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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. NOVERniER 12, 1S53. Tihe Business 77- on m iiiiome .um W man s-s e . r . Mil St-" By Mrs. Mary Wtogro ve Balkan T Is .ungracious ana iitnuoi - statement to ake, yt u w " ! the less e true one, tost mon "thir affect resultant "from th entrance - of wdmen Into buelneae Hf there ha been a larg Increase In th octal aril, and a decadencs of home life. ' - .-.-.; :. '. . ."-;, That womrn In business I, an evil is fait coming to ba reeog nlsed aa a fact, ran though admitted aa an acceptable uMt ! leainrlly known that In 1M private Ufa the-business woman la rapidly becoming an evil of a mostuo acceptable kind. i. "" . Thla atatement will perhapa seem un erceaMryllr harah. even cruel, to many self-respecting and respectable- young women who toll for their dally bread, but front their own existence they moil testify aa to the truth. And, indeed. It til bound to be ao, from the Tory force of circumstance which' aurround the llf ct a working $drU-T ' "Going out to business1 haa become a erase among the women of the present generation, yet little mora than one half of those who go out from their homes to meet employment really need to da aa And It Is among their class that ths larger percentage . of ,-, Immorality if found,' ' ',, " 'v V Why, then do parents permit their children to embrace a business career! T hey ought to know something of th vile their daughtera will have to en counter, and yet they encourage Ignor ant girls Just nut of school to enter the busy whirl. The reason la not far to eeek. It Is largely through the pre vailing weakness of a love of display. . It la the custom of the day- to live extravagantly. , People modest in comes ape ths wealthy. Mothers atrug gla to give their daughtera the same ad vantage that other mothers of large means bestow upon their children. Even their amusements must ba of a fashion able kind.. ' "'.-.' '! It needs but little discernment to un derstand the trials and temptations of a girl who goes regularly Into the world of business. She is constantly associ ated with other girl a, -too many of whom, leading immoral Uvea themselves, stand ready to lend a hand to help an other down the same path. Or she may fee hrought Into dally contact with men of little principle, who feel that a work ing girl la their legitimate prey. In either ' case , ths temptation ; comes through , the very' things upon which her parents have taught her to set a fclgh value freely, luxury, extravagant amusements. Parents are not Ignorant of these con ditions. - They only close their eyes to the facta, hoping that their daughtera may be made of stronger material than those who err, and. for the sake of show and useless worldly advantsges, con tinue to let them be subject to Immoral Influences, discourtesies end inatgnttle of various kinds. ' Power o! the .aWat-av. By Max Nordav wX former times pobllo opinion was I something Intangible; it had no I I substance,' no defined outlines; It V was formed ao one knew bow; It . was composed of a thousand fragment aryi traits, from the casual expressions r.f some prince or dignitary, from the --rrfgnificaot headahaklaga of some worthy - tradesman surrounded by his boon coin ' pan Ions, from the gossip of some old woman In an afternoon call, la the mar- ket or In the spinning room. 1 It first assumed definite form In that Jurisdiction of honor Imposed, not by the written laws, but by custom, which each' order, but especially the close corporations, exercised upon its mem ber,, and whose sentence of condem nation, without appeal, annihilated the culprit, morally, with, more - certainty than the decree of an official court. . Today, on the contrary, public opin ion la a firmly organised power in possession of an organ that la recog nised throughout the world as its au thorised representative, and this organ Is the press, .The importance of the press In our modern civilisation ia beyond all cal culation; Its existence, the place it filial la the life of the individual, as well as of the community, gives its ton to our age far more than' all the wonderful scientific Inventions which hsve trsns ""Torm ea' socftmpleteTy-ThSTB StrtaT"S.noT Intellectual conditions of out- existence. The remarkable development of the newspaper press hss kept paoa with these Inventions and Is one of their reaulta. -' v. It is consequently difficult. to consider our modern newspaper apart from these Inventions, but there is no doubt that - the trait aunnllsd br the existence of our modern press in the physiognomy - or our moaern civilisation is wmi m ; tlngulshes it more emphatically from all former civilisations than all the other traits which characterise modem ' life. - - '' , It Is a fact that today no stata can ' be governed nor laws enforced perma nently without the cooperation of the press or against Its resistance. What Is the explanation of this Influ ence? The attempt has been made, to ascribe It to its share In commerce and ; trade, but I do riot consider It necessary . te enter into controversy with a mind Don't Wound the By Beatrice Fairfax N" EXT door to m there Uvea little girt. She Is, I -should say, year : - ' of age. and quite the most for lorn, unhappy little mortal I have ever een. - - . . . Her mother Is a handsome young women, who thinks far more of her fine clothe than she does of her tittle daughter, 1'he child spends her entire time with her rturseV'and that la where the dread-4 rui pan comes in. . : The womaa la so- unkind 4o the little thing that It would make your heart ache. . . She sthlnke nothing of shaking hsrT slapping her and telling her to "shut lip" and to "mind your own business." The natural result I thst ths child anawers back In the same way, and her nature t fast becoming rained. - - Vesterday th nurse was unusually rue. and the child wept bitterly. ' "Ml tell motherr ahe sobbed. "I Just an't stand It any longer." "Pooh!" answered th nurse. "8h wrn't rar. Bh doesn't are .what . b mines of youi" - l-oor utile hurt, sorrowful child, how i lunged te comfort hrl - - What la the life of ja girl who works out all day? No thought la given to douieatlo du. ties. The burden of drudgery falla upon the mother,' unless the family can at ford a servant, - No attention Is given to little brothers or sisters, for she haa learned to think that children are a nuisance.- Her clothing Is bought ready made, or glvsn out to the family dress maker. Sewing Is a lost art' Her even ings are spent in seeking amusement, her days at business. What haa aha to 11 vs forT - i r ' And, when she marries, for what ia aha fitted? Cooking, is an unrevealed myatery. ., The frying pan, canned gooda and bakers' etuffs-.aU enter largely Into her preparation for meals. She con tlnues to patronise the ready made shops. She Is not prepared to settle down to the quiet of domestic life after the " constant action aha- haa hitherto enjoyed; and. having learned to consider children a needleaa burden and expense. she has nothing to tie her to her dwell In a Dlace. so she seeks recreation and amuaement elsewhere, ending but too often In. the divorce court. As long as mothers continue to send from their companionship and care the daughters they ahould protect, ao long will those daughters prove a reproaeh to the home. " ' ' t ' - Aa long aa motherhood haa no' dignity, no honor, in the eyea of the young peo ple, so long will home have no meaning, no life. - It Is the girl who has led a business life who Is most responsible Tor the sup pression of the noble function bestowed upon womankind -that of child-bearing. But too often, also, the business girl develops Into the business wife, to the detriment of the home. From having earned a good salary of her own. ahe has become a pleasure loving creature, think-, Ing of Uttla beyond show and amuse ment. Her hhsband'e salary, perhaps, does not provide her with the dress to which she haa accustomed herself. Hav Ing no children to care for, ahe has leis ure In which to repine. Soon she begins to long for the flesh pots of Egypt In the shsps of tier lost salary, and bark aha goes to the desk and often to worse. . . There may be, and are. cases where a noble-minded wife, will assume the bur den of helping to support a whole family, but seldom Is It really necessary for a childless wife to mske such- effort. Employers know that the charges made here are but too true, even though there era many really good girls1 who are In business, for good reasons. Some of these employers will be honest enough to admit thla, while others, for selfish motives, will denounce the statement aa being false and malicious. For It is to ths Interest of the business world that women ' should continue In business. Their labWr la cheap, and. aa a rale. women are faithful to aa omployer'a In terest. . But the man of family, the father, the brother, the husband what haa. heto He will tell you that there are good women Jn business that there.ara good mothers who have been In business. But he will tell you. too, that a large major. Modern ' I which seeks in the advertisements the j explanation of the importance of ths Inreaa in our civilisation. - '- I Neither is its power due to the laWe it imparts. As a mere ehrontcler of the newa of the day the newspaper would have no hlaher oosltlon than that ot ths barber around ths corner who Is its rival In thla field, at leaat as rar as local happenings are concerned. A news paper which contained nothing but news expressed In a dry, ODjective way. woum Indeed never disturb any government, nor would it sway the public ' Another explanation of the influence of the press is that It la the Instructor of the maahea, -the disseminator of the results of scientific investigation among the people. This explanation Is not adequate by far, for in the first place the newe papera have little value as popularise of science, and. in the second, observa tion teaches us that tho beat popular aclenca magaslna makes a far less pro found Impression upon the mind of the readers than the moat scurrilous little political sheet. No! Not to Its advertisements, not to Its news, not even to Its entertaining. Instructive articles does the press owe Its power In the stste and Its.lectdlng Influence" upon civilisation, but' to its tendency to express more or flssk'. openl y the political or philosophical thought upon which It Is founded not only In the leading articles but in the selection and arrangement of Ita newa. H. ths wrw wsrg "nisway a leimin of occurrences It would stand upon the somewhat low scale of a commercial, financial and social gossip, and Its plao in our civilisation would be very in significant. But It is the critical supervisor ot the occurrence of the dsy, it asaumea tho responsibility of needing Judgment upon the actions,' the words and even the unexpressed Intentions, It stigmatises them or praises them, it encourage them . or threaten them. It commends them to the love and imitation' of the community or it point them out as ob jects of hatred and contempt. It Is the visible embodiment of public opinion. It aasumes the rights of the latter, with Its Judicial power which tt wlelda even In Ita moat fearful form, publlo contempt and moral annihilation; It takes its place as ally by the side at the objective MUST and announces Itself aa the public conaclenc of the community. Heart of a Child What sort of woman will ahe grow up to be? How could she be healthy and normal. either mentally er physically, in such as atmosphere? ' . The little plastic mind la receiving Impressions that It will never forget. - All the ugly, seamy side of life 1 being brought foretblyrto-her notice.; . It Is a dreadful thing to be, harsh toward a child or to force It Into asso ciation with any one who will Ill-treat it. . That mother is doing an Incalculable drong to her child In .neglecting her and leaving her to th care of an Ignor- ant and Auel nurse She-hits brought this 1UO cfeaTflr Into the world; and she la responsible for it wall-being, i Infinite, patience I required In dealt ing with children, but we have all been children bursetvea, and . aomebody.. had to be patient with us. And If we suffered from Impatience all the more reason why we ahould see that other children do not. suffer like wise. Remember that childish heartache are very keen while they last. Striking a child should be a criminal offense. '' Serious permanent Injury may 'result from m blofir or a push. -Firmness and gentleness will do much ity of bad women become bad by going Into business. Ths desire to earn money may be moat laudable one. Very often it la a necessary one. AU girls have no fathers to support, them. Having fathere. they are sometimes driven through .necessity to help support little brothers and slaters. But more often girls desire to earn money that they may provide luxurlea for them, aelvea. Even thla motive Is not a bad one. But does a girl ever realise that In leaving her home to earn thla money aha per forms a vary selfish part? There may be little children In the home needing., attention, an or wnicn falla upon the mother. Then the mother herself often needs the car of the daughter. Instead of which the daughter makes extra demands upon tne motner, claiming (rightly) that ahe la too tired to perform extra dutiea after her day's work.":: :: ' ' rr--" And consider the strain on the health. Say what one may in favor of it, the woman does not live who la at all times fitted to ao out to business. The most robust woman In existence could not g out: dav after day. In all aeasons, and do a long day'a work without gradually fall ing In health. It la the business woman who bears the brunt of work and 111 health because she lovea the luxurlea her salary will buy. She lovea to ape the aociety woman- in. her amusements and fancies. She works tor what aha gets. It Is true, but she frequently pays.sn exorbitant price for every pleasure ahe buya. UNCONQUEDED "V-'v,-: v. ' -.. st: v,".. ''. ?- ' r f : i By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ' ! However gkilled and strong art thou, my foe, ; , y However-fierce U.thy relentless hate, , : '' ' . Though firm thy hand and sure thy aim, and straight " ' Thy poisoned arrow leaves the bended bow To pierce the target of my heart. Ah! know '.. ; I am the master of my own fate: Thou canst not rob me of my best estate ,; - r-- -T Though fortune, fame and friends yea. Love shall go. ' Not to the dust shall my true self be hurled; - Nor shall I meet thy worst assaults dismayed! When all things In the balance are well weighedT There is but one great danger in the world. ' - Thou canst hot force my soul to wish thee iU-i- " JThat ia the only evil that can fcUL " 1 Resources of n-t-t By Mrs. John A. Logan , tvi O tCtoprrlgnt, IMS, by W. B. .Hearst.) NB haa only to take a trip through th middle weat to re alise that th resources of this country are Inexhaustible. Those on th surface are sufficient for many more millions of Inhabitants than ws have, to aay nothing of yioae beneath. We need not penetrate to the rich ter ritory beyond the Rocky mountain to be convinced of the truth of the above atatement ' When one can travel all day long on the lightning express train and never lose sight of boundless fields of oats, rye, wheat, corn and hay. they can be assured that abundance is wait ing for consumers and exporters. An Englishman traveling through Illinois was so Impressed by the extensive fields of corn which line both ldes of the Illinois Central railroad from Chicago to Cairo, that he Inquired of an 1111 nolaan. "What In th world do you do with o much cornf to which the Illl nolsan replied, "We eat and feed what w can; what w cannot eat and feed w can." These Innumerable canning establishments, aa well as elevators, jre seen all along the roU. . The cropa are Immenaalv valuable aa well as the land. ao that whether a man owne the land -r la a tenant he I sure or a gooa living. Naturally uch productive aoll has brought wealth to each section, and in imiT-i ""T "dlnm of progres haa found its wav Into all communities. church ant re and the flags on top of schoolhouses greet the eye as one look from the car window across these field of numberless acres. It Is no unusual sight to see IS and 24 and (-horse teams folllowlng ach other In on big flel mttim the eraln. while an army of men follow behind them, shocking the grain, which will later be threahed out In th field, a metnoa wnicn h uuvn time and labor. They station ths threshing machine at convenient place in tne. neia. ton with great wagons arranged so that the bundles can be tilled high upon them, they draw the grain to tn macninsi and th bundle ar thrown one at a time upon the table in front of the threshers, who reea tne macmnes y sliding the bundles in position to b drswn into It a rapidly aa possible. While one waaon ia unloading on th tables perhapa a doien ar being driven whloh ar .thrown on the wagona and laid In row carefully, so that when they reach the machines they can ot thrown with the a-rain ana or me Bun dles In ths proper position for th feed ers to work expeditiously; thus thou eands of bushels of bats, ry and wheat mor toward making a chfja obedient than harahneas and impatience. A nurse I absolutely respnnsiDie xor the child Intrusted to' her care. Sh can make It love and trust ner or dislike snd fear her. It Is nocessary that It should Obey her, but it I also -necessary tnat tne obedience should not come from fear. The woman who is unkind to a cnuo 1 unworthy the nam of woman. ' It la to bo hoped thai tn nurse ot whom I writ will never have children of her own.- Sh la not fit to be a mdthef. And th mother who is neglecting ner child Is even more to blame than th nurse. , - Bher I an. Unnatural woman and mother. ' - While her little child Sob her heart out In loneliness and fear the mother am usee herself. . - It is a pitiful sight th worldly, hearties mother and th lonely, heart broken child. . 1 .. Sixty Bhymeleea Word. From th Kanaas City Journal. ' There are about 0 word In Eng lish that hav no rhyme. A given In 'The - ltbymers Lexicon," by,. Andrew Does It payt - - Consider the dressmaker's and mill! tier's bills which might be aaved by the girl who Is willing to atay at home and sew. Consider "the difference lii the amount of clothing needed by the girl who goes out to work snd by the one who remains at home.- The difference in aboe leather alone is remarkable, to say nothing of wraps, umbrellas, eic And most of all conaider the Indigni ties to which young women are aub Jected when working out. Some em ployers are kind and good to their help, without doubt, but it la aafe to Bay that no a-lrl ever goes out from the shelter of Sir own roof to fight her way In the world that ahe doea not meet wuu Hu miliations which could never touch her in her own home. Doea going out to business, then, ever pay the girl who Is not forced to earn her own llvingT . It hss become the faahton for writers to advance the Independence of the aolf aupportlng girl, and in a measure--- very email measure they are right, but Independence Is tsklng young girls be yond bounds. It is msklng light of ths marriage tie. It Is invading the aanctlty of home life. It la destroying the holi ness of motherhood. It ' Is driving young women to disobedience of parents' commands. It Is robbing them of their birthright modesty. - - onnnt Barents see for themselves the evils of sndlng,Jthelr daughtera out to face the world, and restrain. Instead of encourage, unnecessary "going Into busl ness"t - ' United States are threshed in on day. ' They gather the oorn Just aa systematically, but as the weather la cooler for corn than fot the email, grains It Is not so hard . t secure laborers for ths corn harvest. , . One sees hundreds ot cattle, horse and sheep graslng In the green pas tures, indubitable eigne of the pros perity of the dweller upon th lands. One deeply regrets that tho wretched Inhabitant ot tenement district ar not inclined to seek homes In such gar deft spots of our beloved country, wher health and wealth awaits them. If they would only go' and dwell In the land of plenty they would only hava to plow and aow. reap and mow, and they would have all tho comfort and many of the luxuries of life. i The people of such productive sec tions do- not begin to appreciate the vegetables and fruits that they have in auch quantities' that they do not market th half of them. It ia estimated that th' grain cropa of Kansas slone would this year supply millions with,-bread It is not surprising that th starving creatures of ' other countries long to com to this land of promise,. or that discontent, prevails . In the old. world, and especially In Russia, where the political conditions are such as to In tensify the troubles of the agricul turalist snd make their struggles with sterile soil even mors discouraging. If It I true that there la a favored land on the globe, thla must b that land, for on and below th surface there t. itntnld wealth which only waits to I bo developed by the industry andwTs-' dom of man. The needs, yea, even the extravagance of Americans, are not suf ficient to dispose of the products of the fields and m tries, and If our populatlos waa many tlmea doubled we would only need to apply some of th thrift and economy of the old world to still' hav abundance and to spare. , Th decade of the twentieth century ar destined to witness even greater advancement In the development of our resources arid" 1 civilisation than that which characterised the nineteenth. Children have better opportunities is this era than haa been enjoyed by the generations of th 4ast century; their native talents are Just, as good,, and It is - but ' ressonable to suppose their achievements-will ba higher and more wonderful. . . , ,' - One might take up the state on by one east of the Alleghenles and a care ful etudy would -ahow that any one of them could aupport iff empire from Its resources. The greatest empires of th world hav reason to be Jealous of our wealth aa a people and a nation, and we have the greatest need to be watch ful lest we be decoyed from th upright patha whloh-lead to happiness and suc cess. . : ' ' ''.'(.- - '. -' - Lang," they ar a follows: Alter), alb, amongt,,aveg,Jbllg, bourn, breadth, brusque, bulb, coif, conch, culm, cusp, h jimh nlvhth. flft.i. film, forfea. forth. fugueV gulf, hemp, lounge mauveJ month, morgue,, mourned, mouth, ninth, oblige, of. pearl, pint, porch, pork, poulp, prestige, -Vuss, recumb, sauce, - scare, scarf, sixth, spoilt, swoin sylph, tenth, torsk. twelfth, unplsgued, volt, warmtii, wa ep. . wharves, width, with, ' wolf, waive . - ... -' .... Straining fopuiarlty. From th Kansas City Journal. - : Victor Murdock has. put In an order for a big Butomoblls for delivery., next spring. - He expect to make his next campaign In the. auto, yio must think he ha a dead cinch on th Job. If there t- anything that will turn a farmer against a man It I a contrlvanc that will scar hi horse. ; .,, .- 0sroti Ailowaaee. , ' " ' From Punch. French " of flclai statistics show thst there are 17,107 motor care in Franc and JJ55.HB dogs. This works out at 19 and tl8l-17107th dogs apiece, which nobody can deny 1 a generous allow ance. , , -1 By Professor Edgar L LarKb I- T IS with humiliation that th ableat mentallata, men who have devoted many of th mature year of their Uvea .to, the study of mina, must now, admit that they know little about it. That Is. of Its properties. They know nothing about what it la, or Its cause. Ignorance of these and ot , its true nature la supreme. AIL therefore, that thess scientific students are able to do la to study at tributes - and - phase of the world's standing and perpetual myatery- mind. And the deeper they delve Into the sub ject, .the' more Intricate' and - elaborate become th mas In which they find themselves. It haa come to pass that they hava almost stopped searching for the cause aa being unknowable. Men have found the limits of mind in certain dlrectlona. " Thus,; human - be ing cannot find out how many time larger -th circumference of a circle la than It- diameter. The searclt was abandoned years ago, and 'the problem declared Insoluble. And - the ablest mathematicians, after a atruggfa of cen turies, ar unable to extract th square root of I.. ,. .'.:, ''(' . Mentallats are now. a It were, against a atone wall, d formidable barrier Inca pable of penetration the analysis of mind. Great mentallata, aa In th cas of mathematicians regarding circles. have not yet formally acknowledged defeat, but It la the opinion of th writer that they might aa weir. ror. in all probability. It la beyond the power of man to find th cause of anything. - How thought I produced la unknown. No traco of, information regarding th nature of .thought haa ever been dis covered. None know what it la Hun dred of theories have been formulated, but not on has been demonstrated. The most . prominent hypothesis at- present Is that thought l electricity. Women Who THE death of Kate MahV at Sheri dan. Montana, who for roor than a quarter of a - century, mas- queraded aa a freighter, cowboy. goldseeker and stagedrlver; tho arrest of Mlas Josle Williams of Denver by a posse In search of horse thieves, near Vernal, Utah, and the more recent rase of Myrtle Tipton, the : girl horsethlef of Walla Wa.Ua. have brought to notice stories of women who preferred the garb and experience of men to the, feminine attire and pursuit of their own sex. Kate Maher for 30 years rived, worked. ate, drank and gambled with the men with whom she -associated. - BVthe death of her father she .waa . left an orphan when -yet In her teen. Women had a hard time in the weat Men did not..' Kat" aald"thi'a to herself, after several years' , experience as servant, waiter In hotels and schoolteacher. Is Nebraska and Colorado. Kate Maher disappeared and a few day later Edward Donovan, a yoang man with slender.' weir-knir figure; close-cropped auburn hair, slightly fieckledA comely faoei laughing gray eyea and a frank, pleasing manner, took her place an the world. Nor did Kate Maher, come to Ught again as such until the -passing of the years had trans formed - the pretty girl into a homely middle-aged woman. - In a lonely little mining : camp In ths west one day -last fall a miner whose hands were soiled and workworn. and whose face bore the marks of dissipation, fell ill. and In th ccurse of ' the Illness the secret which Kate Maher had kept locked la her heart so many year came ' out. Th sick miner waa the same Kate Maher who had been left an orphan on the western border In the -early daye. . When th woman regained her health she disap peared. - Now. ah 1 dead. Tn the aulas of a man Kat Maher took up the work In which her father had lost his life that or a freignter. . nne maa numerous' trips by wagon-train-across the plains and met with not a few thrill ing adventures with the hostile Indiana and th wild beasts that roamed the great unsettled and uncivilised spaces ot the west between the Missouri river and the Rocky mountains. She quickly learned to us her slxshooter with skill and there was.ot In th border country a .surer Miot.. 'Sh did not long remain a freighter. Parasites Preying on Immigrants H St t ' m ILI JCJ I lawyer, padrone and a doxen 1 ' other classes of despicable alien parasites ar preying and feed ing fat cn the hundreds ot. thousand of Immigrant that Sre landing each yeaFTn New Tork., President Eliot Nor ton of th Italian aociety. Manager Eu gene Hagoa of the Hungarian oclty. Commissioner Watchman and others are preparing' to take the matter up la the Immediate future. Last year all tho Immigrant coming Into th country howed to the Inspec tor of Immigration about $20,000,000 and about 110,000,000 wa not shown. Th departing aliens are estimated to hav carried 'with them 150.000,000. A SI per cent of those arriving, land In New York, this means that person car rying between 10,000,000 and 170,000, 000 are laid open to the wile of th army of wlndler and thieves that In fest the port. ' ' ' ' -'--- Andrew Capeta perpetrated the mot outrageous swindle of Immlgranta. A man giving that nam rented a email ground -floor room, near First avsnu and East Fourth street, and borrowed som office furniture. Putting out a sign asking for 60 Hungarian. Blav or Polish laborers at 11.10 per day, he se cured about 110 man and collected a fee of II each and $8.70 for railway far to th alleged Job, In Pittsburg. .The men were then marched to th railroad atatlon at th ferry, where they saw Capet, buying I'"--- Ing the train Capeta counted tne men off with the conductor, and no one sus pected anything wrong until the train reached Newark, the aecond atop, when the whole crowd wae put off, a th conductor said the tickets Cspeta had given him were good only that far Capeta had dropped off the train, at the rirat atop. " bolS .wlndlee-thrr. -countl cases. Ons that ha Ita uniqu feature waa perpetrated on Herman Erbst, from Cincinnati. Ohio. He la a middle-aged German, who ha been In the country three years and having saved $1,100 came to. New York to sail for horns. on the Kaiser Wllhelm, In an Immigrant boarding-house he met a man who said he wanted to buy a fine piece of saloon property for him in Hoboken, : as a (ranges x could gwr- it $1,000- cheaper than he himself could buy It. ' He paid Erbst $50 In advance for the Job and the expenaee o$ both of them to Port Jervla. where he"ttrew $9,800 from th bank which ha gave to Erbst to put in his trunk with Erbst s own money. At the etatlon the stranger proposed that ' It Is now kuown that w cannot be gin to" think of th meaning of th word beginning or end. Thla language eem strange, for we cannot begin to begin, plffleulty Is onoeuntsred In th outset, or fin, th beginning. W ar In a mas of labyrinth already.-And you can thin for a year if you want to and without reault Therefore, beginning 1 un kaowabto, and and llkewlae. For if there are auch entitles, then the word eternity must be dropped from language It la hopelesa for th reader to try to begin to think of eternity. lie must fail; for to be eternal there haa been no beginning and. there can be no en4. Thus In tt few moments we hav found three word that might aa well be out of th dictionary aa in beginning, and and eternity. Neither can be contained in mind, for One destroys th other. Infinity is another word that really does not affect our minds. We may think that it does, hut w ar mistaken, for none la able to think, about infinite space. ' Look cloaely into thiemattor. If spaoe la Infinite it baa no beginning or end that la. it la without boundaries. For mark a bounding line, then the word infinity vanishes. And at one ths mind asks, what la outside of the limiting line? Man ha no hopeiof any anawer. And the mighty mass becomes mora ob scure, with ever-deepening plot. Wa may "launch Into the deep" as far as we please,- but the excursion will be useless. No discovery - can be made. And, to the dismay of mentallsta. they have found that we cannot think of a cause, or rather of th meaning of th word "cause." If we make a powerful effort to think of any cause, th mind trlea to think of its causa, and again of another cause. It Is known that talking of causa or causes may be carried backward an- In finitely long tlm without (topping. Notice, now, that w are In a corridor ot a . lde labyrinth, for r there cannot bo an infinite tlm In the past, be- Lived as Men Th spirit of adventure took possession of her and. sh uttered It to lead bet whithersoever it would. Her Hf for th next few. years was. crowded wltb Incident and experience. Indian war giving settlers on th ' border much trouble.- and Kate Maher, under on of th numerous aliases she assumed, turned scout. From, scouting she turned to stagedrlvlng. from stagotirivlng t prospecting, from prospecting to cow. punching and from cowpuncblng again to prospecting, and from prospecting t working in tho mines a a wage-earner. She took' to smoking first. : Drinking, wearing and gambling followed In quick succession. And with her womanly sweetness she- lost her comeliness. In the .middle-aged woman who died a few days ago there wa little even sug gestive of - th pretty, slander girl . of tO-odd years ago. -sav perhaps her pluck, honesty, quick wit snd good na ture. . 1 Once in a brush with Indian, when ah waa freighting, -she-wa shot and soon after recovery from her wound she was taken prisoner by a band of Indians and waa gl vvu for lot y the ethos mem-1 ber of the freighting outfit to which she belonged. One night she contrived to elude the vigilance of the aavagea and. mounting their fleetest pony. made, ber escape and rejoined her companions. On another occasion, up In the Black Hills, she waa singled out and challenged to mortal combat by a young Indian chieftain eager to win his spur. He recognised the -young "paleface",, aa a crack shot of great nerve and he argued that If he could get the scalp ot so worthy a toe his name would be secure forever. The young woman m male at tire promptly accepted th challenge. The Indian took the first shot and missed and ahe killed him. Once she saved from the vengeance of a mob a man unjustly accused of murder. The man had ahot and killed a miner In self-defense over a game of. cards In a notorious gambling resort.. Fearing trou ble he left the resort and disappeared from town In - the - confusion - of the moment moat of those .who saw th shooting got th Impression that It wa a cold-blooded murder.-, T Kate Maher, who waa In the gam of cards whloh gave rise to th y-ouble, knew that th man had killed the miner In aelf-defense, and shs said so. Th Im pression waa popular, nevertheless, that they . have supper before getting th trunk out of the baggase-iuoui. . 1 ' After supper the stranger asked Erbat to get th trunks, and when Erbst presented his check he waa informed that It waa worthleas and that his trunk hsd been called for a half hour before and wss gone. He. used his $50 to buy a steerage ticket for himself and th stranger's straw-filled trunk to replace bla own. tf Vinmtant flirt. ' en 1 (veer-old Italian oy with a prepaid ticket over th Southern Pacific to California, arrived on the ateamer La Gaaongne and wa discharged to an agent of the railway, who turned him over to Healy'e express agent, who took him, wtlly-nflly, . to Leumann'a hotel. No. (1 Greenwich street. .'.,;'. ''.'-' Agent- Ttssanl of th Society for th Protection of Italian Immigrants, found htm crying on a street corner next day, and learned that the hotel people hao told him to visit the Aquarium, , and when- he wae on hie way 'back he eaw a man ' drop a bill from some paper he carried. He picked It un and saw It read $60, but a second man stepped up How to Stop Blight on Pear Trees t It H p ROFE8SOR RALPH ' E. SMITH, the California plant expert, has received words of highest com mendation from M. b. Watte, government authority on plant diseases. Investigating the work to stamp out pesr blight. Mr. Waits IS regarded a perhaps th greatest authority on diseases of this character: HI campaign ha been waged throughout th year. And Profes sor Walt how expresses himself ae de- the pear blight, originally a menace to the industry. I now under auch control that Its street need not ' be, greatly feared, whll the prospect le excellent for it eradication. ' - Mr. Walt ha demonstrated that in sects carry the disease, and that th wind hav nothing to do with It. Th germ that do th damage in peat blight I of a gummy consistency and not of a sort to be .carried about by th wind. '""' " Many error ,wr mad In trying to combat th disease, beoau th Insects part In it propogatlon and -transmission - waa overlooked -until : Mr. Wa4t demonstrated . that" Insect ' make . the trouble. He -covered pear tree with cause there must be one In the future - also. .This would Imply two loftnlUsa ' which cannot be. ' Blnoe it ia utterly lmos!bl to think! of any kind of a cause, even one close by. either our right hand or left, and whose effects are seen with our own eyes,. It-la so hopeleee-to try-to begin to think of a first eaua that great . logician and mentallata no longer try. Take a highly disciplined mind of any one of the world's great mathematlclana, where one mind contain more stored wisdom than 1.000,000 other men's minds, and watch what he doea He may let fall a sounding line into pac year after year In aearch of solution of some -mighty problem. He taxea his mental power to the extreme limit, retraces hla steps and winds up the line. efor 1 ' withdrawing In defeat he makea a figure T turned over on Ita side. All mathe matical explorers agreed a "long, time , since to thus mark the limit of their 1 advance -with tn 'th max. "This' Is to ." warn aay other wanderer that it 1 no use to go farther In that direction. . The meaning of the algn ia Infinity, and the ableat minda on earth atop ahort . when they eee thla appalling character In any mathematical book. Only the. superficial, the weak one a, even try to think of eternity. Infinity, beginning, end, center or circumference, limits and , boundarlea or causes. ,.-..'! It is well, for those, who. make effort ' to think of these cannot even begin to think of the mind of a mathematician. ' It Is a sheer waste of time to try to center mind on any of the transcendent '. subjects given above. . , ' Great raentallsts do not try, for thsy , ar only too well aware that they are all unknowable. But note the cone hi sion reached here. . I It not wonderful , that there ar perhaps 200 minds now on earth ao powerful that the minds of all. the others, million on millions, can- not. eveubegln to think about them? ; Vondera 'pile "up, for 'indeed mind may ' be the highest of all. 1 ' 11 1 " '. she was mistaken and when the man who did the shooting waa caught a poaa wa formed-to lynch him.- " - Despite hla protestations of inhocena m' he was .taken out to be -executed. A ' rope wa put around th man' neck and r the leader ot the posse asksd him If . had anything to aay before hla death. "I have something to aay, gentlemen,"', aid Kat Maher. atepplng forward, with slxshooter in hand", and deliberately re- -moving the rope from the accused man' -neck, "Thla man la not guilty. -I eaw the shooting with my own eyes.- The first man who lays a hand on him will havl to answer, to mo-for it." Hr gray eye were biasing and the posse , knew . she meant. Juat what ahe said. . ..' "By Godr I reckon you'r right." Bald one of them, "and I'll stand by you." Others came forward and expressed their - . belief -that the accused was Innocent.- -and the lynching did not take place. Kate Maher'e Hf on the range wal not leas picturesque and exciting than It waa elsewhere. She waa a aupars horsewoman' and h oon became on of th best-known cowpuncher In th ' : west. She learned to bust broncos, to ride outlaws, to rope, tie and cut out steer, to round up th herd and to do all the other difficult -thing that cow- -punchers are wont to do. ", ..' .- Miss Williams waa arrested at Vernal. tTtah, wtw Joht-Joi , : a. t koraethlaf.-va Three horses were In the possession ot Jones, on of which, sh wa riding - -astride, dressed In a man'-costume and heavily - armed.--,- '--- - - -- 7- Mlsa WUllama has had ' a' checkered . career.' She Is 23 years old and was born ' In Denver, where she lived most of her life. She I rather comely When clothed , In the dress of her sex and ia fairly well educated. Sh 1 a typical . western woman, however, and can ride and shoot like an expert. To stand tn front of her pistol at M0 feet means certain -death, ; It I said by those who are acquainted with her marksmanship. She formerly attended th Frulta high school. " Miss Williams, who Is said to hav ale " traveled under the aliases of McCarthy and Wilson, say sh met Jones while on the way to Vernal, to which place she started with George Bamer as hi wife. . - It was a casa of love at first sight; and no marriage license being obtainable or an official clergyman at hand they de- elded tp dlapense with legal formalities and start for the Vmtah reservation to gather.. They were on the-road nearly two week before being caught by the pursuing party, atlas Williams Insists that she did not know the horses Jones . had In hi possession were 'stolen prop-' erty. .......".-,-.' .' " ' and claimed It. or at leaat half of It, and compromised for the $16 In gold which Slri had. - At the hotel he waa told th bill was a worthies confed- -rate Issue.' Francesco Matrons, an ltallan stone cutler, living" In In'stanterrTen'nsyn vsnta, came to New Tork with a ticket to Italy and 96. - He landed at Dea brosses street ferry and was Inquiring hla way to the Vlagglnl bank, where he meant 'to get hi money ohanged, when, an Italian offered to ahow hlmjths way, aa he lived next door to the plaoe. At the Sixth avenue elevated station ' at Fourteenth atreet they1 met a second stranger on the stair, who asked th way to the . Roma, bank. - The . first Italian eaid It was on the next comer from the Vlagglnl bank, and aald the seoond man might go along. ' On the way the second man gave the first $100 to ksep for him till they got , to the bank, a he had a hole In" hi pocket, and the first man aald It wa better If th $100 waa put with Ma trona'e $66. ' They made a package of the money In the street, and gave the package, wrapped In two handkerchiefs, to Matrons, who put It safely away. Five minutes later hla atranger friend ' disappeared In a crowd, and when Ma trons openad his package there . waa nothing but newspapere Inside. ' :' - . netting to keep out th Insects. Th . . treee were then exposed to the' germs. The wind blew, but the trees were not .... affected, while -other trees, not protected wlth netting, showed evidences of th blight: Thl dlscovsry practically revo- , lutionlMd th method of treating th disease and helped to ma k ths method now practloed auccessful. Tea Shoe Dyed fox Winter Wear. -From the Shoe Retailer. ' Tliad a lot of tari shoes' left onmy shelves this fall." remarked E. C. Blck- '. tori, "and as I could, not" sell thenv .a ' tan I . decided to have them dyed black. . I did ao and hav been very successful ' In selllng'them lit their blackened con----' dltlon. ' '.' "Of course, I explain to every woman who makea a purchase, or rather before ahe makes the purchase, that they are tans dyed, so she knows exactly what she Is buying. It costs me 16 cents" a pair to have the shoe dyed black, but this is chasper than carrying the goods on my shelves over .winter and -then take a chance of selling them next summer. .-The tan stock Is very soft and being of Russian calf makes a fine fall -shoe." .- ... ) " - i