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i . ft < ~ Envoy of the Dalai Li THE AIR_WEJBREATHE. Diagrams Illustrating the Necessity of Ventilation. In an article on "Why We Need Vontilation," in the Western Architect. Morris Ebersole says: "In its uataral state, whether from the equator or tne poles, tne composition ol uu w almost invariable, with the exception of the amount of water vapor. Man was made to exist in this envelope of air surrounding the earth, and, therefore, his anatomy is affected one way or the other according to the composttion of the air he breathes. The lifegiving and vital priuciple of air is ixygen. This element revives, resuscitates. sustains and feeds, and the breathing organs are so minutely and Jeautifully proportioned that the least ihange or diminution of this element n the air inhaled is immediately evilenced by a feeling of discomfort or lausea?and unmistakable sign that . jomething is wrong. < In these days, when so much of our 1 Ives is spent indoors, some provisiou nust be made that the air we con- i jtantly breathe is not lacking in any i >f its healthful, natural qualities. Ex- s >ired air differs from inspired air by 1 ust so much harmful ingredients as I 8 the purpose of nature to eliminate f rom our systems. These elimi^^^s c tnd chemical changes in ion of air in our lungs I glgg ItfTHCH BY Cjpl 6 FT- SQUARE would Hold sij the- quantity jj|j YoU BRfATHtIN j|j EVtKV 24 |j|| HoUPvS ONE DAX'3 AIR SUPPLY. ;oing on. Nature has provided that nan should eliminate such things as re harmful to him?when elimination eases life ceases?and these waste iroducts are In themselves poisonous nd dangerous to health if we take hem again into our systems. In expired air the amount of carbon ioxide?an inert, suffocating gas?is ncreased, and the amount of oxygen i proportionately diminished. Man j anuot live in an atmosphere in which he oxygen is too rare; or, in other s pords, too highly diluted with nitro- t ^n. Nitrogen is not poisonous, but it i annot sustain life, and it acts as a di- " utent to the oxygen, which if present i the pure undiluted state would cause more rapid combustion than the delcate tissues of our lungs could bear. Lgain, other complex poisonous prod- I icts are exhaled in the Vreath, which f themselves would rapidly cause deay and disease. For these reasons, and living in conined places as we do, most of our ves, in which space we breathe and ave our being, it is only the pressure o the inexorable laws of nature which rives us to think of ventilation and 0 make provision for it Good Outlook For United States. Admiral Bowles, who retired from le Construction Department of the favy to take general charge of the bipbuilding plant, near Quincy, Mass., i nd must be conceded to know some- < ling about the busiuess he has been 1 for twenty-five years, at a meeting f the Master Builders' and Traders' i .ssociation of Quincy, expressed his : elief that the United States will be i Iuilding the snips ot tne worm in tne ear future. j Mice Dislike Peppermint, There are many objections to the use ! t poisonous articles to keep mice at of a house, and a bint may be usell to those who are troubled with lese little pests. Mice have a great < atipathy to the smell of peppermint, ad a little oil of peppermint placed ound their haunts and holes will iccessfully keep them away. HE FAMOUS SNOW-C TAIN OF ; ' MT.^UJIYAMA FR ' :V " > ' - ' ' ' " . ' * -. ' A-'.vV?iV?'.vjV.Yj?/Vv>V1 ima, the Ruler of Tibet, WATER MICROPHONE. ( 1 A microphone, as you perhaps know, j is a sort of telephone which greatly | increases the iutensity of sounds so tbat the noise made by a fly in walking HOW THE MICROPHON'H LOOKS. g xl? Ka hoot'H q nr. )vmi* iippaiaLU^> wo utuiu ^ ^ ivhere in a large room. ! The microphone, like the telephone, s an electrical instrument, but the word microphoue means merely an instrument which enables one to hear feeble sounds, and so the simple apjaratus to be described may be called i microphone, though it has nothing to lo with electricity. When water is rom a small orifice it forms a |As, clear stream for a little Whnd then breaks into drops Tall at pretty nearly equal in:ervals. But the interval between the irops depends on what vibrating bodes may be in the neighborhood, as nay be shown by the following pretty jxperiment: Connect one end of a rubber tube with the water faucet or with a vessel )f water on a shelf and in the other ;nd insert a glass medicine dropper. Hold the glass tube, pointing downward, over a vertical metal tube, the jpper end of which is covered with sheet rubber tightly stretched. Hold :he tube at such a height that the . stream just fails to break into sep- t irate drops before it strikes the rub- r jer. s Now if you hold a watch near the r ;lass tube from which the stream t ssues the sound made by the water in falling on the rubber will keep time with the tickiug of the watch and so nagnify it. The effect will be very 1 nuch increased if a paper or tin fun- r ael is connected with the metal tube, s is shown in the illustration. HUMAN CANNON BALLS. ! t Lovera of sensational experiences ^ should hnd their ambitions gratified ( :o the utmost in the late invention of j i genius who promises to literally fire THE HUMAN* AMMUKITIOK CANJ.OV. them through the air from the mouth , 3f a cannon. j The contrivance he has devised for , this purpose is a mammoth metallic | cannon of high bore, which he plans to mount upon a high trestle. Within the cannon are tracks upon which roll cars which are to be occupied by passengers. When these cars are loaded with their human freight they are to be violently propelled into midair, alighting at a distance on tracks on a somewhat lower trestle and continuing their progress down an incline to terra firma. which doubtless will be welcomed by the more timid adventurers. The bodies of the cars are to be so weighted that in their flight through the air they will maintain their upright s position and the relative position of 5 LAD SACRED MOUN- ; JAPAN. ; UM TAGANOURA. <> ' ' ' %v ^ >* j && ' y ji at the British Camp* :he cannon's mouth and the secondary :fack are to be such that there will be 10 danger of the cars missing connec:ion. ADJUSTABLE BLACKBOARD. Icadily Made to Meet All Emergencies of the Schoolroom. An ingenious German inventor haa levised a blackboard that mcchauical. y is perfectly adapted to all the emerjeacies of schoolroom use resulting 'rom a great variety of work by individuals of considerable difference in stature. The board can be adjusted md fixed at auy desired angle ani aised or lowered vertically in slotted irms, or secured so as to permit of ! it- ninp h/* lUllZiUULUl U3C, VI ic. IXXU.J k/c is the service may require. The chief nerit of the combination, however, is hat the mechanism by which the uum;rous adjustments are made possible is limple enough to be comprehended by j tan ADJUSTABLE BLACKBOARD. he youngest scholars, several movenents being effected by means of a ;tring, or cord, acting on two arms jvn + Snsv nsvn;?-?c<f f f\ *T?oll f r Am wlllpll COUUjj UgUiUOl UiC HUi* tie board is supported. Copper and "Copper." The people of Vienna noticed recenty that a man was prowling about the oof of a certain house. The energetic iouls hurried off and summoned a poiceman, when it turned out that the oof walker was engaged in stealing he telephone wires and lightning couluctors for the sake of the copper. tVhen the "copper" arrived he was londucted with lightning speed to the >olice station. Acclilcnto and Disasters. The loss of life from accidents and lisasters in the United States last 'ear was: Fires, 1792; drowning, 2471; ;xplosions, 736; falling buildings, etc., 174; steam railways, 4090; electric railvays, 573; electricity, 15G; mines, 78S; :yclones and storms, 487; lightning, 139. LHE NEW REPUBLIC OF PAftm This is the flag of the new Republic )f Panama?blue and red stars on a vhite field, and blue and red squares -one more red, white, and blue banler. Until last November Panama was >ne of the States forming the United States of Colombia. Becoming gravely lissatisfled with the way uoiomom icted in regard to the isthmian canal md the United States' pending treaty fvitli Colombia over the matter, the people of Panama rose in revolt and set up a republic of their own. It was i bloodless revolution. Two days after the revolt our Government acknowledged the independence of Fanlma. All the leading European Gov?rnments have done the same thing, ind now it Is believed matters will be irranged so that work on the canal :an be soon and resolutely pushed forward. The population of the new relublic is only about as great as that )f Rhode Island. The isthmus has an average width of ibout forty miles and is about 200 niles long. It rains there almost incessantly during July, August and Sepember. Brave Ueed of Aped Woman. A Masardis (Me.) woman, aged sixy-fi"e, saw a tire on the roof of the jam one uay last ween, wiiere it came row a spark from the kitchen cbirniey. She got a ladder, crawled upon he barn roof, shinned along the pig)ack on the ridge pole with a pall of vater and Quenched tha fire. 'JAP TRANSPORTS SUM Russian Squadron Torpedoed Two Crowded Troopships. NINE HUNDRED MEN LOST ' Raid in the Japan Sea by the Vladivostok Warshlpg?How the Japanese on Transport Hitachi Were Slaughtered ? Muj Officers Committed Suicide Rather Than Be Captured. Tokio, Japan?Particulars of the de! struction of Japanese transports in the I Korea strait by vessels of the Russian | Vladivostok, squadron have been received here. The Russian warships were encountered near Okino Island, directly in the course of any Japanese vessel bound westward from Moji. It was about 7 o'clock p. m. that the , transport Hitachi sighted the enemy's vessels?two cruisers and two destroy i ' y*lirsro'[i I WAsmxtrroN* items. It was announced definitely that Repl resentative Metealf. of California, I would succeed Secretary Corfelyou as ! Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Charges liiat the administration was ! delaying the prosecution of the West} eru "cattle Kings" who have violated j the laws were officially denied in j Washington. President Itcosevelt tendered the i Navy portfolio to Paul Morton, son of ! the late J. Sterling Morion, aud formerly a Democrat. Secretary Taft and commissioners for Panama cofteiaded arrangements for a bimetallic currency system foif | Panama. j Mr. Palmer, the Tublic Painter, bad i decided to introduce typesetting ma| chines in the Government Printing j Office. I A delegation of Porto Ricans, consisting of the mayor of San Juan and I members of the executive council, had ! a conference with the President about j Porto Rica 11 affairs. It was decided in Washington that United States embassies should hereafter be known as American embassies. the change being made for the sake of euphony and dignity. R%.r-Admiral W. K. Van Reypen 1 was elected president of the Red Cross, and a new board of trustees was chosen at a meeting in Washington. It was announced in Washington that Victor H. Metcalf, of California, would succeed Mr. Cortelyou as Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Assistant Attorney-General W. A. Day chosen to probe Alaska judicial Scandals, in place of Attorney Young, of Western Pennsylvania district. OUR ADOPTED INLANDS. Porto Ricans demand that the United States stop the butchering of their ! fellow-islanders in Santo Domingo. | Lieutenant Raymond Stone, a young I naval officer, as acting Governor of j Guam has forced a food trust on that I iciorxi tri rodupd nripos nn thp nwpssar. tons capacity at California City Point, 011 tho western point of San Francisco Bay. Prince Pu Lun. Chinese Commission, er to the St. Louis Exposition, sailed from New York for home. The State Prohibition convention ot Minnesota closed with the nomination of a ticket headed by C. W. Dorsett, of Minneapolis, for Governor. The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts nominated a woman for the office of Secretary of State. Governor Odell left Albany in company with Senator Depew for the Chi| cago Republican convention. By unanimous vote the Republican National Committee seated the antiLa Follette delegation from Wisconsin, Acting Governor Edmund W. Wakelee, of New Jersey, reprieved to July C Mrs. Anna Valentina, who was sen! tenced to death for the murder of Rosa | Salza. The Military Academy at West Point i graduated the largest class in its history. Bandits held up a Northern Pacific train in Montana. Reports place the booty as high as 5*05,000, but the comJ pany says the loss was small frv RAnnrfmonf Cl A P in convention at Rochester, N. Y.. commended the action of President Roosevelt in the readjustment of pension claims. Santos-Dumont arrived from Europe with his new balloon with which he intends to compete for the $100,000 prize at St. Louis. FOREIGN. Two-thirds of the wheat and hay crops in Roumania have been killed by drought. The Synod has ordered prayers for rain and that holy ikons be carried in processions Sundays. The American Minister to Turkey encountered annoying obstacles to his negotiations for the removal of dis criminations against United States cit izens. It is reported from Santo Domingc that ex-President Jimenez, who was driven from the island several mouths ago, has landed at Macoris, presum ably to engage in another revolution President Loubet has conferred or General Horace Porter, American Am bassador to France, the Grand Cross I of the Legion of Honor. j The Patriotic League of Peru has ! raised the sum of $414,000 for the pur j pose of building a man-of-war. At the summons of the Czar ? | Provisional Consultative Committee I has been called in St. Petersburg t( ' discuss peasant reforms. I It was reported in St. Petersburg I that General von Wahl will be ap i nninteil Oovnrnor-fipnernl of Finland j to succeed General Bobrikoff. Minister Hardy, in a cable dispatcl j to the State Department from Mad rid, reports that the extradition treat.) between Snniu and the United .States has been signed. The Governor of Tangier apprehend ed two sheiks who nid?d in trencher onsly capturing Itaisouli. General Count Bobrikoff, Governor General of Finland, was shot dead a the entrance to tlie Finnish Senate a Ilelsingfors by Senator Schnnmaun'i sou, who then committed suicide. The terms of the decision of the Kini of Italy in regard to the territory ii dispute between Great Britain am Brazil were made public. ! ies of life, sold to the natives. Tire transport Thomas sailed from I Manila, P. I., with 237 enlisted men of the Coast Artillery. 327 casuals, forty general prisoners, forty-four sick, and one insane. Major-General H. C. Corbin was ordered to command the Division of the Philippines, succeeding Major-General J. F. Wade. The Uuited States Army transports I Sumner and Kilpatrick left for Porto | Rico, to bring back 600 Porto Rican j school teachers. ! A report from San Juan, P. R.. says ! that the St. Louis Cordage Company ] has engaged twenty-four Porto Rican girls to work in its factory. UUJlHailLi. ! Two Cripple Creek miners declare ; that General Bell had them strung up i by the thumbs for four hours and otherwise barbarously maltreated them. The Coroner's inquest into the Gen! eral Slocuiii disaster revealed that the ! steamer's first mate was an ironI worker, her deck hands were new, ! there had never been a fire drill, the j inspectors examined the life preservers carelessly, and the fire hose burst. Senator Piatt, on motion of Governor Odell. was made chairman of the New York delegation to the Republican Convention at Chicago. The Navy Department will establish n Inrrrp pnnlinsf station with 100.000 ers. A blank shot was fired by one of the Russian ships as a signal for the Hitachi to stop. Instead of obeying the order the transport put on full speed and fled, with a Russiau cruiser in pursuit. At 10 o'clock the Russians opened fire on the Hitachi with their smaller guns, their apparent object being uot to sink the vessel, but to kill the men on board. Afterward the Russians drew alongside and sent three broadsides iuto the ship. The slaughter of men and horses was terrible. Colonel Suchi. the officer in command of the soldiers on board, burned the regimental colors to prevent them falling into the enemy's hands, and as the ship was seen to be in a sinking condition he ordered his men to jump overboard anu try to save themselves by swimming. There was no time to lauuch the boats. The Colonel bad scarcely giveu this order when he was killed by a shell. Most of the officers on board committed suicide with their pistols .or su?ords. The skipper, an Englishman, of the name of Campbell, jumped over, board. The water about the ship was | filled with men who had leaped from ! the sinking vessel. The Russians turned their rapid-fire guns on these swimmers, causing fearful destruction of life. The last Russian broadside exploded the Hitachi's boilers and she sank, twenty-six miles from the mainland, ?etweeu Okino and Shimi islands. It is now said that her survivors number less than 100. The transport Sado was overhauled by the Russians eleven miles south of i Okino Island, and an order was given ! by signals for her to stop. While the 1 signal was flying the Russians fired 150 shots, approaching, meanwhile, within 100 yards. The crew of the Sado took to the boats and rowed off iu different directions. So far as they could see only two shots struck the transport, ' but these did great damage. There were about 200 survivors. For some reason the Russian ships withdrew early. They went to the eastward past Oki Island. Official reports confirm the accounts of the destruction of the Hitachi, adding that the upper deck was in flames before she sunk. The Sado was ahead of the Hitachi. The military officers | on the Sado were uninjured, the men who had tried to escape returning aboard. The killed are estimated at some scores. It is said that the Russian attack resulted in a loss of about 900 Japanese soldiers and saNors. besides many horses and a large quantity of supplies'. ' LIGHTNING KILLS FOUR. Boys Who Had Taken Shelter Under a | Tree Victims. Chester, Pa. ? Four boys standing uuder a cherry tree on a farm near ' Felton, three miles from here, were killed by a stroke of lightning. The dead are Ross Smith, thirteen years old, of Felton, son of the owner of the farm; Alexander Fullerton, thirteen years old, of Felton; William Davis, fourteen years old, of Upland, and I Samuel Clark, fifteen years old, colored, of Chester. About a dozen boys went from Felton to pick cherries on the Smith farm. The elder Smith told his son, Ross, who was about to go to Sunday-school, to order away any boys he might see at the cherry trees. On the way young i Mini Hi me*!- Vnllprfon Davis and Clark ! As they approached the cherry trees the dozen boys from Felton ran away. A storm was coming up, and the four i boys went under oue of the trees. I They had been there ouly a few m!n utes when lightning struck the tree, i Smith, Fullerton and Davis were killed instantly. The colored boy was so , badly injured that he died on the way to a hospital. doctors iron Panama. Physicians Employed on Canal Strip to Be Taken From Civil Life. Washington, D. C.?The preliminary I estimate by Colonel Gorgas, the chief i sanitary officer on the Isthmus of Panama, calls for 300 physicians to keep - the laborers to be employed on the cai nal in good health. The physicians required by the Government will be taken from civil life, though Government surgeons will have ( the higher posts. Young and;-* active , physicians, just graduated from Ihe . hospitals, will be the class from which the Commission will draw its recruits for this service. i ? . TT ".. . rreacuer auoois ;i woman. ; The Iiev. <Decatur Edwards, pastor of the Falmouth Baptist Church, at . Richmond, Va.t while shooting at cats iu his back yard, at Fredericksburg, accidentally shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Lucy .Maun, who was standing ' on her bacli porch iu an adjoining | house. Southern Pacific Bonds. Southern Tacitic stockholders will be asked to authorize an issue of SIW,UUU.UUU iu seven per cent, bonds. ) Order For o0,0!K) i;oc stings. [ A new apiary product comes to light ! by the receipt of an order by a bee raiser at Beevillf, Texas, from a Piiiladelpbia tirm of chemists for 50.000 bee stings. The acid which the poison sack of the stings contains is said to be valuable in the manufacture of a t remedy for rheumatism, t Murders His Son. Chauncey Hotaling murdered ills = blind son. three years old, by setting ;! tire to the house at Vestal, N. I'., after trying to kill his wife JAPAN'S GREAT 01) Attempt of the Russians to Relieve Port Arthur Fails. BIG LOSS IN MEN AND GUNS Outcome of Several Days' Fighting About fciglity Mile* North of Port ArthurJapanese Losses Ksti mated at 1004 Killed and Wounded?Two JapaneM Transport* Sunk by Russian Fleet. St. Petersburg, Russia.?Official dispatches announce a terrible battle, lasting two days, in which the Russian army has received a crushing det feat. The Russian forces, under Lieutenant-General Stalkelberg, which have been threatening the rear of General Oku. commander of thp .Tnnnnpsfl forces investing Port Arthur, were preparing for an attack, when the Japanese surprised them by a fieroe onslaught at Telissu, eighty miles north of Port Arthur, The Russians, in the first of the fight, completely annihilated a squadron of Japanese cavalry. Then the Russians were driven back. The Third and Fourth batteries of the First Artillery Brigade were cut to pieces by the Japanese shells. The Russians lost 500 killed and 300 officers and men and fourteen guns captured. The Japanese lost 1000 killed and wounded. General Stalkelberg fell back to Vantsailin, thirty miles north of Vafangow. Two divisions of General Ivuroki's army were marching from Sin-Yen to take him in the rear and cut him off from General Kuropatkin's main army. Four brigades of infantry, comprising 12,000 men; three regiments of cavalry and eight batteries of artillery? in all 17,000?represented the Japanese force in action, but there was a considerable reserve numbering two brigades. The Russian forces are estimated at 20,000, and at the time the right flank was turned another brigade was coming south to the rc'ief of General Stalkelberg. General Yamaguchi telegraphs that thirty Russian officers I were killed, having been found on the field; that fifteen are among the captured and that one Russian infantry regiment,. lost one-quarter of its men. At dusk iie Japanese had turned the right flariS of the Russians and were developing a similar movement on the left flank, when General Stalkelberg's centre broke and what was first an orderly retreat developed into a rout. It is known that at Likuanthun, where the overwhelming defeat of Stalkelberg took place, at least a brigade of the Japanese army had to come up on the road from Pitsuwo several days before, and was probably in the valleys of the Hiung Mountains waiting to reinforce the Japanese divisions coming north on the railroad from Fuchow. The .Taoanese. on their nnrt hnvo suffered the ldss of two transports, which were torpedoed and sunk in the Japan Sea. near the entrance to the Korean Straits by vessels of the Russian Vladivostok squadron. Five hundred and fifty survivors have reached neighboring Japane>e ports. It is reported that the transports carried about 1400 men, besides many horses and quantities of army supplies. Japanese warships are in chase of the Russian squadron, but its escape has been assisted by a storm and thick weather. A CUBAN HURRICANE. The Worst Storm in Ten Years Sweeps Santiago Province. Santiago de Cuba (by Steamer to Manzanillo.)?The worst storm of a decade. with fourteen inches of rain, which fell in five hours, accompanied by a hurricane, passed over Cuba. The lower village of El Cobre has been destroyed. Forty-five persons are known to be dead and scores are missing. Bodies are floating In the Cobre River. Twenty bodies have been recovered by boats patrolling the bay. A relief train, bringing mail and passengers, was wrecked at Moron. The fireman and mail agent were I Hiueu auu. two ot uie employes were injured. The mines at Daiquiri are crippled and six of the employes have been drowned. RULER OF FINLAND SHOT. Assassination of the Russian GovernorGeneral. j St. Petersburg, Russia?General BoI brikoff. Governor-General of Finland. I was shot dead at the entrance to the Finnish Senate, at Helsingfors. The assassin ,a man named Schaumann, a son of Senator Schaumann, i immediately committed suicide. The attack is ascribed to Finnish patriotism. as Schaumann is believed to have been a member of what is known as the Finish Patriotic Party. Oil War in Augusta. An oil war now raging in Augusta, Ga., promises to cost the Standard Oil Company $2,000,000. The war opened several weeks ago, when Hollis Board, man resigned as manager of the Standard Company and organized the People's Oil Company, an independent concern. Will Make Radium Cheap. Dr. George F. Lee, a chemist, of Philadelphia, claims that he has discovered an electro-chemical process of manufacturing radium for less than $500,000 a pound. At present it is valued at $10,000,000 a pound. Corbin to the Philippines. Major-General Corbin lias been orrtororl to command the division of the Philippines, succeeding Major-General Wade, the order to take effect in Oc tober. News From the Far East. General Stalkenberg has advanced southward from Liaoyang with 14,000 men. Army reserves in the Kazan. Ivied and Moscow districts have been called out. Knroki reported four victories, in one of which 4000 Russian cavalry were engaged. St. Petersburg is being prepared for defense should a Japanese lleet enter the Baltic. The total of the Japanese losses al the battle of Naoshan Hill has been DUt at 4304. _ I ^hyCCbJMfe 1 Oar l.lttle Liven. Oh, patient Christ! -when long ago O'er old Judea's rugged hills Thy willing feet went to and fro, To find and Comfort human ills? Did once Thy tender, earnest eyea Look down the solemn centuries, And see the smallness of our lives? M Souls struggling for the victory, _ \ And martyrs finding death was gain, Souls turning from the truth and Thee, \ And falling deep in sin and pain? 1 Great heights and depths were surelU seen, But oh, the dreary waste between? Small lives; not base, perhaps, but mean; Their selfish efforts for the right, _ Or cowardice that keeps from sinContent only to see the height That nobler souls will toil to win! Oh, shame, to think Thine eyes should see f The souls contented just to be? The lives too small to take in Theel , Lord, let this thought awake our shame, That blessed shame that stings to life; Rouse us to live for Thy dear name, / Arm us with courage for the strife, Oh, Christ! be patient with us still; Dear Christ; remember Calvary's hill? Our little lives with purpose fill! ?Margaret Delaad. j Seeds That Will Grow. Patience and resignation are the pillan of human peace on earth.?Young. No great destiny ever swings on the pivot of irresolution.?United Presbyterian. i "A good life keeps oft wrinkles." There is only one way to have good servants: that is to be worthy of being well served.?Ruskin. Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all j your might.?Phillips Brooks. ' , ?& Wherever life is simple and sane, true pleasure accompanies it as fragrance does uncultivated flowers.?Charles Wagner, in the Simple Life. To conquer our own fahcies, our own lusts, and our ambition in the sacred name of duty, this it is to be truly brave and truly strong.?Charles Kingsley. How careful one ought to be to be kind and thoughtful of one's old friends. It is so soon too late to be good to them, and then one is always so grieved.?Sarah Orne Jewett. The effective life and the receptive life are one. "No sweep of arm that does some work for God but harvests also some more of the truth of God and sweeps it into the treasury of me life.?Phillip* Brooks. Nothing is too little to be ordered by our Father; nothing t^o little in which to see His hand; nothing which touchea our souls too liu-e to accept from Him, nothing too little to be done for Him.? E. B. Pusey. Cheered by the presence cf God, 1 will do at the moment without anxiety, according to the strength which He shall . ^ give me, the work that His providence assigns me. I will leave the rest; it is not my affair.?Fcnelon. There is only one work on the evidences of Christianity that wholly satisfies any one?a work which defies the most ingenious criticism and the ' most skilful logic. It is said to be scarce, if not indeed very scarce, but we have met with it here and there. It is from five to six feet of humanity living a Christianlike Ufa Mirl- rinv Pftflrao Hints That Will Help. The art of saying appropriate words in a kindly way is one that never geta out ol fashion, never ceases to please, end is with' in the reach of the humblest. Occasionally we have an experience that arouses a suspicion in ua that we really haven't much mere sense than we used to have, after all. * Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of tnose who come in contact with you, and you will never be forgotten. The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs and thus giv? other people an opportunity to look attei theirs. He that wrestles with us strengthen# our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our an? tagonist is our helper. The attention paid to inconsequential things causes us to overlook many that are great. Had it been with the beard that wisdom dwelt, men would have taken counsel with the goat. An enemy won by love will be a friend for life.?Ram's Horn. Batted Lives. Character is not determined by a single act. but by habitual conduct. It is a fabric made up of thousands of threads and put together by uncounted stitches. Some characters are stoutly sewed; others are only basted. A Christian ought not only to have his spiritual garments well sewed, . but kept clean; in fact, as a representative of Jesus Christ he ought to present such an attractive apparel before the world that others should say of him* "Where did you get this? I want one just like it."?Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D. D. An Objective of Faltb. Any one whose faith does not terminate in noble deeds and helpfulness, say3 a contemporary, may well question the aualitj of his faith. "Faith without works,' say? James, "is dead, being alone." Thes? good works are to be the natural outgrowth of his daily life of faith. It is possible for man so to strengthen himself io God that spiritual fruits will flow as naturally from the fountain of his soul as it is natural for water to flow down hill. But this requires strong, abiding and persevering faith. Stealing a Good Kam?. Shame on the man or woman who will thrust the hand into his neighbor's breast and drag from his heart that which is the most valuable, the highest-prized thing to him?his good name, rie 13 worse than the murderer who slays a man in cold blood. The man who detracts, casts aside everything that is honorable, decent or respectable in him He can only be compared with the swine which grovels and digs in the dirt for what is ugly and dirty.?Mgr. Denis O'Callaghan, Boston. Life a Mail Subway itngb. Life to-day is becoming a mad subway rush undergground, each man for himself, with no sunlit ideals to guide him. The ambition to become the richest man in the world or the city, or the most popular man, is a low ideal, the resulting loss ol soul, the impairment and disarrangement of mind and heart being incalculable. No one covets power oyer oth?rs who does not in the end taKe it out of his best self, leaving him the poorer.?Rev. Edward D. Towle, Unitarian, Brcokline, ila?s. Faith is not a belief that we are saved, but that we arc io. id ?Edward N. Kirk. . The Philippine Census. The population of the Philippine Islands, according to the census just completed under Rrig:xdicr-(ietieral J. P. Sanscr, is 7.() > >.4:>C>. o: winch 1)47.740 are classilied as wild and uncivilized. This is the first accurate and complete enumeration of the Filipinos ever made, those undertaken by the Spanish authorises being largetv estimates. It was taken by the Philippine Census Bureau, which was organized by General Sanger, who .!nd the assistance of the Unite^ States Census Oitice. The' enumerators employed were mostly natives.; A I.ong Sentencn. m A Sicilian tribunal recently sentenced a J noted forger to imprisonment for 189 years* f /A m