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• ^ ‘ i •' ■f' '■ V V \ ‘i 'V'-'-VV; ';iV •, \. ■( ' ■ , • V. • i '.v - ‘ ‘ : '!- - ' r.'i ■\ i.t' ■ ■! I ■ f X; f^ortvilie Review, JA8. V , FAlRCt^JLD, Prop. V . _ . , ____________ yORTVILLEJ. : ;. i t N. Y. A Railway to Medina. Completion of a 600-mile railway from Damascua. to Medina, in a strik ingly short time, with funds contrib uted . by. faithful Moslems, and with out any “graft\’ by Turkish officials. Is a feat just accomplished which is attracting the attention of European publicists. For the road in due time will reach Mecca and the seacoast at Rablgh, and, if German Influence can accomplish It, will be connected yith the Bagdad railway when It •rosses the Taurus mountains. Built primarily to accommodate Moslem pilgrims to sacred shrines, and, as such, a proof of the modernity of method of an ancient faith in con serving its own present-day ends, the railway also has its significance for the political and economic develop ment of a state which, since the road was begun, has witnessed a striking transformation. The Young Turk party and the new regime, suggests the Boston Herald, are likely to use it somewhat differently, as related to German interests, from the manner in which Abdul Hamid would have, had his autocratic power cpntlnued. X Flat Dweller’s Paradise. The World of New York calls that metropolis a flat-dweller’s paradise This Is based on the statement that handsome six-room apartments can now be had there for what is called the modest yearly rental of $1,400, while five-room apartments, with kitchenette, may be had for $1,000 up ward. An 14eal four-room apartment for a bachelor or married couple rents for $800, or if a home Is sought further away from the social center a commo dious seven-room apartment can be found for $1,200. Basing its judgment on these figures the World reckons that New York offers superior advan tages as a residential city for the clerk or salaried man with a moderate In come. Viewed from a Boston stand point, remarks the Boston Herald, these rentals for modest apartments look high, comparatively speaking, though they do not bear out the state ment \that New York Is far and away the most expensive city to live In to be found anywhere In the world. The elder statesmen of Japan, who have much to say as to the govern ment of the empire, have decided to urge a liberal policy with regard to China and other countries. This in cludes commercial dealings, the Idea of th§ elder statesmen, as It Is that of •the premier and hence presumably of the mikado, being “the exchange of productive expenditure for productive Income, and that the government bend every effort for the material develop ment of Japan.” There is nothing very warlike In this, and the Jingoes will have to “take water’’ again. What Japan Is seeking, says the Troy (N. V .) Times, is peaceful prosecution of business and material prosperity, with economy In administration. That is as far as possible from the policy which Involves straining every nerve to create a big army and a great navy. Although the Young Men’s Christian association was started by an English man, the new building which Is to he erected In London as a memorial to Sir George Williams, the founder, will probably remind American visitors of home; It will be the first building be longing to the English organization ■which has a fully equipped athletic de^ partment, and a whole floor will be de voted to educational activities modeled upon the methods originally developed In our own associations; nor are th^ Englishmen slow to admit their debt to this country. “We gave the Ameri cans the Idea,’’ says the secretary of the Central London association, “and they have shown us how to work it out.” ' » One great difficulty In trade-schools and Industrial training is to maintain praOtical relafions between class work and actual industry. In the University of Cincinnati students spend alternate weeks In the schoolroom and the shops of neighboring manufactories. The students are paid a moderate wage- tor their shop work. Similar co- Plger4tibn Is; to be tried In Fitchburg, Mas#, bet-ween the high school^ and the local metal workers. The advan- t^e,ot„the plan Is twofold. Since the Clhn earn a little while they are id school, they are less likely to feel that their years In the high school are delaying their entrance Into bread winning occupations. Cal.. By a 40 daya’ fast at Long Beach, a Chicago school x-oacher won a hnlb^nd., Doubtless it Is all right, but we trust the man she married did not get the idea that his grocery account would be small because of her tem porary abstemiousness, Fasting makes people hungrier than ever, I-/ The aeroplane Is forecasted as a fu- ithb'keanrf o^^.b^eaiing the baseball bolt , V pfllehs^iJhat frotn the latest returns the , ibasebaij, tickets. Wll be oheaphr than ' ad4 funeral expenses Educate Farmers If o p e df of '’ Conservation Move D epends on It By PROF. E. A. BURNETT. D irector o f N ebraska A g ricultural GolU4o« FTER we have investigated all the facts which relate to the conservation of the soil, the increase or decrease of its fer- ■*'' ^ tility, we must agree that for the sake of the public good we should have an educated man on every farm. Agricultural education is the only solution to the development and con servation of agricultural resources. It has doubled the pro duction and much more than doubled the profit on individual farms. It has at the same time not only conserved but in creased the natural fertility of the laud. I t has taught us to protect the timber on the water sheds and to plant timber on new lands. It has turned desert wastes into gardens and orchards. It has inspired the farmer with new ambition and a new motif for progress. It has changed the old social order and brought in a new and a better conception of rural life. Why, then, should not agricultural education be made universal in rural communities? The federal government has done much to foster this education by the endowment of land grant colleges and by direct appropriation. Many states have been liberal in their support of such education, and in those states and localities where such education has been most generously fos tered there is to-day not only greater intelligence and care for our natural resources and our rural institutions, but there is a higher conception of the obligations of citizenship. You can not enforce the laws which protect the mine and forest and. stream without an intelligent conception of the general good which is to flow from such administration. ■ The educated farmer is alive to all the questions which affect the great problem of rural progress. In the cultivation of the land he has yoked labor and science to multiply the fruits of toil. He enters into the life of the country and carries the burden of its social and political institutions. He is responsible for its progress and for its perpetuity. Educate the man who lives upon the farm and the evils we have discussed relating to land and forest and stream will speedily be corrected. Neglect the cause of agricultural edu cation, and legislation will be inefficient if not impossible. SAWS OFF COFFIN AS NfltiBtoS FACE GRAVE SISTER-IN-LAW OP DECEASED FAINTS WHILE UNDERTAKER MAKES CASKET FIT BOX. Stroudsburg,) Fa.—Several dozen colored people from tW's town were among the chief mourners at the funeral of Mrs. David Smith, near Bast Bangor. When the party arrived at the grave they were horrified when- the pallbearers found It impossible to lower the coffin itself, which was too long for the rough box. The outcome of the unusual circum stance was as extraordinary aS the sltdation itself, for after a consulta tion between the relatives and the undertaker it was decided to saw a piece from each%nd of the coffin and God Left Out France Comes In By lev. Thomas Edward Barr, People’s PulpHa Hilwaakee. The present tremendous anti-spiritual movement imports intellectual suicide. Practical godliness, the life of selfishness or superficiality, is not new. Every age has been burdened by the multitude who seem , not to know or care if they have a spiritual i ^ n O m n e © nature or possibility. But to-day this takes shape in definite teaching, both through the philosophy of proformd and scholarly thinkers, as Haeckle and Metchnikoff and Harx, and in the vigorous propaganda of materialistic socialism, which wipes God and the soul life off the board as negligible factors. The battleground of social progress is now, as always, the human heart. This is the citadel to which advancing intelligence has driven the demons of greed and tyranny, cruelty and passion. Until that is mastered, civilization is at the same peril -which has overthrown the greatest nations in the past. For that mastery the soul life must furnish weapons and metliods. -Three fallacies mark the faiilty thinlcing which so afflicts us now. Better conditions will make better men. Is i t true? Eeligidn has alwayw urged that better men wiU makd better conditions; and that unless men are better in heart improved conditions are not a lasting benefit. If as yon better conditions, you can carry along a commensurate culture of the soul life,IP deepening love and reverence, shown in honor and justice and kindness, then progress is secure. But that is not the logic. This is the argument: Because, when a small percentage o f a nation become rich and powerful they become waste ful and oppressive and debauch the nation, therefore, i f all the people became rich and powerful they would n ot fall into these snares. Again, it is assumed -that^ because religion, especially Christianity, has thus far been coincident with great social evils, therefore these evils are the fruit of religion and indorsed by it. When we reply that religion, like law, and science, has been the struggle of the soul life for mastery, then we are told that because religion has thus far failed of complete success it should be thrown overboard. Thus humanity is to cut off its wings, blind its eyes and deafen its ears to aU the appeals of its higher nature, and then expect to escape the pit in which the glorious civilizations of long ago were plunged when they forgot God. Plain Honesty Need of Hour By BABBl MOSES J. GBIES, ' 'Cleirelu j. 'X ' I Needed is the appeal for righteousness in our generation and our land—^for busi ness honor and plain, straightforward hon esty. In the business and in the working world we need a higher and surer stanjiard of integrity. There are evils in the world where’er we turn—the slums and the pov erty—-the vice and the immorality of the cities— ^the wrongs and abuses of the weak and the helpless, the dependent and the criminal throughout the states, and the in justice and the oppression manifest in the life of the nation. What constitutes right living? Not. speaking much and beautifully of the right; not praying at length or loudly; giving nothing or little to the cause of charity; not doing nothing or little in the service of mankind;'not unwillingness to givo gJ-.d do and serve. Eight living means duty to God and duty to neighbor. Righteousness is not an empty, word. Right living means life that is right with Gdcli, If man’s life be right ivith God man must be loving and just and merciful. .Our life is hot right unless we stand for the good and against the evil— unless the cause of good and the right and the poor become vital to iia all —tinless eaoh one of us becomes a voice and a force for righteousness ik- the individual life and in the life of the family, and through the individu;. ,al .and the fahjily the- righteoushes# ahd the justice of the city and th# iftate ahd the flatlon. ■ • ; SAVED FROM AWFUL DEATH.- . Woman Mired In Swamp Is Heard In Nick of Time. May's Liandlng, N. J.—But for the prompt assistance of David Smith Mrs, Mary Megargee, a ‘wealthy woman re siding near here, would have perished in a dense swamp. Smith had Just re turned from work when he heard loud cries coming from the swamp. Thlnk- 4»g~aLflrst It was a hoot owl he paid no attention, but recognizing the voice of a woman he put on ^ m boots, plowed his way through the swamp, and. after tumbling over tussocks time after time and going over boot tops In water, finally spied Mrs. Me gargee standing waist deep in water and holding to a tussock. ’The woman was greatly excited, her hair disar ranged and clothing soiled. Smith carried the woman after great diffleuity out to a clearing. She said she had left home for May’s Land ing, taking a hy-path for a short cut. She lost the path, but thought she- was going all right when she struck the swamp. She tried to find the path, but got farther in the swamp and had been in that position for some time when Smith heard her cries. hLs. Megargee is well-known in At- lanuc City, and is a great lover of dogs and horses. She employs s,everal. ser vants, and is reputed to be very wealthy. Tramp Thraihed by a Woman. Wilk*barre, Pa.—Mrs. John Snyder of Rlv^side, who weighs 275 pounds, dftsted the roadside with a tramp who had Insulted her. When she was through with him the knight of the road was a pitiable sight. The tramp went to the Snyder farm- house and, after being given some thing to eat, discovered Mrs. Sftyder was alone and Insulted her. Mrs. Sny der knocked him dowh, picked him up again, ran him to the road, held him with one hand and beat him with the other. Neighbors, hearing the tramp’s shrieks, ran to Mrs. Snyder’s aid. They wanted to lyhch the man, but she Insisted the punishment she had given was severe enough. Roy Rescued from Bear. Winnipeg, B, C,-Whlle standing on the railway depot platform at Revel- stpke James A. MacDonald, chief en gineer for a contracting firm on the big tunnel, saw a bear come out of a bush and carry off the eight-year-old son of William Lines, a locomotive en gineer. MdcDonald chased the bear. The animal dragged the’^hlld to his den and it was only after a strenuous fight that thd man managed to rescue the boy* who was seriously injured, but he ivlll recover, The. bear made his e». cape Into the mountains. Up from his perch on grandpa's knee. Looked Toirtmy Wee, th a t merry elf, . The -while he m u rinured to hlm- self: “He’ll go to church and pray—and pray, He'll have a Jolly time, his way, To-day.” (12 o ’clock.) Up to the turkey crisp and brown. Up to tlie mlnce-ples, smiling down Looked Tommy, m u rmuring to himself: “H e 's gone to church to pray-and Rray: I’ll have a Jolly time, my way. To-day.\ (4 o’clock.) Up in his little trundle-bed. Up, covered close from foot head,. Lay Tommy, m u rm u ring to hlm- ■ self: \Oh w h a t Is turkey? w h a t Is pie? If only I don’t die—don’t die. N e x t time Thanksgibln’ comes this way, I’ll go to church and pray—and pray All day!” The Undertaker Sawed Off Both End* of the Coffin. proceed with the burial, and this was done. Mrs. Joseph Smith, formerly Miss Lydia Ray of Stroudsburg, fainted when she heard the sound of the cof; fin saw. The trouble all came about through the mistake of a driver, who took to the grave a box too short, which had been secured already when the funeral party arrived. A scene followed the discovery of the driver’s error, and it was with much dlfiBculty that many of the sorrowing relatives could be re strained. It was at first suggested that anoth er box be procured, and this would have been done but for the long delay entailed, and so the undertaker and relatives finally agreed to make the coffin fit. ft' r-\ loop [ m 3 HE celebration of Thanks giving day 40 years ago, in 1805, \Was the first after j f the close of the civil. war. ^ There are some things about this country to-day with which even a good- natured person can find fault. But a cursory contract of the condition of the country as it was then and as it Is now shows vast general improve ment. To begin with. Thanksgiving day, 1865, found the country as yet prac tically unaddressed to the problem of getting over the frightful struggle that had rent and tom and well-nigh disrupted ft. Not only were the wounds of sectional Ill-feeling still open and unhealed, but most of the in dustries of one great section were still practically prostrated. The readjustment of the country’s business, difficult always after a great war, but doubly so after the civil war, because of the enormous inflation to which the currency had been subject ed, was yet to be undertaken. Most Important agencies in the new and stronger union which has come to the United States since 1865 have been furnished by the tremendously Im proved means of communication and transportation. Most folk accept it to day as a matter of course. To the younger generation it seems like an in stitution that has always existed, with out whlch.no matter hoW inuoh fault may be found with its rates, the busi ness of the country could not Well go on. But while there were about 60,000 miles of railroad in 1865, there are more than four times that many to day, or about 215,000, more than seven miles for every 100 square miles of territory. Then, as the old heads remember very well, there was no steel highway linking the coas.t of the Atlantic with the coast of the Pacific. Then there were three ways by which one wish ing to travel from New York or Bos ton or Washington, to San Francisco or Portland, could do so: Overland by a combination of rail to the Missis sippi, and stage coach and horseback westward from the river, a journey re quiring many days; by steamer of sailing ship around the Horn, a voy age of months.; or by steamer to the Isthmus of Panama (they called It Darien, then) across on the Panama railroad, and thence by steamer again up the coast to San Francisco. It cost several hundred dofiars to get from one side of the country to the other, then. Now, at th^ lowest rate, you may travel from qiie odoan to the other fqr $,50; the highest rate, unless you wish to go on a private or special car—a veritable palace on, wfieelB-^is ?H5.76i This includes sep* Ins: car> birth and nieals. . . Since 1865 the general material dc velopment of the country has beci, such as to transcend all ordinary hu man understanding. Vast new mining fields have beer opened, whole areas of coal deposiis, many of them entirely unsusperted. have been found and developed since 1865. The enormously valuable depos its of copper in Montana have all been discovered and developed since 11:85. Michigan’s, though known before then, have also been mainly developed in side of 40 years. So have the gnat iron deposits of Michigan, the zinc deposits of Missouri and countless beds of mineral wealth of all sorts in the south and in the .almost boundless trans-MlsslssippI regions. Secretary Seward knew th a t there was almost fabulous treasu r e under the surface of what was called Rus sian America when he bought it from the czar’s government, but the gold and silver and other m ineral wealth of Alaska has practically all been found and developed within the last ten years. In 40 years the addition from mineral sources alone to the wealth of the country has amounted to billions on the back of billions. Petroleum was discovered before 1865, and the development of territory which yielded It ^'was begun 40 years ago, but by far the h e a ter p a r t of that development has been accomplished since then. Along with all these things the area of cultivated land has been in creased so that the wheat and com and cotton and other crops of the pres ent are enormously vaster than they were In 1865. Manufactures of all sorts have Increased enormously also, the total for 1863 being worth rather more than two billions of dollars; ibi® year the total value of our manufac tures will not be far from fifteen bil lions of dollars, roughly estimating the figures from the census of 1900. Stimulated by the extension and de velopment of the railroads, and In turn stimulatlngthelrdevelopment, inti mately Interlocked and interdependent with the growth of mining, agriculturo and manufacturing, there has been an unbelievable growth of cities an towns. .And, as Uncle Sam, after a rigHt good dinner of turkey and pumpsa' pie and other standard Yankee viands, contemplates the tremendous advanc® his Settlements have. made he also dwell, in thought upon the fac‘ that the total of the country’s popuia^ tion has grown from about 33 , 500 , In, 1865, to more than 80,000,000 n 1908.. Now these material good things all well worth being grateful tor'. f' other people on the-green earth h SO niahy reasons of the sort for than.' fulness as the American- ■ / t . .
