Corvallis gazette., September 25, 1903, Image 4

TOPICS OF
THE TIMES.
11 8 a lucay cu:u mm uucsu i iuiu
tall when you call heads.
The rolling stone sees Its finish
when it strikes te op grade.
The young people of this country
need and -should have more moonlight
nights.
Foolishness Is the common heritage
of man, but wisdom is a prise given
to the few.
A. Crow chief has discarded the tom
ahawk for the automobile.. The cun
ulng old murderer!
Turkey can't tell Macedonia to go
get a reputation before fighting It. It
produced Alexander the Great.
Mr. Corbett is now writing articles
on" his defeat, literature being a by-m-oduct
of up-to-date pugilism. .
A man never knows what he can do
until he tries and if he tries the
chances are he will regret it later.
If advice were worth money there
are many of us who would not be
bothered to death by solicitous
friends.
It may be all right to act as collector
for a dead man, but when it comes to
remitting there Is sure to be more or
less trouble. ,
Some wives worry because they im
agine the other half of the outfit is in
love with every doll-faced girl he hap
pens to look at.
And when you think of it, it seems
strange how a mosquito can carry
around so much malaria In its sys
tem and still remain so aggressively
active.
It is reported that rich deposits of
diamonds have been found in Liberia.
If the rumor is well founded we may
confidently predict that Liberia will
soon cease to be a black republic.
Lord Charles Beresford. in tracing
some of the Improvements In the treat
ment of the men in the British and
the United States navies, said that
formerly they had the' cat and no dis
cipline; now they have discipline and
no cat. -
only is insanity on the increase, but
the occurring varieties are less curable,
the physique of the town-dwelling sec
tion of the population has deteriorated
both in height and weight, and the
statistics of recovery are less favorable
than they were twenty-five years
ago.- Serious as this may appear,
while such a state exists one can nei
ther hope for nor expect relief from
the great financial and economic bur
den of Drovidinz accommodation for
the Insane of the future. . If relief is
to come, it - will be In some - great
change affecting the physical as well
as the mental health of the masses
of the people.
At last the two-minute trotting horse
has arrived. When Cresceus came
within two and a quarter seconds of
this, mucb-dreamed-of mark two years
ago, even the experts -said that horse
flesh; could not be trained to do any
better. But Lou Dillon easily captured
the laurel from Cresceus, making the
mile in 120 seconds flat, and the last
quarter in the still more remarkable
time of 29 seconds. Yet this wonder
ful feat creates none of the popular In
terest and excitement that marked
Dexter's 2.174 in 1867. the 2:08. of
Maud S. in 1885, or even the 2:04 of
Nancy Hanks In 1882. This doubtless
is due to a lessened'popular interest In
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other and newer sports. But the horse
man will tell us that the achievement
of Lou DilUn marks a distinct advance
In breeding and training, as well as lh
the conditions under which such rec
ords are made. And the more we think
it over the. more wonderful It seems
that a horse can trot, a mile in two
minutes. -- ,
Much profit can be derived from an
tor Resartus," as the average man is
prone to forget that the body is more
than raiment. 1 When1 the Presbyterian
Church realized that those who sought
to revise the creed did not strive to
make a new body, but only asked that
a more'modern garment be put on the
old one, objection to changes in for
mula disappeared, and the new creed
.was adopted unanimously at the re-
church was jealous of the faith of its
fathers It took fifteen years to -secure
' approval of the new form of doctrine.
iiic ouuflLaiiLc ui. vviiii;u remains 1119
same as the old. Jealousy for the
truth, as it is given to one to see the
trum, ienas towara a luiler compre
hension of the truth itself. It is be
cause of the conservatism of the va
rious churches that, although much
has been said about the great changes
In the belief of men, the clfange in a
thousand years has. not been-radical.
The form of words in which beliefs
have been expressed has been revised
and the conduct which was thought
fitting for Christians has been modi-
tied, but the motive of Christian life
remains the same. '. Each generation
serves God as best it may. . This gen
eration is wont to flatter itself with
the notion that it is more broadly tol
erant than some of Its predecessors,
and that it holds a less repellent view
of the nature of God. It remains for
the people who come after us to de
cide" whether this pride is justified.
The new generations will have their
creed revisions and their controver
sies, but unless" the" religious nature
changes there will be no - material
change in the -body of their belief,"
whatever may be the garments of
creed in which it is clothed.
If . most persons were asked which
Is the more dangerous occupation, that
of a soldier in battle or of the aver-
age housewife engaged in her ordinary
duties the answer would be wrong.
Though startling it is true that the
death rate of the patient domestic
drudge is greater than that of the
soldier. So says Dr.- Dickinson, of
Chicago, who has Investigated. At
the battle of Santiago 100,000 soldiers
were engaged and 300 were killed a
death rate of three-tenths of 1 per
cent. The death rate of the woman
who keeps house Is considerably larg
er. These are Rome of the dangers
which the woman who is engaged in
the slavish task of loustkwpl"t d
kitchen keeping faws dally: .Death
by scalding. By gasollu or gaa ex
plosions. By falling down dark stair
ways. By heat prostration. By din
ease contracted through bad owpr
age and unsanitary kitchens. By ex
haustlou and unending drudgery. By
suicide induced by too h(plwues
of the dally routtne. The ar aot
fanciful danger. Kach of them baa
Its frightful statistics f death au
alarming mortality. And, strangely
enough, thew dangers follow largely
in the wake of the effort by modern
invention to lighten the toll of the do
mestic drudge. Labor saving devices
have increased, the risk. Notable
among domestic tragedies-are the fa
tal accldeuta caused by explosions of
gasoline or gas stoves. 'The mothers
of the race are being slaughtered by
the progress of civilisation. Especial
ly Is this true of the so-called middle
class wives and wives of worklngmen.
Housekeeping at the best is a menial
and dull occupation. There is little to
compensate for the weary and spirit
less routine. To many a frail woman
the bondage to monotonous common
place is in Itself a domestic tragedy.
When there is added to the miracle of
labor required dangers more real than
the battlefield, what shall be said?
The remedy? Society must do more
for the housewife. Safety must be
joined to facility of labor. -- Better san
itary conditions. ; Kitchens in - homes
and flats and tenements should be
made more habitable and convenient.
Women should be . better educated
concerning the danger of explosives.
Children In school should be taught
the common things as well as the
higher things of life. Diversion must
somehow be introduced into the life
of the exhaustive and ceaseless round
of household drudgery. "Work is not
a curse, but drudgery is." Let the
world forget a while the sorrows of
"the man with the hoe" and contem
plate the fate of the woman with the
dish rag.
AUTOMOBILE 1AWN MOWER -
IN USE AT THE CAPITOL
What Is believed to be the first auto
mobile lawn mower used in this coun
try is employed on the grounds around
the Wnltehouse and the Capitol In
"Washington, where It may be seen
almost every day cutting grass. The
statement is made that it does its work
neatly and expeditiously, and at the
same time does no damage to the beau
tiful lawns. . -
Latest Thins la Kisses.
The new scientific kiss Is not a kiss
at all. Those great men who study
the dark ways of the wily germ and
the, ubiquitous bacillus frown upon
lip-kissing as an Indulgence leading to
disease. " Consequently, when two fair
women meet they formally lift their
veils and the velvety right cheek of one
is pressed for an Instant against the
satiny left cheek of the other, says
an observer. This is as nice a bub-
stitute for the old and dangerous meth
od of greeting as the most demonstrat-
ingly affectionate individuals could de
sire. ' V- ; '"- - '
Certain husbands,, brothers and near
est cousins to rosy cheeks, - who have
experimented with the new method.
declare that it is "not half bad.
though hardly up to the standard of
the old style kiss. -
It is considered as rude to offer to
press the cheek of your friend without
lifting your veil as it is to kiss lip
fashion through the dotted mask, or to
offer your left hand- for shaking.
' -r His Br!jtht Thought.
They stood in the darkness, band in
hand, looking out into the night.
"Dearest," said she, eadly, "what
does it make .you think as you look
out into the illimitable space?"
' "Why, you know," said he, smiling
thoughtfully down at her, "I always
think that with so much space there
ought to be room enough for every
body." Minneapolis Journal.
Mall by the Siberian Koaa7
European mall can now be dispatch
ed to the. far east by means of the
great Trans-Siberian railroad. Letters
can to-day be sent from Paris, Ber
lin or Vienna via Moscow to Vladivos
tock and Port Arthur in from twenty
two to twenty-four days, while the
time required by steamer mail via the
Suez canal route Is from six to eight
weeks. "
; Race Problem.
"De race hez got ter rise en hustel ef
ever It hopes ter git dar," said the old
colored citizen. "Too many of us
thinks dat all we got ter do Is go ter
sleep, in de hot sun en rise up ter eat
watermelons in de : shade!" Atlanta
Constitution. - - : -
-Cheap Horsepower in Frisco. -i
The melting snows and glaciers of
the Rockies, and petrolenm now fur
nish such abundant power for. San
Franclseo that the cost of one horse
power one houcjs two cents.
A lazy man can never know the joy
of a well earned, rest.
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Many Suicides Due to Ignorance.
HE new suicide statistics
and the Increasing tendency
II which marks the hot season
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ble, and are only due to lack of physiological
education. If college lecturers .upon hygiene
and teachers of physiology would take pains to
widely impress one simple lesson a large
of suicides would cease to be and the
happiness would be distinctly augmented. This lesson is
that despair Is a temporary .state, and in many cases is
entirely due to physical or bodily causes.
for "the blues" is a liver pill. ' That gloomy, hopeless out
look in events which drives many to suicide is due not to
the events themselves, but to bodily conditions which set up
the state called "despair" in the mind. Any despondent
persons whose troubles are really trivial
by looking backward for a day or a week to the last day
on which he was abundantly happy. He
cases that events and conditions have not altered In the
least, that the existing gloom comes, therefore, .from" some
cause within himself, and he may come to believe that hope
for the hopeless can be purchased at a
particularly among those young people who have been ex
ecuting themselves jo recklessly of late, Is, to the physi
cian, merely a definite state of bod ill
natural mental result is melanhcoly, and which can easily
be alleviated, If not cured, by simple treatment. And If any
lover or pair of lovers who are thinking of death will con
suit an intelligent doctor, they will save their lives at th
expense of a very moderate fee. New York American.
Tfoe Handicap of Lack of
ANY men of wonderful natural endowments
are dwarfed and hampered in their life work
because of their lack of education. How often
IMS
Jl do we see bright minds la
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great business houses or banking institutions,
men who control the affairs of great railroads
and manufactories, who have good judgment and great
natural ability, but who are so stunted and cramped by
their lack of early development that life does not yield them
one-tenth of what It. might -had their Intellectual and aes
thetic possibilities been unfolded ln youth. In social life,
on public platforms. In debate, in the higher fields of . the
world's work, enjoyment, and progress,
baffled, embarrassed and handicapped by
ignorance. " '
Again, thousands of young men and young women are
working to-day in Inferior positions because of their lack
of mental culture. Conscious of dormant powers which
they cannot, get control of. many of them fret and chafe
under the restraint imposed upon them by their own ignor
ance. They are In the position of the Chinese and other
non-progressive peoples,, who have great
tural and other natural resources, which, however, do not
yield them a hundredth part of their value because they do
not know how to utilize them, t In the very midst of poten
tial wealth and vast possibilities, these people live in pov
erty and degradation, just as an uneducated man or woman,
who has never developed his or her mental wealth, is
doomed to perpetual ignorance and its consequences.
Success..
.Influence of Land.
HE causes which control th ebb and flow of
humanity between city and country are among
the most . subtle and obscure of social phe
nomena. The characteristic of the people of all
new countries is vigor. It Is due to the abun-
J dance of land for all the people, and the action
and re-acdon between land and man.
tries Is rude, but the nourishment is abundant, and the pure
air sends pure blood coursing through the veins. The
RADICAL CURE FOR LOCKJAW.
Severe Natnre of the Remedy Catca
ll lated to Inspire Fear.
"- A large number of deaths from
tetanus that have recently come to
light Invests with great interest any
report of a cure of the much-dreaded
disease. The severity and radical na
ture of the remedyr however, are well
calculated to Inspire almost as -much
fear as the original attack of the mal
ady." Unlike other kindred Infectious
ailments, there is usually no calcula
tion for results until the poison has
done Its work by attacking the brain
and nervous centers and producing
the fatal spasms; Hence the only
hope rests In the injection of the
tetanus anti-toxin directly into the
brain substance. The operation Is a
severe and dangerous one, but is the
only means at band that appears to be
founded on the rational scientific basis
of directly . neutralizing . . the poison.
The successful case reported from San
Francisco is one in point in which It
was necessary to bore Into the skull
of the victim for the purpose of Intro
ducing the neutralizing agent. No
more forcible argument in favor of
prevention of lockjaw could be urged
than that afforded by the necessity of
the situation.. . v . .
Although of late a large majority of
the cases of tentanus have been charg
ed to the toy pistol and poisoned cart
ridge, it Is well to bear In mind that
the real cause is the accidental pres
ence of the bacillus on dirt-soiled
hands, , and that , the microbe, being
naturally, developed In damp and fer
tilized earth, can thus be easily driven
into wounds by an explosion. Rusty
garden implements, nails, and the like
are also frequent causes of Infection,
especially when they produce punctur
ed lesions. When such conditions are
present obviously the only course to
pursue Is to endeavor " to anticipate
lockjaw by Immediately cleansing the
wound and by Injecting the anti-toxin
locally,; knowing full well that with
such an opportunity lost the last, most
desperate remedy is -all that is jeft.
In connection with, such facts, too
much stress cannot be laid upon the
avoidance of all wounds from soiled
or rusty instruments. - .
... Kept the Company Awake.
He couldn't have been more than 15
and he was a perfect specimen of the
type of street boy one" reads about, but
seldom sees. He was standing on the
back platform, smoking, - when the at
tention of the-genial passenger was
first called to him and this because
the - boy brushed off the genial pas
senger's coat and apologized for nearly
setting It on 'fire. : V
, "Been ter ther ball game?" the boy
Inquired. The genial passenger ad
mitted that he hadn't had that pleas-.
ure. V.:lfr ""''-V-t'''".-"
"Peach of a game," said the ibby.
Just as this point a fashionably
dressed young man ' boarded the . car
and went inside, where, after seating
result Is a race of strong men. When class distinctions
are marked the gentry gain culture without losing strength.
That is the highest type of manhood. It was seen In the
pre-Augustan age of Rome," in the chivalry of medieval
Western Europe, In the planters of our own Southern
States in the first half of the nineteenth century. The de
velopment of the highest type of manhood involves the con
demnation of the majority to a rude and laborious life. But
such men can be propagated from generation, to generation
only so long as they remain In their rural environment.
In the cities degeneration occurs. Here and there vigor
is transmitted through several generations of city bred
men, at least In individuals who maintain the family
name and standing. The tendency Is to degeneration, and
the mass yields to the tendency. The result is seen in the
slums and the potter's field. The new men who dominate
the cities at least in America areN country bred. San
Francisco Chronicle.
from Yale College
to self-destruction
are reminders that
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and definite class
general average of
The best remedy
may prove this
will find in many
drug store. Love,
ll whose
congestion, whose
ed out
Education.
responsible positions,
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they are constantly
the limitations of
mineral, agricul
The life of new coun
himself, he pulled up his trousers, dis
playing a pair of brilliantly colored
socks. The boy moved over to the
doorway, and, crouching, with his head
Inside the door, " fixed his eyes In a
fascinated stare on the gay ly . clad
ankles. ; When he was sure he had
attracted the attention of all the pas
sengers to the offending articles, he
yelled derisively:
. "Bum show! Drop der curtain!"
By this time the genial passengei
had reached his corner, but before he
had a chance to get off a good-looking
middle-aged woman' pushed by him
and stepped off . the car, .. remarking
sharply as she did so on the evils of
smoking. Of, course her speech was
directed at the boy. Quick as a flash
he retorted: "The girl's mad because
I would not flirt with her." -
The car moved off with the boy smil
ing and happy and the woman flushed
with anger and wishing she could box
the young scamp's ears. New York
Press.
. Timely Warning. . '
A novelist who was giving a lecture
on the characteristics and surround
ings of the class of people with whom
some of his books deal, noticed a dis
approving face, in the front row. of
listeners. It was the face of -an el
derly Scotchman, and at the close of
the lecture the man waited upon the
speaker. .
"Sir," he said slowly, after a sol
emn shake of the lecturer's f hand,
"I've read all your books up to this,
and liked them fairly. 1 Man, you
wouldna gie up writing and takV to
speaking to get your - living, '' would
ye?" -'
"No, indeed," said the lecturer, so
berly. "You think it would be unwise,
don't you?"
"It would be sae great a mistake that
I felt I must tell ye ma thoughts as
an honest man," said the Scotchman,
with great-earnestness. "I said to
tnyselY 'He may need Just a word
to set him right, and I'll not deny it
to him.' There was ane o' your books
I found a bit dull, - but as I listened
to. ye to-night I said to mysel', "Twas
na so dull as It "might ha' been, that
book, after all" , : ' ;
A Subterfuge.- -
"Don't you know that it is wrong to
gamble?" : 1 - -
"Yasslr," said Pickaninny Jim as he
shook" the dice. "I knows it's "wrong
to gamble, but dishere isn't gamblin';
dishere is a guessin' contest." Wash
lngton Star. " . , '
Accounting for the Trouble. - :7' .:
She The way to a "man's heart is
through his stomach.' . ' -
He Possibly -that's -why ; so many
poor devils have dyspepsia, Baltimore
American. ' -r-
ed-biiTat Men'a Faehioim.
kSevlnce of . Wales has taken his
father's palace as arbiter of men"s
fashions. - He seldom, wears a: suit
more than two or three tlmesv
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Future of the Automobile.
OME people have regarded these machines as
likely to become formidable competitors of the
street and the steam railroad as regards both
passenger and freight transportation, and there
have appeared magazine articles to this effect,
writers should know better. As Is point
in the current number of the Engineer
ing magazine, four or five times as much power would be
required to move a given weight over the best macadam
road- as over steel rails, and power is the great cost of
transportation. Hence it can never be that the automobile,
on the common public roadway, will be able to compete
with the railroad car either In tonnage movement r speed.
Accordingly the" automobile must remain a vehicle for
pleasure or for transportation in competition with the horse
where a railway Is unavailable or inconveniently Inacces
sible. The only way to bring it into direct competition with
the railway Is to put It upon rails itself, and in that case it
may be said to have lost its present character, and become
a.raJlway car for private or public use. In this aspect the
question of the automobile and Its future merges into that
of the railway car, whether moving over high rails or
broad flat rails, laid In the common public highway, or on
a private way. Considered in this character, the auto car
or yehicle mechanically . propelled , by "Its own power no
doubt has a great future, just as the electric street car has.
Springfield Republican.
Misapplied Charity.
HE question, arises from -time to time .whether,
after all, much" of the charity which stands
ready and willing to aid almost whosoever
shall ask is not doing deadly work for the peo
ple. It was this thought which Impe-lleA Oar
lyle to say that among the most futile of the
sons of men was the professional philanthrop
ist The great curse of the cities of to-day Is the congestion
of population In the poor and squalid districts,' and this
constant and increasing rush from the country to the city
is not only a source and cause of crime and suffering,
but of economic waste of the most dangerous and costly
kind. While the farmers of the West plead for help In
their fields, the cities are filled with the wjetchedly poor.,
who will not leave the city, where they subsist largely" on
charity. It is not alone In, the West in harvest time
that labor is needed in the country; the demand for labor
at good wages comes from every farming district in every
State In the Union all the year, and one of the most serious
problems confronting the farmer is the scarcity of work
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The rush to the cities continues nevertheless, and the
poor and Idle find the course of nature and the basic eco
nomic laws reversed by those who are actually seeking
ways of helping those to live who deliberately ; will not
work. Philadelphia Ledger.
CURIOUS PLACES TO DWELL. .
Some People Have Home ' la Cavee
and Othera In Cratera. '.
Many thousands of the people of the
earth dwell beneath its surface. ; There
are human habitations In caverns
where the light of day never pene
trates, and the crater of extinct vol
canoes furnish shelter to scores. The
people of Tupuselel . have no need to
travel far when they want to take a
salt water bath.- The town is built on
piles, whieh have been driven into
a submerged coral reef ; situated -far
out In the Torres straits to the south
of New Guinea. Opposite this extra
ordinary settlement, on the mainland,
is another village that is, perched high
In the air among the gigantic palm
trees with which the. coast la fringed.
The object of both communities In
choosing these - curious sites for their
dwellings Is identical. They desire to
assure themselves against being - sur
prised by their numerous enemies, and
especially they seek safety from the
prowling Dyak head hunters. ;?u
People afflicted with diseases not in
frequently develop strange fads as re
gards the choice r of their abiding
places. Not long since, for instance, a
number of consumptives agreed to-
f ether to dwell ' within the - dismal
epths of the Mammoth Cave In Ken-i
tacky. In pursuance of this extraor
dinary project, building materials were
actually carried into the cave at con
siderable trouble and expense, and a
tiny subterranean village sprang by de
grees into existence. When it was
completed It was Inhabited by thirteen
families. " .:' . v
But, as might have been foreseen,
the profound silence and eternal dark
ness of the place exerted upon the un
fortunate .inhabitants a deleterious ef
fect which far outweighed any Deneflt
derived from the undoubtedly - pure,
dry air and equable temperature.
Some of the invalids dled others gave
up the experiment In disgust, and the
houses 60 strangely and laboriously
built are now. given over to tramps,
outlaws and other similar chance so
journers. ; .'. - '.
"Better luck has attended the little
colony of . people similarly afflicted,
who, a few years back, settled within
the landlocked crater, bay which con
stitufes practically" the whole interior
of the volcanic. Island of St. Paul, .in
the Indian ocean. . Here they are en
tirely : protected against all wind, no
matter from what quarter of the com
pass it may chance to blow,- while hot
natural baths at varying temperatures
are. always available. The very
ground, too, x is kept at a constantly
equable heat by the latent . volcanic
fires within. s. And,, lastly, food of all
kinds is plentiful and -varied,; and In
cludes such curious and unusual deli
cacies as sea elephants' fins and -tails,
crayfish and ' other succulent "Kerg
nelen cabbage." No wonder that many
of those who havei.been cured have
preferred settling on the island to re
turning to their homes.
REORGANIZATION OF
HEAD OF THE NAVY.
FOR the first time in the history of the United States army Its method
of administration has been radically reorganized, and if Congress at
Its next session takes the action now expected of it, a similar re
organization will be applied to the navy. In- this respect we have followed,
and nof, as has been our custom, led, Europe. By the terms of the measure
known as the general staff bill, passed at the last session of Congress, the
army will henceforth be controlled by the President and. Secretary of War
through' a general staff, and not through a general in chief, as heretofore.
-This measure, which went into effect a week after the retirement of Lieu
tenant General Miles, will have far-reaching consequences, especially in
time of peace, but while this is appreciated by the people at large, they
are somewhat in the dark regarding the workings of the new measure and
the duties devolving upon the general staff and upon Its head. Lieutenant
General Young.
In the language of the bill itself, "the duties of the general staff corps
shall be to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization
of the military forces in time of war; to investigate and report upon all
questions affecting the efficiency of the army and its state of preparation
for military operations; to render professional aid and assistance to the
Secretary of War and to general officers and other superior commanders, and
to act as their agents in informing and' co-ordinating the action of all the
different officers who are subject under the terms of this act to the chief
of staff; and to perform 6uch other military duties not otherwise assigned by
law as may be from time to time prescribed by the President." The terms
of this section; may indeed be considered sweeping. Under-them In time of
peace the general staff will make a rigid investigation of all branches of the
service, will gather data regarding the military resources of the powers,
will plan imaginary campaigns and will study the climate, topography, etc.,
of foreign countries, so that, should occasion arise, the head of the army
will find available all the information necessary to the conduct of a cam
paign abroad. The theory on which the general staff will work is that pre
paredness for war is the best guarantee of peace, and that the powers, know
ing that we have taken steps to put the study of military defense on a scien
tific basis, will be restrained from any hasty action.
HANDY WHEN YOU GO CAMPING.
The average American boy ' often
feels the desire to get into the wild.
Sometimes he Is able to fulfill the de
sire. When he is, he should be con
gratulated, for the life of the well
regulated camps is. a Joy unknown to
the cooped-up city man.
The tent is the important feature,
and a good one is absolutely neces
sary. Otherwise the camper will be
subject to unexpected duckings, or
may wake up to find himself without
cover in a windstorm.
' The' camp fire Is another important
consideration. Several styles are used,
depending on the locality. A good fire
place is built of stones, piled one on
top of fae other In circular shape. The
spaces between tne srone.
draft The stones retain heat and the
fire 1U give greater heat and burn
longer than In the open bonfire. To
titles. uDriahts and crosspieces.
as shown, will be found usef uL
A simple table can be maae rrom
fence boards or from the cover of a
packing box, as shown.
Cots suitable ror an requirement
ma d bv driving crotched sticks
into the ground and placing the
stretcher-made cot (a piece or canvas
sewed on two poles) into the crotches.
Another simple cot Is shown In the il
lustration.
BUILD UP GREAT EMPIRES.
Rallreada the Instrument of Creat
ing Wealth and Power.
Just fifty years have passed since
the .ground was platted on which the
Seattle of to-day stands. Just about
the same length of time has passed
since the state of which it Is the me
tropolis was organized as a territory.
In the case of each of them, how
ever, the real growth has been but re
cent, and it has been largely a crea
tion of the railroads. Although Wash
ington was organized as a territory In
1863, it had only .11,000 inhabitants in
1860, 23,000 In 1870 and 75,000 In 1880.
Then came a jump to 349,000 in 1890
and to 518,000 in 1900. The spring
from the 75,000 mark to 849,000 be
tween .1880 and 1890 was due to the
fact that Vlllard's Northern Pacific
railroad, which was completed In 1883,
had connected that State with the out
side world in the interval. . . i .
. Throughout the whole of the West
and of course through the East and
South also the railroads have exerted
a beneficent Influence, although its ef
fects are not quite so marked on all
communities as they have been on
Washington and Its leading city. At
the outset Seattle's expansion was so
slow that as recently as 1880 its popu
lation was only 3,500. It has a fine
location on an arm of Puget ound,
through which the Asiatic and Alaska
trade of a . large part of the continent
is pouring, and through which in im
measurably larger quantity will pour
a few years hence. The lumber indus
try, which has had much to do with
the growth of Its State, also contrib
uted greatly to Seattle's advancement.
It Is the railroads,- however, which
have been-the chief instrument in that
Northwest city's expansion. 'The North
ern Pacific road opened In 1883, -sent
that town's population up from 3,500
in 1880 to 42,000 in 1890, and it was
80,000 in 1900. ; Probably the Increase
in the current decade will be greater
than It was in the past ten years. The
entire West is growing at a rate not
touched in the decade which had the
1893-7 panle -to it. The newNorth
west is getting a large-share , of this
growth," and as the trade with Asia
and Alaska is bound to Increase with
great rapidity In the approaching time
Washington, Oregon and California, es
pecially Washington, are sure to ac
quire a much greater; importance
Tit I JPri
ARMY AND NAVY.
HEAD OF THE ARMY.
among the commonwealths than they
possess now, and this ascendency will
be shared in a particularly large de
gree by their great centers of Industry
and commerce. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
MISERY'S MILLIONS.
Lost Kellglons of "the Great Aby'
In London.
London's wealth, says Men and
Women, Is ever before us. It takes
care that It shall be. But London's
poverty is hidden away in vast areas
of agony with which rank and wealth
and fashion are as unfamiliar as they
are with Franz Joseph Land or Cen
tral Africa. The moment that a small
contingent from the mean streets of
working class London reveals itself
to the eyes of the west there is an
outcry. Fashion turns shuddering
away and complains of the men with
the begging boxes; wealth buttons its'
pockets and calls upon the authorities
to withdraw their countenance and
the bodyguard of police from "a pack
of Impostors." And fashion and wealth
are perhaps wise in their protest. If
these unemployed workers are allowed
to parade in search of sympathy we
may one day see all the lost legions of .
"the great abyss" crawling forth from
the alleys and the slums to give the
west an object lesson on the poverty
,that the great city hides away in its
nooks and crannies.- The women and
the children, the one room helots of
unspeakable slums, the diseased and
desperate outcasts of our great guilt
gardens, may form up in one mighty
mass of misery and . surge into the
crowded thoroughfares and aristocrat
ic streets, which fashion regards as
its own.
Picture, if you can, London given
up for one day, not to the gay page
ants which on great occasions gladden
our eyes and make our hearts swell
with pride at the vastness of our, em
pire and the splendor of our court, but
to a dead march of London's lost ones.
Crowd balcony and windows .with
rank and fashion, with the world of
wealth and the middle class well-to- -do,
give to the fair maidens and ma
trons who lead a life of pleasure and -of
ease the front places on the line
of route. . Then let the millions of
Misery Land creep by! Such a spect
acle, if it could be arranged, would
be a revelation which would shoclc
the national conscience as it has never
been shocked before. From the win
dows and the balconies the women of
luxury would shrink back trembling,
white faced, terrified. And the men,
the busy gatherers of gold and the
idle squanderers of it, would feel a
shame that no written story of the
city's want and woe has ever made
them feel before. - Even as one pic
tures what such a scene as this pro
cession would mean, one feels the hor
ror of It. For the comfort of the pros
perous citizen that sort of thing must
be. kept within Its own area, to be
looked upon only by those who are of
the company of woe.
Seeking an Everlasting Ink.
: Government chemist's are much In
terested in obtaining Ink which will
be lasting. Many government docu
ments have to be written in ink, and it
Is desirable that the Ink should remain
legible as long as the document re
mains Intact. Notwithstanding the
popular Idea that everything made In
the olden times was perfect the oldtlme
inks were by no means perfect. The -original
copy of the Declaration . of
Independence Is almost undecipherable.
Only one signature, that of John Han
cock, stands out clear and bold.
All acts of congress are filed with
the State department for safe-keeping
and registered. - Up to a few years ago
It was customary to engross the acts
of congress by hand with pen and ink, .
but now they are printed. It is claim
ed that printer's ink will outlast writ
ing fluid and that there will be no
trouble for future generations to read
the acts of the present congress. .;
A number of farmers were to-day
discussing the, merits of different
plows. "WelL men," .one lazy looking
man said, "my notion Is that any rid
ing plow Is good."
'. What has become of the old fashion
ed patent right man who used to
come along, and sell "territory?"