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TUB TIMES.
The rolling stone sees Its finish when
It strikes the up grade.
Few college women marry. This Is
E serious reflection on the college men.
A chronic lier Is less dangerous than
the liar who has spasmodic attacks of
veracity-
Manufacturers of the bullet-proof un
derwear are still hurrying agents to
the Balkans.
A man never knows what he can do
until be tries and If he tries the
chances are he will regret It later.
And now Mrs. Fish declares that
Harry Lehr Is "an ordinary person."
Surely this Is the most unklndest cut
of all.
It seems that the United States did
not have control of Cuba quite long
enough to cure it of the earthquake
habit.
If King Edward is looking for a real
autocrat to pattern after he should
by all means consider the Governor
of Guam.
When the European concert tunes up
It makes such a racket that innocent
bystanders think it must be the be
ginning of the overture.
Placer mining machine has been in
rented that will make gold plentiful,
and this will help us to stave off the
trusts for a little while.
It is doubtful whether, in spite of all
this war news, the average American
will get his ideas of the little countries
in Eastern Europe unsnarled.
The Holstein cow has been vindicat
ed by the scientists, hence we get
back to the proposition that It all de
pends upon who owned the Holstein.
Harry Lehr says the lapel button
hole should be abolished. Harry is
always deeply interested in some ques
tion of supreme Importance to man
kind. The owner of Lou Dillon has re
fused an offer of $40,000 for the trot
ter. Perhaps he is 'waiting for some
Richard III. to come along and make
a bid.
If the time ever comes when the
novelists form a union, perhaps we
Shall have the Great Amalgamated
American Novel with fifteen different
kinds of dialect.
The Boston Post thinks it sees a
codfish famine impending, and de
clares that such a famine is "awful to
contemplate." If it is worse than the
codfish smell it must be all of that.
Mr. Ohoate is now dean of the diplo
matic corps in London. With an Amer
ican dean of the diplomatic corps and
a new American duchess added to the
list every few days, how can they keep
us down?
Ibsen says that he would come to
this country to live if he were not too
old; and the husbands of all the Ib
sen clubs are thanking their stars that
the Norwegian dramatist Is not young
nor beautiful. .
"According to a Berlin scientist It
would be a great benefit to the nervous
systems of girls If they were not per
mitted to begin piano practice under
the age of 16. It would be a great
benefit to the nerves of the neighbors
If they did not begin It at all.
American colleges Jn Turkey, says
Secretary Barton, of the American
Board, are the best possible safeguards
to the political existence of the em
pire. In that they teach Turkish sub
jects to be upright, self-respecting, law
abiding citizens, able to respond to the
i.;-eds of the government for respons
ible service, both ajt home and abroad.
American merchants are not the
only business men with enterprise. A
Russian firm has recently sent an ex
pedition Into Mongolia to learn what
the Mongolians will buy now and what
they can be persuaded to purchase in
the future. There are twenty men
and fifty pack-horses In the party.
The Russian military authorities have
sent a topographer along with It, and
the imperial geographical society is
represented by a naturalist. Thus the
commercial needs of the country will
be studied along with the questions of
Its military control and the possibili
ties of developing its natural resources.
This is an excellent example of the
thoroughness with which Russia does
the things which It undertakes,
f
. No man could ask for a nobler mon
ument than that which the late Fred
erick Law Olmsted has left In the
large sense he was the father of the
profession of landscape architecture,
and it is exceedingly fortunate for
the country that this man, who was
to fix the limits of the profession, was
so great a man. A list of his Import
ant public works would occupy much
space and Is . unnecessary. The man
fwfco created Central Park In New
Tork, Prospect Park In Brooklyn and
Franklin Park In Boston, laid out the
grounds of the Capitol In Washington,
the reservation at Niagara Falls, and
ttie "White City" of thje World's Fair
In Chicago, in his actual work, con
ferred a most important benefit on his
generation; and in training others and
showing the possibilities of his art, he
did even more.
It cannot be denied that of late the
soberest-minded men among us have
been filled with a solicitude amount
ing to anxiety In noting the momen
tum of certain dangerous tendencies
4a American . life. The trend toward
mob law in various sections of the
country; the revelation of public and'
private corruption, . and especially of
the buying and selling of legislation
and franchises; the - growth of the
gambling mania among women as well
as men; the vulgar rush for social
prominence; the widespread system
of "graft" and blackmail which has
grown up in all classes in the haste
to be rich these familiar phenomena
are crowding upon our attention,
straining our optimism and shaming
our national pride at the very time
when we are called upon to exult in
the commercial greatness of the coun
try and its peculiar qualifications for
redeeming the benighted regions of
the world.
What becomes of the brilliant men
of the schools and colleges the stu
dious fellows who always stood at
the heads of their classes and prom
ised moat masterful achievements
when they should get a whack at life?
As a rule we don't hear much about
them afterwards. They seem to step
forth from their alma mater into ob
scurity. The ordinary fellows who
just manage somehow to forge
through high school or college with
only one eye on the text books, and
the other on life, we hear a good re
port of occasionally. Somehow they
have forged to the front, following that
one eye which was fixed on actual life.
It's queer. But it's so. When two or
three college mates get together, five,
ten or fifteen years after graduation,
and review the progress made by the
various members of the class, they
must confess surprise at the fantas
tic pranks played by the world upon
the men whom alma mater blessed
with her richest gifts, and then turn
ed aside to swim or sink. The man
who carried off the class medal for
scholarship and for whom great things
were predicted, has perhaps drifted
along until he has sunk Into a rut
and shows signs that he will remain
a hack on a small salary all his life.
The superior man who lorded it over
the other fellows is eating the bread
of humility; and Importuning his bril
liant but more successful classmates
to give him employment or money.
The pious man, who was forever
preaching. It may be has proved to be
the worst of the class, and has taken
to wild ways. And It happens, too,
sometimes be It said to the eternal
shame of fate that the fellow who
graduated out of the baek door be
fore his time was up, waves a cordial
salute from the pleasant hilltop of
success to the diplomaed alumni who
pass wearily along the dusty ways.
It is very queer. But thus it runs.
How vast and Irreconcilable Is the
difference between college and life.
The qualities that promise so brilliant
ly In school are not always the qual
ities that count most in the world.
The "dig," who crammed constantly
and made his poor bra to an overstock
ed lumber yard, seldom Is the man
who rises in actual life. Something
of a human quality is demanded by
the world. Men prefer the man who
has a little leisure and a little inclina
tion for amusement. The boy who
went about a little at college and made
acquaintances, who rubbed up against
the other fellows and found out the
stuff of which they are made, who
learned to bear himself well among
men and acquire some degree of self
confidence and assurance, has a bet
ter assets with which to commence life
than a little more scholarly knowledge
of the use of the Greek particles would
be. One of the most Important aids
to success is the knowledge of how
to approach and manage men, how to
win their confidence and hold their
attention. These are things not in
cluded in any college curriculum.
Some men even men of brains never
can learn them.
OUR AMERICAN ADAPTABILITY.
Admirable Polaa of tbe Women Who
Have Attained to High Position.
Lady Curzon, the Vicerine of India,
stands as a shining example of the
facility and the adaptability of the
American woman. Occupying a posi
tion which brings her In continual con
tact with royalty, she bears herself
with as much dignity and distinction
as If she had been born to the pur
ple. No daughter of the reigning
house of Great Britain could sustain
herself In the place of Lady Curzon
with more admirable poice than she
exhibits In all of the great functions
In which she Is called to figure. Lady
Curzon belongs to what would be
called a new family, even in America.
She has not behind her. the genera
tions of culture which many Ameri
can women can point to. She was
brought up in Chicago, a town that is
conspicuously associated with the com
mercial idea. Her acquisitions were
not aided by the Influence of hered
itary culture. Her achievements are
the fruit of a keen and active mind
and an agreeable personality under the
spur and encouragement of liberal ad
vantages. Her accommodation to the
requirements and the opportunities of
large riches shows the difference be
tween the British and the American
systems. In England it requires cen
turies to manufacture the sort of la
dies and gentlemen who are often de
veloped in this country In a single gen
eration. Kansas City Star.
They Had to Watt.
Mr. Thomas, of Hermis fame, is tell
ing his friends about two green youths
of his acquaintance, who, having hired
a horse and trap for a day's outing,
found themselves at the close of the
expedition confronted with the bewild
ering problem of reharnessing the ani
mal. The bit proved their chief diffi
culty, for 'the horse made no response
whatever to their overtures.
"Well, there Is nothing for it but to
wart," said one.
"Walt for what?" grumbled the other,
"For the horse to yawn," replied his
companion. '
Celt and German in America.
Seventy-five per cent of "our foreign
born population in 1000 was of Ten
tonic and Celtic stock the very same
that made the English. Of course, a
still larger percentage of the native
born are of- these races and of their
admixture. It is an error, then, to
talk of the American people as a con
glomeration of races. There is an
American race, formed by fusion of
the original races that made the Eng
lish. . - - '
A wedding present from a married
person is all right, but one from an
unmarried person is the same as con
tracting a debt. - I
4
Opinions of
Egotism an efficient of Worldly
N egotist, as all students of wordbooks know.
Is one who puts himself forward constantly
and talks too much about himself. Cardinal
lAl
JWolsey is a celebrated example of the egotist.
J for U was he that. said. "Ego et rex meus" I
and my King; for which sentence he has been
criticized oy some one was it Bacon or Addison? as a
good Latinist but a bad courtier. An egotist is one that
appraises all things only in reference to his own interests;
in other words, a selfish person. Egotism Is opposed to
modesty and self-effacement; egoism o altruism.
A thorough egoist is usually too worldly wise to be an
egotist He is aware that the egotist is mocked and de
rided, at least behind his back. Egotism is 'a weakness;
egoism a source of strength. Egotism Is exterior; egoism
interior. One is an outward and visible
habit of mind.
Conscious egoism Is rare. The perfect
cases quite unsuspecting of his egoism.
he thinks himself rather a model of
philanthropy. Sometimes he is an extreme pietist in re
ligion. Sometimes an extreme libertine in morals. He
may be an anchorite in the desert, living on locusts and
wild honey, and subordinating all the
of human fellowship to the thought of
fare. He may be a politician wading through slaughter
to a throne. He may be a captain of industry, grinding
the poor for superfluous profits. He may be a man about
town, seeking pleasure at whatever cost
egoist may be a woman of fashion, marrying some man
for wealth and position. Egoism' is found In all states
and professions. In both sexes, in persons of all ages, and
of diverse characters, in the saturnine
in misanthropes and good fellows.
Egoism is a very efficient factor of worldly success. The
egoist always looks out for himself. He has the wisdom
of the serpent. Even when he makes a sacrifice It is done
that he may serve himself better in the long run. And
the egoist is usually cheerful, as well as successful. He
never permits the troubles of others to
the center of his universe. San Francisco
Dabbling in Stocks.
OES It nav to dabble In stocks? That Is a ques-
D tion that a good many can answer. Tbe man
I ner of answering, however, depends on which
Blue ul tut; icuue uiv umu juub vu.. vuic
are losers and some are winners. A man can
not win all the time unless he is an extraor-
dinarily keen man, and there are but few of these. The
best of financiers in the country have their ups and downs,
and, you can count on your fingers the really successful
speculators, L e., men who are In the game all the time.
When you see the men who put their
In a speculative sense, you cannot but have a pity for them,
and this especially so the case with the man who has
had the speculative fever and who is over
In mind at the present time, and when
chant, the professional man or the mechanic placing his
money in the hands of the mob down
to eat up and gloat over, he says, "Poor
He reasons this way, and it will be
majority of cases." There is a greater
amounts won or lost, figuring winnings and losses-the same,
to begin with. This is clearly proven by the following:
A buys 100 shares of stocks, say at
thirty days and then sells It at 72. His
Take from this his commission of $25 and the Interest on
the $10,000 at a dollar a day, and he has a net profit ot
$145. Taking the very same proposition, change the two
point profit to a loss and see. His gross loss is $200, which
with the commission and interest would
of $255. Here is a difference of $110 against the loser on
a proposition apparently the same. Admitting that ; he
makes six turns always the same and breaks even, that Is.
makes three winnings and three losings, his account will
stand as follows: Three losings at $255, $765; three win
nings at $145, $435. Therefore, he Is out of pocket $330.
Now in order to avoid losing at all, he must win sixteen
CYPRESS IS A USEFUL TREE.
Prod net of Southern Swam pa Can Be
Utilized in Many Industrie.
A Mr. Tonney, writing In the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, says: "The
axman is fast destroying the melan-
choly cypress and the enormous con
sumption of the imperishable wood j
will soon clear the Southern swamps
of their noblest product. Mr. Tonney
says the best specimens are found In
Arkansas and Louisiana. The lumber
men class the timber as red, yellow
and white, according to the tint of the
wood. In Southern Illinois some years
ago there were brakes of a white va
riety, but the trees were pygmies com
pared with the yellow cypress giants
of the Cache River country in Arkan
sas, and the mammoth red cypress
tree along the Ouachita River. The
slow growth and the uncertain method
of reproduction leads to the - belief,
says Mr. Tonney, that before many
years the tree will become extinct. Tbe
great brakes are rapidly disappearing
before the modern methods of lumber
ing and regions which heretofore were
regarded as Inaccessible because of the
swamp conditions are being cut over,
and the lumber going Into the mar
kets at a rate surprising even to those
who are Intimately acquainted with
the Industry. The antiquated methods
of logging, so slow and cumbersome,
have been replaced by the up-to-date
Ideas, and the new facilities and im
provements have worked. wonders in
the business.
Mr. Tonney says further that Just
now cypress Is the one kind of timber
which has attained a prominent place
on the lumberman's list and the in
creasing demand and the advancing
price are attracting the attention of
every one who has in any way to deal
with building' materials. The commer
cial value of a good cypress brake is
almost beyond the belief of those who
are not familiar with the lumbering
Industry. 1 The merits of the timber as
adapted to a multiplicity of uses are
without question and it has taken rank
along with white pine and poplar. A
house may.be built these days wholly
of cypress. The frame work, siding,
flooring, lath, shingles and even the
interior when finished in this remark
able product of the Southern swamps
gives satisfaction, which Is shared
alike by the builder and owner.
Strength, durability and beauty of fin
ish combine to make it popular with
the woodworker. An instance may be
cited where cypress was substituted
for yellow pine In the construction of
the World's Fair buildings.
While it Is true that the cypress
brakes In Arkansas are being drawn
upon heavily, there Is no danger of Im
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
Success.
Hi TTT? f A
sign; the otner a
-
egoist is In most
Not infrequently
unselfishness ana
duties and interests
his own soul's wel
to others. The
, and the cheerful,
w
worry him. He Is
Bulletin.
They are a disgrace
money Into stocks,
It. We have one
he sees the mer
there in Wall street
fools!"
found true in the
Inequality of the
. Love
70, carries it for
gross profit is $200.
make a net loss
mediate depletion. And every cypress
tree felled means that in return ad
ditional wealth: comes to swell tbe
means whereby in other ways Ar
kansas Is undergoing splendid develop
ment. Little Rock Gazette.
MO BREAKFAST THEIR CREED.
Colony of Westerner Who Starve and
Kon't Love Their Wives.
Edgar Wallace Conable,- founder of a
strange health colony in Colorado sev
eral years ago," has abandoned the high
altitude of the Rockies and has bought
8,000 acres of land In northern Arkan
sas and colonized it with several hun
dred followers, all of whom believe
in his manner of living.
The colonists eat no breakfast. The
men do not love their wives, nor do
the wives love their husbands. Living
in family groups is a mere matter of
form, it is contended, although there
have been family squabbles caused by
jealous husbands and wives in this
colony.
The settlement lies along the 'Frisco
system, and is to be made into one
vast orchard and vineyard. No form
of animal life must be killed on the
premises, but it is the endeavor of the
colonists to drive away ail kinds of
Insects and pests. ,
The land, which was bought only a
few weeks ago, is- now being planted
In fruit trees, and settlers are build
ing their homes on the wide stretch
of the mountain country. By next
summer they expect to have every
thing in first-class working order.
According to their creed, people
should live in the highest form of phy
sical and mental 'life. This embraces
extended periods of fasting, for purifi
cation of the body and the elimination
of disease. It contemplates Jthe non
use of meat, alcoholic stimulants and
tobacco. ,
Conable says that as soon as his
crops begin to grow he will allow no
one on the premises, except as a tem
porary guest, who lives on anything
but his sort of food. No morning meal
will be tolerated by the Conable col
ony, and no cook stoves will be found
in the kitchens. The housework of the
women will be limited. Inasmuch as
the only preparation of the food will
be to wash away the dirt
Fasting is regarded as a means of
strengthening the body among these
people. Miss Reda Benjamin, a young
woman, has just completed a fast of
twenty-five days without any bad
effect to her body. She has muscles as
hard, as an athlete and Is a perfect
specimen of physical womanhood.
No physicians are allowed m the col
ony. Whenever a person is 111 he Is
placed under the care of one of the
health teachers, who, by a system of
times at $145, making a total of $2,320, against losing nine
times at $225, making a total of $2,295. So one can see that
In the end he will be $35 ahead. That Is a good average,
too.
Now, take in consideration tbe wear and tear of nerves,
loss of sleep and the chance of losing your whole invest
ment, and the conclusion Is arrived at that a Job of carry
ing bricks at $2.50 a day Is an easy thing In comparison.
Geneva Review.
Rearing Skilled Workmen.
VV loo I a Vi vnrM In ttm Indti -4-w4 1 -..
I cation. The supremacy in the several Indus
I tries for which she is so famous is directly
traces oie 10 mis eaucaiionai development, rat
porcelain industries for which Germany is
noted could hardly be carried on without an
ample supply of artistically skilled workmen, and to assure
the continuance of the supply of operatives the Govern
ment conducts a porcelain factory at Missen. Pupils and
apprentices are taught drawing for two years. On the
completion of this course they spend an additional term
of two years on modelling and painting. Those who de
velop special skill are then sent to the fine art schools of
Dresden, Berlin, and the other famous art centers to finish
their education. If a pupil perseveres to the end through
this long novitiate he is practically guaranteed lifelong ser
vice In the Government porcelain factory. .
Another feature of German industrial education which
might be adopted with advantage elsewhere is the practice
of sending trade 'apprentices to some industrial school for
a portion of each year. Those who are Indentured for a
four-year apprenticeship usually spend at least four months
a year in one of these schools, which are conveniently lo
cated In the manufacturing districts. Philadelphia Record.
A Disgrace to Civilization.
E ought to tell Russia and the sooner we do
it the better that, so far as we are concerned,
we are prepared to recognize henceforward that
Macedonia is within the sphere of Russian in
fluence, provided that she will put an end to the
horrors that are being enacted in that country.
to European civilization. It Is always
the same story wherever the Turk exercises -rule over
Christian races. The government is execrable. After being
patiently borne for a certain time, the oppressed race seeks
to defend itself. Then come savage brutalities on the part
of the rulers, which are met by as savage brutalities on tbe
part of the insurgents. Reforms are announced which are
only to be granted when "order" is restored. Order, how
ever, means' a recurrence of oppression. At present the civil
employes are not paid at all, and the soldiers sent there are
paid very sparingly if at all. The whole ruling race, there
fore, has to live on the subject race. That tricky scoundrel
the Sultan has long succeeded in converting the fairest dis
tricts in the world into a hell by playing one European
country off against another. We are the only power on
which he can still count in this devil's game. Our duty,
therefore. Is to make it absolutely clear to him that come
what may he will get no aid from us. London Truth.
Is the Mainspring.
POLITICAL economists have told us that self-
interest is the mainspring of industry. It Is
not true. Love is the mainspring of Industry.
It is love for the home and the wife and the
children that keeps all the busy wheels of in
dustry revolving, that calls the factory hands
early to the mill, that nerves the arm of. the blacksmith
working at his forge, that inspires the farmer at his
plough and the merchant at his desk, that gives courage to
the soldier and patience to the teacher.
Erskine was asked how he dared, as an unknown bar
rister, face a hostile court and insist on his right to be
heard. "I felt my children," he replied, "tugging at my
robe and saying, here Is your chance, father, to get us
bread. It is this vision of the children dependent on us
that Inspires us all In the battle of life. Atlantic Monthly.
cereal and fruit products, as they say,
attempts to cure the patient.
Conable allows no horses on the
farm, and all the work is done by hu
man hands or steam power. New
York Sun.
THE ETERNAL QUESTION.
How One Community Solved the Ser
vant Girl Problem.
From San Miguel, a mining camp
in the copper country of Southern
Arizona; come the glad tidings that the
great problem of the centuries has at
last been solved and by women, of
course. The recent celebration of Its
fourth anniversary by the San Miguel
Co-operative Cooking Club calls atten
tion to the manner in which the ser
vant question has been robbed of Its
terrors through the successful inaugur
ation of a "community of Interest" plan.
This club consists of 45 families, ac
customed to refinements and pleasant
surroundings. Some four years ago the
women of the camp, after unsuccessful
Individual attempts to procure and re
tain proper domestic service, put their
heads together and organized the club,
leased a suitable house In the central
part of the town, engaged a matron,
and hired, a number of capable Chi
nese servants. Each family has its
own table, and the unmarried ones
have a table to themselves. The pur
chase of the supplies is Intrusted to
an executive committee of three. Ex
perience shows that the families have
saved on- an average . 50 per cent In
living expenses since the formation of
the club, the service is better, and the
food is of a higher quality than could
have been afforded under the old sys
tem. - : , .
It is apparent at a glance that the
conditions which made the San Miguel
Cooking Club a success are not com
mon to all parts of the United States.
Chinese servants, for instance, are not
generally procurable, and there is a
feeling of comradeship, engendered by
the sharing of hardships, In the- less
thickly settled communities, th&t Is
not so apparent in those sections of the
country, which have been longer in
habited. But the relief experienced
by the housekeepers of San Miguel
from the haunting fear that Bridget
may "give notice" any day,, or exact
a few additional "privileges" from her
long-suffering employer, must be de
lightful, and the success of the San
Miguel experiment will at least serve
as a valuable object lesson in the
solving pf this most vexations prob
lem. Housekeeper.
Occasionally you meet people who
are unfair, and Inconsiderate, - but
think of the many nice osesl
The electric washing machine of
Josef Nagy, of Szegedin, Is claimed to
cleanse clothes from grease, stains,
etc., without soap or rubbing.
The images preceding sleep are found
by M. Delage to be retinal; they per
sist as reintal "glimmers" after the
eyes are closed, and pass to the cere
brum only when sleep begins.
The forests of Nicaragua are found
by Prof. F. D. Baker to contain three
hundred distinct varieties of trees. A
bark that has been brought to the Unit
ed States as a substitute for cork,
proves to be from the roots of the
anon a, a tree of the lowlands resem
bling the ordinary cotton wood of the
United States.
In a paper read before the Anthrop
ological Society of Washington on
"Popular Sayings," A. R, Spofford
called attention to the wealth of such
sayings in English and Irish, and re
marked that these bad a distinct eth
ical value in that they are almost in
variably optimistic. Professor Mc
Gee said we may almost predicate the
stage of development of a people by
their use of proverbs. Proverbs pre
vail In lower culture. Walter Hough
pointed out the debt of language and
literature to popular sayings, and
Miss Fletcher said that among In
dians ethical proverbs, such as "Stolen
food does not satisfy hunger," are
used In teaching.
Sir William Willcocks, late director
general of the Irrigation works of
Egypt, draws a brilliant picture of the
possible future of the ancient land
of Chaldea, once one of the most fer
tile and populous in the world, but
now a desert. The Tigris, he says,
once performed, and can again per
form, for Chaldea the same functions
as the Nile for Egypt. Opis, at one
time the wealthiest mart of the East,
but at present a mound of ruins, bears
to the Tigris delta very much the same
relation as that of Cairo to tbe delta
of the Nile. At an expense of about
$40,000,000 the ancient irrigation sys
tem could be restored, and Chaldea
would become as rich a country as
Egypt, which, 60 years hence, he pre
dicts, will attain a height of splen
dor and magnificence surpassing Its
greatness in the days of the Pharaohs.
In the pathological laboratories of
the University of Pennsylvania an in
vestigation, designed to discover anti
dotes for all kinds of snake poison, Is
conducted along lines suggested by
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, and the Carnegie
Institute has granted an appropriation
to assist the work. Many experiments
are made with rattlesnakes, cobras,
and other poisonous reptiles, and the
effects of their venom upon animals
are studied. The physicians regard al
cohol, taken Internally, as a valuable
stimulant, but not as an antidote.
The most valuable remedial agent is
the intermittent ligature a band about
the wounded limb, which is loosened
for an Instant at stated intervals, thus
allowing the poison to enter the sys
tem in very small quantities. In this
manner the patient is enabled grad
ually to overcome the effects of the
poison. n
TREE ASHES YIELD GOLD.
Timber Near the Mines Is Valuable
Metal in Dissolved Form.
Many an enthusiastic botanist will
tell you that certain of his specimens
are worth their weight In gold. ...Of
course, he had In mind the extreme
rarity of the plant or root. Very dif
ferent, however, is the meaning of Dr.
E. E. Lungewitz, a well-known metal
lurgical chemist, when he states the
proposition that certain trees are worth
a proportionate part of their weight
In gold; for after conducting many ex
periments on certain classes of trees
he has come" to the conclusion that
such trees actually contain pure gold
in a diluted form.
Chemists have long suspected that
gold might slowly dissolve in surface
water, and have disposed of the ob
jection that that proposition has never
been established by analysis by con
tending that the solution Is Infinitely
weak. After giving the subject con
siderable study and thought. Dr. Lun
gewitz came to the conclusion that if
the surface water contained dissolved
gold at all, however small the quanti
ty, it should naturally be drawn up
by the roots of the trees in the near
vicinity, and would there appear In
more substantial form.
Accordingly, he selected a number
of trees growing In the neighborhood
of lodes and placers, had them felled
and cut them into pieces of convenient
size. After the bark had been removed,
with about one inch of the outside
wood, the pieces were placed upon a
clean sheet of corrugated iron and
fired. The ashes, which yet contained
grains of charcoal, were then collected
and assayed. The experiment was not
a distinct success. While gold was un
doubtedly present, its quantity was so
infinitely small that an accurate esti
mation of its amount or fineness was
out of the question. As these trees
were of the soft wood variety, it was
thought that better results mlght'per
haps be obtained by experimenting up
on trees of a different kind. And that
is just what happpened. The ashes of
some so-called Ironwood trees yielded
between 10 and 40 cents' worth of gold
to the ton.
In all of these experiments only the
trunks of the trees near the roots had
been used, and it was determined,
therefore, to ascertain whether more
satisfactory results could not be ob
tained by reducing the upper branches
to ashes. The branches proved to be
richer In gold than any other part ox'
the tree heretofore tested. In one in
stance the ashes yielded no less than
$1.17 worth of gold to the ton, while
in many cases the assay showed a re
turn of -over $1 a ton. , The signifi
cance of these experiments lies in the
fact that they established beyond all
doubt that gold is dissolved by the sur
face waters traversing and percolat
ing gold formations. They give rise
likewise to the Interesting question as
to which' component of these' surface
waters possesses this gold-dissolving
property. Dr. Lungewitz has not at
tempted to answer it, but has left It
for further Investigation. He advances
the theory, however, that this peculiar
action must have a disastrous effect
upon gold deposits in the course of
time.
As to the business opportunities in
volved in the discovery, it Is perhaps
sufficient to say that the lovers of
trees need feel no apprehension as to
any wholesale destruction of them, for
the gold yielded is too little to warrant
the expense.
COAL IN THE NORTHWEST.
Mlninv Industry Increasing; Yearly
in the State ef Washing-ton.
At the World's Fair in Chicago the
State of Washington exhibited a chunk
of coal weighing twenty-five tons. It
excited considerable interest because
those were the young days of import
ant mining In that State; and the Pa
cific coast Is not able to boast of such
enormous coal resources as are found
farther east .
The geological' survey of Washing
ton has just published a map showing
the distribution of the coal fields in
the State. One may see at a glance
that all the coal fields yet discovered
are situated quite conveniently to the
sea.
They extend Mn a broken line fromv
the Canadian boundary to the. Colum
bia River. One group is situated on
or . near the sea. a little above the
northern end of Puget Sound; another
group lies to the east of Seattle and
Tacoma, and still other fields are south
of Puget Sound.
Altogether there are seventeen fields
which are contributing more or less to
the coal supplies. Some of them are
entirely within the Puget Sound basin,
and others lie between it and the foot
hills of the Cascades. It Is fortunate
for Washington, which Is not overbur
dened with railroads, that her coa
fields are so conveniently situated foi
the water transportation of the fuel.
It has been said that the coal of the
Pacific coast is not of a superior qual
ity, and this is true. But Washington
mines a great deal of coal of the most
useful kinds.
Last year Washington produced the
largest quantity of coal ever mined
there. There was no very important
production before 1886, but nearly ev
ery year since then the quantity mined
has increased. It amounted last year
to 2,690,789 short tons.
Tbe larger part is consumed in the
State, and as time goes on and the
population increases the home market
will require much greater supplies.
The largest use to which coal is put
is in the making of steam for locomo
tives, steamboats and stationary boil
ers. Wood is extensively used as fuel in
western Washington, but in the timber
less region of the eastern part of the
State coal is used for all purposes, and
is chiefly supplied by the Roslyn dis
trict, which furnishes nearly half the
coal mined, and is conveniently situ
ated in respect of the transportation
facilities afforded by the railroads and
shipping of Tacoma.
The great bulk of the coal shipped
from Seattle, and Tacoma goes to San
Francisco, but a number of cargoes
were sent in 1901 to Hawaii, as well
as ;to Alaskan- ports. British Columbia
competes with Washington in supply
ing Alaska, but that Territory has
coal of her own and is likely In a few
years to become an exporter Instead of
an importer.
California buys about one-third ot
the coal produced; - the railroads of
Washington and the adjoining States
are also large purchasers, and about
800,000 tons a year are consumed by
steamers In the foreign and domestio
trade. New York Sun.
His Own Hat.
George Buchanan, who represents the
firm of Bunnell & Buchanan on the
curb, was the victim of his own love
of raising a rumpus on the day when
the curb takes to smashing hats. Be
fore Mr. Buchanan left his office that
morning he warned his partners that
if they happened to come down to the
curb on that morning he would see to
It that their hats paid the penalty.
When Mr. Von Gossler, his Junior part
ner, put in an appearance In the crowd
the genial Buchanan proceeded to put
his threat into effect. He knocked .the
visitor's bat off and made jo. football
out of it.
"I told you what would happen to
yon!" he said.
His partner took it very good-naturedly,
merely remarking, as he head
ed for the office:
"I remembered all right. That was
the new hat you bought yesterday and
forgot to take home. It fitted me all
right!" . , .
A Tries: with Cards.
Have somebody select' a card from
an ordinary pack, and after looking at
it place it on top of the pack. Place
the pack in a pasteboard box Just large
enough to hold It, putting the cover
over It. A few moments later the box
is opened, the pack is taken out and
laid aside; a sealed envelope is showed
to the audience, and, when opened,
the card selected by the partner Is
pulled out of It.
The small pasteboard box must be
made in such a way that it can Just
hold the whole pack of cards. Inside
the cover paste a small piece of wax,"
to which the uppermost card will stick
when the cover is put on the box.
When the box is opened again this
card must be removed secretly . and
hidden in the palm of the hand.
The envelope Js empty.' Place the
card behind it, while you cut the en
velope open and pretend you pull th
card out This trick, if well done, is
very deceptive.
Red Blindness. ;
Inability to "see red" is the main
form of color blindness from which
sailors suffer. Last year thirty-four
officers and would-be officers of Great
Britain's mercantile marine failed to
pass the color tests; and of these twenty-three
were more or less completely
red blind, the rest more or less unable
to distinguish green. The 4,600 . candi
dates for certificates were also sub
mltted to a test for form vision, and
twenty-two of them failed to distin.
guish the form of the object submitted.
L When you make wishes, It is a slg
you are not getting what you want
How many things - go on that you
don't know about! .