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ON THE STUDY OF UNPAINTED aouroe But as have said it is hook to be dipped Into not read and see them ell the time I shall get a headache and remember nothing" "Don't" she answers "now you're made me loee my The music worrier her when they let down the curtain And turn up the lights she Is happy JEROME grandfather of our beloved King Ed- ward Even the great undo of Queen Victoria It appeared rad not been spared What was the world owning Loyalty seems to be growing apace In this country It Is perhaps fortunate for themselves that most of our hla-'' tor Ians are dead Mr Justin McCarthy If ha be spared to us much longer will find himself one fears In the storks be- fore many years Ills book "The History of the Four must surely make the blood of every loyal Britisher boll in his veins Thackeray this lady would have had whipped at the earl's tail 'X air waiting for some affectionate stfe-Jert to protest against shameful stories dealing with the domestic life of bluff King Hal Where are we to stop? There are reigning monarch who believe trace their ancestry back to Noah Boms loyal subject will be writ Ing to the papers demanding that all reference to that vineyard shall be sup- pressed In future edition of the Bible Then there Is Adam I am given to understand that Adam was an ancestor of our beloved King Edward It has been calculated as possfbla according to dates furnished by history that Adam cxwld he King Edward's grandfather only one hundred and eighty times removed It Is not for the children of loyal British aubq Jects to be tanght that their beloved monarch's great grandfather oidy a hundred and eighty times removed was mods out of mere garden mold Cain likewise was a sort of great uncle to our royal family Surely tha first few chapters of Genesis might with advantage be now allowed to drop out All that bust nose with the apple! It has bees made too much of as It la The highly lad allcats references to Eve's costume are surety "scandalous reading" for the subject of her preeset grandson The world's liter sture will have to be revised end ell matter calculated to throw discredit upon the ancestors of our present reigning royal families eifmtnated 1 wonder how much of It win be left JEROME JEROME JEROME lie Is not worth considering one way or the other win let him! gloat over stories shameful to tha If he will He la beyond the reach of further harm But to tin sympathetic reader the portrait of a groat man as he lived and not ns In posed ts helpful ho us ses them aa they struggling falling conquering men like ourselves with whom can feel kinship The laudatory biography presents Its hero always aa a Pharisee The charm of Runyan's Christian waa that he occasionally skipped backward The place for the consistently heroic figure is the opera i and stage Not that all this has much i do with the Creevey Papers They were not a very heroic group tha men that Creevey draws for aa But the book Is useful In helping to reveal the littleness of people that the world docs U1 In regarding as great Creevey washes the paint from many of these gaudy figure strips them of the lino clothes to which they never had any right and presents them to us the commonplace Jld of vulgar peopfc ffiat hidden) behind their titles they existed Snobbery fairly wet paid for tho Job finds It to Its Interest to paint Its masters with a halo of all the virtues round their head It Is well when a frank chatterer of the Creevey type presents them as they really were saying unconsciously tu the world "Behold the little tin gods you have been worshipping!" TO some It evidently appears rank blasphemy that men a fid women connected with the House of Lords should ever be fepoken of except In tones of reverential awe On the appearance of the Creevey Papers an amusing correspondence was published it a London dally paper One lady wrote Indignantly demanding that the book should be suppressed It waa disgraceful said the correspondent that stories should be told reflecting on the great harmful But the scientist demsnds it If history Is to I of any service to ua tho wart must be painted ea well as the flashing eye It Is useful to know that Carlyle on threw the bacon at his wife "After hearing that" says my Irritable City friend take no more Interest In Carlyle Who is he to teach me philosophy? The bad tempered old gentleman of what use Is he to the ICy dear friend have you never thrown the bacon at yvtir wife? Have you never grumbled at tha dinner of hashed mutton twice a week as though any woman wculd not be only too pleased to provide wou with a ton-course dinner every night cooked by a French "chef" if only yon could arford to give her sufficient money for housekeeping on such a scale Are you never at times unreasonable bad tempered quarrelsome Yes I know you are not Carlyle That is what I am coming to Because you very well let us say now and make an ass of yourself do you regard yourself as Incapable of ever behaving sensibly? Because you are generally speaking a poor thing ar you hopeless of ever being great under any circumstances whatsoever Whst I want you to say to yourself Is this: Thee great men of whom we read these men we are told and rightly told to admire there men who have done heroic deeds who have served well their kind they were men as you and I compounded of much littleness together with a little greatness Study thair lives and learn that becaip a man had Aults and failings such aa you and I have that Is no reason why he should despair of ever acting nobly of great men" sweetly sang old Longfellow remind us we can make our Uvea sublime" But not If we Imagine them exalted creatures of different clay entirely to ourselves toe far removed from us to be of any use to ua aa examples I AM not thinking of the little-minded scandal-loving reader who feeling himself hopelessly contemptible hugs to himself the consolation that all man are equally contemptible the advice of a friend who Ol known an Interesting book when he find one have been dipping Into "The Creevey rape edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell and public hed lately by John Murray: and have gained therefore aome useful knowledge and much pleasant entertainment It Is not on everybody's advice tliat now-a-duys I buy expensive books I know one dear old gentleman who used to cost me pounds On parting from him I used to -make a beeline to the nearest bookseller's my trouble being lest the particular work about which he had been talking to me should be sold out Later giuwn mure cautious I used to suggest his lending me the book But this was still worse for me I could avoid reading a book 1 had bought and paid for But a book he bad lent me I Just had to read that through from beginning to end or he would know the reason why Jt was no good my priming giyself with one or two reviews and attempting to routine discussion to the passage quoted He knew that dodge llo would inslat on taking me Into odd corners of the book where no one but himself apparently had ever penetrated If I could not answer lie would send me back home with the book that 1 fondly thought had acen the last of thrust again Into my hand He Is a firm old gentleman But In these later times I also have learnt firmness I positively decline to read books that do not Interest There are I know existing in the world already books enough to Interest ms fur the next one hundred years To this numbers every year experience teaches me some half a doaen are added that 1 also wish to read For my requirements this rufflre As It is I sometimes fee! doubtful of getting through them all I would I were a better skipper Intelligent skipping Is an art to be cultivated by the lorer of bonks A great lover of pictures I once ran against In Dresden could not persuade to visit the gallery there because he only had one day to ape re "But you can ace a few of urged "No I Just my trouble" he replied "I'm bound to try i WILLS I have been much Impressed by the present tendency or the wealthy men nf America to copy the English custom of bequeathing their property to the oldest eon and giving their sons absolute power In the distribution of estates wlth-cut even placing the restraint of a bond upon them It Is generally recognised that men who amass fortunes great or small have th right to dispose of them by will or otherwise jn any way that pleases them best If however they have families they Should he governed by Justice to each of their heir giving to them Individually an equal portion of their entire estates One or more of these heirs may be wayward nr otherwise Incompetent to take car of their Inheritance but In these The creevey papers i a hook to be read for half an ho-ir end then laid down again It laa not the spice of the Grevllli- M-moirs nor the charm of Lord Harvey's Reminiscences Harvey was a keen gtsrver fearless dissector and a IrriUumt man of letters- Creerey was merely an amusing "psul Try a gosslp-nmnser the valet order But the vaH is of more srrvioe to the student of history than he ever gets the credit of tern to his valet it la said no man Is a hern When the- hero mounts his prancing horse he disappears from the valefa vh-w When tlie valet sees him la when he la pulling olf hla socks If one wishes to understand mar ''bid It la necessary to know not only the hero lt the man To act the hero on the stage with tie limelight turned upon one Is comparatively easy Tne same actor can be a hro off the Blags also But It does not follow of necessity the two thing are distinct A man can be brave on the battlefield and yet be a poor thing at two o'clock In tne morning Ph May's hn-Ijcrked lion tamer crouching behind the king of the forest while Ms termagant wife outside the cage exclaims oiit you coward!" Is quite a natural character Bellas ri us and th Duke of Marlborough In their own homes carried merle ness to the vwiyce of Imbecility Statesmen excellent at teaching flrm-nK to a nation have proved themselves mere fretful children when fane to fare with personal disappointment If the proper etudy of mankind be men the study must be oopipiet We went to know how our philosophers behaved when suffering from the toothache OF course there is a certain class of reader who should never attempt biography "I would rather not learn anatomy" an art student once told me "Knowing what the Arm flesh was made the structure of the shapely the cause of nature's wondrous red and white upon a young girl's would rob me of all delight in my work" For such knowledge' is hands of on child over another naturally begets in the child so honored a domineering and authoritative spirit that be comes Insufferable Parents have no guarantee that the favorite child will not beepma demoralised by favoritism that gives him so much power over tha beneficiaries of his own father's will And again why should a son more than a daughter be so honored? A daughter and her children may be more credit to the family than the eons and their children Then why piers them in a position where they are necessarily at a greet disadvantage? Parents partiality la generally followed by legal action on the part of the victims of such partiality to obtain their legiti JK By MRS LOGAN rights In all things and ospeetally la tha division of estates The bitterness engendered la th hearts 'JV?" the i ti JX SOME people have a genius for skipping They will' alt down for a roupl of hours to Nansen's two volumes or to Moisey's life of Gladstone- and rise up with tha best part of tho bork Inside their head I hava a sort of relation who always reads a book through from the tula on tho fly leaf to the name at the foot of tlie jlaat sheet She reads the Introduction she reeds the Preface to the first Edition She prefers first editfons It saves the the reading of preraces Bhe had had a certain book for three dayi when I asked her how she wae getting on with It "Oh pretty she answered but without enthusiasm finished the Introduction to the present Edition and tho Life of the Author and the Prefaces to' the first four former editions and tha Hat of Authorities I've only got the Author's apology now between me and i the book" She reads the catalogue of 1 the Author's previous works the list of Illustrations the appendix Why she does I this she herself cannot say All she knows la that If she If she skip so much as the heading of a chapter hpr conscience gives her no cost night or day It la an odd sort of a conscience Or all other mutters as far as I can Judge It aeems to be fairly well behaved to reason Is capable of ageing the other aide of the question has a sense or give and take But readltg matter of any kind appears to excite It At operas we have to see to It that she has not concealed auout her a libretto Otherwise she never looks at the stage but will sit the whole evening with bowed head pouring over the book At one moment she Is bent double trying to catch upon the page some stray gleam of light from a gas Jet In the gallery: the next minute with her bark to the orchestra she Is holding the book over her head hoping to get the lime light upon it "Put' It down" urge her "Enjoy jrourself while you are still to say nothing about the unfortunate people around about ywu day of national surety and trust companies bonded trustees and safe avenues through which trust funds can be Invested and disbursed there Is no necessity for placing one member at the mercy of another member of th same family Human nature la alike ell the world over and subject to similar temptations Selfishness to a more or less degree abides In tbe hearts of all men and women The Instances are rare where one member Is really qualified to do full Justice to all of the other member or' his own family He may not realize that hi alliances outside Influence him In hi dealing to the prejudice of hi own kindred end yet he And excuses far doing scant Justice and giving himself the lion's share realize how few men would be able to lay bare their souls before the world and yet gain In the estimation of sib Never before has the life of any man bn written which is so powerful rehuk to unheeding and careless lives aa this life as it towers In giant purity above ell meanness of motive and paltry party expedients To Gladstone the whole world was a sacred place surrounded and enveloped and Indwelt by the presence of God The dignity of man the sacred ness Of the soul the divine possibilities of each existence ere the dominant notes of hla whole mental career: but what I think has been revealed to us most forcefully is the spirit in which Mr Gladstone chief while forming and cause great pain when they come to a head but after that they dear and purify the system and seldom come again In the same spot As circulating mediums distributors of wealth corners are eorkers They come os the cyclone come without heralding or warning and they scrape up all the Idle dormant dollars In the locality they affect and land them In a bunch In one spot and well then they are scattered again as widely os before but the gathering and scattering are os a whole good for tlie people Of course the fellow who had them before the cyclone struck Is a sufferer but his loss Is tlie other fellow's gain for cyclone never get away with anytMng per-permanently They always drop whatever they have picked up of children against memory of many parents by unfairness and discrimination JOHN A often proven unworthy and profligate and has so dissipated th estate as to make paupers of his family Daughters often 'moke unfortunate marriages but there are always trust and guarantee companies which are relisbls and competent to take charge of their affairs If empowered to do so There ran hardly be a combination of circumstances that would Justify placing by will any member of a family under tha domination of the dMest son if he is worthy of the trust he does not desire the responsibility and It ia unfair to Inflict a conscientious person wrlth so undesirable a burthen If unworthy It la manifestly unfair and hazardous For Innumerable reasons entallment la Incompatible with American Mess of equal against 'their lawful heirs Is one of tho -saddest consequences following parental sy favoritism Th ties of blood should bo held sabred Thera should he no cane I for Incurable conker In the hearts of one's children on account of feeling that un-utterable Injustice has been don when one hoe passed away Let those enjoy It who ere entitled by blood to all '-pjfi one leaves share and share alike even though acme of them must be protected by a guarantee company MRS JOHN A LOGAN "LIFE St By LADY HENRY SOMERSET (Copyright 1904 by He ant) The creevey papers Is not a book to be taken up and read straight through It would be like sitting down to read through Prpy'a Diary or the rercy Anecdotes 1 heard of a man once who starting at pngs one and flnlshing at pnge four hundred and thirteen read through con-scirntiouaiy not mleslng a line a work entitled "One Thousand and One Gems of British Humour" Like poor King Kenry he never smiled again It was not the fault of tho book It was the fault of the darned fool himself Thw book waa an exhaustive comprehensive compendium 1 have never heard a Joke before or si not that was not In It On the shelves of thousands of hard working men and women It remains to this day a valued and serviceable friend like Betsy Priggs bottle It should be reached down only when the reader teela so disposed This man sat down before the Are with it took It up to bed with him read it through without a break one gem of BrliMi humor after another It Is alphabetically arranged commencing with tho free translation rf a Hebrew Joke against Adam and ending with a witty anecdote told by a famous statesman In tha course of a speech advocating the adoption of an imperial sollvereiii The largeat division octnen under the letter which contains all the Jokes ever made about cats and all the funny things that have ever Urn or that ever will be said by children But embracing all the best (frown British humor connected with dogs runs It pretty close Often after a merry evening when friends have kit around rmountfug atnrirs befji- ntng: "I must tell you what Georgia said the other or "Well speaking about retriever dogs" I have reached this book down from Its shelf It 1s admirably Indexed the groups being cstefully arranged and divided Into their proper subsections and with patience I rarely fail to trace what Georgia said or what tlie retriever did to lbs original Th whole principle Is wrong Ons's children are each bone of one's bone and flesh of flesh and each should therefore be Just as dear to parents who are responsible for their being and th principles and predilection transmitted to tliem If they are weak and betray unfortunate tendencies they need all the more the patrimouy of their parents Put them In the hands of disinterested trust companies of which there are many all over th I'nited States Do not cost) an Indelible reflection upon them by with-holding from them their rightful Inher- Hances or by placing them under snoth-I er member of the family whose super-I vision Is always galling and rarely vrith-lout cause Putting such power in th OF MR undertook all Ms public work His name la forever raised above tb cheap sneer of the cynic The misunderstanding of motive can no longer prevail for whether any man agrees with Mr Gladstone's political views or not he Is found to recognize In Mm a sincere and honest Christian From his curliest youth to his extreme old age his whole spirit hung as It were upon divine guidance When he stood up to deliver one af his great speeches In the House of Commons he the central figure on whom all eyes were turned and for whose utterance all Eng- land waited murmured a prayer fmni the Psalms "Oh turn Thou unto me and hare mercy upon mo Give Thy strength STAPLES As a result of the recent cotton rorner all through the sunny South will be found next year Jasmine covered cottages Church organs and house pianolas that were not there before and In many a hamlet and cross-road village that heretofore were silent as the grave one will listen to (he gleeful tones of the graph-ophone as It croons Bully's the Boy for or "We Gathered In the Gamblers' Tin" Not corners are not the bugaboos the ordinary mortals suppose them to be except to Bully The result of all corners Is tha when they have come and gone all who had to do with them are and better" men As practical objects lessons corners are blue-ribbon winners every time 'Way back In the Uncle pen Drew lieves he does Although she Is getting her grain short weight she Is Just as happy aa though she were not swindled Why bring the scales into evidence? The name of the learned German I coud not spell correctly for publication If I were offered a ton of radium It sounds like a different kind of sausage and looks like a linotype line when the printer stutters But he claims with professional solemnity that he has almost perfected a delicate Instrument that will sound the depths of man's thoughts and feelings as far aa his affections are concerned By netting same subtle psychic force at work upon the subject In the same room with this Instrument which strength and endurance of a trained athlete A more interesting and thrilling entertainment I have never watched I could not but realise the progress In the Spanish and Cuban race toward civilization when I looked about that enormous arena of four tiers of packed boxes and saw the Interest and excitement which a few years ago were awakened only by a bloody bull fight Of course I understood the Interest tu quickened by the poreiblllty of gnln or lose as large sum were staked on tlie or blue1' spirited contestants But this fart does not render the sport any more immoral than It renders yacht race a foot-ball or a base-ball game or gA election to Thy servant and help the son of Thine handmaid" Men who saw Ms lips move used to Imagine that he was conning the figures that he had to put before that august assembly It Is only now that the world realizes that the great statesman was as a little child pleading for strength from the Eternal Father It has been often said that only those who have a mind are able to change It and the manner In which the mediocre mind will hold fossilized opinions through a whole life Is often the very Index of the fact that they have never really considered their views hut have Inherited only prejudices tVe ask ourselves often what constitutes a leader In Mr Gladstone John Morley's of Mr Gladstone" one of the great biographies of our lime and further than that it Is the political history of th Victorian era The work of compiling such a biography has been stupendous and Mr Motley says that between two and three hundred thousand written papers most have passed under his view The gigantic task however has been accomplished In a manner that has drawn nothing but praise from oil who bare read the wonderful work and has added a great classic biography to our language Aa we read the wonderful record of that great soul written nightly for seventy years his doubts bis hopes Ms feats his aspirations we Vs I I I f-fi-viC' re vV NsH i' 'v1 VC' i -C 1 WHY "CORNERS' IN ARE IMPOSSIBLE By THOMAS selfish friend' Tt would have been Impassible for Mr Gladstone to accomplish what he has wrought Impossible for him to have continued his pnbllr career at so advanced an age had it not been for the unfailing care of tha woman who Joved him no wall and to whom ho returned so ideal devotion But the secret of Mr Gladstone's greatness lay In tha fact that hi Ilf was founded on that which bind humanity to God and there Ja nothing to-day I think that thrilla ua more than to hear from th pen of oh who was called to stand In tho centra of tha notional llfa at that tb secret of his success lay finish be kept as green aa that of hla predecessors should be the heartfelt wish of all lovers of "tho things tliat are as against the things that aeem" In treating of corners as their evils and their benefits I trust Street" will stop for a moment and glvs a long kindly thought to those who form successful corners Rare Indeed are men In any age who have th physical and mental make-ups to carry to a successful completion a great corner To such men the task of reforming Xn-pol scattered army on It retreat from Moscow would have been an everyday task A Dan Bully with hla tremendous nerve unflinching courage and great big heart would have taken up th Corslean'e teak where he wo laying It down and in forty-eight hours would All corners are alike In their results must necessarily be alike A corner whether In stuclui or the staples Is the Successful completion of a "trick In whereby the trirker compels the ti ickee to pay tffliim any tax he demands the amount being only limited by the six tf tbe purse of the one trapped All history shows there Is some unknown and oiiparenlly unknowable lew which or-fining Hint "he who corners will have the proceeds of his corner taken from him" lr Bully tqient a day with me at my cilice In Boston just after he so successfully completed his greet corner In cotton and I said to him the above and tried show him how In thirty-four years' Study of markets I had arrived at my conclusion Corners are like they raise mis mate rights and shore In the estates of unwise parents who would Inflict injustice upon their children or their children's children In almoet all cases wills of this kind have been broken as they should be It Is well that there are laws which recognise Individual rights and which can right many wrongs that have been done through prejudicial Influences that hare been exerted against heirs It Is to be hoped that tha time will never come when entallment of estates through the oldest son msy be established by will or otherwise hi this country and the descendants of our property holders he Impoverished aa they hare been In England by tb oldest son who has so we have found an answer to the query The troth remains that mankind alone can make any man great Hla faith In himself never becomes current coin untill Ms fellows have placed their stamp upon It and they will only do this for those who give their lives to them Th great American General Grant would have remained entirely obscure as he wax during more than half his lifetime but for the needy cause of man which in a great emergency pressed him to the front with the force of gravitation No memory of Mr Gladstone will ever be complete unlesa linked with hie name Is that nf the woman who has been an Ideal wife a devoted companion an un hare lost same have won and th people have been discommoded and annoyed but the people have been educated on cotton more in one year than they would hare been educated Iff a hundred In the ordinary way The people to-day know nil about cotton and cotton corners and the people will see there are no more cotton corners no not In a thousand yean There may be corners on doughnuts ping pong balls frankfort sausages or any of the necessities but no more corners on cotton and to Dan Bully must be given the glory and the otner things that rightfully belong to those who do fur the people in a night what the people usually take ages to do for themselves Long life to Dan Bully and may hla more she loved him the more she would torment him Nature made her that way and she help it capacity for loving la exceedingly elastic Nature mode Mm that way and he help It Therefore the necessity of suppressing the German's telltale trouble-making machine Not that men Intend deliberately to deceive They ore victims of their own proclivities Susceptible to beauty and to flattery they are continually at conflict between duty and desire They want to flirt Sworn allegiance to somebody else makes th pastime prohibitive 1 Whether he comes forth victor or van-I qulshed from the battle whose casus belli The whole matter resolres Itself like all other things In life Into a question of I character Properly developed properly educated given good sens and good Ideal by wise 1 parents a young man wilt not risk rep-1 utution and honor In any sport or game And lie will not need to nave Iron hound laws prohibiting him from enjoying an exhibition of skill and strength In order I i to remain self-respecting A profound scholar told me recently tliat tlie 01lgi11il form tit Prq- er read: "ld ua into icmptition Inti 1 deliver ii from evil Tilts construction would mean that wr gats to be gtuumied bx divus MMefiU In that faith which pervaded every act and ovary port of hla llfo It waa the pure frith of a child confirmed by th experience and conviction of manhood "tho frith thet made faithful" because to Mm there was no dividing lino between th religious and tho secular Hla speeches were tha result of his prayers and hla prayers wen th offering of Mo service It wee thls rar eomMnotlon of a greet political career lived aid by aid with a deep devotion a sweet harmonious homo life and an enthusiastic loyalty to his church that has produced tho greatest living figure of our day and generation LAWSON have had the armies of Franco peacefully la th conquered holla ot the Russians Whatever rumpus corner may tompte rarlly raise to those who ore Immediately cornered they do bring out remarkable characters In finance and I repeat trust "the Street" will extend to Daa Bully a I know It will th warm hand of sympathy and the open pocket of se-lxtenoe i Long llvo this latest corner on our royal battlefield and may hla present body blow prove but a forerunner of a long -line of victories victories In the open Instead of in corners should bo the heartfelt wish ef all hla comradta-at-arms as it certainly is my wish of one or worse still what if that hcat should hold three of a kind or two Plr? Then there is the damage that would be done by this aatanlo machine In registering love vibrations These seismic disturbances of tbs heart when a feminine rival 1 near are now thanks to nature's laws of Inscrutability In such Intlnulo matters mercifully concealed Every man knows the depths of his own villainy The scientist of th far-away Fatherland would turn a searchlight in and betray him Really the professor should be dealt with at once If he stubbornly refuses to desist from his evil occupation tho penalty ought to be swift and sure By Jjg AN APPALLING By LILLIAN FERGUSSON 0 started 'em up with hit famous or Infamous' Northwest rorner and sines that day we hare had industrial corners wheat corners corn corners cotton corners and corned Juice corners and would any one be fool enough to say that the lesson each boa taught has not been of lasting benefit of the public? The Deacon Whites the Jo Letters the Harriman-HIll-Mor-gan-Northern Pacifies and tlie Bullrs are beacon lights along the highways of finance and they serve tlie same good purpose that the clanking of tha chain served in our day when they held the swaying bmiea of a Dick Turpin after he had been treated to a midnight soiree at tbe hands of his progressive neighbors Cotton has been down: cotton has been up aud cotton Is In the balance Some la meanwhile concealed tlie curious Investigator may obtain exact Information concerning the emotions His heart's secrets ore revealed Now nothing on earth could so quickly disrupt the social structure aa a revelation of men's lore secrets Thera would be wrath confusion and wretchedness throughout the civilised world A man can crawl Into a cellw to escape a cyclone but from the tempest of a Jealousy not even- an airship could save him Hla avenger would him what she -of his discovered perfidy though to do so she pursued him to gate above or burrowed after him to the uttermost regions below And the During our yearly international yacht races fortunes are won and lost and yet ahail we condemn boat race and brand all people who watch them aa Immoral? If is a cuvious fu-t tliat all collections of human beings ni' certain to formuhite soma method of p-unhl(ng At sverv seashore resort we find roulette slid faro in-society and in orthodox church circles bridge whist runs rampant and wherever there Is any test of speed or skill 11 ecn Imasta or men there will be here uRcred by tlie audience Ypt with no sp--: i and no games earth would become 1 erv monotonous at times to the totting nuif'cs th bored pleas lU'c-sceker Science Is making dangerous advances toward paradaislca preserves and Strange to ray the male Mped sunning himself in fancied security remains totally oblivious and unsuspicious of tha dark peril that Impends He should take warning In Science he has an enemy working with fearful Industry along lines that may result In havoc with hla happiness Science Indeed Instead of being man's chief blessing Is likely to prove Ms mast disastrous curse The mischief along with our Christmas cards Is being mode In Germany It la nothing leu than an "Instrument calculated to Jeopardize If not wholly destroy the sweet Ingenuous trustfulness of has been eyes too bright or a personality too magnetic' no man wishes the record of the encounter read by the Other Woman In all its embarrassing detail There are things a man con never explain to th satisfaction of tho woman most interested In him That is why tho Gorman professor should bo restrained by law from further demonstration of his theory Imagine what would happen if through hla mechanic-psychic mechanism a pair of fond adoring blue eyes should peer Into somebody's manly breast and hoi rifled see upon his throne not her Image only but a black-eyed one a Blamesed occupation of the place sup- posed to be hers alone two queens In- from yielding to tho temptations to weak which lie at every corner In life's twisting pathway The translators of this noble prayer un able to grsp Its full signiflrincn introduced th word 1 do not know liow suthenlc the statement is hut is seems consistent and reasonable It la Imuoaaihle to live the moat secluded sna rigid life and avoid temptation It I lurks at our threshold and waits in our sol'tsrv mum is well as on the highnav slid In the crowded assembly To meet temptatior and conquer ti la ttoiuoig character ELLA woman toward the man she loves For this meddlesome Teuton is tinkering away at an Innocent-appearing but truly Infernal machine for measuring and registering tha human affections Gott In Him el! may ha perish miserably before he succeeds! Or succeeding with hla diabolical device may hla machines be smashed to harmless stoma before they get Into feminine possession and may the professor's secret go with Mm to th oblivion of tho tomb He la an enemy to the race The very lost thing that any woman should know to a certainty Is the troth about how much a man cares for her because he usually cares Ires than the be I hod Imagined a sort of Monte Carlo game of chance but Instead found It to be tho most simple yet skillful graceful and exciting athletic sport i have ever wlfntMiede It requires greater skill of eye and hand and greater strength and suppleness-than foot-bsll or base-bail and at the same time la less brutal and less complicated The observer can grasp Its general trend and enter Into the- excitement of the sport after a few moments of observation Without-explanation It is a species of basket-ball played In a large arena by tarn against two-snmetimes by six individual contestant The action la rapid and requires the gupleacM of a cal or a Jlgec and the TEMPTATION THE TEST OF CHARACTER WHEELER WILCOX I do not believe the young men of Cub hare been made immoral by this splendid sport of Jal-alal any more than I believe the youths of New Tork hav been ruined by yacht races or presidential elections The weakness was In the not th evil in the sport Teach your s-uis to be sensible botiesi well to look into the history of si! gaming and betting and find how nine 1 where one sina and to vatu On dollar earned more than ten Inherited cr w-in by and then let them watch all the athfietic and skillful sports HE Spanish bull fight was abolished In Cuba by the Amerl- cans The substitute Is a Spanish sport railed Jnl-Alai iprb-nuiiumi the last two syllables merged Into it was my good fortune to see a game nf inf-ala! the dny before leaving lurely Cubs 1 had heard much of tlie Immoral effect nf this sport upon Havana nf fortunes and reputations wrecked and Jive Mcrfllced even to pay the peneHy One American women begged me not to Pe the game: she had known a man to stent government money to usi In beta on the apart- and to commit sui-sid when to ImL.