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AVOID THE "oUACK" IN DENTISTRY.

There is perhaps part of the human anatomy
that should receive attention than the teeth,
yet there part about which the individual is less
careful BY this il meant less careful when the com
parative Importance of the teeth health and COM
fort factors taken into consideration. Perfunctory
brush attention. rnsing of the mouth and occasional
visits to the family dentist appear large majority
of persons treatment SUFFICIENT for all purposes.
This general view is not, however, coneurred in
by those who have applied time and thought to the
study of the teeth and their relation to health. The
conclusion to be drawn by these experts and special
lists form caution against submitting the teeth to
treatment by unsked dentists; men who, though
preentious, do not possess knowledge of bacteria
logy essential to thorough hygenic work
Homer c. Brown of Columbus, Ohio, president
of the National Dental Association, in address be-
fore the annual convention of the association at
Rochester. last Tuesday. laid stress upon the neces
sity of dentists becoming proficient and more
learned the requirements of the profession. I'VE
WILL with less humiliation" he said admit
that of our practitioners of today sufficiently
educated in these particular subjects meaning his
toogy. pathology and bacerology) to reflect credit
upon the profession" He urged the enactment of
State dental laws for advancement of naturalization
along these lines.
The mouth, the most important port of entry
for Infection needs the skillu, hygenic super
vision and the teeth. therefore habitats of bac-
terra. call for diligent and scientific
It is manifest, from the ideas conveyed, that
-quack' in dentistry is to be much avoided and
dreaded the 'quack" in any other branch of the
medical profession.
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teachings into such concrete doctrinal
forms and statements as best suited
the needs of each uge. Also it gath
cred to itself an inceterminate mass
of opinions, traditions and practises
that were most useful at the time
hut had no essential rela ton to Chris
tianity itself. Today it is being called
upon not to throw overheard any of
its necessary beliefs, but to modify
or reinterpret some of those beliefs
so as to bring them more into har-
mony with modern thought. 1t is not
strange that when it attempts to do
this many good Christians are greatly
disturbed
As for Christianity itself, however
there is not the slighs-sf cause for ap-
prehension. z 1t is only suffering from
the growing pains of a larger con-
ception of its message and ideals. 1t
will continue to slough off the accre-
tons of tradition and custom that in
the course of time have fastened
themselves upon 1t. but what is good
and true in it will endure.
1t must be remembered in regard
to Christianity that we do not ap-
proach it as some extraneous fact that
we may accept or ignore as we choose,
1t is a part of our mental and spiritual
makeup. 1t has inspired and largely
created the wonderful modern civiliza-
ton in which we live. Therefore,
whatever may be our attitude toward
any particular clause in its creed. we
must be profoundly interested in the
great basic ideals and principles which
1t has imposed upon the most progress
sive and intelligent races of mankind
New York Tribune
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Popular Interest in Religion

The supposed decline of interest in
religion is frequent topic of discus
sion in the press. Some Christians adj
NIT a decline and lament it. while
those who reject the claims of any re-
vealed religion adduce the failure of
religion to hold the allegiance of the
people as a proof of progress and en-
lightenment. But. as a matter of fact
is it true that large numbers of men
and women are losing all interest in
religion? We can see no evidence that
such is the case.
The Peoples Column of the Tri-
bune would indicate exactly the con-
trary. At a time when national and
international questions of transcend
ent importance are up for discussion
and settlement a large percentage of
letters in this open forum have to do
with questions relating to religion.
The people may be modifying or re-
vising some of the traditional concep-
tons of religion, as they have done
in every age, but religion itself holds
place of supreme Importance in the
minds of all thinking men.
What is really taking place in re-
gard to Christianity is that it is try
| ing to adjust itself to the changed
and changing conditions of modern
| life and to the new science and the
new conceptions of mans relation to
the universe that have come to be rec
ognized as the ruling ideas of the
world Needless to say, such an adj
justment is difficult and often painful.
In the course of centuries Christianity
naturally casts its lofty idealistic
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The Humble Back Yard

formal reserve, and there has been an
evaporation of the old fashioned
frankness and simplicity Perhaps
some of the tdeplora ble~modern ten
denotes" that are anxiously discussed
with such frequency may be attribut-
ed. to greater extent than we sus-
poet, to the regretable degeneration
Nof the back yard
In any case. the city backyard
farmer is likely to find his days full of
trouble and his nights full of worry
in attempting to develop a thirty
foot lawn and a flower bed ten feet
square. Undoubtedly vegetation of
the desirable kind grows in the
ground, but the amateur is sure TO
have grave doubts on this point after
a period of painful experiment.
1t is most amazing how reluctant
even plain grass is to grow in regular
dirt. You buy what purports to be
the finest grass seed at a price ap-
proximateing the rate on dollhouse
tomatoes in February, and you care
fully push it into the soil and stamp
on it, The cunning little birds have
a feast on the seed for the following
week, and what is left grows luXuri-
antly, duly making it's appearance in
the form of the many varieties of
classified and unclassified weeds.
It is much the same with flowers
and vegetables II is surprising how
many weeds will flourish when you
planted perfectly good government
seeds. Undoubtedly the best way to
get a garden is to buy one ready
made Still, this author clearly has
a definite notion of the old-fashioned
backyard. He says the backyard is
the natural place for the garbage can,
the refuse barrels and the ash pile,
and he makes a place for these things
in his decorative Observation-Disclosures
Journal
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attic window into the canal--whether
by suicide or not no one knew-and
Madame Schopenhauer was left free
to do as she liked with her life and
his fortune.
Then ii was that she went to Wei
mar and with amazing rapidity insti-
tuted her brilliant salon, where she
gathered about her the leading liter
airy lights of Germany-and where the
young poet Goethe was seen in his
most sociable moods. Madame
Schopenhauer seemed to renew her
youth amid these surroundings. She
was exceedingly popular with the
great men whom she invited to her
house. although certain reserve
served to keep their friendship from
intimacy and also made some of her
associates accuse her of haughtiness.
In the meantime her brilliant son. Ar
thur, was hard al work over. his
books, working out the philosophy Of
pessimism which has made the nam,
of Schopenhauer celebrated
Another brilliant woman who was
born on July was Mrs. Ann Rad
cliffe, the English novelist Her
novel, The Mystery of Udolpho,'
commanded price of five hundred
pounds, which hundred years ago
was unprecedented. Mrs Radcliffe Is
very important as the forerunner of
the romantic noyelists and as having
eXerted great influence on Sir Wal
ter Scott and Edgar Allen Poe.
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Several recent writer's for the press
have taken occasion to comment on
the DECLINE of the backyard. 1t is
suggested that the backyard has lost
much of the moral stamina that once
distinguished it, and that the decline
in it's intimate simplicity is to some
extent an evidence of loss of sta
bility.
Close observers have no trouble in
noting the considerable change that
has come over backwards, particularly
in cities. They have been largely
subjected to civic Improvement and
in consequence have lost so much of
their old time substantial comfort and
character that they no longer have
the power of inspiring domestic vir
tue. The ounce bush and the lilacs
have mostly disappeared and the
comfortable old woodshed has been
displaced by the cold and formal gar
age, which is about as sociable in ap
pearance as a miniature fire station.
The quaint brick walks or the hap
hazard paths worn in the grass have
given way to formal cement or
granolithic walks, and the grass itself
is kept close shorn and free from
pleasant weeds, so that it is about as
convincing to the eye as piece of
stage scenery.
Every Monday or Tuesday the back
yard used to contain liberal display
of the family's most intimate gar
nsents, to the great edification and
enlightenment of all the neighbors.
But now these matters are intrusted
to a public laundry, or if still attend
ed to at home there is lattice work
Enclosure andSfhe family wash is at
least partially concealed from view.
In this and in various other particu-
lars the old spirit OF neghborliness
has been considerably quenched. Life
is taking on an aspect of cold and
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
BIT MARY MARSHALL
JULY 9
Joanna Schopenhauer
Copyrighted 1914.

Joanna Schopenhauer the lively
widow of Weimar and the mother of
the greatest of pessimists, Arthur
Schopenhauer, was born on AIly g.
1856 She was a German of Dutch
extraction, and as young woman, al
though not perfectly beautiful, at
tracted no little admiration for her
charm of manner and grace of per-
son. She was of exquisitely dainty
proportions-though in later years she
grew corpulent and a malformation of
her hip somewhat detracted from her
charm she had clear blue eyes and
beautiful light brown hair
At the age of nineteen she was be-
trothed to man named Schopen-
hauer. much older than herself-a
very ugly man, squat and unshapely
with face like a baboon Although
Joanna could not feel any love for
this suitor. and although he was most
persistent in demanding her affection.
she felt that the match was a good
one. for Schopenhauer was a
prosperous business man, with a pa
latial house whose walls were hung
with old masters. and whose shelves
were crowded with books.
A year after their marriage the
great pessimist, Arthur Schopen-
hauer was born, and it is said that,
save for his mothers fair, high fore
head, he looked quite as much like
a balloon as did his father Before
many years the father fell from an
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-09
REGULATION OF PRIVATE BANKS.

Michigan's banking commissioner in his talk at
Atlantic City this week strongly the abolition
of private banks, and pointed their many failures
In private banks, he said everything is private
In many such banks only one knows where and
how the funds invested. Why should they not
be subjected to the restrictions and limitations
incorporated banks, or abolished"
In New Jersey private banks make annual reports
to the State banking commissioner. There are four
of these banks in Newark and twelve altogether in
the State, and they have total deposits of about
million and half dollars. All of these private banks
cater to the foreign-born element of the population
The banking laws of this State regard to private
banks better than those which prevail in many
other States.
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES

Haw the New Tarin Is Working.
From the New York journal of Com
nefee-
Tho new tariff has not been long
enough in opera ton thoroughly to
test its results; but its effects
are already becoming more APP
parent. Practical operation of the
new law, in official figures, will
doubtless surprise many persons,
and none more than those who
have perdicted disaster and ruin
from its enactment. The truth is
that, as in most instances of the sort,
future economic events have been
impossible TO predict with accuracy,
and the actual outcome has many
angles that could hardly have been
foreseen by the best informed and
most far-sighted observer.
Perhaps the aspect of the new duties
that stands out most conspicuously
is that in which the removal of rates
has been tested. 1t will be recalled
that, in partial fulfillment of the
promise to reduce the cost of living,
the tariff leaders placed a good many
food products either on the free list
or at very low rates of duty. OF this
class of articles a good sample is af-
fDrded by fresh meats, which are
coming iillO int ODllGO States III
considerable volume. The total i'm
yorts since meats were put on the
free list were valued at $10.000,0 900,
compared with none year ago. 1t
was asserted by many protectionists
that no meats would be imported, and
by others that so great an importa-
ton would occur as to drive Ameri-
can producers to the wall Neither
forecast has been fulfilled. The
amount of meat imported has been
bat small percentage of the total
consumption, yet enough to nave a
rerceptible effect in restraining the
tendency to a further advance in the
fsIice.
Thus far the tariff has had little
real effect upon trade or industry. As
revenue producer it exhibits the
same qualities as it does in other di-
rections 1t is bringing in about all
that was claimed for it. This means
that there has been a considerable
reduction in the burden of tariff
taxes. Yet the thoughtful student
viii note that in not a few lines the
old level of revenues is reached and
that the savings are distributed over
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-09
UPLIFT TALKS
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author Of Pushing to the 'FRONT.' Etc.
Copyright 1914.
THE VALUE OF BUI sINEss TRAINING

mind would quickly deteriorate. We
would gradually sink back again into
the brute Take for examples any one
quality, like good Judgment How
could this ever be developed but for
this constant necessity of exercising
Of choice, this perpetual process OF
discrimination and learning by our
mistakes?
There is scarcely a quality which
enters into superb character which
is not brought into play to a greater
or lesser extent in daily life in the
business world.
In fact, among the forces that count
IN character rebuilding business is king.
The professions or specialties too Oft
en- tend to narrow and dwarf the in
divldual, crushing out originality anu
individuality. Nature is opposed to
one sided development, and the man
who only trains one part of his mind
to do one thing pays a very heavy
penalty. symmetrical, full-rounded
development is what nature is after.
business career thus has a great
advantage over the professions or
specialties. 1t gives an all-round de-
velopment. Solid, level-headed men,
as rule, are business men because
their education is general.
Any system of training which does
not exercise all of the faculties of the
mind tends to injure those not in con-
slant use.
One-half of the college graduates,
at the present time. enter business.
Not very long ago. nearly half of
our college graduates studied law. It
was considered the proper thing then
to go into one of the Learned profess
sions.' It took great courage at thai
time for boy to announce in college
that he would enter business ca
reer. Half century ago. going into
business was not a very attractive
proposition; but the new civilization,
the enormous commercial develop
ment of our country. has made busl-
ness king: and glittering prizes are
held up everywhere in the business
world
Get an education at college If you
want to. but prize equally the broad
err. more practical education of daily
life 49,
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Snappy Truths

Necessity is often mistaken for
courage.
A lot of unclassified nuts" grow on
family trees.
We refuse to judge mans charac-
ter by his actions in public.
Love may be blind, but the girls
small brother sees things.
Many a harmless-lo looking bottle
contains a lot of fish stories.
It's lonely day in a yellow dogs
life if nobody hands him kick.
And some women wear shoes too
small because the right size is too
large.
Good judgment frequently enables a
man to use the good judgment of
others.
Beauty may be only skin deep,
but it will bunco a man out of his
seat in crowded car every time.
Faith, hope and charity belongs to
the man who lends his new umbrella
to a friend.
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Most people greatly. underestimate
the education which comes from BUSH
ness training A good business mans
mind is in perpetual training, and
qualities are developed which do not
come out in a college course Take,
for example, the development of in
genuity, inventiveness in young
man who goes into business for him
self with a small, or with practically
no capital. What a splendid training
comes from his faculties being put
continually on the stretch to bring
about the means which Should pro-
duce definite end. No slovenly
planning or haphazard work is pos
sible here
Think of the discipline which comes
from being forced to make every dol
lar perform the honors of five Many
young man becomes an adept in
getting much out of little. The con-
slant piecing out. eking out stretch
ing his little capital to make it bring
the greatest possible returns, is a
perpetual education How ii develops
originality in the man. who is forced
to think along new lines, to make a
continual effort to find new and bet
ter ways of doing things, to try to
find short cuts and simple methods for
lOuuudDOulf lHNDlNeu SySIeIu- nht
necessity is the mother of invention
has passed into regime of the proven
bal and it might have been added
that necessity is the schoolmaster of
the mind
We are just beginning to find that
business is not only an educative, but
a tremendous moral force, without
the discipline training of which the
average mind would literally go to
ruin.
1t is fortunate thing that the ma
jority of the population of civilized
countries is kent constantly in this
training school. Business is the great
est kind of mind-devoloper. 1t builds
the power of initiative, the courage,
the endurance, the ambition. What
pigmies we should be but for the
schooling, the long. constant training
the opportunity for self expression,
which our vocations give u.s. Without
this regular persistent occupation,
this required daily study, the human
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-09
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Favorite Book of the Lumbermen

Frederic Mariner. the principal of
a large conservatory of music, whose
name is well known to musicians all
over the United States, is a native of
tie State of Maine, and during early
manhood he made special study of
the characteristic features of what
for many years was Names chief in.
6ustry-the cutting and saving of
lumber. Mr. Mariner has a summer
home charmingly situated upon the
banks of the Penobscot a few
miles below Bangor His profess
sional work, as we'll as his per-
sonal inclination, brought him in
touch with the lumbermen of Maine
and gave him thorough understand
iuE of their manner of life, their re-
markable development of the demo-
cratic spirit. their energy and their
content with the rigors of winter life
in the wilds of upper Maine.
Mr. Mariner narrated to me some
years ago some of his experiences
with the lumbermen and told me
some highly interesting anecdotes as
ISOLATED with these hardy winter
workers in the Maine woods.
One incident which came within
Mr.. Mariners personal observation
seemed to me especially interesting,
as it did also to him,
These lumbcrmen who go into up
per Maine late in the fall and who
are occupied all winter with cutting
the pines and the spruce trees and
bringing the logs to the rivers so
that they may be floated down to
Bangor as soon as the ice breaks. are
really men of good deal of cultiva-
tion,'' said Mr.. Mariner. II have been
into their camps in the summer sea-
son, when the men are all away. the
camp usually consisting of a large
log cabin. and have found there
newspapers, magazines, occasionally
a Bible, sometimes Shakespeare, and
once in a while much handled pack
of cards But the strangest feature
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Making H0bOes.
From Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.
No wonder our country is filled with
hoboes, when university students as
sumo the responsibility of training
plenty of their numbers for a station
in life so generally condemned. In
dustrial conditions quite beyond hui
man control for the time may be de-
pended upon to furnish an oversupply
of these ''undesira bles' without re-
sort being had to any method of spe-
cial discipline for the purpose. Yet
it seems that some of our students,
who really have so much to learn
and do so little toward acmomplsh-
ing the required result. must puzzle
their scanty brains in devising plans
for augmenting the army of hoboes.
What a deplorable condition is this
to which we have fallen!
In brief. a recent item in the papers
relates how Cameron NJ. Reed, said
to be a nephew of George NJ. Reed,
professor of botany in the University
of Missouri, in striving to qualify
as a member of the Quo Vadis Club
lost two of his toes under the wheels
of a baggage car on the Wabash
tracks near the Union depot in Kan
sas City. Mo, while trying to steal a
ride The foolish student is a sopho-
more at the university and his home
is in Cambridge, Mass.
One of the main requirements for
membership in the Quo Vadis Club
is that the aspiring candidate shall
have beaten his way over 900 miles
of railroad. Reed and several other
university students secuted about the
crowded railroad yard trying to find
blind baggage car that looked
comfortable that the unduly ambi-
tious youngster might complete his
lessons in hoboism. When car was
found that suited his purpose. Reed
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of the lumberman's camp. SO far as
anything that suggests intellectual
employment is concerned. is the fact
that almost invariably you will find
in every one of these camps a GER
tain book. / have not been in the
woods in recent years. but l know
that at the time when | was more
familiar with the camps than | am
now you were certain always to find
one or two copies of this particular
book"
Mr.. Mariner asked me if l could
guess what the book was. | ven
tured to name Robinson Crusoef or
some one of Scotts or Dickens's tales,
but he shook his head to indicate
that my guess was wrong. At last he
said:
The book is Thoreau's Maine
Woods. 1t seems to me to have been
a very great achievement to be able
to write of life in upper Maine, of the
logging camps, and of the streams
and lakes, and of Mount katahdin in
such a manner as to fascinate these
rough but kindly and hardy back
woodsmen of Maine. | was told that
they sometimes said that when they
read this book they could actually
catch the fragrance of the pines,s and
that the writer had told his story
exactly in sympathy with their own
experience.
II wish Thoreau could have known
this. The book was not published
until a year or two after his death,
although / believe one or two chapters
appeared in one of the magazines be-
fore he died. He would have been re-
joiced could he have known that he
had so written of the Maine woods
as to make his book the companion
of every logger and the one standard
authority, with the exception of the
Bible, to be found in every Maine
logging camp"
Copyright. 1914, by E. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved)