The midland journal., September 20, 1907, Image 6

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VISCOUNT AOKI,
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First Japanese Ambassador to the United States.
THE WORLD'S OLDEST MINISTER.
The Rev. Thomas Lord, of Eng
land. has just entered upon his one
fcandredth year, and he is probably
the oldest minister in tbe world who
Is still in active service. This vete
ran of the pulpit retired from the
ministry neatly thirty years ago, but
frequently preaches in chapels in the
district where he resides, besides tak
ing part in temperance meetings, in
which work he has been an enthusi
ast nearly all his life.
When asked to explain the secret
of his long life, Mr. Lord instantly
replied that there was no secret in it:
* “It is the duty of every Christian,”
REV. THOMAS LORD, Aged 100.
he said, “to use his own common
eenws and to be moderate in all
things. By doing that, 1 have lived
v> be over ninety-nine."
While abstaining from intoxicating
liquors, Mr. Lord has also abstained
from using tobacco. On one occa
sion an old lady advised him to take
<to smoking, saying that a minister
•could think better with a pipe in. his
mouth.. The reply was characteris
tic of the man:
“No,” he answered, “if that is
•where thought comes from, 1 would
rather not think at all.”
This venerable minister takes bis
+ -turn with other pastors in conduct
ing services at the Horncastie Work
tUMise on every Wednesday, and not
long ago he was engaged in prepar
ing a new lecture on temperance. He
Is a living erample of how a man, by
hard work and careful living, can be
' preserved to a ripe old age.
Round to Attract Attention.
This idea has led many an adver
tiser on to the rocks. No one, of
course, will question the fact that an
advertisement must be seen to be
iread, but that is very different from
tts strength, lying in the fact that it
attracts attention. Suppose it does.
Attracting attention is simply one of
the many incidental points in a good
advertisement. The vital point is to
inspire confidence and a desire to
hay.
Take, for example, q dyspepsia
euro. What is the use of attracting
people who never have dyspepsia?
The dyspeptic does not have to be
hunted—he is doing the hunting:
AN OPEN AIR GOSPEL TENT IN NEW YORK.
—From the Christian Herald.
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there is 'othing he dosi re:: quite so
much as .o find a mean? of curing
himself. He not only reads, but looks
for every advertisement on the ques
tion—he reads them all, but he only
tries one. He tries the one that is
so written as to inspire him with
confidence. A striking picture which
forcibly illustrates one of the strong
points of the reading matter is of
great aid to the advertisement, but
better no pictures at all than one
which simply attracts attention and
—nothing more.—Our Wedge.
Snake Bites in India.
Snake bites occur frequently in In
dia, and they are generally inflicted
by venomous reptiles, like the cobra.
Last year there were reported 21,797
deaths from snake bites, and It is be
lieved by well-informed persons that
the deaths reported from this cause
fall fifty per cent, below the actual
number. The official report cover
ing thirty years averages about the
number of deaths from snake poi
soning annually as that reported for
1906. The report says that “the re
turns are probably not very accu
rate.” Rewards are offered in most
provinces in India for the destruction
of snakes, but experience has shown
that this measure does not have any
appreciable effect on the mortality
from snake bites, and the total
amounts so paid are small. New
, York Times.
a. “If only I’d got a few teeth
left,” wept the antiquated bit of pork.
. “what a Christmas dinner I’d make
! of those turnips.”
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t 2. “Hallo, here’s a bit of an old
• rake! Happy thought! I'll just stick
, It tn my mouth, "
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; 3. “Who said false teeth? Guess
I’ll be able to eat those turnips all
[ right now.” —Comic Cuts.
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, The Kansas Cynic,
i Men really have less admiration for
the average girl's elbow than the
i wearers of short sleeves seem to be
; lieve.—Atchison Globe.
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> There are some fifteen-inch bull
frogs in the New York City Aquarium.
Backwoodsman Strength.
By Julian Hawthorne.
p in the big woods the other day I lay beside the fire of a lumber.
Ucamp, and saw a lot of big fellows squatting or reclining about
the trodden space of the camp, smoking, yarning, chaffing and
_unlimbering the muscles of their hairy strength. They had worked
hard all day; there is very little “sojering” in these camps; the
Tvj en f ee i a pride in their prowess and a friendly rivalry one with
another, and they achieve feats of endurance and strength which #
would make the old Paladins of Mediaeval chivalry look foolish. The' work
gives the best all-round development imaginable, except that the men would
be the better for a little running every day for though their lungs are given play
enough, it is not accompanied with leg work, and has not quite the same
effect. ’ These splendid creatures have more the air and look of the Farnese
Hercules than the Achilles or the Mercury.
What could be more conducive to health and physical power than the life
of an American lumberman? They are not strong in the muscular sense mere
ly; they have an enormous vitality—an abounding life in nerves and fibres,
which means not only power to do, but desire and appetite for the doing. They
smell trees and fresh wood all day; they snore on pine needles and balsam;
they jump into the cold, tingling stream for a wash; they sweat ten or fifteen
pounds a day, and make it up again with mighty draughts of pure water or
milk, or both, or something as refreshing and harmless; whisky does not ge
into the camps I have seen.
You get from them the sense of robustness, hardiness, superiority to all
ordinary health defects, with a very large margin to spare. I see the muscles
slide and gather beneath their worn flannel shirts, but there is no excess of one
at the expense of others; these men have the symmetry of antique statues, and
there is no weak place in them, as in our crack athletes, who serve a "spec
ialty,” and pay for it with disproportion and one-sidedness. You will notice
the anxious care with which coaches and trainers strive to shield their charges
from over-exertion and from exposure to disease.
But my lumbermen friends dread nothing and suffer from nothing; you
cannot hurt them; they are alive from stem to stern, and yonder chap, who,
since morning, has cut and piled ten cords of hickory, and will sleep tonight
with the sweat dried on his skin, will wake refreshed and unscathed, and be
ready to do ten cords more.
It is worth while to remember, once in a while, what it is to be a full
fledged man, even ‘from the physical standpoint alone. Our athleticism is too
artificial, timorous and delicate, and these burly intrepid, simple, indomitable
fellows' would make our college and club champions look like schoolgirls if
it came to a tryout between them.
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The Modern Diviners
of Dreams
By Dr. Frederick: Patterson,
OW the modern diviners of dreams take little or no rank as
N prophets, but they claim that there are no dreams, however
trivial as to contents, that are without significance. They em-
Ploy neither the symbolic nor the cipher systems of interpreta-
BWggjjpjS tion, but a method quite their own. which may be called the
QBSI analytic-synthetic. To them the subconscious Ego, out of which
the dream comes, is an infinitely vaster personality than the
conscious Ego, and keen analysis of the compressed conglomerate of a dream
Is discovery, is a revelation of wishes, desires, .conflicts, tendencies, charac
teristics, hidden far down in the inmost depths of the dreamer’s individuality.
These broken fragments Of unrelated experiences, woven by the dreamer's
fantasy into a sort of dramatic unity, drift, like the ice-floe, on that invisible
sea of personality. Separately piece by piece the fragments are studied,
and their old motives, relations, and associations traced out. Each fragment
is in itself a condensation of some outlived experience. As the paleontologist
reconstructs his hypothetical monster from its only remains, a scale or a foot
print, so the dream-diviner makes his synthesis from the vestige uncovered in
the strata of dreams. He examines the apparent materia! of the dream, but
he must also follow closely all clues to the latent material underlying it. A
curious and interesting fact established by the dream-analysts is that a large
proportion of dreams represent the fulfilment of a wish or desire. This is
particularly true of children, whose dreams are of the simplest nature. Any
one may convince himself of this by a little inquiry. There are thirst
dreams and hunger dreams, wealth dreams, fame dreams, and so on through
the whole catalogue of man’s desires. The sick dream of health, the unhappy
of happiness, the childless of children, the penniless of golden ducats, and in
his winter attic in the city the poet dreams of summer in the country. The
discovery of the desire at the basis of dreams is not always easy, for it may
be hidden from the dreamer himself, and this is a riddle that the new oracles
enjoy solving. When one dreams that he sees his enemy lying dead before
him, the ‘fundamental wish is clear. But when one dreams of the death of a
friend or relative, a parent or sister, he is horrified by the diviner’s sugges
tion that here, too, a desire lies hidden, albeit probably some old long-forgotten
infantile wish such as children often express in irritation. Such at least is i
an explanation which has been authoritatively offered, though the writer feels
that it Is more than questionable. Common as a wish is as an impetus to
dreams, it is not a constant or invariable factor.—Harper's Magazine.
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Let College Men Be
Active in Politic./*
By Superior Court Justice VViliiam J.
Gaynor, of New York.
AKE a live interest in government and politics. We should not
hand our government over to the control of corrupt bosses and
politicians. They have done their will with our cities and actual
ly looted them, almost up to the present time, only because our
educated and intelligent people took little or no interest in city
government. Do not be a mere partisan. Never be afraid to
change your mind in anything. Be teachers of good politics, al
ways and everywhere. Register a vow this day never to vote for a loafer or
a scoundrel, or tolerate him in any way in politics. Now I do not say that in
all this you must neglect your own material interests. Be honest, industrious
and intelligent, and in that way acquire property if you can. Be assured there
is no prejudice in this country against wealth, however great, acquired in that
way. It is only ill-gotten wealth that is under the ban of the splendid intel
ligence and integrity of the people of this country. We are- just entering upon
an era of the greatest economic reform this country ever had. We are about
to cause our governments, national and State, to make those who run our rail
roads understand that oqr railroads are not private roads, but public highways,
on which there can be no discrimination or favoritism in rates. You will have
your part in this, for it will take years to do it. We are also about to stop
fraudulent stock and bond watering and swindling in our public corporations
by laws such as our public-utilities lav.-, which Governor Hughes has brought '
about. Such laws will not injure the bonds and stocks of our public corpora
tions as is falsely said, but will improve them by making them honest and
genuine.
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FaJse Friends qf Ladsor.
By Mgr. John H. Fox, Vicar-General of
the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Trenton, N. J.
WAVE of discontent and unrest is spreading over the country, \
A causing thoughtful men to -fear for the future. This wave is I
caused by the agitation of unscrupulous demagogues who, im- !
pelled by selfish motives, work upon the passions of the labor- i
ing classes. These -socialistic and anarchistic agitators paint in j
vivid colors the ease and luxury of the wealthy and exaggerate !
the burdens and hardships of the poor. They point to a few j
instances of the misuse of wealth and they declare that all wealth is an evil |
and should be destroyed. They endeavor to keep up a constant friction be- !
tween capital and labor by continually whispering into the ears of labor that j
capital is its natural enemy. Were they friends of the laboring classes they |
would teach them that labor and capital are necessary for each other and I
should live in perfect harmony—that their interests are so identical that if j
you injure one the other suffers. These agitators take care to conceal the |
fact that never in the history of the world was labor'so well paid as it is at .
the present time in this country; that workingmen were never so well pro- |
vided with the oomitorts of life and the educational opportunities for their ‘
children were never so great.
The Point of View.
“You can't get in here on a half
ticket,” exclaimed the door-keeper at
the circus.
“I thought I could,” apoligized the
■mall-town citizen. “I have a bad eye,
mid I only expected to see half of the
mow."
'"Then you’ll have to get two
tickets,” said the doorkeeper, “if you
only have one good eye it’ll take you
twice as long to see the show.”—Har
per's Weekly.
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, Australasia's banner year for wool
1 was 1904-5, when the exports, includ
ing those of New Zealand, amounted
1 to 1,959.51 J hale 3.
New York City.—The thirt waist
that 13 trimmed with little frills
makes a novel feature of the aoason’a
styles, and is essentially dainty and
charming. This one is made of white
French linen, while the frills are of
lawn, and It is worn with a separate
embroidered collar, but every wai st
ing material Is appropriate and the
frills can be varied to suit the special
I one selected. For warm weather
i wear madras, handkerchief linen,
| tawn and all materials of the sort
| are much to bo commended, while for
the cool days tint. occur at all sea
sons taffeta and tight weight wools
are desirable, in place of the separ
ate collar a stock of the material can
be used if better liked, while the
sleeve* allow a choice of foil or elbow
I length. Whore the material of the
waist to thin enough the frills can be
made of the same, bat If It is heavy,
a* In the case of the linen, lawn,
either linen or cotton, makes the beat
material. Or again the pleated frills
that can bo bought by t'ao yard can
be used If liked, although those that
are gathered are somewhat easier to
launder. A Uttla embroidered edg
ing Is pretty for these last, while for
the silk and wool materials ribbon Is
well liked,
The waist is made with front and
' hack. The back is tucked from ahogl
i ders to waist line. The fronts are
j laid In groups of narrow tucks that
1 estend for full length and the wider
j tucks that extend to yoke depth only.
, There Is a regulation shirt waist pleat
‘ at the front and the neck band finishes
j the neck. The sleeves are gathered
i at their tjppsr edges and are Joinod
j to straight bands, whether they are
used in full or elbow length, but the
long sleeves are finished with roll
j over calls that are joined to the low
; ey edges of the bands,
i The quantity of material required
| for the medium stzo is three and flve
■ eighth yards twenty-seven, three and
one-half yards twenty-two or two ;
yards forty-four Inches wide with ,
two and three-eighth yards of ready
made ruffling or one-quarter yard pf ,
linen lawu if gathered frills are used. ,
Greek Kl7 Pattern,
For IndooT gowns or elaborate tea
gowns the broken or primitive Oreek
key pattern Is much used as a trim- 1
tiling.
t Seaweed in Millinery.
1 Long sprays of feathery seawood
1 are the latest millinery Importation
I from England. Queen Alexandra is
among those who have espoused the
new mode. * , ,
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Blonse With Chemisette.
Any waist that can be made high or
partly low neck at will is certain to
find a welcome for it suits a very big *
number of occasions. This one is
charming and attractive and sult3
both the gown and the separate
blouse. As illustrated the material is
lawn with trimming of embroidered
banding and edging and the neck is
left with the open square, but all
seasonable materials are appropriate
and the separate chemisette can be
made from lace, embroidery or lin
gerie material. The pleats at the
shoulders are very generally becom
ing and the flaring roll-over cuffs fin
ish the sleeves in a most satisfactory
manner. A little later taffeta and
pongee will be admirable so made
while for immediate wear all the
pretty linen and cotton stuffs are
suitable.
The - waist is made with fronts and
backs. It is pleated at the shoulders
and gathered at the waist line and
gathered into bands to which the
cuffs are attached and the chemisette
is arranged under the waist. Both
are closed invisibly at the back.
the trimming is applied over Indi
cated lines. The graceful sleeves are
The quantity of material required
for the medium size Is two and three
fourth yards twenty-seven, two and
one-half yards thirty-two or two
yards forty-four Inches wide with
two and one-fourth of banding and
four yards o£ edging, one-half yard
eighteen or thlrty-slx Inches wide for
tho chemisette.
Tfew I’arnsols.
This year the Jlnen parasol will be
much to tho fore, and the newest ex
amples are adorned with Immense
bunches of flowers or fruit, cut out
of chintz and appliqued to tho linen,
a tiny border of the narrowest blaclr
velvet ribbon outlining the design.
Hats With Wings,
Many of tho newest hats are
trimmed with gigantic wings, which
were one of Vlrot's pet creations,