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THE WOMAN'S JOY. I fondly held upon my knee My new-born baby, frail and wee; With joy all mothers understand I kissed her feet, each little hand. The little eyes that yet I knew Not whether would be brown or blue; Each tiny, dainty, chiseled ear. The pretty face, so dear, so dear. I sang an old, old melody. That oft my mother sang to me, And to my happy, throbbing breast My darling girlie closer pressed. Ah, mothers, if ours be the pain. Ours, too, the bliss, the sacred gain; A grander, sweeter gift God could Not give to us than motherhood. New Orleans Picayune. . .. j, ,i .. ,, .t-4f ! !' 'I1 ' ''' t O you think, father, that hasty marriages aiways turn out badly?" "Well, no, not always. I know a case where a marriage that was not intended turned out very well." 'Not intended? How could that have been?-' "There was a young fellow (he was just 19 years old, and I'll call him Bob) made up his mind that his lot would be bachelorhood. You see, his father and mother had married young, his father had died young, and, the mother being only nineteen years older than Bob, they were more like broth er and sister than mother and son. For this reason Bob scouted marriage for him. "Bob was reading law. One day he went to court, as was his custom, to familiarize himself with the methods of procedure. It was a court of chan cery. The case being tried before the judge was a .claim of a young girl to the estate of an uncle who had re cently died. The girl was in court, and a prettier little piece of the Lord's handiwork never was turned out. At least Bob thought so, and he couldn't keep his eyes off her. It wasn't long before the girl (we'll call her Lucy) no ticed that Bob was looking at her in a way that said plainly as words, 'I ad mire you profoundly.' She blushed a little, looked away, then glanced side wise at him again to see the same ex pression of admiration. She blushed again, which indicated that she re ciprocated. At any rate Bob so In terpreted it. "The maker of the will had left the bulk of his property to his only broth er's son (we'll call him John Doe) and a small sum to Lucy, but as the broth er had married beneath him the tes tator had provided for a passing- of all the property to the oldest son of his sister's child, Lucy. As it would be unsafe to leave the matter long open, Lucy not being married, the will pro vided that If Lucy were married when she came of age the estate was to be left in the hands of trustees for three years. If within that limit she had a son, the estate was to go to that son. " 'Hew old is the claimant?' asked the judge. "'Sne will be 18, replied her coun sel, despondently, 'at noon to-day. n .- 'Is she married?' i " 'No, your honr.' " 'Then,' said the Judge, deliberately, 'I see no reason why, after the hour of noon, I should not set aside her claim and give Judgment to John Doe. In case there is no objection, I will adjourn the court till 2 o'clock. "To see a fortune pass away from this lovely girl was too much for Bob. He was an Impulsive fellow, prone to decide and act quickly. With scarcely a moment for reflection, he grasped wildly for some method of delay. If the girl could appear to be married, she might at least effect a compromise by requiring her opponents to prove that she was not married. It was half past 10 o'clock, and her counsel would have three and a half hours to devise some plan. Bob as a lawyer, knew this, and though the chance was slen der, he staked all on a desperate move. " 'Your honor,' he said, rising, 'the claimant is my wife. "Judge, attorney, spectators, turned to Bob in wonder. " 'Have you proofs of your mar riage? asked the judge. " 'Not at hand.' "'Is that man your husband?' asked the judge of Lucy. "If ever there was Irresistible appeal In a man's eyes.t was In Bob's when he turned them on Lucy. He could not say to her, 'This 4s .merely to gain time,' so he gave her a look which meant, 'I beg of you not to deny what I have stated.' Lucy's eyes remained riveted to his. What was passing in her mind no one knew. She had a de cision to make, and all waited breath lessly to hear it. " 'Yes,' she said. " 'And you,' said the judge, turning to Bot 'do you acknowledge this wom an to be your wife?' " 'Then if you were not married be fore, you are married now. I give Judgment in favor of the claimant.' - "Then, and then only, Bob saw that his intent to stave off a decision had resulted in his marriage to a girl he had never seen before, and had never spoken to. "When the court was adjourned, the claimant, her mother and Bob went in to a private room for consultation. All looked to Bob for an explanation. He made a confession of the whole mat ter. There was nothing to be done but accept the situation. Bob's credentials were presented and found to" be excel lent, and the marriage was consum mated." "And turned out happily?" "The couple have been and are de voted to each other." "But what right had the judge to marry them?" "The secret of that is this: Bob was perfectly well known to him as a stu dent of law (for the judge was a pro fessor in the law school Bob attend ed) and had a very good opinion of the young man. More than that, the judge saw that a nice little girl was about to be deprived of a fortune for the want of' a husband. He knew I was lying-" - "You, father! You don't mean" WRUNG MILLIONS FROM POOR. ,AL ADAMS MAKING DOORMATS AT SING SING. Al Adams, the New York "policy king," who has wrung millions from the poor. Is wearing the stripes of a felon in Sing Sing prison. Originally Adams was a brakemen. He became runner for a policy manipulator, and finally gained a monopoly of the business in New York City. His wealth is estimated at $2,500,000. A brewery is included among his possessions. He owns much real estate. His dupes were typical policy players the poorest of the. city's population. His methods were cold-blooded almost beyond belief. If the drawings had been fairly conducted his profits would have been enormous. His prac tice, however, was to delay the drawings until nearly all the slips had been sold. Then It was arranged that the numbers drawn should be those that required the payment of the smallest amount in prizes. Adams has been a miser, with two exceptions. He has showered gold upon his family and has been extremely generous In his payments for police protection. His one great ambition has been to have his children received in good society; to see them on even terms with refined, educated people. His son was sent through one of the big colleges and his daughters to fashionable schools for young ladies. They studied music in Europe and are highly accomplished. Adams hoped they would be able to make there friends that would open the gates of society to them later on. He was disappointed. He installed his family in a splendidly furnished house. The guests he hoped for did not come. The house burned and he. removed to a fine hotel, under the belief that there the character of his business might not interfere with the social aspirations of his children. Again he ' was disappointed. Adams, broken in health and weighted' with sorrow, is wearing out his life in a cell. He has but one desire. It Is that he may be spared to live the end of his term; that at least It may not be said he 'died In prison. He is now making doormats. Boyce's Weekly. "That I am :Bob? Yes, I am. You should forgive your father for the lie, my boy, because you are Lucy's old est son, and by it I not only provided for your being, but gained you a for tune at the same time." "Father, I forgive you. There are times when a lie Is Invaluable." In dianapolis Sun. HAD ENOUGH OF ARTILLERY. Rustic Gentleman Creates Amusement at a Band Performance. An amusing incident occurred at a concert by Thomas Preston Brooke and his famous band during a recent tour of the New England States. Among the early arrivals at the opera house were an elderly gentleman and his wife from the country and they were shown to seats well toward the front of the house. When the curtain arose, revealing the fifty musicians attractively group ed on the stage, their natty uniforms and resplendent instruments complet ing a picture of dazzling effect, the old gentleman from the rural district was all enthusiasm. "Gee whilliken, Man da, be they all goin' to play at onct?" he .ejaculated, to the amusement of ev eryone seated near him. A . storm of applause greeted the re nowned bandmaster when he appeared on the stage, which seemed to mysti fy our old friend. . "That's a fine-look-in feller, but he ain't played nuthin yet," said he. "What's all this hulla baloo about, anyway? Is he goin' to play a tune on that huskln' peg?" Just at this moment Brooke's baton was raised, there was an Instant of eager expectancy and then the band struck up a stirring march. When the music had ceased the old gentleman was In ecstasies. He applauded and stamped bis feet rigorously, then jumped up out of his chair, waving his hands in the air and whistling like a gallery god. When his wife pulled him back Into his seat he shouted: "By crlcky, Manda, I never heard such music as that before. Seth Tlbbltts and his old fiddle, don't amount to shucks!" And so It continued throughout the concert, Uncle Reuben growing "more enthusiastic with each number. Near the end of the program was the anvil chorus from "II Trovatore," rendered with spectacular appurtenan ces. . During this selection six red shirted blacksmiths occupied the front of the stage and played the anvil ac companiment to the music, while a sen sational effect was produced by the H l .J I ."I I S M ' I h. 1 I w B ar ja There are quite a large number of people who think that no one but a professional can really know anything about photography, and there Is a very general tendency to look upon every amateur photographer, no matter how expert, as distinctly the inferior of the professional, even of the fourth and fifth rate professional, whereas, the facts of the case are, that many amateurs may be found who in skill and attainments are fully the equal, if not the .superior, of the best professionals, while the fouth'and fifth rate gentlemen are easily outclassed by any number of amateurs scat tered through the land. There are professionals who have but the merest smattering of knowledge of their craft. They stick to Just one branch of their art. work by rule of thumb, and when called upon to travel outside of their chosen rut are just as much at firing of sixteen electric cannon at reg ular intervals. When the first gun was fired the rus tic dodged excitedly and began to get nervous. The next discharge added to his discomfort, and when the third cannon went off he grabbed his hat and started hastily for the door, fol lowed by his faithful spouse. As they disappeared through the en trance the old man shouted back at the doorkeeper: "B'gosh, I got enough o' that kind o music at Shlloh!" Chi- cago Chronicle. ' - A Familiar Face. The genial bishop of New York and the most famous of English-speaking actors doubtless have already much In common with one another, says a writ er In the Philadelphia Press. Were there nothing else, however, they have both been victims of a similar misun derstanding of a kind which is pecu liarly the product of twentieth century fame. Every one is familiar with the story of Henry Irving, arrested in his walk down the main street of a small English town by the earnest gaze of a Bmall girl and of her triumphant an swer to his pleasant remark, "You seem to recognize my face, my little maid," "Yes, sir, you're one of Grand grind's pills!" . .Bishop Potter had nearly the same luck when traveling some years ago in Minnesota. He noticed a fellow tourist, while waiting on a railway platform, eyeing him with great curi osity. "Excuse me, mister," he was eventually asked, "but I think I've seen your picture In the papers." "Prob ably," admitted the bishop. "Kin I ask," continued the fellow traveler, edging nearer, "what you was cured of?" Died a Natural Death. Jolyely I submitted some humorous sketches here several days-ago. , They haven't appeared. Did you kill them? Editor I passed upon them, but I don't think that killed them. Jolkely No? v Editor No. I think they just died naturally " of old age. Philadelphia Press. Wrong Girt. -A student kissed a girl twice after taking her home from an evening en tertalnment. " She reported him and he was deprived of a $75 scholarship. Bet that girl goes to entertainments alone hereafter. Buffalo Express. maimr V V3 hofparaphti sea as any beginner amc&g amateur. ' A WOMAN WHO RULED. Prince Bismarck's wife was note worthy for her executive ability and for her independence. The Princess attached little value to articles of lux ury, unless they were connected In her memory with some distinct trait of human kindness. In writing of her in "Personal Reminiscences of Prince Bismarck." Mr.' Whitman says that in her unceasing care for her family and her guests the Princess showed to what extent a wife, a mother, a mis tress of a household can sacrifice her own convenience in identifying herself with the wants and wishes of others. No general in command could sur vey a battlefield more completely than Princess Bismarck controlled a dinner- table. She was in supreme command and overlooked everything. There was at times something not far from heroic in this,, seeing that she was often hardly able to keep awake. There she would sit, not touching a morsel. Yet in .spite of her suffering from asthma, at times scarcely able to draw a breath, her eye was everywhere, controlling, ministering, seeing that everybody was attended to and satis fied. If the conversation at table turned on a fresh delicacy of the Beason, or a new dish, or the predilection ex pressed by a ghiest, the chanceB were that one or the other would make its appearance the next day. While at table she would whisper a few words to one of her servants to give a mes sage to the cook to add some item to the very dinner in progress. Nor was it only from a desire to humor the taste of her husband that Princess Bismarck showed such vigi lance in controlling the wheels of the domestic machinery. All her house hold, domestic servants included, were the objects of her constant solicitude. NEW MODEL FISH TRAP As the old saying, "Every man to his taste," still holds good, and some fish ermen will swear by genuine live bait only, a New Englan. Inventor proposes to provide it for them as easily as' pos sible; hence, the ingenious little fish trap shown In the accompanying pic ture: Its principle is similar to that of the large fish nets used on the "sea shore, where the fish find their way through openings at the apex of a V-shaped net into a large holding net. In this case the tubular receiving net has glass cones at either end, with small opening at the apex, through which the fish find their way into the CATCHES LIVE BAIT FOB FISHERMEN. interior. It may be wise to place a small quantity of bait inside the trap, which the fish will quickly spy through the transparent cones, working their way toward It until they find the open ings and pass in. It will be seen that one of the cones Is tilted on its pivot pins, this feature affording' a - handy means of access to the interior, or enabling the cone to be reversed to drop the contents of the trap into it for selection and assorting. If the trap is supplied with the necessary bait and immersed for a short time along the shore of a stream or lake. It will be found to contain the live minnows sought for, according to the Inventor. John E. Hill, of Center Harbor, N. H., is the patentee. Fair Front for Carmen. A conductor of a Sixth avenue car, during a lull In the ringing of fares, stood passing coins from one hand to the other, turning up the dates of each coin as he did so. "There are more ways of making money than by 'knocking down' fares," he remarked, noting the inquiring look on a passen ger's face. "Any greenhorn can pock et a dozen nickels in collecting 120 fares in a car built for forty-eight pas sengers, but a man has got to know something to spot a coin that has a premium value. "It's surprising how many more or less rare coins pass current without falling Into hands of. someone who knows their value. This was suggest ed to me one day, and I took to study ing the catalogues of dealers in rare coins and memorizing the dates of those that are worth more than the prices stamped- on them. Since then I have picked out of the money I have taken In fares several hundred coins with a premium value ranging from a few-cents to $5, and have redeemed them with my own money and sold them to dealers in coins." New York Times. ' Method in Her Madness. The feminine coterie was holding a garrulous powwow In the .' drawing room, when suddenly a mouse loomed up amid the scenery. It was all of the fair ones in a go-as-you-please race to the lawn with the exception of one maid of more or lees uncertain years. "Why didn't you run, too?" asked the strong man who rushed gallantly to the rescue. "I I was ln- h-hopes," sobbed she of the unrecorded birthday anniversar ies, "that I m-might be scared out of s-several years g-growth if I re-remained." Whereupon the strong man took on a sympathetic look and said never , a word. . Diaflg-nredt and Ont of the Hunt. - Banby But why have you thrown Charlie overboard? Maude I couldn't marry a man with a broken nose, you know. Banby Ah! I wonder how he got his nose broken, poor fellow? . Maude Oh, I struck him playing tennis! Pick Me Up. ' Faber: The art of saying appropri ate words in a kindly way is one that never goes out of fashion, and Is with in the reach of the humblest. HOUSEWIVES IN AMERICA AND EUROPE. - Br Oel Aumtrimm. Many American women declare that the trials of housekeeping are becoming so manifold that after a few years of arduous labor they are seized with nervous prostration. To one traveling abroad it is Interesting to compare the responsi bilities of the foreign housewife and her Ameri can sisters. While In Dresden I met a woman who gave me much Information concerning this question as it appears in Germany. One day she A showed me through her home, artistic in house was full of sunshine and fragrant odors given off by potted plants. The place bespoke ease rather than beau ty. There were plenty of comfortable chairs to be found; attractive prints and etchings were everywhere on the walls, and the library was well stocked with books. After she had shown me through I remarked that she must have many servants to keep so large a place In order. She answered, "I suppose my home would appear a great deal more attractive than it does If I kept more servants. You see, I only have a cook, chambermaid, and a woman to help with the washing and ironing two days out of the week. Your women have so many more Interests than we. We have no clubs and classes that demand our time. Besides making up the bedrooms, I keep the sitting room and my husband's library in order and do the week's mend ing. My afternoons are given to reading and an occasional call or 'Kaffee Klatsch.' Besides, most of the men in Ger many come home at noon, bo we have dinner at 12 and a cold supper in the evening. Our husbands lay much stress on their food. Though a woman does not always do her own cooking. It is taken for granted that she will superin tend her kitchen. We do all our own marketing and rarely order anything over the telephone. The German woman -Is not expected to attain social position for her husband nor sustain It. Her function is to please him, look after her home, and bring up the children." The French woman is probably the best housekeeper in the world. She is devoted to her home and to her family. Her household is exceptionally clean and attractive, though she manages to do it with few servants.. If she does not assist In the kitchen, she superintends it; she sees that the table cloths and napkins are snow white and that the table is set with taste. She Is equally particular about her own appearance and that of her children. The English are excedlngly simple and unaffected in their homes. They desire comfort more than luxury. Still, in the family the husband Is considered the head of the house hold. He -limits the weekly expense and no improvement is made in the household without his beteg consulted first. If expenses are to be- cut it is ,ni wife whe is expected to get along with one servant Jess! An English woman will live on a leg of mutton served hot on Sunday" and warmed up In different styles during the week so that her husband can frequent his club, enjoy oysters and partridge. Notwithstanding that the English are hearty eaters, they live simply. The household is managed with great econ omy, dinner in the evening being the only elaborate meal of the day. CONSTANCY MAY BE CARRIED TO EXCESS. Br Helen OldfleU. Constancy in love Is a virtue much lauded of romancers. Yet It may be carried to excess when the love is not reciprocated constancy is foolish, and when the beloved Is bound to another, , instead of a virtue it becomes a vice. Even when neither pride nor duty forbids one to worship at the old shrine, when death has broken the tie, the laws of the land sanction a second lore, and th hearts of men incline thereto. We all know second marriages which are indubitably happy. It is a merciful providence for humanity that wounds of the heart, for the most part, heal even more readily than those of the body. There are few people comparatively who marry their first loves, nor is this fact always a misfortune. George Eliot, naturally, disbelieved in first love. "Why," she asks, "should a man's first love be his best? Does the artist or the musician produce his masterpieces at the beginning A BRAINY WOMAN. Western Beantr Who la the Head of a Bin Klectrical Knterprise. . A beauty with brains is one defini tion of the word anomaly. A synonym for it is Mrs. Iva E. Tutt, of Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Tutt . has - more beauty than most women and more brains than most men. At present she is engaged in a $3,000,000 enter prise in Arlaona, the erection of two electric power plants which will supply power ex clusively for min ing purposes. The UBS. IV A X. TTJTT project i a big one. It means that the mining industry of Arizona will be revolutionized by the Introduction of a power which will cost but one third as much as the power now in use. . The scheme is Mrs. Tutt' s own. While on a visit to Arizona she dis covered two unused water rights which could be had at a fair price and a promise to organize a company and proceed with the storage of the water and the development of electrical cur rent. Mrs.. Tutt contracted for the water rights, took out her engineering party, followed the transit every step of the way back to the mountains, where few men and no women had ever gone before, to the bead of Fos sil creek, and returned with all plans formulated for the prosecution of the work. . Last, and by no means simplest, was the" financiering of the enterprise. The fact that she was willing to risk her own money in the scheme helped Mrs. Tutt in ; interesting additional capital, and two companies were form ed, one to erect a 6,000 horse-power plant, the other 14500. Of both' com panies Mrs. Tutt is vice president and general manager, and all that the rest of the stockholders know about the work la what she reports to them from time to time. She has entire charge of the construction work, with head quarters at . Prescott, Ariz., and the directorate is so divided that whenever Mrs. Tutt happens to be, whether In Prescott or Los Angeles, there is a quorum and a .meeting can be held. DIAMONDS FROM THE 8KIE8. Theory that Preclene Stones Came to Earth aa Meteorites. Diamonds from the skies, conveyed to earth in meteoric showers, la a the ory first broached by Meydenbauer. The diamond, he says, can be of cos mic origin only, having fallen as a meteorite at a late period of the earth's formation. ; The- localities where dia monds are found contain the residues of not very compact meteoric ma sees which may hare fallen in historic aires If SSpj its simplicity. The tne moon, and turns overhead. Is a fool; reaaiiy loses tne old tnH-nrA I. -Kill SHALL SOCIETY SHARE IN TRUST BENEFITS. Br fretferlct M. Taylor, rrotesmor of Political Kconemr. JOYS OF A VACATION SPENT UNDER CANVAS IN THE WOODS MORE and more popular Is camp life becoming each year, says Country Life in America. With those who go into the deep woods in aueet of big game and fish the camp life is. after alL the real attrac- Itlon. and not the mere desire to kill. But where one can make these trips, there are thousands who cannot. For these there are peaceful rivers, wood-girt lakes and ponds and beautiful spots on the shores of Old Neptune available for quite as charming a two weeks' outing beneath canvas. In making up a camping party, choose you such congenial spirits as shall be ,. forsworn to philosophical optimism. And let there be a wag among them. who, catching tne numor or every situanon, puis to mgnt aii mougnt or discount. A level site near a spring with plenty of shade, a pleasant sheet ' of water with good fishing, pine boughs for a bed and drift wood for a fire, and who would trade his life for a king's patrimony? How delicious the fish flavored with the pungent smoke of the fire! How rarely satisfying the simple bill of fare, and how few, after all. are the needs of this life! Yours Is the joy and happy freedom of he gypsy and vagabond. You have become a species of civilized barbarian, and It is good. Sunshine and shower, wnat matters it? xou taae wnar comes ana give tnanxs, and if ; you are of the right sort some of the beauty of each Is absorbed into your very nature. , Long days, lazy days but happy days, are the days in camp. Hap and mishap will don the Jester's cap and bells and parade through the memory many a time during the after months. and penetrated more or less deeply ac cording to the more or less resistent character of the surface where they fell. 1 . The most striking confirmation of the theory comes from Arizona. Here on a broad plain over an area about five miles in diameter . were scattered 1,000 to 2,000 masses of metallic iron, the fragments weighing from-half a ton to a fraction of an ounce. There Is little doubt these masses formed part of a meteoric shower, although no rec ord, exists as to when the fall took place. Curiously enough, near the cen ter where most of. the meteorites have been found Is a ' crater with ragged edges, three-quarters of a mile in di ameter and about 600 feet deep, bear ing exactly the . . appearance which would be produced bad a mighty mass of iron or falling star struck the ground, scattering In all directions, and burled Itself under the surface. Dr. Foote In cutting a section of this me teorite, found the tools were injured by something vastly harder than me tallic iron. He examined the speci men chemically and soon after an nounced to the scientific world that the Arizona meteorite contained black and transparent, diamonds. This discovery was verified by Profs. Friedel and Noissan, who found that it contained three varieties of carbon, diamond, graphite and amorphous carbon. Glacial Ae Near Ita End. "European engineers have been con gratulating themselves that, although the coal mines may fail, they have in the Alpine glaciers inexhaustible sources of energy. The melting of the glacier ice gives rise to mountain tor rents whose fall Is being utilized more and more, especially since the . elec tric transmission of power has more Mil of his career?" Thackeray tells us that "every man ought to be In love a few times and have a sharp attack of the faver." It is often a blessing when one is torn ruthlessly from one's first love. The mad devotion of a college boy for a woman in the thirties Is as unlike to the steady flame of bis manhood as the flare of a straw heap is to the warmth of an anthracite fire, while the infatuation of a girl of 17 is rarely felt for the sort of man whom a woman of 25 would choose for her husband. The true philosophy of life is contentment. "In what soever state ye are. therewith to be content." This Is the victory which overcometh the world. He who cries for bis back upon the electric light blazing while the man who has only a rush- "S" vim rauac 10 rejoice mat ae bii uoi la uanmesB. When one cannot have what one wants, it Is the part of . wisdom to accept what one can get and make the best of It. Oftentimes that best will be for better than at first seemed possible. -Most tastes In life are acquired, and the blackest bread, eaten with a hearty appetite, has a' sweeter relish than the whitest loaf of princes If the "cake bread" be watered with tears. Heartache is bitter, but memory in tne presence of the new. Fever is I iv nu-- l . . i I avvttcu wj tiuu, auu uwu viw rwvieri. iae laiesi lore la always the one which is loved. The utterances of President Roosevelt regard-;, lng the trusts emphasise the question whether or not their permanence is fully assured. In recent newspaper comment much stress has been placed on the throwing of people out of employment. This is claimed one of their greatest advantages, for throwing people out of employment by mak ing their services unnecessary is merely insuring that the sum total of our wants shall be satisfied at smaller cost. Another evil generally charged to the trust is the maintenance of outrageously high prices, but we would probably be able In most cases to take 'refuge in the -use of substitutes. The gas monopoly, the electric monopoly, find competitors In each other, as well as in the new inventions like acetylene gas, or old friends like kerosene. Again, if any one trust push its advantage too far, it will Inevitably 'stimulate competition of allied trusts. . If it demands such a high price that there is profit to be made at this price, then competition inevitably springe up. The existence of the trust depends on its not exacting from the public the highest price which could be paid. - It must be admitted that the trust leads to a vast saving- In. human effort. The great consolidation saves in the uttHzatlo of material. Tne great factory has se much waste thai te establish fey-tndestrtes. Again, it carries out la.t-he comfrfetest way the prlaciple of geograph ical specialization. The school furniture trust, for example,- will not call upon the Boston factory, to furnish a school building in Omaha, but will give the order to the particular plant that is nearest to the point. Another ad vantage promised is a greater freedom from industrial storms, panics and depressions. Unrestricted competition is wasteful and often dangerous to quiet, orderly progress. In a crisis there is no unity of action. It is "each man for himself." ,Glgantic?combinatlons naturally enough move on more steadily. Competition Is shut out It is, therefore, pretty certain that the industrial cyclone would be much less likely. Thorough-going socialists welcome the process of consolidation among warring industries. One after another, they say, these Industries will be organized Into trusts and these trusts In turn will consolidate, until all Industrial activity Is united In one universal monopoly, whereupon the state will take possession and the socialistic goal will have been attained. Just what form of regula tion the trust will take it is hard to predict. It Is proba ble that, first, a fairly sharp distinction will be made be tween those Industrial Institutions which may be left to the ordinary forces of competition and those which need regulation. A few thoroughly consolidated Industrial in terests will probably be brought under the direct control of the public. The remainder will then be left in the hands of private individuals, but will be subjected to sharp regula tion, with such degree of publicity, in accounting as -shall Insure the safeguarding of the rights and interests of the public. . nearlv anuroached Derfection. The s-la. cler is thus a mine of stored energy nH 1a bA TlA haon tAfnuvliat lcally termed '"white coal." But if the researches of some recent to be relied on the glaciers may fall us some , day as well as the coal mines. It appears that the glaciers, not only of the Alps, but also of other conti nental mountain ranges, are shrinking, in some cases imperceptibly, and In oth ers almost visibly. Of course this may be only one swing .of the pendulum and continued observation may show that It will be followed In future years by a proportionate increase, so it may be as well not to Indulge in too dismal forebodings. Success. . Has a Wonderful Timepiece. One of the most wonderful watches In iha bpitM la that nvnaH n-rA .4 - by Major Dopplng-Hepenstal of the Royal Engineers. It is a comparative ly small watch, not much bigger than an ordinary lever, but it performs a variety of services in addition to tell ing the time. It rings an alarm bell in the morning to wake its owner, then it proceeds to light a spirit lamp and boil a kettle of water, and finally pours the boiling water Into a small teapot. The Prince of Wales witnessed the wonderful performances of this watch and partook of a cup of tea which it made for his royal highness. Knew Her Intimately. Dolly What would you do, Cholly, If you were rich? , Cholly Well, Dolly, if I were rich enough to be perfectly reckless I think I would propose to you. Somerville Journal. , fJrtMln isn't rfsl hart nnloma Ha aT1. lng of It makes an hour seem like two