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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1903)
TOPICS OF THE TIMES. These Turkish atrocities are becom ing nearly as deadly as football. Nome's gold output will be small this year, but its graveyard keeps growing rapidly. Peru can certainly report progress. St has seated a new President with no hooting. It must be bargain day when the as sessor calls, because fortunes are al ways marked down. Mr. Peary will make another dash for the pole and then another dash for the box office receipts. "What would the nation be without women?" frantically asks a magazine writer. That's easy. Stag nation. A German missionary has been at tacked by Chinese pirates. Another big chunk of territory for Wilhelm. Land grabbers have shown a con ' itemptuous disregard of "Keep off the trrass" signs in the Indian Territory. Buenos Ayres has come to the front with 900,000 .inhabitants. It seems that there are others besides us after all. It will never do to again speak of .Vesuvius as "she" or "her" after learn ing that it has thrown rocks a distance of 600 feet. In reply to "Please Answer," we would say that the Sublime Porte is so called because of Its sublime nerve and sublime indifference. President Roosevelt condemns the use of profanity. In the' President's estimation no stronger swear word than "bully" Is ever necessary. All the powers have agreed upon it that the Sultan Is. to be reformed, but It in doubtful if they will succeed In convincing the Sultan that such Is the case. A London soapmaker is clamoring for the next chance at racing for the cup. The excellence of Sandy Hook as an advertising medium is being properly recognized. A man slipped on a banana peel, fell 1 under a train and lost a hand. If peo ple generally realized the peril that lurks In the innocent-looking banana peel they would make their wills and carry accident insurance. The chewing gum trust recently dis tributed $900,000 in dividends. This sum represents 90,000,000 sticks of gum at the rets il price of a cent a stick. How many million other sticks were sold to yield that profit is an in teresting problem which the reader may try to solve if he choose. Taught to play ball, Latin-Americans would forego rebellion and bull fights and expend their energies in three-base hits and home runs. Al ready it has pacified whole provinces In our oriental archipelago. Let us take a hint and send, not more teach ers, soldiers and alleged statesmen to our colonies, but teams of professional ball players. Examination of the pupils in the pub lic schools of Boston has shown that nearly all the children enter school with normal eyes. In the higher grades one-fourth are found to be myopic, and in the colleges from 60 to 70 per cent are said to be thus af fected. In other words, near-sightedness Increases steadily from the pri mary school upward a bald statement of fact which makes evident the neces sity of every possible care. The New York newspapers have dis covered a young man, an employe for eiiit years of a street railway com lauyi who, by his own admission, has worked sixteen hours a day, at an av erage wage of ten cents an hour, ever since he has been with the company. On the face of it, here ia provocation for lurid oratory; but before indigna tion rises to too high a pitch, let.it be added that the young man was ap pointed general manager the other day. Perhaps his willingness to work long hours had something to do with bis promotion. The longest distance a man has ever thrown a baseball is a little more than 881 feet. The record for women was held, until recently, by a Yassar cham pion, who threw a ball 181 feet. There lias now arisen in Tacoma, Wash., a young woman who beat that record by twenty-four feet. Anatomists have frequently explained that the forma tion of a woman's shoulder-blade pre vents her from throwing straight and far; but the Tacoma record, 205 feet, is Just about the distance from the deep outfield to the home plate. Evo lution seems to be at work producing boulder-blades that ' will enable the American girl to share the delights of Che national game. ' The human mind, since it began to think and believe, has thought of and believed in Immortality.' Mankind early divided into races widely separated In vastly different climes and conditions, but wherever' the human mind is that thought and belief is also. Is it any wonder that when primitive man first learned that by standing upon his hind legs and wielding a stone with his fore- paws he could beat off an enemy, he should invest the stone with reveren tial awe? Is it any wonder that when he found out that by , striking two pieces of flint together he could start a fire to save him from the cold of the steadily-encroaching ice period, he should worship fire? Is it any wonder that when he discovered that grains sown upon the tumuli of the dead sprouted and produced again he should -conclude that the grateful ghost be neath thus repaid him an hundredfold the offerings be bad made? Is it any wonder that the dog, the first Wend to come to man and lend him -warmth and companionship and devotion, and the cow, the next animal to be domes ticated and to give her milk, should have been held sacred? The history of civilization Is a development of wor ship. By superstitions. if yon care to call them that man has been lighted on his way to progress. Yet we know no more about immortality to-day than the first cave man did In the beginning. The Indian still hopes for a land rich in game, the Turk for a celestial ha rem, the Christian and' the Jew for gates of gold and streets of Jasper, the Asiatic for reincarnations on earth. The scoffer, noting these contradictions, pretends they are all but misty super stitions. Maybe they are. Perhaps they are only shadows of the truth. But the truth itself the firm belief in immortality has been through count less cycles of generations Inbred in the human mind; It is the very core of all civilization, the nucleus of all devel opment, the force of all progress, and it can no more be cast out of a 'Single mind than can the difference between a human brain and that of a monkey. The proof? The world is full of it. The whole history of the development of man Is proof of what the belief has done for him. The whole vast differ ence that lies to-day between mankind and apedom Is proof. If chairs of common sense win bring young ministers into contact with com mon things and common people, let us have chairs of common sense In all the theological seminaries In the country. We are all tired of the ministers who know so little of common things and of common people that they have to preach about Assyrian cuneiform In scriptions, or about Shakespeare's hero ines, or about Huxley's mistakes. Archaeology, metaphysics, poetry and science can all be made Interesting and illuminating to a congregation, but only by a man who knows bow and where to apply them to the lives of bis auditors. Therefore the minister must know the lives of his auditors. What are the books that people read now adays? They are not usually the books written by recluses. They are not usu ally the books written by men who have received a purely literary and academic training, and who have lived purely literary and academic lives. They are the books written by men like Mark Twain, Bret Harte, George Ada, Stephen Phillips, Lincoln J. Steffens, Jack London, Budyard Kipling, and many others, great and small, who have actually seen the things they are writing about. This is an age for the man who knows the world about him and not for the man who draws his spiritual sustenance from written rec ords. What Is true of books Is true of sermons. We have no time for the minister who reads all the week and Sunday morning disgorges himself of his reading. What we want is a ser mon permeated, It Is true, with supe rior learning, but nevertheless con structed out of the daily facts of daily existence. This does not mean that a good minister must preach about wom en's hats or about the latest murder. The title of his sermon may be "The Stigmata of St. Francis." As he dis cusses the stigmata of St. Francis, however, one will perceive in his Illus trations and in his application that he has spent many days and many nights with people as well as with books, and that he has lived In the hearts of per sons of the twentieth century. For such a man, skilled In the knowledge of the human heart, consumed with love of the human race, and disciplined by study and meditation, there will al ways be an audience. In literature the man who thinks he can write because he has studied Ruskin's construction of sentences is rescued from immedi ate oblivion only by the observer's momentary laughter. In the church the man who thinks he can preach be cause he has studied Newman's figures of speeech will have the same fate. The sermon writer needs an even deep er acquaintance with common things and with common people than the story writer. The story writer simply shows us things and people. The sermon writer has to show us things and peo ple in their spiritual possibilities. A professor of common sense in a theo logical seminary could talk on this point every day and never talk too much. . Barbuonf Punishment. It was sixty years ago that England abolished flogging at sea; it has long been abolished in our army and navy; and now the Czar of Russia has abol ished the, harshest remnants of the barbarbic punishments of former times, namely, castigation with cudg els and cat-o'-nlne tails, chaining to the car and shaving the head, which were still inflicted for certain offenses on persons exiled to penal settlements or to the mines. Castigation with the cat-o'-nlne tails and even with cudgels not Infrequently ended in death, and was one of the harshest forms of the death penalty, being death by torture. The abolition of the cudgel and of the "cat" does not, however, mean the pro hibition of corporal punishment alto gether. The revised statute of June 15 prescribes chastisement with birch rods up to 100 blows. Barbaric pun ishment can be inflicted by birch rods, if not as severely as by "cat" or cudg el. The better way would be to abol ish punishment by flagellation alto gether. Leslie's Weekly. Kaiser Wllhelm's Modesty. At dinner one night when the Em peror was staying with Lord Lonsdale, a. guest talking to another across the table quoted a little known passage from Shakspeare, and, that there should be no mistake as to Its source, ended with the words, "as- the divine William said." There happened to be a lull in the conversation at the time, and the remark was audible to every one, the Emperor Included. Turning to his host, the Emperor said, with a puz zled expression: "Curiously, I do not remember that my sainted grandfather ever said that!" M. A. P. Serenade and Illumination. Tom Wasn't it lonely out, in the country? Jerry Lonely? We had crickets and lightning-bugs In our bedroom every night Detroit Free Press. Chinese Crews on Board. - Over 1,500 British vessels plying in eastern .waters axe manned by GMaesc crew. .." OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Fuel of the Future. T was recently calculated that the visible coal supply which is never visible till it is brought to the surface, hence the real meaning is, the calculated supply would last the world for about a hundred years longer. But within a few weeks reports of remarkable discoveries of new beds have been brought from the Mid (HI dle West, where anthracite is alleged to have been dis covered; from the South, especially in Tennessee, about 70 miles from Knoxvllle, and in the .Peace River region of Athabasca, where It is claimed that 250,000,000 tons are "In sight." The supplies in China are also considerable and If Grant Land and Grlnnell Land can be reached more easily in future, there are deposits in those Arctic regions that may be worked at a profit. ' And In spite of the activities of forest choppers and burners, farmers, and others who utilize the products of the soil, the world is still putting forth so considerable a quantity of vegetation that the making of new coal may be going on, unconscious to us, and not to be completed for centuries. Every bog is a possible peat bed, and peat Is but unhardened coal. The great fern forests and marshes of calamus that we are burning now under our boilers and in grates no longer exist, but we . have certain of their ana logues, and no attempt has been made by scientific authori ties to estimate the mass or value of potential fuel that Is being stored in odd corners of the earth to-day. But possibly the fuel of the future will be water. That is, we shall not turn much of it, but we shall use it for beating purposes by converting the force of its fall into electric currents, as they are doing already at Niagara and on the upper Hudson. For our posterity the blazing hearth shall not burn; the family will collect about a steel plate, on cold nights, and do the cooking over a metal basket. Most of the wood will be obliterated by that time, and with them of course, the streams will go; hence we must look to see the power of the ocean converted to electricity. But it is a comfort to know that we have coal to burs for a few years. Brooklyn Eagle. Farms and Fanners. N a long and thoughtful editorial, the Chicago Tribune of recent date dwells In our agricultural situation WiniiMij reassuring to the man trained to think along fjpfegWXirtl American lines. Statistics are marshalled to SxroSJ show convincingly that the percentage of farm- ers who own and operate their laud has been steadily diminishing for years, tenant farming showing a corresponding increase. In 1880, 74.4 per cent of the farms were operated by their owners. In 1890 the per centage had fallen to 71.6, and .by the census of 1900 Is shown to have dropped to 63-7. Coincident with this decline has been a gradual but very perceptible growth In the aver age size of farms. It was 136.5 acres in 1890 and 146.6 acres In 1900. There can be no mistaking the trend. It is in the direction of larger holdings and an increase of the landlord class All this is to be expected by one who has studied the tendency of our people to flock Into the towns and cities. The strength of this tendency Is amply exhibited in census figures. Away back In 1790 only 3.4 per cent of the popula tion lived In towns of 8,000 people or more. By 1860 this proportion had risen to 16.1 per cent. It was 22.6 per cent in 1880, and no less than 33.1 per cent) in 1900. There Is thus outlined what almost amounts to a revolution In the last twenty or thirty years. Our farmers, having secured a-competence, retire to the cities, where they may enjoy advantages not to be had in rural communities. Their land Is rented to tenants, and whatever of surplus income ac crues is forthwith Invested in Increasing their holdings. Their 'children, bred to city life, cling to It, so that farming is more and more given over to the hands of those who have not the Intelligence and energy that characterized the farmer of twenty years ago or more. It is not difficult to see In all this the . operation of the same economic and social laws that have developed conditions in the Old 8TURDY AMERICAN FIGURE. Thoc i as Ewlnit, Oar First Secretary of the Interior. Certain events in the Indian office have directed attention to that depart ment and have caused comparisons to be made between the present head thereof and the first secretary, Thomas Ewlng. In sterling integrity they were alike; in the experiences of their lives wholly unlike. Ewlng Is one of those inter esting figures of thomas iwino. woom tne stuuent of American history finds so many Born near West Liberty, Ohio Coun ty, Va., Dec. 28, 1789. he was the son of a revolutionary father. It was in the region of Athens County, Ohio, then unsettled, that he was reared. His sister taught him to read, and in the evenings he studied the few books at bis command.' In his 20th year he left his home and worked In the Kana wha Salt establishments, pursuing his studies at night by the aid of the fur nace fires. He remained there till he had earned enough money to clear from debt the farm his father had bought in 1792, and bad qualified him self to enter the Ohio University at Athens, where, in 1815, he received the first degree of A. B. that was ever granted In that section. He then stud ied law in Lancaster, was admitted to the bar In 1816; and practiced with success for fifteen years. In 1831-37 he served as United States Senator from Ohio, having been chosen as a Whig. He supported . the protective tariff system of Clay, and advocated a reduction in the rates of postage, a recharter of the United States Bank, and the revenue collection bill, known as the "force blU." . Senator Ewlng opposed the removal of deposits from the United States Bank, and Introduced a bill for the settlement of the Ohio boundary ques tion, which was passed in 1836. Dor, ing the same session he brought for ward a bill for the reorganization of the general land office, which was passed and he also presented a me morial for the abolition of slavery. In July, 1836, the Secretary of the Treasury Issued what was known as the "specie circular." This directed receivers In land office to accept pay ments only in gold, , silver or treasury certificates, except from certain class es of persons for a limited time. Sen ator Ewlng brought in a bill to annul this circular, and another to make It unlawful for the Secretary to make such a discrimination, but these were not carried. 3 After the expiration of his term he resumed the practice of law. Ewlng became Secretary of the Treasury in 1841, under Harrison, and ijMfe&liMM f I ' flYl 1 II I ' Y in 1 UQa fpPT)tM tb v w1v fo. " I have s . upon one feature that Is far from portfolio of the interior, under Taylor, and organized that department. Among the measures recommended in his first report, Dec. 3, 1849, were the estab lishment of a mint near the California gold mines, and the construction of a railroad to the Pacific When Thomas Corwin became Sec retary of the Treasury In 1850, Ewing was appointed to succeed him in the Senate. During this term he opposed the fugitive slave law; Clay's compro mise bill, reported a bill for the estab lishment of a branch mint in Califor nia, and advocated a reduction in post age, and the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. He retired from public life In 1851 and again resumed his law practice in Lancaster. He was a delegate to the Peace Congress of 1861.- ;. -,. During the Civil War Ewlng gave, through the press and by correspond ence and personal Interviews, his coun sel and influence to the support of the national authorities. While be de voted much of his time to political subjects, the law was bis favorite study and pursuit. He early won and maintained throughout his life unques tionable supremacy at the Ohio bar, and ranked in the Supreme Court of the United States among the foremost lawyers of the nation. , In 1829, just after his father's death. General William T. Sherman, then a boy of 9, was adopted by Mr. Ewlng, who afterward appointed him to the United States Academy, and In 1850, Sherman married Ellen, the daughter of his benefactor. ' : . STAGE PEOPLE IN 8UMMER. Some of Them Have a Hard Time In ; ; Tiding; Over. In summer what becomes of the numbers of stage people who return to the metropolis penniless at the close of the season? How do they live? These questions were put to they man ager of the theatrical- agency in Broadway. "Indulgent landladies, friends in the country, and parents In. the city solve the summer problem for hosts of theatrical people," replied the agent "An. actor would sooner starve than be seen by his mates working at an other trade. About 75 per cent of those who remain here get trusted for their summer's board and lodging. They pay up, In most cases, in the course of the next sea son, sending from week to week to the landlady sufficient to cancel their summer's indebtedness. , ."Of course," went on the agent, "they're not all improvident See that little girl going out?" He pointed to a petite figure in the ceaseless stream of applicants. "Got plenty of money enough to last her until the season opens and a bft to spare. They call her stingy on the road, because she won't spend her money. Laugh Is on her side now. Many of 'em come here s World. They have been retarded by our Institutions, no doubt, and In case we adhere to present ideals, their fur ther action may not be destructive to personal liberty and national virility as In other countries, ancient and modern. At the same time, there are few who will not regret that the day of the small, independent American farmer is giving way to that of the landlord. New York News. Money in Fact and Fiction. HESE are strange times in the accumulation of fortunes' Strancer than nnv tlnMnrt mnM oi' made them. Think of it for a moment! . i ..... ... Auurew varnegie, a canny utile ocotcn Doy, came to this unknown land a few decades ago barefooted, and last year offered to settle the Venezuelan imbroglio between Germany, Eng land, France, and Italy and the South American republic by loaning Venezuela the entire sum of these international debts. And yet a fortune so huge as to permit of such offers is as nothing tothe power of another man. Mr. Rockefeller, personally a quiet American citizen from Cleveland, a simple liver, with few habits of luxury, could easily buy half a dozen of the Independent kingdoms of Europe; could without feeling It to any great extent in his pocketbook take up the debts of all the republics of Central and South America. . , Again, in 1844, Alexander Dumas published a book called "The Count of Monte CrlBto," the basis of which is the fabulous wealth of an Individual. The Count finds a cave full of almost priceless Jewels. He buys men's lives; he spends money everywhere; he comes to Paris with a notice from his Italian bankers giving him unlimited credit on a Paris bank. There is no limit on what he can draw from M. Danglers. It is entirely unprecedented. Nothing like it was ever known "before. He draws five millions of francs, and ruins the banker, and still no complaint from his Roman house. He rights wrongs; he saves more lives; he punishes the guilty by the use of unlimited wealth. And then by and by he leaves Maximilian on the island of Monte Cristo with his bride and sails away. As Maximilian sees his ship disappear on the horizon, he finds Monte Cristo's will leaving him his whole fortune. This fortune, Dumas suggests in two or three places, was one hundred million francs $20,000,000. It la the greatest private fortune the Frenchman could conceive of In 1844 it Is considerably less than the Income of John D. Rockefeller In 1903. Harper's Weekly. Hard Working Human Heart. 0MB one with an aptitude for statistics has been doing a little calculating on the subject of the human heart and its activities. The nor mal heart, it appears, beats about seventy-fire times in a minute, so that an hour's record would be something like 4,320 beats. Suppos- ing that a mahllved to be 80, his heart would have beaten 1.892,160,000 times. If a son of this man, more robust than his father, should fill out the Scriptural allotment of three score years and ten his heart beats would number 2,649, 024,000. It la easy to understand, after such a computation, why this hard-working servant of the human body so frequently wears out. Harper's Weekly. Fresh Air and Sound Health. HERE are manv nersons who seam sfmM nt Tr . the fresh air. A little rain, a little wind, a I I little fog, a little chill in the air will keep them VTIVUAU WWAO. VTA UUt, tlXCJT UUiiUiQ U? 1U clothes so thickly that one would think they were tender shrubs transplanted from some more genial clime. The healthy people, how ever, are not the health cranks, not the people who run to the doctor every time they feel an ache. They are the peo ple who walk a great deal In the fresh air, who live in the open .as much as they can, and who take a vacation in the country every year. San Francisco Bulletin. mer and have to wear their winter clothes or last year's . suits and dresses. This one wears good clothes summer clothes, of the newest pat tern, and promenades in Broadway like a queen. When she's signed, and the hot weather is on to stay, she'll go down to the shore or into the coun try and enjoy herself. Dresses well, looks well, lives welL Next winter she'll pay her hotel bills, -with no 'in cidentals.' - "That one over there, the seedy one, couldn't buy a cigar at a cut-rate store. He'll come out all right, though. Never has a cent, but always at work. He's just in from a long tour. Pret ty late for stock, but he's an old stager and may land. A good many eke out the year's income by play ing summer engagements at various theaters throughout the country. Near ly every city of any size has from one to half a dozen stock companies this 6ummer; the summer-stock , business has grown-enormously In the last two or three years, and gives employment to hundreds. .Not enough to go round, though. The best people, as a rule, don't play summer engagements, al though there are exceptions. Com paratively few of the best play sum mer stock, unless driven to it" New York Evening Post Wordsworth and His Neighbors. The worthiest of Wordsworth's vil lage in the lake country of England had their own ideas of his value as a man and poet When questioned after his death as to his personality, they read ily admitted that he was kind to those who were In sickness or need. They could count on him on a pinch. But he did not hobnob with his neighbors. "He did not notice them much," said an old man, in answer to questions aaked by the author of "Lake Country Sketches." "A Jem Crow and an auld blue cloak was his rig," continued the old man. "And as for his habits, he had noan. Niver knew him with a pot 1 his hand or a pipe 1 his mouth." After deep probing the author brought out: , "Yes, Wordsworth was fond of a good dinner at times, if you could get him to it; that was f Job." Then the poet's aloofness was again touched upon. "He was forever pacing the roads and his own garden walks, and always composing poetry. He was terTjle throng - In visitors and folks ye mun ken at times, but If he could get awa fra them a spell,, he was out upon his walk. . "And then he would set his head a bit forrad, and put his hands behlnt his back. And then he would start a bumming, and it was bum, bum, bum, and go on bumming for long enough, right down and back again. I sup pose, ye ken, the bumming helped him out a bit" THE AMERICAN GIANT IS THE AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILD The 'American Giant 13- THE AMEPJCAN' JCiOOL ' CHILD- J3.6O0.OOO CMOL- CJ11LB2ZEAT WSTRVCTJQV- COMPOSED -OF1. CJ1 X&&gb ill ji xl'Ml - A STARTLING AND SIGNIFICANT COMPARISON. The American giant is the American school child. Under instruction in the public schools of the United States are 16.603,451 children. Of these 731.570 are boys and 7,76181 girls. . . ' In Chicago, according to the census of 1902, there were 220.421 children in the schools, making an average yearly increase of 15,871. The Increase this year Is much greater, the estimates of attendance ranging from 250,000 to 284,000. ' The statistics for 1903 show that the entire German army, while on a peace footing. Is composed of 606,811 men, while the army of the United States in 1902, while on a peace footing, numbered only 63,686 men.' Chicago American. . -' ASSENDS THE HIGHEST PEAK. Bliss Peck Performs Remarkable Feat in Bontn Ameries. Aided by oxygen carried in cans and other carefully selected helps to the modern mountain climber, a woman Miss Annie S. Peck of Chicago has attained the highest altitude ever reached by man. She has ac complished the feat of ascending Mount Sorata, In Bolivia, whose height is estimat ed from 21,000 to 25,000 feet, and is exceeded only by the unconquered peaks of the Him alayas. Some scientists believe Sorata to be even higher than the Hima laya peaks, and it miss Aianx s. pick, ia possible that when the measurements made by Miss Peak's expedition are received man will be known to have reached the highest point ba the world, and the honor of having accomplished this wifl be a woman's. Miss Peck, who is well known as a mountain climber and Is known social ly in Chicago and "other large cities of the country, was accompanied on the trip by President W. A. G. Tight of the University of New Mexico and three guides, one of whom is Antoine Maqulguaay who guided Sir Martin Conway, the noted English explorer, when be attempted and failed to do what Miss Peck has accomplished. The ascent of Mount Sorata crowns a remarkable career of mountain climbing by a woman who in a few years has ascended the highest peaks of Europe , and America, Including Mount Orizaba in Mexico, which is 18,600 feet high, and, next to Mount McKinley, is tbe highest peak in North America, Mount McKinley being 20,600 feet. Miss' Peck is a graduate of the University of Michigan Tind formerly was professor of Latin at Smith Col lege. ' FURNISHINGS OF A HOME. Ksaence of Eltianc Lies in plicity end Good Taste. There is no idea more erroneous than that it requires a liberal expendi ture of money to have a comfortable and artistic home. The very essence of elegance lies In simplicity. . It is not art to make a parlor the duplicate of an exhibition room in a turniture store. That simply calls for an outlay of money without any exercise of taste. There is no tone to such a room no air of repose, no. comfort, no Individu ality. It speaks fo what It it an ex 1 II I. - .C I TX. El 4 ,MMk fmA hibition. A room .of that sort annoys just In the same way . as .does an ill bred woman wno cannot forget the gown she Is wearing. ' Furniture has a voice just as well as clothes. True art in furnishing is found In allowing a home to slowly develop under the tastes of those who live in it the adoption of an' Idea here, another there. The development requires time and Cultivation. No house worth living In can be complete at one time. A home of comfort unfolds itself, so to speak, and unfolds slowly. True Im provement comes in this way, and in no other way. Everything about a home depends upon the way its possessors start. A beginning made without due thought given to what we are buying means waste; it means buying things which before long we are certain to find are not what we wanted, and of whleh we are sure to become tired. Buying In haste means repenting at leisure. Where the income is limited! there par ticularly must be exercised delibera tion of choice. We must let our home speak our own likes and dislikes. Tbe home should. ' speak Its owners' tastes, their Ideas, and not tbe tastes, and ideas of their neighbors or friends. What suits one house rarely is in place In another. Let the start be made on the basis, of one's own originality, and not a de pendence upon the Ideas of either fur niture people or neighbors. Let time be a factor In the development of a home. Do not get the mad desire to complete every room at once. A home furnished for the mere idea of getting lt finished always shows the earmarks of the effort The Household. Rain and Disease Germs. , In Chicago in May, at a -time when, there had been no rain for three weeks, six glass plates two and one-half " inches square were exposed In as many streets for one minute. The plate, were then incubated, so -that each par- -tide of dust to which a germ was clinging would soon be surrounded with a colony of germs which could be seen and counted. The average per plate was 1,650 colonies. On the ' day following nearly an inch of rain fell, and on the next-day similar plates were exposed at the same street cor ners, which after development showed but 270 colonies. A good rain had di minished the number of microbes more than 80 per cent Means of Transportation. The railroad car will carry as much' as twenty teams of horses could haul and the great ocean steamers will transport as much as 400 railway cars, can carry. ; . . It is a good sign when a community endorses husbands and wives being in . love with each other. 'V 1 No one ever fooled the people wlth false teeth.