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ENTERPRISE. OREGON '
The cry has been changed to "retaw
the Maine."
Some peopie pat filth In the grtyaai
fcog tradition simyly because It la so
A Pennsylvania butcher Is "puttin
a dog" because he majjnfactnrad
eausage Cfry-eeren feet locg.
"dub women ere talkiag too much."
ttU Chicago lecturer. What doos be
tMrir ft VOCUZ'l dob is for?
"Hie children of a wmitty old man
always feel m?i1 whra he marries
woman yocnyr than himself.
There Is reason to b'teve that 180
12 show remarkable falling off to
the practice of night riding la Teo-
Once there was a great surgeon who
fe-It rare he could gt along without
his colon. His acttriiies have coma to
full stop.
Paderewakt while performing la
New Tori. split the call on one of hla
fingers. Onr dispatch does not say
what harrnl to the piano.
Little concern is feit over what the
(peHing reformers will do next. They
can't accomplish anything more tragic
than the mangling of poor "through."
to bins was oas tong-drawB-oet aprss
t getting rich, and there newer was a
Boralng-aftar headache; he Mm lost
money- This contrast la human nature
has a striking example right In the
Sage family. The wealth Rosses work
ed so long snd hard to accumulate af
fords pleasure to his wife only aa she
fires It away, which she is doing with
a laTtehsess nerer equalled by any oth
er woman, and only surpassed by a few
men of greater wealth.
The girl la Waco. Texas, who hugged
a teacher so hard that she fractured
three of her ribs will always hare
plenty of admirers among the opposite
ex.
A Nashville editor wants to know If
we shall all fiy soon. Not on your
life. There are tens of thousands who
prefer to remain at home and face the
music
Professor Zuebltn has discovered that
the fire departments In this country
are the best, while our building laws
are the worst. Seems to be a case of
cause and effect
Carrie Nation has been lined In Eng
land for spoiling cigarettes. If she
would start out to pull down a few
hideous signboards eren she might be
ble to secure a measure of public
sympathy.
A Baltimore professor has lnventad a
BJercury telescope by means of which
tie expects to make It possible for us
to see the people on Mars. What we
need Is some kind of an Instrument
that will enable us to see ourselTes
as the Martians may be seeing us at
this moment
Dr. Clarence W. Wasaam In a reeetu
study of the salary loan business In
New York City, tells the story of a
clerk who, during a period of sickness
In his family, borrowed twenty-four
dollars, rurther borrowing, renewals.
Interest and collection fees dragged him
deeper and deeper, until wtthln two
years what he had paid out and what
he still owed In return for a hundred
and fifty dollars amounted to eight
hundred dollars. The loan shark al
lures his Tictlos by crafty advertis
me&ss. Els capital is little, his profits
are great, and his losses are a!ight be
cause of the honesty or timidity of the
average man In a tight place. The
extortion can be stopped. The Supreme
Court of Massachusetts has lately up
held the State law which makes invalid
any assignment of wages without the
written consent of the employer and
the wife of the employe. But the surest
way to oust the loan shark Is to make
legitimate prorislon for the need which
he fills, the need of the small borrower
of personal Integrity. In some Euro
pean countries sarin? and credit
unions hare nourished for fifty years.
In lta!y alone such unions, a species of
co-operative bank, hare a membership
of three hundred and fifty thousand.
The thrifty and fortunate profit to rea
sonable extent by their neighbors'
needs. The man temporarily down bor
rows at low rates, and la helped to his
feet. Instead of being pushed deeper
Into the hole. In a Canadian town of
seren thousand persons a people's bank.
started eight years ago. has drtren
from the town three loan sharks, who
were then doing business there. The
laws of sereral Btatea permit co-oper-atlre
banks. For various reasons wide
adrantage has not been taken of these
enabling laws. Building and loan asso
ciations which adrance money on real
estate are numerous and successful.
But the little borrower is still at the
mercy of the unscrupulous loan office.
The esteemed Washington Herald
rises to claim that ham grary Is the
best The editor of the esteemed Her
ald doubtless nerer ate thickened
grary with steak that was fried In a
big skillet orer a bed of coals In a fire
place. This holds first place among
cravies, as apple pie does among pies.
Hereafter the steamship companies
bringing Immigrants to America mnn
prorlde about seren cubic yards of air
space for each person. The object of
this rule, which was lately enacted Into
law by Congress. Is to prevent the orer
crowding of the steerage and the conse
quent danger to the health of those who
hare to trarel In "that part of the
ship.
Few of the roanTpr rrnmirirn t
wj o -""uii icar
toe that It was not until after the Clrll
War that a transcontinental phI!mii
was built, and It became possible to
go Dy ran rrom New York to San Fran-
x-reousiy me journey was dlffl
cult but not autre an Inn?
ous as that which a German lieutenant
is mating by automobile from Dar-es-
Balaam In German East Africa to
Bwakopmunde In German Southwest
Arnca. He started In August. 19W.
ana in December of last year had
eacnea Johannesburg.
It is said that of those who armiii
for aid under the British old-age pen
sions act which went Into effect Jan
uary 1st nine-tenths were unable to
sign their names. If this Is so It u
striking proof that Ignorance and In
digence go together. Of similar iimwt
was the argument of a recent essay on
we conditions of labor In England. The
writer, not unsympathetic, rnnk
that "multitude of Incompetents who
can tnemseires the unemployed." That
does not tell the whole storr of tv
for lndlrldual good men haT hard luck!
ana Da a times overtake the best But
on the whole, the competent man sue-eeds.
You doubtless remember that BussoII
Sage, when allre, had a reputation for
stinginess, and believe that he didn't
hare much fun in life. Eating an ap
ple for lunch, wearing straw hat two
seasons, and a suit of clothes until It
wore out doesn't appeal to many peo
ple, with or without money, as a part
of a good time. But when yon re
member how many definitions there are
foe a good time. It seems possible that
Bustell Sage's life was one continual
round of pleasure. What appeals to
you may not suit your friend. The
man who admires grand opera may
corn the enthusiasm of the football
fan. Russell Sage, perhaps, had no
hobby but making money. If this be
true, ft was, doubtless, because he en
Joyed nuking money and taring ft. Life
Dateetlaar TaWi-raloala.
In a previous article was noted the
difficulty of an early diagnosis of con
sumption, and It was shown how nec
essary such a diagnosis la. since upon
it depends. In many Instances, ability
to cure the disease. It was stated also
that the old way of detecting consump
tion, still used commonly in the case
of cattle, had been superseded by other
and simpler methods. One of these
methods Is that called the "ophthalmo
reaction." because the test is made In
the eye. It la also called the Calmette
or Wolff Eisner test because It was de-
rlsed about the same time by the one
In France and the other In Germany.
It consists In the Instillation of a
drop of dilute tuberculin Into one eye.
ir the subject of the test Is entirely
free from tuberculosis, nothing follows ;
but If he suffers from the disease, eren
In Its very beginnings, the eye will,
after a few days, become a little red,
and perhaps very slightly Inflamed.
Another mode of employing tuber
culin is called the "cuti-reaetlon" or
cutaneous test It was devised by a
wennese physician, and Is made as
follows: The delicate skin on the In
side of the forearm Is carefully cleansed
with soap and water, and then with
ether. Then a drop of tuberculin is
placed on the skin, and the arm Is
scarified as in raccinatlon, first In a
dry part, then In the center of the
drop of tuberculin. At the end of one
or two days. If the subject has lnciDl
ent tuberculosis, a small pimple comes
at the place vaccinated with the tuber
culin, but not at the other point which
was scarified at the same time. The
skin for a short distance surrounding
tne pimpie may be more or less red
dened, and sometimes there are several
pimples Instead of one.
A simplification of this cutaneous
test Is what has been called the ner-
cutaneouB test This consists In merely
rubbing the tuberculin on the skin,
either the undiluted substance, or an
ointment made of equal parts of tuber
culin and lanolin. When the reaction Is
positive, that is to say. when the sub
ject Is in the early stage of tubercu
losis, the anointing hi followed within
two dsys by an eruption on the arm
of a number of small plmpies, which
itch more or less, and are usually sur
rounded by an area of reddish or
purplish skin. Ater ten days or two
weeks the eruption gradually disap
pears. None of these tests Is absolutely per
fect for sometimes a reaction occurs
when there is no tuberculosis. The two
skin tests are about equal as regards
reliability. The eye test, although fair
ly accurate, is beginning to be thought
dangerous, and will probably soon be
abandoned In favor of one or the other
of the absolutely safe akin testa.
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FOLIC Om.CE KEEDS EXPERTS.
By Prof. A. Lawrence Lowe I L
The administration of a great city cannot
be conducted efficiently and at the same time
be kept in touch with public needs without a
combination of the expert and the representa
tive of outside opinion, and the relation that
ought to exist between these two Is plain. The
current management and the initiative in the
main ought to lie with the expert but be
ought to work under the constant oversight
and control of non-professional men. (
Such a relation has grown up spontaneously in onr
great con. mere ial and educational bodies. In the presi
dent and directors of a railroad or a bank. In the pres
ident and trustees of a university or college, for exam
ple, and It could be introduced Into almost any form of
city government for it Is not Inconsistent either with the
plan of boards of commissioners or with that of a may
efs cabinet
In order to set up the proper relation between the
expert and the non-professional representative of the
public It is not necessary to prescribe their duties by
law, but to make the distinction between them perfectly
clear, and that distinction must be based upon the essen
tial diffeience In the functions to be performed.
The expert Is expected to make his public work his
eareer. He should devote his whole time to It receive
a liberal salary and be protected from remoral except
for cause. The non-professional Is not to manage bis
department but to see that It la properly managed. He
ought not to be expected to give a great deal of his time
to It ought to be paid nothing, or a much lower salary
than the expert and ought to give an account of his
stewardship by coming up for reappointment or election
at fixed lnterrala.
1IEJ SLAVES TO THEIR WIVES.
By Lilian Bell.
Slarery has not been entirely abolished In
the United States. There are slaves in plenty
who cannot be rescued by any federal or State
law relative to peonage. We eren know these
slaves, yon and I, yet possibly we do not rec
ognize them as such until we know their home
life. Then we know that these slaves, all
big, strong men, are the slaves of little, round,
soft pink-and-whlte women, their wives, who
hold their husbands In bondage by an assumed helpless
ness which causes men who are Its victims to wriggle
with delight and women who are compelled to observe
It to go out and hit something.
But before yon get too irritated at the spectacle of
the abject slarery to which a small, flufly woman can
reduce a 800-pound man, who bullies his clerks and
swears at his office boy, stop and think how she does It
and why. snd you will soon calm down. She weeps .f
he crosses her. pretends sickness If be reproves her, .
plays dead If he scolds her; she can't do a thing foi
herself; slit- runs him into debt fistters him Into a way
of life beyond bis means and keeps him her slave by
making blm believe he is the whole thing and that she
couldn't live without him. So that far from being an
object nf universal pity, the husband who Is a slave Is
often tin most gullible creature In existence with a
vanity It is a sin not to subvert and a conceit which It
becomes a crime cot to utilize.
gome men are so supreme in their own estimation
that not only their own wires but even the wayfaring
woman, hurrying to get home, cannot resist the temp
tation to jtfack him In passing, it Is so easy to snatch a
perquisite by an lnerttable tribute to what be knows Is
true of himself. In other words, many of the soalled
easy marks among men are not merely big hearted, good
natured brothers. They are often men of such sublime
egotism that a COO-pound woman could faint In the arms
of one such, and he would half kill himself trying to
carry her all alone because she had often told him his
touch was so grntle and so different from that of most
men.
sjurs Hour blasts.
Tanlas Xmtmrn Colli b Ike wij
Dont fool w,
sin. It is safer t
step on a lire wh
Unless tsthtr
walk Is as good u
his talk be
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OTJR RATIONAL LOSS TROTS. FIRE.
By Samuel H. Adams.
We bear much. In this peaceful country,
about Germany's burden of militarism. Well,
our national bonfire would pay for the
Kaiser's whole army maintenance and leave
a surplus annually of twenty millions for a
fireworks fund wherewith to appease our PJ
romanlac appetite. If Germany Is oppressed
by wars and the rumor of wars, how much
more sorely la the United States oppressed by
fire and the evils that attend It I And the worst of It
is that this loss. In great part Is needless and super
fluous; Incredibly and Idiotically stupid and short-eghted.
Europe prores much. No nation there but would be
appalled at such a fire bill as ours. In the forty-five
principal cities of Europe there Is less than one fire an
nually (.86. to be exact) to every thousand Inhabitants,
In this country we maintain a general arerage of four
and a half fires per thousand persona The per capita
loss by fi&mes In Italy la 12 cents yearly; In Germany,
49 cents; In thirty of the largest European cities, 61
cents, and in 252 American cities the per capita destruc
tion arerages S3J0. Boston, In many respects the moat
scentiflcally administered and municipally progressive
city In this country, bas a yearly bill of a million and
a half dollars from loss by burning. The European city
of equal size gets along with one-tenth of that sacrifice.
Our debit side of the fire ledger sums up a heavier total
than tho combined losses of any other six civilized na
tions in the world. Nothing this side of the sun equals
us for combustion. Everybody'a
few of us know It
until after they are gone.
Mercy la lore at work.
Truth Is the light that gives life.
The deril bas a school teacher In
every man who swears.
It takes something more than ksg
hair and whiskers to make a saint
The character of truth Is always in
dorsed with "thus salth the Lord."
God bas ordained that no one shi!)
do wrong and find happiness In It
It Is easier to bend a sawlog than It
Is to make an old man change his wiy.
Before you get Into the hopper, Uk
a good look at the grist that la coming
out
In the sight of God there is no differ
ence between being wrong and doing
wrong.
Bas any one ever starred because be
got a stone rrom tne Lara when be
asked for bread?
Better be suspicious of the way thst
begins with roses and seems to n
straight to paradise.
Many a woman finds that It maks
her neighbor s house loot better t
wash her own windows.
BTAT.rwa Uf GBEirSLAXX).
tevberara Lemd Ptctareaqaaaaaa a
Hutm Go Forth in Kru-
Sealing in Greenland Is both ardous
and sportive, the latter compensating
the hunters for the hardships which
they endure year In and year out for
that Is their principal Industry. Men
of sereral nations, mostly northern
and including the Japanese, are regu
larly in the chase for seals In Green
land and other arctic waters. The
Greenland hunters take to the waters
stir In a chair like that Its legs would
creak and groan and It would go down
with me on It In a heap.
"Why is this, do you suppose? I
am not a restless person. 1 dont
twist and turn and fidget in a chair,
and yet no chair seems to stay togeth
er If I once begin to use. I soon sit
through a cane seated chair, and I
hare in time splintered seats of re
neer. "If I use any particular rocking
chair for long I start the back away
from the arms, and If I sit In an arm-
SPECTACLES EH0"W DUST.
Slaibtca Mam Moat Aware of
Floo Particles la Air.
"No matter where you lire and how
erer high In the air you always find
dust settling on everything every
where, but," said the nearsighted man,
"If you want to realize this fact you
should wear spectacles and work at
some employment that requires con-
TEE KOTORKLN'S TROUBLES
With a quick, strong shore of the
brake-lever the motonnan brought bis
car to a stop. The woman on the ed
of the track Just ahead, who had beta
trying to cross, backed off, and In spits
of his motions, refused to budge. H
clanged bis gong, got the signal to
start, and put on the power again.
"One thing la true," the lootonmn
said to the passenger on the platform,
"men don't do that It's only wonus.
Did you see what she did?"
"No." said the passenger. "I didrt
notice her till you stopped."
"Didn't you? She was beginning t
cross the street when we passed the
last street way back there. I saw her,
and she saw me, and I thought that
she saw I sow her. Anyway, I slowed
up to give her a chance- besides, I'm
ahead of time, two minutes. Thes
when I get near, she stops, and looks
up, and refuses to move. I have t
(stop because I can't tell which wiy
she's likely to go."
"Women don't understand mechan
ical things," said the passenger.
"Praps not There's one, womia
lives In town," he Jerked his thumb to
Indicate the direction. "She used to
take my car when I was ou the old
slant benillnr over
"Fourteen times a day. or as much !route every moroln8- The rePular
oftener as you look, you will find your iWaB on the 80nth 8lde of tte ?
street Just as regular as the clock,
she'd stand on the north side.
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FLEET OF KAYAKS IN -UtCTIC WATERS.
in kayaks and us a fleet of these odd
little canoes strikes out from the bar
ren shores they present a stirring ap
pearance. Lending to the plcturesqueness of
the sight are the Icebergs of various
Bhapes and sizes, more or less a men
ace to the hunters.
BREAKS ALL HIS mrn
Bela
Mr. Throa-arletoa J aot Cmmt
It, Thoaarat Bo Trio.
"Some men are hard on clothes. It
is my misfortune." said Mr. Throggle
ton. "to be hard on chairs."
"And I as aot so heary either. I
only weigh about 173. but somehow I
always wreck sooner or later all the
chairs I sit in. I seem to bare some
sort of sag or twist or something in
the way which I sit In a chair that
makes me, eren when 1 think I am sit
ting nicely and quietly, break or start
something.
"Of course. I nerer think of sitting
down at all in a Chippendale or Louis
XVI. or any other sort of slender,
iplderiergvd cbalr. because for me
"urn s chair might as well be mount-e-1
on broom splints. Men heavier
'ban I could sit In such chairs and
rnnybe tip back in them without doing
Cintage; but if I should so much aa
chair I work the arms loose; and any
sort of a chair that I sit In for any
length of time I am sure to start it at
all Its points so that it gets weary
and wlggly ; and I am likely to spread
a leg or two so that the rungs may
drop out at that end.
"Honest Injun. I don't know why
It la, but I certainly do seem to be
hard on chairs."
Aaeieat Art.
The freight-paying end of the mat
rimonial combine had been trying to
read his paper for an boor, but was
frequently interrupted by his wife's
remarks. Finally be gave It up.
"I wish," he said, "that I posseaaed
the knowledge of the ancient Egyptians.-
"Why?" queried his better halt
"Judging from the mummies I hare
seen," be replied, "they understood the
art of -making a woman dry up and
stay dried up."
FroMotlaa? tao Glad KxBrowrtoa.
"Have you done anything to make
Ufe more cheerful V asked the optimist
"Have you helped anybody to smlier
"I should say so, I bare helped more
people to smile than anybody else In
the neighborhood. I'm a deiitlat"
Washington Star.
glasses covered with fine particles of
dust Maybe you don't look, and then
maybe some bigger particle, some
speck that Is by comparison a verita
ble boulder of dust .settles there
square In your line of vision, where
It may not. obstruct your sight but
where it cannot fall to arrest your at
tention. And then when you take
them off to remove the boulder you
find your glasses covered with dust In
finer particles, as you would find them
indeed, however often you might look!
"Over such an area as that of De
troit, for instance, there are tons of
dust floating In the air, as, perhaps
without figuring out Its weight, many
people, such as housewives and store
keepers, are aware; but perhaps no
body Is reminded of this so constant
ly as the man who wears spectacles
and who bends orer at his work, and
.on whose glasses, where It is ever be
fore him. dust ks constantly settling."
Detroit Free Pres.
As rarellablo Doar.
"Come right on In, Sambo," the farm
er called out "He won't hurt you.
Ion know a barking dog nerer bites."
"Sure, boss, ah knows dat," replied
the cautious colored man, "but ab don't
know how soon he's going to stop bark
IdV Success Magazine.
"First time I kind of slowed down,
and motioned to her, and she ran along.
I heard she reported me far not let
ting her get on, and making ber follow
to the post Mind yon, she did. the
same thing every day. I got to watch
out for her, and I used to try to be
half a minute ahead of time so as to
make up for It For all I know, lb
does It still."
The passenger was silent a moment
"Do women get off backwards much?
he asked.
"Not on this end of the car." said
the driver, grimly. "I scare 'em too
much. One tried it on me once. I said,
"Danger, ma'am'.' In a loud voice, and
she jumped back as If she'd stepped on
a live wire. Hello, there's my friendt
Wonder what Bile's doing op here. And
she's on the wrong side of tbe street,
too."
He stopped the car by the signal
post, and waited patiently for her to
catch np.
"Some'll never learn," he said, wear
ily. ..
Queer Poataase Scales.
An old negro had gone to a postof
flce In MIsHlswIppl and offered for the
mail a letter that was over tbe weight
specified for a single stamp. "This h
too heavy," said the the postmaster.
"You will have to put another stamp
on It" The old darky's eyes widened
in astonishment "Will anudder stamj
make It any lighter, boss?" he askedv
Buffalo Commercial.
The Price of ProBcleatr.
"Doctor." growled the patient. It
seems to me that five hundred dollar
Is a big charge for that oiteratlon of
mine. It didn't take you over half
minute."
"My dear sir," replied the fanocs
specialist, "in learning to perform thst
operation In half a minute, I bars
spoiled over eleven pecks of such eye
at yours." Success Magazine.
Aa Aaaaaidea.
Time A year after they had fsd
the parson together.
"When you were first married J00
said you thought heaven bad sent y
to me," remarked his wife, "Do V
still think so?"
"Tea os a punishment" answered
he brutal other half of the combine.
The IaCaat Terrlblo.
"I never told lies when 1 was a lltfls
girl, Gladys."
"When ud you begin, then, mammaf