Corvallis gazette., September 18, 1903, Image 4

TOPICS OF
7 THE TIMES.
Chewing gum seems to be the school
girl's quid of contentment.
It sometimes happens that an Inno
cent man also pleads not guilty.
When a man is looking for difficul
ties he will find two where he expect
ed one.
At some period In his career every
man carries something in his pocket
for lock.
The wife who Is seeking a divorce
from "one of the nicest of men" surely
cannot expect to find a nicer one.
Harry Lehr"s friends say he doesn't
wear a bangle and never uses rice
powder. We are glad to give space to
this statement.
Mr. Carnegie's experience proves
that the rich man should always make
his private secretary a millionaire be
fore letting him go.
England and the United States are
getting so thick that by next Fourth
of July King Edward may be setting
off cannon crackers.
There can be no doubt that our
squadron in European waters has
picked up a lot of agreeable experi
ence and some dyspepsia.
A second veteran has refused his
pension because he does not think he
Is entitled to it. Investigation found
his "predecessor In a lunatic asylum.
- England thinks something of adopting
our immigration laws to keep out un
desirable aliens. Perhaps she has no
ticed how admirably these restrictions
work here.
"The trainmen jumped on J.he rails
and fled to the station." This explains
lu a large measure the disaster on the
Paris underground railway. - The train
men failed to do their duty.
Schwab Is reported to be forming a
tailors' trust, which Is to be modeled
after tho cigar dealers' trust. Is the
glad time coming when we shall with
every suit receive a coupon and have
a chance after saving up 967,000 of
them to get a graphophone?
The college students who went Into
the Western harvest fields to spend
their vacation were not afraid of
work. It Is safe to conclude that
when they are graduated they will
continue In . the same courageous
course in which they have, begun, and
will receive the reward of courage,
namely, that approval of their fellows
which brings success.
Civilians are apt to regard the naval
and joint maneuvers of the army and
navy along our coast as elaborate and
rather expensive comedies.- For those
actively, engaged therein, " however,
these war games are no jokes. In
every other respect than .In the ab
sence of bodily peril they have all the
characteristics of actual welfare. The
strenuous rlvalrv is there and the
strain of constant alertness, just as if
the participants were really enemies.
Russia was within Its rights when
It declined to receive the petition for
the punishment of the officials whose
neglect made the Klshenef anti-Jewish
riots possible. The right of interna
tional petition Is not secured by any
international law. Nations may re
"ceive petitions from outsiders or not,
as pleases them. The effect of the
Klshenef protest, however, Is as great
at If it had been formally received In
St Petersburg. An active . campaign
for the punishment of the guilty la In
progress, and some of the responsible
officials have already felt the Czar's
displeasure.: . -r - -
The friendly act of a Scotsman In
the Spanish-American war was lately
described by our consul at Southamp
ton, who was formerly consul at Montevideo.-
The Oregon was expected,
and it was also anticipated that she
would be short of coal. : The .consul
could not buy so much as a pound of
fuel. One evening a Scotsman came
to his door, and said, "You want
coal?" The man had no power to sell,
but he pointed out that he had eight
hundred tons on board his vessel, and
aid he pitied the American captain
who could not put his . ship alongside,
take out 'the bags of coal, and then
"cut the, painter." The Oregon did not
call, but, said the consul, such an act
ef friendship touched his heart, al
though It defied law and order. There
were cheers from the assembled Amer
ican and British sailors and marines
and their officers when the story was
told. v. ' -.- ' ' . '..-
It would not be advisable to Instruct
people In-easy ways of killing them
selves. They are altogether too fond
of suicide as it is. - It really seems,
however, that there is need for popu-
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iu euucauuu m - 9UCU uut.ii.ers wnicn
will keep people from torturing them
elves to death with carbolic acid or
rat poison. It they must kill r them
selves they should not endure unneces
sary agony. Carbolic acid has attained
. surprising vogue a a lethal agent;
nrnhnhlv hnonnsA If- In jhonn anA an.
procured. It can be bought at any
drug store and a nickel's worth is suf-
nlzing Instrument of death. It Is a
powerful escharotlc It actually burns
and destroys living tissue wherever it
touches.' The man who, drinks .car
bolic add pours liquid flame down his
throat. It corrodes and eats away the
lining of the whole digestive tract. The
ensuing torture is Indescribable. Rat
poison is largely made of arsenic, one
of the deadliest and crudest poisons
known to the chemist It V produces
pains compared , with - which the tor
tures of cholera morbus are Insignifi
cant r It excites unquenchable thirst,
gripes, convulsions. - Death by arsenic
Is horrible in the extreme. Yet these
two agencies of self-destruction are
the most frequently - employed. Car
ho'Jc add leads, with rat poison a close
second. People torture themselves to
deatl. They should be Informed ; of
the agonies which they invite. Perhaps
the knowledge would .act as a deter
rent. '. '' . ,
The hearty laugh that comes of
wholesome merriment is the sunshine
of life ' that drives creeping gloom
shadows from the face and routa
skulking " cares from the heart. As
soon as the world finds out that you
enjoy a hearty laugh it will bring you
many a pleasant story. Care flees from
a smiling face, but looks upon a frown
as an invitation to come and abide
with the one who wears it But not
all smiles have real sunshine in them.
Some faces have learned the act 'Of
"making up" so well that even a smiltt
can be put on so smoothly that no one
but a child can fathom Its insincerity.
A child that has not learned to deceive
has not yet learned how to be ; de
ceived. The two acquirements come
hand in hand. Children know intui
tively whether or not a smile is genu
ine or is put. on like a mask for an
occasion. Children are keener than
adults in detecting masks, for the rea
son that adults usually have to look
through their own- masks to see the
masks on others.' There Is no charm
In a smile if it lacks genuineness. A
smile may-be as deep as a well and
as wide as a barn door. - It may reach
clean around and tie in a double bow
at the back; but the Instant we detect
that it is not genuine we detest it
Thereafter, the more there is of It the
worse we hate It. There have been
more lies smiled than have ever been
told In any other way. The Volapuk
language is nothing new. The smile
has always been universal speech. It
has ever expressed clearly the simplest,
the sweetest, the greatest emotions of
the human soul. Take the smile and
its universal significance away from
us, and all our words would become
meaningless, because every one of the
human emotions that distinguish us
from beasts would, like a spring that
is walled in, stagnate for want of an
outlet. Addison insists that "there is
no real life but cheerful life," and
Steele says, "I am persuaded that ev
ery time a man smiles, but much more
so when helaughs, it adds something
to this fragment of life." Giggling, of
course, is quite another matter. Laugh
ing may be overdone. There Is no
fool like one who makes fun at the
wrong time. The smile that comes
from a really cheerful heart is never
out of place. But there are laughs
and giggles that are only mouth-deep.
Own If you can one of those welcom
ing faces that bring the sunshine -to
life's shadowed spots. He who gives
most joy ever receives, most. Hap
piness Is forever an export joy. The
occasional hearty laugh is good, but
better still Is the steady sunshine of a
smiling heart and face. - Happiness
seldom comes as one great moonstone,
but rather as a thousand little beads of
joy which we string upon the threads
of daily duty and opportunity. -
ONE OF ENGLAND'S BEAUTIFUL WOMEN
Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth, wife of the
"Napoleon of Journalism," is one of
the beauties of London. Her house In
Berkeley Square has held some won
derful companies, especially during the
diamond jubilee. She Is a curio collec
tor of note and, like her husband, an
enthuiiastlc automobile driver.'-
FINEST HOUSE IN MICHIGAN
Tom Down and Shipped to Brookllnc,
Mau. to Be He-erected. -
To transport a house from Michigan
to Boston Is " a task which few would
undertake, but that Is just what J. M.
Longyear, former mayor of Marquette,
Mich.; has done. Mr. . Longyear lived
in a palatial mansion on the shore of
Lake Superior. His house was the
finest In the State and represented an
THE IiOHGYEAB 1CAX8IOX.
outlay of$2i5b,000. . . hecenpyanew
railroad received the right of way
along the lake front ' close by" Mr,
Longy ear's house. This gave the mill
ionaire offense and be ordered the
house torn , down and taken to Brook
line, Mass., where it will be re-erected
for the use of the family. Practically,
no other satisfactory disposition could
be made of it Its great value made
It unsalable and it could not be rented
profitably. - r v -' V", - - ; - -
The Modern Version. - ' v 'J i:
Cinderella was weeping bitterly.
- "Never mind," said the fairy with a
wave of her hand, "I will make you a
twentieth century, cook." . : !
Hereupon her sisters hastily return
ed from the ball and begged her. to
take eight nights . out every week.
Harper's "Bazar.--" :C:' :"' -V -'l
''. New Signal Stations.
' The .United States signal corps "will
establish wireless telegraph stations
at Fort Davis, Safety Harbor,. St
Mlchaela, Fort-Plggons, Bates Rapids
and at Valdez, where connection will
be : had with the submarine cable to
Paget" Sound. -" -"v- -
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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT- SUBJECTS
, The End of the World Again. - 7 ' "
MAN of the name of Baxter Is causing a com
motion In certain quarters of London by
prophesying that the world will come to an end
In 1924. Mr. Baxter's reasons for setting the
limit at 1924 are not very plain to outsiders,
but he claims to have Biblical authority for his
conclusion. .People who foresee the end of the world al
ways have the Bible to back them up. - if is simply a mat
ter of interpretation.: "7 ' ----- v. , " ' .
-. Many people found a few years ago that their Bibles
plainly pointed to the destruction of the world at the end
of the nineteenth century. Signs and portents were every-where.-and
when the whistles blew at midnight on the
31st of December and no general explosion came off -there
were thousands of men, women and" children who drew
long breaths and gladly decided to take a fresh start.
Prophet Baxter Is probably no mora of a seer than any
of his predecessors In the end-of-the-world predicting busi
ness have been, but he may be serving 'a good purpose.
Every time anybody sets a day for the end of the -world
certain people begin trying to" do better. Hence those
predictions are not without good results, o Sometlmes .it
seems as if society might be considerably benefited if there
Were more of them. Chicago Record-HeraM.
The Ever Present Germ. ,.
HERE will science concede to us some' meas
ure. of safety? .It has lately been proved ex
perimentallywhich means that it Is really so
that books may carry tuberculosis, and it
was already known - that they communicate
scarlet fever and other infection dlsMLsoa. Tt
is no longer safe to borrow a book unless we disinfect it
thoroughly with powdered formol. If we fly to the moun
tains, to escape germs, we find that even the pearly rain
drops that fall there contain them. Almost any one would
suppose that in the middle of the sea we should find sur
cease from them; but certain conclusive observations lately
recorded show not only that "even the water of the central
portion of the North Atlantic Ocean Is not wholly free from
bacteria," but- that the germs in sea. water are Increasing
In numbers. No sea water and no rain water has been
found perfectly devoid of germs, though the rain water
over the deep sea is more nearly free from them than the
rain water that falls over the land. Not all these wander
ing germs are hurtful, but 'some of them are. 7 The conclu
sion Is rapidly being developed in the lay mind that, the
microbe being omnipresent one is as safe from him in one
place as another. Harper's Weekly. "
. Why Men Eat Too Much. J
iTTMl ia tha irrAatAst a all aiii n4.a-4l
I amusements. : A great number of people ob
I viously eat a great deal more than they need,
I A MA. I 1.1 1 .h.JlVl. XI J. t
ana it is entirely, creuioie iuai a large propor
tion of the moderate eaters ' might thrive as
well and look as handsome and work as hard
and live as long on a very much restricted
the Joy of life continue unimpaired for them? The native
born could subsist for 11 'cents 'a 'day, but would they
think life was worth living on 11 cents' worth of food a
day? No, they wouldn't " That is one thing that ails them.
Harper's Weekly. - " - - -
Summer Life on the Farm.
HERE, appears to be a steady demand forsight
ly farms In theNew England States and a
growth of that taste , which makes people of
means prefer the rest of country life during the
summer, to the confusion "and crowds which
make life at a summer hotel wearisome and
senuTpeople home in the fall as tired, if
when they sought relaxation. The extension of steam and
trolley lines has robbed country-life of a large part of its
Isolation and helped Induce people "to go back to the land,"
Old farms, which a generation ago hardly kept a family
alive, are found to have a market value, owing to panorama
of hill,' vale, lake and river, which counted nothing In the
Should Dark Women
Marry Dark Men?
' They do these" things differently In
England, if one may Judge by the fol
lowing article in an English publica
tion on "Should a Dark Woman" Mar
ry a Dark Man?" C ; ' "1- "r..--
I . know ' there Is a scientific law,
"Likes repel, unlikes . attract" ' But
surely it is a' far. cry to fit an elec
trical statement to souls. - Though, of
course, love may be a subtle kind xt
magnetism. In which case undoubtedly
the dark should marry the fair.
The great advantage of this seems
thaV roughly speaking, r fair people
take life more easily than dark ones,
and are less nervous and' more ami
able. Therefore the Ideal mate for
the . dark, energetic, highly- strung
man - is the blonde, pladd, good-tempered
woman : whose calmness will
cool bis impetuosity.. " . -
Just In the same way the golden
haired girl with violet eyes wlltprob
ably be drawn to the dark' Italian
looking fellow whose eloquent brown
eyes seem to speak a world of passion
ate yearning. . . :.:U r- ; - i 1 - r
: His eagernes,: his audacity, will
move her more than a blonde lover's
Saxon handsomeness. The dark lover
will be her Ideal, the force of contrast
will draw them ; together, and they
will be, ..In the eyes of the world, a
perfectly matched pair. tS''
know of dozens of good ladles who
sigh their loudest and exclaim, -"Dear
me! We shall see what we shall see"
when 'they bear that a dark man and
a dark girl -are going to make a match
of It According to them the doom
of the . unfortunate couple Is settle'.!,
because their hair and eyes are, the
same In color. "-.:..-- .
This is going too far. . We've ' all
known happy couples who were of the
same complexion. Just as wo'ye known
unhappy pairs whose coloring made a
fine contrast - .'. v - ' ,: -
For the comfort, of the dark haired
gkl who hopes to marry a man whose
locks are almost her own color,- I'm
going to quote a ; few of. the things
I have learned from a close study of
some few hundred married couples.'""
If, then, you - want " to - Inspire - a
fierce, overwhelming passion In your
lover, you will have a 'better chance
if you are his physical opposite, i: But
If you wish to inspire deep and lasting
friendship, .- you will have ; a ' better
chance by being his physical counter
part " --h--r.?
Looking round the :Women I - kno-w
who are, first and foremost, their hus
bands' chums, I am amazed to find the
majority are dark and have dark hus
bands.
Tt. rh aai T ireow ft wbw
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diet. But would
not more so, than
a fair man 'and a fair woman are the
best r' comrades, : I have invariably
found that their pursuits are entirely
different r . " '
The fair men and woman are Saxon
to the core, and love fields! animals,
mud, long walks, and the pleasures of
nature, while the dark couple crave
excitement and - are mentally , more
acute. , , ' '
; The conclusion of the matter seems
to be that a man must choose his wife
according to what position he wishes
her to fill in his life. If he wants
something to worship, something to
delight his eyes, something to' , pro
vide relaxation when the day's work
Is done, he should choose a golden
haired maldeni. If he wants passion
ate devotion and poetic fervor he'
should select a girl with raven hair
and dark-brown" eyes, but he must run
the risk of a vehement temper and a
jealous disposition.! If he is a farmer
or a ' quiet business man he ; should
marry; his physical opposite, because
the contrast' is "more piquant But If
he Is a man dependent upon his brain
for a living, his first need is sym
pathy, and this will be found In the
woman-who Is of . the same coloring
and similar temperament, ,. J
; FIGURES RUN IN MILLIONS,
Inmuu Proportions Which Oar Man-
nfactarer Hart Attainod. ,
. Few Americans have an adequate
conception of .'. the greatness and im
portance of the manufacturing Inter
ests of.tne country. In fact, it Is al
most Impossible to conceive it, even
when we read In the census reports
that there are more than half a million
establishments for the manufacture of
some article of commerce. And .these
establishments are -using capital to the
amount of $9,885,086,909, and employ
ing 897,174 clerks ' and officials and
wage- earners-to the number of 5,316,
802. -ri , . ;; " : :;.-:.:..
But if the mind refuses this high hur
dle what- is the mental condition of the
fellow who tries to Jump the fact that
$7,848,144,755 worth of raw. material
Is consumed annually by this array of
factories, and "make out of thlsma
terlal manufactured products "" worth
altogether $13,014,287,498? That sum
is nearly ten times the authorized capi
talization "of "the greatest corporation
on earth, the United States Steel Cor
poration. It represents the actual val
ue of the States of New York and
Pennsylvania combined. ' ;
. The product In .1890 was less by
nearly $4,000,000,000, while "that - of
1850 . was only a little "more than. $1,
000,000,000. " W rank first among the
manufacturing nations of the earth,
for we produce, according-to the most
accurate authorities, abont half '- aa
much as all of Europe combined, the
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eyes of former owners, and the new occupants draw divi
dends In health, sunshine, shade and landscape which are
fully as valuable as dollars. Taunton Gazette.
j . The Nation's Wealth. , 7
HE total wealth of the world Is estimated at
$400,000,000,000. These figures are probably
lower than they should be, for the reason, that
statistical returns from South; and Central
American countries and from the seml-dvlllzed
portions of the globe, such - as Asiatic nations
and the Ottoman empire, are very Inaccurate and Incom
plete. 1 But! taking this estimate as correct the - United
States owns one-fourth, or $100,000,000,000, of the entire
accumulated capital of the world. . . ; ..'- -;
This fact, however, does not mean that the Americans
are the best off financially of all the people of the earth.
The English are the wealthiest,wlth the Scotch a close
second. Australia comes next- then France, and after her
the United States. For the purpose of striking .the com
parison, the compilation of 1895 from Marshall's "Diction
ary of Statistics" Is taken. Inasmuch as it Is fuller than
any. table subsequently made. The per capita wealth of
England Is $1,584; Scotland, $1,257; Australia, ; $1,123;
France, $1,210; United States, $1,123; Six other countries
whose per capita wealth Is worthy of mention are the
following: .. Denmark with $1,104; Canada, $940; Holland,
$878; Switzerland, $787; Germany, $748, and Belgium,
$739. All these figures, of course, have greatly Increased
since the year they were compiled, but no great change in
the relative standing of the different nations has probably
resulted thereby. Kansas City Journal.
The" Gift of Laughter.
OD'S- greatest' gift to man was the laugh.
Without It the human race would have wept
Itself to death or exterminated Itself long ago.
Pathos Is" beautiful. Tragedy is absorbing.
But both r pathos and, tragedy- are Instantly
routed by the laugh. : -:
Laughter has sunshine In It It Is warm. Learned men
have searched for the secret of life. What Is it but good
humor? That's the secret of life being worth living.
What sunshine is to' earth good humor Is to man. Take
the smile and the laugh away and it would be the end
of man. ; .'. . .
Men can't fight while they enjoy a Joke. ' Death him
self recoils from the laugh. The man In a good humor
has an enormous advantage over the man who Is 'angry.
Anger is dark. Bitterness Is filled with shadow. Intoler
ance Is grim and black. Prejudice Is blind. .
Good humor with the smile and the laugh is sunshine
In which objects are plain and distortion disappears and
wherein phantoms become nothing. Denver Post ;
" The Automobilist. .
HERE are a great many people In the world
who do not seem to realize that their rights
end exactly where those of their fellow-beings
begin. We are unwilling to believe there are
many who are made up of "the combination
of Blifil and Black George" which that mordant
Virginian, John Randolph, of Roanoke, accused Clay of
being, with the result of meeting on the field of honor;
but there are some who, without being either rogues or
hypocrites, or anything else condemned by the written or
moral law, constantly forget the rights of others. Consider
the untamed automobilist He is next of kin to the bicycle
scorcher who ran his devastating course a few years ago.
What is it that makes a man apparently sane otherwise
wish to ride at a reckless peed through the city streets,
endangering the lives of others, as soon as he thinks he
knows how to operate one of those unconcealed deadly
weapons? Were we Buddhists we should believe him to be
a reincarnation of. the war horse described in the Book of
Jolv that "swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage.
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he
smelleth the battle afar off." Philadelphia Ledger. : " -
many third, France fourth and Austria-Hungary
fifth.
Further statistics show that 29,000,-
000 people more than ten years of age
are engaged in productive Industry.
More than one-third are In agriculture, I
a fifth In domestic and personal ser
vice, a fifth in trade and: transporta
tion, the professions hold
a meager
twentieth, while a fourth are
n a
manufactures and the mechanical pur-
suits, including mining ,
An ingenious statistician has figured '
es engaged in these . manufacturing
pursuits as follows: If a given estab
lishment employing 100 persons de
sired the typical division of men, wom
en and children, it would be obliged to
employ seventy-seven men more than-
16 years of age, twenty women more
than 16, and three children or young
persons more than 16.
The King and the Reporter. :
- King Alfonso of Spain has been say
ing to a Spanish newspaper what he
thinks about the press. Could any
thing be "more . modern than a . king
descended from an ancient line - of
monarchs consenting to an Interview
with a reporter? This Is the way the
young ruler delivers himself, or the
way London M. A. P. translates him: tne mains 0f more Illustrious people
-, The truly impartial periodical, which of revolutionary times than any other
applauds with enthusiasm-all that Is one burial spot around Boston. The
good, and censures with energy all fir8t headstone of which there Is any
that is evil, "will ever merit the sin-.' record was erected to the memory of
cere esteem of those who prefer-the the Rev. William Thompson, the first
Interests of the nation at large to any .minister : of the old First Meeting
other consideration. ; ; house, in 1606. The first tomb In the
To -reflect the state of opinion and place was built in 1675 for. Dr. Leon
to become the echo of Its needs wlth ard Hoar, third president of Harvard
out Its prejudices, "and with serenity College and an ancestor of Senator
of mind to sacrifice the secondary end George F. Hoar. The second tomb
to the common good Is a most beauti
ful ideal, and one that falls perfectly
within the scope of the mission of the
press. . ' -OP":.;:;:sVrf;?'"rr
; I read the newspapers with Interest,
and . take especial delight -In -. those
which, like Die Woche, for Instance,
keep their readers', informed ; of the
advances made in science and indus
try. I think that It is expedient, even
necessary, that the current daily nar
rative of events in- tho world, - which
excite public curiosity; and at. times
anxiety, should be associated, with art,
wfilch delights", as well as - Instructs,
and "with science," whose discoveries
should be popularized, especially those
that affect industry, So that all who
need Instruction may have what Is
useful side by side with what Is recre
ative. ;" - "'-'iCv- i&j-'-
The average woman can't understand
where the trouble began, recalling with
pride In -herself that "she; always met
her husband with a smile.
IHow often men tell things," and then
add, "I wouldn't ha ve it known "that It
came from m." Thtn why tell It?
. 'Benzine locomotives of eight horse
power, drawing freight trucks of a ca
pacity of 25 tons on narrow-guage tun- f
riel roads, are changing the working of
German, Belgian and Austrian mines.
i Piano-playing is found by a German
physician to" be a common cause of
nervous disease," 600 girls out of J.,000
being affected among piano players un
der 12, and only 100 In 1,000 among
non-players. The music lessons should
not begin before 16. -':'.;"";:.-rr'"'.:-""
-A' new improvement of the micro
scope made at Java University con
sists in so arranging the Illumination
that no light can enter the objective
except -that reflected by the object un
der examination. This, Jt is claimed,
brings into" view objects about half the
size of those formerly proving the lim
it of minuteness. "
The unicorn, so long regarded as a
fabled creature, was a horse-like beast
with a single horn sticking out straight
from its head: and It has been sup
posed that, it was suggested by the
rhinoceros. Prof. Wilhelm ; Boelsche
points out that bones of a huge, horse
like beast that actually did carry such
a single straight horn are now known."
It is called elasmotherium, and it was
a contemporary of the mammoth in
the Rhine valley and in Siberia.-
. Prof. A. W. Goodspeed of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania has recently
made X-ray photographs by means of
secondary radiation from his hand ex
posed to the action of a Crookes tube,
which was so, screened that its rays
could not directly reach the photo
graphic plate. Other things besides
the hand, such as pieces of wood, zinc,
and brass, ' were found to possess a
similar property of being excited to
the emission of invisible rays by the
action of the tube. On two occasions
Professor Goodspeed has suffered from
inflammation of the eyes and throat
when sleeping in a room where X-ray
experiments had been conducted, and
he thinks the cause may have been the
secondary radiation from the air or ob
jects in the room.
Experiments made some time ago
by Messrs. E. G. Nichols and G. F.
Hull were thought to prove that the
deflection of a comet's tail on ap
proaching the sun is due to pressure of
light A mixture of dried puff-ball
spores and ' emery sand was poured
through a kind of hour-glass hole in a
vacuum tube, a beam of light forty
times as strong as sunlight being turn
ed on the particles, and the light puff
ball seeds only a tenth as heavy as
water were blown aside while the
emery continued to fall vertically. Cor
rected calculation's now indicate that
the problem is not as near solution as
was supposed. The effect is ten times
as great as the pressure of light could
produce, some unknown force seeming
to have taken part, and further experi
ments will be made," using, if possible,
lighter particles and a more perfect
vacuum.
Development of the great natural re
sources of the tropical belt of the earth
is, in the opinion of the Hon. O. P.
Austin, chief of the Bureau of Sta
tistics, a necessity for the future prog
ress of the world. Although this belt
contains practically one-half of the
land area of the globe, It now contrib
utes but one-sixth of the exports which
enter into International commerce. With
the growing population of the world
and the Increase of facilities for trans
portation, a change should be wrought
i In this respect Science has shown how
Jlfe and healtn can protected in the
j and India, southern China and
nHontnl lintriM ,w,tnl
other Oriental countries contain popu
lations capable of laboring, and willing
to labor, in the tropics. Finally, Mr.
. i
l nuwnt venra TirncHeflllv nil at th
t t ic&l Amrica, have
been brought under the control of tem-
MtMAB. ni,trlM.
TO SAVE ANCIENT TOMBSTONES.
Work Begun to Preserve Those in tho
- Historic Hancock Cemetery. -
In accordance with a vote passed re
cently by the city council of Quincy,
the city engineer of that place has
begun to make an accurate plan of the
old historic Hancock cemetery in City
square, says the Boston Transcript.
This burying ground is nearly- 250
years old and contains many quaint
headstones, the inscriptions on which
are fast "becoming obliterated Every
stone .and tomb in the cemetery will
now be numbered and an accurate rec
ord of the names on each will be kept.
This little cemetery, situated in the
heart of the city, probably contains
was built in 1699, and was for Ed
mund Quincy, one ef the first of that
illustrious name in this country.
In this cemetery are buried the Rev.
John .Hancock, once a pastor, of the
First Church across the - way, and
father of Governor-John Hancock of
revolutionary f ame.who married "Dor
othy Q.;" Henry Adams, who fled from
the dragon "persecution In Devonshire,
England, anaU also : his son, Joseph
Adams, who was one of the original
proprietors of the township of Brain
tree and members of the Quincy fam
ily, almost without number, are buried
there,' as are . many members of the
Hoar family. On a marble slab which
covers the graves of . the Qulncyl fam
ily Is the family coat-of-arms, cut in
slate stone,' resembling lead. This took
the place of the original coat-of-arms,
which was cast out of lead, and which
wa, during the days of the " revolu
tionary war, cut from ,the tombstone
and melted Into bullets.-;: ; '.:
- It was In this old cemetery -c that
President John Adams was burled un
til his later tomb under the - First
Church was ready to receive his body.
President John Quiaey Adams also
found a resting place In a tomb of the
cemetery when the body was brought
home from Washington. For nearly
two centuries cattle , were allowed to
roam at will, and graze in the church
yard, and it was not until 1S09 that
steps were taken to inclose the place
with a fence In that year a commitr
tee, consisting of President " John
Adams, " his brother, Chief Justice
Thomas Boylston. Adams Joslah Quin
cy and a number of other citizens pur
chased the land and presented thft
place to' the town of Quincy.
LYNCHINGS ON THE WANE
Despite Appearances They. Are Less.
L Frequent Than Formerly. . -
Conspicuous crime like the Wilming- -ton
lynching almost always provokes,
imitation. Many cases have been re
ported In rapid succession since its oc
currence. . - But this will not blind
thoughtful students of our civic situa
tion to the fact that the general trend
of lynching v statist'es is downwards
From 1884 to . 1900 there were "2,516;
lynchings in the United States, an av
erage of about 160 annually. Of these,,
contrary, perhaps, to general opinion
only a iittle more than two-thirds, -1,-678,'
were of negroes. More than a fifth,
of all the lynchings were in Northern
States.
It is notable, however, that the pro- '
portion of whites is decreasing, owing
to the diminution " of lynchings for
horse stealing in the West. Contrary.
also, to popular opinion, hardly a fifth,
of the cases were for assault and even.
If we include the categories, attempted,
assault, alleged assault and assault ag
gravated by murder, we shall still find
less than a fourth, 619, attributable
to this cause. It may be worth noting:
also that forty-two States are repre
sented In the statistics of lynching. .
There Is a steady tendency down
ward since 1S97, when the number or
lynchings was almost exactly that of
the average for the sixteen-year period,
166. In 1898 it. fell to 127, In 1899 to
107. There was a slight increase in
1900 and in 1901, but In 1902, for tbe
flrst time since accurate record began,
there were less than 100 lynchings, and
the flrst six months of 1903 show only
45, which suggests that this year may
be even freer from this social crime
tfcan 1902. We must record with re
gret, however, that nearly a third of
the six months' total occurred In June.
Tabulated by States, the figures
show Georgia In the lead, with Missis
sippi, Louisiana) Alabama, Texas and
Tennessee following. In no other
States has the number of lynchings for
the past twenty years reached 100.
But, though lynchings are decreasing
in number, the area in which they oc
cur grows. They are met with In
States where a generation ago they
would havs been thought impossible.
This reveals an evil no longer section-,
al, but of national concern.
One touch of moral heroism illumin
ates the Wilmington Incident The
father of the victim, when he learned,
that there was talk of . lynching the
conf'jssed criminal; published an open
letter begging all good citizens to
await the orderly process of law. He
is a minister and, suffering under a
provocation hardly thinkable, showed,
himself worthy of the Master he had.
undertaken to set before others as an,
exemplar. Churchman. " "
WOMAN SUCCEEDS ON ROAD.
Mrs. E. G. Taylor Makes Living; as
Commercial Traveler.
Mrs. E. G. Taylor, commercial trav
eler, representing a Bridgeport, Conn...
house, is stopping at an uptown hotels
In an interview with a Commercial re
porter, Mrs. Taylor said:
"Why do I sign my name upon the
hotel register, 'E.' G. Taylor, New
York?' The reason is, no doubt obvi
ous. . I was born In Cavendish, Vt..
and received my education in the pub
lic schools there. I married In Bel
lows Falls, Vt My husband died 13
years ago, and I have traveled for nine
years, representing Thomas P. Taylor,
who, however, Is no relative of mine.
I have been successful ; but it is my
aim always to be more so. My sample
trunk is a large one, and with an aver
age excess of 25 pounds. I never use
a hand satchel to show samples in
part, but have my trunk taken to
stores when It Is impossible for buyers
to view the samples at the hotel.
"With the exception of a two-week,
holiday I travel the entire year,' visits
ing all the large cities east of the Mis
sissippi River, and in winter time, for
a period of two months, devoting my
time to the large cities of all the
Southern States, save Florida.
"Many Incidents occur while travel
ing that relieve the monotony. Recent
ly a rather fleshy woman had evident
ly secured the privilege of storing In.
the car part of her household effects
and many of her pets. Among the lat
ter was a rooster. The conglomeration,
reminded me of the sign I once saw In
front of a general merchandise store
out West which reads: "Bibles and.
treacle, goodly books and gimlets for
sale here.' ' -
- "The hotel clerks always treat me
with gentlemanly consideration. The
traveling men. often extend courtesies
that show their goodness of heart In
a convention-crowded city, when hotels
were filled, they have more than once
surrendered their rooms to me and.
gone elsewhere to search for quarters.'" ,
New York Commercial. ;
Straw In Egyptian Brick.
The ancient Egyptians had a process,
for making bricks which rendered. ,
them very hard, yet easy to work. An.
American engineer, Mr. Acheson"
thinks he has discovered Their secret..
The Egyptians used straw and by boil
ing straw In water and mixing clay
with it be found that it gave. hard,
shapely bricks that did not crack or
deform in baking. Analysis proved
the effect due to tannin dissolved in.
waters - Further experiments showed "
that .from one-half to 1 per cent ofu.
the tannin of commerce added te the
reslstance of the brick. The process
also economizes - water and such
bricks dried In the sun are even more
solid than those of the kiln. London
Globe. ." - "rzC-r:.'- -y-Vfv
Owning a Panama hat is like own
ing one shirt You have to go, to bed
while it Is being washed. -, " ,
j Work now; you caa rest after roa
are" dead. . ;. C