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V',,‘ IV) T h e P o r t y iiJ e R e v iew l ^ i - m : JAS, W, Prop, POETVILUD. : N. y. Tile 'Reindeer Experimenti, ■ Nothing succeeds like success;, and the effoi-ts of our governmdnt to In troduce reindeer In Alaska and domes- tl<jate the'm there seem to Oave been an unquaiiflecl success. It is estimated that the number of these animals now in the territory is not less than 15,000. This-assures not only a most useful meads of transportation, but a valua- ablo food .supply. The plan was that of Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, United States educational agent for the terri tory, who conceived that the reindeer would be valuable-aids to the natives, ■who often suffered from want of food and lack of adequate means of getting about The reindeer is a hardy beast, capable of great exertion and of rapid locomotion while drawing or carrying considerable weight, while it will find sustenance where many other crea tures -would starve, living on the lichens of the rocks when it can get nothing else, and even digging in the snow and ice to get at such fare. It is said that everything about the rein deer, alive or dead, can be turned to -useful account, and the big herds which some of the Eskimo now own make them actual plutocrats among their fellows. ' - But It Will Church Yet B e Great By PROF. CHARLES %UEBLIN, Soclulodisf. HE church is not useless; it is going, to be greater than ever. But it has failed, as the municipality has failed, to serve the interests of the common life. . The church has been too world ly to let religion expand; it has been too unworldly to give people a chance. The church has never been democratic enough to allow the peoi)le to voice their sentiments. There ■ has always been dominance of the hierarchy if not of the clergy. The people do not voice their opinions in religious matters, and are not expected to have them'. It is also the great weakness of all government that we do not trust the people enough. We are confronted in our American tra ditions -with the difficulty of a national church and the need of a national organization of religion. We keep our reli;lion now for the sevontli day, and look upon the clergyman and the politician as difl'erent beings. Wc divorce the separate aspects of life from each other, yet all these special interests are founded, like language itself, on the common life of the people. If we go to the people for our language, why not go to them for the The Exc-spt'.onal Case. There is a great deal of fruitless search for treasure supposed to have been hidden away, but which seldom l8 found. Probably there are thou sands of peopl^ willing to take \tlpa\ and to look for the loot which Qaptain Kidd and- other predaceous individuals of the old piratical days are supposed to have stored away, with microscopic chances of success. Those old free booters generally managed to get away with all the booty they appropriated, and rarely left anything for their ielrs and assigns, to say nothing of acquisitive outsiders. But sometimes, says the Troy (N. Y.) Times, valuable property turns up when it Is least e.x- pected. A sample instance is the dis covery of 13 casks of gold, valued at 9750,000, In an old quarry in Podolla, Russia. The belief is expressed that ■the treasure was concealed centuries ago during some Tartar Invasion of that region. At any rate, the incident, recorded in the telegraphic news of this material rerlocl. reads like the foundation for a Monte Cristo ro mance. sources of our inspiration?. If we went to the people, learned their needs and tried to incorporate them, we should get more efficiency. Might we not appeal to the laity to got a netv infusion of blood? The church is trying to get at our workingmen. It doesn’t let them voice themselves. Let us open our school houses on Sunday and give them an opportunity of expressing themselves in worship. Then we can afford to tax the private religious houses if people want to go to them. In England they let people talk all sorts of nonsense. It’s the best safety valve. Our religious life lacks spontaneity, and moves along con ventional channels. The municipality is our best unit. We are going to regenerate our municipal government before we regenerate our national government. We are going to e.vtend the town meetings and multiply the basis of free expression. It will give us the first leverage to the idea that there is one representation in the life of all, and that is the state. North Norfolk, England, is the habi tat of a curious species of owl that carries a lantern about at night, ac- ■ -^rdlng to correspondents of the Lon- ■ -apn Times -wjio have been observing ^q.J)ird. -M r .V . Dlgby Pigott, for In stance, writes mat a p^r of birds car rying a yello.wish light so- bright that when first seen it was mistaken for a —ijfcycls Tamp by two different men at ' dlffe:;ent places, have been flying about the fields. A bailiff, who bad been watching one of the birds, as sured Mr. Pigott that after moving about a wheat stack for.some time on ■a. dark night, the bird flew across the Reid and alighted on a tree, and the li^ht It gave out was so strong that the bailiff could distinctly see the ontllnes- of the branches about the -Allrd. S trange as the story is. It seems to be believed by person's who are not easily deceived. In these days no mar vel of. science or o f natural history can safely be declared to be incredible. _ M Englishman who contemplated a visit to the United States and a trip -from New York to San Francisco In quoted in a recent magazine article as ■asking how many times the coinage 'Ranged during the Journey. Perhaps some justlficatlcn for his ignorance exists -in the number of different coin ages in the British empire. The royal mint a t London has lately struck near ly 32,000,000 coins of aluminum for cir culation in Uganda and the Nigerian protectorates. Each coin is of' the valoe either of one cent or two mills, ■snd Is perforated like Chinese .coins, sq that the natives can string it. The lightnes»of -aluminum and the fact that It l s “the -best nomgempbearlngr metal a re said to he the reasons for itsTelection. “Lightly come and light, ly go\ will be eapeclally true of this lienr money. Germany :s considering a proposi tion to go into the petroleum business, driving out the Standard Oil concern and monopolizing the field itself. ThUfe are daz;sllng visions- of big profits, but before they are realized, says the Troy (N. Y.) Times, there may-be a fight tp a finish between two mighty powers. Standard Oil Is sbmfr thing of an empire Itself. ^ Heroism of Darning Socks By EOBESTSON WALLACE. BATHING SUIT LATEST FOR DINNER COSTUME WOMAN IN SCANT GARB AT SO CIETY FUNCTION DUMPED INTO A FOUNTAIN. Baltimore, Md.—The staid and con servative portion of Baltimore aris tocracy is gasping for breath over the details of a subscription dinner, a cos tume affair, given a few nights ago by a number of the smart set of this city at the Elk Ridge Hunt club. One of the prettiest of Baltimore’s young married women, who attended the din ner in a bathing suit, was dumped Into an improvised fountain and was given a shampoo with seltzer, various mem bers of the club standing about the tank with siphon bottles. Thp dinner Is said to have been got ten up by Mrs. Henry Clews, Jr., of New York, formerly Miss Louise Mor- Improvised Fountain. To many women life is such, that to face it, demands more courage than to face death. To live for one’s kith and kin is often more heroic than to die for one’s co.nntry. Not all women’s lives are cast in pleasant placea There is the daily toil of the young girl who struggles to earn an honest livelihood, see ing all too little of the joy of life, and sip ping all too early of the cup of sorrow and disappointment. Scarcely can she feed or '■lo'he hor.self as she should be fed and clothed. Her outlook and prospects are lim ited. From the drab surroundings of the present she may look back to the gray past or fonvr.rd into the menacing, darkness of the future. She is balanced on the brink of the infinities. A perilous position! But she docs not quail. She is brave—a heroine without knowing it. Again, take the case of the suburban, family whose. grov\in^-recfhire- nients take their daily toll of the planning brain and unfliagging spirit of the mother. They are doomed by force of circumstances to live the “re spectable” life of the suburbs—a condition of e.xistence as far removed from the simple life as east from west. The problem of living a com paratively full life on a superlatively empty purse is indeed u difficnlt one, but must be faced by the women on whom devolves the dire responsibility of keeping up appearances. The children rsust be dressed, fed, schooled, be entertained and entertain in conformity with the ideas of the exclusive suburb in which they reside. The suburban matron’s wardrobe must, withstand the fire of criticism. Now to cultivate the line flower of a suburban life on a poor soil is really heart-breaking work. Xobody’s in come is ever so ample as it is made to appear. B u t theAvifeiaa learned-fhe.seciet-of-pereaaialrepulence. Sheisfhe- keeper of the keys of social life and death. Does she not serve as a slave at home that she may shine ae a queen- abroad ? Does she not strive and struggle half the day that her husband, and children may frolic and frivol half the night? She makes apparent extravagance possible because of her genius for small economics. She saves that -others may waste. She plots and plans that husband and children may be . ., , free from petty cares. She has to lay out every In ^ rls of this city, who livened up matters some winters ago by Jumping into a Toun^in of cold water on returning from a ball. Her companion in this escapade was Harry Lehr. The matron who went to the dinner attired in the bathing suit was Mrs. Ral Parr, the wife of one of the most prorilnent clubmen of this city. Sec retary of state N. 'Winslow Williams and Mrs. Williams were in the party. Some of the most prominent names In Baltimore figure In the list of guests. Miss 'Virginia Latrobe, daughter of one of Maryland’s most illustrious famil ies, went as a nurse. Others had grotesque costumes. As the dinner progressed the fun grew faster under the mellowing in fluence of the champagne, of which there was an unlimited quantity, and finally matters took such a turn that Gen. and Mrs. Alexander Brown, leaders of, one section of the smart Set of this city, silently departed. Finally some one suggested that Mrs. Parr’s bathing suit was not prop- •erTy a bathing suit until wet. Accord ingly a tub filled with water and flow ers was brought in and Mrs. Parr was put in the tub, despite her struggles. During the hilarity which followed Mrs. Parr was given a shower bath of carbonated water. It Is said that the governors of the Elk Ridge Hunt club are making an investigation. SQUIRRELS FIGHT TO DEATH. BO that it shall appear to return the value of two. hours snatched from rest she rings the clianges on the evanescent garments nf children, making new things from old ones. She dams her husband’s socks and repairs what other things he may require. She keeps the peace amongst inharmonious relatives, for the children’s sakes. In a. word, is she not a brave woman? Is she not one of the heroines of the su burbs ? I am sure she is. For true it is that unheard of heroines, like unheard melodies, are sweeter than those whose names are on every tongue. ThO suspicion is gaining ground that the Russian authorities didn’t want Jtoy of the soldiers who were psphed HP In Fort Arthur ever to have 0 chance to return hopie and tell hofl the ones who had the contracts for fur- nlihlhg supplies had grafted. A foreign paper says the French are * people who habitually thirst for Wood. Fortunately; however, they mire'learned to quench their thirst with Boniothlng le^s-^ •xponsive atid ‘eaatcr to o’ojaln. Card Players ^ Are- Gamblers By REV. F. E. BOPKINS, D. D., Chicaao. Men and women learn to play the piano without wanting to bet every time they sit down to the instrument that they can play faster! than ’someone else. They can learn to dance without wanting to bet they can re- nlain on the floor until everyhody else is ex hausted. They can go to the theater and enjoy it without gambling that they can re member more lines of the play than the man on t^e other side of the aisle; but as soon as meh and women learn to play cards the amusement loses its interest if there is not a stake. Herein lies the danger and the evil in pard-playing. The prize may be $100,000, such as some newspaper dream writer recently said exchanged hands at a poker game, or it may be a water bot tle or $5,_^To Duy what you prefer, you, know,” or jqst car fare, or “a little' house money.” It is the prize men audi women pipy fdr«jqd not the mere pleasure. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to learh'hd\v many card parties have long existed without prii^eSi^, Card-plgying destroys the art of conversation, discourages sociability, limits the social sphere, turns what should be friendly meetings into money-inaking chances, Acts a bad example, and the invewfftte card>pra;yer is a useless citizen. Affinliy Case In Animal Kingdom Has Fatal Ending. Waslington Whisperings I n t e r e s t i n g ! B i t s o f N o w s Q a t h o r c f d a t t i l e N a t i o n a l C a p i t a l . Senators Are Not as Rich as Reported ’^ 295 . 500.000 .X*- WASHI.VGTON.—What else are con- W gressraen besides congressmen? If they are not In congress, drawing salary from a grateful people, what would they be doing for a living? When the ofldclal questioner went around and asked the Sixtieth con gress what Its business was when it wasn’t congresslng 56 members of the senate and lower house—15 qf one and 41 of the other, replied point blank that they were “public officials.’’ Of course, in both houses the law- years far outnumber everybody else put together. There are 54 professed law yers in the senate alone, and no less than 235 more In the house—;Just 11 less than an even 300 all together. In this category reads the names one has heard before—Senators Tel ler and Bacon. Heybum, Borah, Hop kins, Hemenway and Beveridge, Frye, Nelson, Depew, La Follette, Foraker and Dick, Penrose, Culberson and Bai ley. In,the house the law'yers are le gion, with Nicholas Longworth, Bur ton, Tawney, De Armond, Littlefield, Crumpacker, Overstreet and the New ■york triumvirate of Bourke Cockran, Herbert Parsons and Sereno Payn& Bankers rank next in number, al though there are but five in the en tire senate, which seems like news— Taliaferro of Florida, Nixon of Neva da, Kean of New Jersey, Ankeny of Washington, and Reed Smoot of Utah. The house boasts 22 bankers, making 27 in all. The two senators from South Caro lina confess that they are farmers, though that is more than anybody else in the senate will admit. These are Senators Latimer and Tillman. Thus the latter remains loyal to his pitch- fork. Two are merchants, Aldrich and Perkins. Buckley of Connecticut says Insurance | is his business. LQdg& claims literature as a profession, and Platt is labeled, boldly enough, “Presi dent of Exliress Company.’’ Warrep of Wyoming is a stock raiser, Stephenson of 'Wisconsin a lumberman, Elkins ol' West Virginia a miner, and Hans- brough of North. Dakota admits to an editorship. There are 13 farmers In the house. Including J. Adam Bede; nine manu facturers, four merchants, four insur ance meii, seven real estate dealers and as many lumbermen. There are also seven editors. There are five journalists, four miners and three pub lishers. There were two planters, be cause John Sharpe Williams was- oner'j before he graduated to the upper house. There is one mining engineer,' one railroad constructor, one fruit . grower, a \trustee” (probably the only. professional one in existence), a build er, an everyday contractor, one lone-, capitalist, a miller, a stock raiser, a surveyor and a tanner. One says his' occupation is \railroad and another says his is \stone.” There are two nurserymen and four physicians, bet- sides Hobson, who is put down as a \naval constructor,” and Champ Clark, who keeps on trying to prove that he Is a lecturer. How much are they worth in money, these lawyers and public officials and merchants and insurance men and farmers, who servo their country at Washington? Every third man In the senate Is worth a million or more. There are 32 millionaires in the senate and 14- in the house. Thirty-two senators are worth, together, $210,500,000. The 14 house millionaires are worth $83,000,- 000. \Retired” Senator Guggenheim ts> worth about $60,000,000. \Lumber man” Stephenson is worth $30,000,000, Express President Platt receives $30,- 000 a year In salary alone. “Merchant\ Aldrich Is worth $12,000,000. Do they all draw salary and every cent of perquisites they can get, these 46 millionaires who are worth the-stu pendous sum of $293,500,000? The an.>iwer Is, they do. •V,: ■ff- m I I L/,: f t - Saginaw, Mich.—A loud chaftertug, chirping, and screeching well up in the branches of a sycamore tree in Granger street drew the attention of passers by and women of neighbor ing houses to a wild commotion In the moimai kingdom the btheV day. It was a battle to the death between two of the pet Texas squirrels which live there. When first discovered the animals were racing back and forth on the limb, over each other and into each other, shaking their tails madly, and raising a din by their shrill scolding. As the combat waxed fiercer they would stand up on their hind legs, cuff and scratch with their forepaws, and bile with their razor-like teeth. Finally the larger of the two sank her teeth into the neck of her antagon ist, gave it a sharp wrench, and the vanquished warrior fell to the ground dead. It showed the marks of a ter- fiffe encounter, being wounded and lacerated in a dozen places and stained ■with blood, ’the women in the crowd that watched the fight tried to stop it, but in vain: the squirrels were be yond their reach and refused to be frightened. The cause of this tragedy In squlr- reldom was a domestic quarrel, in which the combatants, both females, waged war for the favor of a mate and a comer in his box. The big male ’squirrel for whose affection they fought belonged to Charles Moyle. Some time ago his mate left, and later another came to take her place. A few days ago a larger and handsomer feihale appeared -and coquetted with the i roprietor '6t the box. He took her In, and this so angered the less attrac tive companion fhat she provoked the usurper to battle. She lost,.and his squirrelship, who sat on an upper limb dnd calmly watqhed the fight, was ap parently satisfied with the outcome, for he soon joined the victor and they are living happily together. * '■ Ncw 'york Public Parks., New \York City has 113 public parks,, varying in- size from a few square yards in .the angle at the crossing of streets, up to Pelham Bay Park, con taining 1,'756 kcresi Woman.Frail Thing, Says Supreme Court i I170MAN is in a class by herself. »» She’s frail. Nq matter how much she may hank- er for the rights of men, the right of suffrage and other privileges. It Is Impossible to close one’s eyes to the fact that she is the weaker vessel and still looks to her brother for protec tion. This is so, Susan B. Anthony and others to the contrary notwithstand ing. ■ The supreme court of these great United States says so. In a decision upholding the Oregon eight-hour day law for women em ployes, the court perhaps for the first time in its history, told woman just where she stands. And a laundryman is responsible for this ofilcial pronuh- clamento as to the rights of the fair sex. This thrifty Oregoman made his women r^mployes work ten hours, the same as the men on his pay rolls. He was prosecuted under the eight-hour law, which was upheld by the state courts and again by the country’s high est tribunal. Holding first that women’s rights can be no more infringed than those of men, .lustlce Brewer, who an nounced the decision, went still fur ther and held that on many accounts woman Is entitled to greater protec tion than her brother. “Legislation designed for her pro tection may be sustained even when like legislation Is not necessary for men and could not be sustained,” he said. 1 ' - Otiier i^ofessions of Our Congressmen SENATOR STEPHEN B. ELKINS of U 'West Virginia, rated as a multi millionaire, has arisen in protest against the current lists showing tho wealth of the men who make up the “American house of lords.” One of the latest of these lists, printed a few days ago, set down Senator Guggen heim of Colorado at $60,000,000. Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin came second with $30,000,000 and Senator Elkins was put third with a modest $25,000,000. \Discount those figures by 90 per cent.,” said Senator Elkins in all seri ousness, as be surveyed the hamfes of his very rich colleagues, “and they will be more nearly correct. It Is the honest truth that many of the men listed In the senate by these writers as worth all the way from $1,000,000 to $60,000,000 each would he willing to take ten per cent, of these esti mates in cash to-day.” Another senator, probably as rich as Mr. Elkins, but who would- not al low his name to be used, declares that fully one-fourth of the 92 senators have little else than their salaries of $7,500 a year. Another fourth of the 92 have somewhere bettveen $20,000 and $50,000. The personal fortunes of another quarter of the senate range ■ between $50,000 or $60,000 and $500,- 000. Most of this class of twenty-odd, the senator thought, were, worth be tween $100,000 and $200,000. The quarter comprised senators alHijf $500,000, and probably lO or 12\.( entitled to be called millionaires,^ . multl-mllllonalreS, but simply wo! from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. I Monstrosities Shown in Capitol Paintings gVER since a magazine article roast- — ing the art of the great paintings in the rotunda of the chpitol has been gi-\ien. circulation, the pictures have befeh receiving more, attention than (ffet before from the capitol guides. Even the qldtfmers In Washington Who regarded It as “green” to listen to the cUifitol echoes or to look at the pictures and statuary, aye ^olng over the paintings tq verify tire ac- ouracw of ^the magaiine's ' crltfqisrb; And the criticism heefirs justified ifi two Instances, The. great paihtiiig by John Trumhttli, depleting \WaBhlng- 'on’s jresignafiion of tho comman<h of ihe army. Is found to eoht^ln the pic ture of a young girl of a freak variCfy. I Two little children gazing in tently at the heroic figure of the fa- j ther of his country are seen to be well ■ equipped with hands and arms. Be tween the two of them the little girls have' five arms. It is asserted In tho magazine article that one girl’’ has three hands, but a careful examina tion of the picture shows that the two little girls have five hands and to neither of them can any two of the five hands be, properly charged. Another oddity of the rotunda pic tures is that found at the great 'illus tration of the baptism of Pocahohtak Among the Indians-of PdeahOfitas’ im mediate faniily who participated , fij the religious ceremony -Vas one Big Indian wfth six.'.tbi?g, ' Whether he,, really had six toes or w»i given extra toe by the artist is. not AVeoy? ered.in the history availaB%Vfiht-it 1$ ■ sufllcieht to m that ther i%re six* as well rounded Indian totfe%n qn# foot* as can be found in a daj's- walk> , m a',’-
