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"There are, unquestionably, many
gold brick transactions in our, social
and intellectual life that escape de-
lection, except by the eye of phil
osophy."

flee to the woods for safety, while Tiny Tif pick
ing up twig, marches the foe, crying to the
vanishing skirts, "Don't be fad; I'll take care of
'oo;" and Immediately the razorback porcne takes to
the brush like the other grown-ups. Then an i'm
possible mother hrres back. smothers her baby with
kisses and pous out her ecstatic soul in prayer and
praise that she has been given such brave son.
These questions arise:
Would not any self-respectng mother hen do
better than that?
Was it ever put record that cluckng biddy
deserted her peeping brood in the presence of an
overshatowing hawke
And that exhibit of courage by Tiny Tin-was
not that really one of those happenings when ignor-
ance as factor of general utility goes far ahead of
wisdom!
Experience us. however. that juvenile
bravery is not rare plant in this latitude.
Have cigarettei
NO, / thank you I'm a member of the Juvenile
temple; I've taken the Good Templar's pledge, and
I've promised mother"
Does it not require more lofty courage to
stick to that declaration. and live down the taunt:
30, tied to mothers apron strings" than it would to
drive off whole drove of awfully scared razor
backs? And the claim that the highest daring is the
special expression of tie mailed warrior can hardly
from the ilother heart.
Should not lovely woman encourage with gentle
words approving smiles, and appealing tears, rather
than snap her fingers at boards of arbitraton9
There are, unquestionably many gold brick
transactions in social and intellectual life that
escape detection, except by the eye of philosophy
and must be supernaturaly strong to see and
quick hear, who trace all acts and words back
TO their fountains head.
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1.-THE CHRISTIAN CF1INEE PECULIAR"
"He learns what he can of Ameri
can manners and customs and pro-
ceeds to make use of them in busi-
ness. Is he better for his school
irg?"
By HONG TENO,
Keeper of Mott Street, New York,
JOSS House


We all him Is
in
he o o all this?
all
faithful
ht-mind S he a a father?
thousands that
aren nh o
Christian
of
brother wrong n another
brought
do no hi his
sion of them a astatueb eakera and a Grim
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SUNDAY IN ENGLAND.

Few people are aware how strict
Sabbath is still legally ordained in
England. The Lords Day observ-
arce act forbids not only Sunday
trading. but also every possible oc-
cupation-walking. riding, rowing, or
any game-and strictly enjoins upon
all subjects over nine years of age
attendance at church At the OPEN
ing OF every assize the Kings proc.
lamation Tor the preservation of
morality is read. People who are
then present for the first time are
astcnished to hear that the King
forbids. and calls upon the magis-
trates to punish. absence from d.
vine service on Sundays; any play
ing of cards or other games of
chance, or haunting of public houses
on the same day. Everybody found
in an inn during service hours is liza
BILE to fine of so cents and the
landlord to a penalty of $40. and
for successful prosecution church
wardens are entitled TO a reward of |
$40. AS recently as 1864 Isaac Wal
ton, man servant. was fined s.. 30
for refusing to attend church on
Sunday when ordered there by his
mistress. About the samc time a
mother was prosecuted by her sons
and actually imprisoned for not at
tending church.
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IS ABSEN-T-H1INDEDNESS
MENTAL FAILURE 2

mind. Singieness of attention was the
predominant characteristic OF mental
action before our time of bewilderine
interests and duties. Not to have learn
ed the trick OF poising in the attention
at one instant such a multitude of OBJ
1ects is certainly not a demonstration
OF mental failure, but rather Of non
requirement of a difficult art.
But the more convincing proof Of the
actual triviality of the amount Of for
getfulness is shown by the comparison
OF the number Of memory slips of the
Londoner with the number who ride in
omnibuses and other public carriages.
Let US double the number of lost arti
cles and put the total at $4,000; if now
we roughly estimate the number oi
rides each day in London, as at least on
the average one for each twentieth citf-
zen, We calculate that In year there
are surely as many as 100, O0O, 900 trims
made. Consequently. on the average
person forgets some article once in
about every 1000 trips taken.
The alarmist adviser of consultation
of an alienist for such failures of mem
ory would probably smile at this evil
dence OF his own mental failure.-Amer
lean Medicine.
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A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.

luck efficient force small great
the Capital heavy The
chief William T. Belt his informs the Commissioners
fiscal ended 80 less than
period in the past dozen years.
This gratifying, but likewise conducive speculation
future According the law of good fortune
followed by others of the opposite the part
wisdom provide against contingency that may and like
thunderclap.
True provision has been made for increased fire protection but
when the additional property be saguardd considered
of Mr. Belt than whom there
competent of the there
larger and better equipped force
The departments inability to handle large fires indeed
small the will be
pressed upon community, Mr. Belt Again. he 81 do
forcy speak the weakness of the department
the matt of engine companies"
protection foy that
the public With
should point
should make early duty place the Fire Department beyond c
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SOME PUZZLES IN
TONES AND COLORS.
By S. W. RUSSELL, Grand Chief, l. o. G. T.

Hasty judgment and dogmac assertion seldom
bear good regulations. The sage who said an my
youth determined to write satire on mankind, but
now IN my age resolved to write for mankind
an apology" deserves at least kindly recall
With most of us, who talk and write the amia
BILE desire TO lie amusing is, doubtless too strong
many times fer cur impulse toward accuracy, aud
both, perhaps, are not infrequently mastered by
ambition 10 bring others around our way of ihink
ing. The old story of the two bold riders who
learned that the shield had two coors as well as two
sides only after each had pummeed the other TO ex
hauslion, still remains object lesson in full
force
sixteen year-old lad who had paved his way
into the good graces and employ of resident man Of
affairs when demonstrated with for stating, in his
letter answering advertisement, that he had lost
his mother by death Ga statement wholly unwa'-
ranted), replied: 90 put that in to make it read
WELL"
lady, descendant of the famous Randolphs of
Virginia, reviewing recent book, "The True
Thomas Jefferson" finds 1t so thiekly sprnkled with
errors of fact that she suggests new title VIZ "a
Picturesque Account cf One Thomas jefferson and
His People, With Reflections at Large by The Au-
thor"
\ local press correspondent of the gentler
wrote very bright column, the other day, 10 ex
plain that tlie quality admires most in man is
courage. She says ~ fighter embodes more low
able characteristics il himself than can be found IN
whole arbitration committee
Among ether discoveries by this gentle CORE
spcndent is picnic party in the mountains; group
of women and small boy The specter of a bear
appears in the path before them, and all the women
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
THE BIBLE IN GAELIC.

Gaelic speaking Highlanders take a
very considerable interest in the efforts
made by the general assembly of the
Established Church to supply them with
a new Gaelic bymnary, but they are
much more interested in the revised edi-
tion of the Gaelic Bible. just about to
| be issued, and which is the work of a
commission appointed by the crstwhile
Society for Propagating Christian
knowledge. now known as The Trust
for Education in the Highlands and
Islands," so long ago as 1881. says the
Scotsman
4 complete Bible in idiomatic Scot
tish Gaelic is really a comparatively
modern thing. Even after the author
lied version was issued in 1911 no one
seems to have set about getting it
translated into Gaelic-a language then
much more widely spoken than at pres
ent, though there as at that date
one, and only one. Gaelic book printed.
This was Bishop Carsewell's Prayer
Book Finally, by installments, COM
DlGtc ud6IlC NtESlOuS VI Tue Oiu ~
Testaments were ready in 1901. and
after careful revision were published
in duarto form in 1926. That edition
has been the recognized standard Gaelic
classic from that day to this and has
always been acknowledged to adhere
more closely to the original than the
authorized version.
The 1926 edition went out of print in
1880, and in 1881 the Society for Propa-
eating Christian knowledge appointed
commission to prepare a revised ana
corrected translation. When in 1Ss2
the revision OF the New Testament was
all but completed, the work was inter-
rupted by the education endowment
(Scotland) act, restricting the opera
tions Of the society and setting up in
its place THE Trust for Education"
1.-The trust" was, however, empowered
to bear one-half the cost OF completing
the revision.
The commission resumed its labors in
1896. and, as tas been said, the result
will be in the hands of the public in
a few days. Some of the changes made
on the old version will sound strange
to Bible-readirg Highlanders; for ex-
ample, Jehovah is now uniformly insert
ed in place of God or Lord. and the He
brew "sheol," which signifies the abode
of departed spirits, is retained in the
text In the poetical parts the arrange
ment in lines has been followed so as
to accept the parallelism characteristics
of Hebrew poetry. The division of the
text into paragraphs has also been
adopted, as in the English revised YER
sion.
There can be no doubt that the whole
has been work Of immense labor for
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
DOES ART IMPROVE ON NATURE7
"He who seeks to outdo Nature
must perforce create new world or
draw from mind diseased"

was Rembrandt, and not entirely be-
cause he made more truthful copies of
nature. but because he had pc
culiarly sensitive soul-he was all art
and color-origlnal and interesting.
Among the moderns there are Just as
fine things as among the artists OF long
ago D:az. the Spaniard, has a re-
markable gift of color; and although
he attempted but little at real compo-
sition his single figures are stamped
with genius. Bonnat. the Frenchman,
is painter of great things in a great
way. just as Meissonier was great in
delicately fine manner. Munkacsy Is
virility itself, and Knaus, the genre
painter. was always one OF the clever
est and most highly original men on
the continent.
Now. these men got close to nature.
on their canvases.
Young America has examples of like
cleverness who hold the mirror up tn
nature faithfully and effectively. Wins
low Homer Is man OF genius and of
decided individuality. Bruce Crane.
Carroll Beckwith. William Chase, Tur-
ner, Satterlec, and the rest-these are
all naturalists, and are correspondinglv
successful as artists.
But he who seeks to outdo 'nature-to
go beyond what is-must perforce create
a new world or draw from a mind dis.
eased forms and colors as grotesauely
ugly as they are untrue.
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Is observation-disclosures Indicative of
mental failure? This question is sug-
gested by such facts as the large num-
ber OF unaddressed letters posted each
year. An English contemporary cites
in evidence the official list OF articles
left in one year in the London cabs and
omnibuses 1t includes $50 canes. 49,
900 umbrellas, 267 rugs. 742 opera
glasses, 926 articles Of jewelry, 1s0
watches. 3,239 purses. besides birds.
dogs. cats. etc.
The list seems like a pretty severe in
dictment of the mental qualities of the
modern city dweller, and If the hard
pressed newspaper reporter happens TO
see II he will undoubtedly send of
narrowing syndicate letter TO all the
Sunday editors on this alarming demon
stration OF mental degeneracy OF the
twentieth century man. Even our meci-
cal contemporary suggests the sdvisa-
bility of those who ride in omnibuses
and who forget things of consulting
physician.
The more marvellous thing. however.
Is that they do not forget far more often
than they do. Civilization has suddenly
increased a thousand-fold the necessary
and synchronous preoccupations Of the
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By EASTMAN JOHNSON,
National Acddemician.

1t is absurd for any artist TO say that
ne can improve upon nature. The nlgh-
est art is in coming as near to nature
as possible.
All the best that we artists can get
is from nature, and it is imperfect at
hest Nature presents many contrasts
She is lovely and she is ugly. and it
depends upon the artist whether the
beautiful or the unbeautiful is made use
of. But it is all Of use to him VINO
knows the values of nature and can dis
creetly blend the ugly with the beau
tiful.
Discords in music are not only neces-
sary-they verify enchant the ear py
contrast with the perfect harmony that
follows. And so with the artist; that
which is harsh and unlovely in nature
is used at times to accentuate the
beauties that are perhaps kept in the
background of his picture. But the
primal source of all art is nature.
Art is or should be Natures mirror,
rejecting. imperfectly at best, but still
rejecting: and he is clever and true
to his art who faithfully and really
portrays upon his canvas the realities
he finds in nature.
Take the artists of old. Rafaefs
work, as much priced as il generally
is. is all hardness and unlovely TO me.
Rafael was a good composer, but was
not true to nature.
Tie most interesting painter to me
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Greenland for Sale.

Troy Times-Now 1t is said that Den
mark is anxious to sell Greenland. but
where in the world will purchaser lie
found even If the price is put down to
rock bottom? The United States. it is
pretty certain, will never buy 1t,
and presumably the Monroe Doc
trine interferes with the purchase
of the icy mountains" by any
other power, even IL any other power
cared to buy. Greenland is almost too
much out of the world to be properly
called part of America. yet it would
have to be so called when IL came to j
construction of the Monroe Doctrine.
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CROWNED.

The King is crowned! Long live the King! England beathes
sigh of relief The soohyer and the starreader umounded if
disappointed One superstition dead died hard but
dead Marley dead nail and there's doubt about
The British popuace has been excited by hints of dark pro
phecy and the painful of Edwards illness that they almost
ready believe that should the King reach Westminster Abbey
Fate would with him and withhold the diadem
The intelligent classes without misgivings for
dispatches preliminary the described members of the
astoccy visiting arooges the effort read the blank
There feveris discover whether
still forbade the crownng of the latest Edward.
Now that all the King be regarded having
his genius pleasing civilization
the without agued It hoped
that he will convaesce rapidly be able withstand all
pressure of his responsibilities.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Religious journalism.

The decline of so-called religious
| journalism-that is to say, of jour
nalism devoted specifically to church
news, church movements. and to
church interests, in distinction, al
though not necessarily in antagon-
ism, to general religious news. broad
religious interests, and fundamen-
tai religious conception Of life-has
sometimes been interpreted as indi-
eating a decline of interest in relig-
ious matters. says The Outlook.
This is not sustained by the facts.
What has taken place has been a
broadening of the religious concep-
tion OF life and therefore OF the
functions of a newspaper conducted
in the religious spirit for religious
ends
When the old-time religious news
papers were started, small atten-
tion was given TO religious matters
by the daily press; now all leading
newspapers devote large space both
to religious matters in the broad
sense of the word and to church
news; all important matters of in
terest, to the pulpit, the pews, the
Christian Endeavor movement. the
Young Mems Christian Association,
the students movement. institu
tional churches. societies, and organ
izations of every kind for work
among different classes of society
and to effect specific reforms; in a
word. all matters relating to the
functions of CHURCHES. religious So
cieties, and the practical expression
of the religious life are treated at
length and as part OF the important
news OF the day by all leading Jour- !
nails. In such journals appears from |
time to time serious and, for the |
most part, sympathetic and capable |
editorial treatment of movements of |
religious thought. both within and |
without the churches. Far more at !
tention is given today to religious |
matters by the press of the country |
than at any former period in our
history.
The gradual disappearance of the |
old-time religious newspaper is not |
due to the decay of religion; it is
due to a radical change of journal
istic conditions. and TO still more
radical change in the conception of
what constitutes the religious ele-
ment in life. Men and women nc
longer read their church newspaper
simply because it is the organ of
their church; it must be interesting
as well as authoritative, or they will
not touch it. The religious news
paper must justify its existence. like
every other newspaper. by its in
trinsic interest. 1t wins its way, +
not because 1t II Presbyterian. Epis-
copalian, Baptist. Methodist, or Uni
tartan. but because 1t is well edited
and interests it's readers. 1t stands
or falls upon its own merits, as it
ought to stand or fall.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

the revisers, notably. the late Doctors
Maclaughlan Edinburgh and Clark
(Kilmallie). who at first acted as joint
editors. In the Old Testament revision
DR.. Mclean. of Glasgow. and DR.. Nor
man Macleod did much valuable work in
connection with Prof. Mackinnon. who
acted as secretary. II this edition
serves for seventy-six years. as the last
has done, and Gaelic speaking continues
TO decline, II is likely that DR.. Macleod's
prophecy that another revision will
never be wanted, will come true. The
great pity is that no arrangements have
been made TO issue the work except as q
large quarto volume, at -rice-one
guinea-which will place 1t outside the
reach of all but the very rich Gaelic
speaking Highlanders.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
fl Should Die Tonight.
BY BELLE EUGENIA SMITH.

II should die tonight,
My friends would look upon my quiet
face
Before they laid it in it's resting place,
And deem that death had left 1t almost
fair:
And laying snow white flowers against
my hair
Would sooth it down with fearful ten
derness,
and fold my hands with lingering caress.
Poor hands, SO empty and so cold to-
night.
II should die tonight.
Ny friends would call to mind, with low
ing thought.
Some kindly deed the icy hands had
wrought:
Some gentle word the frozen lips had
said.
Errands on which the willing feet had
sped,
The memory of my selfishness and pride.
My hasty words would all be put aside.
And so | should be loved and mourned
tonight.
If should die tonight,
Even hearts estranged would turn once
more to me.
Recalling other days remorsefully;
The eyes that chilled me with averted
glance
Would look upon me as of yore, per-
chance.
And soften. in the old familiar way;
For who could war with dumb, uncon-
scious clay?
So l might rest. forgiven of all. tonight
Oh, friends. pray tonight,
Keep not your kisses for MY dead. cold
brow
The way is lonely. let me feel them now,
Think gently of me; | am travel worn:
My faltering feet are pierced with many
a thorn.
Forgive. oh hearts estranged, forgive ]
plead.
When dreamless rest Is mine | shall not
need
The tenderness for which long tonight
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Ultinnatunn.
by CHARLOTTE BECKER.

You wonder that with quiet. fearless
eyes.
And silent lips. answered your fare
well.
An, is there any need Of words TO tell
That our real parting far behind us lies
Within the days when we, grown over
wise
Through some slight quarrel let the
evil spell
OF doubt fall on our hearts: and. as A
bell
Neglected. out OF tune. each hour that
files
Grows more discordant. so our strained
Lost all accord. Though league On
league divide
Our separate ways-why grieve? the
distance must
Be greater If we Journeyed side by side.
The old sweet hours could never come
again:
1t Is too late for parting. or for pain.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
A Cha1geable World.

A certain schoolmaster, who used n
round snuffbox during the week and a
square one on Sunday, Was accustomed
TO point to his snuffbox when speaking OF
the shape of the world. Now, when the
examiner came along and asked the
class what was the shape OF the world
a little fellow answered: Round dur
ing the week and square on Sunday,'
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
MATER DOLOROSA.
By FLORENCE MELLlSH.

Through changing years changeless face
Upon my chamber wall;
Upon the pure and pensve brows
The old-time sunbeams fall.
In happy years I used to wake
And wonder at the face,
Whose mild compassion seemed to fold
The sorrows of the race.
l knew not then what fingers had
Those tender eyes unseaed
What depth of human grief could be
BY grief alone revealed.
How long yearning eyes appraised
To brazen heavens in vain.
Before their love and anguish merged
Within paint
Calm face forever on the wall,
Deep wound that smars.
All, Mary, at what cost you learned
The thoughts of many hearts.
Boston Transcript.
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THE WARDERS OF THE GATE.
BY MARY NORTON BRADFORD.

Sometimes we laugh, lest otherwise we weep;
Our smiles may be but masked guards that keep
A grief inviolate;
Lest sober speech betray the heart and fling
Its portals wide, idle jests will spring
Like warders to the gate
1t is as though from some proud castle wall
Gay banners foated while the archers ALL
Mid music's merry din
Kept shafts a-fying, lest friend foe
Discover that the castles lord lies low
And hurt to death within.
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Taking a Chance.

Louisville Post-Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait estimates that nine-tenths OF the
criminals in the United States are men,
but the brave women go on marrying
men, each one trusting that she has se-
cured one of the small per cent who are
not criminals
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Not Yet.

Boston Herald-It cannot be said
that the Boer war is entirely over ul-
til the house of commons gets through
playing football with General Butler.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
TOWN POINTS, POSTAGE PREPAID

EVENING EDITION, one year; So; six
months, S1.5O; three months, s5 cents.
Evening and Sunday, one year. 81; six
months, $3.50; three months, S1.25.
Morning, Evening, and sunday. one
year, SO; six months, So; three months
$3.50.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES TO OUT OF

SUBSCRIPTION RATES TO OUT OF
MORNING EDITION, one year. $5: six
months, $2.5O; three months, S1.25.
Morning and Sunday, one year. 81; six
months, $3.50; three months. SI.75.
Sunday edition only, one year. s.; six
months, 81; three months, SO cents.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
FOREBODIr4GS.
BY LINDSLEY FLAVEL f1lNES.

So much we know and yet-so little too;
What tho the hour hangs heavy with the deep
Forebodings of the sultry midday's sleep,
With trembling heat-clouds rising slowly through
The silenced air; what tho turn to you,
Yet dare not speak, but only sigh and keep
The heartfelt fear that sought by speech to leap
Forth into freedom, still in chains to rue:
So much we know-so little, that we see
Today but faint, tomorrow not at all,
And who can read the riddle of the years,
Or solve the things that He has writ must be?
Or check the fate predestined to befall
Spite of all sorrows hopes or joys or tears?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-10
The Weather.

Partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday.
j. NJ. SHERIER,
Observer.
Temperature--7 a. M. So; at
noon 81.