Bohemia Nugget IOWA III) 1IIIOWK, Puns. COTTAGE GROVE . . OREGON. 4Vj per cent In Inrgo sums nnd 6 per cent In small ones. There Is plenty of money offered nt these figures. Ye several "got-rlch-qulck" concerns, counting their victims by tlie thou sand, havo been exposed In New York, Chicago nml St. Itmls In n few weeks. Tlie "brokerage llrm" which promises Any old Inventor enn Invent wire aoo ,)cr wnt 1)niU by l)lUl(, ,)00i less telegraphy now, All praise to the venernblo Jurist who tins upheld (lie sanctity of our venill form appendix. Unfortunately Abdul llnmld turned his fnoe the other wny when he signed Hint ncccptnnee, SfiBceaassmsrea It lit nil right to hnve tho Kaiser think that his nary Is superior to out. so long as he doesn't set out to prove It. There would be fewer foolish tidies on the parlor ehnlrs if It had nut been for tho man who Invented tho sewing machine. Not since old mnn Woyler took hold n few months ngo has King Alfonso Indulged In the pleasure of boxing the ears of his ministers. Tho Sultan lms filed another of his fair, sweet promises, and the powers will now go about their ordinary af fairs, trying not to notice when bo breaks It. Some peoplo organise turf Invest ment companies and others unload common stock. There are all sorts of ways of separating the jilaln people from their savings. The escniwdo of Crown Princess Louise is said to have netted Professor (ilron f 100,000. This will cause a slight limp In the balance of trade lu the title-trading business. The ninn who Is snld to have taken his own life through love of rare books might have lived to a ripe old age had his love extended to the contents of the volumes he gathered. The Pittsburg Dispatch rises to ug gest that the best way to administer n shock to water Is to pass a genuine untl-trust law and enforce It. Why lias nobody thought of this before? i - The peoplo In this country may be a trifle crude and cause those of our for etgn representatives who arc taking to court dress to feel ashamed of us, but we fear they are too firmly '"sot" In their views to be moved. vestments has only knaves for owners and dupes for clients. .Mr. Yerkes now explains that he Is "not In Kuglaud to make money," but to "do something for London." In place of tljp word "for" read "to" and add to the first statement "for others" and you will have Mr. Yerkes' meaning clear. An examining physician of a boys' reform school lu Maryland says that If you cannot close your eyes and touch the tip of your nose with your finger quickly you nre.crazy or weak minded. Thank heaven! We have Just made the trial and have discovered our sanity. Washington- closed his farewell ad dress with the expression of a hope that on his retirement he might have "the sweet enjoyment of partaking the benign Influence of good laws under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy re ward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors and dangers." lie was not dis appointed, and those who have come after him have profited by his dangers, labors and cares. The farmer who reads of the great corporations that bear so important a part In the commercial and Industrial world of to-day Is very apt to think of himself as outside the pale of those who exert a controlling Influence on the community at large. And yet In this as sumption he Is far from the fact The time never was Jn the history of this country when the farmer occupied the prominent and Important position as concerns his relations to the city that ho occupies to-day. The city was never .more absolutely dependent upon the country than now, and the degree of that dependence Is steadily Increasing. The co-operative wedding present Is a new Idea In Great Iirltaln, where the fact that servants and tenants on es tates club together and send one hand some gift seems to have suggested to somebody that friends might do the same. Thus one of the January brides was presented with a diamond orna ment, and friends of a bridegroom uni ted to buy him an automobile. The American bride sometimes exchanges her duplicates; but that Is not always convenient, and It tends to provoke mis understandings. She, too, will rejoice If the new fashion spreads, so that, In stead of plcklc-dlshes and the like, she way look forward to something sub stantial, such as a house and lot. There are a lot of people In this world to take a fiendish delight lu be ing miserable and In making others feel that wny, too. Some men, ami sonic women, too, surround themselves with nn atmosphere of gloom that eter nal sunshluo couldn't dispel, nnd through this distorting medium mole hills grow to mountains and there nro tears and groans where there should be smiles. They wake up In the moru lug with a faco that looks like n sod den doughnut, nnd perhaps the sun Is bright and the birds are singing. They will grumble and say, "Oh, well, this won't hist: we'll have bad weather yet before night." And should the sky grow clouded and a refreshing rain moisten the thirsty earth, they shout In glee, "1 told you so." ' When they sit down to breakfast they almost sour the cream they put In the coffee, and the most tempting breakfast does them about as mueh good as a carpet tack sandwich would. They grow dyspep tic morose, pessimistic, cynical, hypo- choudrlacal and get to be downright nuisances. Maybe you have n cynic In your employ. You can spot him with your hands tied behind j-ou nnd your eyes shut. He has the blues with out reason. Is depressed without cause. from Monday morning till Saturday night. He will tell you that he always gets the worst of It from everybody, that his efforts arc not appreciated norjils talents recognized, and flu you full of a heap of nonsense like that, and. If you are not careful, you will begin to believe him and get that way yourself. After the cynic has been blue a certain length of time be reach es the brooding stage, nnd any man that broods over real or fancied wrongs Is as dangerous as "the lean and hungry Cnsslus." He Is not sane; the outside world Is mirrored through n faulty glass, and 09 times out of 100, he Is a poor workman, whether he digs a ditch or manages a big business. Why? Just because he thinks too much nbout what other people think of him and Is so afraid that somebody else Is going to be shown preferment over him that he hasn't time to do his work the way It ought to be done. He deliberately destroys his own effi ciency nnd chnnces of success, and the very misfortunes that he imagines will some day fall to his lot actually come to him and all through bis own doings. Then he goes about among his friends nnd snarls out his woes and worries, till every one begins to feel that the world would be better off without blm. If you ever get to feeling blue about things stop nnd think what It will mean If you keep It up, and then pin your mind so hard on your dally task that there Isn't room for another thing In your head. That's the way to keep the haunting spirit of pessimism nnd despondency out of your heart. And remember the world has no time to listen to your troubles, for every one has troubles of his own, ami the chances arc that a good many have a great deal heavier burden to bear than you have. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS N: Tho Passing of tho Ucartl. OTH1NO Is presently plainer In a world thnt loves Its little mysteries, mid likes to keep the observer In a state of tremulous sua iiense nlwut a good many things than tho fact that It Is beginning to shave again. It has always shaved, more or less, ever slow beards came lu somo fifty years ago, after n banishment of pearly two centuries. from nt least the Anglo-Saxon faco. . . . The flowing whiskers havo long vanished; the beard that once streamed meteor-like upon the wind now streams only from the cheeks and chins of rustic sages; the Imperial and the goatee are rarer than the mutton-chop whiskers; the squnrc- cut chin-board has ceased to be slcnltlenuf of our nation allty. It Is so Inadequate to our numbers; all other dots and dabs of hair upon the human countenance have liccn gnth erod continently Into the full beard, or have perished before the remorseless sweep of the razor. Hie gain of manly beauty through the fashion of clean-shaving, has not ns yet. It must lie confessed, been very great. Those who had not grown lioarris. of course remain ns they were. In their native plaluue: but It Is In the ease of those who had worn beards, that tlie revelations are sometimes frightful retreating chins, blublier Hps, silly mouths, brutal Jaws, fat and flabby nooks, which had lurked unsuspected In their hairy coverts uow appear, and shake the beholder with surprise and consternation. To our own taste, we think the average man looked better In bis board. It was natural, and it was rilgtrificd. It hid certain things, certain features, expressions, thnt were best hushed up. That smirk, that sensual pout thnt bulldog clinch, they were nil mercifully hidden or they wore nt least so much palliated that they remained n dark suspicion, nnd not this dreadful conviction with which they now millet the spectator. It ran tie said t,lint there Is a gain for honesty. If not beauty. In tho now fnstilon of sharing, nnd this cannot well be denied. Hut It apnea it that the Creator could uot tnist the human countenance to Itself, at least as It was given to men, nnd found It best to hush It up In a Jungle of hnlr. Women were fashioned to fair that they could be allowed to look what they really were, but with men It was another story. Harper's Weekly T: Mistakes in Modern School Methods. WO theories have wo-ked no end of mischief In the grnde-d schools of our cities. Ono Is the theory that oral Instruction Is superior to the old-fnshloucd study of books. This is at the bottom of most of the bad spelling which Is fast coming to bo a general defect. There are no rules for English orthography. A child canuot learn to spell by ear. The only possible wny to learn spelling Is thorough familiarity with tho appear nueo. not the sound, of the word. And so long ns correct spelling Is one of the commonest tests of education, It certainly seems as If every effort should be made to secure It In the schools. The othe.- theory Is that methods are more Important than results; that n child should be taught In a certain war. whether that way Is the nulckest and easiest or not The Important thing In education, and one would think that the veriest simpleton lould see it. Is that the child shall be able to read aloud correctly, to write a good band. to use the rules of arlthmetic'wlth ease and accuracy, to tell something of the countries of the earth on which lie lives and their history, nnd to speak and wrlto his own language without making any Serious mistakes. It should be obvious that this Is enough to occupy tho whole attention of the average child up to the age of twelve or thirteen, without any extraneous and ornamental studies. If school committees could be convinced of this fact, the path of tho overworked teacher would bo easier, children would be boiler trained, nnd the peoplo who innke their living by Inventing new wny of teaching those simple tilings would have to employ their fertile brains In somo other wny.-Wnshlugton Times. 11 ml Spelling. T ft f Ili:.V was the Inst spelling book published? lluvo l I ol,r youth outgrown the use of that orlco Import Vf nut text book? It would seem oftentimes, from U their Ignorance of the rules of spelling nnd their arrangement of the letters In wonls, that they disdained tho praetteo of good orthogiaphy. It Is nil very well to talk about some peoplo being natural spellers nnd somo being poor speller. There nro fault., of oar which are hard to overcome; but eye ran bo trained to correct these faults, and decent spelling, under nil circumstances, nt least from every graduate of the grammar grade, should tie demanded. It Is a fact of observation, explain It how you will, that pupils who have taken prizes for scholarship In grammar school of good standing cannot wrlto n letter free of blunders lu spelling; another fact, that pupils In high schools, remarkably well road for their years, arc guilty of gross errors lu spelling; still another that pupils who have tho wit nnd brains and stylo to wrlto a charming let ter, misspell abominably; nnd yet another, that boys seek ing entrance to colleges of first rank, able to pas examina tions In mathematics and science, spell nftcr tho fashion of "witch." Iloston Transcript. MACEDONIA'S STRUGGLE TOR LIBERTY. DN tho North American llovlow Charles Johnston, nn Ungllshuinn, wrltss most lnlr,-vtlngly of tho struggle of the Miiceilonliins for liberty, for years back every spring has seen lighting lu Macedonia, Willi tho disap pearance of tlie snow tliero come un opportunity for the Utilitarian pensnnt and immulnlnoois, who form li e bulk of the population, lo lake voligonnco on their oppressors, tlie Turkish soldiers and police. I'ntliil and small bands of soldiers are ambushed, men disappear among tho rave nnd forest of tho hills, villages nro attacked and burned nnd murder nrn common throughout the thioo province thnt constitute Mncedunln. Anarchy ha reigned throughout Macedonia for generations. Most of the n.tHKMHX) Macedonian, nro lliilgarlan Slav nnd (Ireek tjhrl tlan. In consequence llio l.tHHMHMl ltulgnilun subject of I'rllicu Ferdinand sympathize strongly with tho Macedonian. To effectuate till sympathy Macedonian committee exist In llulgarla. We henrd ninth of It during Miss Stone' nbductlon. The presiding gcnlu of these committee I Colonel Zuntohoir. li former ollloer. nnd an enthusiast with "all the zenlou readlne of martyrdom." Tin colonel has a hioso orgnnUallon throughout the threo provinces, These Macedonian branches nro center of icvoliill iry activity and nro supposed to have a rallying cenler in the religion cnmmunltle of Mount Athos. for the work of the Macedonian committee Is n much religious ns political. After mouths of organization Zonlchcff wn rondy to begin ncllvo opera tions nt the beginning of September, but the work wns a Utile too "coarse" nnd llulgarla as a nominal vassal of Turkey un compelled to arrest Ilia colonel, and there wns n momentary lull In the work of preparation. During the hitter part of September there wore nuiurrou armed band of Hub gnrhins lu Macedonia, and there were a number of saugullinry battles. To add to the chiio the Albanian of Mncodonla, fanatical Moslem; began tu mid tlie Christian villages, even lu Hervla, mid tho Turkish regular beside lighting the Christian luurrecllonlt bnd to subdue tho tierce Albanians. The dominant figure among tho Macedonian lluluartnn lu till fighting u Lieutenant Colonel JnnkolT. Three hundred battalion of Turkish regular occupied tlie disordered country. .laukoff Issued two stirring proclamations calling upon the Macedonian Christian to rise en masse. After considerable lighting nnd the stonily reinforcement of the Turks, the strength of tho latter nnd the approach of winter brought n degree of order, though with constant outrages by the Turkish soldiery. Itussla scorn to have done her best to avoid being rim wit Into tho war with Turkey for Macedonia. She did free the Macedonians In 1N7H, only to sco England nuri Austria forco them back under Turkish rule-Minneapolis Journal. RIVALRY 01 WLSIEIIN 10WNS. I Sontllo, Tncoma. Spoknne. Portland. American Extravagance. CONOMY In this country (the Vnlted States), nnd es. peclnlly on the Pacific const. Is almost disreputable. A man Is ashamed to acknowledge that ho walks to save car faro or orders a light lunch to save the ex pense of a heavy oue. Oua never finds California!! ordering ono portion of meat at n restnurnnt for two per throb with enterprise nnd rivalry. Nor sous even when they know that ono portion would bo enn they be called Ikioui town-uot more than enough for both. Tliero was n time, not very J now. Ton year ago they wore In long ngo, when people In Snn Francisco disdained to accept ihv very heyday of municipal intoxl change from n quarter of a dollar. cntlou, expanding In n most oxtraonll- To bo saving In the United States n mati must have nary manner; mid they were shortly moral courage. Tho man who refused to pay more than sorry for their excesses. Tho crlsl a reasonable nrlco for clothes, let us say, or for dinners, of ink! left them nil prostrate, their nnd who puts the money thus saved Into a bank, feels like rich men poor, pretentious building a thief; nnd people tnlk nnd net as though to save mono; half completed, nnd boom ndiiiiion to wcro In fnct to steal It. I town behind for taxo. I'nllko tho Only In extravagant America, howover, Is economy dls-; mushroom towns of early Kniuns, rouutable. Here, as some ono has written, where ono man however, they had genuine reason for I as good as another, he must be lavish of his money; being liclng, and n superb imturnl strength all sovereigns, we must be as prodigal as princes. Ilut lu that brought speedy convalescence, so Europe no one respects a mnn the less or treat him tho thnt today tho visitor find them rev worse for trying to live cheaply. People of wealth ami rllug In the full Joy of life. There I breeding do not disdain to practice llttlo economic In Ku- something Immensely nttrnctlvo lu the rope. They dare not to order a big dinner when thej' want pugnacity with which Kenttlo nil- only a light collation. They are not nfrald to travel sec- vniioc her tlno new shipyard, wiillo ond class or to put up at the quieter and less expensive Tiieomn counter with n low dcAlu rate first-class hotels. ami enormous wnent shipment, ami This extravagance with niouey Is n natural trait of rich Portland opens her batteries with an Iioople. nnd It would do less harm If only tho really rich uiicqualed fresh water harbor. Oue Americans displayed It. Ilut tho middle-class Americans, oon enters Into tho spirit of the mil ttrlvlnir to show themselves as cood as the millionaire mated imputation combat and climate countrymen, nre the most prodlgnl of all. and It I they . hattle and provnlonee-oferlino sklr lm whlln snendlne more tbnn their menu inadn reason, mlslies. With what enthusiasm Hpo- able, have created tho general opinion In P.uroiie that every kum'- acquiring n new flour mill, hurl American traveler Is an unspeakably opulent person to "Keij. . iniu i nn n rob whom Is the patriotic duty of every Kuropcau brlgnml that goes under the name of Inn-keeper, guide, merchant, servant or others of that Ilk. San Francisco Ilulletln. HE MADE A SNIPE TRAP. JUDGE PETER S. GROSSCUP. lie Granted an InjunctloaAgalnst the Uecf Trait. Judge Peter S. Urosscup, of Chicago, Is one of the powers of the Western Judiciary. He Is looked up to with re spect by the Inferior Jurists and his In terpretations of Federal laws as a Uni ted States Circuit Court Judge are ac cepted as authority. Hence his deci sion In the beef trust case Is Interest ing and Important. The packers had entered a demurrer. This was overruled by the Chicago Judge, who granted a temporary Injunction and renders this opinion: There can be no doubt that the agreement of the defendants to refrain from bidding against each other In the purchase of cattle Is combination In re- Ncvcr to prophesy unless one Is sure of his facts Is n good rule to follow. If the late Major D. II. Vinton hud follow ed this rule when he was sent to tho Pacific coast In 1810 the people of San Francisco would not now be laughing nt him. He said then In a report to his superiors that there were natural ob stacles to the growth and permanency of San Francisco as n commercial cen ter, and declared that no military depot ought to be erected there. Ho thought Itcnlcla, which now has, nbout thrco thousand population, would make a good port of entry, doubtless preferring It to San Francisco. It Is only fair to tho memory of Major Vinton to say that his colleagues In the army agreed With him. To the person who has a little money, who can Bavo a little more, uud who wishes to Increase his hoard us fast as safety will uermlt, these rules are commended by tho best financial ex perience: Dou't spend It; dou't lend It. Don't trust It to strangers without security. Don't Invest It to earn mora than 4 or 6 per cent. No amount of financial genius can Improve upon theso rules, or doos Improve upon them. Tho Wall street normal return from safe Investment Is 4 per cent. Many "gilt-edged" -stocks and bonds pay loss, yet are eagerly sought by tho shrewdest Investors. Ileal estato Mortgages In New York nro placed at JU1XJE l'ETtll S. OHOSSCIP. stralut of trade; so ul,o Is their agree ment to bid up prices to stimulate ship ments, Intending to cease from bidding when the shipments have arrived. "Tho same result follows when we turn to the combination of defendants to tlx prices upon nnd restrict the quan tities of meat shipped to their agents or their customers. Such agreement can he nothing less than restriction upon com petition, and therefore combination In origin back for more than a thousand years. The members of this family have u distinct claim to celebrity, for It Is to be feared that the famous lamp of Townelcy Chapel was the last of the so-called ever-burning lamps In England. At the beginning of the last century there were some half a dozen known to fame still alight and which Illinois Farmer Tell of a Successful Contrivance. Nope, snipe himtlu' ain't what it used to be." sold an Illinois farmer while In tbo city with a train load of live stock the other day. "Fer a real llvelv Nlin rod the Illinois nralrles Is nigh onto the slimmest plcklu" In uaJ becn burning for centuries, while the land. I used to tie as poor as jou a nt (Ue Ume ot (lle reformation and turkey-dldn't have a blamed cent- tll0 dissolution of the monasteries by but I had more fun sbootln' snipes i KInB jicllry V!II. there were many than I now get out of flgurlu' up my i,umjrcds of them that had lieen burn bank deposits. When the snipes dlsap- InK w,i,out interruption from the tliuo pearcu. i soiu my oie uiuuucruuss uuu , of t)le Nt)rrann conquest, went to work. and. by George, I own 1 Doubtless these neni a section of black lnnd, and there ain't a snipe been on It In five year. There wasu t anything a few yenrs Doubtless these perpetual lamps were a remnant of that form of pagau worship known ns the everlasting Are, which was kept alight by guardians. ago mat uiiorueu more bhiuiuu Bporl totti male nnd female, the latter !nan snipe uu.u.... i .e m .l-u u . km)Wn ag Testa, nnJ wh wcre . el sack full of little sandpipers, long- ,9hnlje wt (Ua(h f nlloW(,,,' ,lle legged mudders and Jncksn po n a Importance day. I used to hunt while the bu rs j i was a-cbokln' the daylights out of my . nnd seventeenth corn op and my 1 otses were so all- , cver-bnm-fired poor hey had to stand n the demonstrated by the fact rn'tptvetnr : : e - rrn kJotz ot horses while the snipe were snuekln' , ll10.SP, "'J devoted ) both much time around them prairie ponds and ditches. I ,In",r . , "c "covery of some "Ilut the mo fun was uot In slaugh- ?"cc,e8 f Ilumlnnnt t int would bum terln' the birds with n gun. It was forev7- ,s "orks have been wrl In trappln' them. Hain't you never 1 cu "!" he matter by I rcnch. Itnl beam of a snipe trap? Ob. well. then. I la? aml h"8' "" .Jrr,,cr" ""w ?.f that's different. Well, sir. a snipe trap wllomt yo"c1' '"J ''"'' ",r"0"11 was the simplest thing you ever saw. J"1? dcta a "!e BUl'ct' Ul,!s' ,fur It was nothing but n enlarged mouse I ln BDCe- "Wmny assorted that trap with modern Ideas put Into use. thf Pt,ul"s of 'hc to"1"' "f Iul11"' kw -m. bni- .i r.,.,. 1 the daughter of Cicero, In Home. In the edge of a pond where the mud is sort o' soft. "Well, I rigged up a flat box and took the murdertn' devices out of a lot of mouse traps. I fastened 'cm In the box. Then I bored a lot of holes In the top of the box Just over the little traps Inside. I covered the box over with mud and took a dead snipe and stuck its head In one of the holes In the box. It would take a purty smart bird to bee anything under the mud, and there was nothing there but a doz en little holes In tho ground. "A snipe Is like a monkey. What one does they will all do. If one sticks Its bend under a board and pulls out a worm, every other one will stick Its bend under. Well, as I said, I set a dead bird at tlie trap. Iieforo long a restraint of trade: and. thus viewed. the petition, ns an entirety, makes out a drove of the birds settled nround the case under the Sherman net. pond. When they saw the dead bird "It may be true that tho way of en-' wltli Its head stuck down n hole In forcing any decree under this petition ' ' ffrouud they thought he was holdln' Is beset with dlillcultles, and thnt n lit- banquet T-'7 hustled over nnd ernl enforcement mar result In vexu. '' 'e 'nto the tlous Interference with defendant's nf- 0,ller ll0'1'8; w;as hid In the tall fnlrs. Ilut, lu the Inquiry before me, I Brn,ss 1 I,'en,rd '10, w,r,e8, cllt;kln nm not nt liberty to stop before sueli m,d ' Haw ,I,C ,,l,r,If Uopplo.' Hwlr wings considerations. The Sherman act, ns us they were choken. Interpreted by tho Supremo Court, Is er' ,raP 11,atl 0 B!"l,e' 1 w tho law of the land, and to the law as 2" nP t .u t ,t stands, both court and people must 7d7h; snl lint They a.V't yield obedience, . nei-tlmi of the Stale no more." In two minutes walked out, my game. There's no limit to huiitln' like that If Kpcuklrig Only or III Own. "Hut, my dear husband, It really Is unjust of you to abuse mothers-in-law bo. There uro good ones." "Well well, never mind. I haven't said anything against yours; It's only mlno I'm grumbling about" Iloston Traveler. Homo men find It easier to raise whiskers than the price of a shave. In my section of the Stule no more.' Chicago inter Ocean. BURNS A THOUSAND YEAR8. Lamp First Lighted Ten Centuries Ako Is Now tioinu Out, Since tho reign of King Alfred, something like n thousand years ago, Towneley hall and park In Kuglaud have been In tho possession of tho Towneley family, which traces Its the Via Appla, In tho sixteenth cen tury, a lamp was found burning there, which. If the story authenticated by records at the Vatican and bearing the signature of Pope Paul III. are to be believed, must have been burning for more than 1,500 yenrs. Ilalley In bis English dictionary of 1730 tells that at tho dissolution of the monasteries In the time of Henry VIII. tliero was a lamp found that had then burned for more than 1,200 years that Is to say, since tho second cen tury of the Christian era and de clared that this lamp was In his days to be seen at the museum of rarities at Leyden, In Holland. Shnkspearu lu his address of Pericles refers to "ever burning lamps" and Spenser, too, al ludes to "lumps which never go out." From a purely antiquarian point of view, therefore, It must bo a sourco of great regret that the owners should permit the extinction of a lamp which, according to tradition, had been burn ing without Intrruptlon since the days of King Alfred that Is to say, for moro than 1,000 years lu tho chapel on the Towneley estate, PNEUMONIA. More Contaulous than Tuberculosis, and Kills More People. We wonder If tho fact that patients and their friends Ignore the conta giousness of pneumonia Is often duo to professional negligence? An cxaggcr rated conception of the contagiousness of tuberculosis Is held by tho lay world, but pneumonia Is, of course,-) fur moro contagious. And patients and profession alike havo not realized tho new fact that the mortality of pneumonia Is In some cities and parts tuberculosis. Dr. Iteyuolds, of Chica go, returns to this lesson and empha sizes the necessity of the following measures: Pneumonia Is a highly contagious disease, the cause of which Is a micro organism In the sputa of those suffer ing from the malady, and contracted by Inhaling this germ. Therefore, the same care should be taken to collect and destroy the sputa that Is taken In pulmonary tuberculosis, or In diph theria or influenza. During the Illness the greatest pain should be taken to prevent soiling bed clothing, carpets or furniture with sputa, and nftcr the Illness the pa tient's room should be thoroughly cleansed nnd ventilated. The fact thnt the dlsenso la most prevalent In the winter season, when people are most crowded together nnd live much of the time In badly venti lated apartments, makes obvious the necessity of thorough ventilation of houses, nirices, factories, theaters, churches, passenger cars, and other public places, In order that the air which must bo breathed may bo kept clean nnd frco from Infectious matter. Laymen should be taught not to bo afraid of n patient who has pneu monia. Influenza, or tuberculosis, but to lie nfrnld of lack of cleanliness about him during his Illness, or full salt water off the llattery. W nro close to all tho piers leading to tho seaside resort, and wlien we alight from n Coney Island or a Ixing llrnuch si earner, we hnve only a few step to go to reach our home. Drocerles ara cheap lu thl part of tho city and the best market are rlose at hand. Our fresh llah, you might almost say, comes right out of tho river at our door. Wu can see our oyster being taken out of tho sloop, and within a few minutes' walk we call tench Ful ton market nnd Washington market and get the pick of what they havo before the peoplo from uptown arrive. We nro only llflccn minutes from ld street, nrnrer In time thnu If we lived lu Harlem, nnd wo have the car and train nil to ouraclrr. One elevator run to nci-ommodato us nt night lu this big building. The other truant never liothor u by dny. The building I really quieter than would be a largo apartment house. The rout I no more than wo would have to pny for similar accommodation uptown lu some locali ty without Individuality, and where there would bo no vlow, and few of the advantage we now enjoy. The only place In Ibis neighborhood that nffonli n view In nuy wny roinparabt with thnt we enjoy I the Height of llrooklyn. Ilut then to live thrro you would have to Ih'Couiii a llrooklynttr, nnd the house there hare nouo of the accommodation of those In Manhat tan ami the convenience to elevated and street cars I nut comparable." (IimmI Karnlng of lllo; Hotel. Tho lessee of a Now York hotel who vals! Falrlmvcu offer battle with It salmon Industry, nnd no ono who visit Washington can escape the belligerent banner of Kverett- the smoke from her manufacturing chimneys. Every cltr on the const ha made un It mind ilruily. If not quietly, to become luougiu no uuu rurnoii enough to re the mctriipoll of the West. llri' 'rom business nnd enjoy hi for- Oftentimes the rivalry ha It hit- lune In leisure recently had nn offer morons side. While In Seattle I heard ' f"r hi rights in the business Hint U, much of Mount Italnler. the splendid has built up. Af trr a tHiuiultntloii with volcanic peak which rise cloud-white I id attorney he scltled on H.(J0.tKJ southeast by south of the city. It I a a reasonable sum, says the New York ' one of the most magnificent of Ameri can mountain, now set apart, with wise forethought, ns n national re serve. The people of Seattle are proud of Mount Italnler; they regard It as a special Senttle attraction. When I reached Taeoiua one of Die first tilings to which my attention wn culled wa Mount Tncoma. rising gloriously In the southeast. It struck mo thnt It bore Sun. There was ifo formal consent to sill for that amount, but that wa t ho figure that seemed Just after n hurried view of the situation. There mine from the Intending purchaser an Intimation thai they were willing to do business Immediately un that basis. I.ucklly ii thing definite nn done until the law jer set out to make a moru thorough Investigation as to the value of the tirou- n singular resemblance to Mount erty, based on the Income It yielded Itnlnler. and I snld as much. "It I sometime called Mount Italnler." said my Informant; "but If you call It anything but Mount Tu- niiiiiinuy. un mill iinsis I he Hotel Wns vastly more valuable than It had nt first been considered. The proprietor's per sonal profit for the Inst eight year had coma over here you cau't get niiythlug nveinged 11,(100,000. In view of time- to eat.' And so the mountain Is the dear scenic possession, under separate names, of two cities. Century. LIVING IN 8KY8CRAPERS. Loftr and Cosy (Juurters of Young; Art Mudetitw In the l!ot. Two young artists have taken to liv ing In the top floor of .no of tho high 'olllco buildings of New York near the lire to enrorce propnyiaciic measures lottery. They predict that theso top and of close, badly ventilated npnrt- floors, overlooking n mngnlllcent pnno- menlH during the season when theso ,,, WU heconio bachelor npnrt- discuses most prcvnll. Iinents, nnd thnt even fumllle will Since pneumonia Is most fatal nt geck to llvo thero rather thou In Hnr- the extremes of life tho young nnd icln. tho nged-speclnl care should be taken u wll be great In summer," said to guard children and old persons ono of t,o artlstJo a Detroit Tribune against exposure to the Infection of re,)orter. "Throw up tho window and thoso nlrendy suffering with tho dls- C0IIle never-falling; breeze right ease nnd against cold, privation and ott tuo bny BtrulKht from the ocean, exposure to tho weather, which are po- eay fre8l Invigorating. Wo enn tent, predisposing cnuscs.-Amerlcan tttUo our morning plunge In tho pure Medicine. ' profits the price placed on the hotel wa Increased to a figure which It was quite Impossible for the syndicate to pay. In view of the large amount he found blm elf to be rnrnlng annually, the proprie tor wa quite satisfied to remalu lu har ness a few years longer. How of Corn Terentj.llro .Miles lMng. A row of corn twenty-tlvo tulles long was, It Is snld, planted Inst spring by n farmer In Kansa. It was not straight, but In a circular form, Ho commenced lu n fifty-acre Hold and went round and round In a clrclo until he had planted the whoto In a single row, which commenced at ono of the edges nnd termlnntcri In tho middle. When preparing tho ground bo plowed In tho samo way. Tho next tlmo you feel despondent, look out tho window. Within two inln utesyouwlll see something to muke you thankful. ICgg Km ported from I'gjrpC A remarkable feature of Egyptian trade Is the great expansion lu the ex portation of eggs. According to the Egyptian customs returns, tho total mialitltv shinned during? thn first nlnv. I eii months of last year, January to No vember Inclusive, was 01,2tl2,GO0. val ued at E.7B,050, England taking 68,- J 724,000, Germany 083,000, Austria- Huugnry 2,203,000, Franco 2,100,000 and Italy 70.C00. Tho exports (luring December also, It Is understood, wero exceptionally enormous, England be ing a largo buyer. As a result tho price of eggs Is rising In Egypt. Egyp. tlan eggs aro said to bo gradually oust lug Hiisslnn eggs from the English market. Tho Man Who Hose. "An old college chum of mlno located don'n this way several years ago," said .the Eastern tourist, "Ho was rather unscrupulous, but bound to rise. Wo considered blm n good man to tlo tu. Jenkins, his name was " "Ah, yes," replied the Texan. "Wo considered him 'a good mnn to tie, too to tlo' to n tree Oh! ho rose all right.' "-Philadelphia Press. FRESH DAILY. of tho country higher Ihuu that of , buyer. When you hear a man sny that ovcry mnn has his price he Is looking for u i mm imL "Aud do you understand, my llttlo oue, why you pray for your 'dilllx bread V" ' " "Oh, yes. That's so wo'll bo suro to linvo It fresh,"