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fRANSFORMATION OF THE GREAT WEST. Mv General It was my good fortune to wit ness tire transformation of the mighty West I nave viewed much of it on horseback and have traversed the zones now occupied by the Canadian, the Great North ern, the Northern Pacific, the Rio Grande and Oregon Short line, the Union and Central Pacific, the Santa Fe route and the Southern Pacific I have seen the pioneer and the home builder supplant the savage and the lawless. In my recent journeys across the conti nent I was more than ever Im pressed with the underlying wis dom and tranquil virility of the people. They do not want war; they want peace. I have traveled far In foreign lands and observed the oeoDle st many countries. I GENERAL MILES. have had excellent opportunities to know tne peopie or my own country and am gratified to say that a more intelli gent, thoughtful, patriotic people cannot be found on the face of the globe than the people of our Western States and Territories. There you find the true American inde pendence and enterprise. An American citizen with eighty or 160 acres of land is loyaLto democratic government, and he la a very independent sovereign. The rough'; wild,, tough element has been replaced by the mine and mill owner, the herdsman and the agriculturist. While in thirty years the transformation of the great West baa been marvelous, there Yis yet ample room for millions who may be "seeking homes. 'There are nearly as many people crowded Into the Philippine Islands, an area not as large as one of our Western territories as the num ber that are now living In nearly one-half of the western portion of the United States, while the State of . Texas alone, richly stored with the products that have made this" country great and prosperous, could accommodate all the people of the United States and ten millions more without being so much crowded as some of the Eastern States are now. DISEASES OF THE STOMACH. By Dr. B. C. The Importance of a thorough knowl edge of diseases of the stomach can not be overestimated. Innumerable aches and pains, formications, tingling and numb sensations are caused by im perfect gastric digestion. The theory that the stomach is only a receptacle for the gesta, and is not, strictly, speak ing, a digestive organ, has not been sus tained by clinical, and laboratory expe rience; while clinical experience testi fies and laboratory experiments and ob- to-. jjb. e. c. sweet, serration demonstrate that many di gestive disturbances originate in the stomach and produce symptoms which frequently have been attributed to de rangements of the nervous system. Many cases of head ache, impaired memory and inaptitude for thought and work occurring in merchants and other business men, are not due to overwork and brain exhaustion, as is frequent ly supposed, but are caused by Imperfect digestion, result ing from eating when the stomach Is tired. When one Is engaged In hard physical or mental labor the blood flow to the stomach is decreased, and a proper amount of gas tric Juice is not elaborated, and the functions of motility and absorption are diminished. Under such circumstances TBgtion must be changed..': Such patients'may be benefited by taking only soup, beef tea or milk for the noon meaL Sometimes biscuit or bread and butter may be allowed in JOHN ALEXANDER )0WIE HAS A RIVAL IN INDIA Mirza, Ghulam Ahmad, of Qudiah, Punjab, India, Insists that John Alexan der Dowle, of Zion, 111., U. S. A., Is not up to date. Allah Is good and . Mahomet - is prophet truly, - but Mirza Ghulam Ah mad is the Mes siah! So claims Mirza Ghulam that each should pray that the other per ish, and Mlraah Is lost in wonderment that the overseer of Zion has not toed the scratch. He expresses his amazement in an article just pub lished , in the Re view of Religions, , AlIKZA AHMAD. which is printed on occasions at Gur daspur, India. That the tempestuous Dr. 'Dowle shall know that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Is no common man, is not a frail hu man forsooth, the new Messiah writes: "Dr. Dowie should further bearl in mind that this challenge does not pro ceed from an ordinary Mohammedan. I am the very Messiah, the . promised one, for whom he is so anxiously wait ing. Between Dr. , Dowie' s - position and mine the difference Is this, that Dowie fixes the appearance of the Mes siah within the next twenty-five years, while I gave blm the glad tidings that the Messiah has already appeared. I am that Messiah, and Almighty God has shown numerous signs from earth as well as from heaven In my support My following, which already claims a hundred thousand souls, Is making a rapid progress. The proof that Dr. Dowie furnishes in support of his ex travagant claims Is the very height of (absurdity. He claims to have healed hundreds of sick men..' But why did his healing power fail In the case of (his own beloved daughter, where it should have been exercised In the high test degree?" , ROMANCE OF THE PAPACY. Secret of Vatican That Have Reached L Public Knowledge. As a rule the secrets of the Vatican are well kept and most of the stories that are told apropos of the new Pope must be taken with a grain of salt ' Now and again, however, something of the romance of the papacy really leaks out though not through the Cardinals. There was, for example, the strange case of Pope Flux IX, pretty well known a generation ago, but now al most forgotten. In his younger days, iwhen he was Count Mastal Ferrati and a lawyman, ' he met and fell In love with Miss Foster, daughter of the Irish Protestant Bishop of Kllmore, who was living in Italy with her sis ter, Mme. De Sails. - Miss Foster fa vored the young count but Mme. De Sails drove the lover awaj. After- avard she relented, the count returned ' " f,: t, ...J Nelmoa A. Miles. addition. The large meal, or dinner,, should not be taken until the day's work Is done. Thus severer forms of dis ease, as functional dyspepsia and chronic gastritis, may be prevented. , WHAT THE RICH MAN By i f ftp's PBESiDEif t eliot. source in this world, is family life, the joys of , father and mother and children and grandchildren and grandfather and grandmother and grandchildren, they last. In the natural course of life they last fifty, even six ty, years, -and; they j grow as time passes by. They are always Increasing; they are not diminishing satisfactions. Does the rich man have any more of these true and high satisfactions than the poor man? ' Not one whit more! He cannot buy them. They are the result of. natural affection and of disciplined character. They are absolutely unpur chasable In this world. - - THE ART OF MANAGING A MAN. 7 7 ' ; ' .? By Melon Old-field. a foot There are not many things in the world outside of matters of conscience, pure and simple, which 'are worth contention upon a woman's part, '.against the 'man whom she loves and who loves her; and for these few things the reward, gained through martyrdom, .comes usually In 'the hereafter. Standing up for one's rights against one's husband Is wearisome work; it is more comfortable to relinquish them; still they may be had, except in rare Instances, by asking for them as a favor to be granted for love's sake. Deference to a husband Is the drop of oil which keeps the wheels of the domestic machine running smoothly. There is much in mental suggestion. Take It for granted that a man will do a certain thing because it is the proper course, and in nine times out of ten he does it. , The tactful person drops suggestions and leaves them to take root, just as the husbandman sows his seed upon fertile ground. "There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak," and even though "a soft answer turneth away wrath," there are seasons when no answer Is better, when the only fitting coin of conversation la the gold of silence. To argue with an angry man is worse than folly). When a man is hungry and tired, perhaps worried, and so Inclined to be cross, is not a favorable time for, any request however reasonable. The wise woman who Is versed in the ways of man will bide her time, will see that he has a well cooked dinner, and good coffee, and when he has been soothed into good humor with himself and air the world will broach the subject upon, which she desires his approval. Smiles are more effective than tears to open a man's heart; gentle persuasion avails more than reproaches. It Is the sunshine and dew which bring forth the foliage on the trees, the soft south breeze which unlocks the Ice upon the streams. Sweet, et Chicago. HOW ANTI-ALCOHOL LECTURES ARE DELIVERED TO PRISONERS IN A FRENCH PENITENTIARY - A strange sight Is presented when the periodical antl-alcbhol lecture Is de livered to the prisoners of the new French penitentiary at Fresnes, near Paris. The lectures are given In an immense hall, on one'rside of u which, reaching almost to the roof, are what look like steps, but on closer Inspec- $ tion prove to be rows of boxes with openings, about four inches high, through ' which can be seen the heads of the audience. In this strange manner the pris oners are enabled to see "the lecturer, but prevented from holding any com-: munlcatlon with one another. Mutual recognition on release is thus also ren dered Impossible. These lectures against drunkenness are believed to have badsome influence on the' diminution of crime, which has lately been mark- : . ed in France, and in future they are.to be given more frequently and in a larger number of prisons. , ' 1 . ' ' ,; and the wedding day was fixed. On the appointed day the bride and her friends were at the church, but no bridegroom appeared, and Count Mas tal Ferrati was never seen again. Years afterward Miss Foster went "to see Pope Piux IX and was astonished' to recognize in the pontiff her old flame, the count -. - The most sensational novelist could not have Invented a plot more fascinat ing than the real story of Pope Leo's predecessor. Mme. De Sails had made an unhappy marriage with an Italian, and her parents, fearing a similar fate for the younger daughter, made her promise to guard MlssFoster against a union with a foreigner, hence her in terference to separate the lovers; it was only when her sister pined away that Mme. De Sails relented. The dis CANNOT BUY. PreaUomt Bitot ot Harvard University. We want more happiness, more real satisfaction, more joy, more enjoyment. It Is said that we Americans are always trying to get more money more pay, higher wages, higher : salaries, ' more profit in our trade and there Is truth in that description of the American aim. Now, is that the ultimate end of life? Is that the way to win greater happi ness,' truer enjoyment, deeper satisfac tions? ,fi ; I think the first source, the greatest A woman's privileges are more valuable than her rights; R the best ( way In which to Increase those privileges Is to take them with great show of gratitude to the' man who 'confers them. "Van ity, vanity, all Is vanity," and no man ever lived who was not accessible to .flattery,, in some form or other. , To conquer, a woman must sometimes stoop. Gentle persuasion : goes a mile often where aggressiveness cannot stir appearance of the count has. quite a flavor of Dumas about it-. Unknown to his fiancee he was bound to the Jesu its, and his superiors in the order per emptorily sent him away on a mission to prevent his marriage with an Eng lish woman and a Protestant Letters were intercepted" and he was led "to believe that she had married another, so he took orders and rapidly rose to be Bishop, then Cardinal and eventual ly Pope.- Then In the height of his grandeur he was" brought for a mo ment face to face with the woman he had loved and , lost. Nothing more dramatic has ever been staged. " - r4','iTJ Duties . of Tolatoy. " I Count Tolsoy is obliged to devote half his time to answering letters and receiving visitors. GOOD Sbof t Qtof ie$ I ! ! ! 1 'I1 James Cobb tells a curious story of a lady, a sister of Owen Tudor, who, like Henry VIII., was greatly given to marrying, and did not die until she had been led seven times to the altar. When , she was following her fourth husband to the grave, the gentleman behind whom she rode on horseback ventured to urge his suit "Unhap pily," said the dame, "thou art too late, seeing that I am plighted already; yet do not lose heart, for, should It fall out that I have again to perform this melancholy office, I will bear thee in mind." ' The story is told of a kindly Massa chusetts man who chanced in a restau rant in one of the frontier towns, where he met a waiter armed with a sorrowful towel tied about his waist a dented tin tray, and a couple of guns. The Easterner looked him over in a gentle way, and asked him if he had any breakfast food. "I guess yes," responded, the cowboy waiter; "we got ham and eggs', fried sausage, chuck steak, spare ribs, mutton chops, corned beef" hash, hog and hominy, light bread, heavy bread, toast bread, apple butter, peach butter, cow butter, coffee, tea, buttermilk, , and beer. Breakfast food? Well, that's our winner. Name your grub." i , Frederick III. of Prussia, who de lighted in his reputation as the most laconic man in Europe, once met a Hungarian nobleman,- taking the wa ters at Carlsbad, who had ; also ac quired fame for abruptness of speech. This tempted the Prussian monarch to meet him and try him in the arts of brevity, i The , magnate was pointed out to Frederick as he stood in the hall of his hotel. The king went up to him, and the following conversation was the result: Frederick Bathing? Hungarian Drinking. . Frederick Of ficer? Hungarian Magnate. Freder ick So! Hungarian (taking the initia tive) Detective? Frederick King! Hungarian Congratulate! Like many Frenchmen, especially those hailing from the south of France, President Loubet Is very fond of those national dishes in which garlic forms an important ingredient. Once, In his lawyer days, when he was pleading In. court after having partaken of some such dish, his democratic tastes In this respect placed him In a somewhat embarrassing : position. The presiding judge happened to be a man of aristo cratic origin and breeding, to whom the odor of garlic was absolutely Intol erable. M. Loubet rose and began his argument. He had not proceeded very far when the judge was observed to sniff rather uncomfortably and to take out a perfumed handkerchief, re-enforcing it a few moments later with a smelling-bottle. These measures, how ever, .proved.of .no avail as a protec tion from the pungent and penetrating effluvium which emanated from the future president of the republic. At last his olfactory sense rising in open rebellion, the Indignant judge shouted: "Usher,1 open the windows; open the doors.: For heaven's sake let out this abominable smell." Since then M. Lou bet it is said, though he still preserves his simplicity of life, , has eliminated garlic from his articles of diet KING PETER I. Still - Simple and - Democratic Hia Dailx Routine. " The private life of Peter I. has hard ly undergone any change since his ac cession to the throne. The king lives to-day as simple and democratic a life as did ' the exiled Karageorgevitch ' at Geneva, He observes court etiquette so long as It does not conflict with his democratic convictions. He rises every morning at 5 o'clock, and takes a drive round the neighbor hood of Belgrade, accompanied only by one aide-de-camp. At 7 he returns and Is shaved; as 8 he begins his daily work. First of all he receives his pri vate secretary, who has to submit to the king his letters and other mail mat ter. Next the police prefect of Bel grade makes his report to his majesty. That official. has to Inform the king of all occurrences of importance or inter est within the .limits of the" city of Bel grade. Next the first aide-de-camp, who at present also acts as court mar shal, and finally the chief of the royal household, are received. ' The latter has to submit a daily account of all" the money expended on account, of the civil list The king checks every item most minutely. At his suggestion book keeping by, double entry has been Intro duced in the royal household."- ' At 10 o'clock the king is generally visited by bis 'life-long friend, Colonel the Marquis de Rose, with whom he discusses private affairs. The marquis, who is at present the king's guest was his schoolmate and his comrade in war. Since the -colonel retired from the French .service six years ago he has been almost constantly with Peter Karageorgevitch. . .; ' .. - !': , f After this visit the king receives his ministers and other persons who have requested an audience, or he reads the newspapers nearjy all those published in the Servian language and some Ger man and French journals. At 12:30 lunch Is served for- the king', a meal 'in which, the Marquis de Rose and two of the officers of the house hold participate. This meal Is a most simple affair, land consists mainly of Servian and French dishes. . The king drinks nothing but mineral water on account of an old Internal malady, which, however, is now gradually dis appearing. At 1 o'clock the king re tires to his private rooms, where he remains until 3, when he. again re ceives his private- secretary . and dis poses of his correspondence. Before dinner his majesty sometimes takes another drive round ' the city. Dinner is served at 7, and seldom occu pies more than one hour. ' After that the king is usually occupied with lit erature. He reads mostly books on military or financial subjects. - In in dustrial matters, too, he shows a lively Interest and does his best to induce foreign Capitalists to invest money In Servia. He has no particular leaning toward any sport except shooting. In which he Is quite an expert Peter L is generally regarded as a good-natured and energetic man ,6f strong ruling capacity and admirable tenacity. It will readily be seen that he combines all the essential qualities of a good monarch; but his people are not what he could wish them to be, and they will yet provide him with many a difficult problem to solve. London Leader. A Young Commander. The story of a boy of 12 years acting as commander of a ship seems rather wonderful, yet Farragut was but 12 years and 4 days old when he was put in command of the Barclay, a prize ship taken by Captain Porter.- In consideration of his tender years, says the author of "Twenty-six Historic Ships," the former English master of the vessel was sent in her for the pos sible benefit the young prize-master might find in his advice. Farragut tells the story of the queer division of authority in his journal as follows: "I considered that the day of trial had arrived, for I was a little afraid of the old fellow, as every one else was. But the time had come for me at least to play the man; so I mustered up courage and informed the captain that I desired the maintopsall filled away in order that we might close up with the Essex Junior,. He replied that he would shoot any man who dared to touch a rope without his or ders. He would go his own course, and had no' idea of trusting himself with a 'blasted nutshell,' and then he went below for his pistols. "I called my right-hand man of .the crew and told him of my situation; I also informed him that I wanted -the maintopsall filled. He answered with a clear 'Aye, aye, sir,' In a manner that was not to be misunderstood, and my confidence was perfectly restored. "From that moment I became master of the vessel, and immediately gave all necessary orders for making sail, noti fying the captain not to come on with his pistols unless he wished to go over board; for I really would have had very little trouble in having such an order obeyed." Cheated the Youngsters. In certain parts, of New Guinea wallaby, a species of kangaroo, are very plentiful, and the traveler in search of sport finds the pursuit of them an exciting occupation. Walla by steak is a refreshing change from canned meats, an4 the natives are only too glad to have the remnants of the carcass. A writer in the Badmin ton tells an amusing incident connect ed ; with the animal. He had been ashore in one of the sparsely populated regions of the coast, and secured four wallaby, an ample supply for the whole party, na tive guides and servants included. But he found that although wallaby is re garded as such a delicacy that no trouble is considered too great to ob tain it none of the native boys in the party would touch it This was a -mystery ' until one of them - explained that ' they- had been trained in childhood in the belief that if they ate wallaby before reaching a certain age, 1 it would stop their growth. ' These boys all belonged to the part of the country where wallaby are few, and one can imagine the crafty old folks seated round the festive pot and winking at one another as the young people declined the succulent dainty. ' Those who see an unwarrantable deception in the fostering of such a belief on the part of the young people must ask themselves if they have never told a child that "two pieces of pie will make little folks sick." s I Every -Day Heroes. When the cloudburst wiped the town of Heppner, Ore.-, off the map, man seemed powerless before nature. Yet the news of the next day contained two stories which show that brave men did what they could. The people of two neighboring towns, Lexington and lone, escaped without loss of life. They owe their safety to the heroism of two men. When the flood swept the town, Ker nan, the station agent at Heppner, stuck to his post long enough to tele graph warning to Lexington. Then he tried to escape with his wife and two children and a friend. The friend suc ceeded in reaching safety with the children, but Kernan and his wife were swept to death. Another hero was Leslie Matlock, who, like Paul Revere, jumped on his horse and spread the alarm. He reach ed Lexington in time to confirm Ker nan's warning, and the people fled to the hills.. Over a hundred people in Lexington would have lost their lives but for these two men. Matlock continued down the valley, carrying the alarm to every farm house. His horse gave out soon after he left Lexington, but he got another, and galloped through the darkness and the rain to lone. , Here he telegraphed down the valley to the-'ranchers, who passed the word on. His Jong journey had been a race with the flood, which poured after him almost at his horse's heels. . Geo.-Clay's Courage. General Cassius M. Clay fought many duels in his day, usually with his long-bladed knife, meeting pistol or rifle equally with that trusty weap on. His physical strength' was glgan tic. He was accustomed to the use of weapons, and he was always cool and never lost his judgment For ex ample, hen an adversary shot him, and he supposed he was done for, he inflated his lungs to the full, conscious that he would live as long as he could hold his, breath. Then he . drew his knife and did his bloody work. That was when he killed Turner. Ater all, speaking musingly, reviewing his life, he confessed to a reporter, when he was about 84, that he was opposed on principle to the duel, thinking it a savage way to settle a difficulty, "but there are some cases for which it seems to be the only remedy." New York Tribune. Improvement in Boilers. ! , . i Such has been the improvement in engine boilers and fire boxes that the power derived from a pound of coal to-day is nearly three times as great as it was fifty years ago. yllfventionli In the electric furnace of H. Gold schmidt. a ton of steel is made from the ore by 4,000 horse-power hours of energy, and from scrap Iron by 1,300 horse-power hours. Anaemic persons and convalescents seeking strength find great benefit in the grape cure, which is an autumn at traction at Wiesbaden. The effects are explained by the sugar, which forms 25 to 50 per cent of the grapes. The hot springs that contain living bacteria are much below boiling point in temperature, but J. Adams, of Dub lin, reports having observed eggs of a certain mite (Tyroglyphus histiostoma) that survived boiling for five minutes, Traction tests with electric automo biles In London have shown a sur prising increase of the starting pull on oiled pavements. A pull of thirty- nine pounds per ton was needed to start on dry asphalts, forty-nine and a half pounds on wood pavement and 104 pounds on dry macadam. On greasy asphalt a pull of nearly sev enty-nine pounds per ton was neces sary. The wireless system of telegraphy has been' tested successfully in the Coast Survey. Last summer, as an experiment one of the surveying ves sels, using short-distance apparatus. transmitted the half-second beats of its chronometer to a shore station more than sixty miles away, where they were automatically recorded on a mov ing tape. It is anticipated that for the determination of longitude the wireless system will eventually take the place of cable and telegraph lines. Human life is possible under varied conditions, and, if a recent report is correct British New Guinea has a tribe whose environment has made them incanable of walking. These people live in a swampy region, and. as walking and canoeing are alike im practicable, they remain constantly in their dwellings, which are built in the trees Just above the marshes. Disuse has caused their limbs to shrink, while their trunks have become bloated, giv ing them an ape-like appearance and gait German experts say that wood which has been floated in rafts, or otherwise. gives a more trustworthy material for joinery and building purposes than does that which has beew carted, or otherwise carried dry,' to the sawmill and workshop. The reason is that while the wood is lying in the water its sap and albuminous and salty ma terials are dissolved out If these sub stances remain in the wood they read ily absorb moisture from the atmos phere, after coming out of the drying rooms, and the wood swells. Artifi cial processes of washing out the hy groscopic substances from wood which has not been floated are practiced in Germany. . In describing experiments made for the Department of Agriculture on the effects of lime and magnesia upon ani mal production, D. - W. May of the Kentucky Experiment Station remarks that it is a well-known fact that the greatest development in live stock has been attained in limestone regions. He adds that in the blue-grass region of Kentucky, long noted for the beauty and quality of its live stock, and espe cially of its thoroughbred horses, the soil has been formed largely by the disintegration of a limestone very rich in phosphates. But even in that fa vored region experiments are under way to determine whether the quality of The animals may not be improved by the addition of certain mineral ele-' ments to the food. INCIDENTAL EDUCATION. Acquirements That Contributed To ward Success of Louia Axaasiz. It does not appear that Louis Agas siz, the great naturalist, had as a child any precocious predilection for study, but his love of natural history showed itself almost from infancy. In "Life and Correspondence of Agassiz," by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, his childish amusements are described. When a very little fellow he had, besides his collection of fishes, all sorts of pets: birds, field-mice, hares, rabbits and guinea pigs, whose families he reared with the greatest care. Guided by his knowledge of the haunts and habits of fishes, he and his brother Auguste be came the most adroit of young fisher men, using processes all their own, and quite independent of hook, line or net. Their hunting grounds were the holes and crevises beneath the stones or in the water-washed walls of the lake shore. No such shelter was safe from their curious fingers, and they ac quired such dexterity that when bath ing they could seize the fish even in the open water, attracting them by lit tle arts to which the fish submitted as to a kind of fascination. Such amusements are no doubt the delight of many a lad who lives in the country, but they illustrate the unity of Agassiz' intellectual development from beginning to end: His pet ani mals suggested questions, to answer which was the task of his life; and his intimate study of the fresh-water fishes of Europe, later the subject of one of his important works, began with his first' collection from the Lake of Mo rat. . ; As a - boy he amused himself also with all ' kinds of handicrafts on a small scale. The carpenter, the cob bler, the tailor were then as much de veloped in him as the naturalist. In Swiss villages it. was the habit in those days for the tradespeople" to go from house to house in their different vaca tions. The shoemaker came two or three times a year with all his mate rials, and made shoes for the whole family by the. day; the tailor came to fit them for garments .which he made in the house; the cooper arrived before the vintage to repair old barrels and hogsheads or to make new ones, and to replace wern-out hoops; in short, to fit up. the cellar for the coming sea-' son. '".'-:'.:'-"' Agassiz seems to have profited by these lessons as much as by those he learned from' his father; and when a little fellow he cotfldcut and put to gether a well-fltting pair of shoes for his sisters' dolls, was no bad tailor, and could make a miniature barrel that was perfectly water-tight He remembered these trivial facts as a valuable part of his incidental edu cation. He said he owed much of his dexterity in manipulation to the train ing of eye and hand gained in these childish plays. INCONSIDERATE FRIENDS. They Did Not Do Things Bxactly to Snit the Borrower. Eben Rawles was the town borrower. The position would seem to most per sons to be one which would deprive the Incumbent of the right to find fault, but Eben took a. different view of it "It beats all how long it takes some folks to read the newspapers," he said discontentedly one day to an Idle list ener. "Now there are the John Pot ters; a well-meaning family as ever lived, but they're downright thought less. Why, again and again when I step In for their paper first thing In the morning, they won't know where it is. Oftentimes I've waited as much as half an hour while they hunted up that paper, and then very likely there'd be one page missing, and nobody'd know just where it was. "They haven't got any system, that's the trouble with 'em. It's a large fam ily of different ages, and I suspect they portion off the paper In the evening, 'stead of keeping it all together and reading it one at a time. "I can manage better with their weeklies, for I told Mis' Potter I'd go right over Friday mornings soon as it came, and read it out on the porch. Then they could do what they were a mind with it afterward. "But I experience my greatest , trou ble with the magazines," said Mr. Rawles, sadly. "I pledge you my word It's been ten days after a magazine was out, time and again, before I've got a sight at it. They keep it to read aloud, the women folks , do. It's a dreadful wasteful habit, but I can't make any impression on 'em. And when I get it," and Mr. Rawles as sumed a stern expression, "It's ten to one if that youngest child hasn't been allowed to cut a picture out of it that Just spoils some advertising article. "To persons situated as I am all printed mater Is valuable, and I hate to see such tampering with it; but we all have our trials, and I suppose dis cipline is what we need." EUROPE'S HIGHEST RAILWAY. Roadbed and Track a Fantastic Plar of Turns and Loops. The Albula-Engadine line, opened for traffic recently in Switzerland, is de scribed by Emil Rueker, in Page's magazine, as the highest in Europe. The line traverses scenery of great beauty. By turns and loops and by the steepest gradient the track leads now above and below the highway, through the Bergunstein, famous for its gullies and rocks, to Bergun, 4,500 feet. Abruptly emerging from' rocky de files, the train passes Bergun, sur rounded by the giant Albula Dolo mites, Piz Rugnux, Piz d'Aela and the Albulahorn. During the last part of the panorama the railway follows the slopes of the mountains. Between Muot and Naz parts of the railway may be seen above, below and on each side, with its chain of viaducts, gal leries and bridges. It is almost impossible to follow the ; convolutions of the line as by three fold turns and loops it passes through tunnels suggestive of the St Gothard and the Brenner Railways. After as cending more than 1,300 feet the line reaches the entrance to the main tun- ; nel at Preda. The track is in its last part a fantastic play of turns and. loops, from which, by an easy ascent,, one reaches the pass of the Weissen berg and the Devil's valley, where the steep basin of rocks is crowned by the twin giants (Piz Giumells). Here the Albula chain is pierced by a tunnel more than three miles long, ; 6,175 feet above the sea and 3.900 feet under the Piz Giumells, passing the dividing ridge Detween xne waters oi. the Rhine and the Danube the high est standard railway track in Europe. Modest Request. The wit of the Irish is proverbial. and instances are not wanting to show that they have all their wits about . them in time- of danger. An Irish switchman . employed in the freight yards of a Western city was unlucky enough one day to get his left foot fastened in that death-trap known as a frog. A. Vigorous enon w nee himself failed. A freight-train was backing down upon him, not more than forty feet away. Quick as thought he whipped his knife out of his-pocket, opened it cut the folds of his shoestring with one sweep of the blade, jerked his foot out of the shoe, leaving the latter in the frog, and jumped to one side. He es caped death by a margin of less than a second. The freight superintendent, hearing of his narrow escape, called him into his office the next day. "Larry," he said, "you showed won derful presence of mind in an emer gency yesterday. I should like to do. something for you to show my appre ciation of it. What shall it be?" "Well, sor," responded Larry, scratching his head, "the shoe is as. good as iver. but the sthring's no good at all now. Ye might give me an ' ordher for a new pair av shoesthrings, . sor." ', -, Moved by Inspiration. ' President Remsen, of John Hopkins. University, who is one of the City Col lege alumni, tells this story of himself . and of James Godwin, who was for manv vears a tutor at his Alma Mater. Mr. Godwin asked young Remsen at recitation a Question m matnemancs which the latter was unable for the moment to answer. . . "Next," said the tutor, turning to the student who was to follow. Just . then, however, the answer came to- Remsen, who began to give it "You must be beside yourself," gen ially remarked Mr. Godwin. , There axe a good many laughs in the- personal column of the average news paper. : - ' ' ;