WISH TO LIVE FOREVER.

tS THE DESIRE FOR IIIMORTALIT/ UNIVERSAL?

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A novel Investleatlon ha* Ju*t been inltlatt-il by the Society tor Psychical

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accounts of experiments In telepathy, mind reading, crystal gazing, spirit communications, finding water and metals with the divining rod. and kindred phenomena Indicating the existence of faculties unlike those common-

ly supposed to belong to man. stories have been subjected to s

orate sifting and scrutiny and efforts - h*'c been made to secure corroborative evidence from additional witnesses. Finally, some of the experts of

the society have tal fact left after that

to Interpret It indicating to what^extent these strange narratives were ex-

on strictly natun : advancing theorii

count for the more mysterious incl-

’ dents.

The latest undertaking of this organization differs from all Us earlier work, in that It seeks to ascertain the sentiments of all its members and as many outsiders as possible on a question of almost universal interest It Is proposed to ask people bluntly whether or not they wish for a future life. Pains are taken in the census

between a belief in and a desire for immortality. Unless one has considered the point he may think there If no difference. But a little reflection will show that a man may eagerly desire a continuance of existence after death while disbelieving that such a fate Is possible, and, on the other hand, that one might be convinced that bis life would continue beyond the grave and yet not be pleased at

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it the Sodet, i wishes to a

at the r Psy-

how general is the desire. Dr. Richard Hodgson, secretary of ^the AmericaifTlTanch (No. 5 Boylston place, Boston), has Issued a circular on the subject. He remarks that "there Is a widespread literary-tradi-tion that men naturally desire a future life." But both the ordinary conduct of men and the sporadic utterances of individuals excite a doubt on this point. Indeed, in India it is corn-

in’the A idhridas

ty. which fact creates even more uncertainty. Hence the desirability of eliciting definite expression of senti-

ment from a consider

intelligent people.

The society has about 1000 meml

United Kingdom and

t from a considerable number of

llgent e'sodi

In the Ui

half as many more on this side, of

s many more on this lantic, IF'the majority s woihd reply to Dr. Hi

of these

the Atlant

persons woiii'd reply

catechism a fair beginning Would be made. But if the members were to become canvassers and distribute the society's circular freely, It might be possible to get returns by the thousand. These, says the Americas secretary, would be instructive to both psychologists and religious teachers. The Information thus derived would

) outline human r precision, and

aid the latter in adapting their exhortations to man’s cravings. Although no effort is being made to ascertain the prevalence, of mere belief In as distinguished from desire for

FACTS ABdUT TROUT ECCS.

uture l_ . 7 culsr here mentioned recognizes the fact that some people accept the doctrine of immortality readily as a mal- . ter of faith, whereas others would like to supplement their faith with a scientific demonstration, if such a thing were feasible. ’That inclination has drawn a good many people, scientific and unscientific, to consult so-called mediums. Or. If they cotM not get access to a medium in whoin they bad confidence, at least they wert much interested In the published stories of such experiments as Professor Hyslop has with Mra. Piper. It la said of the late F. W. H. Myers, one of the apostles of the Society for Psychical Research. that his chief quest was for scientific evidence o^. a future life. These circumstances have led to the introduction of a question into. the circular Just issued designed to ascertain whether the person who answers is willing to take immortality os faith alone or would like a different kind of evidence. The questions are as fol-

lows:

First—Won death or notl Second—If yes, do you desire a future life whatever the conditions might be? If you do not wish for a future what would its chan o make the prospect hie? Would you be content with a life more or leas like your present one?’ Can you say what elements in life (If any) call for Its perpetuity? Third—Can you stats why you feel In this way'

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II Take* A bon! S.5O0 of Tkotai Is nil ■

Quart Moaoar*.

A few days ago 1 lifted a tray of trout eggs "from a trough in one-of the state hatcheries in the Adlronnnd apparently there were two t kind? of eggs on the tray, kind consisted of small white and the other of large reddish Its. >’rt both were from the same species ot fish. The large eggs were from a brown trout, a wild fish, taken In one of the nets while the men were netting white fish. The small white eggs were taken from n brown trout, about the same size as the other, that

was captured last year from the same-

pond, and It had been In the stock

ponds Just one year.

All fish eggs are measured as they come Into a hatchery, as that is the beginning of the count of fish that result from the eggs, but eggs differ greatly In size from the same species, and they have to be counted and counted again. The tray* In a hatchery trough are all of the same size, 25 1-2 by 12 1-2 Inches, Inside measurement. and they will hold from 7000 to 9000 lake trout eggs and from 12.000 to 14,000 brook trout eggs, but

cannot be spread on e a trustworthy- com

egg» have been counted by the square inch, but an actual square inch will

itain many more eggs than a t) retlcal square inch based on the n

Q,

tbeonum-

llneal Inch. Quarts

eggs who

ber ot eggs to a

and quarts have been counted, and fluid ounces are now continually counted to determine the number of eggs in a

standard quart

Here

United States fish commlssloi number ot rainbow trout eggs to a quart, made at different times and places—6975. 6624. 6536-and with this for a basis one would be on the safe aide to call each quart 6500 eggs, for an allowance must always be made, and Is made, if the man who measures

the et

fry thst he reports when the hatching is finished, but tbeife Is another count 7626 eggs The last count la from fa ot domesticated fish, and the man insures the eggs must hare one count for wild eggs and another for stock eggs. —

Thli

two reports thst days One foreman bad sent to the foreman of another hatchery some whlteflsh eggs. The first man replied that he had sent 160 quarts of eggs and the second man reported that be

ance In his measurement Each man had reported at a central point without knowing the figures of the other, so. od the face of ii the flrrt man had sent 5.520.000 eggs and the second man had received 5.630,400 eggs, or an Increase of 110,400 eggs In transit, allowing 30.800 eggs to a quart- - In counting eggs by measure much depends on the trustworthiness of'the men who do the measuring, that large eggs are not counted as small ones, and that the proper standard of eggs to a quart Is used. Once I found s man using a standard of 44.000 whlte-

and he Believed

and he had no Idea of

tion of a future Ufa to be port'nee to your mental comfort? ‘mh—Have your feelings on qi lions one. two, and four underg change? It so, when sad iu w

*ay»? \

Sixth—Would you like to know certain about the future Hte. or wi you prefer -to leave It s matter

fish eggs to a quart,

te was right,

lecelving the commission that em-

for JMHIp

figures by measuring a lineal Inch of eggs and squaring them, but eggs in a square Inch do not naturally occupy a position where the nadir of an egg in one layer coincides wjth the senlth of the eggs below 1L The safe way in figuring fish eggs is to cbnnt a part

Hot*** Kaew the Kooa Hour. A pair of intelligent horses attracted the attention of a large crowd

st. They were at-

tached to a heavily loaded ice wagon copiing down the steep grade between Cedar street and Maiden lane and were holding back the wsgon with s noiblc effort. Whjn they were half down the whistles blew for 12

w In ■lant

Vi-hsn they

way down the whistles hie o'clock. Suddenly the horses drew toward the curve and began to pli

their hind feet well forward to stop

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The' driver made no effort to check them and their bard work at once attracted notice. Pedestrians looked st the horses and then at the- driver, who had a broad grin on bis fsce. By turd work the wagon was stopped. The driver sm still and watched the

animals Onoof them immediately be-

gan ratolng his head against the neck of the other and with nods and pushes succeeded In robbing his bridle off. Then the other took his torn at rubbing. and bis bridle came off. . Fully 200 persons had watched this,

and when it was completed the driver

got down from his eeat and swung Ti bag of oats from over the nose of each animal. They stood there and ate their mid-day meal. The driver was pettent and proud of his team. He petted them end talked to them, and

whistling.

“Talk about the laboring man d pinr-'hls shovel at the sound c neon whistlesaid one man. beats anything I ever saw. '

1 try to convince me < ce of the horse. Thi

»ew Ik*

Is a tatter from tbs FfcUiwUea. , Kansan sold.** wrote: T was down to the island of Borneo last meat want out to see the equator. It i -

ssisrayar*’* jri-s—— 1

TRAPPING ON THE EASTERN SHORE. Heater* Hake Th.lr Urteg from sale* of Otter, Metkret end Kick. Bute Senator William F. Applegarth. of Dorchester county, ‘arrived in Baltimore on Sunday on the steamer Trod Avon witu 25,000 otter, mink and muskrat skins, valued aj about IG000, which he had collected from the trappers ot his county. The senator said: “Much of the southern part of Dor-

ed of lo»

Into uqall Island*

shores

the Black-

water and Hongs rivers thread theli way. It la the Ideal home of aquatic

animals. Ever since the

marshy land, cut up Into sma and peninsulas, about whoa the fresh water streams of tl

fur-bearing i /hides of the

have done a thriving trade In the capire of them, and they are practically, i plentiful now as ten years ago. “The otters have not held up against their persecutors so successfully, sod have now become very rare. There are

yet many minks In some favored sections. and in my immediate neighborMl about 200 were captured durti I last season. In Lake'! ere I operate, there are

of that number

Iona. iood about 200 were captured In Lake’s district.

100

trappers, but of that number ajjput ten procured the majority of the ^S.OOO skins which I have just brought to tha

most entirely upon the product of their marshes as a means of support, and through the proceeds coming from fish, isls and wild duck during the winseason arc enabled to live very comfortably. Cabins or shanties are erected upon or near the marshes, and during the trapping season, which lasts from January i to March 31, they live practically upon the marshes. Some of the most successful own their rmhes. and many others rant either for shares or s money rent from owners. A hundred seres are considered s large range for one man to hunt over, and usually, upon a good marsh. 25 seres worked thoroughly will produce as many petti sa s larger area covered Insufficiently. “The trappers are hardy fellows, who can stand any amount of exposMost of them'have been raised from boyhood upon the marshes and the traits necessary for a good trapper are instilled into thefr youthful minds from the start. The men frequently work several hundred steel traps. Very little shooting is done but sticking rats with gigs which pierce through their houses when the tide covers tha ihes is yet extensively pursued. As many aa a hundred rats are sememes speared by one man during a ly’s hunt. - “Women baev also been known to

LgWIS T. STtVKNS.

prove seen I

the traps.** The prices this Season are but little rent from those of last. Rat skins in Baltimore at wholesale at It cents for brown and,2S cents for black. Mink skins bring from <1 to 12 each.— Baltimore San.

differ sell i

The stranger In China la struck with the number of children that he sees wearing earrings. On Investigation he finds that most of them are boys. Aa the grown boys and the men do not wear earrings the stranger inquires why the little .boys wear them. “To keep the spirits from carrying them or’ says the Chinese philosopher. The stranger asks how earrings will keep the spirits from carrying the children tsff and he hears this: The boy is the greatest blessing that heo-

The spirits like boy ural that they should,

everybody likes them Very often if

the boy ly the

spirits who are

around grab up the unwatched boy babe and carry him off to their home. Girl babies are not such blessings and the spirits care nothing for them. The earring is a feminine ornamact and the spirits know that, so the Chinese mothers hare the cars of their boy babies pierced, and put in huge earrings. When the spirits are around looking for boys they will sea the aar-

hsnee immeasurably his human nlty. Here more than in anything else has he the chance to’ reveal himself for the best that he Is. If he hss had the good fortune to experience a true attachment for a being worthy of It. to have given a lovely and worthy expression to hit passlch-becomes. on the personal side, probably , his most enduring monument. Moxt great men's love-letters are disappointing; most great men have, on the whole, been unlucky in their attachments, or in the objects of them. Their epistolary outpourings at this point have, for t below the surface of

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