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,"