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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1902)
'Wiww'-' Bohemia Nugget IKMVAim ti HtCNItV, I'liullsfiera. COTTAGE GROVE ... OREGON. It Is easy to Induce the floating voter to make schooner trips. The. man who kicks himself for hav log made a fool of himself only adds Insult to Injury Clothe do not make tho man, but his tailor frequently gives him nn expeu- alvo appearance. Nobody can hlamo Gen. Miles for wonting to havo a chance occasionally to do something to earn his salary. Th rouncor Mrs. Vnndcrbllt has not ns jet been deprived of the privilege of employing her motiier-in-iaw s m maker. J Tboso who are satisfied with wtiat they havo accomplished will never be come famous for what mey migiu m compllth. Under the new code of railway eti quette It will, of course, be Improper for tho conductor to punch a passen ger' ticket. . J. Plcrnont Morgan has taken a $12.- r.00.000 mortcaco on Chill. There nre only a few back counties left for Mr. Morgan to acquire Tho man who wcjirs on chip on his ihoulder nnd the woman who wears song-bird feathers In her hat both lack something of good taste In dress. Blshow Fowler says there Is no life so conducive to laziness as the minis try. Still, moat of the ministers seem to overcome the tired feeling sufficient ly to wrlto books between times. The distressing news comes from At lanta that a youngster of that city swallowed a ping-pong ball and the physicians had to work several hours before the game could be resumed. Secretary Hay has recently Induced a man not to publish a book on the Boer war. It has heretofore been sup posed that nothing could arrest that disease once It got Into a man's sys tem. The Boston Herald thinks that refer Power Is the partner of tbo person who picked a peck of pickled peppers. A reporter called at the Power house to ask about this but was unable to find Mr. Power In. A newspaper man who saw a good deal of Prince Henry of Prussia puts the cap-sheaf on all the eulogies by saying that the prince Is the kind of follow with whom one could Tcry pleasnntly spend six months alone on a desert Island. That Is the supreme and llnul aest of character for prince or peasant, whether a man "wears well." Pneumonia claimed ten thousand four hundred and eighty victims In New York City last year, yet pneumo nia la classed as a preventable dis ease. It Is to prevention that modern lanltary science now devotes Iteslf. If Havana can be purified from the seeds of yellow fever by evtermlnatlng the mosquitoes, why cannot New York anil the other great cities bo srvept clean of pneumonia germs? Nearly twenty-flve hundred students assisted In a single year Is the record of Andrew Carnegie's noble gift to the Scotch universities, as given In the Brat annual report of the trustees of the fund. One who knows the privations which poor Scottish students will en dure for the sake of an education will bo prepared to accept the statement of the trustees that the remission of fees has proved to be the greatest boon to a long list of deserving students. It seems impossible for the average American to Indulge In any sport In moderation. Excess or nothing seems to bo the rule. It was so with roller skating and will be so with other forms of amusement Wheeling may come In again after many years, but it will never rage again. Most of those who use the wheel now do It as a mat ter of convenience In business and not for pleasure. People of means are tak. Ing up the automobile, and soon racing will be the madness of thousands for a time. When the health of the driv ers shall be affected and the cost and annoyance of accidents shall become serious that sport will In Its turn de cline. It Is said that the Influence of the cooking schools Is already being felt In domestic life, and that the standard of living, or at least of cooking, Is much higher because of these modern Institutions. Formerly the school girl ate, or was told to eat, what was set before her, and grumblings of a gas Ironomlcal nature were not tolerated. But now the young girl looks with a critical eye upon the cook's prepare, tlons, and sbo knows tho reason why wheu these do not turn out well. Through her tho family has lost much of Its pathetic dependence upon the professional cook, and a cookless con dition Is robbed of halt Its terrors when thcro U an amateur of no mean ability within tbo family circle. And tbo effect upon tho pupil herself Is most beneficial, for only one who has grown brain-weary of figures and dates knows the delight of mixing up actual Ingredients and awaiting ma terial results. It Is also much to be hoped that the training of amateur cooks will cause those who consider themselves professionals to look to their laurels and to gtvo over the hit-or-tnlss methods of cooking, which Bo oftea decide If our day Bball bo fretful sod aniloos or Joyous sod gay. With higher culinary Ideals the men tal and spiritual development of man ought to bo assured. Speaking of the disturbance tbo Itus slan students are making, the Pall Mall Gaxctto remarks: "After all, It la tho younger generation knocking at tho door, und If the door la not opened It stands a good chance of being 1 kicked In." Tho misslnn police, In other words, nro wrestling with tho Incorrigible. No doubt tho police would sooner deal with Anarchists or Nihilists, whoso heads they could bat tcr nnd whose lives they could shorten without exciting tho animosity of nny one except tho professional ICIng-ktll or; but the gentlemen nt St. Peters burg say to tho police: "(Jo nhendl Put down that rebellion!" nnd tho police must cither obey or resign. Tho sever ity of their tnsk may be understood by Imagining the police of Cnmbrldge and of New Haven trying to suppress tho Indignation of the students at Ynls nnd Harvard and at ltadrlllTe. In ad dltlon. For wo read that tho young women of tho Itusslan universities arc as eager for reform ns arc tho young men, nnd that they suffer Just ns much In their eagerness. Now It Is an ex traordinarily serious thing for any government to be openly at war with Its young men and young women with the younger generation. In a spirit of fun or In n moment of reck less enthusiasm our own college stu dents may lightly mock somo munici pal ordinance; but as for defying the police, and through them the ottlctals of the government, nud as for being Hogged Into submission and bundled Into Jail by the score that's a matter of darker hue. It scorns that nil those who represent Itusslan youth In the arts nnd the sciences nro In n state of sedition. We fancy that Nicholas nnd bis coadjutors nro not giving all their attention to the Mauchurlan question. The younger generation Is inflamma ble, and liusln l foolish to be Indif ferent to that fact The congestion of population In cities Is not peculiar to this country alone, though It Is probably more marked here than elsewhere. It has prevailed In Croat Britain, but has been less no ticeable on the continent. It Is Inter esting to observe that It Is most preva lent generally speaking, where com mercial and Industrial activity pre vails. The growth of the German capl- tal, Berlin, for one example, hns been exceptionally rapid for the continent since German industrial activity set In within recent years. Until a dozen or fifteen years ago It was rather a sleepy city, even after the consolida tion of the empire, but by 1000 It had advanced to 1.S43.00O population and stood fourth among the world's cities, I.oudon, New York and Paris outrank ing it and Chicago pressing close be hind it I!eeutly a new census has been taken and it now numbers 1,001,- KrtT ahnwlnc pmirth nt thf. rnta r,f about 30.000 per year. This rate has r..i i ucen surpassed in umcago and no i doubt this city now ranks fourth In the world. It Is a curious fact that of the four cities of the world the pop ulation lu each of which exceeds 2, 000,000 two are In the United States, the youngest In the list of considera ble nations. One might think it acci dental In some way, but It Is also true that the United States are the only one of tho world's nations that has more than one city of more than 1,000,000 population. The last census gave us three and In equity Bhould nave given us four, for the populous suburbs clus tered closely about Boston are as truly Boston as the Back Bay and Beacon street regions themselves. Within a radius of twenty-five miles around the capltol on Beacon hill there must be considerably more than 2,000,000. The development of street railway lines has checked the congestion or rather spread It over wider space for each city, and that together with the "good roads" movement, will tend to send a return flow from the urban Into the rural regions, but It will remain that urban growth will attend Industrial activity and the grave and abiding problem will continue to be how to keep It as nearly healthful as possible. How She liaised the Fee. A poor couple living In the Emerald Isle went to the priest for marrlago and were met with a demand for the marriage fee. It was not forthcoming. Both the consenting parties were rich In love and In their prospects, but des titute of financial resources. The fath er was obdurate. "No money; no mar riage." "Give me lave, your rlverence," said the blushing bride, "to go and get the money." It was given, and she stepped forth on the delicate mission of raising a marriage fee out of pure nothing. After a short Interval she returned with the urn of money and the ceremony was completed to the satisfaction of all. When the parting was taking place the newly made wife seemed a little un easy. "Anything on your mind, Catherine?" said tbo father. "Well, your rlverence, I would like to know If this marriage could not be spoiled now?" "Certainly not, Catherine. No man can put you asunder." 'Could you not do It yerself, father? Could you not spoil the marriage?" 'No, no, Catherine. You are past me now. I have nothing more to do with your marriage." "That olses me mind," said Cather ine, "and God bless your rlverence. There's the ticket for your hat I picked It up In tho lobby and pawned It" London Tit-Bits, Naming tho Child. Now, necessarily, when tho new girl baby arrived there was much discus sion among the members of tbo fam ily as to what ber name should be. "Wo will call her 'Geraldlne,' " said the first irrandmother. "I nw timi name In a story once, and always ... wanted to try It on a baby." "Oh," murmured the second grand mother, "that would never do. Let us call her 'Fancbon.' " "But don't you think 'Eltessa' Is a pretty name, and bo odd, too?" put In ono of the aunts. "Excuse me, ladles," ventured the poor father, who sat nearby, "but you seem to forgot that we are trying to find a namn for a human being, and not for a five-cent cigar." Baltlmoro American. Decrease or Illrds. Systematic Inquiries Into the present condition of bird life In Missouri bring to light the surprising discovery that within tho last flttcon years Insectivor ous birds havo decreased 02 per cent aud game birds 80 per cent. DO NOT HEAD DICKENS FEW YOUNQ PEOPLE KNOW HIS FAMOUS CHARACTERS. Hipenalre Iltnatrated Kd It lone of HI Novila An Still Kroiuently Culled Kor, but Cheap IM I lions, Which 1U token Popularity, a Drug on Market "The salo of tho works of Dickens has been gradually but surely dlinln lulling during the last ton or fifteen years," said n book dealer. "The fine ly liound editions nro, of course, still In fair demand by persons engaged In nssembllng libraries of their own, but tho cheap, popular editions havo for some yenrs been more or less of a drug on the market. Tho young people. even those who are omnivorous readers of fiction, scarcely ever ask for a book of Dickons. "1 re-read two or three of Dlckeus' books every year for tho fun of tho thing, and I know of plenty old fjiglcs of my age who do the same. The young people who fall to famlllarlzo themselves with Dickons deprive them selves of n lot of diversion. Tho Dick ens characters are around us every- wucre. Tnere are very few ihui or quaint eccentricities of human beings that Dickens didn't touch upon, and one who has these characters In the works of Dickens stored away In his mind scarcely ever gets through a day that he doesn't meet up with some body or other lu the flesh who rcvalls some corresponding or similar type In Dickens. Who, for Instance, doesn't know auy number of Mlcawbors. who. like tho original of tbo species, nre al ways watting for something to turn up? Haven't we all been thrown Into contact with numerous Dick Swivel lers? Hasn't every one of us with nny experience In the game of life met aud loathed at least one Pecksniff? Haven't we all been Imposed upon and bored by a Chadband? And yet. If you mention the name of one of these wonderfully portrayed characters of Dickens In the presence of a roomful of young iooplo of to-day It Is 5 to 1 that they will stare at you and wonder what you aro driving at. Just try It on and see If I am not right I'll Just mention an example of this. My slster-lu-law, a quiet el derly woman, was humorously describ ing at dinner a few evenings ago the garrulousness of a trained nurse whom she bad employed a short time before. There were eight young men and wom- eV B , , f. and all of them considered pretty well educated for their years, at the table. " That nurse must have been Salrey Gamp reincarnated,' said my sister-in-law. In concluding ber narration. "Well, the middle-aged and elderly folk at the table all chuckled at the comparison, of course, but every one of those eight young people looked blank ly at my sister-in-law, plainly wouder Ing what In the world she meant. " 'Who was Sarah Gamp?' finally asked one of the young women. "My ststcr-ln-law, realizing the utter hopelessness of endeavoring to draw n 1 proper portrayal of Sarah Onmp for 1 the benefit of persons who had never become acquainted with that amiable character, was forced to recommend the young woman to read 'Martli Chuzzlowlt' The young womnn sol emnly made a note of It, and she got the book from me the next day. con fesslng that she had never rend a soli tary work of Dickens from cover to cover. She found Dickens so dull, she said! And I have heard many young people of the present generation say the same thing that Dickens seemed stupid and prosy to them. How they can say such n thing, much less expe rience the feeling. Is quite beyond me. "Thackeray, too, perhaps a keener, If less mellow, writer of fiction than Dickens, Is sadly neglected these days. There Is little or no call for bis books. The uprising generation seem to have no Interest whatever In Thackeray. They all know about Becky Sharpo be cause a play written about that demi rep has been produced In recent years, but they appear to know no more about Arthur Pendennis, or Capt. Cos tigan or Barry Lyndon, or even Henry Esmond, than they do about the char acters In the mystery plays of the mid dle ages. "If the young people were to devote themselves as assiduously to Dickens and Thackeray as they do to the bal derdash which seems to form their mental staple," concluded the book dealer, according to the Washington Star, "they would develop Into better men and women for It" THE BIQ FI8H THAT HE LOST. A California Klaherman Declarea It Waa a Giant Btrlbed IJaaa. John George, a fisherman of Point San Quentln, Cat., was given a battle for bis life the other day by a giant fish, which he declared was a striped bass. The fish overturned bis boat and George would have been drowned had not help arrived. Goorge dragged bis net for bass near San Quentln point on a recent morn ing. When be commenced to haul bis catch aboard his heavy salmon boat he found that be bad captured a giant bass. For moro than an hour ho club bed and galled tho monster, aud at last succeeded in getting a ropo through Its gills. He then started to row bis catch to the wharf. After he had gone a short dlstanco the fish revived and In its desperate efforts to free Itself the boat was orer- ! turned and lu 0CCUPant thrown into r41 . A tit n ftt wi 4 11laVAa ilm the water. Charles Allison, tho agent at San Quentln, saw the fisherman's peril, and procuring a boat went to tho rescue, George nnd Allison inndo every effort to right tho former's boat or tow it ashore, but owing to tho current they failed, and nt Inst wero comjielled to cut tho floundering fish Ioohs In order to save the boat nnd nets. George, who Is one of tho bint-known fishermen on tho hay, says the Sail Francisco Call, Insists that tbo Im mense fish vx n striped bass. A Tcniclilnic Tribute, "The most touching compliment I ever received," remarked a well-known soprano, tbo other day, "was paid to me by a poor old woman, who must have amused those who heard hw. 1 bad sung two olos nt tho evening service of a fashionable church, after which I boarded a car. Tho old wom an, whose clothes Indicated great pov erty, got In and sat down beside nie. her face fairly shining with pleasure us she recognized nie. '"Imdy, I wiuit to tell you how I likes your voice,' she exclaimed In rath er broken English. 'It goes right to my heart, and makes me so happy, Just ns If I'd heard the angels sing, t thank you.' "Of courso I thanked her, but tho funny part was when tho oouductor came for our fares. Tho old lady counted out ten pennies before I could pass over my nickel. " Twol Twol' she said to him, as she nodded t me. "I wants to, lady, for I likes your voice so much; 1 Ilkeei your voice. "So, while 1 felt that perhaps the poor old soul could 111 spare her extra pontiles, 1 let her make tho sacrifice because of the evident pleasure It gave her. and no compliment 1 ever revolved has touched me more deeply thnu her oft repeated words, 'I likes your voice." " THE SINGING VOICE. The !teat Hulea for KeeVlna It In (loo.l Condition. Tho greatest choir In tho world Is said (and wo believe with truth) to bo that nttaehed to n monastery at SI. Petersburg, erected In honor of Alex ander Nevskl, patron saint of ltussla. It consists of about thirty monks, cho sen from the boat voices In all tho Kits slan monasteries. It is really worth a Journey to St. Petersburg to hear that choir slug. .V contemporary speaking of them announces that they believe that the eating of carrots has much to do with sustaining the strength and sweetness of their voices, Omit singers are of ten great cranks. A list filling n col umn might bo mnde of the things which they have credited with having a title effect upon their voices; nnd the list would be very contradictory, somo warning others against what their equals have commended. If It lie true that carrots tend to make such sing era ns these or to Improve voices, there aro many reasons why tho fact should ho inndo known In this country, where from the climate or other cauies volooi are undergoing an unfavorable modifi cation. Hoally line bassos nre dllllcult to find, nud n great musical authority affirms that tenors aro growing scarce. If this continues predominant voices will bo of the class which n oor, Iti nerant woman whose husband was a good singer but very Ill-tempered, tried tu describe. Being asked whether his voice was tenor or bass, she answered: lie says it Is barytone, but at homo it Is bcar-l-tone." The best diet for the voice Is that which keeps the di gestion perfect and all the organs nnd muscles employed tu respiration unin cumbered. Ttiey In. It does me good to see a smart Aleck get the worst of It." said the communicative conductor to the man on the back platform. "There were two of them on my car yesterday, nnd their game was to scare people Into thinking that they were Just recover ing from smallpox. They talked loud ly about It fur tho benefit of the other passengers, unci the more nervous ones, especially the women, liogiui to grow apprehensive. " 'Yes,' said one, 'my case wus a pretty bad one, the doctors said.' " 'So was mine," replied the other fellow. 'It seems good to get out of tho .Municipal Hospital, doesn't It?' " "That's what It does.' said tho first one. "Sitting next to them was a man who had been taking It all In. At this point ho leaned over and said: " "Say, when did you follows get outr " 'Only yesterday.' loudly remarked one of the khhlers. " 'Is that so,' exclaimed the man. 'So did I. What ward were you In?' "Well, say, those fellows Jumped off the car as though It had been struck by lightning, and you couldn't see their heels for dust." Very Peculiar. "That Miss Bradlsh Is one of the most peculiar girls I ever saw. She and I met in Loudon last winter, and we've been very good friends ever since until a couple of weeks ago. Now she barely speaks to me. 1 can't account for It. We were tulklng one evening about clever 'women. We both agreed that tal ented women aro seldom beautiful." "You proliably made some remark that sbo didn't like." "No; I was careful about that, and sho showed no sign of her unaccount- ahlo coldness until I asked her whether, If she could havo her choice, sho would prefer to bo talented or beautiful. Shu never answered the question, nud hns been different toward mo over since. Most peculiar girl I ever saw!" Totems and Mascoltes. Tbo totems cherished by some of the Indian trllx-s suggest tho French mas- cotte. A "totem Is the generic word for n class of material objects which a savage regards with superstitious awe, under the belief thnt between him nnd every member of tho class there exists an Intimate relation. Tho to tem may be u wolf, a beaver, n buffa lo, a salmon, a snake, the wind, birch hark, the leaves of trees, thu sun or the snow. But whatever It happens to be, tho connection between It and Its protege Is mutually beneficial. Tho to tem protects tho mnu, and tho man testifies his esteem for his protection by not killing It should It bo un ani mal, nnd not destroying It should it bo a plant. The I'luoky Ilaboon. One day a German traveler and his companions while In Abyssinia fell In with a band of baboons In a valley. Tho npes all hurried away before the travelers, all except a poor sickly crea ture, which sat upon a rock and howled and trembled with fear. Tho dogs of tho travelers made a rush for tho spot but before they could reach It an old baboon darted down tho hillside, pick ed up its poor companion from under tbo very noses of the dogs, who scatter ed rather than fight tho newcomer, aud carried it off. Hypocrites pay cream uud llvo skim milk. VALUE Or A VACA1I0N. Br fun, J. n. foralrr. We hear a itrent ileal of talk about the value of a va cation "vacation" tirliig lined lu the eiisn of 'Molnir nothing." I don't believe III that kind nt a vacation. I think that the Itrent majority of utilities and pro fessional men do HON lt. KtmAKrn. rl1' ,l'lr greatest pleasure troin keeping busy. If a man Is In good health the ki-Tiiote of a vacation aliould renter nrouiul the inliiil. The Ideal vacation Is the one that rests and Improve ilic ralnj at the same time. Now tho best thlna; for mental rest It a chance of acene. I apeak, of course, of myself now, hut every man niut rliooat for himself his own plnn of recreation. What would le a very aKreeahlo occupa tion for one might prove very stupid and fatiguing to another of opposite tempera incut and tastes. The successful or hopeful nan ho I Interested In his luislness gets real stim ulus from that business. He get teal enjoyment from It. Obviously, unless he runs his system down, all he needs I s change of Kerne. The man who take good care of himself, has the proper amount of sleep and Is not run down, hits no pooial need for physical recupera tion. A change of scene and air will freshen him and have the effect of mak ing hi in see life from a new vlewpolut. C0URIS LIKE SLOT MACHINES. Or Caresre 3. Dttra. There are a good many tricks In the legal profession. Some people Imagine that the law a made by wise men for the pur poc of dealing out Justice to all men alike, but there never was a greater mistake. The law furnishes no remedy for the poor. lou cannot get into court In the first place without money, and once you get in. you certainly won't get out with any money. 'Pie lawyer will arc to that, but you'll get Justice if vou par enough for It. There U no commodity that 1 know of that Is regulated so much by what you pay for It as justice. I don't mean by that that you can get a great deal of justice for a great deal of money, but j oil w ill get very little Justice for a little money. The courts arc like a nlckel-ln-tlie slot machine you nut your money In and await results. Suppose a poor man gets III legs cut off by a street car. The rich never get their legs cut off, because they ran afford to wait and let the car get out of the way. Tho first thing the poor man has to do Is to hunt up a lawyer who will take his rase for one leg, or half a leg, according to agreement. Then the money Is dropped In the slot and the man sits down to wait. If he Is lucky his case may come op In two years. It may take three or four, hut I have known Instances when It did not require more than two year. The case is tried In the Circuit or Superior Court, and. If the plaintiff reciirers the price of hi legs, the matter goes to the Appellate Court. The function of that court is to pas Judgment on what the other court has done, and the poor man's case may he reached In two years. Of courso It will then go to the Supreme Court, unless the man lose, and It will take another year there. If everything I HE WROTE BET BOLT. Dr. Knicllah Waa Poet, Ductor, Law jcr and Leiclslator. Dr. Thomas Dunn Kngllsh, who died at his home In Newark, N. J., recently led a versatile career, being a poet. physician, lawyer, editor and leglala- tor. He was of Quaker ancestry Hie family uame originally being Augelos-nnd he was born In Phil adelphia lu 1N10. Ho began bis liter ary career as a writer for the Phil adelphla press un. t. l. Exausii. ...I...., UB wn. 0ir 1" years old. Iu 1839 ho was gradu ated In medicine nt the University of Pennsylvania, but after a short prac tleo he turned his attention to law, and was admitted to the bar In 1841. In the following year he wroto the fa mous song, Ben Bolt, which enjoyed nlinmcnsepopularlty.and which came gain into vogue a few years ago, when Do Maurler revived It In his Trilby, wrongfully using Is as nn old Kngllsh poem. Singular to say. Dr. Kngllsh re garded It as a scrappy piece of work. nnd wo bcllovo at one time regretted having written It. For n time Dr. Kngllsh was connect ed with n New York paper, and then launched the Arlstedenn In Philadel phia, It was short-lived, and Dr. Kng llsh went ti Virginia, where ho lived five years, and where ho wrote a novel depicting southern life. In 18A0 bo settled In New Jersey nnd began tho practice of medicine. He also entered Into politics, nnd sat In tbo New Jer sey Legislature In 1803(H. Those among whom ho dwelt thought so much of him that they sent him to Congress two terms. Meanwhile Dr. Kngllsh kept his pen busy, and turned out several volumes, besides writing pamphlets and essays. It Is safe to sny that of all he wrote Ben Holt will bo tho longest remem bered. COST OF ROYAL VI8IT8. Klne of Italy nnd Iintperor William I.enat Kxpenalvcnf (1 nests, Tho big reccptlou given to Prluco Henry of Prussia by the United States makes it Interesting to learn that tho most economical royal visit a country ran hnve Is tbo King of Italy, Tho (icriimu Knipcror Is also an economical guest, as ho docs not euro much for uivro show, (llvo him somo soldiers to look ut nnd a revluw nnd It Is all he wants. It has been estimated that a private host can entertain the Kmperor for n week In tho very best stylo for tho Hilling sum of 1,000. Leopold of Belgium Is nn expensive visitor. To entertain him nnd his sulto for a week costs no less than 1,000, Tbo last tluio J8l Ifdr IM nf HI W HOP . Lft f", W I ? 1, running smoothly the man stands a rhance of recovering for his legs In about Ave years. It he is not dead before that time. Then, when he divide with 111 lawyer, after having existed (lie year without lielng aide to work, I want to know where he come in, In the matter of Justice. Take my advice, and don't try to get Justice; you aro better off without It, unless, of course, you have plenty of money. CUBAN GOYTHNMENI'S OI'I'OR I UNITY. Br (ten. teonarif Huoif. I lie Culiaii gov ernment will have I lie finest opportu nity to show what they can do that any -opl have erer had before them. They come mm a government with $.-,iHI.(HS) in It treasury and with it people loyal and law abiding, who will do all they can to support l.sirads Palma and his cabinet. The income of the Island Is fully equal to It financial demands at this lime, and I believe the Cubans will keep " so. I think they are capable of govern ing themselves now, and It I a certainty that If they fail It will not he lieeause they did not have the opportunity to how what they could do. The people are depending upou the I'nlted Slates giving them a market for their two prin cipal crops, augar and tobacco, and they have every reason to eipect that till government will give them the relief. WUE'S SHARE IN HUSBAND'S INCOME. Br Hrt. Km. rJ rtrlmufft. The married woman ha a right to a certain pro;rtlon of her huihaiid' mouey. When he glvet It to her he la not grant ing her a privilege, but aekuo.l edging a claim. The amount that should come to the wife inuat. of coure, Im decided by circum stance. Though the husband may pay the butcher and groeer, the milliner and tho dressmaker, he should not run into the blunder of fancying that hi wife has no call for any money beyond the occa sional dlino or quarter ho grants her. There la convincing testimony that the majority of women have to nik their husband for spending money, or hyKtii ecate their household account lu order to get It. I know one Ideal husband who has never In a married life of thirty year obliged hit wife to go to hi in for money. There la a certain drawer In her desk where he place what he can afford to let her have every week. 'Hie drawer I never allowi-d to get empty. More over, he nrter asks her to account for a rent of It. That man ahoilld have a halo for his dally wear. Plenty of other husband make a household allowance, or even a dre al the Shah came to Kuglnnd It cnt -0,0011 to entertain him for a week. and there wns not "much doing nt that. The little visit of the Czar of France cost the republic a pretty penny. Spe cial messengers were sent to Invito him nt a cost of 1,000. and 10.000 was expended In cleaning up Dunkirk, where ho was to land, nnd putting It In a presentablo shape. The govern inent erected triumphal arches nt a coat of 10,000, ond spent 1,000 for flags. Then there wero 5,000 picked troops to be got ready, besides tho reg ular review troops. Tbeso picked troops wero specially trained, drilled and quartered for over six weeks at a cost of '-'0.000, and twenty-five mili tary bands were put down In tho estl mate at a cost for food nnd extra ex penses at 2,f00. The naval review held for the delectation of thu Czar cost f.W.OOO. tho Item for coal nlouo being 20.000. In saluting, powder to the value of fli.000 wns burned, nnd the cost of guarding tho Czar was es tlmated at 10,000. On bousing and feeding him and his suite the sum of 1S,000 wns spent, and there wns an extra appropriation of 10,000 for "sun drios."-M. A. P. IN HI8 WOODEN LEO Wa Ponnd B,00O After the Junk Dealer tiled. For twenty-five years Gideon Mason, a Junk dealer of Trenton, carried his savings around lu hi wooden leg, aud when ho died he was worth ;ift,000 In cash, Mason lost his leg lu a railroad accident years ago. Ho never would tell whence ho cume. Ho hud known better days, ho said, and rum hud caused his downfall. When ho was able to get out on crotches ho took the pledge. Friends bought him a wooden leg uud a push cart, gave him n few dollars, und be begun buying and sell ing Junk. Musou prospered. When tho first wooden leg was worn out Mason appenred with ono of his own manu facture. It was very clumsy, bulging at the top. During tbo past six years Mason was accompanied on his rounds by n dog thnt was equipped with a wooden leg mnde by Mason, to take tho placo of ono It hnd lost. Tho dog and the man wcro Inseparable. Mason was found stretched on bis bed, dead, tho other day. Tho county physician found a cavity lu Mason's wooden leg, In which wero concealed a will, $15,000 In bills, nnd the pledge he had taken and kept for twenty-five years. Tho will was hcllographlc; It set asldo n certain amount to pay tho expense of a burial, and provided for the caro of tho dog as long as bo should llvo, gavo $3,000 to a friend, und tho residue to bo spent In buying artificial limbs for worthy cripples In Mercer County. Two days after tho death of Mason tho dog was found dead on the gravo of Kb master. In accordanco with Macon's . I . ' III II l lll .. I. ' or.N. woo li. lownnee, to their wives. But many mora dole out what they think will bo needed, and apparently Imagine that their wives can get what change they need in aotuii mysterious, unexplained fashion, with out baling resort to the ordinary money unking means. If women wcro not long suffering crea tures there would have been uu organised revolt long ago. No man haa a right to submit Ills wife to the humiliation aha must often undergo when she la obliged to decline to make small contribution lu church or club, because she lias not tho ready money. Hlit may have an ac count lu halt a iloten shop. Her cloth ing may be the envy of her friend, her homo may be finely appointed, but wheu It come to a call for a chance quartet or halt dollar ah ha not th cash lu hand, Let tlin husband, at auy rate, giro tliei wife a chance to prove whether or not he Is to lie trusted with money. Them aro few women who are unworthy of having the charge of their owu spending money. As a rule, they are quite a careful a their husband III the matter of ina!l expenses, ami have a horror of hill that I ottru uiikuowu to tho lord of creation, NILDS 01 THE nTcRoT Br Buolrr T. tfaisfm run. Negroes should bo taught that their aalvatlon la In learning to own and cultivate Intelligently ind skillfully the soil. Agricul tural will prove our salvation, nd the race should he slow to abandon the farm. Just now arge proportion of the race needs that education which will make the youth re turn to the farm and produce fifty bmh els of corn where only twenty-llvo grew before, rather than yield to tile tempta tion to go to the city and attempt to live by their wits. For lUVl yeara the negro was worked. What he wants to learn now I to work. I'or ono to learn that work I honorable and to bo Idle I dis honorable la at the foundation of civil isation. It Is not the negro who has been prop erly trained In hand, head ami heart who commit crime. It I the Ignorant, shiftless negro who haa no regular occu pation, who ha not learned to love labor and who dors not own a home who Is usually the criminal. When a man be come the owner of a plooe of land and a decent house and haa a bank account, he lieromos, I notice, at once a conserva tive, law-abiding cltltrn. CHI AT COURT 01 PUBLIC OPINION. Bf W. BourAe Cocaran. The modern newspaper lu col leiing the new assembles the rivtllird world in mass meeting every day to consider the evi-uts of unusual Importance that have occurred In the preceding twen-tj-foiir hours. When the news paper undertakes to do more than collect the news. It become Intrusive. Whrn It misrepresents the news. It Is disloyal. When It fall short of collecting the new. It I Inelllelent. The great court of public opinion, with all the fact be fore It, Is abundantly able to reach It own conclusion, and Ita judgments are Irrevocable and irresistible. The newspaper that attempt to fore stall them or control them fall, and brings discredit upon Itself. The .'cws paper that records them becomes an effective Instrument In enforcing tlieui. The moral of all this I that the new paper that collects the news assiduously and publishes It faithfully I performing a function of the hlghctt Importance to civilisation. wish, ei pressed In his will, the dog was burled at his feet Newark News. i:ipuslvo Coronations. It may In of Interest to point out at this tluio thnt the moat expensive cor onation on record was that of the pres ent Czar of Itusala. Upward of $15,. 000.000 was spent by tho government alone, nnd fully another f5.000.000 by tho public authorities of various Itus slan towns. Tho representatives of other powers view with each other In lavish outlays, uud, counting tho sums spent by other persona, tbo coronation of Nicholas II. cannot havo cost much less thnu XL'.-i.OOO.OOO. Tho coronation of Czar Nicholas I, was also n very expensive affair. Tho then Duku of Dovoiishlro was tho Brit ish representative, and he spent fully $150,000 of his own mouey In connec tion with It. Tho coronation of Oeorgo IV. wns tho most expensive In British nnnnls, nnd this cost only $1,250,000. Of this amount $125,O0'l was expended on tho coronation robe nnd $223,000 on tho crown. Tho cost of tho coronation of Oeorga III. did not nmount to hnlf that of the coronation of (leorgo IV. Tho wholo coat of tho coronation of William IV. amounted to only $150,000, and that of Queen Victoria to $.130,000. Two-Tlioinuiul-Vear Hentenon. To bo sentenced to an Imprisonment for tho term of one's natural llfo Is hard enough, but to bo consigned to n dungeon for a couplo of thousnnd years Is Indeed harrowing. Yet for eign Judges not Infrequently Imposo sentences of several centuries without It being considered anything remark ulilo. A young mnu wns nrrestcd In Vienna n couplo of years ngo who, upon his own showing, should havo been sen tenced to two thousund llvo hundred yours' Imprisonment. A total of four hundred charges was brought against him, und ho wns convicted nnd sen- tciiced on all of them. But tho Judiro was u merciful man, nnd In passim: sentence ho throw off ono thousund years In consideration of tho man's youth. millions Llvo on the Ooean. Thg population of tho ocean Is esti mated at a.000,000. That Is to sny, 'the number of sailors nud others whoso business Is on tho high seas equals tho Inhabitants of tho thirteen original col onies. Last year moro than ono-slxth of this ocean population, or to be moro oxnet, 050,000, oftlccra and men, of i,3ia vessels, entered the port of New York. Trees on Western Prulrlna. In somo of tho Wostoru priilrlca trocs aro now being plautcd for shade, pro tcctlon and beauty, In areas of various sizes up to hundreds of ucres. Bccauso a man's wife Is Jealous of 111 in. It doesn't follow that ho Is a fa vorlto wltb tbo women.