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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1903)
TOPICS OF TUB TIMES. Chewing gum norm to be the school girl's quid of contentment. tt sometimes happens that an Inno cent man Also pleads not guilty. When a man U looking for tlimcul- tlci be will find two where he expect ed one. At some period In his career every man carries something In his pocket for luck. The wife who Is seeking a divorce from "one of the nicest of men" surely cannot expect to find a nicer one. Harry I.chr'a friends sny he doesn't wear a bangle and never uses rice powder. We are glad to give space 10 this statement Mr. Carnegie's experience proves that the rich man should always make his private secretary a millionaire be fore letting him go. Kngland and the United States are getting so thick that by next Fourth of July King Kdward may bo setting off cannon crackers. There can be no doubt that our squadron In European waters has picked up a lot of agreeable experi ence and some dyspepsia. A second veteran has refused his pension because he does not think -he Is entitled to It. Investigation found his predecessor In a lunatic asylum, England thinks something of adopting our Immigration laws to keep out un desirable aliens. Perhaps she has no- tlcod how admirably these restrictions work here. "The trainmen Jumped on the rails and fled to the station." This explains lu a large measure the disaster on the Paris underground railway. The train' men fulled to do their duty. Schwab is reported to be forming a tailors' trust, which Is to be modeled after tup cigar dealers' trust. Is the glad time coming when we shall with every suit receive a coupon and have a chance after saving up 007,000 of them to get a graphopboue? The college students who went Into the Western harvest fields to spend their vacation were not afraid of work. It Is cafe to conclude that when they are graduated they will continue In the same courageous course In which they have begun, and will receive the reward of courage, namely, that approval of their fellows which brings success. Civilians are apt to regard the naval and Joint maneuvers of the army and navy along our coast as elaborate and rather expensive comedies. For those actively engaged therein, however, these war games are no Jokes. In every other respect than In the ab sence of bodily peril tbey have all the characteristics of actual welfare. The strenuous rivalry is there and the strain of constant alertness, Just as If the participants were really enemies. Russia was within Its rights when It declined to receive the petition for the punishment of the officials whose neglect made the Kishenef anti-Jewish riots possible. The right of Interna tional petition Is not secured by any International law. Nations may re ceive petitions from outsiders or not, as pleases them. The effect of the Kishenef protest, however, Is as great as if It had been formally received in St. Petersburg. An active campaign for the punishment of the guilty Is In progress, and some of the responsible officials have already felt the Czar's displeasure. The friendly act of a Scotsman In the Spanish-American war was lately described by our consul at Southamp ton, who was formerly consul at Mon tevideo. The Oregon was expected, and" it was also anticipated that she would be abort of coal. The consul could not buy so much as a pound of fuel. One evening a Scotsman came to his door, and said, "You want coal?" The man had no power to sell, but be pointed out that he had eight hundred tons on board bis vessel, and said he pitied the American captain who could not put hla ship alongside, take out the bags of coal, and then "cut the painter." The Oregon did not call, but, said the consul, such an act of friendship touched bis heart, al though It defied law and order. There were cheers from the assembled Amer ican and British sailors and marines and their officers when the story was told. It would not be advisable to Instruct people In easy ways of killing them selves. Tbey are altogether too fond of suicide as It Is. It really seems, however, that Uiere Is need for popu lar education In such matters which will keep people from torturing them selves to death with carbolic acid or rat poison. If tbey must kill them selves they should not enduro unneces sary agony. Carbolic acid has attained surprising vogue as a lethal agent, probably because It Is cheap and easily procured. It can be bought at any drug store and a nickel's worth Is suf ficient to kill. Yet It Is a most ago nising Instrument of death. It Is a powerful escharotic It actually burns and destroys living tissue wherever It touches. The man wbo drinks car bolic acid pours liquid flame down his throat. It con-odes and eats away the lining of the whole digestive tract. The ensuing torture is indescribable. Rat poison Is largely made of arsenic, one of the deadliest and crudest poisons known to tbo chemist It produces pains compared with which the tor tures of cholera morbus are Insignifi cant It excites unquenchable thirst, gripes, convulsions. Death by arsenic Is horrible In the extreme. Ye these two agencies of self-destruction are ti,A most freauentlr employed. Car bolic acid leads, with rat poison a closo second. People torture themselves to death. They should be Informed of tlie agonies which they Invite. I'erhaps tlio kuowledga would net as a deterrent. The hearty laugh that comes of wholesome merriment Is the sunshine of life that drives creeping gloom shadows from the face and tjmii skulking cares from the heart. As booh as the world finds out that you enjoy a hourly Inugh It will bring you many a pleasant story. Care flees from a smiling face, but looks upon a frown as an Invitation to come and abldo with the one who wears It. Hut not all smiles have real sunshine In them. Some faces have learned the act of "nuking up" to well that even a smile can be put on so smoothly that no one but a child can fathom Its Insincerity. A child that has not learned to deceive has not yet learned how to be de ceived. The two acquirements conic hand lu hand. Children know Intui tively whether or not a smile Is genu ine or Is put on like a mask for an occasion. Children are kecuer than adults In detecting masks, for the rea son that adults usually have to look through their own masks to see the masks on others. There Is no charm lu a smile If It lacks genuineness. A smile may be as deep as a well and as wide as a barn door. It may reach clean around and tie In a double bow at the back; but the Instant we detect that It is not genuine we detest It Thereafter, the more there Is of it the worse we hate It. There have been more lies smiled than have ever been told In any other way. The Volapuk language Is nothing new. The smile, has always been universal speech. It has ever expressed clearly the simplest, the sweetest, the greatest emotions of the human soul. Take the smile and Its universal significance away from us, and all our words would become meaningless, because every one of the human emotions that distinguish us from beasts would, like a spring that Is walled In, stagnate for want of an outlet. Addison insists that "there Is no real life but cheerful life," and Steele says, "I am persuaded that ev ery time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs. It adds something to this fragment of life." Giggling, of course. Is quite another matter. Laugh lug may be overdone. There Is no fool like one who makes fun at the wrong time. The smile that comes from a really cheerful heart Is never out of place. But there are laughs and giggles that are only mouth-deep. Own If you con one of those welcom ing faces that bring the sunshine to life's shadowed spots. He who gives most Joy ever receives most. Hap piness Is forever an export Joy. The occasional hearty laugh Is good, but better still Is the steady sunshine of a smiling heart and face. Happiness seldom comes as one great moonstone, but rather as a thousand little beads of Joy which we string upon the threads of dally duty and opportunity. ONE Of ENGLAND'S BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth, wife of the "Napoleon of Journalism," Is one of the beauties of London. Her house in Berkeley Square has held some won derful companies, especially during the diamond Jubilee. She Is a curio collec tor of note and, like her husband, an cnthuilastlc automobile driver. FINE8T HOUSE IN MICHIGAN Torn Down and Shipped to Ilrookllne, Ma., to lie He-erected, To transport a bouse from Michigan to Boston Is a task wblch few would , undertake, but that is Just what J. M. Longytnr, former mayor of Marquette, Mich., has done. Mr. Longyear lived In a palatial mansion on tbe shore of Lako Superior. His bouso was tbo finest in tho State and represented an TUE LOItQYEAB UASSIOX. outlay of "$2SO,06b7 Recently a new railroad received tbe right of way along tbe lake front, close by Mr. Longyear'a bouse. This gave tbe mill ionaire offense and bo ordered the house torn down and taken to Brook line, Mass., where It will be re-erected for tbe use of the family. Practically, no other satisfactory disposition could be made of It. IU great value made It unsalable and It could not be rented profitably. . The Modern Version. Cinderella was weeping bitterly. xVaoo, mlnil enlil th fnrv wltli n wavo of her hand, "I will make you a j twentieth century cook." Hereupon bcr sisters hastily return ed from tho ball and begged her to take eight nights out every week.- Harper's Bazar. Now Signal Stations. Tbe United States signal corps will establish wireless telegraph stations at Fort Davis, Safety Harbor, St. Michaels, Fort Plggons, Bates Itaplds and at Valdez, where connection will be had with tbe submarine cable to Puget Bound. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS The End of the World Again. MAN of the name of Baxter Is causing a com motion In certain quarters of 1-ondon by prophesying that the world will come to an end In 1024. Mr. Baxter's reasons for setting the llr.tlt at trcM are nut very plain to outsiders, but he claims to have Biblical authority for his A conclusion. People who foresee the end of the world al ways have the Bible to back them up. li Is simply a mat ter of Interpretation. Many people found a few years ago that their Bibles plainly pointed to the destruction of the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Signs and where, and when the whistles blew at mldulght on the 31st of December and no general explosion came oft" there were thousnuds of men, women aud long breaths and gladly decided to take Prophet Baxter Is probably no more of his predecessors In the end-of-the-world predicting uusl ness have been, but he may be serving Every time anybody sets a day for tho certain people begin trying to do predictions are not without good results. Sometimes It secius as If society might be considerably benefited If there were more of them. Chicago Record - The Ecr Present Germ. 1HERK will science concedo nre of safety? It has lately w mm perlmentnlly which means that tt Is really so that books may carry tuberculosis, and It was already known that they communicate scarlet fever and other Infectious diseases. It IsToToTger safe to borrow a book unless we disinfect It thoroughly with powdered formol. If wo fly to the mouu talus to escape germs, we find that even the pearly rain drops that fall there contain them. Almost any one would suppose that In the middle of the sea we should And sur cease from them; but certain conclusive observations lately recorded show not only that "even the portion of the North Atlantic Ocean Is not wholly free from bacteria." but tint the germs In sea water are Increasing tu numbers. No sea water and no rain water has been found perfectly devoid of germs, though tho mln water over the deep sen Is more nearly free from them than the rain water that falls over the land. Not lug germs are hurtful, but some of them slon Is rapidly being developed In the microbe being omnipresent, one Is as place as another. Harper's Weekly. Why Men Eat Too Much. TSTlA1'IN"tJ is the greatest of all our standard I TC" I amusements. A great number of people ob I P I vlously eat a great deal more than they need, auu II is cuurcijr i-ruiuic ium a. miu I'l'Jirw tlon of the moderate eaters might thrive ns well and look as handsome and work as hnrtl and live as long on a very much restricted the Joy of life continue unimpaired for them? The native born could subsist for 11 cents a day, but would they think life was worth living on 11 cents' worth of food a day? No, they wouldn't That Is one Harpers Weekly. Summer Life on the Farm. HERE appears to be a steady demand forslght ly farms In the New England States and a growth of that taste which makes people of means prefer the rest of country life during the summer, to the confusion and crowds which make life at a summer hotel wearisome and TT sends people home In the fall as tired. If not more so, than when tbey sought relaxation. The extension of steam and trolley lines has robbed country life of a large part of Its Isolation and helped Induce people "to go back to the land." Old farms, which a generation ago hardly kept a family alive, are found to have a market value, owing to panorama of hill, vale, lake and river, which counted nothing In the Qfimifrl Tinr! Wr moo Marry Dark Men? $ 4-Vss4''?4"4ss4s4s4p Tbey do these things differently in England, If one may Judge by the fol lowing article In an English publica tion on "Should a Dark Woman Mar ry a Dark Man?" I know there Is a scientific law, "Likes repel, unllkes attract." But surely It Is a far cry to fit an elec trical statement to souls. Though, of course, love may be a subtle kind of magnetism, In wblch case undoubtedly tbe dark should marry the fair. The great advantage of this seems that, roughly speaking, fair people take life more easily than dark ones, and are less nervous and more ami able. Therefore tbe Ideal mate for the dark, energetic, highly strung man is the blonde, placid, good-tempered woman whoso calmness will cool his Impetuosity. Just In tbe same way tbe golden haired girl wltb violet eyes will prob ably be drawn to the dark Italian looking fellow whose eloquent brown eyes seem to speak a world of passion ate yearning. His eagerness, his audacity, will move her more than a blonde lover's Saxon handsomeness. The dark lover will be her Ideal, tbe force of contrast will draw them together, and they wilt be, In the eyes of the world, a perfectly matched pair- I know of dozens of good ladles who sigh their loudest and exclaim, "Dear met We shall see what we shall see" when tbey bear that a dark man and a dark girl are going to make a match of It According to them the doom of the unfortunate couple Is settled, because their hair and eyes are the same In color. This Is going too far. We've all known happy couples who were of tho fame complexion, Just as we've known unhappy pairs whose coloring made a fine contrast For the comfort of the dark halted glil who hopes to marry a man whose locks arc almost her own color, I'm going to quote a few of the things I have learned from a close study of tome few hundred married couples. If, then, you want to Inspire a Scree, overwhelming passion In your lover, you will havo a better chance It you are his physical opposite. But If you wish to Inspire deep and lasting friendship, you will have a better chance by being his physical counter part Looking round tbe women I know who are, first and foremost, their bus bands' chums, I am amazed to find the majority are dark, and have dark bus bands. ' In tho rare cases I know of, where Emtomals deuds In health, fully as valuable T portents were every Slates owns accumulated capital children who drew a fresh start are the best off of a seer than nny The English are second. Australia a good purpose. end of the world better. Hence those Herald. to us some mcas been proved ex G water of the central all these wander are. The conclu lay mind that, the safe from lilin In ouo diet But would thing that alls them. wish to ride at a He snlth smelleth the battle a fair man and a fair woman are the best comrades, I have invariably found that their pursuits arc entirely different. The fair man and woman are Saxon to tbe core, and lore fields, animals, mud, long walks, and the pleasures of nature, while tho dark couple crave excitement and are mentally more acute. The conclusion of tbe matter seems to be that a man must choose his wife according to what posltlou be wishes her to fill In his life. If be wants something to worship, something to delight his eyes, something to pro vide relaxation when tho day's work Is done, he should choose a golden haired maiden. If be wants passion ate devotion and poetic fervor ho should select a girl with raven hair and dark-brown eyes, but he must run the risk of a vehement temper nnd a Jealous disposition. If be Is a farmer or a quiet business man ho should marry his physical opposite, because the contrast Is more piquant But If he la a man dependent upon his brain for a living, his first need Is sym pathy, and this will be found In tho woman who Is of the same coloring and similar temperament. FIQURE8 RUN IN MILLION8, Immense Proportions Wblch Our Man ufacturers Have Attained. Few Americans hare an adequate conception of tbe greatness and Im portance of the manufacturing Inter ests of the country. In fact, It Is al most Impossible to conceive It, even when we read In the census reports that there are more than half a million establishments for the manufacture of some article of commerce. And these establishments are using capital to the amount of $0,833,080,000, and employ ing 307,174 clerks and officials and wage earners to the number of 6,310, 802. But If tbe mind refuses this high hur dle what Is tho mental condition of the fellow who tries to Jump the fact that $7,348,144,765 worth of raw material Is consumed annually by this array of factories, and makes out of this ma terial manufactured products worth altogether $13,014,287,408? That sum Is nearly ten times the authorized capi talization of tho greatest corporation on earth, the United States Steel Cor poration. It represents the actual val ue of tho States of New York and Pennsylvania combined. The product In 1800 was leas by nearly $4,000,000,000, whllo that of I860 was only a little moro than $1, 000,000,000. We rank first among the manufacturing nations of the earth, for we produce, according to the most accurate authorities, about half as much aa all of Europo combined, the United Kingdom ranking next, Ger T eyes of former owners, aud the new occupants draw dlvl sunshine, shade and landscape which art as dotlnrs.-Tamiton llnxetle. Tho Nation's Wealth. HE total wealth of the world Is estimated at J40O,(X).(HX.0O0. These figure ate probably lower than they should be, for the reason that statistical returns from South ami Central American countries and from the senil-clvlllicd portlous of the globe, such ns Asiatic nations aud the Ottoman empire, nre very Inaccurate and Incom plete. But taking this estimate as correct, the United one-fourth, or $100,000,000,000, of the entire of tho world. This fact, however, does not mean that the Americana financially of nil the people of the earth. the wealthiest, with the Scotch a closo comes next, then France, and after her the t'nlted Stntes. For tho purpose of striking tho com parison, tho compilation of ISM from Marshall's "Diction ary of Statistics" Is taken, Inasmuch as It Is fuller than any table subsequently made. Tho rer capita wealth of England Is II. Ml; Scotland, 1,V57; Australia, 11,123; France. $1,210; United States, I MM. Six other countries whoso per capita wraith Is worthy of mention are the following: Denmark with $1,101; Canada, $010; Holland, $S78; Switzerland, $7K7; derma ny. $748, and Belgium, $730. All these figures, of course, have greatly Increased since the year they were compiled, hut no great change In tho relative standing of tho different nntlous has probably resulted thereby.-Kansas City Journal. The Gift of Laughter. OD'S greatest gift to man was tho laugh. Without It the liumau raco would have wept Itself to death or exterminated Itself long ago. Pathos Is beautiful. Tragedy Is absorbing. But both pathos aud tragedy are luitaully routed by the Inugh. Laughter has sunshine In It. It Is warm. Learned men have searched for the secret of life. What la It but good humor? That's the secret of llfo being worth living. What sunshine Is to earth good humor Is to mnn. Tuke the smile aud the laugh away and It would bo the end of man. Men can't fight while they enjoy a Joke. Death him self recoils from the laugh. The man lu a good humor has an enormous advantage over the mnn who Is angry. Anger Is dark. Bitterness Is tilled with shadow. Intoler ance Is grim and black. Prejudlco Is blind. Good humor with the smile and the laugh Is sunshine lu which objects are plain and distortion disappears urtJ wherein phantoms become nothing. -Denver Post The Automobillst. HERE are a great many people In the world who do not seem to realize that their rights end exactly where those of their fellow-beings begin. We are unwilling to believe there are many who are made up of "the combination of Bllfll aud Black Oeorae" which that mordant Virginia ii. John Randolph, of Roanoke, accused Clay of being, with the result of meeting on tho field of honor; but there arc some who, without being either rogues or hypocrites, or anything else condemned by tho written or moral law, constantly forget the rights of others. Consider the untamed nutomolilllst. He Is next of kin to the bicycle scorcher who ran his devastat'ng course a few years ago. What Is It that makes a man apparently sane otherwise reckless speed through the cltr streets. 1 endangering the lives of others, as soon as ho thinks he Is, In the opinion of the Hon. O. P. knows how to operate one of those unconcealed deadly I Austin, chief of tho Bureau of Sta weapons? Were we Buddhists wo should believe Id in to be tlstlcs, a necessity for tho future prog. r..lnrnriintlr.n nf Ihn unr lion, rii.w.rilia.1 tt. Hi. 11! nt resS Of tllO World. AltllOUEll this belt J oh that "swallowelh the ground with fierceness and rage. among the trumpets. Ha, ha; and be afar off."-Phlladclphla Ledger. many third. Franco fourth and Aus-' ;..,. nt,i, ii;J.Kf.7..i... ...... ov. nnn ,i ,. ,,,. , ', ' 000 people moro than ten years of sge are engaged In productive Industry. More than one-third are In agriculture, n fifth In domestic and personal ser vice, a fifth lu trade and transports- tlon, the professions hold a meager rn.i.i, .,!!. n frt, i . manufactures ami tbe mechanical pur suits, Including mining. An Ingenious statistician has figured out the relative proportions of tho sex es engaged In these manufacturing pursuits as follows: If a given estab- llshment employing 100 persons de- sircu me typical division or men, worn- Historic llencock Cemeterr. en and children, It would bo obliged to jn nccordauco with a vote passed re employ seventy-seven men more than ccntly by the city council of Qulncy, 1(1 years of age. twenty women moro t,8 city engineer of that place has than 10, and three children or young begun to make an accurate plan of the pemom more than 10. jol(1 tilstorlc Hancock cemetery In City Tho King and the Importer. square, says the Boston Transcript King Alfonso of Spain has been say- Thl uuryliw around Is nearly 260 Ing to a Spanish newspaper what ho J0 old nnd """' " uln thinks about tho press. Could any. neadstones, tbo Inscriptions on which thing bo more modern than a king "e ,nBl f0'"'"? obliterated. Every descended from an ancient line of tono, "nd "?mb '" metfrjr monnrchs consenting to an Interview now X'T..', ? m "m'l' with a reporter? This Is the way tho f ' , ) ', .,,.. t.i..i ,i 1 This llttlo cemetery, situated In the young ru or delivers hlmse f or he h of he cll I)rolmbly way London M. A. P. translate, him: h w ()f llllll(lr70U, nMt,Ie The truly '"Partial periodical which , revoIutlouary times than any other applauds with enthusiasm all that U ono burln, ,pot orouna The good and censures with energy all flr(t HCauonB 0f which there la any that Is evil, will ever merit the sin- record w erccted lo tlle memor- of cere esteem of tboso who prefer the tho UeVt Wllllam Thompson, the first Interests of the nation at largo to any ra,tcr of tbe old First Meeting other consideration. j,0UIC( )n j0oo. The first tomb In the To reflect tho state of opinion and ,,iaco was built In 1076 for Dr. Leon to become tho echo of Its needs with- rd Hoar, third president of Harvard out its prejudices, and with serenity College and an ancestor of Senator of mind to sacrifice tho secondary end George F. Hoar. Tho second tomb to tho common good Is n most beautl- was built In 1000, and wns for Kd ful Ideal, and ono that falls perfectly mund Qulncy, one of the first of that within tho scope of tho mission' of the Illustrious nnme In this country. I've I In this cemetery nre burled tho Rev. I rend tho newspapers with Interest, John Hancock, ouco a pastor of tho and tuko especial delight In those First Church across the way, and which, llko Die Wocho, for Instance, father of Governor John Hancock of keep their readers Informed of tho revolutionary fume, who mnrrloJ "Dor advances made In science and Indus- othy Q.;" Henry Adams, who fled from try. I think that It Is expedient, even tbe dragon persecution In Devonshire, necessary, that tho current dally nnr-' England, nud also his son, Joseph rutlvo of events lu the world, which Adams, who waa one of tbo original excite public curiosity, and at times proprietors of the township of Brain anxiety, should bo associated with art ,reo an(1 members of tho Qulncy fain which delights ns well as instructs, , Uy. almost without number, nro burled nnd with science, whoso discoveries ' there, as nro many members of the should bo popularized, especially those Ilu family. On a marblo slab which that affect industry, so that all who covers the graves of tbe Qulncy rum. need Instruction may havo what Is lly h family coat-of-arms, cut lu useful sldo by side with what Is recre ative. Tbe average wgman can't understand wbero the trouble began, recalling with prldo In herself that she always met her husband wltb a smile, How ofton men tell things, and then add, "I wouldn't have It known that It camo from me." Th'n why tell It? llenxlno locomotives of eight horse power, drawing freight trucks of a -piielly of US Ions on narrow-gunge tun nel reads, are changing the working of (Irrnmii, ltclglnu and Austrian mines. Piano playing Is found by n (lermnn physician to ho a common cause of nervous disease, 1KH1 girls out of 1,000 being affected among piano plnycr un der II!. and only 100 In l.ooo ntiiong non-players. The music lessons should not begin before 111. A new Improvement of tho micro scope tnade at Jnva University con sists In so arranging tho lllumliintluii that no light can enter tho objective except tlint reflected by the object un der einiuliintlon. This, It Is claimed, lirlngs Into view objects about half the slso of those formerly proving the lim it of minuteness. The unicorn, so long regarded as a fabled creature, was a horse-llko beast with a single horn sticking out straight from Its head, and It hns been sup posed that It whs suggested by tho rhinoceros. Prof. Wllhrlm Boelseho points out (hat bones of a huge, hurso llko beast that actually did carry such a single straight horn are now known. It Is called olnsmotherluiu, and tt wan a contemporary of tho mammoth lu the Rhine valley and In Siberia. Prof. A. W. Ooodspeed of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania has recently made X-ray photographs by means of secondary radiation from his hand ex posed to tho action of a Crookcs tube, which was so screened that Its rays could not directly reach the photo graphic plate. Other things besides tho hand, such as pieces of wood, zinc, and brass, were found to possess a similar property of being excited to tho emission of Invisible rays by the action of the tube. On two occasions Professor Coodspccdhas suffered from Inflammation of the eyes and throat when sleeping lu a room where X-ray experiments had been conducted, aud he thinks the cause may have been the secondary radiation from the air or ob ject In the room. Experiments made soino time ago by Messrs. E. fl. Nichols aud O. F. Hull were thought to prove that the deflection of a comet's tall on ap proaching the sun Is due to pressure of light A mixture of dried puff-liall spores and emery sand was poured through a kind of hourglass hole In a vacuum tube, a beam of light forty times ns strong as sunlight being turn ed on the particles, nud the light puff ball seeds only a tenth as heavy as water were blown aside while the emery continued to fall vertically. Cor rected calculations now Indlcato that tho problem I not as near solution as was supposed. The effect Is ten times as great as the pressure of light could produce, somo unknown forco seeming to havo taken part, and rurther experi ments will bo made, using, If possible, lighter particles aud a more perfect vacuum. Development of tho great natural re sources of the tropical belt of tbo earth ' contains practically one-half of the . land aren or tlio gioue, it now contriu- utes but one-sixth of the exports wblch ' enterlnlo International commerce, with ""e growing population i of the world i and the Increase of facilities for trans- 'portatlon. a change should bo wrought In this respect. Science has shown how , . ' ... r, llfo and health can bo protected In (tin tropics, nnd India, southern China and other Oriental countries contain popu lations capablo of laboring, and willing to Inlior, In the tropics. Finally, Mr. . . , " ' Austin points out that In comparative ly recent years practically all of the tropica, except tropical America, have been brought under tho control of tern peratc-zono countries. TO 8AVE ANCIENT TOM B8TONE8. Work lleaan to Preserve Tuoee In tho slate stone, resembling lead. This took tbe place of tbe original coat-of-arms, which was cast out of lead, and which was, during the days of tbe revolu tionary war, cut from tbe tombstone and melted Into bullets. It was In this old cemetery that President John Adams was buried un til his later tomb under tbe First Church was ready to receive bis body, President John Qutury Adams also found a resting place In a tomb of llm cemetery when tho body was brought homo from Washington, For nearly two centuries entile were allowed tu roam at will nnd grate lit the church yard, nnd It was not until 1600 that I steps w ere Inken to Inclose the placa I With a fence, In that year a commit- tee, conslsllng of Piesldent John I Adams, his brother, Chief Justice Thumns lloylston Adams, Joatnh Quln j cy and a number of other cltlsens pur. chased the land nnd preacnieu ins place lu the town of Qulncy. LYNCHINQS ON THE WANE. Dsstilts Anpearaucee Thej Are ' Frequent Than I'ornisrlr. Conspicuous crime llko the Wilming ton lynching almost always provoke Imitation. Many cases have been re ported In rapid sucwaslon sines lis oc currence. Hut this will not blind thoughtful students of our civic situa tion to tho fait that the general trend of lynching statistics Is downward. From IKS4 to 1000 there were iUlltl lynchlngs lu the United Slates, an av erage of about 100 annually. Of these, contrary, perhaps, to general opinion, only a little mure than two-thirds, 1, U7H, were of negroes. More than a fifth of all the lynchlngs were In Northern States. It Is notable, however, that the pro portion of whiles la decreasing, owing to the diminution of lynchlngs for horse stealing In the West. Contrary, also, to popular opinion, hardly a fifth of the cases were for assanlt, and even If we Include the categories, attempted assault, nllegud assault and assault ag gravated by murder, wo shall still tlmt leas than a fourth, Oil), attributable to this cause. It may be worth noting also that forty-two States are repre sented In tho statistics of lynching. There Is a steady tendency down ward since 1S07, when the uuinlx-r of lynchlngs was almost exactly Hint of tliu average for tho alxteeu-year period, 100. lu ItttW It fell to 127. In 1800 to 107. There waa a slight lucrrsM lu 1100 and In 1001, but lu 1WB, for the first time since nceurste record began, there were less than 100 lyiichluga, and the first six months of 110.'I show only -IS, which suggests that this year may lie even freer from this sods I crlmo than 1102. We must record with re gret, however, that nearly a third of the six months' total occurred In June. Tabulated by States, the figure show (leorgla in the lead, with Missis sippi, Ixnilslana, Alabama, Texas nud Tennessee following. In no other States has the ii'imber of lynchlngs for tho past twenty years reached 100. But, though lynchlngs are decreasing In number, the area lu which they oc cur grows. They are met with In States where a generation ago they would havs been thought Impossible. This revests an evil no longer section al, but of national concern. One touch of moral heroism Illumin ate the Wilmington Incident. The father of the victim, when lis learned that there wna talk of lynching ths confessed criminal, published an open lottrr begging all good citizens to await tho orderly process of law. He Is a minister aud, suffering under a provocation hardly thinkable, showed himself worthy of the Master he had undertaken to set Ircfore others as an exemplar. Churchman. WOMAN SUCCEEDS ON ROAD. Mr. It O. T.jlor Makes Mvlnai ae Commercial Traveler. Mrs. E. (1. Taylor, commercial trav eler, representing n Bridgeport, Conn., house, I stopping at an uptown hotel. In an Interview with a Commercial re porter, Mrs. Taylor said: "Why do I sign my name upon the hotel register, 'K. (J. Taylor, New York?' Tho reason Is, no doubt, obvi ous. I waa born In Cavendish. Vt., and received my education lu the pub lic schools there. I married In Bel lows Falls, Vt. My husband died 13 years ago, and I have traveled for nine years, representing Thomas P. Taylor, who, however, Is no relative of mine. I have been successful; but It Is my aim always to bo more so. My sample trunk Is a large one, nnd with an nvor ago excess of 23 pounds. I never usa a hand satchel to show samples In part, but have my trunk taken to stores when It Is Impossible for buyers to vlow tlio samples at the hotel.' "With the exception of a two-week holiday I travel tho entire year, visit ing nil the largo cities east of tho Mis slsslppl River, and in winter time, for a period of two months, devoting my time to tho large cities of all the Southern States, savo Florida. "Many Incidents occur while travel Ing that rcllovo tho monotony. Recent ly a rather fleshy woman had evident ly secured the prlvllvgo of storing In tho car part of her household effects and many of her pets. Among tho lat ter was a rooster. The conglomeration reminded mo of the sign I once saw In front of a general merchandise stors out West which rends: "Bibles and treacle, goodly books and gimlet for snlo here.' "The hotel clerks always treat ma with gentlemanly consideration. Tho traveling men often extond courtesies that show their goodness of heart In a convention-crowded city, when hotels wcro filled, they have moro than ones surrendered their rooms to me aud gone elsowhero to search for quarters." New York Commercial, Straw In Kgyptlaii Brick. The ancient Egyptians had a process for making bricks which rendered them very hard, yet easy to work. An American engineer, Mr. Acheson, thinks he has discovered their secret The Egyptians used straw and by boil ing straw In wnter and mixing clay with It bo found that It gavo hard, shapely bricks that did not crack or deform In baking. Analysis proved tho effect duo to tannin dissolved lu water. Further experiments showed tlmt from one-half to 1 per cent of the tannin of commerce added to tho reslBtanco of tbe brick, The process also economizes water and such bricks dried In tbe sun, ore oven mora solid than those of the kiln. London Globe. Owning a Panama bat Is Iiko own ing one shirt You have to go to bed while It Is being washed. Work now: you cuu rest after vnu are dead.