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hostility to the Jews to a greater ex-
tent than any of the other gospels.
Luke has the legends about the birth
OF John the Baptist and Jesus as they
were current in Essene circles, and the
whole picture of them "as bearers of
good tidings to the poor has the stamp
of great historical .ruthfulness."
Mark has better historical and geo.
graphical knowledge than the rest.
The gospel of John is the work of
Christian of the second century. to
whom Jesus is no longer the expected
Messiah of the Jews, but a cosmic
being"
An interesting account is given of the
pale of Settlement which is that
portion of Russia in which the Jews
are allowed to reside The article on
mortality shows that the death rate
among the Jews, especially as to the
children. is much lower than of the
people among whom they dwell and the
puzzle of this is that so many of them
dwell in the cvercrowded tenements
which are considered so unhealthy.
The work now lacks three volumes
OF completion.
(Funk g. Wagnalls Company, New
York; per volume, $50
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Success
Its Right Methods

UTE a good collection OF ad-
vice is put together by Henry
Hardwicke in a little paper
bound book cheap enough to be within
the reach of any one with enough
wealth for two meals ahead. It is call
cd 1.-The Art of Rising In the World. %
and is hints and helps how to get
rich" We all know that there is
and can be no recipe for sale that will
insure success, but there can be no
doubt that it is in the needing of sug-
gestiors toward that end from the wise
and kind that the thing itself and all
grades of approximation are often
climbed 10. Eardwiclxe does not de-
pend for the worth of his book sole
ly on his own sentences, but calls at
tention to much that has been express
ed by men of acknowledged wisdom in
a wider world of fame than his.
The motto for his title page he takes
from The Castle OF Incidence:
For sluggard brow the laurel never grows.
OF his sixteen chapters he gives to
Courage" the first place. Then he tells
of Integrity Necessity and gives
a rule for that in three lines from
Shakespeare:
This above all. to thine own self be true
And It must follow. as the night the day.
Thou eapst not than be false TO any man.
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Measure
OF Mans Being

~HARLES BRODIE PATTERSON,
writer of New Thought Es-
says" and author of THE VIII to
BE WE'LL has, with the desire that
it may carry a word of hope to
those who feel their need of greater life
and light made a new book called
.The Measure of a Man" meaning
by that title 1.-The measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ" of
which Saint Paul speaks of us all
coming ''in the unity of the faith and
OF the knowledge of The Son of God"
Although mind-cure is probably the
dominant subject of the writer's study
and the chief method of his efforts to
reach others with a message of help,
there is only one chapter, and that the
last one of the book. in which he goes
to this object directly. The foreparts
of the book are probably but subtle
preparations Of the readers receptivity
for this thing which he seems to love
to tell-the power of the mind over the
body to help it to perfect health. This
leading up to his last chapter, which
is a study of Christ as healer, is so
prettily done as to make those who
pick up the book likely to be willing
ly led on and ON through It's pages till
the writer has made their attention
ready for the chief thing he has to say.
Much of the grace with which this
leading Is done is due to the choice of
eloquent quotations with which to i'll
illuminate the way he wishes to lead our
thinking. Starting with the first of the
four phases of mans development, in
his chapter on The Natural Man. he
tells US there is a purpose in this low
est as in every condition, and quotes:
Forever through the worlds material forms
Coed shoots the iulnaterial. Night and day
Apocalypf!c intimations stray
Across the riffs OF matter. symboiing
The budiless glories that are out OF sight.
He believes that in Gods great plan
the undeveloped soul Is as necessary as
the perfected. and he mentions Phillips
Brooks experience, I'VE forever feel
the thing we ought to be beating un-
der the thing we are" And he again
reminds us of Tennyson's confidence
can we be too often reminded?
Thou wilt not leave US in the dust.
The next, phase CT development he
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has just been issued It's alpha
betical range is from Morawczyk to
Philippson, and 1t contains as its most
notable articles the ones on Moses, .
the New Testament" and Palestine. -
For things specially. American the rec
ords concerning the Jews of New York,
Philadelphia, New Orleans, and ac-
counts of Jewish activity in the States
of Oregon, New York. Pennsylvania
and New Hampshire. are to be noted
1t is estimated that the prosperity of
the Jews in Philadelphia has been
greater than In any other part of the
United States With the records of
the success of the Jewish communities
it is notable that they accompany it
with a development of philanthropic
institutions to care for the less fortu-
nate of their race.
The subject of Moses is treated very
fully, giving the Bible story and the
Jewish legends. 1t is surmised that the
name was not one given in infancy.
but that it was an epithet given him as
the result of his work, and that it
means "Deliverer." 1t is held that
some allowance must be made for ira
QlttOIdl dCClStiOiio ia lliC lidIIdllNGS
of the life of Moses, but modern histo-
rians with much unanimity of opinion
regard him as a great historical char
acter, the liberator of Israel, the me-
diator OF the covenant with Yaveh and
the real founder Of the Israelitish ma
tion.
This latest volume contains the arti-
Gle on the Jews of Paris and has some
good illustrations of the interiors of
beautiful synagogues. It relates some
hard treatment of the Jews, and even
the great Napoleon was somewhat
severe in. his restrictions of them.
However, under the heading OF Ma
poleon,". we find that the Emperor is
considered one Of the best of the bene-
factors of the Jews. BY the fact of
his breaking up the feudal relations
of mid-Europe and introducing the
equality of the French revolution he
did more for Jewish emancipation than
had been accomplished IN the previous
three centuries. The main object Of
Napoleon's Jewish policy was to pro-
mote assimilation by intermarriage.
The German Jews have always re-
garded him as one Of the chief fore
runners Of emancipation in Germany
In the eight pages devoted to the
New Testament" the Jewish view of
the Christian gospels is given, to the
effect that the discrepancies in the
records extend over all parts of the
four and invalidate the claim Of his
toricity advanced for Mark. or for
any other of the quartet. The gospel
of Matthew is said to stand closest to
Jewish life and mode OF thinking, but
that 1t manifests q spirit Of intense
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teaching psychology more thoroughly.
Its problems demand for their solu-
tion along experimental lines the COM
bined forces of physics, physiology,
neurology and physical anthropology.
No longer the simple study that 1t was,
it is now become one of the most COM
pound OF the sciences"
The subject of libraries is the one on
which he devotes most Of his attention
in speaking of the coming advantage
Of the new over the old methods.
Some Of US will see the day when in
every great division of the university
there viii be professors of photography
and methodology, whose function it will
be to teach men books and how to use
them. 1t is pitiable to find that many
graduates Of our very best colleges are
unable, upon taking UP more advanced
work, to make good use of books" He
thinks the library should have upon
its staff men and women whose sole
work shall be instruction concerning
the use of books; and that it will have
new function to perform. that of the
publication and the distribution Of
books. THE publications of the fu-
ture which are to exert the greatest in
huence for good upon mankind at large
Will be endowed publications"
In his chapter on THE University
and Religious Education" one of the
best in the book, he argues strongly
for making religion part of univer-
sity training. TT is something toward
which the university can render a fun
damental service by encouraging for
it a proper and intelligent esteem. It
is part of the whole education Of a
man, lacking which the man lacks
completeness and unity and conse-
quently strength In his chapter,
The Theological Seminary and Its
Civic Relationship" he repeatedly
praises the Roman Catholic ideal of
making religion a necessary part OF
education. 1T is difficult" he says,
ito foretell the outcome Of another
fifty years OF our educational system
a system which trains the mind, but
for the most part leaves the moral
side untouched; no religion, no ethics,
merely a sharpening OF the intellect.
The Roman Catholics meet this diff
Guilty; our Protestant churches seem
utterly to ignore it." Again this: THE
multitude of outside agencies now en-
gagged in humanitarian work are suck
ing the very life blood of the church.
Here, again, the Roman Catholics
have shown wisdom greater than
the Protestants, for with them these
agencies are in nearly every case those
Of the church." Further along he
makes this remark: do we not
realize that in all work, whether for
church or for country, the largest re-
turns come from doing the work. with
children. Here again we may take
lessons of wisdom from Roman Ca
tholicism" The author has made no
general summing UP Of his work; each
paper stands by itself; it is only the
thought of the modern trend running
them all which connects them
into complete whole
University Of Chicago Press. Chi
cago.)
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Education
It's Moral Phase

~ HE value Of moral education as
distinguished from that which
aims chiefly at training the
mind for personal, material suc-
cess, and this value not merely to the
individual, but to the whole of society.
is well explained and the methods of
succeeding in It thoroughly discussed
by Edward Howard Griggs In his book
called Moral Education" The work
is intended not for youth, but for
teachers and parents. yet youth, If
the time could be afforded. might with
profit read many selections from its
chapters, for they would surely help
them to appreciate what wise heads and
kind hearts were trying to do for and
make OF them. and so grow more re-
sponsive TO that calling forth to ef-
fective being and acting which experts
IN pedagogy ever study to make in
most constantly persuading way.
The author, mentioning the fact that
life and nature are the great educat-
ors certain to be effectual, and that
teacher and parent can but supplement
those two great molders Of the de-
veloping personality. wisely calls at
tention to there being often a very
narrow margin between success and
failure OF a life. and that this margin
IS largely within the control of artifl-
cial education. Realizing that the art
Of the pedagogue can be but supple
mental to the development wrought by
life and nature he would seek sugges-
tions to aid his skill from these two
great molders OF adolescence, and SO
has absorbed from Browning this:
Here work enough TO watch
The Master work. and catch
Hints OF the proper craft,
Tricks OF the tools true play.
Starting out with an interesting
chapter called "The Child World he
gives two aspects Of that life for con-
sideration-two lines OF thought to fol-
low out IN regard to it. One, the more
obvious and generally recognized, that
childhood and youth are preparation
for mature life; and the other, per-
laps less often considered than it
should be, that 1t is q world of its own,
with its own SORROWS and its own joys.
which surely we should try to make as
complete as possible, so that the whole
ness Of it might seem worth the hav-
ing been born whether the child leaves
this life prematurely or lives long
enough to reap the fruit Of his train
ing for maturity. The principle that If
we postpone life too long we lose 1t
would, for lack of realizing its truth.
often be violated in regard to children
where they have neither the wisdom
nor the chance of choosing for them
selves.
The proper balance OF this consider
alton of the child world as a thing to
be made, in sense. complete in itself
is carefully given with regard to that
other weighty matter that the child
is father of the man. Nothing, he
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Next ne places Industry but An
solomon Is so well known on that sub-
Ject II Is only necessary to mention the
word But the author warns Us not
merely to avoid wasting our own time.
but also that OF others He tells us
how Douglass Jerrold. the wrttsr. once
was brief with one OF these wasters OF
busy peoples time. Said the idIer:
Well. Jerrold, what Is going on to-
day?" Il don't know. but am" was
the reply.
OF the needed quality. Decision Of
Character" he settles the question as
to whether 1t Is inborn or acquired. By
saying that the better opinion seems
TO be that it is the gift Of God Every
man. however, seems to have the germ
or this quality, which may be culti-
waited under favorable circumstances"
OF Success and How to Attain tt
he gives US this from Addison: III you
wish success In life. make persever-
ance your bosom friend. experience
your wise counsellor. caution your al
der brother, and hope your guardian
genius"
OF course there Is much In Method"
but Talleyrand condensed 1t into four
words: Methods are the masters"
On ''the rewards OF perseverance, he
expresses this opinion: THAT man
grows unconsciously into genius who
observes vigilantIy and resolves stead
fastly."
Lastly he tells what 4 factor In suc-
cess is physical culture. and reminds
US that as long as man can "he should
refuse to be Ill Illness Is one OF the
things which q man should resist on
principle at the outset"
(J. s. Ogilvis Publishing Company.
New York; IS cents-)
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preston mere morality" seems to
name something which cannot really
exist except in name only, and so his
book leads up to, and links with. re-
ligious education as thing the neces-
sity Of which his volume has sought
to prove.
(B. w. Huebsch, New York;
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the Funk & Wagnalls Company,
has just been issued It's alpha
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f1untcipal Ownership Said 20 Dc
6r0unht Nearer bv Decision.

r1uniclpal Ownership Said 20 Dc
Brought Nearer BY Decision.
Chicago, May 9.-The city scored q
victory in the traction litigation yes
terday, bringing municipal operation
q step nearer. Judge Grosscup, Of the
federal district court, denied motion
on behalf Of the Union Traction Com
pany to enjoin the city from interior
ing with the use Of the 80 called Adams
street line Of the old Chicago Passen-
ger Railway Company.
Judge Grosscup said that he had
withheld the decision q considerable
time, believing it would hinder rather
than help negotiations for an agree
n,ent between the city and. traction
interests, but that as soon as he was
officially informed negotiations had
been baked he framed his decision.
The court holds that the franchise
of the Chicago Passenger Railway
Company expired in April. 1904.
With the way cleared by this decision,
it is the intention Of the city adminis-
tration to use the Adams street line as
q beginning for municipal ownership
street railway system.
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to the west Of it and which not 30 very
far in the past was part Of the lake."
said Horace G. Lester, of Utah. Part
~ as the result of natural causes and
partly through shortage Of the water
supply which feeds it this remarkable
body Of water 10 drying up. When It
first became apparent, that the waters
were receding we thought that the
trouble was only temporary.
There has been q scarcity of snow
in the mountains for several years and
then, too, the waters Of the Jordan and
the other streams which feed 1t are d.
verted for irrigation. II the lake could
get its usual supply of moisture its
life would be prolonged but not indeh-
nitely. It IL q remarkable sheet Of
water. A crowbar will hardly sink in
1t. People who drown in the lake new
er sink. The body will float to the
obscure shore Of some island, where It
often is not found until years after.
picked by the brine.
Owing to the density Of the water
you can make no headway in It by
swimming. People wade out to- any
depth they like above the ankles and
lay on their backs where they doat.
There is an Irresistible desire to turn
over on the face that has to be over
come. To turn over may mean as
phyxia ton, for II the water gets into
the eyes, nose and mouth the unlucky
person Is liable to strange before help
can reach im."-Milwaukee Free
Press. 2
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TO BUILD INTO IDAHO.
WeyerhaeuSerS Let Contracts ia
Logging Railroad.

Weyerhseusers Let Contracts for
Logging Railroad.
Spokane, May 8.-The Weyerhaeuser
Timber Company has let the contract
for the building Of its Washington,
Idaho & Montana railway for q dis
lance Of As miles into Idaho from Pa
louise, WASH. to open its vast timber
holdings. The timber is held by the
Potlach Lumber Company, branch Of
the Weyerhaeusr syndicate, which
owns 10000 acres Of white pine, that
will take forty years for the cutting.
The company will erect q large mill
in the woods, capable Of outing 150,-
O00,0 feet annually, and with the log
ging camps it will employ 1000 men.
The company will also double its mill
at Palouse and will make it q two
band plant Other mills are to be
built. The railway will cost about
$1,000 900.
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BArTLeSHIpS RACED.
niSSOuri Shows Clean Pair of Heels
to Six others.

Missouri Shows Clean Pair OF Heels
to Six others.
New York, May 9.-News Of another
big ocean race, in which seven big
United States battleships participated,
was brought by the battleship Ala
bama, which arrived in command Of
Admiral Charles II. Davis, and will
go to the navy yard to be overhauled
because Of the poor showing which she
made in the contest.
The ships were coming up the coast
last Saturday, and were about 200
miles south Of Cape Henry when the
word was given for speed test. For
two hours it was nip and tuck. By
that time excitement was running high
on board the battleships, the speed
contest developing into race. Final
~ the Massachusetts, and the Alabama
began falling behind, and when the
signal ending the race was flashed both
these ships were far in the rear.
The Alabama, which has the record
OF being one Of the fastest battleshipe
in the navy, was fully mile and a
half astern Of the Massachusetts,. AT
the finish the Missouri, which had
drawn away from the others, was only
IS miles south Of Cape Henry, having
covered 1876 miles in eight hours.
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NOT DEPARTMENTS VIEW.
Rear Admiral kempff Nay Be DiSCi.
| plined for Expressing View.


plined for Expressing View.
Washington. May 8.-Probabilitiee
are that the secretary of the navy will
call Rear Admiral Louis Kempf to &C.
count for the views expressed in an in
terview recently published in Seattle.
The officer was reported as saying
that the American navy offers a solu-
ton Of the problem which confronts
most municipalities as to what shall be
done with bad boys.
The government, Rear Admiral
Kempf said, might we'll act as the
guardian of the youth of the land.
who, allowed to 60 their own way, will
grow up to form the tail of the tax
payers kite" He advised the enlist
ment of incorigible boys in the navy.
The navy department does not SYM
pathize with the suggestion that the
navy be made an institution for cor
rection of incorrigible youth, and Rear
Admiral Kempff's views are not we'll
received in the department.
It is declared that such a system
would discourage other enlistments
in the navy. Rear Admiral Kemff
will probably be asked to explain his
interview.
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the tunnel from the north had poeoo6
IT. central point BY some 1000 feet !
dynamite charge opened vein Of Sot
mir whose temperature DR.. viret states
was between 122 and IA Fahrenheit.
These currents Of superheated air IN
the heart Of the mountain indicate
immense pressure as the cause of
superheating, fact now to be taken
still more fully into consideration in
accounting for the operation OF tho
superheated steam. which Is one OF
the most powerful factors in such vol.
canic explosions as that which blew
or the cap of vesuvius and Of Mont
Pelee. After the workmen driven out
by these hot-air blasts had been en-
abled to return to work by the use Of
powerful ventilators distributing cold
air drawn from the outside, and BY
sprays Of cold water playing inside
the tunnel TO keep down the tempera-
ture, they continued to work until
May, 1904, when at depth Of three
miles they began to encounter streams
OF superheated water, which poured
into the tunnel from both above and
below after the blasting.
The presence Of this hot water in
the heart of the mountain at such q
depth bears directly on a point In
much doubt at the time Of tie Mont
Pelee explosion, the. question Of the
possibility of water penetrating in
large quantities through such channels
as were opened In Monte Leone,
where. no doubt the water was SUPER
heated as the air was. by filing under
ground cavens faster than it could
escape, and perhaps by being subject
ed. to great additional pressure by the
imperceptible movement Of the noun
tain itself in response to solar forces.
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BIG SYMPTOM TUNNEL.
BORE THROUGH ROCK, MUD
AND HOT WATER.
The Building Of the Great simplon
Tunnel Through the Alps II of Much
Importance = Some Discoveries Made
that Aid Science.

The world never witnessed q greater
triumph Of mind over matter than
was signalized by the successful meet
ing of the galleries which now pierce
the Simplon mountain for a distance
OF 1926 miles and shorten the journey
from Calais to Milan to 585 miles,
compared with the $50 miles by the
Mont Gents tunnel and 665 miles By
the st. Gothard. 1t means the res
tGratiOn OF Genoa as an important
port and Is OF great consequence to
the Mediterranean. Extraordinary
talent, unquenchable perseverance and
superb courage have contributed to
overcome obstacles which it Is admit
ted were unprecedented In any pre-
yious engineering work. 1t was not
the extreme length >of the tunnel
which constituted the difficulty Of the
enterprise, but the soft, treacherous
rock, combined with hot and cold
springs Of great volume.
The inception of the scheme and
the initiation Of the work are matters
of history, as also are the repeated
subsequent predictions that the end
could not be achieved. The tunnel,
which is really two parallel tunnels,
each with single track, was begun
in the autumn of 1893 at Brigue,
Switzerland, and month or two later
at Iselle, Italy. All the machinery In
STA l1atiOns had to be gnecial1v nro-
pared, hence the progress at the out
set was slew, but from January, 1899,
until December, 1903. 1t progressed at
an average of 3.497 metres a year.
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FOR Ctv,i Administration.

Tokyo, May 9-The government il
nerfectinR plans TO convert the militia
~ administration Of the occupied ter
ritory In Manchuria into q civil ad'
ministryation. Army officers viii CON
tinue TO be chiefs Of departments, but
they win be assisted by civilian OK.
merits and civil police. II is expected
that Gen. Kamic will be administrator
Of Tiaotung peninsula. The admins
traitor OF Manchuria has not been 90
leoted. Taxes sufficient to pay the ex.
nensee Of the civil administration vii
Ia imposed.