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FARMERS ARE RETIRING. Maa W(eru Anrioul(urlt Ar Eb- Joying the Fruit of Recent Prosperous Year. The Nebraska towns are filling up with farmers who have retired from agricultural pursuits to take life at ease and educate their children, says a re cent Lincoln report. Prosperity has prevailed on the farms for five or six years, and the farmers of the west are showing their philosoph ical view of life by retiring before they are too old to njoy the truita of their toil. None of them are rich in the metro politan sense of the term. They don't leel themselves rich. All they have is a competence , but their tuny lite away trom the temptations of 'the town has taught them irugaiity and they have no particular desire to put oa stjls. Usual ly when they come to town they go out to some modest suburb where the price of property is low. They spend ?2,000 or $3,000 for a houses and lot, lb; things up comfortably end tcjoy Hums-Elves. Their wants are easily saii.lhd. They have not the theater-going habit nor the society habit; they have learned how to get what they think is good out of life with out indulging in many cf its frivolities. .Measured by their ambitions and their a;:U th;y are as well oil' as any mil-, iior.airc possibly better. They have enough and are satisfied. It is possible for a farmer to retire on a much smaller amount than mont lAen who have investments in other classes of property. A merchant may pet out of active life but leave his money in his store without feeling that it is .-;:.. Banks, to-'), may fall, and the I-n."! of stocks is liable to fluctuate. It is di He rent with the farm. Nebraska ;iul lms a very rtabie valt i pr.nic'.y cays cor In be -I:- s. To-c.z-- it U hi.-h, ', ar.a -;ld f: bur. i even r fair r. i. f.oct. arv'i-l is is a iai'S'e vir.;.- !- f.-surcd; snil if the avd pri.-tc ure good there :lg n. for ! ; i;t:ie armers w;:o fc: a lit::: . -i-f-'-r to stick to " . ki.'e. lci:g".r are the i.rni d- trail . tlKir r .r i;M-r : r:ifii cf ? : ..! t-t r '. : i'r r" !. tr.vners h:i e sen: rurtil ; s i -v :-re ;i n i, fr .; i to ri r::l :" ' r' ?: ! ;,i;.s and i Out in sou new wheat. Kl 1 h on. s:i ovvri-i' frou; tar. whir.' specula i ors :".'' forri'- vy. ; sires. Th'. short grass coar.tr;.- walluv:..! in Li.? crops this y.var, and thirc- is scarcely an; rcr.f-i rimer.', lar.d if ft in that section o; ithvr Kr-rsc? or Nthraskn. II: al estate V.ff-rits hf i- been runnirg harvest excur sions ir.to the country ar.d r.rii'-atc-liuyiiig is now a feature of the business, whole parties cf emigTP.nts from eastern states being landed and settkd in the same neighborhood on newly purchased land3. NATIONS IN THE MAKING. War Enter Tery Ltirirely Into the Formation of a New Country. According to the astronomers, there was fierce conflict of forces in chaos be lore the worlds were thrown off from the nebular mass; and then there were :-.vny a mad flight through space ...:d frequent collisions before the force gravi:y set the planets moving in '.heir respective orbits. On a small r ale, natural forces are still at work f ringing about a stable political equilibrium on this planet. '.'l.anc? and war, chiefly war, have snrown tojierhrr groups of people with i:;;ii;.e i mux states the Youth's Companion. Wherever the interests con ilict, their effort to get along together succeeds but indifferently, or fails alto gether. The most recent example of failure is the break-up of the republic of Co lombia, which occurred when the people in the department of Panama decided that they would submit no longer to neg lect by the central government, a neglect of which the rejection of the canal treaty was only the culminating inci dent The struggle is still going on in Austria-Hungary, where two nations, dif fering in race, are trying to live under one government. The emperor-king is able to keep his empire together only bv making frequent concessions to th? N'agyars. His consent, in November. o the larger use of the Hungarian lan guage in the army was forced from him at the price of breaking the deadlock which had left Hungpry without a min istry for several months. Germany has a similar problem, al though the issue there is the proper re lation of the various stafs to the cen tral government. Uavaria has resent ed the Interference of the tmrcror In its local affairs with so much vigor that the imperial chancellor has thought It wise to announce that the kalfer does not desire greater centralization of au thority. The British empire Is a vast nebular mass, which is to be held together until It solidifies into a homogeneous unit Mr. Chamberlain fears that it is in dan ger of flying to pieces unless the force of gravity, operating through self-Interest, ran be made to bind the colonies to the mother country. MISCELLANEOUS ITEHS. The municipal expense of New York are approximately $100,000,000 a year. Of 23,000 children placed in familiea by the Children's Aid society, only 60 have been arrested and sent to reform schools. While London has- 47 telephones per 10,000 inhabitant, Paris.71; New York, 150, and San Francisco, 706, Stockholm reaches the figure of 980. Berlin has its first female barbers the wife and daughter of a hair dresser. In Bohemia, Hungary and. Scandinavia there are many women barbers. In the year ending April 1, 1900, Ber lin imported from Italy 50 ear loads of cherries, 357 of table grapes, 245 of summer fruits, etc. In the following 12 months the business doubled. A Leipsic physician expresses the opinion that on account of their deli cate sense of touch blind persons are specially qualified for practicing mas sage. In Japan this is done very largely. In the cler.r atmosphere the other day Bostonians could see from Bos ton two mountains, Wachusett and Monadnock that i, those Bostonians who took the trouble to climb Mount Bellevue, West Hoxbury, could. If all the reports that have reached the police within the past few days are true, diamond stealing by serv ants has reached the proportion of a mania in New York. Three young women employed in as many fashion able homes in the up-town section are now under arrest on this charge. A Vermont town supports two pa pers whi'-h live in friendly discord. The Herald printed a meaningless item about one S'laets S. V.'f-iicht, a Syrian, and the News corded it. without the formality of giving credit. Gleefully the Herald now poir. ts out that the j fictitious Syrian's name spelled back- ward proclaims the truth, well known j locally that "the News steals." ! WOMAN A PESSIMIST. After a Certain .e Tartar Faeea) Show Signs of Mental Worry and DUlreM.' The average woman is a dyed-in-the-wool pessimist. Almost every woman over 30 years of age looks distressed. Her brows are bent, her mouth drawn into a tight line, and there are deep furrows down her cheeks. She looks exactly as if sire were considering how to provide a dinner for 25 cents that will satisfy twenty-five small children, when in reality she may have nothing1 more serious on her mind than buying & pair of socks for George. No wonder women grow old faster than men, for they hug their worries to them and let them show in their faces. There was once an elderly servant who was superstitious to a degree and who always expected the worst to happen. TM she find a needle on the floor, did a ph-ture fall in the house or a bird fly into one of the rooms, she was intr.ntly plun;red into woe. "We're iroir.sr to have a Vip-r of bp--1 1:cl;!" she would say. and then brM be lachrvnose until sonic on h"d the tootbnebe or the cows cfot into ib" r-crn. when she would e."n--i.v.' t' ' demon luck ex orcised or sctiifitd for a time and row as cheerful rs it wn hr habit to be. Poni" ,r i-ncf p'krd her if she did not hnv nnv yood-lnck signs. "Why, certn'nly." she replied, "but hey don't count! don't believe in the good-luck ones," which, by the by, is thoroughly characteristic of the sex. Here is a woman who suffers suf fers is the word from insomnia. "I can't imagine why 1 don't sleep," she says to her friend. "I'm sleepy ns anything when 1 go upstairs, but then T bpirin to wonder if my son Arthur, who travel for a drug firm, is on a train, and in a minute T sef him just as plainly bleeding and mangled in a wrp'k. When T decide that he is really dead, I think of John, and worry because he hasn't a better position. Then Molly comes into my mind, and I feel sure thnt one of her children must be ill. T feel so blue about her. I fret over Lucy's throat a bit then, and by this time I'm wide awake. It's the strangest thing! I don't understand why I should b so wakeful!" Her physician does, however, and now he's prescribing for her a course of cheerfulness and of "looking for the best." Tt's a medicine that most women need their faces show it but there are few who are sensible enough to take it. Dearth Canard by MoaqnMn. ifosquitoes are now charged with communicating- erysipelas as well as malaria and vellow ferer. A New York physician has issued a death j certificate in the case of a 14 months' j old babe, in which he says "Death was caused by erysipelas due to the bite of a mosquito." It is only fair to the mosquito to record that the board of health officers refused to accept the certificate until a coro ner's physician had investigated and concluded that there was no other apparent cause for the death than Uie mosquito bite. Youth's Companion. ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. The OrlhoBiapkU Chaoi In Wbteb the oflrlleh Umgnact la Involved Some Notable Illustration. We are weltering in an orthographic chaos in which a multitude of sign are represented by the same sound and a multitude of sound by the same sign, says Harper's Magazine. Our race as a race has in consequence lost the phonetic sense. What can we hope for the orthoepy of a tongue in which, for ilustration, the short sound of e, found in let, is represented by ea in head, by eo in leopard, by ay in says, by ai in said, by el in heifer, and by a in many? Or of the correspondingly long sound given by us to the same vowel, which is repre sented by e in mete (to measure), by ea in meat (an article of food), or by ee in the verb to meet; and furthermore by i in machine, by le in believe, by el in re ceive, by eo in people, and by ae In aegis? Or take the sound denoted by the digraph h, seen in ship. It is represented by ce In ocean, by ci In suspicion, by tl in nation, by xi in anxious, by sci in con science, and by s followed by u in sure. There is no object in heaping up further harrowing details, which, Indeed, could be multiplied Indefinitely. They have been introduced merely to show how hopeless is the prospect of attaining under such conditions a uniform stand ard of pronunciation which all will rec ognize at once, and to which all will un questioningly bow. WHAT A COOL SUMMER DOES. Ill Bfleets to the Entire Baalneea Com. inanity, Farmers Included Keeps Money from Circulating. A well known business man says that the ordinary' observer did not stop to consider what a cool summer meant to the entire business community, record ing to the Philadelphia Record. Said he: "It affects everything that depends upon trade fcr life. I have no doubt that the present slump in stocks is due in part to the ceo; summer, which has made the crops so uncertain. Let us start with the farmer. He has had poor luck with hi? corn, m-j'.oii?. and all kinds of truck. The merchants who sell summer clothing and all kinds of seasonable wear have harcly paid expenses; every seashore re sort h2s been running light. This means' go much money lost from circulation, and ail the mechanical trades and in dustries mu?t suffer. Of course, no one is to blame, and the only thing to do is to live and let live until a real hot sum mer come3 to push things along again." CHARITY FOR CRIPPLES. Unfortunates Aided by Society Curi ously Named "The Guild of the Brave Poor Thinsra." "The Guild of the Brave Poor Things" Is the curious nanfe adopted by a com pany of English charity workers, whose womanly efforts are being directed to ward the amelioration of the condition of cripples, young and old. The guild has recently acquired a country holiday home at North Com mon, Chaiicy, Sussex. It is called the Heritage, and was formally opened In June by the duchess of Bedford. 71 home is pictures iu-!y situated and v 1 1 i accommodate 5" gr.lid members men, women and chiUrvn some of whom will become permanent residents End others will bn taken from the various branches of the guild for short vacation periods. As soon as may be it is in tended to start a school of arts and crafts for the crippled and deformed in mates, and the work will be sold for their benefit The youngest pedagogue in Missouri, and perhaps in the Lnited States, is teaching a country shuol near Gaines ville, in the 0:arK mountains. He is o.fcun Harriton, aged 13 years, says the Kansas City Journal. Glenn is the old est son of Guy T. Harrison, a lawyer. He compie:ed the course of study of the Gainesville public schools in March, 1902. The same month he took the ex amination given candidates for third grade teachers' certificates in Ozark county, making a good average and se curing a certificate. He continued to study, and just after he became 13 years old he took the examination for a sec ond grade certificate. This time his av erage grade was the highest made, being 9C per cent. Mr. Harrison believed his promising son was loo young to teach and refused to let him accept several offers. But one day when his father waa absent attending court.,Glcnn took the job of teacher of a rural district, the di rectors of which came and offered him the place. He began work before his father returned, and the latter, finding him so ambitious, decided not to inter fere. Glenn now has 29 pupils. The ma jority are larger and older than he, bat he maintains a degree of discipline which many older and more experienced teach ers may well envy. "How are you iret ting along. Glenn?" asked his mother one day. when he came home at the end of a week's work. "I had to wnlp sev eral of the boys." the youngster replied It turned out that among others he had larruped an obstreperous youth that weighed 180 pounds. Glenn doesn weigh much more than half that A recornlsea Orecoai&at. autnorlty-The Weekij Atr Skip II a Wings. Chicago, July 30 Frank M. Mahan of Chicago, president of the Lingren lUtthau Fire Apparatus cunpiny, has decla'ed that in the near future he will start for Washington in an airship of his own make, ami that he will reach that citv within 10 hours. "I don't simply promise this," said Mahan. -Til do it. I have studied the aerial navigation prob'em for 16 vears and I have the solution beyond the per adventure of a doubt. I can make from 125 lo 150 .mles an hour in the airship I p,-op se to construct." The p ( fected airship will be a flving machine pure and simple. It will have win-is like thosn of a bird, and theoe wings will have tht sole motive power, though they w ll be worked by a gaso line engine. The fantbe'H of the wing on fowls of the air, .Mahan hhvf, am so Hrrrnred that prac'ic.l y mc.'i one has a specific p-irt to perform on its fiitht. In tb- wing? cf ;t fli-inir machine the invent r is t place vai'ei-i ho const runted that m the upward and dowi-vvaul strokes t been will In twn distinct tno'iDlH, a-t there i in tiiH li rd' win.: m vni!nt a littititf and ptop-llins.r power comh'ned. liiuudiumhiiiiuiiii Agetable Preparationfor As similating rite Food andBcgtila liitg the Stomachs andBowels of Promotes Digestion.Cheerfur ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral 1stotNarcotic. Jbope afOUU-SANUELPlKHER fonfJun Seed1' Alx-Smnm. Bi CttrbunaJe&dd CtmiluiSuggr MBUnymn. ftamt Aperfecl Remedy forConstipa fion , Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions Jeverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. SO. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. WSll i The Kind You Have inn m '"" 1 ' ... m , ill pmsT Rational Jank OF HEPPNEFi. KRE., .President KREA Vio PrefiirlenU Transact a General Bankincj - - SXCHANGE ON All PARTS OF Collectloiu mai'.eoii all pomtgon reasonable v-cr-. Mahan is an engineer known all over the United States. Forest Fires lu Ittaho. lioiye Idaho. July 28. Forest fires are raging in the White Pine regions of the Pierce City district and in the Clear water country. Three fires are also re ported fiom Lewifton and "it is stated that a total of 5,000 acres of timber is in danger of destruction. On the north fork of the C .earwater the state owns 30,000 acres of valuable pine land and State Land C mttiissiontr Munson is in Moscow securing a large force to aid in checking the spread of the flames. Half a Ton of Clothes. New York, July 30 J. Pierpont Mor gan is coming back from London with half a ton of clothes. To be more defi nite, I here are 127 suite. The average man hardly knows what he would do with 127 eui's, but Mr. Morgan likes to be well dresHed. He litees a muilii!icitv of suits, yet never befo'e has be come back fiom Europe with such an outfit. It would kt cp 150 men busv a vv ek snd taks c otb cowling $10100 to make the 127 suits. CITY. ! (i. V. t'ONHER Cnnhr E. L. FliEELAND. . Aomftn L'nhi-r Business. Four per cent. THE WORLD BOUGHT ANb 8()U) tor mi. Surplus and undivided profits :15.000. PLCE HOTEL fHEPPNER. OREGON Leading Eastern Oregon Hotel MODERN CONVENIENCES ELECTRIC LIGHTED . . . On.ler New Management. Thoroughly Renovated and Refiitted. Best Meals in the City. mil. METSCQAN, Jr, Prop. I Vnv Tnfanta srirl flrnlrlrfm. i-r-irm-n '"in i . .-rt-i : ii Hivinv.i uiiutiiii I Bears the A (signature y AAF IvJr For Over I Thirty Years 3mm mm TMf MNTAUM OMMNT. NEW VOKK