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N animated discussion regarding the
 A comparative excellence of Ameri- can and English husbands has been carried on for some time in an Eastern paper. The English husbands have had fully as many champions as have the American, though most of those contribu- ting to the discussion were American men and women.
 It was ludricous to read some Of the arguments brought forth against the Eng fish husband. Dozens of writers vehem- ently asserted that Englishmen were not good husbands because they refused to push their babies perambulators along the streets. Then came replies stating that the reason they did not push the peramhulators was that for generations it had been the custom not to do So. But this point was not brought forward against the Englishman so often as the one that he sometimes allowed his wife to black his boots. The answer was hurled back that an Englishman would never think of letting his wife press his trousers, as Americans do. This pre- cipitated an argument which ended about where 1t began, which was with the question: "Is 1t more humiliating for woman to black her husbands boots than to press and clean his clothes?"
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are not much under the restraint of the statute laws of the land They do their duty from internal. not from external motives. The man who abstains from murder, solely for fear of the gallows. is a murderer at heart, and he Is certainly what MT. Roosevelt would call "an un- desirable citizen" No laws, however wise and excellent, have ever succeeded In pro- ducing virtuous citizens People are not made good even by the Divine law itself The Hebrew people lived for ages under a system of laws devised, published and administered by God Almighty Himself. that is to say, they lived under theo- eracy. And what was the moral result of all this Divine legislation? Why, even this: Jehovah himself testified that the Israeli ites became worse than the heather whom he had driven out before them.
 The Apostle Peter speaks of the Mosaic ceremonial law as "a yoke, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear" The prescriptions and the prescriptions of that law were so extremely numerous and minute, that it is difficult to say how any average man could even remem- Der them all and always. The history of
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A NEWLY imported Irishman, who
 "A had rather extravagant views of A the meaning of liberty" said to an American citizen: ..They told me that this was a land of liberty" Well, so it is." said the American: Cant you do as you please % "Yes, said the Irish man; but I can't make you do as please" It does not seem to have oc- cured to Pat, that if his views of liberty were correct there would be only one free man in the world, and that all the other people in thSworld would be the slaves of that one man.
 In the days of the famous backwoods. man, soldier and huntert David Crockett certain western member of congress had sat in his place during a whole ses- sion, without opening his mouth except to say aye" or mo- on the pending question. He felt that he could not so home and face his constituents on such a record as this and so Predetermined that he must make a speech. He had noth- ing whatever to say; but that speech must be made, and so, screwing his
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THE BEIZER HUSBANDS

Finally attention was distracted from thls point by some one writing a letter attempting to prove that he American man was a good husband only because he didn't dare be anything else, while the Englishman was from choice. The writer of this letter went on to say that the Englishman was boss in his home, while the American man was only a partner, who shared equally with his wife In au- thority. This caused endless friction, while in England domestic life was much smoother
 Then the writer added that no home could have two h eads equal In authori- ty; that it was all very well to talk about such thing, but no concern in which various people were inter- ested ever ran smoothly unless there was one person whose authority was very lenient in the exercise of his auth ority because there was never any question of his right to 1t. while the American chafed under the fact that his authority was not recognized, he submitted to dictation simply because he had to. "The American woman will pay dearly for the insistence on her part that she be as much the head of the house as Is her husband,' said the writer in conclusion.
 There were many Americans who wrote uph olding this writer's opinion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
The Sheriff Was Easy.

From Harper s Weekly.
 There Is a law in Texas which requires commercial travellers to purchase H. cense before they may do business law either unknown to- or disregarded by. a certain patent medicine man from Now England. He was just emerging from drugstore, where he had placed an order when q stranger came up and addressed him.
 You sell Browns Boston Bitters. don't you" the stranger asked
 Yes; and I'd like 10 sell you a case cure you so quick you won't have been sick yesterday-factl" the drummer said
 All right. How much Is she" the stranger asked. pulling out his pocket book, and handing over the 8 demanded. receiving In exchange an order on the local freight agent for his case.
 Now, I'd just like to se your license to peddle-Tm the sheriff." tlfe stranger said. pleasantly.
 'Yo ouye got me--twenty-f five, Isn't itg'f the drummer asked, offering the money. 'I don't suppose 1t will be necessary for me to appear"
 Z No. that will be all right" the sher- If replied. Then he looked at the order for the case of medicine. What am 1 going to do with this stuff" he asked
 "1'n give you a dollar for it." the drummer suggested, and the trade was made
 And do you happen to have a license to peddle Huh ] thought not. Well you have been trading with ms-selling goods without a ~license-guess I'll go file A complaint against you" the drummer said. sweetly. And the next morning ths sheriff, with sheepish grin. paid a fine of s25
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the Hebrew race, as given in the Old Tes- tament, may almost be called one long account of the manner in which the peo- pie forgot, neglected, set at naught the laws of Moses.
 There is however such a thing as a law which does produce righteous living: but it does not consist in prescribed stat utes. It Is not external, but internal.
 In the eighth chapter, second verse of his Epstle to the Romans, the Apostle Paul admirably contrasts the internal with the external law: "The law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death," and he then speaks of the statute law of God Himself. and says that 'lt was weak through the flesh, that is. that hu- man nature in it's fallen state. has not the moral and spiritual strength to keep Gods law. That law is the measure and not the producer of conduct, We often speak of the strong arm of the law; but law, without public opinion and character to back 1t, is one of the weakest of all known things.
 Even if all our legal authorities, legis- lative, executive and judicial, were as
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AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES.
Who Are They, and How Many Are
 There of Them?

From Town and County.
 Time was. in the late eighties and the early nineties, when the city of London, in the neighborhood of the Bank of Eng land, fairly swarmed with Americans of all degrees. all well provided with gold and silver mines and patents which they were endeavorlng to folst upon an uu- suspecting British public. If q man in the United tSates had anything to dls- pose of that he could not readily get rid of at home he managed, somehow or other, to scrape together the passage money after having provided himself with a nice set Of blue prints of whate he wanted to sell. Then, on coming to Lon don, he put up at the Victoria Hotel In Northumberland avenue which was the home of the financial agent and the pro- moter from across the water. and the rest was easy. There was then no spec ulation in corner lots and garden cities as there is now. Everybody gambled in mines, and the further away they were the more they seemed 10 please the public which insisted, true to It's spirit on gam bling in uncertainties Those were the palmy days of Whitaker Wright and his friends.
 I remember in 1890 a man from Montana coming here with exactly four shllings III one pocket ana hn elhDOrately drawn contract for a mining property in an- other. He went to the city on the day after his arrival and sold the thing to Whitaker Wright for million dollars.
 My Montana friend immediately took suite of rooms at the Savoy Hotel and turned things wide open" He gave a ball in the newly constructed hotel which was the talk of the town and a supper which was attended by the most ales- tionable characters in the metropolis; and in those days of milk and honey
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XUIHO can doubt the soundness of
 NX/ the doctrine of total depravity,
 W when evidences are seen every day of it's truth? Otherwise, how can we account for the perversty, willful de- basement and debaunchery in which so many persons indulge themselves?
 Why will individuals addicted to in- temperance, the drug habit and many other vicious propensities, turn deaf ears to the pleadings and prayers of wives, mothers, husbands. children and friends? Why will they persist in the use of alco- hol, drugs and tobacco in their various forms when they know positively they are poisons that are wrecking their lives and their fortunes-if there was not in their natures the seeds of total depraN- ity?
 If 1t is not true dogma how are We to explain the conduct of youths who have known nothing but indulgence and luxury, and who have had affection and solicitude lavished upon them all their lives, and whose parents have been ex- amples of perfect rectitude; yet their children are so obstinate In their evil tendencies that they canont be won from them? Their absolute conduct they know is breaking the hearts of all who love them, and still they cannot be induced 10 reform. They go from one extreme of
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had never been a lawyer in the world every country to this day would be ruled by despots, or by anarchists. Government Itself is nothing but law, and that Is the best government whose laws are best observed. Life. liberty and property have their security In the law. There are rights inherent and mathematics but to preserve
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POEMS YOU OUGHT 70 PEAD

Around our gift of freedom draw The safeguards of Thou righteous law; And, cast in some diving mold, Let the new cycle shame the old
 1876
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the Isthmian canal that the country had been talking about for twenty years.
 Mark Hanna marshaled his cohorts and voted the Nicaragua route out. Then the United States formented rebellion in a sister republic and the canal was located in Panama. France was bought out Columbia was kicked out, and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14

Spooner was elected Senator in Con- gress to succeed Angus Cameron in 1885. Cameron's chief title to fame is that he defeated Matt Carpenter for United States Senator in 1872. Carpenter was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14

WHO can doubt the soundness of NA/ the doctrine of total depravity,
 w when evidences are seen every
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this time by the sun shining through
the green windows of his room. He
climbs again to the narrow massage
and, strange to say, the sharp bristles
are no longer there, the way is clear.
and out into the bright fresh Nav
morning he flies.
Resting on grass blade overhang.
ing little pool he catches sight of his
rehection in the water, and nearly
tumbles in, so changed is he. From
winS-tip to wing-tip he is covered
with yellow dust. Soon he becomes
hungry again, and remembering
whence he obtained his last meal he
flies straight 70 the reckoning finger
of another plant. Passing into the
warm room, he brushes off the yellow
dust against the hairs which cover a
lot Of little boxes that will one day
become first green, then rcd. and i'm
which will lie the bright yellow seeds
In the picture is shown how the
flowers look as they grow at the bot.
tom OF the hedge. I have taken one
Of the flowers and removed a portion
Of il TO show you the little passage
and the room in which our tiny friend
dincd, explains the writer I'm the
Culver. Below the sharp brist1es are
arranged number Of small boxes
with clOse-fitting lids These are filed
with the golden dust Below these
boxes there is a ring Of hairs which
protect another and larger ring of
boxes lower down. containing what
will some day be the seed. The little
plant desires that the yellow dust
from another Cuckoo.Pint shall fall
upon the tiny hairs that cover their
lids
The flower provides a room several
degrees warmer than the air outside.
also a good meal, and it keeps the iii.
tie fly a prisoner until the yellow
boxes have empted themselves OF
their golden dust, then opens tho
door by causing the bristles to shrivoi
up. and all this trouble and contriv.
arce in order to obtain the golden
dust from the boxes OF another plant.
Does not tho lesson Of the dear Mas.
,er come home with greater force
They toll not. neither do they spin"
nut think of the wonderful manner in
which they so provide that their seeds
hall be strong and good
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and not on the other one sids would
would not spin well.
The bristle should be a little longer
than the peg, so that it will press hard
on the plate on which the top is to
spin. This plate is smoked over a
candle flame until il is black. and the
top Is spun on it. If the top stood in
one spot the bristle would trace a per
rect circle on the blackened plate and
would go on tracing the same ciycle
over and over. But it is not the habit
OF tops to stay in the same place. and
Dy tlItlnS the plate you can make the
little top travel in any direction. fast
or slow. as you please. AS it moves.
the peg on which it spins marks out
It's path as a white line and at the
same time the bristle traces a beauti-
full series Of scrolls crossing and re-
crossing this path.
The general result, explains Good
Literature, is like the complicated
scroll work on bank notes. which. in.
deed, is made in somewhat similar
way, though, of course. by machines
that can be guided more accurately
than our self-willed little top. You can
obtain great variety Of beautiful pat.
terms by fitting the plate this way
and that. If you keep the top moving
along at moderate rate so that the
scrolls do not blend together you can
tell how many times the top has
turned round by counting the scrolls,
for each scroll corresponds to one TO.
tatiOn.
If you are of an inquiring turn OF
mind you have often wondered. no
doubt, how fast top of this or any
other sort really spins. OF course.
there are great variations. At the be.
ginning it spins as fast as you can
make 1t go. and it topples over when
1t is spinning too slowly to stand I'D.
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.Stl-&A IZH
LORDS AND LADIES'"
A Pretty Flower That Is Common In
the Fields Of England.

| wonder how many times my little
friends have read these words: Con
slider the lilies" and then have done
as the great Teacher desired they
should do. Over 1900 years have
passed since He babe His listeners to
consider the lowly things made by
His Father, and all through that long
space of time how few have been they
who have really studied and loved
the wayside flowers.
Look at those broad spear-shaped
leaves of deep glossy green, from
which queer-shaped hoods of yell
lowish-green stand up. Within
these hoods lies hidden one of
the most marvellous of our wild
flowers. the CuckooPint. or Lords
and Ladies'" of the village boys and
girls of England. The botanist speaks
of it as the Arum.
In the center of the hood stands a
tall. purple finger which beckons to a
small fly, little creature whose tiny
wings are thickly covered with hairs.
Ii may not see the beckoning finger,
and therefore in addition the flower
sends out smell like that of bad
meat, by which the fiy is attracted as
fast as wings can beat to the open
hood. Entering, he passes down a
narrow passage, soon coming to
barrier of sharp bristles the points of
which bend downwards. Through
these he goes, and finds himself at
once in a spacious room along the
floor of which is spread a fine feast
of honey. He has an excellent meal,
and thinking he will pay a visit to
his ladylove living short way down
the lane, he climbs the walls of the
room, and enters the narrow passage.
but 10! he cannot pass out, for the
way is barred by the sharp ends of
the bristles he passed so easily when
he came in
He tries again and again to make
his way out, but without success. and
at last goes down again into the room
below, where he INDUCES in another
feast. Night comes on, and. snug and
warm, he dreams perhaps of the glori-
Gus sunshine. Soon he is awakened
by feeling something like dry rain
falling on him; after little time it
ceases, and then to sleep again he
goes. Once more he is awakened.
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The Unkindest Cut Of All.

He's there any hope for me?
She-Iiow should l know? I'm not
= lunacy expert-Baltimure Americas
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tCopyright. by Joseph b. Bowlc.)


Yokohama. This mongrel city
is the most that many travellers
see of Japan. yet is it neither Japa-
nese nor foreign, and is spoken Of
disparagingly by everybody through
out the empire except those whose
business interests lie here. The city
is comparatively recent creature OF
foreign trade. IL is not characteristic
cally Japanese even i'm its speech. The
Yokohama dialect" is byword
throughout Japan. Nor is the city
Chinese. though it has a large colony
of pigtails. Still less can it be called
European, although its 900 European
residents make it the most foreign
city in Japan.
The Importance of Yokohama lies in
the fact that it is the first gateway
for the trade of the orient Here the
west first touches the east 1t is in
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the big hybrid hotels along the Yoke
hama bund. which neither the east nor
the west would own. which charge
Waldorf-Astoria prices for Oshkosh ac-
commodations, where the tourists
hear the stories concerning mission
aries that are retailed around the
world as the first-hand knowledge of
those who have been on the scene and
really know
The Devil and the Cannon.
A curious story illustrates the COM
posite character of this important city
and shows. not only the commingling
OF the old and the new here, but also
the chaotic state of the Japanese
mind at present with respect to reli-
gion. Upon Yokohama's famous bluff
rich American has built an elaborate
home, which 80 greatly resembles a
Buddhist temple that the Japanese
were at first angry at what they
thought to be mockery. Fearing that
for this reason the building might be
burned, the insurance companies for a
long time declined to accept it as q
risk
At one end of the gable of this curl
Gus structure is the grinning head of
a huge wooden devil A short dis
lance away from this particular home
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AN ARTISTIC TOP.
Easily Made and Will Furnish Much
Entertainment.

This is such a simple and yet inter
esting little plaything that it deserves
to be much more widely known than
il is.
You know the little tops or "teeto-
tums" that you make by putting match
sticks In button molds. and spin with
your finger and thumb. This is pretty
much the same thing, only it is made
OF lead. One of the little leaden disks
that dressmakers put in the edges of
ladies' jackets to keep them down is
very suitable for your purpose. Make
hole in the centcs Of 1t and put in
pointed stick for II 10 spin on.
Then make two holes hear the edge.
opposite each other. The holes can be
drilled easily with the point of 4 pair
OF scissors. Through one of these
holes put stiff brstle from: A paint
brush. or hat brush, and wedge it
tight with a bit OF match stick.
The object OF the other hole is sim.
ply TO balance the top, for in boring a
hole you scrape away some of the
lead. and If you did this on one side
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the gable OF the Englishmans house.
pointing directly at the wooden devil,
the power of the latter would be coun-
teracted. So. whoever visits Yokoha.
ma may see new brass cannon about
three feet in length and of threeinch
bore mounted on the top or a modern
Englishmans residence, with it's muz-
zle pointed threateningly toward the
house OF the next door neighbor. All
this. mark you. is not a tale of old ia
pan, but a happening of recent
months
Where Missionaries Are Criticised.
Perhaps the incident (for which I
myself can vouch. having seen the
cannon and the wooden devil on oppo-
site gable ends) illustrates the catho-
licity OF Yokohama. yet the City is
scarcely hospitable toward Christian
missionary enterprise. 1t is perhaps
tho center Of the criticism oe foreign
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is the residence Of wealthy English
man. whose servants one dag fell IT..
They consulted the Buddhist priest
near by. who told them that their IN.
ness was caused by the malignant in.
fuence Of the devil on the American 8
house. IL would be impossible for
them 70 recoyec so long as that hid.
eoUs creature shot its baneful glances
In their direction.
Straightway the servants reported
to their employer that they must
leave. Now The servant problem is a
problem the world over and the mer-
chant viewed with CONSERVATION the
loss OF his present servants AMI his
probable inability 20 replace them. for
the same reason. He urged them to
see the priest again. % consider some
other remedy, since II was impossible
90 have the image removed Whether
the Englishman saw the priest at the
same time or not does not appear In
the story.
The revised verdict was, however,
that If a largo cannon were placed on
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missions. Here 1t is that the traveller
hears that missions are only IA blum"
1t is asserted that nobody here knows
anything about missions and that the
missionary is chiefly engaged in the
profitable task of shutting up the eye
OF the church at home.
Looking After Americans Abroad.
The stories ono hears concerning
Europeans las all white people are
called) in the port cities of the orient
are not pretty. The criticism of mis-
sionaries pales into insignifcance be-
sides the criticism of the American
business man. In fact the two are
said to have relation. / have heard
missionaries charge that it is because
Christianity rebukes the lax moral
code of the foreign community that
the latter so strongly condemn mis-
sions. This is rather too sweeping.
and too easy an answer to the charges
laid at the door of the missionaries.
First, 1t is worth finding out lust
what the churches are doing for the
hnglish-speaking settlement. There
is IN Yokohama prosperous and we'll
attended Church of England. support.
ed by individuals and by English bust
ness firms, who follow the old English
custom of renting a number of sittings
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AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.
II Will Demonstrate How the Earth
Was Formed from Molten Mass.

Here is an interesting little expert
ment showing how the earth. once a
great molten mass, attained it's pres
ent shape.
Pour water into a glass until it is
one-third full
Upon this pour slowly some thick
oil, to the depth Of not quite one-haIf
inch.
Lastly, pour in, very gently. a
small quantity of water
You now have layer Of oil between
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