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the post offices of each particular class. AS a
starter Uncle Sam is going to erect and
equip what may be designated as model post
office and which will be used as a pattern for
all the post Offices to be provided henceforth
throughout the country. This model post Office
will be located at the national capital and it Is
designed to be q model not only in its mail
handling equipment, but also in the furniture,
the arrangement of the various rooms and even
in the architecture of the building itself and the
selection Of site located with reference to
the railroad terminals that it will facilitate the
handling of the incoming and outgoing mails.
This last is point to which the average citizen
seldom gives a thought and yet it means that
If his post office Is located too far from the rail-
road stations through which the mails are dis
patched there will be an unnecessary lengthening
of the time required to convey a letter between
any two points. ..*..ss
So anxious has been the postmaster general to
have the scheme for better post offices worked
out just right that he some time ago appointed
special committee composed of men high in the
postal service to prepare the plans for model
post Office This body of experts has been busy
for months past perfecting every detail. The
committee includes the first assistant postmaster
general the superintendent of mails at Chicago
(Which city already has pretty wellequipped
post omce), the superintendent of delivery at
New York, representative Of the architects, the
postmaster at Washington, D. c.. and the assist
ant superintendent in charge of the handling of
the foreign mails going out from the port Of
New York One another of these is
competent to give advice as an authority on
every Important operation connected with the
handling of mail at post Office
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times lately?" said the superintendent
to the conductor after the latter had
nervously placed his cap on the edge
of the glass topped table. .-
Hayes trembled and his heart sank.
TO be turned 1n," in railroad patois,
means to be the object of complaints
by passengers.
What have 1 done, s1r?" he MUIR
INJURED anxiously. a-.~. a.
"You have disturbed the sleep of q
large number of passengers on this
line," said the superintendent. Let
ters have come to me from travelling
men who ride on your train, and they
say that when you announce station
at night your voice not only wakes
them, but scares them and knocks
them out of a proper frame Of mind
to do business the next day. Here
after, Mr.. Hayes, when calling out sta
tions wish you would not try to dis
place the window panes or experiment
with sound vibrations on the bell rope.
But it seems that Mr.. Hayes Is a
walking library for volumes and vol
umes of stentorian noise. 1t couldn't
be suppressed, and as he had no time
to attend ball game and let out
steam on the bleachers, he had to re-
sumo his old habit of standing at one
end of yellow car and closing the
1oor at the opposite end by sheer force
of his low register. Also he would
cough when impelled by the platform
draft, and the stovepipe would col
lapse with jangling noise. For a
time the gentle patter Of cinders
would be stilled and the volatile dents
In the water cooler would take up the
echoes. At least, that was the descrip-
ton given by the sleep-eager passen-
gers who signed petition which was
sent to the big chief at Omaha ere
another month had passed.
The railroad officials were deeply
puzzled by the case of Conductor
Hayes, who had proved himself relia-
BILE and efficient in every other way.
Some one suggested putting him on a
day run, where people sleep at their
own risk, or at the mercy Of the train
butcher.
In the meantime the hilarious story
Of Conductor Hayes and the sleepy
drummers found its way to Chicago
and Conductor Hayes was ordered to
report here. He came wondering and
promptly he was set to work learn
Ing the list OF train departures. Then
when the new station was opened,
like an admiral on the porch Of bat
tIeship, he stood In his high balcony
and began his interminable recita-
lions in earnest. For a day or so he
xrestled with echoes and acoustic
..ree but now he has mastered the
q, once IN the great sta
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natives of the South Sea islands who
have not come in contact with the
civilizing influences of the mission
aries. s%.
Owing to the trouble with his wife
Mr.. Stone recently sent his resigna-
tion to the trustees Of Purdue, but
they unanimously declined to accept
it. He has been a capable head of the
university since 1900.
It was no emotional, impulsive &C
ton that took Mrs. Stone from her
family. Her course was deliberate,
and she followed it after long refec-
ton and. apparently, after having
counted the full cost.
Most singular Is the story Of Mrs.
Stones fall under the spell of the mys-
terious Yoga cult For years she had
been reading theosophy and kindred
subjects, and was mildly interested in
them. 1t was along about this time
that DR.. George Moulton organized in
Lafayette a class in the Yoga philoso-
ply. Many women and some men, in
West Lafayette, the college town,
joined the class, and it became a great
fad with certain highly educated peo-
pie. Moulton taught that the Yoga phil
osophy was the religion of the Indian
Yogi, or Soothsayers. ,....
One of the leading features of this
doctrine was that Of the withdrawal"
or separation from kindred and
friends It was this feature that at
last fastened itself upon Mrs. Stone as
subsequent events showed Meetings
Of DR.. Moulton's class were held in
several homes. Books on the subject
were put in the hands of Mrs. Stone
and other members of the class, and
their interest grew.
Radical and revolutionary as were
the books Of the cult, DR.. Moulton
seemed to go still beyond them, and
evolve Yoga philosophy of his own.
But the members Of the class were
warned not to make public any of the
private and secret instructions of how
to send telepathic messages, how to
hypnotic, how to use the key Of Kar-.
ma Yoga, and how to heal the sick.
One of the injunctions in this respect
was "Do not become a laughing stock
for your friends by telling them what
,ou can do or how you do it.
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JOINS YOGA COLONY
Educators Wife Goes to Follow
Strange God.
Purdue University Head Divorced Aft
er Indian Philosophy Is Said to
Have Taken Wife to South
Sea Islands.

Lafayette, Ind.-It is the high priv
llege Of all to follow individual taste
In the matter of religious belief, but
sometimes the result is deplorable in
the extreme. Not all can think alike
as regards the here and the hereaft-
er, on this all-important matter of man
and his final destiny, but in spite of
this diversity of opinion all good men
and women will deeply sympathize
with family where the wife and
mother has deliberately left her home
to follow after strange god Such a
regrettable instance has just been
brought to light through the granting
Of divorce to President Winthrop E.
Stone, of Purdue university, who is
given the custody of minor child,
Henry Stone, on the ground of aban-
donment
The course Of this tragedy which
has brought deep sorrow to the Stone
family is told in a pathetic story
dating back three years, when a class
IN "Yoga philosophy was organized
In Lafayette. Many women and men
in college Joined the class, which be-
came fad in social circles. 1t was
taught that complete fulfillment of
"Yoga philosophy" involved the sep
aration from family, friends and kind
RED, Mrs. Stone became a devout fol-
lower of this faith and left home.
When last heard from in an authentic
way she was in Germany, but has been
reported since that she has left that
country for Kabakon, a South Sea Is
land, to join colony of followers of
the new belief. In the island where
Mrs. Stone is supposed to be it's men,
bers are called sun worshipers.
This colony is one of the queerest
In the world. 1t was founded several
years ago by August Englehardt and
numbers fewer than 100 persons They
live almost entirely on cocoanuts. The
clothing they wear. is said to be of the
variety and quality affected by the
The Appeal., 1911-08-05
WORK OF GEN. BOOTHS ARMY
saIvationists Give an Impressive Ex-
hibit in London, Depicting Scenes
From Life.

London thousand people at
tended the demonstration given re-
Gently by the Salvation Army at the
Albert hall. Old, white haired and
almost blind; General Booth presided
IN person. "Only with my inner sight
have been able to witness these
transformations and miracles that the
love Of God has wrought" he said
after patiently sitting through the diff
ferent scenes that were played before
an attentive and interested audience.
First was depicted night on the
Thames embankment at one of the
army's shelters. Gradually the great
arena in the hall filled with hundreds
OF destitute and homeless men, to
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MAN ISA MEGAPH0NE
Railroad Caruso With a Cyclone
in Either Lung.
Clyde Hayes, Who Calls tho Trains Ia
chicago's Big Northwestern Sta
tion, Has Voice Like
Foghorn.

Chicago.-Clyde B. Hayes is the rail-
road Caruso. Every day from $3.50 D.
m. to II he proclaims the departure OF
more trains than any other station
caller. His concert platform is of all
steel construction and it is located
way up near the splendid ceiling Of
the new Northwestern railroad sta
ton. .
Thirty thousand people each day
lend appreciative ears as he skylarks
the suburban schedule on the Milwau-
kee and Galena divisions, plus enough
overland trains to keep Chicago and
the Pacific coast bound in close fel-
lowship. Presidents of the United
States, boy orators, world famous
evangelists, divinities of grand opera,
baseball umpires-none Of these ever
had the constant opportunities of Train
Announcer Hayes to enlighten and
electrlfy a listening multitude.
Passing swiftly over the poor boy
and burning ambition section of his
life, we find Hayes In full charge of a
night accommodation train in Nebras-
ka. Yes, until recently he was rail-
road conductor, and was treading the
threadbare aisle Of a Nebraska &C.
commodation, occasionally unlocking
a brightly nickled lantern from his
left elbow and dropping off into the
night to wigwag the engineer.
One day the division superintendent
of ha
summoned young Conductor Hayes in
to his grim presence.
Are you aware, Mr. Hayes, that
you have been turned in number of
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The distinctive feature of the model post Office
which most conspicuously will mark it's super.
1orfty to even the best of the old-time offices will
be found in the extensive employment of mechan-
1cal and automatic carriers and conveyors Of
different types for moving the letters parcels
from point to point In their transit through the
post office. Indeed so complete will be this force
of mechanical workers that 1t will be scarce
necessary for human hand to touch letter
from the minute it is posted in the letter drop
at the post Office until it is safely on it's way
In a leather pouch to some distant city or coun-
try. And the word "safely' is used advsedy too
for one of the betterments that has been attained
in the scheme of this twentieth century post
office is the throwing out of safeguards for the
mail in acknowledgements designed not merely
to protect the letters from the operations of dis
honest employees but also to guard against loss
OF even the smallest pieces of mail through care
lessness or haste in handling.
The mail conveyors and dis tributors which are
to reach the acme of perfection in the new post
Office have been developed rapidly during the
past few years. In general way these devices
resemble in principle the cash carriers or over
head trolleys which have become so familiar in
many stores. But instead of converging at
common point these postal trolleys traverse
regular routes Just do electric street
convey mail from any point in the post Office
to any other point Supplementing these over
head carriers are belt conveyors, operating on
the principle Of a moving sidewalk or endless
chain and which when they are IN operation are
busy all the while moving forward either single
letters or bundles of misslYes. Some of this
apparatus is Of the kind that almost thinks"
For instance connected to some of the belt con-
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to get better acquainted with them
and familiar with conditions in that
part of the Union.
Custom, as well as the excessive
heat, has made 1t necessary for the
president and his family to leave
Washington during the summer
months Roosevelt had his own home
at Oyster Bay, and he went there.
Mckinley spent his vacation months
at Canton and at seaside resorts.
Cleveland had his own cottage at
Buzzards Bay, while Harrison varied
his vacation trips. sometimes going to
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A Home for the President

which is on the shores of Lake Min
netonka, a few miles from Minneapo-
lis. The idea of a permanent summer
home for the president at some point
in the center of the. United States
and far enough north to be cool Is
said to have been first suggested by
Senator Kenyon of Iowa It is desir-
able that the president spend his sum
mers among the people Of interior
states. thus giving him an opportunity
The Appeal., 1911-08-05
Minnesota Offers Site on Shore Of
Lake Minnetonka for Perma-
nent Summer Capital.

Citizens of Wayzata, Mimi, through
Representative Nye. have made Presi-
dent Taft an offer of a plot OF ground
for q permanent summer capital Of
the United States. It is proposed that
the government shall erect summer
home for the president on this spot.
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@ PLANNING A ~
MODEL P0SIOfflCF


NCLE SAM has a scheme
for improving his most
numerous branch Of
fices"-namely the post
offices located in all
sections of our broad
land. The improvement
that is contemplated Is
not destined to change
the outward appearance
of our mail stations, al
though If Ia admitted
The Appeal., 1911-08-05
June Brides Set Record.

New York.-June brides were nev
er SO numerous in Greater New York
as this year. More than 5000 IL
censes6, ,059, to be precise were is
sued in the month, against 5,728 in
the same month last year, which was
the record until now.
The Appeal., 1911-08-05
JAIL is A SURE. ENOUGH Jug
sastiIe at Mansfield, Mo-, Needs Only
Handle to Be the Real
Thing.

Mansfield, Mo.-"Jug" as used to
describe the city Jail at Mansfield,
scarcely could be considered a word
OF slang. For the Mansfield jail, built
Of solid concrete in the proportions. of
a huge jug, needs only handle and
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that IN good many cases 1t would be
an advantage if the local post offices
could be "spruced up somewhat in
exterior, appearance. No, the new
project now on foot deals rather with
the inside of the post office as an
institution and not even here does 1t
concern itself with appearances. The
aim and purpose Of the movement is
to promote the efficiency of the aver
age post office and this is to be done
by giving the postmaster new and
improved devices for handling the
mail more quickly, more accurately
and more economically than has been
possible with the methods and equip
ment in vogue these many years past.
The governments biggest business
institution, as the United States post
office department may fittingly be
denominated, Is not going to attempt
to revolutionize things in all parts of
the country at once. That would be
altogether too much Of an undertak-
ing from the standpoint Of physical
and mental endurance even were it
not for the fact that it would require
so much money that congress would
stand aghast. So the new order of
things Is to be inaugurated gradually
as are most such crusades and be-
ginning is to be made in the post
offices of the big cities where the
problems Of handling a huge and
constantly growing volume of mail
- have been growing more perplexing
year by year. After the lessons of
experience have been learned by the
experiments in these big post Offices
1T Is felt that it will be a compare.
lively simple matter to prescribe for
the post offices in the smaller cities
and towns and to designate just
which time and labor-saying devices
Will be best adapted to the needs of
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the change from a door to neck and
cork to make 1t q jug In fact. Perhaps
1t doesn't matter great deal. any
way, for the jail isn't often used, and
It was Just as well to put q little
sense OF humor In tho structure.
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A SAINT FOR THE WEEK.
BLESSED MARGARET MARY.

Margaret Mary Alacoque was born
at Terreau in Burgundy, on July %,
1647. During her infancy she showed
q wonderfully sensitive horror OF the
very idea of sin. When only twelve
she prayed four hours each day, fast
ed thrice in the week, slept little.
gave the best of her food to the poor,
and wore an iron chain. She entered
the Order of the Visitation, at Paray-
le-Monial, in 1871, and was professed
the following year. Although fire.
Quently in ecstasies, her ruling pas
sion was a thirst for humiliation, and
our Lord gratified it by choosing
her to suffer incredible agonies as a
victim of penance for others. She
was afflicted with acute bodily suffer
ing and bitter spiritual desolation,
while her sisters in religion distrusted
and ill-treated her. After purifying
her by these trials, Jesus appeared
to her in numerous visions, displaying
to her His Sacred Heart, sometimes
burning as furnace, and sometimes
torn and bleeding on account of the
GOODNESS and sins of men. In 1875
the great revelation was made to her
that she, in union with Father De la
Colombiere, S. j., was to be the chief
instrument for instituting the feast
Of the Sacred Heart, and for spread.
ing that devotion throughout the
world. On one occasion Margaret
Mary saw in vision the Heart OF
Jesus with these words upon it: "My
love reigns in suffering, triumphs in
humility, and rejoices in unity" Al
another time the Sacred Heart ap
peared to her radiant with an efful
gence far more dazzling than the sun;
then she saw her own heart, like q
shapeless atom, trying to approach
that abyss of light: it was unable tc
reach it until the Sacred Heart drew
it into itself, and she heard these
words: lose myself in My greatness
and see that thou never come forth
from it; for if thou dost leave 1t, thou
shalt never enter it again." Thus Mar
garet Mary from the disciple was
made the apostle Of the Heart o,
Jesus. Soon after saying, 81 shall
not live much longer, because have
no longer anything to suffer-" she
died on the 18th October, 1880.
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vEsPERs.

vespers is part of the divine of
nee and are said in the afternoon or
evening. They consist of psalms,
canticles, and other passages taken
from the Sacred Scriptures together
with prayers and hymns authorized
by the Church or selected from the
Fathers. Though this part of the
once may be said privately, it is
generally sung publicly in our
churches in the evenings of Sundays,
holy days of obligation and other
festivals In rendering 1t the priest
is assisted by the choir. As thus
given, Vespers are public evening
song to Cod
The faithful have always been en-
couraged and urged to attend Vespers
on every possible occasion They
should not only be present, but should
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ETIQUETTE FOR PENSIONERS

When moving into new locality,
let it be your first duty to inquire for
your parish church. Introduce your
self to the pastor as soon as possible.
If you are the head of the family, or,
are in charge of household, be ready
to give the pastor the names of all its
members, together with their ages and
their condition in life, that he may be
enabled at once to enter all the names
on the Parish Register You will there
by enable both him and yourself to
know your mutual obligations and
save yourself possible inconven-
fences, which often arise in parishes
through the presence of families un-
known to the pastor. The latter will
then also be able the better to attend
to your wants, to visit you, especially
at the time Of his regular yisitations
On moving out of the parish, be sure
to advise the pastor Of it, so that your
name may be crossed off the parish
books, and many inconvenience and
misunderstanding be thereby avoided
Both religious conscientiousness and
common gratitude ought to- dictate
such a course. When new. Catholic
neighbors move into the parish, who
are not likely to make themselves
known to the pastor, it will be charity
on your part to remind them of thai
obligation, or to inform the pastor
yourself of their arrival. -Auoust,n;aa.
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SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE.

Unanswered yet, the prayers your lips
have pleaded
In agony of heart these many years?
Does faith begin to fail? Is hope de-
parting?
And think you all in vain those falling
tears?
Say not the Father hath not heard
your prayer;
You shall have your desire some
time, somewhere
Unanswered yet? Though when you
first presented
This one petition at your Fathers
throne,
It seemed you could not wait the time
of asking,
So urgent was your heart to make
it known.
Though years have passed since then.
do not despair,
For God will answer you sometime,
somewhere.
Unanswered YETI. Nay, do not say un-
granted!
Perhaps your part is not entirely
done;
The work began when first your
prayer was uttered
And God will finish what he has be
gun.
If you will keep the incense burning
there,
His glory you, will see sometime,
somewhere.
Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be un.
answered,
Her feet are planted firmly on the
rock;
Amid the widest storms she stands
undaunted,
Nor quails before the loudesi
thundershock.
She knows omnipotence has heard hel
her prayer,
And cries: 1T shall be done some
| time, somewhere.
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try to enter into the spirit which the
service suggests. They are not bound
to say any particular prayers, but it
is good thing to follow the services
in the prayer-book, say the Rosary,
or give thanks to the divine bounty
for the many faYors bestowed. II
congregational singing is customary,
they should take part, They can,
however, engage in any other devo-
tional exercises they may choose.
There is no obligation to attend
Vespers in the sense that those who
absent themselves without cause are
guilty of sin, but there is an obliga-
ton upon all to attend in this sense,
that being an important service of
the Church, and being designed to
afford the people an opportunity to
publicly unite in singing the praises
of God, attendance becomes part
of the work of saving our soul, and
can not be neglected with impunity.
Everybody should cultivate habit
of attending all the regular services
in the church, or as many as possible,
among which Vespers is most con-
| spicuous.
During the singing of Vespers the
following should be observed: When
the priest enters the sanctuary, the
congregation rise. They kneel when
the priest kneels to say the first
prayer, and stand while he sings the
Deus in Auditorium" Then they sit
during the singing of the psalms.
When the Gloria Patri" is sung at
the end of each psalm they bow the
head. They stand during the chapter.
If the priest stands or sits during the
singing of the hymn, the congregation
do likewise They remain standing
during the "Magnifcat" and the
prayers and responses that follow.
The Antiphon to the Blessed Virgin is
then sung, and if the priest stands or
sits during it's rendition, the congre-
cation should do the same. In case
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
follows, as it generally does, they
kneel when the priest comes before
the altar, and remain so until the
Blessed Sacrament is put back into
the tabernacle. When the tabernacle
is closed, they rise and stand during
the singing of the Laudate.