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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1903)
TWPJCS OF THE TIMES. Tho Western cyclone wns almost as fntitt ni the Paris-Madrid motor race, and not any swifter. Each Kaw Indian, under a recent act of Congress, sets 400 ncres of land, Why weren't wo born two Indians? This Is I lie season when tho mem bers of tho Audubon societies are say' ing that a bird In the bush la worth two In tho hat. A brilliant conversationalist Is one who Intentionally says good things as If by accident, and accidentally says (rood things as If by Intention. The man who Invented pie must go forgotten and unhonorcd, while If any one discovers a new disease or an ex nenslve microbe he gets his picture In ho raw and a street named for him. Ten killed In ono automobile race In Franco; four killed by motor-cars In TCturtnnil. nm! several serious If not fatal automobile accidents In tho Unit ed Statea is the record of the modern Juggernaut for one Sunday. A negro valet has succeeded In pos- Inir successfully as a United btaics vice consul. And his color did not hinder a number of white folk from dolnir him reverence. The color lino Is responsible for much that Is highly diverting. News comes from Washington that tho Declaration of Independence Is fad. lnir out. not the nrlnclnlcs of the Declaration, but tho Ink, and hereaf ter It Is to be kept In tho dark. Un fading Ink Is a difficult thing to make. If Jefferson had used a typewriter for writing, the Ink would have faded out long years ago. A monument to the culinary art Is to be erected In tho heart of the market district of Paris. It will bear a por trait In bas-relief of VateL the famous cook of Louis XIV., who committed suicide because the fish for a royal dinner did not arrive In time. Around the base will be llgures of butchers, fishwives, poultrymen and others. A most appropriate Inscription for the monument would be that suggested for the tomb of the English cook: "Peace to his hashes.' Divers recently raised from the Med iterranean, off Sicily, about thirty old guns which, they say, belonged to the Dutch and Spanish ships sunk by the French in 1070. At any rate, nine of the guns are adorned with the ancient Insignia of the Netherlands. There is greater treasure In the sea than out-of-date guns, and when submarine nav igation has become safer, one may ex pect exploring expeditions in the great deep which will yield results as rich as any that crown the efforts of ex plorers on land. ToYonPe, ho will do Just as he pleases. I Hut ho soon finds that somehow tho J old haunts are changed. The old friends aro mostly missing and the rest are not the same. Ho tells them his wife Is out of town and that he Is la for a week's good time. They slap him on tho back, wish htm great success and turn away. The sympathy of In' terest, that Is tho soul of friendship among men. Is gone. Tho names nro tho same, the faces are the same, but all else Is different. lie Buds himself a ltlp Van Winkle come back among strangers and among old scenes and old sounds that have become straugly new. Lonrsonicly ho wanders from one to another and finds them tho ramc In their difference. He goes homo and finds the house dark and desolate, lie P'.'ts himself at case with his feet defiantly on the furniture and Imagines he is a free man. Hut the paper or book ho takes up Is Intolerably dull. At last. In despair, he goes to bed ahead of time. Next night ho tries It all over again. There Is nothing else he can do. He knows no places but the old ones. He can at least look on, Tho old "boy" he encounters now and then stops a moment to ask him If his wife Is still gone and he Is having good time, aud then passes on, Tho more of his old friends ho sees tho more ho feels alone. So he goes home and to bed earlier than before. This night ho dreams that the bonds he had so gladly cast asldo were precious strings of Jewels. He wakes to a real ization that the whole world has not changed, but that he has. He sees that the sympathies, the Interests and the Impulses that were his when he was one of "the boys" can no more be recalled by him now than can the years that divide them from him. Ho finds It dull business this being free from the sympathies, the customs, the attentions, the companionship that have become so Important a part of his life. When at last she comes home again he Is at the station an hour ahead of the train. And yet, the world persists In accepting It as settled that this man has had the "time of his life." MANILA SETTLEMENT HOUSE. Mr. Putnam, the publisher, has been telling the English writers that If they will do first-class work they may be always sure of appreciation In Ainer lea, but that "English second and third raters are sow beaten on the home field by native competitors." This is undoubtedly true. When It comes down to second and third, even fourth and fifth, raters, America leads the world and laughs and scoffs at compe tition. So far as literature Is con ccrned, wo make no pretensions, but In the matter of selling book covers with a fairly good measure of sixty or seventy thousand words In the way of contents we are without rivals. One hardly knows whether to pity the Czar or to smile at bis attempts to learn the real feelings and wants of the Russian people. The St Peters burg correspondent of the London Times says the Czar was much Im pressed by the accuracy of the weath er predictions In one of the St Peters burg papers; therefore he sent for the editor and asked him to learn and re port upon the condition of the people. The Incident may or may not be true. That It could be credited at all is sig nificant of the ex cut to which autoc racy has destroyed freedom of speech and of the press. Presidents of the United States do not have to consult the Weather Bureau to learn whether or not their party Is likely to be snow ed under. Men In public life, and those who hope to enter It, could hardly find a better political creed than that which the venerable and beloved Senator Hoar of Massachusetts lately announc ed as his. It Is this: "First, I believe that the great things that bare been gained In these countless ages In which men hare been dwelling on this planet and I think we hare gained great things haro been accomplished by a very slow growth Indeed. So let us have the patience of God. Second, I believe that things are tending toward what is good and not toward what Is bad. Third. I believe Implicitly that the desires of the American people are for Justice and righteousness, how ever much they may be misled at times. Tho permanent things are the stars and tho sun, not the clouds or the dust" There Is a common belief that the man whose wife is out of town hns a hilarious time, details of which are not to be even hinted at In print Moral ists haro exploited this belief, numor lists hare thrived on It The public has been forced to accept It out of re spect for Its venerable ago. The only man who suspects that there Is nothing In It Is the man whoso wife Is out of town. To him It Is all a Joke without humor, a sermon without a point. When the wife goes the husband may at first experience an exhilarating sense of freedom, ne will be ono of "the boys" again, be thinks. He will return to tho old haunts and the old friends, ne will know again for a lit tle while (ho delicious thrill of bobe mlan Irresponsibility, that must be all the sweeter because of the burden of restraint ho so long has borne. Yes, One Already Eetabllehed and Appeale to American w onsen. A settlement house has already been established at Manila, and the women at the head of it have Issued a strong appeal to the American women In the Philippines to lend their Influence and personal endeavor to establish frater nal relations with the natives, and to aid In uplifting them from their state of lndolenco and Ignorance. The appeal reads In part: 'Our 'Settlement House' In Manila has been started not for purposes of proselytlsm, but that Its workers, liv ing among the natlres, may exemplify the Christian life In its spirit of help- rulness. Wo shall try to get Into close touch with the common people, learn their language, know their difficulties, see things as they see them. We shall hare n well-equipped dispensary, with assistance of skilled physicians, native and American. A kindergarten Is pro vided; other agencies of ministration will doubtless be developed as time goes on. We particularly wish to hare It understood that the use of any equipment which may be gathered here and any experiences we may acquire. we shall gladly share with others. "To sum up and apply our circular Is thus an appeal to American women "(1). To enter upon their residence In the Philippines, whether it is to be brief or protracted, under a sense of responsibility. "(2.) To beware of adopting a preju diced or despising or despairing atti tude toward the people of the land. Their blood, their temperament all their antecedents, are different from ours. It will take a rery long time at best before we can understand them. "(3.) That each American woman should make some definite and Individ ual effort for the betterment the well- being, of some Filipino neighbor; this is a perslstentfl, intelligent way. We expect to be able to furnish from set tlement house, upon application, such remedies and appliances as wilt be most frequently needed, and we Invite the visits or correspondence of those who are Interested. "(4.) To take adrantaga of any op portunity to tram and teach the na tives. "(5.) To consider whether some sort of association with our settlement work would not help them and us alike to a better fulfillment of our com mon responsibility." New York Even ing Post An Englishman's Experience. A prominent marine engineer from London, who was recently sent to Bal timore to Inspect a British steamer. tells the following story: it was In the days of the 'shovel en gineer,' as the men were called who had reached the throttle through the stoke hole, that a British steamer was at Huelva needing attention to machin ery. A new and young superintending engineer was sent from England to look over the vessel. Being of the new school of engineers and with a Board of Trade certificate, bis questions were very technical and correspondingly be fogging to the minds of the' two en gineers who bad reached their posi tions by a long service In the flreroom. In the course of bis Inquiry of one of them be had reverted to the pitch of the propeller. Finding his companion, be who bad been drinking In professional wisdom from the new orerlooker said: 'Sandy, mou, that new "euper" Is a clever fellow. He even asked about pitch for the propellerf '"What? Pitch for the propeller!' said the second. 'Why, Archie, he re fused me paint toe the engine room!'" IBS Editobia OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS A Let Reason Provnil. CIIOSS the country strikes aro In prospect or under way; and mingled with the reports la the announce ment that tho employers have united to resist the de sired advance In pay and what they aro pleased to term the unreasonable demands of unionised workers. This clashing of Interests Is roost unfortunate. Its pro longatlon means the postponement of the erection of numer ous buildings and tho abandonment altogether of many more. Perhaps 1.000,000 nicu are Idle because of the strikes In the building trades, and this entails a loss of J3.000.000 a day In wages to the tollers, much of which can never be cgatned even with the resumption of work. These disturbances are the Invariable accompaniment of prosperity, the only regretttbto feature of an otherwise most satisfactory condition. As business Increases the cost of living goes up, and then the wage earner, desiring to participate In the Improvement asks an equitable share o the returns of capital. Sometlmes-thls Is fully met; again only partly so; In Instances Ignored completely. Out of the dissatisfaction come strikes and occasionally lockouts, This In turn breeds hatred between the employer and cm ploye where before amtcable relations existed. From every volnt of view the situation Is deplorable. Employers are organizing to an extent never before known. Tho worklngmen are powerful and confident of carrying to a successful Issue anything they wage battle for. With both sides well equipped and determined a des perate struggle Is ahead and can only bo avoided by treat' lug the questions leading up to It with calmnea, with fair ness, with the Idea uppermost that exact Justice must be done to both parties. With this spirit dominating capitalist and worklngman a way out of the difficulty can be found honorable alike to each. Let reason prevail and the strikes aud lockouts will be a thing of the past Uttca Globe. Ti The Successful Mao. HE real successful man must combine In himself good stock, physical health, education, mental pene tration aud concentration, persistency, energy, entbus (asm, cheerfulness of disposition and politeness of demeanor. Moral qualities arc Indlspensnblo to true success. Tbey are Important In securing merely earthly advancement There Is a tendency In virtue to temporal prosperity. Not all good people prosper, but the rule Is that virtue has an earthly reward. The healthiest wealthiest and wisest nations of the earth are the ones where the standard of morals Is the highest Benevolence Is an clement of success. There Is a law of benevolence which seems to run through all human endeavor. The man who tills the farm that bis fellows may hare food and raiment, who builds a house where a borne Is en shrined and a family raised, who founds a business where Just wnges arc paid, who makes at any trade a needed article, who contributes to the natural welfare of men. Is a real benefactor. There Is not a learned profession which does not express benevolent spirit Generosity pays; there Is a giving wnicn gets, a tnrowing away or seed on the ground which comes back In an Increased harvest. In the arithmetic of life, subtraction Is often addition and division is multiplication. He who most faithfully serves nis customers, clients, patients, scholars, purchasers, employes, employer, win, as a rule, hare the largest tern poral sncccss. ne only Is fit for mastery In any calling who serves best The leader of a nation can hare no royalty like that of serving the humblest subjects of his realm. New York American. Where Theory Tails. THE Collegiate Alumnae Association having "discov ered" how a family of four persons can live on 80.78 cents a day for food, we are once more brought to the oft-discussed question of how little money a human being can exist upon. The boasted discovery, however. Is not a discovery after all. for there are In Chicago to-day a great many thousand families who discovered It for themselves long before the Collegiate Association thought of It There are countless families that dlscorered, from sheer force of necessity, that a family can lire on much less than ten cents a day, per capita. It as an unpleasant reflection that In this land of plenty go many persons should be compelled to exist on a body- (tarring, soul-starving scale of life, but that such should s LldMTHOljlpE KEEPER AT 70. Ittmarkahle Iteeord of Mr. Nancy Itoee. of Rtonr I'olat, N. T, Tho caretaker of a llglit-houso for fifty years Is the remarkable record of Mrs. Nancy ltoso, ono of tho ojdost light-house keepers In tht government service, who la sta tioned on the Hud son rlrer, of Stony Point, N. Y. Mrs. Hose first did the VERMONT'O LAST "PAINTER.' KKe,;.U.eTf U 1 Stf tal. 7ucc;.;or, 'burrn reatltV folk, call 'em painters, if muA " Most she was but continuing her work. She nil of 'cm cal -cm w Meat.. - Hut the e and contcmiu .. now In the neighborhood of 70. but rca name I leered ell when was ,r looks and acts llko a woman younger " " """" , '.,,,,. Z by 15 years. Mrs. ltoso Is still active. "'ountaln Ho n. ! . . ? ,uri ,h0 which .hi must be to perform her tliat Ihoy let the President shoot dmvii .(.!.. i,r nv,. and hr.rlns- remain Arlzony. an' they Is icliei tiled to fwo CoMiitrymeu Track nml Kill Itlm ami Oet IB State llomity. "Tliey's people In Vermont, n thought that tho painters wns all dead," said "Black Hear Joe" of Hen mountain to n writer In tho Boston Journal, as he sat on a barrel In the back shop of n Main street itoro In Burlington. "But they wan't, I heered ono on 'em screech up at Hen mountain In tho middle o' the iilalit this winter, nil' It work for her hu-!frl my blood up tighter'!! n drum. baud, who was ap- "I came down by Montgomery On pointed In lBSi'tor way t'other day, an' thero 1 heerd Upon the death of .tell on tho biggest painter that I ever Mr. lin.o. in 1RST. 'seen. Mrs Hose was au- "Home folks rail 'em panthers an' bo the fact Is ft natural conscquonco of tho Invasion of tho great cities by people Ill-prepared to earn a living In the city. A poor man, with n family and without any special business or trade, Is more apt to find himself reduced to the 10-cents-a-day table than otherwise, Thero should be some means of helping these thousands of Ill-advised, Incompetent, enslaved men to a moro Imlo pendent livelihood. The first thing that farming. There are obstacles In tho way, of tho city poor aro Ignorant of agriculture, and contempt!!1 out of It. Tho city has fascinations for them, oven greater than Its hardships. Education, both In tho spirit and moth nile fit fMlltlvnf Inir thn lurnl la (tin nrlmrt mllllltf. llmv fc . . . .. . .. V . . . .." . . I.. .I... I. h..ln r..,nl bring about this education Is tho problem that lias troubled . " jv" " - '" m, fnt . Oiumilii an down many mind. Interested In enticing tho crowded poor Into ool and she look, after the light. J" f.t'r.V V.ut Now York the country. u " " " v" .... ov,,r i,,.,- Maine. New Ilampshlro But other form, of education are more easily nrnlUblo. cuthu.Usm a. she showed year. ago. ;n,,Jn7 Mn,"' Mw lm"lmta Every loy should bo embarked uion some definite plan of I must not bo UPI"' that Jlv lug ,, ,,,, , , .,,0(ll tl. life. If ho Is not to be a farmer, he should be taught a ft Stony Point make. Mrs. Hose, llfo lnco tlm, ,() t ,0 nm, ft trade or business that will he tolerably sure to command onesonie. Bho has a pro ty I tie rot- ,,.,.. But they killed one moro than a 10-cenU-a-day faro In after life, and not left to tago and with her aro a daughter arid fr, ( grow up a general roustabout Tho time may come when . l10 lft,lcr "ln supervisor of tho aom of ,lc hoy wnt , tn ,no the public scheme of education may embraco some such village of Stony Point gMg digging spruce gum policy. Until then tho fathers of the land are largely re- To the north of tho cottage, but a Bn. ,kB w,u,n (,y CMm, m(m sponsible for their sons' futurcs.-Chlcago Journal. I fvr steps away, on slightly Higher crmur.t trnCk. They was big enough ground, stands the larger Ight-houso , lg , M, , ,,, American Railroad Rates. I h, t0p, An eighth of a mllo away. , Ild , T ,ow Wl, ONH by one the old Ultlandor complaints against the rising from the edge of tho wator, Is lrnek,,i ,ow j like and tho Transraal administration are being vindicated. The another tower, containing a red bea- MtJt ,vnl torn ., ,UIcwimt, ient latest Is that concerning railroad rates. It was said con light, and n fog bell. Both lights lfVcr jMr u., ,llo mt kl )t (1r that the excessively high rates charged by the state must bum all night and every night, Cnr.ru ro It up on the railroads under the Kruger monopoly were a gravo handl until tho Ice gets so thick that even ground, cap to nearly all Industry and were absolutely prohibitive tho big river craft that buck through "None of the young feller, could to many enterprises. Those railroads are now under British eight-Inch Ice havo to tie up for tho ,),, ou( Wlnt 10 trnokst was. But administration. It Is Interesting to observe what action winter. That happen. In January us- 0i Ted,ly Sheldon, who Is now going has been taken toward remedying the grievance of high ually, sometime. In February, aud once on l0 n yf,ril ' j Muppose has kill, rates. long time the season Is so mild morr than seventy bear, shook hi. Lord M liner states that the reductions made will amount that Mrs. Hose's lights shine ovcry head and said to tho young uus, e In gross to J3,750,OOO a year. That Is a large sum to be night all wluter long. And It Is In tho he: That's a painter, or my naino sared to tho Industries of South Africa. It mean, a re- winter that tho work Is the hardest ni,'t Theodore, I'm 70, but I'm btei. ductlon of 40 per cent on freight rates on food and general At midnight the lamp. In the big od If I don't git out tho old gun au' supplies for worklngmen, of S3 per cent on the great mass light-house must be changed. If tho lmvo a trr at th,. 112 thnt Hi hldu'll of miscellaneous freight and of from 10 to IS per cent on weather bo thick the keeper must go bring In bounty.' cement. Iron and steel and other "heary goods. Borne re- down to the lower tower at least oncel "Ho an' William II. Jewell polished ductlons In ocean freight rates hare also been made by In three and three-quarter hours to 'up their guns an' set out. They found ne sieamsnip lines piying Detween Kngiana anu toe uape. wind tho ciock mai erery nucen where a deer hail been pulled down mese cnanges win an go into enect on July l. It is authoritatively estimated that tht. reduction of rates on supplies for the mines will make possible the profitable operations of no fewer than one hundred low grade mines, with an output of $00,000,000 a year. It will mean a proportionate Increase of profits to mines now In operation. It will also mean a marked development of agricultural and other Industries, tending to make the Transvaal a country of varied and symmetrical growth. At the same time the volume of traffic will be so Increased seconds rings the fog bell. n tier throat bitten by the panther. Tho Point In winter la swept with but the deer had evidently shook tho the cold winds which follow, unob-1 brute off an' got away. After running structed, the path of tho rlrer. The height of the upper tower exposes It to the full sweep of the gale. Then the a long distance It fell and died. Prob'ly the painter was too full o' his earlier dinner to fuller an' so ho never walk down to the water front Is Icy. knew that the deer died. and blocked with snow, and to descend "Thry got some o' their dogs on the Is an unpleasant feat for a younger ' track of the panther, an' after a lively person In the dead of night; and Is a chase they found the trail leading down that the railroads will actually he more profitable under deed almost heroic when accomplished Into Cold holler. Now. Cold duller Is the lower than tbey were under the higher rates, Such results will be a strong vindication of tho uew administra tion. New York Tribune. in Wi The Extinction of Tuberculosis. HEN the world went wild with enthusiasm over upposed discovery of a method of extinguish- pulmonary tuberculosis by means of tubercu- Injections, an unknown and now forgotten writer said that had Professor Koch succeeded In bis aim It would have been the greatest curse Imaginable to the human race. The reason given for this seemingly extrav agant statement was that the moral and social orlglu of the disease would have been neglected, and the relation of moral and physical disease can never be safely Ignored. Malum and morbus are often tho same, at least so Intimate ly connected that one cannot be eliminated from human life without the other. The most striking proof of this now comes out In the fact that Koch himself admits and .van .preaches that the great decrease In the death rate from tuberculosis has been and will still be due to sanltarr and social betterment but chiefly to the Improvement In tho condition of the worklngmen's lives through government Insurance, etc. In other words, what may be called tho morals of Infectious diseases are being recognized. Tho conditions that breed and scatter physical contagion aro precisely those that degrade and morbldlze the soul and character. Illghtness of physical living Is necessary to righteousness, aud vice versa. Koch, the author of tuber culin, forgot this truth; ICoch, the sanitarian, now preaches it American aieuicino. aiany persons n( 4Vrortm CflervKt C 8-M Sjp IIVMII (JltJSSI V A Dlunt Insinuation. Mrs. Grimes They say that frequent bathing Is rery Injurious to the human system. Mrs. Symes I're always wondered bow It was that your family enjoyed such perfect health. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Seeing; Edith's Father About It. "Mr. Markley," stammered the girl's lover, "Edltn er that Is, your daugh ter told me you wanted to see me." "Yes, so she told me." replied the girl's father, Philadelphia Press. The most remarkable Instance of disappearance erer known," were the words used by a detective a few days ago when speaking of a case bo was employed upon. It was not a hap hazard expression, nor was It original, for It has been used of many In the list of those who bare mysteriously disappeared. A report of tho Commis sioner of Police of London recently no ted that 174 men and women of that city bad sunk out of sight of their friends In the year. Many persons dis appear erery year In this city. One m the most remarkable cases of dls appearance was that of Lieutenant Ed ard W. Hemey of the nary, a brother of Judge Adrocate General William B. Remey and Bear Admiral George 0. Hemey. The last seen of him was hen be walked down the gangplank of the steamship Roanoke In this city on Feb. 17, 1887. Erery effort was made to find him, but no trace was dlscorered. Had be been a man of Ir regular habits there might bare been some suspicion as to the causa of bis disappearance, but be was a sober, straightforward officer, and no officer had a better record, stood higher In the profession or was more greatly es teemed. Another naval officer who disappear ed a few years ago was ex-Passed As sistant Engineer Richard II. Buel, an officer who bad served In the civil war with distinction. He started for Bos ton on Dec. 20, 1880, after which no trace of him could bo discovered. His father was the Rev, Samuel Buel, at one time dean of the General Theologi cal Seminary of this city. There are many who will recall Still man S. Conant, one of the editors of Harper's Weekly, who started from bis sanctum for bis home In Brooklyn on Jan. 10, 1883, and though search was made for him In rarlou. parts of the United States and Europe, where ho was reported to bare been seen, nothing about blm has erer been learned, Thomas W. Fisher's disappearance moro than ten years ago attracted a great deal of Interest He was a real estate broker In Washington, and, a. was his usual custom, he one evening went to Baltimore to visit the young woman to whom he was engaged. The couple became Involved In a dispute over a trivial matter, and the young woman declared their engagement off, Mr. Flsber left the house, and, after wandering about the streets for some time, left Baltimore for New York. He at once wrote to his former fiancee, apologizing for bis rude conduct and begging her forgiveness, but she was bent upou punishing him aud did not reply to his letter. Flsber then left New York and went to Albany, from which place bo wrote again to the young woman, faying that he would not burden her again with his peti tions, and that he Intended to commit suicide. The young woman then re plied to. bis letter and asked his for giveness, but the letter was returned with the stamp upon It, "Not found," and nothing has been heard from the young man slnco that day, Now York Tribune. Wukes by Electricity. There Is In Mobile a gentleman who In the past has been In the habit of oversleeping In the morning hours, and as his business requires that he como down street early It Is essential that be should awaken at a certain hour. Time after time be came late to bis business, In spite of alarm clocks and other appliances to get his eyes opened at the proper time. One morning last week he came Into the office on time to the mlnnte; the others In the office expressed great surprlso at this un usual event and asked the whyfore of It He thus explained: "I determined that this business of sleeping when I should be awako bad to stop, so I called In on electrician and be fixed me up a few things. I bare It so arranged that at tho hour sot a light flashes In my eyes. If this Is not successful and I do not get up and throw the switch a mosquito bar and the frame falls on mo. If I still slumber and sleep a gong llko the ono used on the patrol wagon goes off. Should I fall to notice all of these things there Is over my bed a buckot filled with water, having a small noz zle attached, and a rochet releases a stop so that a stream of water Is squirted Into my face. When I sleep through all these It will bo tlmo to or der my coffin," Mobile Register, A Philadelphia genius claim, to haro perfected a noiseless typewriter. We fait to see the advantage of such a machine If a woman Is employed to operate It I Drtiirged Down by a Slilp. In the Edinburgh Medical Journal James A. Lawson gives an Interesting description of his thrilling experience when be wns dragged under water by a sinking ship. When be was far down In the swirling waters ho struck out for tho surface, but only went further down. This exertion was a serious waste of breath, and after what ap peared to bo ten or fifteen seconds the effort of Inspiration could no longer be restrained, and pressure of the chest began to develop. The most striking thing he remcm h, red was the great pain In the chest, which Increased at every effort of ex piration and Inspiration. It seemed as by a woman whoso years aro almost a valley that no one ylt ever bad good 80. luck hunting In. Ual'lato that they And on occasional winter nights even would 'a' had If they had gono there, moro must be done. The winds carry but the name sorter gives nil the Bit sleet, and the hent within the light- krrsfleld mountain boys cold fret to houses causes frost to form on the hear, an' they have fought shy of It. windows and dim tho lights. On many "The panther wa. lying along a log such nights hns Mrs. Hoso gono out o' maple when they came up with their and braved the storm while she rub-, dogs In leasts an' after lolling out one bed the glass with glycerine until I he or two o' his bloody screeches he went light shone clear again, and often, Into the trees and began running along too, until her hands becamo numb an' Jumping from limb to limb an' with cold. tree to tree. Every now and then he Ho much for the work at night By , would stop an' sorter turn bark to light day there nro tho lamps to be cleaned .but the dogs troubled him, I rarlato n and filled, the wleks to be trimmed. and most of nil tho big, chimneylike, refracting lenses, which glvo the light Its brilliancy, must be polished until they shine with tho blue and whits prismatic sparkle of tho cut glass ou a dinner table. No fault could be found nor has any ever been found with the condition In which Mrs, ltoso keeps the government property. Inspector, como unherald ed and unexpected, but tbey never find her unprepared, because she takes pride In her charge. The lights ro cclvo all the rare n woman can give them, and, at such sort of work, a woman can do her duty much more efficiently than a man. Two of Them. A man who had Just finished a com- fortnblo meal at a restaurant, tho other ovenlng suddenly roso up from his chair, caught op his hat and an umbrella that stood against tbo wall, aud rushed out of the building. "Stop him!" exclaimed tho proprie tor. "That fellow went out without paying!" "I'll stop him," said a determined looking man, who rose up hastily from a tablo near where the other had sat, '"Ho took my gold-headed umbrellai I'll stop blm, and I'll bring him bad In charge of a pollco officer, tbo scoun drel I' If he were In a vise, which was grnd-l Without a moment', pauso ho dashed ually being screwed up, until It felt a. out of tho house In hot pursuit of the If the sternum and spinal column must' conscienceless Ylltlan. And the proprlo- break, tiio "gulping" process becamo tor, a cold, bard, unsympathetic kind more frequent for about ten efforts, of man, has somehow begun to suspect and hope was then extinguished. I that neither of them will ever come fT-1. .. , , . , I . iiie iriinurv uuer iiiesu gulps seem- Dack. ed unbearable, but gradually the pain) seemed to case up, as the carbonic Melt Away Beforo Civilisation. acid was accumulating In the blond. 1 The disappearance of aboriginal peo At the same time the efforts at In- Pe before our advancing civilization splratlon, with their accompanying BB een ln tuo I'1 of the Pacific Is gulps of water, occurred at longer and beln8 repeated vuriou. settlements longer Intervals. The writer's mental of th fnr norlu' " twenty years the condition was then such that he op- inhabitants of Labrador havo do- peared to be In a pleasant dream, but ed from 80,000 to 16,000. Tho na still had enough will power to think of tires of southwestern Greenland now friends at home, etc. Before finally los- number but 10,000, and they require Ing consciousness the chest pain bad assistance irom mo uaman govern- completely disappeared, and sensation ment. The extermination of the seal, was actually pleasant. When con- walrus and polar bear by whalers has sctousness returned he found himself reduced tho Alaskan Eskimo from per- on the surface of the water (probably haps 8,000 to about 600. Tho Eskimo from the action of tbo life belt), aud at Smith. Sound, who a dozen years finally managed to reach shore, ago numbered 800, are reported by , Peary as being reduced to about 200. A Ilrlilgo of Com ne. Ono of tbo most curious bridges ever built, perhaps unique In tho history of Only a Pair or Hulls. "Who lives In thut big house on the tho world, wns that made by the Brit- corner, Dcunls? Ish troops In China In 1800. They were marchng on Pekln, but found their progress barred by a flooded rlrer of considerable width and depth. A tim ber nartv was formed, but found nntli. Ing to cut down or borrow suitable for Knna8 City Star, a brldgo. At last a bugo store of cof fins wa. discovered In tho village, and with these tho Tommies built their "The Wlddy O'Malloy, sor, who Is dead." "Indeed! When did she dlo!" "If she bad lived till next Sunday alio would haro been dead a year." . Squally Weather. "I am afraid," said the commodore's "that those ciouns on mas face ceptaclcs for the dead. III. Valuable Schooling. "What interesting sermons you preach!" Yes. Tho time I should nave been ln a theological somlnary I .pent ln sowing our wild oats." In. dlcato a spunking breeze." Thereupon he scuttled himself, Smart Set. Girls mako almost as much fuss about graduating as they do about get ting marrle'd. lun-sixcu pannier will tackle a man any time, 'specially at night "At last tho dog. drlv' hi in Into a tree that alcod all alono an' there he turned at bay. Jnwett fired at him, the ball going through tho shoulder mus cles. The great cat fell sprawling Into the snow, but Immediately ran up an other tree, where a bullet, fired from lbs rifle of Sheldon, reached his brain. "Old as I am I'd given a year off the fust end o' my life ter havo shot the last painter In Vermont, for I ral' late that's what It was. Ain't been none shot here for fifty years as I know on. "When I was a loy they pulled down cattlo an' children 'most every day. Sheldon an' Jewi-tt took him to tho town clerk of Montgomery Center an' collected f 12 bounty. Might Jus' well close the account. Ain't no moro com Ing In." Back to the Farm. After ten years a. a St I.oul police man Hugh McMahon tired of llfo 111 A great city and ha. gone back to the country. Llko Clarence tho Cop, ho has been "transferred ngnlii," but this time at hi. own wish. He has gono back from tho force to the farm; from politic to potatoes! from courts to carrots; from station to stablo; from clubs to clods; from "plug-uglies" to plows; from "pinches" to parsnips; from mud to meadows; from garbago to garden; from blood to blossoms. He has gono back from writs to roses; from arrests to rest; from pool rooms to cool rooms; from, sunstrokes to sunflowers and sunsets; from vio lence to violets; from helmets to holly hocks; from den. to daisies; from run ning crooks to running brooks; from murderers to meditation; from quick thlorcs to quiet thoughts, nml from green good. ' men to tho green things of Nature herself. Who shall say that ho ha. not chosen the better part of llfo? "Ood mado the couutry and man mado tho town," and at the very best, It sometimes seems, man mado n bad Job of It St Louis Post-Dispatch. Farmers anil Factories. Farmers tn tboso districts that have extensive manufacturing establish ments are ablo to pay doublo as much for land as thoso who llvo In tho strict ly agricultural districts and then real ize double the profit from the crops grown. Tho farmers of New England, occupying a soil originally thin, In nn uncongenial cllmato, aro nblo to pay higher wage, than tho farmer.. of tho South, although tho natural fertility of the .oil and Its capacity for pro ducing a great variety of crops 1. not half a. great as It I. In tbo South and tbo staples grown In tho South nro of world-wldo demand and of paramount necessity, Southern Farm Mngazlno. No Itletc to the Demist, Dontlst Will you take gas ? Patient Is thero nny risk Dentist Not for mo. You'll havo to pay In advance Dotrott Froo Press. . Tunnel. Dug by Ants, The ants of South America have been known to construct a tunnel three miles ln length. Y