The Professional World

THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD SOCIAL INFLUENCES OF THE CHURCH. By REV. J. ARLINGTON GRANT. It has become a trite saying that christians live below their privileges; not less true is it that the church fails to use its opportunities. In many places this is the most potent factor, in country more than in city, it is the centre of thought, and social activity. The sermon, the Sunday School, the various young people's organizations are the living themes of special interest and the chief topic of conversation. This fact alone throws great responsibility on the church for the charocter of the society and the life of the community to which the influence extends. Its power of giving direction to thought and action is beyond estimation. Again, the church does not appreciate power and does not exert its whole influence in the spheres not purely, but nevertheless deeply affect spiritual life. How much the church depends on education? It is not uncommon for christain parents to commit the education of their children to others without so much as inquiring about their teachers and instructors. Whence but from christian and the church can we expect the ethical and the religious elements to come which are needed in education What people read helps to mould their character and determine their christian life and their relation to the church. As has been well said by Rev. Parsons "It will be considered almost criminal indifference if a matter of so great importance is allowed to pass without our most careful consideration. Nor is it of less importance for the church to give wise direction to recreation and amusement. The church should endeavor to save its young people from distractive and degrading influences, frivolous and corrupting amusements. he neglect in this respect is so great that the community suffers from it and the church is also effected. What is the actual social condition of the average congregation? This involves the work of the social life of the church. In most instances it will be found that young members are left to seek their social life wherever they may find it The church doing nothing in this respect thereby causing those whose associations should be in the church to drift into worldly society. There is too much individualism in the church, each one getting along as best he can receiving no help from the more experienced christians. The members of a church constitute an organism, and just as individual members work for the church so should the whole power of the organism be exerted for the good of its individual members. CITY NOTES Mr. Allen Pool will spend the winter in Cleveland, Onio. Mrs. P. C. Crews, wife of Rev. Crews is on the sick list. Dr. J E. Perry left Tuesday for Clarksville Texas. He will be gone several days, Mrs. Perry accompanied him as far as Kansas City, where she will visit friends. Rev. C. C. Goines left Monday for his home in Rockport, Indiana. The ladies of the Second Christian church gave Mra. J B. Parsons a pleasant surprise last week by forwarding to her at Fulton, Mo., a landsome $15 wrap. The revival services at the Second Baptist church closed Sunday evening with several additions to the church. An entertainment will be given next Monday evening at the Fifth street hall for the benefit of the Second Christian church. An interesting program will be rendered an other amusements will be had among them. A live pigeon will be turned loose and the one catching it will be given a gold dollar. Mr. James S. Hughes has just completed the erection of a modern five oom cottage in the eastern part of the city. Mr. Hughes drew the plans and superintended the construction doing most of the work. One has only to look at the building to be convinced that Mr. Hughes is a professional mechanic. Miss Josephine Huggard, who is teaching at Warrensbur will spend Thanksgiving with her mother, Mrs. M. L. Huggard. Union Thanksgiving services will be held by the M. E. and A. M. E. churches at St. Paul's chapel next Thursday morning. Services beginning promptly at 11 o'clock, Rev Arlington Grant will preach. Music will be furnished by the choirs of the two churches. Everyone is invited to attend this service. Miss Vanilla Turner is quite ill also her sister. Mrs. Charlotte Holt, who lives in the country is on the rick list. Don't fail to attend the entertainment Monday evening, you will miss a rare treat if you do. If you want an overcoat or suit go to Barth's you will be pleased with your treatment by these gentlemen. Mr. Everett Coleman will leave in a few days for Chicago. Holland's Queen. Likes Farming. Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, has a miniature farm, the products of which go to assist in relieving the poor. It was at this farm that she learned to keep house according to the best Dutch methods. Friday, November 22, 1901. HURLED INTO ETERNITY WITHOUT WARNING what can an organ of thirt three bants. labors When Raymond Wear left this city Tuesday afternoon for Centralia he either intended to commit suicide-or he didn't. With the facts that could be gathered by the writer he rather favors the latter theory. It don't seem possible that any right-minded man would choose to die in the manner in which he did when there are so many easler roads to the vast beyond that could have been taken. Rememberable, feline c the allel it is play their m to them animals tract di Eigh or to en by ager three are relieved red and which I lago." RAYMOND WEAR'S Awful Death Wodnesday Morning at Centralia. The Mangled Body of this Unfortunate Young Was Picked Up in Sections On the C. & A. Tracks. It is said that Wear tried to kill himself last Sunday. Tablets were taken from him which were said to contain morphine. The story goes that two girls were in love with him and jeatous of each other, thereby naking his life a burden. Minnie Barkwell Perkins is quoted as saying that Wear came to her mother's house Tuesday fternoon and had a bottle of morphine tablets, of which he took a handful, declaring he had nothing more to live for and had made up his mind to die. He also remarked to a young girl just before leaving on what proved to be his last ride, "you'll never lay your eyes on me again." These known facts lead many to think that Wear deliberately laid down on the track in front of the fast mail at Centralia, Tuesday night and waited for the iron monster to crush him out of existence. At 10 o'clock he was in Johnson's saloon in Centralia and pawned his overcoat for fifty cents. He was then under the influence of liquor. Next morning his body was picked up in sections. The head was off—the legs were a mass of crushed flesh and bones. Coroner Parker accompanied by T. C. Scruggs, who went to Centralia to identify the body, held an inquest. Mr. Scruggs scouts the idea of suicide. He attended the inquest, heard the evidence and his theory is that Wear was crossing the C & A. tracks when he was struck by the passenger train. Wear had been at a house just across the track to get lodging and was refused, starting for town about the time the Chicago & Alton train was due. W. W. Wear, the young man's father brought the remains to this city Wednesday afternoon and they were buried in the cemetery. LOST—A gold horseshoe scar pin. Bring te this office and receive reward. THE WASHINGTON The latest monthly report of the Washinton Humane Society is rather interesting, as showing what can be accomplished by such an organization in the brief period of thirty one days, in a city of three hundred thousand inhabitants. Among the results of its labors we find the death of one hundred and twenty-four cats. At first sight this may seem curious business for a humane society—killing cats—but one remembers the numbers of miserable, half-starved, diseased feline creatures which crawl about the alleys of every city and town, it is plain to put these cats out of their misery is not only merciful to them but a protection to healthy animals which are liable to contract disease from them. Eighteen horses, unfit to work or to enjoy life, were also killed by agents of the society. Sixty-three animals unfit to work were relieved from labor. Two hundred and twenty-four cases of cruelty to animals, brought to the notice of the society, were remedied without prosecution, while the brosecutions amounted only to sixty-four, in all but thace of which the prisoner was convicted. Among the cases of ill-treatment of animals of which the society took cognizance were six cases of cruel beating, two of overleading, twenty-three of driving when galled, and thirty-one of driving when lame. The chief good accomplished by the society, however, is indirect rather than direct. For every man who is punished for cruel treatment of his house or dog, there are several who take warning by his example. There is usually a small crowd about when the arrests occur, and every member of that crowd is forebly impressed with the fact that it is no longer safe to misuse dumb animals. Moreover when the man is convicted and fined all his neighbors usually know about it, and not seldom the matter is brought to the attention of his employer. The upshot of the whole matter is that gradually, but surely, the public is being educated in the right direction. Human beings are creatures of habit and precedent, and a very little of either goes a long way. Columbia needs such a society as this and needs it bad, judging from the looks of some of the rack of bones used as draught horses in this city.—The Weekly Commercial. Curbed a Nulsance. Prof. Tait of Edinburgh, after having subdued a lady pianist who annoyed him by taking to bagpipes, was troubled by an amateur elocutionist in the house. One day, the story goes, when the house was filled with oratory, a volley of explosions came from Tait's room, followed by smoke and unearthly skies. The lessons in oratory were suspended and everyone in the house collected to find out what the trouble was. Tait, with unmoved countenance, said to the landlord: "As there seems to be no restraint on the nature of studies pursued in these lodgings, I have begun a series of experiments in high explosives, from which I expect to draw much advantage." The elocution seemed. Vol. I. 4. SOUNDING THE ALARM. The whites of the south are becoming alarmed over the superior advancement of Negro education in that section as compared with the whites. A noted southern writer comments on the fact that Industrial education is almost entirely neglected by the whites while there are a number of Negro industrial schools. Bishop Candler of Georgia says: "Colleges for Negroes are better equipped than those for the whites, and their superiority in this particular is increasing rapidly. Booker T. Washington can get more money for his school in an hour's speech in Boston or New York than any president of a white college can get in a years campaign amount our own race. Now let this sort of a thing go on for another twenty-five years and undesirable conditions will arise bringing to pass results injurious to both races." Just what remedy the Bishop would suggest for this alarming condition of affairs he fails to state, but surely he would not raise his voice against the continuation of the liberal donations made the wealthy whites of the north, the betttr the condition of the unfortunate blacks of the south. The education of the head hand and heart is the only salvation for the Negro. And it is the only thing that rid him of his objectional features and properly fit himf or citizenship. Bishop Candler represents that class of citizens who object to contact with the Negro because of his ignorance, immorality and vice, and should encourage any effort that is being put forth to better his condition. No race has ever made the advancement in the same length of time, that the Negro has since his freedom. Why not encourage him to continue? WANTED—An experienced house-keeper for small family must be neat industrious and a good cook, Address, JOHN GRANT, Columbia, Mo Hops Grow Wild in English Counties. It is a somewhat remarkable fact that the hop, although only cultivated in a few districts in a few English counties, yet grows freely in a wild condition in very many places. It is a perennial, flowering in July and August, and to be found in hedges and thickets. The plant is only cultivated, for instance, in the northeastern portions of Hampshire, and about Petersfield, and even there it does not cover 3,000 acres in all. It grows and flourishes, however, in a wild state all over the county, including the Isle of Wight. —London Express. ICE FROM NORWAY. All Europe Is Supplied from the Scandinavian Peninsula. We have all heard about Greenland's ice mountains, but Norway's are a trifle less familiar to us by name, despite the fact that they are of far more practical service to us, for in summer and winter we draw our ice supplies from the mountain lakes on that country. The lakes of crystalline water are high up in the mountains and are surrounded by countless pine trees that grow to a great height. Europe's ice supply from these sources is controlled by syndicates. The ice which is considered by experts to be the finest in the world, is cut up into huge, square-shaped blocks by means of plows constructed for the purpose. These blocks are sent down the mountain side on huge slides. Owing to their great length the ice often acquires an amazing velocity ere it reaches the inclosed pool, outside which the bulky ice ships ride at anchor awaiting their cool cargoes. In spite of these arrangements it sometimes comes about that the ice supply does not continue altogether mintered, for, apart from the occasional delay of ships, orders sometimes come which necessitate phenomenal quantities being cut from the lakes, and when this occurs after a drouth the demand quickly exceeds the supply and scarcity ensues. That is why we often have to pay dear for our ice even in winter time. No more Botany Bay. As there is an inevitable propensity throughout the English-speaking world to associate the name Botany Bay with conviction, a movement he recently been started in Australia which has far its object the abolition of that name and the substitution of Banks' Banks instead. The Sydney Sunday Times suggests that it is connected before the new currency, that it is new commonwealth currency that under the best and brightest conditions without the taint on its fame now suggested by the name Botany Banks. VERSATILE RAILROAD MAN. A versatile railroad man is Sir William C. Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific railway. Sir William's job as executive head of the Canadian Pacific has never been a sinecure; when he began service with the road his task was a most superhuman, inasmuch as he managed the financing of the company, and the overcoming of the physical problems incident to the operation of a rail through a mountainous region, where snow and ice were common, both of the year. Sir William has served out his own fortune. His father died when he was 13 and left him to support his mother. He secured a place in he railroad yards and his steady application to his work and hard study gradually rose to his WIR WILLIAM VAN HORNE. present high position. He has great quality and can well be classed withrica's greatest railroad men. The Celebrated COEY RAILWAY BICYCLE ATTACHMENT NABLES cynists to train the railroad rails the year thru- getting the full use of your bicycle. Fifteen or twenty miles an hour can be made thus saving time. Cycling was never made more easy or pleasant. No hills, no stones—always smooth roads. Thousands in daily use. Entire weight, 8 pounds. Ball Bearing. attached or detached in three minutes. Fits any bicycle made. Telescope into a small package to be carried on bicycle in carrying case when not in use. Fully patented. Infringers will be and are being prosecuted. Has been on the market for 6 years Address C. A. COEY & CO 177 La Salle St., CHICAGO, ILL. We also build automobiles and stationery work for runners all kinds of cars. Cost of running less than one cup per hour per power. ANOTHER SMART WOMAN. Found a Way to Add to Her Moderate Income. "Yes," said the dreamy-eyed real estate man, "it was a handsome gown. Made the dress of the older woman look cheap, didn't it? Well, it ought to. It cost $500." The intimate friend expressed some astonishment, says the New York World, that the real estate man should be conversant with the buying price of his customers' clothes. The dealer in dirt looked at the clock. After three," he said. "No more business around this part of town to-day. Come along over to the refectory opposite." The journey being accomplished, the dreamy-eyed real estate man began: "I don't know that I ought to tell you about this," he said, doubtfully. "In fact, I'm sure I shouldn't, but I'll tell you anyway, for I know it won't go any further. That woman who wore the $500 gown is one of my employees." "What!" said the intimate friend. "Why, I thought I recognized her as a woman who moves in very good society." "Now, see here," said the dreamy-eyed real estate man, "is there anything in me that would give you the right to suppose that any of my employees were debarred from good society?" "Why, no," said the friend; "of course not. I didn't mean it that way, but the idea of a woman of position working is rather odd." "All right," said the dealer, amiably. "think that way if you wish. But let me tell you, you're wrong. I met that woman some months ago at a reception. I was impressed with her culture and her brain. I made some inquiries and learned that she was of good family, but not very well supplied with money. Her relatives, on the other hand, had plenty of wealth. She enjoyed a little income, but not much. I saw her again, and was more impressed with the fact that she could be of use to me. Finally, I wrote her a note, asking if she would drop in at the office on a matter of business. "Well, she came. I asked her, point blank, if she didn't want to make some money. She colored, and said she did if it could be made in a manner appropriate to her gentility. I assured her that it could, and we began to talk terms at once. I told her she was to bring her friends to me to buy lots. She was to explain to them the advantages of the land and give them a general real estate talk from a society standpoint. She was, of course, to figure as having bought some lots herself and having made a profit on the investment. She demurred to this part, at first, but I finally won her over. "She is the best salesman, or saleswoman, I have—and I have three other women doing the same thing. She is a brilliant and convincing talker, and she brings good money into the office every week. Her first commission was $500, and she put that into the hands of her dressmaker. That's how I know the price of her gown. The woman she brought in to-day bought three lots at $750 a lot, which gave my clerk a commission of $22.50, one per cent. Not so bad for half an hour's work, is it?" WONDERFUL STRIKE OF GOLD. Two Men Wash Out $5,000 a Day in the Eldorado Creek Dis- Men who have just arrived from Dawson say a second strike has been made in the marvelous Eldorado creek district in Alaska. Two men who discovered the spot washed out $5,000 the first day. Pans of dirt taken from the streak yield as high as $50 each, and not a bucker on the gravel comes to the surface that does not contain nuggets running all the way from a quarter of an ounce to an ounce in weight, pure gold. The messengers say that the strike has created the wildest excitement all along Eldorado, and that miners are flocking to the neighborhood by the thousands. ```markdown ``` --- Fried It for a Ton of Coal—Purchaser Declines to Restore It and Family Peace Without Stiff Com- munication. The Chicago Daily News says that while his wife was away one day he traded a skeleton, which she had had since her college days at a West side medical school, for a ton of coal. Now she is going to sue the coal dealer because he will not return the memento of her former days. The coal man, turning a deaf ear to the pleadings of the husband that family peace be restored, puts a good price on the skeleton. And the neighbors about the Bowden home in Rhodes avenue, near Thirty-seventh street, have an interesting tonic of gossip. During the honeymoon several years ago, they relate. Mr. Bowden name home early one afternoon, and the scene that greeted his vision has never left his memory. The parlor was covered with bones from two incomplete skeletons, and down on her knees, engrossed in completing one, was his bride of two months. He quietly left the house and went to the nearest restaurant. It was a bit dark when, returning, he stood at the front door flirting with the keyhole. Once inside the house he glanced furtively around from room to room in search of the hideous combination of bones. Mrs. Bowden had retired. With halting steps he descended to the basement, where he was to fix the furnace before retiring. In a corner of the stone foundation a gas jet burned dimly. Tremblingly he hastened to turn it up, and just as he passed the furnace he bumped into the skeleton suspended from the timbers above. With a shudder and a groan his arms involuntarily tightened about it, the fastening gave way, and C BUMPED INTO THE SKELETON. with a crash the two fell to the cement floor. Desperately he clung tighter and tighter until above his groans and the cracking of bones he heard his wife at the head of the stairs. Meekly he begged of her to come to his assistance. He remained at home just one week to "square" himself and to repair the skeleton. Since that time it is said he had bravely tolerated its presence in the house, although with every spell of indigestion he had sworn to get rid of it. At times his wife would painfully amuse him with discourses on the human frame, which he endured as well as he could. When she began to drag the bony frame out before his company the pressure became too great, but remonstrances with her were of no avail. Whether in a fit of anger, or because the temptation was too great, he made the proposition to the coal man and the deal was made. The toil of black diamonds was delivered, duly installed in the bin and the wise merchant carried away the skeleton hidden in a horse blanket. The following day his wife was frantic when she missed it. He braced up his courage and told her the circumstances. She decided that so long as it remained away from the house he was to be served with cold breakfasts. He is willing to undergo that to keep it away. Mrs. Bowden is determined to have it again and has given the coal dealer a few days to return it in as good shape as he got it. She has consulted a lawyer and says she means business. Our ice returns we will. Any one sending sketch and deser tion of any invention will pay the fee of one concerning the patentability of same. "How to obtain a patent" sent upon request. Patents secured through us advertised for sale at our expense. Patents taken out through us receive special notice, without charge, in THE PATENT RECORD an illustrated and widely circulated journal consulted by Manufacturers and Investors. Send for sample copy FREE. Address, Forty Thousand of Them Employed in New York City. There are 800,000 persons, men and women, employed in what the law describes as gainful occupation—working for others for compensation—in New York city. It has heretofore been supposed that about five per cent. of these were employed at night, which would give a total of 40,000 night workers in this city. Recently a table has appeared intended to show how many night workers there actually are in the four boroughs, and this estimate gives 3,200 policemen, 3,000 railroad employees, 3,000 bakers, 3,000 newspaper employees, 2,500 engineers and firemen, 2,500 actors and musicians and 1,000 restaurant employees. The total is 20,000, the balance being made up of butchers, peddlers, steam railroad employees, telegraphers, watchmen, electricians and miscellaneous workers. The table, accurate in many respects, falls short of completeness, says the New York Sun, as to the total number of persons employed at night in New York. There are in New York and Brooklyn 2,167 Raines law hotels which are open all night, in each of which there is at least one man employed and usually two. This figures up 3,500. The table does not include the market men, a considerable group of night workers, who number at least 1,000, the men who work along shore loading or unloading boats to the number of 1,000 additional, and it does not take into account either those employed on or connected with the ferry business of the city, which is carried on all night, in which there are at least 500, a total of 6,000 additional. The number of watchmen is estimated at 400, actually it is nearer 2,000, for there are watchmen of buildings under construction, watchmen of office buildings, watchmen in care of material, factory watchmen, private watchmen and ordinary night watchmen. There are 250 hotels in New York city, and the number of night employees of these--clerks, porters, elevator men, watchmen, bell boys, gas men and cleaners is 2,500, or an average of about ten for each hotel. Another considerable item of night workers is made up of the employes of apartment houses, elevator men and janitors, and still another of city employees connected with the water supply department, which is going on all night, and in charge of public buildings. Gashouses in New York do not shut down at night time, but employ night shifts of men, and the same is true of the foundry business, and there are the all-night drug stores as well as the all-night saloons, and the night hawk cabmen, whose chief time of profit is between midnight and day-oreak. Taking all these classes together, it is probably no exaggeration to say that there are 40,000 night workers in New York, exclusive of physicians and clergymen. Warlike English Surnames The registers that have been preserved at Somerset house since 1837 furnish what seems at first sight to be a complete series of surrames connected with war. Supplying in the first place that invariable cause of hostilities, Quarrell, they lead on to Allies, Challenge, Charge, Battle, Greatbattle, Rout, Victory and Conquest. They proceed, as it would appear, to enumerate in detail the ghastly results of conflict in the names Gash, Gore, Slaughter, Carnage and Corpse; and seem to furnish particulars of war material in Powder, Bullett, Shott, Shell, Cannon, Sword and Lance. They mention, too, the Gunner, and further specify his deadly charges in Canister and Grape. anything you in, in, or improve; also get CANEAT.TRADE-MAIL, COPYRIGHT or DESIGN in, in, or on photo, or on for free examination and advice. BOOK ON PATENTS. Free. No atty. Write before patent. G.A.SNOW & CO. Patent Lawyers. WASHINGTON D.C. A Reform That's Suggested for Comm- mandal Communities Not content with the destruction of the art of letter-writing through the invention of the telegraph, the typewriter and other time-saving devices, an iconoclastic Camden genius makes what he calls a plea for reform in commercial correspondence by eliminating the few courteous words, such as "Dear Sir" and "Yours very truly," which still survive in the arid waste of business letters. "By actual experiment," he says in the Philadelphia Record, "it will be found that it takes a typewriter one hour to write these formal introductions and conclusions to 500 letters. Now, the estimated total annual letter mail of the world is 8,000,000,000 pieces. Of course, this is not all commercial correspondence, nor is it all typewritten, but for the purpose of having some statistical starting point it will be assumed that it is. To write the 'Dear sirs' and 'Yours very truly' for this number of pieces would take one typewriter 16,000,000 days, or allowing 300 working days to the year, about 6,700 years. To translate this into an approximation of its money value, allowing $10 as the wage of the typewriter and eight hours as the average day's work, the cost would be $3,350,000. Is it worth it? Or, to go a step further is it worth anything? Little by little the forms of address have been condensed until such old-school phrases as 'My Dear and Respected Sir' and 'Your humble and obedient servant are obsolete. Why not continue the good work and 'reform it altogether? Why not adopt the following sensible straightaway, businesslike form: "John Smith & Co.: "We wish to order, etc. "T. Brown & Co.' That is what you mean. Why not say it and stop?" FAITHEUL SENTINEL. Gun That Scares Wolves by Shooting Every Hour. The wolf gun was considered such a foolish device that the United States government for a long time refused to issue a patent for it. Now it is in operation, and is saving thousands of head of cattle, sheep, and swine. Dorsens of ranchmen in Colorado and Wyoming are providing themselves with the weapons, and it is said that they are "worth their weight in gold." The wolf gun is an ordnance gun arranged to explode a blank cartridge every hour during the night by a clever little device invented by a Kansas man. The ranchman places it near his herd and goes to sleep, knowing that they will be safe from the attack of predatory animals, because these animals fear the report of a gun. It is a faithful watch. Every hour its report can be heard, and if there are coyotes within half a mile of the machine they will endeavor to get more distance between them and the noise—Denver Times. YELLOW FEVER. Worst Place for the Disease Is Senegal Atria. From the reports there can be little doubt that just now the worst yellow fever spot on earth is Senegal, the French colony in East Africa. "Fifteen per cent of the population of this colony is already destroyed by the fearful disease. One per cent die every day with hopeless regularity during the incessant winter rain. There is still nearly 100 days of this in prospect. Imagine an epidemic in any city that should carry 75,000 inhabitants in three months, or 800 persons daily. Suppose that during the last five days one 25,000 individuals, or 5,000 persons daily, had been carried off, and that the probabilities were in favor of an increase of the epidemic, and one can get an idea of the situation in Senegal. "We are guarded," says the report, "by a military cordon, which fires on those unfortunate who attempt to escape. It does not take long. On a Saturday Colonel de Coeur was in full health. On Sunday morning he entered the hospital. On Monday evening at 3 o'clock he was buried." Usually, however, a case lasts three or four days. The mortality is always about 86 per cent in proportion to the number of those attacked. The epidemic started from the extreme western section of the town, and after following a regular line of march, is on board the warship Heroine, moored at the extreme eastern end of the town. For fifteen days the officers and men have been consigned on board this old vessel and have not appeared on shore. Nevertheless, the disease has found means to reach them. "Physicians die like flies," continues the report. "Sisters and infirmals follow the same road. Mass is no longer said in public on account of contagion. Fortunately there will always remain a negro priest to absolve the last who die, for it is a curious fact that the negroes are completely immune." Wanted—An Idea Who can think of some simple thing to patent protect your ideas, they may bring you wealth Write JOHN WEDDELINGER CO., Patent Attorney, Washington, D. C., for your wise ode and list of two hundred ideas. WRITES SWEET SONGS LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON'S GREAT FAME. No Other American Woman Has Attained Such a High Degree of International Success--Was a Child of Connecticut. Every reader of the best magazines and every lover of real poetry must be familiar with the name of Louise Chandler Moulton, a Boston writer who has won for herself a high place in American literature. Although it is as a poet that Mrs. Moulton has won the highest distinction, her prose writings have had many admirers, her letters of travel being particularly good. Mrs. Moulton is of eastern birth, having been born in Promfret, Conn., in 1835 Hers was a home in which the theology and traditions of the Puritans survived, and her childhood was not like the childhood of the children of today. Some very innocent amusements were strictly prohibited and her childish companions were few. Happily for her one had a highly imaginative nature that helped her to people her little world with agreeable companions and she was not unhappy. Like most poets, Mrs. Moulton began to write when she was very young, and she was but 13 years of age when she wrote for a composition in school a poem that her teacher could hardly believe M. LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON. was original, and he detained her after school to ask if she had really written the poem. When 14 years old she sent a little poem to a local newspaper and for the first time saw her own lines in print. No lines of hers that appeared in after years in the great magazines and that brought her praise from Longfellow and Holmes and Browning and Matthew Arnold ever gave Mrs. Moulton the peculiar thrill of delight she felt on seeing her first lines in that little village newspaper. Only once in a lifetime can experience the delight of seeing one's first literary effort in print. When 18 years old the young Connecticut poet brought out a small volume of the stories, poems and sketches she had had published in various periodicals up to that time. Some of these poems and stories had appeared in the Boston True Flag, then edited by William V. Moulton, who had become greatly interested in his young contributor, and they were married in 1855. From that time until now Mrs. Moulton has lived in Boston, with the exception of many summers spent abroad. It is doubtful if any other American woman ever attained the prestige in literary circles attained by Mrs. Moulton in both America and Europe. A woman of a kindly and sympathetic nature, fond of social pleasures, and eager to give pleasure to others, she has made friends everywhere. One of the memorable events in the literary history of London was a breakfast given for Mrs. Moulton by Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes) some years ago. The most noted poets, novelists, actors and artists have attended Mrs. Moulton's London "at homes." Her Friday afternoon receptions at her home in Boston partake more of the nature of the salon than any other social gathering in the city. The writer remembers seeing at Mrs. Moulton's at one of these receptions Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Marelowe, and a host of artists, writers, college professors, and men and women of distinction in the higher walks of life. No other woman in Boston has entertained so many men and women of the highest distinction, and no other woman has been kinder or more helpful to struggling young writers and artists. She has encouraged when others have ridiculed and has helped when others have hindered. Her sonnets have been unsurpassed by any American poet, and all of her work bears the imprint of a master hand. MORRIS WADB. COMMON NAMES. Would Furnish the Subject for Some Interesting Statistics. Speaking of names, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, there is really a demand in this country for new names, and no man knows this better than the fellow whose business forces him to study the directories of the large cities of the country. Of course, the trouble is with the more common names, but when you come to think of it these common names make up at least 90 per cent. of the population of the larger cities. Really, what a void there would be in some of the largest places of the country if there should be a sudden exodus of the families bearing common names! Suppose the Smiths, and the Joneses, and the Browns should suddenly decide to eat hastily over the corporate line of any one of the big cities of the United States; think of the number of houses that would be left vacant, the amount of money that would be bulled out of the banks and out of circulation, and the enormous amount of labor that would be withdrawn, and the value of the trade that and go with them in their sudden right. But cities could not stand the lock, so deeply have these families become intrenched in the industrial, commercial and financial institutions of the modern municipality. There are many other names, which, while probably less common, still carry with them a heavy per cent. of city population. The Johnsons play some part, but the mane is variously spelled. Black, too, is a common name. Washington has become very common since the legend of the cherry tree and the hatchet. Miller is a popular name, and there are many others that might be included in the classification. The directories are full of them. There is a chance for some statistical fiend to make an interesting and instructive compilation along this line. What per cent., for instance, of the American population will the Smiths represent? Or the Joneses? Or the Browns? Or the Johnsons, and Blacks, and Whites, and Millers, and Washington, and other familiar names? There is a chance for some figuring. These names not only represent a heavy per cent. of the American population, but they own a heavy per cent. of American values. So the fellow who undertakes it might find a lifetime task if he traced the names in all their bearings and in all their infinite ramifications. The social and business fabric is literally threaded with these names. But I had in mind the confusion frequently resulting in sending letters through the mails, and in sending telegraphic communications. These messages frequently get mixed on account of the vast number of persons bearing the same name, and not infrequently the same initials. A BIT OF REALISM. The Great Emotional Actress Back to Her Childhood Home. "Back again to the old home," cried the great emotional actress, as she stepped through the wings and stood for a moment until the calcium man got the right focus. "Back again," she continued, going up stage, so that her Parisian costume would get all there was in the calcium tank. "Back to the scenes of me chelldhood, after all these long, long y'ars." Be it known that when an actor lady says "y'ars" she shows that she loves her art. With trembling hand she searched the room, saving: "It must be here! It must be here! I left it here long, long y'ars ago." "The audience held its breath and swallowed cloves and allspice in its intense excitement. "Yes, yes," she exclaimed, "I have found it! I knew it was here. Ah, those happy childhood days!" And she brought to view the piece of chewing gum she had concealed under the chair that happy day, long, long y'ars ago, when Gerald Mortimer had asked her to be his'n. Realism is all there is to it nowadays.—Baltimore American. According to W. E. Curtis, writing to the Chicago Record-Herald from Scandinavia, Ibsen is supposed to be a rich man, although he is said to be very penurious and never contributes money to any cause. He receives a large income from his plays and saves the most of it. His only extravagance is pictures. He has a fine taste for art, and has one of the best private collections of paintings in Norway. In his early school days he took several prizes for drawing, and his boyish ambition was to be a painter, but his family could not afford to pay for instruction. He had a desperate struggle to sustain himself during the first half of his life. His father was formerly a merchant of great wealth at the city of Skien, in southern Norway, but failed disastrously and died, leaving a large family entirely destitute. Henrik was compelled to earn his own living from childhood, and was never able to enjoy the sports and pleasures of other children. He has said of himself that he "was never a child," and his whole career as well as his disposition has been clouded and soured by his early poverty and privations. His natural literary abilities asserted themselves in childhood. His first poems were written at the age of 11, and at 15, while he was a clerk in a village drug store and studying medicine, he wrote his first drama, entitled "Katalina," which was published over the nom de plume of Brynjolf Bjerne. Although it attracted general attention, it was not approved by the public. Prof. Monrad, of the Royal university, one of the foremost critics of Norway, saw merit in the work of the unknown new author, and wrote a review, in which he predicted that the pen which framed those lines would some time be famous. He encouraged him to write again and again and to develop what he perceived to be genius. This single friendly encouragement from a stranger seems to have been the turning point of Ibsen's career, for he continued his literary work under his nom de plume with greater success and popularity. At the same time he continued his medical studies and at the age of 20 appeared in Christiania for the first time in his life to take his preliminary examinations at the university. He failed to pass in Greek and mathematics, and was so mortified that he abandoned his plan of becoming a physician, and for several years lived a precarious life in the garrets of the Norwegian capital, writing for the newspapers and magazines and composing plays which attracted no attention, but he finally succeeded in having one of them accepted at a theater in Bergen, where he lived six years and made his first reputation under his true name. He became the director of the Bergen theater. At the same time that his rival, Bjornson, was director of the National theater at Christiania. In 1864 Ibsen succeeded in securing from the government a pension of 100 kroner a year, about $200 in our money, upon which he went to Ger- Motor Cars in France. Besides about 1,000,000 cycles, there are no fewer than 6,000 motor cars in use in France at present. There are 1,436 in the Seine department, and the rest are scattered about the country. The figures show an increase of 41 per cent. in 12 months. A Light That Is Seen. If a man has a light heart the reflection will light up his countenance. Chicago Daily News. musical Doorscraper. The late Sir Frederick Gore-Ouseley, professor of music at Oxford, was once going to call on a friend in London and asked a fellow musician the number in which he lived in certain street. "I don't now number," answered the other, "I note of his doorscraper is C Sir Frederick went off, all kicked the doorscrapers all the street until he came to the right one, when he rang the bell and went in. PIPE AND WOOD Polar Records of Noted Explorers. In attaining the latitude of 86 degress 33 minutes the sledge party of the Duke of Abruzzi of Italy advanced to within about 239 statute miles of the North Pole. The sledging party later command of Capt. Cagni attained a point 21.85 statute miles near the pole than that reached by Nansen on April 7, 1895, who surpassed Lockwood's record of May, 1882, by 95.50 statute miles. The four highest records, all made within the past fifteen years, are: The Duke of Abruzzi, 1900, 239.15 statute miles from the pole; Nansen, 1895, 261 miles; the from, 1895 (during her drift after Nansen left her), 280.55 miles; Lockwood, 1882, 456.50 miles.—Army and Navy Journal. Sankey Thanks London Improved. Ira D. Sankey is distinctly of opinion that the spiritual life of London is on the upgrade. Indeed, he has confided to the British Weekly that "as regards my special work I have been much gratified to note the earnest Christian tone that prevails among the religious community. As compared with 1873 there are even a deeper earnestness and a warmer spiritual glow. I have an impression that a great revival is impending." WAS LEFT-HANDED. An Art Connoisseur's Discovery Concerning One Old Master. What old master among the Dutch painters was left-handed?. This knowledge is a very valuable asset to a connoisseur in art. Few experts know, and those who do are particular to keep the information to themselves. It enables them to detect a spurious painting ascribed to this artist at a glance. Mr. George H. Story, of the Metropolitan museum, says, according to the New York World, that he discovered the fact for himself in a curious way. Mr. Story is the highest authority in this country upon old masters, and is especially familiar with those of the Dutch school. He gained his prestige by years of the minutest study in the galleries of Europe. One of his methods of study was to copy masterpieces for the sake of dissecting a painter's style. One day he set his easel down before a famous painting at The Hague. "Now I'll get your stroke," reflected upon the artist. He found that he could not get the stroke. There was something about it quite out of the ordinary. Then he noticed the same oddity in the way that the original varnishing had been done. Suddenly he worked out the problem like a flash. The brush had been brought always from left to right instead of from right to left. It was easy to verify the discovery, once made. When a World reporter asked Mr. Story to name the pointer he laughed, "Oh, no," he said; "I can't attend to part with that." of knowledge." China's Kerosene Imports. Before 1880 little was known in China of kerosene, in 1890 more than 100,000,000 gallons were imported. SENATOR FLATT. Is No Nature Lover—Has Seen Adirondacks Only Once. Senator Thomas C. Platt has never been counted as a nature lover. His dealings are with politicians and business men, and his expressions of fondness for the picturesque in nature are few and far between. The mountains have no attraction for the republican leader, and his friends were surprised last week when Senator Platt made a journey to the Adirondacks. His sons talked for hours to induce him to take the trip. The stayasted three days, and when Senator Platt arived back in the Fifth Avenue hotel he said to a friend: "It is the first time I have seen the Adirondack mountains, although I have lived within a short distance of them for years. Go back to the mountains? No, I never expect to see them again. The sea breezes of Coney island suit me." One of the tender spots in Senator Platt's nature is his desire to have rare cut flowers in his rooms. He deights to push a comfortable armchair close to a large vase of American beauty roses and enjoy their fragrance.--N. Y. Times. Light-Weights. Don't ignore a man because he is in the light weight class. It is easier to throw a cannon ball a mile than to throw a feather ten feet.—Chicago Daily News. INSOMNIA 'I have been using CASCARETS!' Insomnia, with which I have been afflicted over twenty years, and I can say that Casca- have given me more relief than any other re- dry I have ever tried. 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But it is as cheap as it is possible to sell a first class newspaper to prices all the news that is worth printing. If you read it ad the very end, you are posted on all the important and interesting affairs of the world. It is the best and most reliable newspaper that money and brains can produce—if those should be the distinguishing traits of the newspaper design to be read by members of the family use subscription price, $1 a year. An newspaper, newspaper or postmaster will receive your subscription, or you may mail it direct to THE REPUBLIC St. Louis, Mo. FileIt Cures Piles! Never retuned if it ever fails. NEW METHODIST BISHOP. Bishop-Elect John W. Hamilton, secretary of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educational society, was on of the first candidates mentioned for election, and before the conference his name was most talked of. D. Immilton's home is in New York where the offices of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educational society are. Dr. Hamon was born in Weston, Va. on March 3, 1845. He was graduated from Mount Union college in 1865, and from Boston university in 1871. He commenced to preach in the Pittsburgh conference in 1866. In 1868 he was transferred to the New England conference and was assigned to Malden. He became prominent a few years later is the founder of the People's church in Boston, which he served for nine years. He was elected to his presen- office by the conference of 1892. He was supported in the election for bishop by all the colored delegates, who, it is said, were anxious to have BISHOP HAMILTON C. B. Mason, their representative, in the office of secretary of the Freedmen's Aid society. Dr. Hamilton has published a history of the Episcopal board, entitled "Lives of the Methodist Dishops." He has had much experience in parliamentary bodies, having been a member of five general conferences, and is in other ways considered well qualified for the position of bishop to which the conference has elevated him. --- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTINS: One Year In Advance.....$1.50 Six Months In Advance.....1.00 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS SOLICITED. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. The people of Columbia will be standing in their own light if they do not raise the Christian college fund. The undertakers of Cincinnati have formed a trust and doubtless they will boycot all their freinds who persist in remaning alive. Sometimes those fill the pupil take the advantage of their positions to say things that they would not say under other conditions. Sermons should be drawn from text taken from the bible and not from local newspaper articles with reference to ones private home affairs. The dinner given Booker T Washington by President Roosevel is by no means the first time the great Negro leader was given distiction in such a manner. During his travels abroad he was entertained by Queen Victoria, a guest at a dinner given in Paris at which Ambassador Porter and ex-President Harrison were also guests was a guest at a dinner given at the Waldorf-Astoria last winter at which Gen. Howard ex-Speaker Reed, Capt. Mahan and Senator Depew were present. Next Thursday is thanksgiving day we hope it will be observed by all. Go to some show that you are many bless- The negroes of Arkansas, are seemingly much interested in the Louisianna purchase exposition the Missouri ne groes should not be behind on this respect. It is far better for a Negro boy to be capable of going into a factory and earning a dollar than for him to be at liberty to take a reserved seat in an opera house where he would have to spend the same. We most highly appreciate the encourageing and complimentary remarks of Mr. Morton Pemberton, Editor of the Stateman, Mr. Pemberton has known us from our boyhood and we know his wishes for our success are genuine. Printing has been made a part of the regular course of study at the Western Baptist college at Macon, it is an excellent idea there are a number of negro papers in this state and most of them are forced to emply white-printers because negro printers cannot be found. ```markdown ``` TRUE VALUE OF CHURCHES Admitting there is no God ; no heaven; no hell; no fire and brimstone; conceding there is no devil and that man is descendent of the ape—that "The flower that once has blown forever dies." It cannot be denied that church services develop the best there is in man. Church attendances suggests cleanliness in mind and body—getting away from one's self and in a degree directing the mind gument's sake, is but a species of idolotry, that the service is mummery, it cannot be denied that the church influence is on the side of morality and correct living, were it not for the women there would be no churches. Were social standards recognized by men alone permitted to prevail, the world would be burned in a pit of hell in a week. The greatest force in the world today is the church, and the young man who into channels of broterly kindness and charity. The wonder is why bright young men can loaf around the street corners all day Sunday, while there are so many empty seats in the churches. Two-thirds of the people in this town never see the inside of a church building. While the older people may be justified in this, there is no excuse for the young man. Admitting that church worship, for arboats on the streets Sundays, sneers at Christianity, reviles the churches, while neglecting or refusing to attend church service shows a lack of something in his moral make up. -The Weekly Commercial, Columbia, Mo. GROWING THINGS. No Pleasure Is Greater for a Large Class of People. There is no pleasure more pure and exquisite than watching the growth of a tree or plant in which one is interested. If you have planted it yourself so much the better. You then have a feeling of proprietorship in each opening bud or leaf which can be gained in no other way. But, at any rate, cultivate the friendship of the plants and trees, not simply for the flowers and fruit which they furnish, but for the pleasure of seeing them grow. It has been said that any square foot of sod, if intelligently studied, will give occupation for many hours. The growth of the simplest plant is a wonderful process. Perhaps you cannot go to Europe or the mountains or the sea, but you have an opportunity for unlimited recreation and diversion if you have a small plot of grass and plants with which you have not become acquainted.—Boston Watchman. Carios from the Philippines. One of the most interesting exhibits which will be seen at the Buffalo exposition within a short time will be that from the Philippines. It left Manila on the steamer Guthrie for San Francisco, by way of Hong-Kong. The exhibit consists of about 100 Filipinos from different parts of the islands. There are 25 women and several children. Some of them are Tagalos, others are from Iloilo, and some from the Viscayas. Four large carabaos will prove of unusual interest, as will also a spinning loom, a banco, all kinds of Filipino weapons, several bales of hemp for weaving, and large quantities of pina cloth. The carabaos are somewhat like the American oxen in disposition, and the banco will illustrate the method of water transportation. Thinly Populated Arizona has 1.09 inhabitants to the square mile. Musical Doorscraper. the late Sir Frederick Gore-Ouseley, professor of music at Oxford, was once going to call on a friend in London and asked a fellow musician the number in which he lived in certain street. "I do now," he answered the owner, "a note of his doorscraper is C Sir Frederick went off, so kicked the doorscrapers all the street until he came to the right one, when he rang the bell and went in. RIVAL POETS. lbeen and Bjornson Are Very Jealous or Each Other. Ibsen has a wife and one son, Sigurd Ibsen, now about 40 years old, who has been in the consular service, and I believe, says W. E. Curtis, in the Chicago Record-Herald, to several years at Washington as secretary of legation. He is at present occupying a subordinate position in the ministry of foreign affairs. Sigurd married a daughter of Bjornstjerne Bjornsen, his father's most formidable rival in literature and popular estimation. The two authors are not friends. They are very jealous of each other. Ibsen envies Bjornson's great popularity and prosperity, while the latter regards Ibsen as "an affected old donkey," and often calls him such. In front of the new theater in Christiania are Bronze statues of both men in heroic size, which were erected at the expense of the public and generally admired, but are unsatisfactory to the subjects. It is seldom that people have the privilege of criticising their own statues. Such honors are usually reserved until they are dead. In this case there was no formal dedication or unveiling and neither of the subjects saw his statue until after it was placed in position, and both have since expressed great dissatisfaction. A few days after his statue was in position Ibsen varied his morning walk by strolling over in that direction. For several moments he stood gazing at the effigy of himself, showing his long coat, his bushy hair and whiskers and his big eye glasses, then shook his head sadly as if in disapproval and went on his way. He has never been near the statue since. Bjornson, being a man of impetuous manners and quick temper, expressed his dissatisfaction in a more emphatic manner. When he first saw himself in bronze he became greatly excited and gesticulated wildly, declaring that it was "a permanent injury" and must come down, but his son, who is the manager of the theater, succeeded in cooling the old gentleman down, and the latter has become reconciled so far as to make jokes about the statue ONE USEFUL FLY. He Saved a Tired Merchant's Watch and Shirt Stud. Flies are so seldom heroic that the story of how one of the "pesky things" saved for a Cincinnati business man his wallet and diamond stud is in many ways remarkable. The time was early Thursday morning, and the place was a smoking car of a Louisville & Nashville train which stood at the Tenth street station ready for the run to Cincinnati. The fly was dozing on the bald spot of the Cincinnati merchant's head. The man, who had been attending the races, was also tired and sound asleep. In his inside coat pocket was his wallet, containing all his money. On his shirt front a diamond glistened. Suddenly the fly was aroused. He saw a man's hand working at the shirt stud. Not a moment was to be lost. The fly danced over the sleeping man's cheek in a vain endeavor to arouse him. The merchant only turned. The fly galloped over his chin and did a "stunt" in his ear. No response. In desperation he began a slow march up and down the nose of the man asleep. The merchant clutched wildly, struck the wrist of the pick-pocket and the next instant was awake. The thief ran from the smoker and disappeared in the darkness. The fly, like all true heroes, did not await to receive the thanks of the man whom he had befriended, but flew away.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Chicago's Street Lighting. The experience of Chicago in municipal lighting on a large scale is set forth in the report of Edward B. Elliott, city electrician of that city. Chicago owns a municipal lighting plant, consisting of three power houses, with a capacity for furnishing 4,700 lights, 125 miles of conduit and cable system, 4,400 arc lamps, and two power stations not in use. During the year 1900 the city operated 3,867 arc lamps at a cost of $265,129, including $18,750 interest charge and over $10,000 for depreciation. WHEN - YOU - WANT CLOTHING Joe & Vic Barth's Store, Columbia, Mo. IS THE PLACE TO GO. One square piano; Originally costing $500. The one who gets it has a SURE ENOUGH BARGAIN..... ITS PSYCHOLOGY. Why the Ninety-Eight Cent Bargain Is Such a Success. "There is a curious bit of psychology in the habit merchants have of cutting prices," said a gentleman who keeps an eye on cut rates, according to the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "and it is found in the influence these cuts in price have on the average man or woman. 'The shrewd merchant was quick to discern the effect of cutting a few cents off on the price of a certain article, and now, from one end of the country to the other, the show windows are flaring with placards that tell of goods that have been cut down to the lowest possible figure. The effect has not been without a curious side. Take any article that has been selling generally for one dollar in the market and mark it down to 99 cents, or say 98 cents, and the average housewife, in a spirit of economy, would jump at the bargain. And sometimes she will buy it simply because she feels that she is getting the big end of the bargain, and she figures it this way whether she needs the article or not. Her calculation would show that she had acquired one dollar's worth of property for 98 cents, indicating a net profit of two cents. While, on the other side of the counter, if she had bought something she had no use for, paying 98 cents for it with the idea that she was getting two cents the best of the bargain, she would probably find in the last analysis that she had practically made the merchant a present of 98 cents. This is merely illustrative. The cut rate is really a good thing, and two cents made on every purchase of one dollar in amount is no small thing. I was merely thinking of the psychology of the thing. The merchant who is wise in his generation has used this method as a sort of hypnotizing influence, and it has brought good results alike to the merchant and the purchaser. But all these things have an amusing side. For instance, I know one fellow who bought a pair of shoes for $2.50 on the bargain counter, and before he had walked two squares he found another shoe of about the same kind marked down to $2.45, and he actually made a second purchase with the firm belief that he was a nickel gainer net on the transaction. It simply goes to show the effect cut prices have on the average person, and it shows, too, how wise the merchant of to-day is." Many persons in Boone county subscribed to THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD this week let the good work go an. MAKING OCRANS. Turning the Deserts of Sahara and Asia talia Into Great Ses. Few people realize how completely of late years the surface aspect of this weazened old globe of ours has been altered and improved. The world of today, in fact, differs from the world of our ancestors much as a society lady, in all the glory of fold and frill and turbellow, differs from her savage sister running wild in pestilential woods. As art has transformed the one, has it the other. Only the "Mme Rachel" who has made the earth, if no exactly "beautiful forever," at least a pleasant and healthful place wherein to dwell, is no charlestan with a drayload of cosmetics and a gibb tongue, but a civil engineer, owning nothing more harmful than a few mysterious looking instruments and a measuring tape. And the marvel of it al. is this—that what has been done is but an infinitesimal fraction of that which may, and doubtless will, be done. Who can doubt, for instance, that the great Sahara desert—that mole upon the world's face—will one day be but a memory? It was an inland sea once. It would not be a very difficult matter to convert it into one again. A can al 60 miles long, connecting with the Atlantic the vast depression which runs close up to the coast nearly midway between the 20th and 30th parallels of latitude, would do the business beautifully. The water would not, of course, cover the entire surface of the desert. Here and there are portions lying above sea level. These would become the islands of the new Sahara ocean. What would be the results that would ensue upon this stupendous transformation? Some would be good, and some bad. Among the latter may be mentioned the probable destruction of the vineyards of southern Europe, which depend for their existence upon the warm, dry winds from the great African desert. As some compensation for this, however, the mercantile marines of the nations affected would be enabled to gain immediate and easy access to vast regions now given over to barbarism, and a series of more or less flourishing seaport towns would spring up all along the southern borders of Morocco and Algeria, where the western watershed of the Nile sinks into the desert, and on the northern frontier of the Congo Free State. In a similar manner the greater portion of the central Australian desert, covering an area of fully 1,000,000 square miles, might be flooded. The island-continent would then be converted into a gigantic oval dish, of which the depressed central portion would be covered with water and only the "rim" inhabited.—London Mall. Do Not Eat Between Meals Do Not Eat Between Meals. Eating between meals, says a wise doctor, is a bad habit for one to acquire. It will certainly injure the digestive progress, and soon upsets a natural, healthy appetite for regular meals. It is a very easy habit to get into, and is rather difficult to break up. If any eating is indulged in between meals, perfectly ripe, fresh fruit is the least harmful kind of refreshment.