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CATHOLIC LAW
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Decree conoerning "Sponealia" and Mat-
rimony iseued by the Sacred Con-
gregation of the Council by the or-
der and with the authority of our
Holy leather Popo Pius X.
The CounciL of Trout made prudent
provision against the rash celebration of
clandestine marriagea, which the Church
of God for most jtuit reaeons halwaye
detested and forbidden, by &meetly:
'Awe who otherwise than in the pres-
enee of the parish priest himself or of ale -
other priest acting with the lions° of
the pariah priest or of the ordinary, and
in. the preseuce of two or throe ewe -
messes, shafl attempt tQ contract matri-
mony, the Holy Synod renders altogether
inempable of contracting marriage ties,
and decrees that contracts of this kind
are null and void."
But as the same sacred council pre -
remitted that the said decree should bo
published in all the parish ee and was not
to have force (except in those places in
which it had been promulgated, it has
happened that many places in whirl the
publication hes not been made have been
deprived of the benefit of the Tridentina
law, and are still Without it, mid con-
tinue to be subject to the doubts and
inoonvenieuees of the old discipline.
Nor has all difficulty been removed in
those placed where the new law has been
be force. Fox often there has been graye
doubt in deeiding as to the person of the
parish priest liefore whom a marriage
is to be celebrated. The canonieal dis-
cipline did indeed decide Unit he is to
be regarded as the parish priest in whose
parish one or other of the contracting
parties has his or her domicile or quasi-
• dondelle. But as it is sometimes diffi-
cult to judge whether a quasi-domidaile
really exists in a specified case, not a
few marriages were eirposed to the dan-
ger of nullity; many, too, either owing
to ignorance or fraud, have been found
to be quite illegitimate and void.
These deplorable results have been
seen `to happen more frequently in our
own time on account of the increased
I &allay and celerity of intorcommunicae
tion between the different countries,
oven those most widely separated. It
has therefore seemed expedient to wise
and learned men to introduce some
change into the law regulating the form
of the celebration of marriage, mel a
great many Bishops in all parte of the
world, but especially in the peoile popu-
lous States, where the neceasity appears
:mere urgent, have petitioned the Holy
See to this end.
It has also been asked by very many
Bishops in Europe, as well as by others
in various regions, that provision should
be made to prevent the inconveniences
arising from sponsalia, that is, mutual
promises of marriage, privately entered
upon. For experience has sufficiently
shown the many dangers of suoh spon-
salia, first as being an incitement of sin
staid causing the deception of inexperi-
,Ineed girls, and afterward i giving rise to
boxtricable dissensions and disputes.
Influenced by thes,e circumstances our
Holy Father Pope Pius X., desiring, in
-41 the solicitude he bears for all the
churches, to introduce some modifica-
tions with the object of removing these
drawbacks and dangers, committed to
the Sacred Congregation of the Council
the task of examining into the matter
awl of proposing to hiiiieelf the measures
it should deem opportune.
He was pleased also to have the opin-
ion of the commission appointed for the
codification of canon law, as well as of
the eminent Cardinals chosen on this spe-
cial commiesion for the preparation of
the new code, by whom, as well as by
the Stowed Congregation of the Gouncit,
frequent meetings have been held for
this purpose. The opinions ,of a11 having
ben taken, Ells Holiness ordered the Sac-
red Congregation of the Council to issue
a decree containing the laws, approved
by himself on sure knowledge, and after
mature deliberation, by whit% the dis-
Cipline regarding sponsneia and marriage
L. to be regulated for the future and the
oelebration of them carried out in a
sure and ordetly -firgener.
In execution, theeefore, of the apos-
tolic mandate the Sacred Congregation
of the • Council by these letters hays
down and decrees what follows:
1. Only theseeare considered valid and
produce canonical effects, which have
been contracted in writing signed by
both the parties and by either the par-
ish priest or the ordinary of the place,
or at least by two witnesses.
In case one or both parties be unable
to write this fact is to be noted in
the document and another witness is to
be added who will sign the writing as
above, with the parish priest or the or-
dinary of the place or the two witnesses.
IL Here and in the following article
ley parish priest is to be understood not
only a priest legitimately presiding_over
a parish canonically erected, but in reg.
ions where parishes are not canonically
erected the priest to whom the care of
flout+ has been legitimately intrusted in
any specified district and who is equivae
lent to a parish priest and 4n missions
where the territory has not yet been
perfectly divided, every priest generally
deputed by tho superior of the mission
fee the care of souls in any station.
III. Only thoNse marriages are valid
which aro contracted before tho parish
priest or the ordinary of the place or
)L a priest delegated by either of these,
and at least two witnesses, according to
the rules laid down in the following ar-
ticles, and saving the exceptions men-
kitalid, eider VII. and VIII.
rir, the parish priest and the ordinary
or the place validly assist at a marriage:
(1.) Only from the day they have
taken poescassion of the benefice or en -
tore(' upon their office, unless they have
been by a public deeree exeommuedcated
by narae or suspended from the office;
(Ii.) Only within the limits of their
'territory Within which they assist val-
idly. at marriage not only of their own
subjects, but also of those not subject
to them;
(iii.) Provided when invited and asked,
and not compelled by violence or by
grave fear they demand and receive the
(1)
content of the contracting parties
V. They aseist lieitly:
(1.) When they have legitimately aseer.
tained the free state of the contracting
parties, having duly complied with the
conditions laid down by the law:
(1l.) When they have aecertained that
one of the contracting 'natio beet a
domicile or at least has lived for a
month in the piece where the marriage
takes piece;
(11e) If this condition be lacking the
perish priest and the ordinary of the
plaee, to armlet licitly at a marriage,
reauiro the perreission of the parish
priest or the ordinary of ono of the
contracting parties, unless it be a men
of grave necessity, which OXC112011 from
this permission:
(iv.) *incoming persons without fixed
abode (vagos), except in case of neces-
sity it is not lawful for a parish priest
to assiet at their.. marriage until they
report the matter'eto the ordinary or
to a priest delegated by him and obtain
pormtssion to assist:
(v.) In every case let it be held as
the rule that the marriage is to be
celebrated before the parish priest of
the bride, unlees some Just cause ex -
curies from this.
VI. The parish priest and the ordinary
of the place may grant permission to
another priest, specified and eartaiii, to
assist at marriages within the limits of
their district.
The delegated priest, in order to assist
vatidly• and licitly, is bound to observe
the 'fruits of his mandate and the rules
laid down above in IV. and V., for the
parish priest and the ordinary of the
place.
VII. When danger of death is immin-
ent and Where the parish priest or the
ordinary of the place or a priest dele-
gated by either of these cannot be had,
in order to provide for the relief of con-
science and (should the case require it)
for the legitinmtion of offspring, mar-
riage may be contracted validly and licit-
ly before any priest and two witnesses.
VIII. Should it happen that in any dis-
trict the parish priest or the ordinary of
the place or a priest delegated by 'eithei
of them, before whom marriage can be
celebrated, is not to be had, age that
this condition of things has lasted
a month, marriage may be validly and
licitly entered upon by the formal de-
claration of consent made by the spouses
in the presence of two witnesses.
IX. (1.) After the celebration of it mar-
riage the parish priest or Ito who takee
his plies is to write at once in the book
of marriages the names of the couple and
of the, witnesses, the place and day of
the celebration of the marriage and the
other details, according to the method
prescribed in the ritual books or by Ilia
ordinary; and this oven when another
priest delegated either by the parish
priest himself or by the ordinary has
assisted at the marriage.
(ii.) Moreover, the parish priest is to
note also in the book of baptisms that
the married person contracted marria,go
on such a day in his parish. If the mar-
ried person has been baptised elsewhere
the parish priest who has assisted in the
marriage is to transmit, either directly
or through the episcopal curia, the an-
nouncement of the marriage that has
taken place to the pariah eeriest. of the
place where the person was baptised, in
order that the marriage may be inscribed
In the book of baptisms.
(1il.) Whenever it marriage is contract-
ed in the manner described in 'VII. and
vill., the priest in the former case, the
witnesses in the latter are bound con-
jointly with the contracting parties to
provide that the marriage be inscribed
as soon as possible in the prescribed
books.
X. Parish priests who violate the rules
thus far laid down are to be punished by
their ordinaries aceording to the nature
and gravity of tkeir transgression. More-
over, if they assist at the marriage of
anybody in violation of the rules laid
down in (ii.) and (iii.) of No. V, they
are not to appropriate the stole fees, but
must remit them to the parish priest
of the contracting parties.
XL (i.) The above laws are binding on
all peations baptized in the Catholic
Church and on those who have be -en don-
vorted to it from heresy or schism (even
when either tlie latter or the former
have fallen away afterward from tho
Chnrch)', whenever they contract :mon-
salta or marriage with one anotirr.
(ii,) The same laws are binding also
on the same Catholics as above,. if they
contactmen
sponsalia or
marriage with non-
Catholics, baptised or unbaptised, even
after a dispensation has her" obtained
from the impediment mizia nligionis or
aisparitatis cultus, unless the Holy See
decree otherwise for sonic particular
place or region.
(1W) Non -Catholics, whether baptised
or unbaptised, wh� contract.among them-
selves, are nowhere bound to observe the
*Catholic forte of sponsalia or marriage.
The present decree is to be held as
lsgitimately published and promulgated
by its transmission to the ordinaries, and
its provisions begin to have the force of
law from the solemn feast of the Resur-
rection of our Lord Jesus Christ, next
year, 1908.
Meanwhile let all the ordinaries of
places see that this decree be made pub-
lic as soon as possible and explained in
the different parochial churches of their
dioceses in order that it may be known
by all.
• These presents are to have force by the
special order of our Most Holy Father
Pope Plus X„ all things, even those
worthy Of special mention, to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
Given at Rome on the and day of
August in the year 1007.
Vincent,
Card. Bishop of Palestrine, Prefect.
C. De Lai, Secretary.
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If water is apilt accidentally on the
covers of it book bound in cloth the
moiriture should be absorbed by means
of a piece of blotting paper, and the
book placed in the air to dry. On no
account should the volume be plated
near4ie fire.
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NEW YORK AT FOE'S
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Opetting of 4migos:0 Channel an Aid to
Hostile Pleats..
With the cempletiou of the new Am-
brose (thermal in Lower New York Bey,
a part of NOW York city will he at the
mew of a hostile Met. This etude -
sten, which wee frankly made at the
IV= Department to -day, is likely to dis-
turb a goodly portion of thoso-eitions
of the big town who live in the neigh-
borhood of South Brooklyn, for it 14
this settion especially* which is in elan
-
ger.
For some time the Department has
bad under consideration the estithileh.
ment of foreificatione at Norris Point,
but, beceinse of the exorbitant price ask-
ed by the owners of the ground, this
plan lets been definitely abendoned. As
inatters stand there are no batteries on
anger the Long Island or New Jersey
pimps width oeuld interfere with Om
leisurely thing of projectiles into the
city from the ships of an enemy smeller.
ed; in deep water off Coney bland.
The Department will now endeavor to
met the requirements of the situation
by advocating the building of an Ade
fide Van& either on Romer's Shoals or
on the shoals below Swinburn Island,
and erecting thereon one Or two paha
ofonacsive guns in, steel turrets An
appropriation from Conereee, however,
will leave to be sechred 'before this can
be done. In addition, powerful mortar
batteries will be established on Plum
Islend, which is owned by the Govern-
ment, but which never has been utilized
for fortifieations.
The Coney Island anchorage, from
whick an enemy's vessel s might shell
Routh Brooklyn, is just out Of range
of the guns of Fort Hamilton, sonic
The miles dietante as well as those of
Fort Virtulsworth and Sandy Hook.
Many yews ago a proposition for a
hattery at Remer's Shoals was propos-
ed, but Congress balked at the idea be -
COMBO of tha,comparatively large amount
of money involved, .Army officers now
say they will not be responsible for
what may happen to New York city in
case of war if Congrezs sloes not prompt-
ly make appropriation for strong batter-
ies both on Plum Point and Romer's
ee,
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MONTHS OF AGONY.
A Severe Case of Rheumatism Cur-
ed by Dr. William's Pink Pills.
"For many weary menthe I suffered
untold agony. I could not Walk. I could
scarcely raise myself to a sitting lull.
ture. I was under medical care, hut in
dein Finally I tried Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills and they have restored me to my
former healthy condition."
This strong statement was made to a
reporter recently by Mr. Charles S. Kod-
dey, formerly of Kingston, N.S., but now
living at Port Maitland. Mr. Kodeley
Is it carpenter by trade, and is now able
to work every day. He adds: "I cannot
spen..c too highly of Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, as they cured me after other medi-
cines failed. While I was living at Kin-
ston, ICS.. I was seized with rheuma-
tism in its most violent form. I ;vas
compelled to take to my bed and for
months was an invalid. I was so weak
that it was difficult for me to raise ray -
self to it sitting posture. It ts impossi-
ble to tell how much I suffered day and
night, week in and week out. The pains
svere like piercing swords. I had medical
attendance, but it failed. Then I tried
medicines advertised to cure rheumatism,
but withehe same result—money wasted.
One day when hope had almost gene a
friend advised me to try Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills. I told him my experience
with other medicines, but he assured mo
that these pills would cure rheumatism,
so Teesent Ter a supply. After using it
few boxes I was able to leave my bed,
and from that on my restoration to
health was rapid. I am now as well as
over I was, and have not had the slight-
est touch of rhenmatism since. The
change they have wrought in my case
is sbnply miraculous, and I can strongly
recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to
anyone suffering from any form of rheu-
matism."
Rheumatism is rooted in the blood.
Rubbing the aching Ihnbs with liniments
and outward remedies cannot possibly
cure it. You must get the rheumatie
acid out of the blood and Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills is the one sure medicine to
do this, because they actually make now
blood That is why these pills cure
anaemia, headaches and backaches, nen-
ralgia, indigestion and the secret ail-
meirre that make miserable the lives of
so many women anti growing girls. Sold
by all medicine dealers or by neeil at 50
cents a box dr six boxes for 450, from
the Dr. Williams' Medicine Coe Brook-
ville, Ont.
BACKING IN pin FIRE TRUCK.
A Nice Job Performed Skilfully by the
Driver and the Tillerman.
The Meese job to bo seen in the way of
backing tip is that done in getting a. fire
truck into its house. It is really donseby
two men, the driver and the tillernmel.
Coming store down the street, bapjc
from it fire, With the big team trotting
briskly, the driver goes on past tho door
of the' emelt house to it point which to
the layition seems much too far beyee4
it, but which the driver knows by ex-
perience is just the right distance, and
there, and always at exactly the same
point, he holds up his team. Then in-
stantly without auy doubt or hesitation
he begins backing.
It Might seem as though backieg from
whore ha is he would simply batilc the
other end of the truck past the door of
the house, but here is whore the eNiarti
tillerman comes in. The tillerman guides
that end, and he guides it surely and eas-
ily around to point in at the truck house
door, and as the driver, up fifty or sixty
feet ahead, backs up, the tillerman
swings the other ond around and now
you see it disappearing within the house.
There NV01'43 only inches, and ver' few
of them, between the ends of the low
ladders and the jamb of tho door, but
there was room and to spare with such a
man at the wheel. -
So foot by foot the truck goes ra,pldly
back into the house, with the driver
all the thne swinging and straightening
his fine and well-trained team, and be-
fore you realize it half the length of the
greet truck is in 'the house and the
team is now equare in front and back-
ing, backing, steadily, and hi a neement
the tilt& is standing straight and true
in its place within and the homiest has
been hooked and hoisted up and the
horses are trotting off to their stalls.—
Now York Sue.
When Mushrooms Are Dangerous.
During an inquiry into the death, from
eating fungi, of a girl at Reading, Eng-
land, the other day, Dr. A. O. Major
said it should be made generally known
that muehroome, if grown under elm
trece, were poisonoue,
Hard eash is so hard that it will even
Maki an linpre,ssion on a heart 01 stone.
.1.A.P A SPY
FOR RUSSIA.
A TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTRY, Alz
wAs HACKED TO DEATH.
Plot Discovered in Tokio—Attempt of
RueslaniSed japauese to secure Naval
Settete—The Spy Killed by an Ac-
complice After He Had BetraYcd
Himself,
During the recent Japanese troubles
on the Pacific' coast, various persons
thought they discovered Japanese spies
teking measurements and making notes
about the cOvit defenees thereabout*.
The Japanese War Office may have a
more or lees perfect system for gathering
information about the delencee of other
countriee, but it le a safe guess that it
never before had to investigate the emir-
etioup of ono of Japan's own people in
spying on Japan's •own forts in the inter-
ests of e foreign power, The eXokio
Aealii prints an idereating story of teis
unique treason of a Japanese.
Sep, M.ayedv., a former instructor in
the Oriental Languages School of Vladi-
vostok, and a naturalized Russian cite -
eel', dropped iuto Tokio about two
months ago, after a continued absence
of more than ten years. He was highly
educated and passed among the gentle-
meit of the better class in the Tokio poli.
tical clubs as a personable men of refine,
mut. Because he spoke Russian finently
and had lived many year iu Siberia, it
was not considered a matter of suspicion
that elayedu spent it great deal of his
time watt Russian Military Attaches of
the Legation.
About the same time that Meyer's',
genie to Tokio another man from Siberia,
Kuzuki linamura, came down frril the
Japanese fieheries at Nikolaevsk in the
Primenek Province, where he had been
working since the war. He went to his
home in the slums of the city and up -
body knew that he ever met Mayeda,
the gentleman, or that he knew anything
about Mayeda's movements.
On Aug. 9 a Japanese coolie of the low
class visited the office of the Tokio Asa -
hi and desired a word with the news edi-
tor. When the coolie had that function.
ary carefully secluded in an inner room
he told him that if a reporter from the
Asehi wont(' follow Mayeda, the "gen-
tleman and club man, on the train to the
Yokosuka naval station that night he
vionld learn that the Russianized Japan-
ese was a traitor and that he was pre-
paring reports of the defences at Yoko-
suka for the Russian Government.
Maruo, the coolie, told the Asahi edi-
tor that Mayeda had gained his confi-
dence by hiring him as a servant and
that the day before Mayeda had asked
him to take a night trip to Yokosuka,
promising that for the work he would do
there would be large rewards. Marne
had suspected his master of being in
league with the Russians because of his
constant association with the Legation
staff officers, and this Yokosuka trip
convinced him, he said, of the tretteher-
ous designs of the man.
Japanese newspapers are not slow at
scenting news, even though the reporters
wear clogs and are happy on a salary
that an American newspaper would not
think of offering an officn boy. The
Asalii immediately assigned a. man to
follow Blayeda and then notified the cen-
tral office of the police.
That night when Mayeda and the coolie
went to Shimbashi station to take the
train for Yokosuka rut Mimi reporter
and a detectIve followed. Mayeda thought
to throw possible pursuers off the track
by taking a Shimonoseki train and
changing at a. junction beyond Yoko-
hama, but the reporter and the detective
were not fooled.
When Mayeda stopped overnight at an
inn near Yokosuka the sleuths 011 his
trail camped there also. The Asahi's
account says they were suitably dis-
guised, but this probably means that the
two pursuers muffled their faces with
their kimono sleeves, as the art of dis-
guise is primitive in Japan.
The suspect and his informing servant
spent the night in riotous drinking. The
reporter and the detective crawled into a
nearby room to hear what Mayeda, might
say through tho thin paper shoji. Ilo
said enough to convict him.
The next meaning when the spy hap-
pened to catch sight of the two trailers
he decided that it was getting warm for
him, and tried to double on his tracks,
ping for a time to the Yoshiwara, on
the outskirts of a neighboring town, then
trylpg to make a quick loop back in the
neighborhood of the forts. All the time
the faithful* reporter and the detective,
faces presumably still muffled, followed
like shadows.
Mayeda evidently grew suspicious, for
he gave up the trip through the fortifi-
cation zone on the following night, and
returned to Tokio. There it was that
his mercer of treason came to a sudden
end before the intervention of the police.
Kuzuki Lnamura'the coolie who had
known Mayeda in Siberia and who had
come down from the fisheries to live in
the alums of Tokio, had got an intima-
tion through some channel that the
pollee belieyed that he and Mayeda werth
in the same plot. On the same day that
Mayeda returned after the fruitletts
yelcortuka trip Imamura went to May.
i's home and stabbed him a dozen
tins in the neck and body with a. short
sword.
Eyen when Mayeda tried to escape
down the street the coolie followed,
hacking at him with the sword. Mayeda
finally dropped from exhaustion and
!eon died. Imamuret gave himself up,
saying that he had done his country a
good service in killing it spy of the
ROssiane.
The police sithriequently searched May-
eda's papers and found confirmation of
their suspicions—that he was trading in
military seerets. They also found evi.
dance enough to convince thein that the
patriot lentonura was in the plot with
the gentleman Mayes, So Immure
will get the punishment that Alive&
escaped.
PREPARTG HOUSE FOR °WINTER.
It is none too early to consider how to
imake the homes shipshape to meet the
Wider season. The win, householder
looks to his chimneys, if perchanee wind
and rain and imperfect mortar have al-
lowed bricks to get loose.. He scans them
"front turret to foundatiou atone," tape -
clay in the Attie and where they pees
thtough floors awl roof. Are there cleats
on the roof to climb by, or other ladders
quickly available in ease of fire? Unliap°
pity, too many houses aro put together
ia dangerously ehaddy fashion. Many an
ornitte fireplace scorehes the wood in the
wall beside it every time it fire is lighted.
IlaVO the unused chimneys :wept. Seral-
lowe' Yields and other rubbish clog them.
Have the Aimee tested, See if toty of
the hot air or strain pipes have meted or
become displestd while not in use. The
electrical wiring, too, should be impeded
thorou41.4 by it 'competent and acumen-
thus eleet•ritiaa, A worn plaeeitt the in-
selweion ie a eeeetant menage of firs
Etemal vigilanee alone prevents fire in
the NOMA when, the laestiag apparatus is
going full blase.
Lefties in roof; of house or barn should
he diet:peered and repaired before eold
weather. Don't wait until a ruineii oe41-
ing proves that there is a beak.
Dead leavers eiroke the save troughs
they should be swept out or cistern
water will be defiled :sad the, supply
wasted by overflo$viug 'where the pipes
are clogged.
Drain pipes should bo put into per -
feet onler, so that to steppage will .cenede
boozing and bluating. See that the
joints aro all sound„ with no eign of
leaks. Bind supply water pipes to ob-
viate fluxing and eoeeequent plumbers'
bille.
See that all window panes are whole
and examine the rime outside for cracks
itt the putty. Much cold enters at such
mall, unnoticed creviees, ceueing
draughte and consequent "bad colds."
Preparatory to takiug down and stor-
ing window screens n little later, get it
bon of thumb tacks, with numbers on
their heads, a pair of each number, eat.
!Mont to eupply allyour window. Put
tack No, 1 In the left hand lower corner
of the screen !ranee and its mate in the
window sill close by. Go through the
firet floor numbering- the screens up-
stairs.
If the flies depart screens may be
taken down late in the month. Before
putting them away carefully brush off
all dust and cobwebs and treat them to
it coat of oil or paint to keep from rust,
When thoroughly dry they may be stor-
ed in the attic. As all are numbered to
correspond with the windows, no confu-
sion will be necessary in putting them
back in the windows next spring.
Hem the cellar windows screened
against invasion by rats, field mice and
other vermin, which will do untold dam-
age if they once become eateblished,
Such creatures make for the habitations
of man when cold weather approaches,
'establish good circulation throughout
the cellar, to dry and ventilate every cor-
ner, before winter vegetables are stored,
the heating plant started and windows
Take down, thoroughly dust and store
away awnings, folding them with mere.
September is a good month to paint
tho house, as the air is warm and dry
and there is a minimum of dust flying.
The paint will have time to harden well
before thecold weather. Pat on an- ex-
tra coat on the side facing the prevailing
winds because of the hie storms, which
aro hard on painted surfaces.
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EGYPT'S GREEN SUN.
Peculiar Phenomena Commented Upon by
Ancient Nile Dwellers.
The appearance of green light at sun-
set, like many other phenomena eup-
posed to have only recently attracted
ecientific attention, was noticed ancecom-
mented upon by the ancieete Egyptians,
and more particularly so because in the
clean air of Egypt the tints of sunset are
peculiarly distinct.
As the seun there descends nearer and
nearer to the luirizon and is immensely
large and flaming, it becomes, for an
instant, it brilliantly green vier, and
immediately a series of green rays suf-
fuses the sky in many directions, well-
nigh to the zenith. The same phe-
nomenor appears- at sunrise, but to a
smaller extent. Sometimes, just as the
letst part of the sun's dill( vanishes, its
color changes from green to blue, and so
also after it has disappeared the sky
near the horizon often is greeen, while
toward the zenith it is blue.
This was alluded to in Egyptian writ-
ings. Day was the problemef life and
night that of death, and the nocturnal
sun, being identified with Osiris, thus
rendered Osiris king of the dead. The
setting sun was green; therefore, Osiris,
as the nocturnal deity of the dead, was
painted green. The splendid coffins of
the high miests of Ammmon frequently
depict the green sun and the funeral dei-
ties are all colored green.
There aro innumerable instances in
the legyptLen relics of representations
relative to death being colored green.
The practice undoubtedly arose from
the green tints of eunrise and sunset.
The green sun disk is referred to 5.000
years ago, in ll'apt. This is the earliest
known human record of an astronomical
phenom mon.
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Indian as a Friend.
"The popular saiin,g that the only
good Indian is a dead Indian is a great
injustice," said W. W. Philips, of Seattle,
Wash. Mr. Philips is one of seven.men
appointed by the State of Washington to
compile it history of the American In-
dian. For the last two years he has
been living in close essocitttion with the
red man in different parts of the west.
Ile has lived with them in their tepees,
and taken part in their war damns their
peace celebrations and other festivities,
in order that he might study their cus-
toms, their thought, their religion and
thc`lieke
"Wfrequently hear the Indian spok-
en of as being sullen," continued Mr.
Philips. "Never was there a greater
error. Once you know an Indian ana
gain his confidence there is no more ie-
lightful companion on earth, and there is
not a more loyal or more considerate
friend. If he is prejudiced against th,1
whites, and it is natural to presume that
he is, Ito has his reasons, and those rea-
sons are good ones.
"The Indian is essentially romantic.
He was born in the forest, and his home
Is there. He sees and knows nature bet-
ter than the white man. Pope knew the
Indian when he wrote: "Lo, the poor
Indian, whose untutored Mind sees God
in clouds and hears Him in the wind.'
We cannot understand him because we
do not know him, but he is genuine, he
is good. He has lofty ideals, and he
lives up to them. I have participated in
their war dames arid their religious
meetings. I have been to their wedding
festivals and I have smoked with them
in their tepees; and I cannot say with
too much emphasis that wherever I suc-
ceeded in making a Mend of an Indian
I found hitu it loyal friend."—From the
Washington Post.
Boyee—YO—'6..u didn't upend much thne
at the seashore. Joyce—No, but I spent
everything else.
The fireman doesn't mind being told
to go to blazes.
PLANS A KJ
FOR ESCORT&
WOMEN VISITING NEW YORK MAY
HIRE CHAPERONES' TOO.
Scheme is to Employ Young Men Wise
Are Working Their Way Through
College and Gentlewomen Who Need
Employment—Meeamger Bey Sy.,
tem Pails.
There is it new idea in town., It le
only au idea RA yet, but by the begin-
ning of next month it promises to be aa
organized bureau.
"Our object le to give the young men
Who` cemo to New 'York to work their
way through college an opportunity to
earn money by acting as escorts to the
thousands of women wile visit the city
Lor the purpose of seeing the eights,"
declared the woman who, if she didiel
aotually evolve the idea, is now busy
planning to carry it out, "Most per-
sons seem to think that the women, who
stop in our woneen's hotels do so because
they wish to show their independence of
men and conventions. There never was
a greater mistake. They do it from
timidity more than any other reason.
"They want the comforts of a hotel
with the privacy of a. boarding house. If
they were as independent as some per-
fume try to make it appear why should
they object to going to auy first class
hotel? When they reach New York as a
rule it is so, different from, anything
they have over seen or known that at
firet they are appalled, and if they. stay
long enough the majority of them only
overcome thie feeling sufficiently to go
to phiees and see the sights inunediately
around their locality.
"As for going out at night, Why, there
are thousands of women who come to
New York year after yew and never
go out after dark. They have no men
friends to take them out to places of
interest and they are too timid to trust
themselves with messenger boys or to go
out alone. Those are the olass of womept
we are aiming to reach. We will estab-
lish a bureau to supply escorts aed chap-
erons, if necessary. In the case of young
girls who have come to the city alone
or who have nel older woman to go out
with them we shall require them to take
a chaperon as well as an escort.
"We shall investigate the character of
each young man before putting him on
our list. He must be a gentleman,
vouched for by responsible persons, and
he must have suitable clothes. One ob.
"jection that many woman have to going
to public places escorted by a messenger
boy is his clothing.
"Then, too' our escorts must be in-
formed aboutthe places they are to at-
tend. They must be able to interpret a
grand opera a French or German play,
and above al they must be thoroughly
posted in the etiquette of the occasion.
They must be able and ready to tell the
ladies under their charge what to do and
how to do it.
"Take the rule that excludes the un-
attended woman from our best restaur-
ants. There has been so much said about
it that now the visiting woman never
thinks she can enter any public restaur-
ant after dark without the escort of a
man. Think how much a person coming
from our smaller cities misses in not
being able to go to some of our best
clink'g places after the theatre or opera.
"Ie was only the other day that I
was visiting a friend who lives in a wom-
an's hotel. It was my first virile in the
evening, and imagine my surprise when
leaving her apartment shortly after 11
to find the hall lights turned off and
the whole place bearing the stamp of
after hairs.
"'What is the meaning of this?' I ask-
ed her. 'Do the rules of the house le -
quire you to retire at a specified hour?'
'011, my, no,' she replied, cheerfully.
'There are no rules. We do just as we
please, but we al retire early. You see
there are so few who lia.ve men friends
in the city that we have to do our trip-
ping in the daylight.'
"Now, that woman was going home
without having had even a glimpse of
New York after dark. Imagine what
one's impression must be of New York
who has never seen Braodway lighted.
There are many women in the same boat.
Those are the women we expect to ac-
commodate. They are able and willing
to pay for the escort of a gentleman,
though they are too fastidious to care
to be taken out by the average messen-
ger boy.
"Where will we get our chaperons?
Oh, from the women's hotels, princi-
pally. - There are it number of women
past their youth, women of social stand-
ing in their day, who, now in reduced
circumstances, will be only too glad to
earn a few dolines a tveek so pleasantly.
And what could be more to the taste of
it refined elderly woman than chaperon-
ing well-bred girls through it sightsee-
ing trip in New York? It seems to me
an ideal occupation for such women,
and several of them to whom I have
broached the subject agree with me.
"While our plans are not entirely per-
fected we expect to have everything in
working order by the beginning of the
season. We already have it long list of
ladies and young girls who will need
escorts during a .pa,rt if not all of the
season. There may be some difficulty
about getting the right young men et ,
the beginning, but there will be so many
to choose from that eve anticipate no
trouble."—New York Sun.
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A MIRACLE EXPLAINED.
The Maoris are in many respects the
most remarkable savages with whom the
white man has mine in contact.
•Fifty years ago cannibalistic feasts,
at which the flesh of their fallen enemies
was served, were not uncommon. To -day
several members of their race are mem-
bers of the New Zealand Parliament, and
Slaori women as well as the white worn -
en of New Zeeland exereise the right to
vote.
When the British first occupied the is-
lands, in the early part of the nineteenth
century, it is estimated that there were
about one hundred aean:I Maoris in
New 'Zealand. They were divided into
tribes, each having its own unwritten
laws regarding land cultivation and oth-
er sigial eantters.
The English found that they had it
genius for war, showing unusual ability
in building, fortifying and defending
stockades, and they experienced consid-
erable diffieulty in subduing, them.
The Maoris were also. skilled in BOV-
eral arts. They tilled the eon with great
care, as carvers and decorators they were
unrivalled in the execution ef reek paiilt.
illf4S anul itt carving the ornamental fig-
ures of their dwellinge, their boats and
littered enclosures.
But the Maoris were else noted for
their remarkalde tattooing, whielt was
designed to elethe es woli ae to decorate
the body. The Maori artist knew how to
give endleee variety to the einem of his
drawing, the natural furrows, the mo‘ 0 -
was, of the ennetentinee, the play of
the 'muscles—everything was made to
Ault:mot the ehgre 01 thik
hs,44 y.mori 4otLa *AWAIT
fine eight cleoldped only
aetwork of bias line. ott
leroneeu of hie
Mitre seie abont thertAve deo
!Maoris left, These here retired te
uorthern province of Now Zialends W
Oertain reservations by* bson set a
as their exolueive propestY.
School* have been setablished, whket
the Maori chtirden atten4 regularly.
is said that sue& of thanl 14 00a14.11111
late the higher branalisi of learaiog ore
worthy rivale of whfts 00404, Soule
of the Maoris have beemne largo ianieg
proprietors. They are proud of their
rights to vote, and especially of the fast
that their women obtained this privilege
at the same thne that it waa•given to
the white women of New Zealand, in HOW
—National Geographic Magazine.
•
THE MYSTERIOUS- OKAPI,
Lieut, Alexander Tells How He Caught
One of the Shyest pf Animal..
Dieut...lioyd Alexander told the Royal
Geographical Soeiety Itt London recently
how be captured an okapi ia Africa a
year ago. The okapi is a variety of an-
telope and is .among the shyest of crea-
tures—so shy that few African natives
have ever seen it and no white hunter
had heard of it up to the thne a specimen
was discovered by Sir Harry Johnsteu
some years ago.
The okapi taken by Lieut. Alexander
could not be taken alive to Europe. It
was so timid and •shrinking that it could
not thrive in the presence of man, had
then the difficulties of travel forbade its
transportation. Its skin is now being
mounted for the Natural History IMP
QUO mof London.
Lieut. Alexander said that at Angu, on
the Welle-Makua, he first heard of the
okapi in that region. The party spent
three weeks in the effort to obtain a
specimen.
They found that its haunts are small
streams running through swampy grounds
where grows a plant some six feet high,
whose young shoots, bunching at the top, -
are an essential part of the animal's food.
Here it roams about, singly or in palms
and the natives said that sometimes
three are found together.
'e The natives add that they had, very
seldom seen the animal, and this state-
ment was readily believed, for Capt.
Gosling, although he had certain evidence
on three occasions that he was near the
animal, did not catch a glimpse of it, for
it was perfectly concealed among the
leaves. But three weeks of study re-
vealed jts habits well.
In the night th& okapi wands along
in the mud and water in search ef its
food. Capt. Gosling found it feedeng as
late as 8 a. m.'but after this hour the
animal retires to the seclusion of the
forest, where it remains until nightfall.
Owing to its restless nature and hen
hearing, the thick foliage of the plant en
which -its feeds and the perfect seclusion
of its forest retreats,
the native, eel
they are never able to kill the okapi
with thir weapons; it is almost impos-
sible to track it and the few speeimens
they have killed were trapped in pits
Jose Lopez, a Portuguese collector in
the employ of Lieut. Alexander, followed
it solitary animal for three successive
mornings in the neighborhood of a
stream. He observed that on leaving the
water the okapi always took the saute
course between two large trees about
100 yards from the stream.
With the help of the native he dug a
pit four and a half feet deep bMreen the
trees ani carefully concealed it with
branches and leaves. Early the next
morning he again approached the stream
and heard the noise of the okapi as it
rushed away. An instant later there
was a crash and the little animel was
struggling in the pit. The native assist-
ants, lying in wait, at once secured it,
The natives sty they know no. other
animal so mysterious as the okapi. In
their opinion it is always on the move
and never lies down to sleep.
Lopez's observations seem to bear out
this assertion. On every occasion when
he heard it feeding it simply paused to
take a leaf here and there and then
moved on again.
Dr. Ray Lankester is now examining
all the skins and skulls of the okapi, that
have thus far been brought to Europe
—.about twenty. Nearly every specimen
differs greatly from every other speci-
men. It is one of the most variable ani-
mals that have come under Dr: Ian-
kester's observation.
4- • •
HUNTING THE MISSING LINK.
German Scientific Expedition Will Look
for It in Java.
Dr. Max Moskowski, a German scien-
tist, has arrived at Java in charge of an
expedition sent out to find the "missing
link" between man and ape. The expe-
dition is being financed jointly by the
Royal Prussian Academy of Science and
the Dutch Government, and Dr. Moe-
kowski, who is a zoologist. He is se-
companied by- geologists, engineers and
an escort of troops provided by the
Dutch authorities. Java was chosen
as the destination of this expedition be-
cause a Dutch scientist, Professor Du-
bois, said he found the "missing link"
there some twenty years ago. In the
course of his excavations in Java Dubois
unearthed the remains of a savage be-
ing which oould have been neither men
nor ape, but something between the two.
These remains showed a striking re-
semblanee to those of primitive man be-
longing to the Neanderthal raft fbund
in Wurbemberg. Dr. Maskowski *ill
begin his excavations in tho valley of
the Solo River, near the volcano Lavu
and will carry on the work for at least
year in the hope of finding the kat
I link.
It' so
What She Called Him.
The discussion was over the propar
peontintuation of the word "ellen freer."
They WOTO all native sons, and the ar-
gument WaS entirely friendly.
"It's
it 'show -fire declared one.
"Never," insisted another, "it'
fur.'"
"Not much," interposed a third; "it'
'thef-fear.'"
"Ale" interrupted another, "here tomes
limo Cornwall. Heis a emoininent eneme
ber of Stanford parlor, lawyer, and all
that; and, besides, he rune a maohine, so
he'll kitow,"
"Sin" 'cautioned ono of the group.
"Bruce has ouly. been married it len'
weeks and the thing that would please
him moat would be to ask him how Mrs.
Cornwall pronounces 'chef -fear.'"
Bruce, old maul Glad to eels
you. Aceept niy itotymtulatioriel
by the way, what does your wife cell the
fellow who diives her auto?"
"Well," and Cornwall crimsoned,
"we're all native SOU% together, and
that mind *telling you. She melts Ihn
klearitek "-
To be extieteseeVere you out in ati
tint rain?" asked Mary. d•No," said the
young women front Boston. "I Wee
merely in the portion of the rain th*t
descended hi my immediate vitinity."
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