica
tion, and a scoundrel with one dash of
vitriol may dispel it, or Time will drive
his chariot wheels across that bright face,
cutting it up in deep ruts and gullies. But
there is an eternal beauty on the face of
some women, whom a rough and ungal
lant world may criticise as homelv; and
though their features mav contradict all
the laws of Lavater on physiognomy, yet
they have graces of soul that will keep
them attractive for time and glorious
through all eternity.-
There are two or three circumstances
in which the plainest wife is a queen of
beauty to her hushand, whatever her
stature or profile. By financial panic or
betrayal of business partner, the man goes
down, and returning & his home that
evening, he says: "I am ruined; I am
in disgrace forever; I care rot Avhetlier
I live or die. ' It is an agitated storv he
is telling in the household that winter
night. He says: "The furniture must
go, the house must go, the social
position must go." and from being
sought for obsequiously they must be
cold-shouldered everywhere. After he
ceases talking, and the wife ha3 heard all
in silence, she says: Is that all? Why.
you had nothing when I married you, and
you have only come back to where you
started. If you think that my happiness
and that of the children depend on these
trappings, you do not know me, though
we have lived together thirty years. God
is not dead, and the National Bank of
Heaven has not suspended payment, and
if you don't mind. I don't care a cent.
Wbat little we ned of food and raiment
th rest of our lives we can get, and I
don't pronn.o fn s!t down ful wre nn I
(fronn, M.iry. bind me thit darning-
tteed'e. I div'ni' I hive forgotten to
M-t the riting for thne rnkV .And while
V :4 1 i . t .
-'n- in ihiiv in .1 in- irir4 MIT linill III I Ii i
fS'tnn i nhl liymn. lo-morrow.
The lnixliH'id looks iii in am-iement.
and says' "Well, well, you are the gri-at-est
woman I ever saw. I thought you
wmild faint dead awnv whpn I told vou."
And n lie looks at her all the glories of
physiognomy in the Court of Louis XV.
on the modern fashion plate, are tamo nn
compared with the superhuman splendors
of that woman's face. Joan of Arc, Miry
Antoinette, and La Belle Hamilton, the
enchantment of the Court of Charles II,
are now here.
There is another time when the r1-iinet
wife is a queen of beauty to her hiiiband.
She has done the work of life. She has
reared her children for God and heaven,
and though soms of them may be a little
wild they will yet come bark, for God has
promised. She is dving, and her husband
stands by. 1 hev think over all the years
of their companionship, the wedding and
the burials, the ups nnd the down, the
successes and the failures. They talk
over the goodness of God nnd His faith
fulness to children's children. She lias no
fear about going. The Lord has sustained
her so mnny years she would not dare to
distrust Him now. The lips of both of
them tremble as thev say good-hy and en
courage each other about an early meeting
in a better world. The breath is feebler
and feebler, and stops. Are you sure of it?
Just hold that mirror at the mouth, ami
see if there is any vapor gathering on the
surface. Gone! As one of the neighbors
takes the old man by the arm gently and
says: "Come, you had better go into the
next room and rest." he says: "Wait a
moment; I must take one more look at
that f;ce and at those hands!" Beautiful!
Beautiful!
Mv friends, I hope you do not call that
death. That is an autumnal sunset. That
is a crystalline river pouring into a crys
tal sea. That is the solo of human life
overpowered by hallelujah chorus. That is
a queen's coronation. That is heaven.
That is the way my father stood at eighty
two, seeing my mother depart at seventy
nine. Perhaps so vour father and mother
.went. I wonder if we will die as well.
LABOR WORLD.
South Carolina has 30,000 operatlr
In cotton mills.
Clinton (Mass.) master builders have
granted nn olgat-hour day.
The Portsmouth (N. II.) striking
palutt'rs have resumed work. They
Set eight hours and $2.25 a day.
The ten per cent, advance has gone
into effect in all New Bedford cotton
mills, benefiting 20,000 operatives.
Lawrence (Mass.) hostlers and team
sters are organizing and propose to
demand shorter hours and more pay.
The carpenters' union of Cincinnati,
Ohio, demands an increase in wages
from $2.50 to $2.S0 per day of eight
hours.
Indiana labor unions have begun an
agitation against the chain-making
work done in the State Reformatory at
.Jellersonvllle.
The Common Council of Rockville,
Conn., voted to make the working
hours of city laborers nine hours In
stead of ten as heretofore.
"Bushelmen," the journeymen tailors
who do the alteration work In the
offices of the most fashionable Chicago
tailors, have formed a union.
The teamsters of K&ukakee, 111.,
hiye organized, and the painters and
decorators have received an lncreaso
of twenty-five cents per day without
strike.
Ninety per cent, of the printers of
Germany are organized, making the
strongest union in that country. The
total membership is 28,833. The re
ceipts for 1000 were $103,002, the ex
penditures $301, S26, and the organiza
tion now has in the bank $918,124.
The Cloakmakers' Union, of New
York City, has made a demand on all
manufacturers for the abolition of the
contract system In the pressing de
partment. If the demand is refused
a general strike of all brandies will be
ordered, which will bring out 14,000
workers in Greater New yoy.k.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
King Oscar of Sweden possesses a
medal for life saving.
Mayor Crane, of Denver, Col., has
Invented a rotary ore-working machine
for use In the gold mines,
W. W. Astor has given $100,000 to
endow those professorships in the Uni
versify College of London which are
to-day without endowment.
Jacob A. Riis has declared that he
would decline the position of Governor
of the Danish West Indies unless Pres
ident Roosevelt strongly insists upon
his acceptance,
Senator Hanna now possesses the
pen with which T. B. Reed, when
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, attested the passage of the Mc
Kinley Tariff act.
Gong Gee, a Chinaman, who is a
practical electrician, graduated from
the Tortland (Ore.) Technical School,
Is writing a book on electricity in the
Chinese language.
Sir Henry Strong, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Canada, has no
tified the Department of Justice that
he wishes to retire Jn September. Jus
tice Taschereau will, be promoted to
the Chief Justiceship.
Dr. Ileyman. Mr. Kruger's physician,
enters nn emphatic denial that the for
mer President of the Transvaal Repub
lic is not in good health. The physi
cian says that Mr. Kruger is very well
despite his advanced age.
Colonel John Mosby, the leader of
one of the most Important Confeder
ate cavalry commands during the Civil
War, is in Government service in Colo
rado, charged with preventing the pri
vate Inclosure of public lands.
Trofessor James Tarker Hall, as
sociate professor of law at Stanford
University, has tendered his resigna
tion, to the trustees. He will go to
Chicago University, where he will hold
a full professorship in the new depart-
mcnt nt ,aw ,ilt will be opened there
HVBcR OT HAWAII.
lnrion Ivoa nl mhr 11iki.Ii on 1
Istmtil if linul.
Territorial l'mro: t r-D.ivbl Haugh
and expert Forrester Griffiths from
Win lihiKt'iti mo expected Lack frou
Midokal, da the Lihtia, nu Saturday.
Mr. Crinitba la Hearing the end of thi
flrno. allotted for IIkm' Islands befoio
proceeding on to Manll.i, but will pro
bably make a trip to Kauai before ho
leaves the islands.
The soil on Kauai being probably
older than that of the rest of the jrronn
r.nd Its position and latitude belnar
also perhaps in Its favor, them ar
several trees that grow easily on
Kauai, that have never flourished very
well on the other Islands. Among
these in the iluraln, a tall elm like tree
well known to travelers In the Last
Indies for the delicious custardlika
pulp and Intolerable smell. Its seeds
are eaten roasted like chestnuts. Mr.
Griffiths, will have a lengthy report to
make on the Hawaiian forests, and his
trip will have proved an interesting
one, as several of the native woods ato
practically new to the United States.
Koa, for example, Is little known as a
wood superior to mahogany, and
monkey-pod timber has never como
into prominence as a furniture wood.
A prominent California saddle mak
er expressed a considerable curiosity
about the supply of a certain Hawaiian
wood that was sent to him to be mado
Into trees. The wood was very light
and extremely tough, a3 strong as
steel and, on inquiry, capable of last
ing an indefinite number of years.
This wood was the product of the hau
tree and has been patronized quite
extensively, for the manufacture of
saddle trees. All these attributes of
Hawaiian timber, with the possibili
ties of sandal wood when the youusr
trees which are now to be preserved
spring up, will be taken cognizance of
by Mr. Griffiths in his report to Wash
ington headquarters. Honululu Star.
America's Industrial Future Secure.
The age of mschinery Is also the age
cf motive power, which Is but another
way of saying that it i3 the age of
coal. The nation which has the cheap
est raw material and the cheapest (oal
has a permanent and predominant ad
vantage in the wond'8 markets, and it
is an advantage which every improve
ment in method of manufacture will
only serve to emphasize.
When so much is admitted, the con
clusion immediately follows that
America's industrial future Is se
cured. The United States has the
most abundant and the cheapest raw
materials and supplies of fuel In the
world. Germans and Englishmen may
dispute with us over relative advan
tages In methods, in machinery, in
labor, In business organization, and la
commercial practice. They may claim
that they have much to teach us and
that they can soon learn what we
have to teach them. American labor
man contract the disease trades-unionism,
and American public burdens
and social caste developments may
lessen our advantage. But American
soil and minerals are eternal, and the
resources of no other great power are
for one moment to be compared with
them. Frank A. Vandeilip, in Scrib
ner's. Russian Cities' Population.
"Consul General Holloway reports
from St. Petersburg: "The last census
o! Russia, taken two years ago, shows
that there are only three cities in the
empire whose population exoeeds 500,
0C0, viz: St: Petersburg, 1,267,000;
Moscow, 988,000, and Warsaw, 614,800;.
Odessa comes next, with 402,000; Lodz,
314,900; Riga, 283,000; Kief, 249,000;
Kharkof, 171,000; Tiflis, 170,000; Wil
na, 160,000; Tashkent, 157,000, and
Saratoff, Kazan, Yekaterinoslav, Ros-toff-on-Dom,
Astrakhan, Baku, Tula
and Kishenef, with from 108,000 to
123,000 each.
"There are 35 towns containing be
tween 50,000 and 1D0.00 inhabitants,
and 82 towns with from 10,000 to 50,
000. Yakutsk is the smallest in the
list, with 7000 inhabitants. Among
those towns whose populations have
grown most rapidly, Lodz, Russia's
great textile manufacturing center,
stands first, having Increased from 25,
000 to 315,000 In 15 years."
Life by Time Table.
Probably since the world began
there was never a period when men
wasted their time as little as they do
now. Whether they use it well or ill,
they at least do not let it slip away
empty. Never was the fasicination
of work so potent as at the present
moment, and never before were the
same keenness and concentration dis
played in the pursuit of distraction.
Energy is the dominant quality of the
Anglo-Saxon race, the quality they
love to exercise, the quality they can
not choose but admire. Work is no
longer regarded as a necessary evil
or even wholly as a means to an end;
it is valued for its own sake. The
richest men in America work as hard
as the poorest or at least pretend to
do so lest the society in which they
move should suppose theni men of
leisure, a supposition which would be
we- understand against an American, ,
whatever his position in life. Londofj
Spectator. .
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