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FRIDAY, DEC. 26, 1901.
QUAKIVIM ON WAR.
There were not many rlghleuur
men is St*k,m at the time Lot be
came an •euttgraut, but there is a
saving resultant of peace -lovers 1n
the Vatted Stater, even In there
day, of militarism. They are F'riend'.,
or Quakers:. Soule of thew met in
Wltherepoon Hall. Philadelphia, the
other day. and one of them naked,
"N'h4eh le the l'brlrtian way T' if
the Eiigltsliman cannot show his lore
for the Ituer by killing him, neither
can the Aniertr an prove an aftertlon
fur the Filipino by chatting hint
through swamps and burning her vll
lager and destroying innocent life.
The Filipino made a constitution and
planned his own, Government, but
King Greed well: 'We bought the
right to rule them, and they shall
test be free.' We should have treated
them as we did Ceiba and given them
assietanco in the formation of it
liovernnailt. The fact that the Uuh
ted Stater has had fifty two disagree-
ments with other nations, such as
martially 'std to war, and has settled
forty-eight of them by arbitration.
ehowr that George Foe. Hobert Bar-
clay and William P: pn took a position
.50 yetre ago that Ls Jurt now
dawning upon the mind,' of the most
advanced thinkers."
Mariana W. Chapman. of Brooklyn,
recut a paper on "The Inherent Im-
morality- of War," in which she de-
clared that "crime changes Its as-
epect when it le held up In the desi-
sting light of war. Our moral sense
fr Instantly destroyed; manslaughter
becomes virtue, and yet maker none
the lees fatherless children, widows
and parents wtth broken hearts.
late cruelty that rune a,narrthrough
with the point of a bayonet be-
comes honor and bravery and cour-
age, but the man bleeds, suffers and
dies. We have the 'Charge of the
Six Hundred,' and It lr ro much
greater and finer and more thrilling
because they did not arrive -the six
linndrod. -
"There le an Immorality in forcing
men into abnormal unsanitary condi-
tion,' that flit the hospitals with dls-
etare and pestilence and mow down
mere -seep than powder and cling B's'
are too famtllar with recent detail'.
of hoepital service during the Slane
Leh war. Virtually, all natione
agree that war b the worst manner
of settling disputes, and that It really
only shows which nation is the
strongest, not in the least which im
right"
We knew that ie'ntim.'ntr like thee+
were entertained In the United
State,' regarding the ItrUtx h war
against the Boers, for the Cosmo-
politan line said to; but it Is pleasant
to real that some of oar neighbors
remember their general prinolpler
even when conuldering the United
Stator war ngatnit the Philippines,
which the historian of the future
may find as hard to excuse as the
Crimean War.
CURRENT COMMENT
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Holder, def Atlantic Cable "took are
not merit)) ed at Marconi's ruooeer
Ln wireless telegraphy.
Oen. Mlles .agrees with Dewey e
findings In the Schley care. His opin-
ion is worth a gaud deal.
In the last soneon 717 marine loser
were reported on the great lakes,
mull 184 lives were lost. Of these
wero lost uu Lake Superior to
September.
Now they are talking of cutting
the civil list of the ltaban King trunk
$3,200,000 to 01.200.061). It's a
eery revere out, but be could get a
lot of fun out of a million a year and
have the odd 4:.00,000 to keep
house on:
A lawyer in Rome strut Wuxi/elf In
court a few 'Jaye ago because tae
had grave doubts as to whether he
was forwarding the cauro of justice
in the case In which ho was en-
gaged. Some lawyers have lyras-
pour oonselencer.
Prof. Albion Shaw, of Chicago Uni-
versity, say, no man. aboul.l have
hes than $1,000 a year and 0u man
should have more titan $50,000. We
fancy that if Prof. :hew can whom
how hie scheme Ir to be worked he
will have the majority with him.
The United Stater Treasury De-
partment has formally declared that
Scotch i" not a language at ell, but
merely an English dialect, so that
It book printed In Scotch caiuut be
admitted free of duty, as le the came
%here books aro printed In other
loan the Englisch language. Hoots,
man ; its haverin'.
In France last year there were
heard 9,050 ditio rce curlew and 471
domande for eeparatioa absolute.
hcttldee 2,859 reverts for simple
reparation. The court granted 85
per cent. of the applications for di-
vorce and 75 per ceut. of those for
*partition. The proportion of mar-
riagei dlisolted during the year
was as 28 to every 1,000 uulune.
The United Stater Presbytertau
Rovialon Committee have completed
:a statement of faith in sixteen arti-
cles. , Hist t: i comparatively easy
task. They enter upon the real
It when they set abort "the pre -
iteration of a -declaratory statement
to explain certain disputed points in
the Confession of Palth, much as the
•loctrinea of election and of the sal-
vation of all infests." Give theme
elbow room.
TIIE t'Ah-AIIK 111:A11 N18't'AKK
The Buffalo I'an-.tmerican Exposi-
tion was a financial failure, because
it was not properly advertised, and
It behooves the managers of the St.
Louie fair to take warning from tete
mistake which was made at Buffalo.
Fourth F.rtate point'. out that, In-
stead of using the columns of th,
newspapers, as do all the successful
advertisers of the present day. the
managers of the exposition spent
thousands; and thousands of dollars
on folders, posters, booklets and au
endless variety of useless schemes,
awl tried to work the newspapers
Into giving the show free space In
their columns.
It le admitted that at the outset
malty newspapers did respond to
the test amount of printed matter
sent In to them by the publicity
department of the exposition, but
a great majority did so under the
Impression that they would receive
paid matter later on.
As the weeks and months passed.
,there wan no slit of loosening up
on the part of the exposition com-
pany. but the daily wad of copy
kept po■rttts ig just the nue an
Mould. 8nmetillrlg more than !tints
were thrown out by the publishers
that the free graft had been work-
ed Quite lung enough, and upon uo
attention being paid to 111.1, 111.
wail for the motet part found its
way Into the wastepaper basket.
One of the stra/lige inconelslencle.
of toe whole thing was the fact that
circulars were wart to tete Rewrite"
pers stating how many thousands 0,
title and how many thouxands 01
that had been printed ane die.
trituted, ,bowing a great expenui
`ere of Caen, meet the publl.ihrr upon
reading the figure, wan expected to
smile and look pleasant, notwith-
standing the (tut tient he had not
received a eevvt for the epees he
had given to the expoeltlort.
Thee wan one of lite thinge that
made him ttreti, and he grew more
and more weary it. the clotting days
of the rxportttun grew neer, and hie
proepect of seeing anything of it
material character from the expo -
Intim grew les. and less, and finally
faded away altogether.
It le but justice to state that to-
ward the close of the expotttlon eome
few of the daily newspaper, In New
York State did receive 'tome advert!.
Ing ropy, end although It wan a mere
(bop to the bucket 1t paid for Itself
over raid over regain, as wan shown
by the greatly knereaeed attendance
at Buffalo Immeietely following Its
insertion.
THE Pt11LOSOPt1Y OF
CHRISTf1AS GI FTS.
Sentiment or flatertallam Prevail
(By John Gilmer Speed. )
amawarutoowte dem
The few weeks Just before Chrlrt-
mar are not happy days for the ma-
jorlty of people. The majority of peo-
ple do not have any more money In
December thou they have during the
rest of the year, but they know full
well that at the" mason much more
le expected of them than at any
other time. This " much more" has
beeu growing in quantity, and to
quality elect, for more than a genera-
tion, so that now 1t coestttutee a
burden under which many heady of .
families painfully ,tagger. The beau -
Wel slgutftcauco of the l hrlstman
prevent, a commemoration of Gut's
beet gift to mac, seems' quite bort
sight of, for the Christmas present
appear', now to be esteemed uu ao-
otuut of Its value as a thing rather
theta an evidence and a s)mbol.
It is difficult to say this without
seemteg to be a chart or a croaker.
Every healthy hearted person knows
that 11le a great pleasure to give
to those who are loved by that per-
son. The beads' of inmates all the
year round are gratUylug tier lnclla-
atlun aocordtog to their moans. But
at Christmas time the Impossible is
expected of them because those In
their households and their intimate
friends as web thluk It strange nut
to be remembered. In some families
this matter Is gone into In a very
businesslike way. And 1t may be; if
we are to strip ourselves of all oar
belongings and mortgage the earn-,
Ings of half a year besides, the buel-
neseltke was Ir it. good as any other.
The other (Jay a gentleman was
approached by his daughter In this
bulnesellke way. She had made out
a oareful Hat of the things she want-
ed. 1t wee not a very long Ila(,
for a little girl. and a very long
bit. Indeed, for a man whose pocket-
book was as flat as though an ele-
phant Itad trod upon It. Ile oonfese-
ew that he looked a trifle troubled -
not flabbergasted, exa,ntly - but
slightly troubled.
In his mind he put a num agalort
eaoh item In the bet, and when he
totted It up the amount was far
beyond hie means unless he expended
all he had to @pond and more besides
on this little girl alone. He wan
made to aaderatend after n while
that he was sot expected to give
ail on the list, bet to give much of the
things rte he chose. it was Intimated
that the other things on the list
world De given by other members
of the family and by friends.
He was relieved a little. bat still
not reconciled to the business -like
method. It seemed to him thnt If
the; list were shown to other/ than
to :-..a It would be something almost
like begging, something renemhling
the custom of the darttes In the
Sonth, who rush around on Christ-
mas 1)a_y greeting acquaintances
with the cheery cry of "Chrletnias
gift. Mender," "Christmas gift, MIes-
tbse "
These derides expected and gener-
ally received something of targets.
ant It seemed a different matter
when the expectation was cherlthed
by a different people In a different
quarter. When the ge'itleman who
had been troubled by hie daughter's
.list told of his experience to the
WI:, with whom his daughter was
vilIntr. he learned that the mak-
ing of Ilete 1n her family hada very
pretty origla -
When the children were young
and as Christmas drew nigh they
confided la their governess that they
A firm of Glasgow p'.pc-makers has
ordered 200,000 tons of Sydney Iron,
trade from Newfoundland ore. Things
Irate changed sauce the okl days when
Canada imported gas and water
pipes from Scotland. The 18 -Inch main
in the Hamilton waterworks system
name from Scutland. The 2¢J8n11.
main was made in Hamilton out -a
.mported Iron, at a price slightly
nigher than the tender of the rep-
reeentative of a Scotch+ firm. The
.:O -beech main was made in Hamilton
from iron alto made in Hamilton.
That conference of labor and cap-
ital in New York City may help to
n - better underwtandtng between
capital and organised labor. If the
otmmlttee appointed to further that
platform, "That which ye would that
and will recommend a ate -claire
ethers should do Takes More Than Wealth to Make Happiness
unto you, do 100d 11
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right groundwork for IkaiLog agree -
seen No nota them,' w .,... ��'7�sr
It ill lay the+ ♦ ` re (Br AM OLD-Ttuea)
ment and improving conditions '7r!'717r71.-Fr"7ft7tw?!71'7Y7T7r7Y
wanted this and that, and they won-
dered whether Santa Claus would
know. 'Phu guverneer suggested that
they write lettere to Santa Claus
and deptxilt them lu the chimney.
This they did, fuel of axiom the
Banta Clans tit that household got the
letters' mud responded properly.
Thee letters were kept up year
after year till the children had
reached the age whoa fables are hest
in a ue.re exact kni,wbodge. Then
came the Iheta, and these, have been
kept up. In that particular family a
custom begun In babyhood should be
kept up. This the trou�lod gentle
man assented to very freely. but he
dons not believe In its general adop
tk.o To those In tltnt family the cus-
tom 1s beautiful for the memories
that oltng about It ; to him outlet&
of that family it 'seems only quite
butdneessllke anti 1s .o much foreign
to the real 'spirit of the day.
Thin is written nearly a month be-
fore Chrtetmaw, and before the mod-
ern spirit of glt ng much and giving
handset/Italy has taken possession of
everybody. It may be that three
weeks later the writer will not feel
as he does now ; that hie healthy
conservatism will be transformers
Into a latl.h liberality. But If It le
be In ware that he will be paying for
the gratlfk'atlon of the pleasure he
take( In giving for 'months after the
holidays are over And so he will
try to retain hie eeneereatlam.
This le no plea 'or stinglneee: not
vein a etggeertk.n that tette should
he matin No. It 1s a beautiful
eu . ,' n custom almost as old ns
our religion and in commemoration
of t
heft m.
But
let it
oommer('
It la pies
e very ieginning of that re -
It would not do to give It up.
cold It not he much better to
purely sentimental and 'not
1 In the least t Of course
nter to Rive to one we
love unmet' ng thet la handsome,
something that will endure and al -
wily" be a soureutr of an occasion
anti n remembrance of the giver. It
1s capital to do (teat. But when that
renin a he done It 1• Mite- far t
give even re trifle, a trifle which.
however, will Pillow that 1t, a time
when all shoal! be glad and merry
the gift receiver 1e in the heart and
the mind of the giver
',,tv In the ease of the gentleman
confronted with the list. Suppose bit.
.inughteer had wanted him to give alt
the thing'. on the bit. IIP would have
been unhappy not to give, he would
have been snhnppy If he had given.
And no ;r tha recipient bad seen the
heart of him she In elthet seas would
have beet, iuhappy too.
The pore ly •eutlmentnl method la
to be preferred. What matters it
, whether we want the thing* we get
or not T The Christmas present ought
not to be meant to apply a materiel
want, but to be an evidence of love
' and frlendshl!, at + time when we
renew our useuranoes of affection.
This eid world 1a always getting
more road more materiel, more and
more practical. We measure every-
thing by the same standard of value
-the food we eat, the clothes we
weer, the masts we bear, the pir•taren
we see, the (hrltttmns presents we
give and receive.
Tills growing prncticnlity, thin al
pervadinz mtterlaliem In not making
as either lovelier in our lives or hap-
pier In oar prospects- It has all but
killed poetry, It has Invaded the
artist's studio, null It stands at al
the 4o001- ni Lite- theatre. And now
even at the hated Cbrmtmae time it
le Invading our homes- This is a good
time to shove It away.
"tire here, little girl," said the nhl
man, having mastered- his surprlre,
'you go right back to your ututher."
(tut elle refused to budge, and,
.trango to say, he war not angry,
as' he ought to have been.
" fly mamma don't want me now, "
etre meld. ' She don't uevor want we
w'en site's talkie' to Beaty Caul'. obliged to hwrtu their 'este and gawp
Cause w sbe' rtellln' him all 'bout fur breath, while t¢o unotuou, cur
me, a why. Au' do you eox,rs I'd key gravy reented to Dose nut of
listen aybe 1'd let it "witch In my their pores, sail oasts thaw tat and
lactic' 1 did, DW '00, ever diet a th.eiry.
switch In 'oor locking'?" glesee'(hen. niter the minoo plc had
The man war not angry
to thaw. been distressed uf, the manager ro.e
He was really angry at all. Here In his place and sale a 'peseta, In
war a email child who was not afraid which he rc►Ll he war worry that
Of tt,tu who really defied him, who the host' of the occasion was tot
whose
nut only
that be bail menet, , apparently, prevent. Had he known
whore only thought war of lbrlst- Stat hie generous friend -for It.
teas. She went on. felt hlw to be a friend -would hour
I■ tiat,ty Cater lulu' to b'Ing '(o su suou dIeappeared, he would hart
au'1 do 7" hu on to his coat tittle and fore
"l dlon't know,"uhe aorwered. ed him to reinalu. But he knew that
"Who U Santy (b• T" wherever their host war, the heart
"Oh -h -h 1" rhe gasped, and the blue
his glees at a table away off is a
corner with a lot of pinohed hove
who were bundle wrapper in tete
great emporium. How i.e did enjoy
that. dloner I An dhow he ate tur-
key -more turkey than he had eat
Ise In 20 --yes, In 40 yeses. The
placket toys ate until they were
iG•iG.JL1eeetee teen, GJ t all. stGwl� dt.`m' +Zai! JZ+tt? wtf
BY A CHILD'S PRATTLE k
A HEART UNLOCKED
The United States Senate has ratt-
led the canal treaty by a vote of
38 toll, and fano cnuea of friction be-
tween that country and Great Bri-
tain hem been removed. There 1e
but slight difference between the
treaty accepted end the one reject-
ed; both were intended to make
the canal neutral and open to all
natione, leaving to Uncle Sam the
right to build nn.f guard it. Now
the Anglophone organs wll; be
puzzled whether to attune the Sen-
sate for "crawling," or Owl exceed
for saying that Britain "Piurrender-
.d." The sensible people of both
•.'ouotrlet., however, will be sntiefte.l.
If 4he people of Queer,. would quit
their whiskey plane mod drink Walk -
snow (anh, that Mr. Robin., of WaIk-
syvtllo, wont/ nest eery. whether they
OA -11M themselves Craned:ane. Freneh-
Oanadlano or Quebeckers.
When Chnrloe M. Schwab, Presld"nt
of the. United States steel corporation,
says that 'the truing hare not eur-
eeelel on the principle of limiting
production," awl that "consolidation
:or economy's sake, fair wages, per-
e'heeing La the cheapest market and
-Piling in the beet, are the trade
principles that will eland,' It 1e
elme for protectionist/1 of the old
also] to Inquire 'where they are
at.' The phrase 'buying In the
cheapest market" has n famellnr free -
trade rtiflg to It:
The Arkell Syndicate that proposes
to manufacture locomotives In Can-
ada offered $500,000 for the Kings-
ton Norte, but the owners held the
property et more than double that
amount, therefore It is expecte]
that a new factory, to employ
:1,000 men, will be erected at Mont-
real. We are glad the Kingston
people did not sell nit, fleet bemuse
their refusal Indicates that they
can seie daylight In a Wittiness that
hag Ind pretty hard luck In the past,
and, eerontily, hemline the Ameri-
can Locomotive Werke Company
might deride 'tome fine day Wetness
the Canadian branch, when orders
a -ere not very brisk on the other
side. With the development of aha
Northwest, and the eonatrsetlon of
new rallw,ys In Ontario and Brit-
ish Cohnnble, the demand for loco-
mntivPe In Canada "heel,' he 'needy
for some years to come. The Cana-
dian Pnciflc has been lone ng leen-
motives frmn other compenlel (hie
tau. 1 ' . CAMS IA
A man sat In cola ding attics on the
second floor of a great building In
the heart of a great city. The building
was his, and he had helped to make
the great clay wheat it Was, so that
be could look through hie unwashed
window pane. on the dirty alleys
that b. ceded hie (tld of (blob. and
oouhd say to himself : "Look at this
great city. I, and those who are Tike
roe, have belied this great city -
nave wet In motion these thousand
wheels that roar without ceasing
and have driven out Gori atmoepltert
With a composition of our own. Ureal
aro the builders of ethos, for tboh
power endgrethbeyond teat of
other men.' Not tlytt he did way al.
this, even to himself, for it wuutu
leave been wasWd time and breath
to say it, and time was money amu
breath was precious, and money and
valuable eructs.. a i0.Ild be used
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