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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
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Cjpl 6 FT- SQUARE
would Hold
sij the- quantity
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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.
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WATER MICROPHONE. (
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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.
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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. !
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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- ;
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: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/*
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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?
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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.
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"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
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