Corvallis gazette., March 13, 1903, Image 4

THE DEAREST GIFT.
When all the dancing feet are stU,
mlt. klnAm a f ll n1 afl1 cnOllfl
When she has waltzed her happy fill
With Will and Jack and Ted and
Fred,
Tired of the whirl and jollity.
Her lovely eyes weighed down with
sleep,
Then, at the last, she comes to me.
And she is all my own to keep!
s
I find her gloves and tie her wrap,
We say our good nights left and right;
Now I'm the to-be-envied chap!
Ah, now, indeed, it is good night!
Of lover's joy let wooers prate;
What could a man ask more in life,
Than this best, dearest gift of fate
To have a sweetheart for a wife?
Smart Set.
BUT, Millicent, can't you see that
er that I love you as no man
Ha a ever loved before?" The
black eyes glowed with suppressed ar
dor. "Inferring that no man ever has
loved Door little Millicent Bigeiow De
fore. And, to tell the truth, John,
that's lust what's the matter tliat oe
fore a certain definite point in my life
no male creature ever deigned to cast
a glance at my insignificance, that be
fore Aunt Mary invited me to spena a
month with her in New York and sent
me home with a carload of trunks, con
taining nothing but wearing apparel
expressly designed and manufactured
by New York and Paris modistes to
set forth and enhance my previously
undiscovered beauty, that before I
came home and lost all my girl friends
out of Jealousy for my better clothes,
men were not In the habit of tumbling
all over themselves to tell me twenty
times a day that they loved me."
She smiled provokingly at the look
of genuine astonishment that her sud
den outburst had brought to the sen
sitively lined masculine face before
her.
"And now, you, whom I considered
my best friend, have become as non
sensical as any of them. It Is true you
have said the apparently enticing
words but once, and stumbled over
them at that, by the way, but, con
sidering that we have just arrived at
the picnic grounds and that presently
. I shall ask you to take me out in a
canoe on the lake, and expect you to
ask me to go with you again after
lunch, I doubt not that by the twen
tieth time you will become as fluent as
the others."
"Millie, I can't deny that I shall
probably keep on repeating the ques
tion until I get the one answer that
will satisfy me, but when you accuse
me of wanting to marry you because
. you may have more or less worthless
finery on, it's beyond"
"John Atwood, I don't know what
you designate as cheap finery, but I
would have you know that this gown,
as well as the boa which adorns my
shoulders, was a special present from
auntie and imported direct from
Paris." Thev ruffled feelings" sought
consolation in rearranging the fluffy
creation of lace and artificial flowers
that composed the neckwear in ques
tion. "You understand what I meant, Mil
licent. I can't say you don't look nice
In that thing around your neck, but I
liked you just as well In the brown
dress that you used to wear with
brown ribbons, and then you used to
let me put my arms around you."
. An indignant shoulder turned in his
direction was the only answer.
"But won't you please hurry and
ask me to take you out on the lake, as
you said you would, before I do the
asking and offend you again."
The pouting face, half hidden behind
' the white parasol, looked almost as
though about to refuse to go out on
the lake altogether, but John pulled
up a canoe and quietly began arrang
ing the cushions. WThen he had fin
ished, a figure behind a parasol stepped
in and settled down among them.
Nothing was said until they had
proceeded nearly across the lake and
were skirting along the opposite shore.
Then as John was paddling idly,
watching a reflection In the water,
a voice suddenly demanded that he
turn aside and enter an opening that
the shore made at this point and
through which could be seen a small
pool of water thickly studded with the
white blossoms of the water lilies.
Without hesitation John turned the
nose of the canoe in the direction in
dicated and paddled up to the point
of entering, when he noticed that the
water In the inclosed space was very
shallow and covered a surface of dark
looking mud.
He stopped progress and waited for
the owner of the voice to observe the
state of affairs, but the voice vouch
safed nothing but an Impatient com
mand to continue. Then he spoke in a
non-committal voice of the advisabili
ty of entering where there was In
suiricient water to allow paddling. But
the flowers gleamed white In the sun
light and a scornful ripple of laughter
was his answer.
Manlike, he gave In to woman's
whim and pushed the boat into the
midst of the lilies. He reaped a reward
' in the lowering of the parasol and a
companionable .face smiled upon him
as the owner proceeded to tuck up the
ruffles preparatory to plucking from
the water the brown-stemmed lilies.
But even before the first flower was
obtained the catastrophe happened.
A great, ugly-looking green dragon
fly rose loudly buzzing from the flow
ers, directly under- the side of the
boat, and, perceiving the gently sway
ing fluffiness above the canoe, and per
haps deceived into thinking it a new
mass of bloom yet unexplored, dived
at once in its direction and succeeded
in alighting with a moment's dispatch
directly under a pink chin, with the
rough wings brushing a dimpled
throat.
It was all over in a minute. A
startled cry of feminine terror, a panic
stricken spring for the other side of
the canoe, and John found himself
knee-deep in black, slimy mud, with a
bedraggled and dripping little figure
weeping hysterically upon - his shoul
der, and an overturned canoe within
his reach.
It was then he saw his chance. "MI1-
s
:: JOHN'S TEST. :
POPE LEO X!ll., WHO RECENTLY CELEBRATED
THE SILVER JUBILEE OF HIS PONTIFICATE.
;Vtf: 'W-
Pope Leo XIII., who recently celebrated the silver jubilee of his pontifi
cate, was born at Carptneto, Italy, March 2, 1810. He is the son of Count
Louis Peccl and was baptized by the names of VIneenzo.and Gloacchlno.
He was ordained In 1837, was made bishop In 1846, proclaimed a cardinal In
1853, and was elected Pope Feb. 20, 1878. He was crowned on March 3 fol
licent, stop your crying. I never saw
a worse looking creature in my life."
A white face of astonishment turned
up to his. "And, for heaven's sake,
take off that black, oozy thing around
your neck." Unconsciously a muddy
fist stole up and dragged off the cling
ing mass of slime and dropped it with
a shudder.
"Now, Millicent, will you marry
me?" Not till then did the face show
any comprehension of the words being
spoken. Then a flash of color appeared
under the streaks of black and a quer
ulous little sob escaped from the
trembling lips as, burying . her face
again on the wet, heaving chest, she
answered, sofely, "Yes, John!" Phila
delphia Item.
BOUGHT MAGIC BONES.
Florida Ne-roea Seeking Invisibility
Realized that They Were Seen.
"For a good many years," said a
Florida man, who was up this way
recently, "we have been familiar in the
far South with the schemes which tie
signing negroes with the money-making
Instinct have been working upon
their ignorant fellows to coax the coin
from their clothes. I'd hate to say
how many thousands of dollars the
more Ignorant negroes of Florida alone
give up every year for concoctions,
manufactured out of nothing worth
while by the crafty negroes, for 'whit
ening their skins.' Then there are the
multitudinous lotions or ointments or
whatever you call them on sale by
foxy negroes down our way for 'taking
the kink out of wooly hair on negroes
heads. Colored women, especitlly the
younger ones, fall victims to this kind
of stuff for all of their spare change,
and there are plenty of young black
bloods who eagerly give up $5 and even
$10 for fake contraptions that are al
leged to be designed to make their
noses aquiline instead of flat.
"But an ancient black schemer was
put away down In Iflorida not long
ago for springing and successfully
working an entirely new one. The
foxy old darky made literally thou
sands of dollars out of his dodge be
fore he was nailed.- He passed the
word around among the ignorant ne
gro men that he had a consignment of
charms, in the shape of small pieces of
bone, that wrould come pretty near
making their purchasers bosses, of ev
erything In sight. The owner and
wearer of one of his bone charms, he
announced, would be rendered com
pletely invisible to human eyes. Well,
you can readily Imagine how a charm
BILL SEWALL, THE MAINE GUIDE.
Mill 'S S y
1
Bill Sewall, the veteran Maine guide, otherwise William Wingate
Se wall, his wife and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Fleetwood Pride, of Island
Falls, where Bill lives, and two other old friends of President Roosevelt
were Recently the guests of President and Mrs. Roosevelt at the White
House. Sewall Is a picturesque character and a typical Maine woodsman.
He first accompanied President Roosevelt on his hunting expeditions when
the latter was a delicate, lad of IS. The acquaintance thus formed has
developed Into a warm friendship. . ,
like that would take down in a coun
try where yeller-legged chickens are
thicker'n bees, and where watermel
ons just pop out of the soil out of
their own volition. The ignorant blacks
fell to those little bone charms all In
a bunch, and they dug up from $5 to
$15 apiece for the things at that.
"They absolutely and implicitly be
lieved that the wearing of the 'charms
' would render them invisible and for
; months the darkies down our way
attempting to help themselves to all
sorts of things that didn't belong to
them, right in the presence of the own
ers of the property, and in broad day
light, under the - belief that their
charms screened them from the vision
of men. It took a long time, and not a
little buckshot, to convince them that
their bone charms didn't amount to
much, and then they came to the front
with the story - of how they had got
hold of the charms." Washington
Post
Railway Company's Logic.
A woman in Belgium whose husband
had lost his life in a railway accident
received from the company io.000
francs by way of compensation. Short
ly" after she heard of a traveler who
had lost a leg and had been paid 20,000
francs. The widow at once put on her
bonnet and shawl and went to the of
fice of the company.
"Gentlemen, how Is this?" she asked.
"You give 20,000 francs for a leg and
you allowed me only 10,000 francs for
the loss of my husband."
. "Madam," was the reply) according
to the New York Mall and Express,
"the reason Is plain. Twenty thousand
francs won't provide him with a leg,
but for 10,000 francs you can get a hus
band." Beautifying Slot Machine. '
A beautifying automatic machine is
the latest slot novelty that la now to
be seen in Berlin. The machines are to
be placed in dressing rooms at dancing
halls, In cafes, on railway stations, and
like places where people congregate,
j You drop your money in the slot, and in
return you receive powder, eyebrow
pencil, lip pomade, rouge and other ad-
puncts to female beauty. With the aid
of a mirror one's money's worth can
1 . . i it.a . n
men ie saiisiuciuruy useu.
The truth Is that the long hair found
on a husband's coat doesn't enter as
often Into family quarrels as visits
from his wife's kin.
If you accomplish anything, you must
Mil SMaiME? 'oir
DANGERS OF COMBINATION.
By
We still hear the question, "Shall la
bor be organized?" It must be. Mod
ern conditions cannot exist without
such organization. I do not know
whether there was a garden of Eden,
but I do know that to go back to Adam
would be going backward, not forward.
The real question before us to-day is,
"Shall labor be autocratically or demo
cratically organized? Shall thousands
of workmen take what the master pre
scribes and not have a voice In the de-
db. abbott. cislon as to. the hours of labor, the
wages and its conditions? Has not labor a head and arms
add legs? When a labor union demands recognition, It
may desire a brief display of authority, but at bottom Is Its
declaration of a right to speak in Its own behalf. I believe
that the demand of labor is right Labor organizations
must be democratic, not autocratic. .Tha object of the great
labor organizations is to say itself what shall be its hours
of labor, the conditions and the wages. The phenomenon
of trades unions Is not to be measured by an unreasonable
demand of one of them.
There are dangers in great combinations of wealth, and
there are dangers In great combinations
we want is to get rid of the abuse of power and the Incom
petent use of power when it gets into
demagogue. Because there are bosses and demagogues in
politics we do not propose to abolish political organizations,
but rather to rid them of bosses and demagogues.
STATE AID TOR CONSUMPTIVES.
By Dr. Biggs, Bacteriologist, ot New York.
I have always felt that much harm has been
done by calling tuberculosis a contagious disease.
It causes confusion in the lay mind, because the
popular conception of a contagious disease -is
connected with such diseases as scarlet fever and
small-pox, in which very limited contact may
result in Infection. Too jnuch emphasis cannot
be placed upon the fact that
source of danger chiefly through the sputum, and
if this were destroyed the most intimate contact with tu
bercular patients is free from danger.
The frequent occurrence of several
tuberculosis In a family is to be explained not on the sup
position that the disease Itself has been
of exceedingly rare occurrence, but: that
duced after birth by direct transmission
Individual. The house which has been
sumptlves may have been infected, and
fected their relations with their children
the transmission by'direct contact. - - -
It may be safely estimated that there
New York City 30,000 cases of tuberculosis in a stage of
th disease in which it could be easily
competent physician. The State is annually spending many
millions for the care of the insane, and
lutely necessary for humanitarian reasons I have no hesi
tation in saying that far greater returns would be obtained
from the expenditure of one-fourth the amount on the pre
vention and cure of tuberculosis. I
measures first begun in a small way
years ago have resulted in saving the
30,000 inhabitants.
HOW TO DEAL WITH THE TIMID SUITOR.
Custom ordains that a man may choose while a
woman must wait to be chosen; consequently, it
behooves a modest maiden to guard against be
traying her preference for any man who, has not
nrsi openiy suuwu ma ueuucu
Even then, if she is wise, she will be careful; It
man's nature to pursue, and he is . prone to re
sent any assumption of his masculine preroga
tive. ' The woman who, as the phrase Is, runs
after the men, Is usually the woman
and the quarry whom she eventually
cases not worth the trouble of pursuit
StilL there Is moderation in all things Men with proper
self-respect object to being snubbed. No gentleman will
LIVES WITH THE PARIAHS.
American Millionaire Prefers a Resi
dence Among Outcasts of Japan.
An - eminent American alienist, Dr.
Barr, records the most peculiar case of
mental perversion ever known, he be
lieves, in the history of the world. It
i sthat of an American millionaire, who
instead of living in luxury and ease
among those of his own kin, has chosen
to reside among the outcasts in far
away Japan. Many years ago he was
one of the greatset specialists in Amer
ica and was provided with vast sums of
money for the purchase of such instru
ments and assistance as he needed.
. His reputation was very great and
he amassed a fortune of over $10,000,
000. Then, he took to dissipation,
which soon led to his ' downfall and,
though rich and handsome, .with cul
tured and aesthetic tastes, he wander
ed away from the. United States and
took up a life of revolting excesses
among the "hanlns" or gravediggers
and social outcasts of Japan.
He caused his body to be tattooed over
every Inch of Its surface and after a
time returned to America, exhibiting
the work of . the oriental tattoers to
anyone who would care to look at it
A great dragon, perfectly shaded In
every detail, adorned his back, while
other designs were scattered over other
parts of his "body. '
He was, however, cut by all his old
friends and turned out' of all the clubs,
and subsequently returned to Japan,
where, In the garb of one of the despis
ed "hanlns," he wandered about the
country with a performing bear and
a harem. ...
His next freak was to hire a squad
of Japanese boys, practically buying
them outright from their parents. He
dressed them In miltary costume and
opposed to them an equal number of
trained monkeys, dressed as Chinese
soldiers. ,
Then for his entertainment the Chlno
Japanese war was constantly renewed.
The contests were bloody and brutal
and rewards were offered to the boys to
urge them on to further atrocities.
While thus describing the life and
doings of this strange specimen of hu
manity, Dr. Barr has taken the great
est pains to conceal the identity of the
man and has so far succeeded.
A SHAVING GLASS.
The man who shaves himself often
finds - it difficult to place his mirror
where he can get a good light for the
work, and without the light it is not an
easy task to manipulate the razor to
remove the growth of beard from all
parts of the face. Perhaps the travel
ing man has more difficulty in this re
spect than the one who has his glass
suspended In a fixed place in his room,
and It is for his use especially that the
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott.
the root of love.
of labor. "What
the hand of the
consumptives are a
cases of pulmonary
Inherited, as this Is
It has been pro'
from some affected
occupied by con
if parents are af
are favorable for
are at present In
vanquished by a
THE LAW OF GOOD
while this is abso
have no doubt that
in this city fifteen
lives of 20,000 or
By Helen Oldtleld
yieicicuw wi uci.
from whom men flee,
captures Is in most
ALASKA NOW THE GREAT NEW
COUNTRY UNDER THE AMERICAN FLAG.
and daily the proof accumulates that portions of Alaska have great agricul
tural possibilities. - ' , -
It is now asserted that the time is coming when there will be a million
farmers and miners in the Copper Valley. The soil is deep and rich and
is capable of yielding good crops of all the cereals, garden truck, and fruit;
and the climate permits. There Is an abundance of excellent grazing land,
and cattle raising 6hould become an important industry. In the Tanana
.Valley basin there are thousands of acres of excellent wild hay, "With the
Alaskan railroad as a fact," writes an enthusiastic correspondent "the immi
gration to Manitoba and other provinces in Canada , will cease, as the .Alas
kan farmer with his natural advantages will become a successful competitor
for the West coast trade." .
The railroad, referred to Is that projected from Port Valdez to Eagle City
on the Yukon and whence to Dawson City. The distance is 400 miles, or
.175 miles-less than by the Skaguay route. The engineering dlfllculties are
few, and the abundance of timber will tend to reduce the cost The con
tract for this road has been awarded to J. B. McDonald, of New York, who
expects to put 5,000 men to work in the spring. At first it will run through
an almost uninhabited country, but there is no possibility of developing this
region without flrBt providing transportation means.
shaving mirror illustrated here is in
tended. .As the glass and Its support
can be folded in small compass, and
are of light weight the device will
not greatly increase the traveling man's
luggage, and its added convenience
over an ordinary mirror is at once, ap
parent The Invention consists of a
flat plate, secured to the body, by a
strap around the waist with a rod
clamped to a bracket on the face of
the plate to support the frame In which
the mirror Is mounted. At either end
GLASS XS POSITION FOB USE.
persist in attentions to any woman who gives him plainly
to understand that such attentions are distasteful. Com
mon sense as well as courtesy forbids It It Is only In
novels that men insist upon marrying wives who manifest
open dislike for them,' and who freely avow their aversion
upon the housetops.
A clever woman, not inordinately vain, as even clevter
women sometimes are, can almost invariably distinguish
between mere admiration and the warmer feeling which Is
Moreover, admiration frequently blos
soms Into love if it be gently handled and wisely culti
vated. The woman who possesses the sixth sense, which
men name tact, will know by Intuition Just how and when
to encourage a diffident admirer; how and where to allow a
timid suitor to perceive that she prefers his attentions to
those of other men, without advertising that preference to
outsiders or disgusting hftr suitor by her boldness.
ADVANTAGE OF HAVING BROTHERS.
By Marlon F. Mowbraf.
It is an Indisputable fact that the girl who
grows up with plenty of brothers has a great
advantage in knowing and understanding men
when she arrives at years of discretion. What is
more' important, such a girl Is much more com
panionable to a man. If young men exercise any
thought when choosing their sweethearts they
cannot do better than select a girl with brothers.
The girl who has lacked brothers In her early life
does not get used to that untrammeled attitude toward
men which is a second nature with the girls who are
brought up in a houseful of boys. Indeed, tomboyism in
a young girl is perhaps the best education which she can
have in the days of her girlhood.
There is a give-and-take attitude in the girl who has
brothers, something more than a possible feeling of com
radeship, and the certain knowledge that because a man
pays her some attention, it does not follow that he means
marriage, or has "serious' intentions," to use the words
which old-fashioned mothers apply under such conditions.
The gfrl, on the other hand, who has not had brothers,
translates any civility as having an ulterior motive, espe
cially ,4f she Is not quite so young as she used to be, and
bppes to-be married, for we know how often the wish is
father to the thought Then, anxious that the man should
not see that" she has any such idea, she at once endeavors
to hide heir thought To do this, she adopts an unnatural
attitude, and, so far from concealing her idea, she shows
her band. ., . ,
The girl who is brought up with plenty of brothers, some
older and some younger than herself, will have a chance to
correct the defects of her education. If she has any sense
sue will learn to avoid these faults. She will insensibly ac
quire a pleasant, companionable manner with men, and she
will know that they do not like stiff, self-conscious young
women.
TASTE.
Bv l.adv Randoloh Churchill.
The chief alms of art In dress should be either
the artistic blending of colors, the clever effects
that make beautiful the greatest .simplicity or the
most gorgeous and sumptuous raiment For In
stance, what can be more simple than the classi
cal Greek costume, or more magnificent than a
Venetian sixteenth century robe? And yet both
can impart dignity and grace to the modern
To be Derfect the former requires as
much thought study and taste as the latter. Above all, to
be suitably clad is the keynote of the successful twentieth
century toilette. Since women have emulated men in the
way of sport and follow them on the moor, In the hunting
field, on the golf links, and in the motor car, their dress
has naturally become more practical. Any foolish fashion
is certain to be short-lived nowadays. The abominable
practice of wearing long skirts for the streets is dying out
Pretty as It is to see a summer dress negligently trailed over
a smooth lawn jeweled with daisies, the sight of a woman
dragging her gown in the street, sweeping up the filth and
collecting millions of microbes, is a rexoltlng spectacle;
and yet with a long skirt the only alternative is to hold It
up, a practice which induces cramp in the arm, as well as
cold fingers In winter, and gives a decidedly ungraceful
walk and attitude.
HE public attention has been recently turned to Alaska
by the announcement of a new discovery of gold on the
headwaters of the Tanana, which may rival the Klon
dike; but regardless of such gold strikes the develop
ment of the great peninsula "goes steadily on. This
development Is now so much a matter of course that
we do not notice it any more than we notice the growth
of one of the States. We have come to expect almost
anything of Alaska. It has Immense coal fields, oil
fields of great promise, and forests extensive enough
to supply the whole American demand for many years.
The copper ores of Alaska are probably more exten
sive than such deposits, in any other part of the world.
It has only made a beginning In gold producing. Its
fisheries are among the most profitable In the world,
of the rod Is a clamping screw, by the
aid of which adjustment of the mirror
can be made to bring it to the proper
height. When the glass has been plac
ed in position the shaver has only to
step in front of a window or artificial
light to afford a distinct view of his
face and enable him 'to use the razor
with accuracy. x
Found Tbem Hard to Raise.
A great gormand, who had a passion
for shell-fish, inherited a fine estate and
a large sum of money. He had been ex
travagant, and his friends were greatly
rejoiced at his legacy. Mr. H. Barry,
in "Ivan at Home,rt tells to what use
the money was devoted:
I went to town one day, and soon
learned that the prince was in his Usual
impecunious condition.
"Where has your legacy gone?" I ask
ed. "Why," he replied, "you know that
I am very fond of lobsters, and having
a river on my estate, I thought I would
try to acclimatize tbem there; but unfortunately-
I have spent all .the legacy
in theattempt without succeeding. I
quite forgot the water Is not salt'
The best some people can do Is to ex
press second-hand opinions.
Ioyely Noblewoman, Pishing; for a
Compliment, Dissrnats Him.
A story Is now going the rounds of
the London clubs concerning Prince
Henry of Prussia, who, rumor says,
will before long pay another visit to
the United States.
A few weeks ago his royal highness
paid quite an unofficial visit to Eng
land, and during his stay in London '
was -the guest of a certain very weal
thy and deservedly popular American
millionaire. At dinner one evening
Prince Henry happened to sit next to
a marvelously beautiful but extremely
conceited English woman, who used
all her "dangerously winning ways"
to please and captivate the popular
German prince.
"Oh! your royal highness," v softly
remarked the society beauty, "I'm so
glad you like dear old England and
the English people. Now, will your
' royal highness tell me quite candidly
iwhat has impressed you most forci
blywhat has given you the greatest
pleasure during your visit to this
country? I'm simply longing to have
your 'confession' on this point."
Prince Henry, who was genuinely
h.tvc.A Ktt 1ii "hoiintir'ii" aiUtr "moll v
looked around his host's hospitable ta
ble and then, with apparent deep earn
estness, replied: "You ask me, Lady
, what has' impressed me most forc
ibly during my . short ""visit to your
country. Well, I'll tell you you shall
have my 'confession.' "
The blushing Lady , naturally
expecting some sweet compliment list
ened eagerly.
) "I have been fascinated with many
things since I have been in England,"
J continued the prince, dreamily looking
down at his plate, "but what has given
; me greater pleasure than anything else
' what has fascinated me most has
been I think your glorious roast
'beef!"
I -"Oh! your , royal highness!" almost
' shrieked the shocked and bitterly dis
j appointed Lady at such a pro
saic "confession." "Our roast beef I
' But surely something else besides our
'roast beef has impressed you sonie-
"Yes, Lady ," tenderly replied
Prince Henry, according to the New
York Tribune, "yes, indeed. . I think,
next to your English roast beef, -I have
been most impressed by you English
boiled beef!"
BOW-FACING ROWING MECHANISM.
From time to time Inventors' .devote
their attention to designing a method
of propulsion for rowboats which shall
enable the oarsman to face In the di
rection the boat is being driven, 'with
the purpose of enabling the man hand
ling the oars to steer the boat without
the necessity of craning his neck at fre
quent intervals or taking easily mid
understood orders from another occu
pant of the boat. The mechanism here
illustrated has been designed by Dan
iel H. Sheen of Peoria, 111., with the
above object in view. The oar Itself
SHOWING ONE OAR IN POSITION.
Is a straight blade mounted on a curv
ed handle, which, in turn, is pivoted
at the end of an arm extending from
the horizontal shaft to which the pow
er is applied by means of a short crank
at the Inner end. In the yoke in which
the oar is pivoted is a ' spring which
tends to ' throw the handle, at right
angles to the supporting arm, and In
this position it will clear the water in
returning a'fter each stroke. In the po
sition of the oar here shown a projec
tion on the handle Is engaging a brack
et on the side of the boat to bring the
oar in position to exert its leverage in
the water with the next stroke by
throwing the upper end of the handle
down against the shafts. To back the
boat the end of the handle Is clamped
fast on the shaft, but normally the
spring and bracket alternately exert
their influence to throw It into its inop-
eratlve and working positions respec
tively. ,
About the Human Body.
Borne statistician has been contrib
uting his studies of the human body to
a French Journal. In Its normal condi
tion, he says, the human body contains
enough Iron to make seven large-sized
nails, sufficient fat. for the supply of
13 pounds of candles, enough carbon
to make 65 eross of lead pencils and
enough phosphorus for over 8,00 wax
vestas. Or, reduced to anotner. state,
th name man possesses the possibili
ties of supply of 00 cubic meters of
gas and sufficient hydrogen to innate a
balloon of a carrying power of 150
pounds. - -
Pleases the Birds.
A scientist once put an automatic
music box on the lawn and spent many
hours watching the robins, blue tits and
other birds gathering about It. A look
ing glass put up where the birds can
see themselves In it is also very attrac
tive, while a combination of a musical
box and a 1 looking glass pleases the
birds more than anything else one
could put out for th-ir amusement.
Population Is 'Declining.
It is estimated that the Eskimo pop
ulation of Alaska, Labrador and Green
land has declined from 30,000 in- iSSO
to 15,000 at the present time," bwimr
to the thinning out of the seal, walrus,
polar bear and other sources of food
supply. .-' '' . '
- No Talent Ilpq-ilrrd. .
"Marie Tompkins Is going on the
stage." .
"How did she get the chance?"
"Why, it's in a revival, of 'Hamlet
and anybody is good enough for that-
Cleveland Plain Deal1