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Beliefs.
RIGHT AT HOME.


The queer beliefs of men and women
even in the United States, are not con-
fined to odds and ends of old-time super
stittons, signs and charms, but often a
delusion or mania takes violent hold OF
whole communities from ghost dances
among Indians to camp meeting Mysteries
and paroXysms among whites and blacks.
The instances where men in this country
who have claimed to be Christ are num-,
bercd by the DOZEN with many followers
and believers in each case. So the desire
to worship strange gods is not confined
to Oriental countries, but is manifested
in every land, and as strong and appar-
emily unreasonable forms of superstition
exist in the United States as in india.
In Nebraska there u.s. or was a sect
whose creed is to destroy the eyeslght of
its members. 1t has Scriptural warrant
for this perverted from St Matthew. If
1t is well to enter heaven with one eye
only, would it not be more meritorious
to sacrifice both? In Kentucky the
Equality commission allows everything to
go to waste rather than that any one
should have more property than another.
This Is also Scriptural, as, according to
Acts, the disciples had everything in
common. In New Mexico the Penitents
cruelty their members; certainly an al
Turing initiation only outvied by the An
gel Worshipers, of Missouri, who believe
in the efficacy of the holy kiss, each com
municant kissing all the others. To pre-
vent discrimination in physical charms,
the members of a Community in Kan
Sas wear red masks at all times, and
thus intensity the thirst for intellectual
attributes. The Order Of Holiness" de-
nounces marriage as ungodly, provoca-
tive of divorces. The Knee Benders,"
whose creator is omnipresent never walk
upright In Iowa and Kentucky are the
Brothers of Silence, Trappist monks.
whose whole lives are passed in silent
meditation. They work, but never speak
In st. Louis and other cities a nunnish
order exists with home surroundings and
dress which impress the certainty of
death, human skulls and bones being dis
played in living and sleeping rooms. and
everything black, except the dlsjonted
skeletons and the pale faces and hands
of the deluded devotees. In Indiana the
under the leadership of Mrs. Wood
worth, were suppressed by the authorf-
ties. owing to the physical and mental
decentralization of the participants. In
Tennessee readers may recall the Brown
and Patterson mission, few years ago,
in which Brown represented himself to
be Christ and created such excitement
that the authorities arrested the two and
sent them away from the country to pre-
vent trouble.
In Illinois, the delrsion of Mrs Dora
Beekman. the female Christ, and George
Schweinfurth, young Methodist preach
er, who became her bishop and then sue
ccssor after her death, he declaring that
the Christly essence had passed from her
into himself. both were believed In by
hundreds of followers. And thousands
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BafbjmQ.
BATHING a CoMPRoMIsE

BATHING a COMPROMISE.
1t is unnatural for man to take BATH
that is, he must battle for the same
reason that he must wear clothes and
shelter his head with hat-because the
changed conditions of civilized life make
it necessary. So we are told by Dr. G.
w. Lyman in tne New Voice 1t is now
up to DR.. Ohage. Says Dr. Lyman
"A learned German professor has said
that in a state of absolutely wild nature
a man would require no bathing. That
is to say, the skin, exposed constantly
to sun and wind and rain. brushed by
dewy branches and grasses of mornings,
and Injured to periods of chill and cold
would keep itself clean enough The
skin. when exposed to all the Yicissitudes
of the weather, develops a vastly more
extensive circulation than is seen in the
clothed man of civilization Lay a nand
on the thigh OF a Nez Perces Indian in
winter time. 1t Is covered only by flaps
of buckskin fastened roughly at the side
edges with two or three thongs Even in
zero weather it fees hot. That means
circulation of blood But a savage pays
for this by having most of his nervous
force taken up in adjustments to the
various inelemencies. In civilization we
vent this force for other things So we
dress, and heat our houses, and always
shade the body Except hands and faces)
from the sun rays, and get quiet and
equable conditions for skin and its
thousands of nerve-endings. The brain
can work better thus than when the skin
nerves are in excitement But Incl
dentally to this almost incessant shield
ing of the skin, its circulation falls on
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Hints and NMmfs.
WHAT A BOY SAID.

WHAT A BOY SAID.
In a public school in New England
the teacher thought she would give out
natural history subjects al subjects for
composition. In this way che teaches
them o. photography and natural history all
at once. The COMMONPLACE subject OF
Ants was given to a bright boy who
said he knew all about IT, This is the
result of his efforts:
There are many kinds of ants NV
ant Mary Jane Is one OF these kind She
Is generally good natured and when Size
comes to see Ny Mother she brinEs me
cents worth of peanuts ard seq Why
James how you've crowd but when
go and see her and don't only inst wautk
on the carpit without cleaning nv boots
she gifts orfiy mad.
Ants like to give you Advice and
seold at you like everything but their
Heart Is in the Right Place and once
l round an Ants nest in the woods / pok I'd
IL with a, stick and a million Ants ran
out after me and Crawled up Inside nv
rants and Bit me like Sixty.
Ants nests are good things not to notSa
With stick Ants are Industrious IN
Steeling Shugar.
fo-Sot TO say my Ant Martha lives
In Maine she has boy of Just my Aiga
and he can stand on his He'd five min
all This. o"'' w
II do not think of anything more about
Ants at present"
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intellectual Amusement
aHd Exercise for Young
Minds

He also answered No. Ito as follows.
"A bird Is a term of endearment. or IL
may be the tabled Phoenix
gown without a thread as Macauiev
uses 1t In his History OF England. is a
learned profession Of law
"A DOCK that no man ever read IS I'm this
case, believe, heaven" to which
sometimes reference Is made by the sim
pie term book.
PUZZLES
To be answered Sept /.
2t4.-Robert Merry submits the follow
ing: 81 am a word or five letters. In nv
normal condition | have a tendency To-
neal TranspOsed, / still have a ten
dency to heel, and have been known to
take to them when opportunity offered
Less one-hfth. | battle; again transposed
| am good TO eat. Four-fifths transpos-
ed form an article much used as an or
nament; the same again transposed is To
preserve. Three-hfths, properly arrang-
ed, will intOxicate. Three-fifths in
right order, make u prayer
2l5.-My first is a fluid. nay second a
solid, my whole plant.
2l6-Can the leopard change his sDots2
2l7-Why, do trees often change their
places?
Delayed answers for different depart
the following: John BOhmert 53G Col
Inns street; Robert Hall, 80 Dayton av-
enue; X. Ries, corner Thomas and Mil
ton streets; Mrs. II. y. Leach. 100 Lau-
rel avenue G. T.. Leonard, ST. James
MINI.
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Cbe Poor BeafBen.
WHAT WE WILL DO

WHAT WE WILL DO.
Let us go and find the heather. LET us
take him by the hand:
take his land
Let us break it to him gently +bet 10
wrong to be so nude
Anu lhculcate proper notions Of the style
as it's pursued
Let us show him by all the glories of tha
white mans kingdom come
ana, by way of introduction, sell him lots
or white mans rum
Let US seek our heather brother In be-
nighted lands afar
And impress upon him the Wronpness oF
his habits as they are;
nobly civilized
And has banished all his foibIes all hfs
fancies, so despised
Let US show him how he destined to on
forward with a jump
Lest our grand, ressthess progress take
him midship with a bump
Let us teach him that the bolo and tne
dagger are not right
When the seven-shooter follows nm its
barking with a bite;
Let us bring to him the gospel of fha
shirt and full dress suit.
anu Ine gao ana glorious tidings of the
proper shoe and boot;
Let us lift the poor old heather from
the bog wherein he sticks.
AND explain to him the beauties Of tho
game of politics
Thus VEL labor with the pagan till ne
AND Will ponder with a shudder on his
Old unhappy, days.
we viii stock his land with clothing,
we VIII dot 1t with golf links.
And he'll hail the architecture of tba
home of fancy drinks:
And Wen get the glory for it-for the
good that We Will do
All the. grand, impressive glory-and
Wen get his money too
Baltimore American.
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Not in Africa But
America.

oeileVe that Dowie of Chicago, Is the
Second Elijah"
In Georgia and South Carolina hum
dreds Of followers of the two men who
called themselves Christ and Solomon
aroused such excitement few years ago
as 10 hecesItate the calling out of the
militia, and the ladies of the Wilder
ness Worshipers,H as they called them
selves, We're sent to the insane asylum
1neSe are some of the extremes of the
hundreds of peculiar ideas that have
taken possession of people who live under
the Stars and Stripes and Of which a
ilst could be given of extended and be-
Wlldering length These @sects societies
and orders base their proceedings and
beliefs upon isolated texts of Scripture
winch may mean something else but in
the mind of the deluded the thought be-
comes distorted and forms a basis for
ruling the whole conduct or action of life
The belief of Christian Scientists is based
on~t the suggestion of st. James, that IL
anyone be sick, AN elder might pray for
h1m and he might be anointed with oil
st. James also prescribes that one who
is merry should sing psalms. which
makes one think of Oliver CromwelPs
colleague, Praise God Barebones. and
the cheering melody, "Lo, From the
Tomhs, a Doleful Sound"
Many instances might be cited of at
tenpts to cure disease by faith and varl
GUS forms Of inqaHtation, from the Voc
doolsm OF the ignorant Southern negro to
thought @transference- of the intelligent
white man. A young woman of New
orleans was placed Under the care Of an
Italian, divine healer. The professor
diagnosed her case as devil in her
throat" He tried several methods of re-
lief, but, when lamentations failed re-
sorted to the sublime operation Of cash
sit n 4el,asn mi
was send to Jail and the patient to a hos
pital. woman, in Buffalo, N. Y. vol
unteered her services to cure a girl sick
with gangrene. The volunteers mother
had been healer in Germany and AL
though she had herself only kept a gro
Gerry store in America, she was confident
that she could heal the child She did not
use pair of sheersq but simply recfted
lamentations from book Of magic call
ed Egyptian Secrets" or "White and
Black Art for Man and Beasts" All that
the sick child had to do was to believe
IN the books curative power When This
method strangely failed, the healer used
salves and plasters; thus forming fanei-
bic basis for fee of S. At the end
of month the childs pain was So in
tense, except when she was under the
influence of opiates, that she was re-
moved to a hospital, where one foot came
off and then her leg was amputated The
healer was arrested for having practiced
as a physician with registration. Her
defense was that she was merely tha
agent for q patent medicine firm She
was held on bail, finally tried and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for five
months The story of the death of Harold
Frederic. the journalist. and of the wife
of Admiral Ewing, alleged victims of
faith cure are familiar to newspaper
readers.
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Curious Things in
Life and Literature.
Question Box

Troy an epic poem in twenty -four books.
by Homer MenelaOs. king OF Sparta re-
reiVed as a guest Paris a son Of Priam,
king of Troy. Paris eloped with Iclcn,
the Greeks to lay siege 10 Troy - aVcngs
the periidy. The siege lasted ten years.
when Troy was taken and burnt to tho
ground TIomer's poem IS confined TO the
last year Of the siege.
233-"The Aeneld," Virgirs epic poem.
ls contained in twelve books. When
Troy was taken by the Greeks and ser
on fire, Aeneas, with his father. son and
wife, took flight. with the intention OF
the family. The wife was lost. and the
old man died on the way; but after uu-
merous perils by sea and land, Aeneas
and his son, AScanlus, reached Italy
Here Latinus. the reigning king. received
the eXiles hospftably and promised his
but she had been already betrothed by
her mother to Prince TurnuS. son Or
Daunus, king Of RutuI and Turnus
would not forego his claim. Latinus. in
this dilemma said the rivals must set
tie the dispute by an appeal 10 arms.
Turnus being slain. Aeneas married La
Vinia, and ere long succeeded his father
in-law on the throne.
Answers received I'm part from Roy
Clements The Buckingham St Paul:
Nellie Feely, Is East Tenth street. St
Paul; Mat j. GDlen, 8GG Beech street. ST.
Paul Sarah Jewett. Hudson wis.
QUESTIONS
To be answered Sept /:
237.-Who were the Cimbri2
238.-What are Creches2
239.-What is a Begun?
A0.-WhO were the ChOuans?
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Sinai after the sin of Israel in worship
ing the golden calf Moses inJerceded for
the people before Cod. The Lord heard
and granted his prayer. Il staid in the
mount forty days and forty nights, and
the Lord hardened unto me at that time
also, and the Lord would not destroy you.
And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take
thy journey before the people that they
may go in and possess the land which
swore unto their fathers to give unto
them" But this was not all. Gods mercy
was great. The people had sinned great
ly, yet God the Lord had not destroyed
them, and consequently had right to
require something of them in return
They had forfeited their lives, but God
had not demanded the forfeit but he did
require that these forfeited lives should
be used for him. Hence Moses goes on
to say, And now, Israel, what doth the
Lord require of thee?
Moses emphasized three requirements
of God-fear, love, obedience. What
doth the Lord thy God require of thee
but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk
in all His ways and to love Him and to
serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart
and with all thy soul?' These things
God also requires of US, who nave been
saved and redeemed by the death OF His
Son.
o. God requires fear This fear, how
ever, IS not a slavish fear or dread
There is a fear which hath torment and
which love casts out as its antagonist,
but the fear of God, which he requires,
Is that pious reverence for Him which
cannot only coexist with love to Him,
but is not where love is not" (2) God re-
qures us to love Him. Fear is to be
accompanied by love- 1t is to be fear
with love. Love without fear relaxes;
fear without love enslaves and leads to
despair God requires our supreme love
the love of heart, soul, mind and
strength. 90 God requires us to serve
Him, to obey Him. We are to walk in
His ways" "to serve the Lord with all
the heart and all the soul, to keep the
commandments of the Lord and His
statutes" Obedience is the test of rever-,
ence and love. If we reverence and love
God. we will obey Him.
NOTABLE DAYS OF THE WEEK.
Aug. IS is the eleventh day after Trim
ity in the Episcopal church and the
twelfth after Pentecost in the Catholic
church
Aug. IS is celebrated in the Catholic
church in honor of st. Helena, mother
of Constantine the Great. She is claimed
to have visited Jerusalem and discovered
the cross and sepulchre of Christ.
Aug 10, in the French Revolutionary
calendar was the beginning of Fructidor,
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Gwims
HAVE sHpARArEn
JUST ALIKE

HAVE SEPARATED.
The remarkable Burgess twins of An
burn N. Y, whose identity bafffed even
the Bertillion system until few telltale
scars were found. have decided they look
too much alike to live in the same town
According to their own story no one can
tell them apart but they themselves. and
even they at times find this hard to ac-
complish. AS If 60 make the resemblance
still closer the mother of the twins gave
them names which are almost Identical
They were christened Ray and Roy. They
are now seventeen years Old
Ray and Roy Burgess during their
carly childhood were indistinguisnable ex-
cept to their mother, who held the clews
OF their identity In certain small marks
and twists OF the hair The main char
acteriStics of feature and form to which
the great majority of mankind owe their
individuality in appearance are exactly
alike in the Burgess twins. Both ave
dark brown hair gray eyes, slightly fat
tened noses, moderately thick lips, long
ears ard rounded chins. In weight Roy
has had the advantage at several different
times. although at present both weigh ex-
actly IA pounds. Both are five feet nine
inches tall.
While children the twins enjoyed their
similarity and played all sorts OF
school to enter business, however, they
have found that their lack Of Individual
ity is of great annoyance, and even In
jury. All kinds of mistakes are made
by a debtor stopping the wrong twin
on the street to pay him. or creditor
running down the other one, who owes
no one. In consequence the twins decided
to separate, and recently Roy went TO
the town of Keene. N. H., where he ex-
poets to enjoy the novel experience of
having an identity of his own Ray
remains in Auburn. although he has also
planned TO go where he viii have the
use OF his own Individuality. BY stay
ing in Auburn he Is still mistaken for
his brother by his brothers friends, who
believed the latter may have returned
for New Hampshire the twins were
measured according to the Bertillon
system at the Auburn prison. The sys-
tenn proved successful in distinguishing
them only because of the discovery Of
few gcars
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r. THE HM Y FORUM
*
~

or Fruit month"; 1t went into effect Nov.
%, 1898, and was abolished by Napoleon
on Dec. 81, 1905.
Aug. 20, in the tcathonc calendar. is
last of the fatfRfsg| He was one 80 of the the
great men of thfeamlddle ages, and exer-
cised immense fftfuehce in France in his
day.
Aug. q is the Anniversary of the birth.
in 1920 Of John 11s Tyndall, British physicist
he made known the great Scientific truth
of the mutual eonVertibility of heat and
motion.
Aug. q is thea8nnkersary Of the hattie
of Bosworth, in 1875, the defeat of Rich
ard III, and the beginning of the end of
the Wars of the Roses.
Aug. % is the anniversary of the first
royal Geographic message across the At
lantic from Europe to America 1t was
to commemorate the completion of the
toria and President Buchanan exchanged
compliments. Her message was as fol-
lows; The queen desires to congratu-
late the president upon the successful
completion of this great infernationaI
work, in which the. queen has taken the
greatest interest. The queen is convinced
that the president will join with her in
ferVently hoping that the electric cable
which now connects Great Britain with
the United States, will prove an addi-
tional link between the two nations
whose friendship Is founded upon their
common interests and reciprocal esteem
The queen has much pleasure In thus d.
Tectly communicating with the president
and in renewing to him her best wishes
for the prosperity of the United States +"
This message occupied about two hours
in transmission from London to Wash
ington. The president responded in suit
able strain.
Aug. % is the anniversary of the birth
In 170l. of Jedediah Morse, who published
the first American &c ography, in which he
said: 1T has been supposed that all
settlers who go beyond the Mississippi
now will be forever lost to the United
States.
Aug. "a is honored at Rouen, France, for
st. Quine, patron of that city 1t was for
merly celebrated by what was known as
the Periwinkle fair, alternating with the
whistles and hornsE
Aug. "a is honored in the Catholic
church for St. Bartholomew. who is sun
posed to be the apostle called Nathaniel
MS surname being Bar-Tolmai; that is.
the son of Tolmai. He is said to have
preached the gospel in Armenia and In
dla and to have suffered martyrdom I'm
inc FORMER country, by being haycd alive:
hence In pictures he Is always shown with
tanners haying knife AL one time a
custom prevailed in Europe of hosts Civ.
ing naying knives to visitors on that dav
fhis is the anniversary of the fearful
massacre of Protestants in Paris in I572.
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. . Old Bgn7ng. f.

OF LONG AGO.
There's a lot of music in'em-the hymns
of long ago
And when some gray-haired brother
sings the ones used to know.
l sorter want to take a hand! 1 think
of days gone by,
On Jordan's stormy banks 1 stand and
cast a wistful eye"
There's lots of music in 'ern-those dear
sweet hymns of old
with visions bright of land of light, and
shining streets of gold:
AND near EN- singing-sfnging, whose
az mem ry dreaming stands
rom Greenland's lev mountains to In
dia's coral strands"
An so I love the old hymns, and When
my time shall come
before the light has left ME and my
singing lips are dumb,
IL can hear EN- sing them then. III
:, pass without sigh
To "Canaan's fair and happy land wherA
my possessions lie"
Frank Stanton.
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OLDEST PROTESTANT
CHURCH IN AMERICA.

that the seat of the colonial govern
ment was established and maintained un
III the Bacon rebellion, which Is 50
graphically described i'm recent novel.
When jamestown was destroyed the gov
ernor moved up to Williamsburg. or
'William-Cittie with his court
st. Lukes, at Smithheld, was erected a
few years after the original church at
jamestown, and, being I'm an isolated sit
uation, has not suffered from the raw
ages or war, the tooth o. time or other
means OF destruction
The old church stands among most
picturesque surroundings and is a ia
vorfte study for artists. In the chanceI
are two tombs upon WHICH the inscrip-
lions are almost obliterated. The epitaph
of one reads:
Here lies We late Great Minister Of
State,
That Royal Virtue had and Royal Fate
10 charles His COUNCILS did such Honour
bring
His own Express fetched Him to Attend
We King"
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CHE EARTH. =.
rs GroQyinQ.
YES. 1T is.

YES, 1T is.
A real estate dealer wants to know If
the earth is actually growing Yes, so
the scientists say. Matter is continually
railing upon the earths surface from the
outer universe, in the form sometimes of
huge meteors of several tons i'm weight
or as showers of fine meteoric dust. Now
IL is obvious that these additions to the
earth constitute actual accessions to, its
pulK, SO that it may actually be said to
grow. Nor is this augmentation small.
ior without exaggeration we might com
pute it at, say, Loco tons per annum-
ABOUT two and half tons per day,
MODEST calculation-so that In the last
lOO0 years the earth has gained coo. OOO
tons In weight, and OF course has got
this much steuter-quite a startling fig
ure! Yet. this increase, although abso-
iutely large. Is relatively to the earth's
bulk small. so that the Increase is scarce
~ perceptible; but this does not alter
the fact of the earth's actual growth
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Fire PEaee
SMALLEST VILLAGE IN
THE WORLD.
OLD, BUT SMALL.

OLD, BUT SMALL.
Fire Place, the tiniest village in the
world, has population Of ten. Every
man In the place is an officeholder.
This Tom Thumb among villages is To-
Gated on the extreme end of Long Island.
1t contains but two families named Mil
Ter and Parsons, who farm and fish, as
their fathers did before them
Small as Fire Place may be, it is very
notable from a historic point of view.
The first house was built in 1899. and tie
two old homesteads in which the Parsons
and Miller families are living were built
twenty-five years before the Declare
tfon of Independence was written.
Both houses are filed with mementoes
OF bygone days. There are quil.-writ-
ten parchments recording contracts made
with the Indians. In each home an old
grandfather's- clock ticks off the sec
onds
When the country near by was first in