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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1903)
TOPICS OF ) THE TIMES. ! it's ft lucky rnln Hint iloosn't tuni (nil whctyou mil bends. The rolling stone sees Its when It strikes tli tip grade. nnlsli Tlic young people of thin country need nnd should have mora moonlight nights. Foolishness Is the conuuon heritage of limn, but wisdom la n prize given lo the few. " A Crow chief tins discarded the torn alinnk for the automobile. The cun ulng old murderer! Turkey enn't tell Macedonia to go get a reputation heforc fighting It. It produced Alexander the Great. Mr. Corbett Is now writing articles on his defeat, literature being a by product of up-to-date pugilism. A man never knows what he can do until he tries and If he tries the chances arc he will regret It later. If advice were worth money there are many of us who would not be bothered to death by solicitous friends. It may be nil right to act as collector for n dead man. but when It comes to remitting there U sure to be more or less trouble. Home wives worry because they ini agltie the other half of the outfit Is In love with every doll-faced girl he hap pens to look at And when you thluk of It, It seems strange how a mosquito can carry around so much malaria In Its sys tem and still remain so aggressively active. It Is reported that rich deposits of diamonds have been found In Liberia. If the rumor Is well founded we may ccnfldently predict that Liberia will soon cease to be a black republic. Ixrd Charles Bereaford, In tracing sonieof the Improvements In the treat ment of the men In the British and the -United States navies, said that formerly they had the cat and no dis cipline; now they have discipline and no cat. With the progress of civilization not only Is insanity on the increase, but the occurring varieties are less curable, the physique of the town-dwelling sec tion of the population has deteriorated both in height and weight, and the statistics of recovery are less favorable than they were twenty-flve years ago. Serious as this may appear, while such a state exists one can nei ther hope for nor expect relief from the great financial and economic bur den of providing accommodation for the Insane of the future. If relief is to come, it will be in some great change afToctlng the physical as well as the mental health of the masses of the people. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS age housewife engaged In her ordinary duties tho answer would lie wrong. Though slnrlllng It Is true that tho death rate of the patient domestic drudgo Is greater than thnt of the soldier. So says Dr. Dickinson, of Chicago, who hns Investigated. At tho battle of Santiago 100,000 soldiers were engaged nnd 300 were killed -n death rate of three-tenths of 1 per cent. The death rate of tho woman who keeps house la considerably larg er. These arc some of tho dangers which the woman who la engaged In the slavish task of housekeeping and kitchen keeping face dally: Death lit- tli, It ....,.,11.... o. . 1 ploslous. lly falling down dark stair ways. Hy heat prostration. Uy dis ease contracted through bad sewer ago and unsanitary kitchens. Hy ex haustion and unending drudgery. Hy suicide Induced by the hopelessness of the dally routine. These nro not happiness would he distinctly augmented. This lesson Is fanciful dangers. Kach of them has that despair Is a temporary stnte, and In many cases la rrl Mnny Suicide Duo to Iqnornnco. i result Is ft race of strong men. When class distinctions UK new suicide statistics from Yale Collcce are marked the gentry gain culture without losing strength and tho Increasing tendency to self-destruction i That Is tho highest type of manhood. It was seen In the which marks the hot season are reminders that a large number of suicides are really preventn ble. and are only due to lark of physiological education. If college lecturers upon hygiene aud te.irhers of physiology would take pains to widely Impress one simple lesson a large aud dellnltp class of suicides would cease to Imj and the general average of Its frightful statistics of death au alarming mortality. And, strangely enough, these dangers follow largely In the wake of the effort by modern Invention to lighten the toll of the do? nestle drudge, tabor saving devices have Increased the risk. Notable among domestic tragedies are the fa tal accidents caused by explosions of gasoline or gas stoves. Tho mothers of the race ore being slaughtered by the progress of civilization. Especial ly Is this true of the so-cnlled middle class wives and wives of worklngmen. Housekeeping at the best Is a menial and dull occupation. There Is little to compensate for the weary and spirit less routine. To many a frail woman the bondage to monotonous common place Is In Itself a domestic tragedy. When there la added to the miracle of labor required dangers more real than the battleaeld, what shall be said? The remedy? Society must do more for the housewife. Safety must be Joined to facility of labor, ltetter san- itnrv mnriltlnna Kltrhona In tmmpa mtt Amtm ami (nmiHltl V, 1111 1 it ia ' made more habitable and convenient Women should be better educated concerning the danger of explosives. Children in school should be taught the common things as well as the higher things of life. Diversion must somehow be introduced Into the life of the exhaustive and ceaseless round of household drudgery. "Work is not a curse, but drudgery Is." Let the world forget a while the sorrows of the man with the hoe" and contem plate the fate of the woman with the dish rag. entirely due to physical or bodily causes. The best remedy for "the blues" Is a liver pill. That gloomy, hopeless out look In events which drives many to sulcldn Is duo not to the events themselves, hut to bodily conditions which set up the state called "despair" In tho mind. Any desoiulent persons whose troubles are really trivial may prove this by looking backward for a dny or a week to the last day on which he vtaa abundantly happy, lie will and In uianv cases that events and conditions have not altered In the least that the existing gloom comes, therefore, from some cause within himself, and he may como to bellovo that hope for the hopeleos can be purchased at a drug store. Love particularly among toso young people who havo been ex ecutlng themselves mo recklessly of late. Is, to the physl clan, merely a drtlulto state of bodll) congestion, whose natural mental result Is melanhcoly. and which can easily be alleviated. If not cured, by simple treatment Aud If an lover or pair of lovers who nro thinking of death wilt con suit an Intelligent doctor, they will save their Uvea nt tin expense of 11 rery moderate fee. New York American. AUTOMOBILE LAWN MOWER IN IISE AT THE CAPITOL At last the two-minute trotting horse has arrived. When Crescens came within two and a quarter seconds of this much-dreamed-of mark two years ago, even the experts said that horse flesh could not be trained to do any better. Rut Lou. Dillon easily captured the laurel from Cresceus, making the mile la 120 seconds flat, and the last quarter in the still more remarkable time of 20 seconds. Yet this wonder ful feat creates none of the popular In terest and excitement that marked Dexter's 2.17V. In 1807. the 2.-08--J4 of Maud S. In 1885, or even the 2:0-1 of Nancy Hanks In 1802. This doubtless Is due to a lessened popular Interest In trotting, mainly through diversion to other and newer sports, llut the horse man will tell us that the achievement of Lou DllUn marks a distinct advance in breeding and training, as well as in the conditions under which such rec ords ore made. And tho more we thluk It over the more wonderful It seems that n horse can trot a mile In two minutes. Much profit can be derived from on occasional reading of Carlyle's "Sar tor Itesartus," as the average man is prone to forget that the body Is more than raiment When the Presbyterian Church realized that those who sought to revlso the creed did not strive to make a now body, but only asked that a more modern garment be put on the old one, objection to changes In for mula disappeared, and the new creed was adopted unanimously at the re cent General Assembly. Because the church was Jealous of the faith of Its fathers It took fifteen years to secure approval of the new form of doctrine, the substance of which remains the same as the old. Jealousy for the truth, as it Is given to one to see the truth, tends toward a fuller compre hension of the truth itself. It Is be cause of the conservatism of the va rious churches that, although much has been said about tlie great changes In the belief of men, the change in a thousand years has not been radical. The form of words In which beliefs have been expressed has been revised and the conduct which was thought fitting for Christians has been modi fied, but the motive of Christian life remains the Bame, Kach generation serves Ood ns best it may. This gen eration Is wont to flatter Itself with the notion that It 1b moro broadly tol erant than some of Its predecessors, nnd that it holds a less repellent view of the nnture of Qod. It remains for tho jjeoplo who come after us to de cide "whether this pride is Justified. Tho nev 'generations will have their .creed revisions and their controver sies, but unless the religious uaturo ..changes there, will -bo no matorlal change In the body of their belief, whatever mny be the garments of creed In which It Is clothed. What is believed to be the first auto mobile lawn mower used In this coun try Is employed on the grounds around the Wbltebouse and the Capitol In Washington, where it may be seen almost every day cutting grass. The statement Is made that it does Its work neatly and expeditiously, and at the same time doe no damage to the beau tlful lawns. Latest Thing In Kisses. The new scientific kiss Is not a kls at all. Those great men who study the dark ways of the wily germ and the ubiquitous bacillus frown upon Hp-klssIng as an Indulgence leading to disease. Consequently, when two fair women meet they formally lift their veils and the velvety right cheek of one Is pressed for an lustant against the satiny left cheek of the other, says an observer. This Is as nice a sub stitute for the old and dangerous meth od of greeting as the most demonstrut Ingly affectionate individuals could de sire. Certain husbands, brothers and near est cousins to rosy cheeks, who have experimented with the new method, declare that It Is "not half bad," though hardly up to the standard of the old style kiss. It is considered as rude to offer to press the cheek of your friend without lifting your veil as It Is to kiss lip fashion through the dotted mask, or to offer your left band for shaking. Ills Bright Thought, They stood In the darkness, hand In hand, looking out Into the night. 'Dearest," said she, sadly, "what does It make you think as you look out Into the Illimitable space?" Tho Handicap of Lack of Education. ANY men of wonderful natural endowments are dwarfed nnd hampered In tholr life work because of their lack of education. How often cnxeanemu! '' ,T ,c hrlght minds lu responsible positions, serving on imams or directors, as trustees oi great business houses or banking institutions, men who coutml the affairs of great railroad and manufactories, who have good Judgment nnd great natural ability, but who nro so stunted and cramped b their lack of early development that life does not yield them one-tenth of nh.it It might had their Intellectual and a en thetlc possibilities been unfolded In youth. In social life, on public platforms. In debate. In the higher fields of tin world's work, enjoyment, and progress, they are constantl) baffled, embarrassed and handicapped by the limitations ot Ignorance. Again, thouunds of young men and young women an working to-day In Inferior positions because of their lack of mental culture. Conscious of dormant powers which they cannot get control of, many of them fret nnd ehafi under the restraint Imposed upon them by their own Ignor ance. They are In tho position of the Chinese nnd other non-progressive peoples, who have great mineral, agrlcul tural and other natural resources, which, however, do not yield them a hundredth part of their value because they di not know how to utilize them. In the very midst of poten tiai weaitn nnu vast possibilities, these people live In uov erty nnd degradation. Just as an uneducated man or woman. wno has never developed his or her mental wealth, is doomed to perpetual ignorance and its consequcuces. Success. T Influence of Land. HE causes which control the ebb and flow of humanity between city and country are among the most subtle and obscure of social phe nomena. The characteristic of the people of all new countries Is tlgor. It la due to the abun dance of land for all tJie people, nnd the action aud re-actlon between land nnd man. Tho life of new coun tries Is rude, but the nourishment Is abundant, and the nure air sends pure blood coursing through the veins. The prc-Augustan nge of Home, In the chivalry of medieval Western Kurope, In the planters ot our own Southern States In thn first half of the nineteenth century. Tho de velopment of the highest type of manhood Involves the con demnation of the majority to a rude nnd laborious life, llut such men ran be propagated from generation to generation only no long as they remain In their rural environment In tho cttlea degeneration occurs. Hero and thero vigor la transmitted through several generations of city bred men, at least In Individuals who maintain the family name nnd standing. The tendency la to degeneration, and the mass yields to tho tendency. Tho result la seen lu the slums nnd the potter's field. The new men who dominate tho cities at least In Amerlcu-are country bred. San Francisco Chronicle. future of tho Automobile. OMK people have regarded theae machines as likely to become formidable competitor of the street and tho steam railroad as regards both passenger nnd freight transportation, and there have appeared magazine articles to this effect, whoso writers should know better. As la point ed out In the current number of the Engineer- ing magazine, four or five times as much power would bo required to move a glveu weight over tho beat macadam road as over steel rails, and power Is the great cost of transportation. Hence it rati never be that tho automobile, on the common public roadway, will bo able to compete with tho railroad car either In tonnage movement or speed. Accordingly the automobile must remain a vehicle for pleasure or for transportation In competition with tho horse where a railway Is unavailable or Inconveniently inacces sible. The only way to bring It Into direct competition with the railway Is to put It upon rails Itself, and In that rase It may be said to have lost Its present character, and become n railway car for prlrato or public use. In this aspect tho question of tho automobile and Its future merges Into that of tho railway car, whether moving over high rails or brand flat rails, laid In the common public highway, or on a private way. Considered In this character, tho auto car or vehicle mechanically propelled by Its own power no doubt has a great future. Just as the electric street car has. - Springfield ltepubllcnn. REOHGANIZATION Of AKMY AND NAVY. 3 ' ' HHAD OK TIIK NAVY. II13AI) OK Til 13 AHMY. Oil the Ural time In the history of the United Hlatea army Ita method f ttduilulatrnlloii has been rndlcnlly reorganized, nnd If Congress at Its next session takes the netlon now expected of It, a slinlhr re organization will he applied to the navy. In thla respect wo have followed, aud not, aa haa been our custom, led, Kurupo. Hy the terms of the measure known as the general staff bill, passed at the Inst session of Congress, the nrmy will henceforth be controlled by the t'rcsldcitt and Secretary of Wnr through a general staff, nnd not through n general In chief, as heretofore. This measure, which went Into effect a week after the retirement of Lieu tenant (lenernl Miles, will have far-renchltig innscquenec. especially In time of pence, but while this Is appreciated by the eople at large, they are somewhat In tho dark rcgnrding the workings of thn new measure and the duties devolving upon thn general staff and upon Us head, Lieutenant llcncml Young. It) the langungo of the bill Itself, "tho tlllllea of the general alafT corps shall be to prepare plans for tl nllonnl defense nnd for the mobilization of the military forces In time of wnr; to Investigate and report upon nil queallona affecting tho efficiency of the nnny nnd Its state of preparation for mllltnry opcrattona; to render professional nld and assistance to the Secretary of War and to general olllrera nml other superior commanders, nnd to net na their ngeuts In Informing nnd coordinating the action of nil thn different olllcera who are subject under the terms of this act to the chief of staff; and to perform such other mllltnry duties not otherwise assigned by law as may be from time to time prescribed by the President." The terms of this section may Indeed be considered sweeping. 1,'ndcr them lu time of peace the general staff will make n rigid Investigation of nil branches of the service, will gather data regarding the military ri'mitirrcs of the powers, will plan tmnglnnry campaigns aud will study the climate, topography, etc., of foreign countries, so thnt. should occnslou nrlae, the head of tint nrmy will find available nil the Information necessary to (ho conduct of n cam paign abroad. Tho theory on which the general staff will work la Hint pre paredness for wnr Is the lot guarantee of pence, nnd Hint the powers, know ing that we hare taken steps to put the study of military defense on a scien tific basis, will be restrained from any hasty action. HANDY WHLN YOU CO CAMPING. T Misapplied Charity. Ill; question arises from time to time whether, after all, much of the charity which stands ready and willing to aid almost whosoever shall ask Is not doing deadly work for the peo ple. It was .this thought which Impelled Car lylo to say that among the most futile of the sons of men was the professional philanthrop ist Tho great curse of the cities of to-day Is the congestion of population In tho poor and squalid districts, and this The average American buy often constant and Increasing rush from tho country to the city feels the desire to get Into the wild. is uot only a sourco and cause of crime and suffering, sometimes no is auie to ruiuii uie tie- but of economic wnsto of the most dangerous and costly When ho Is, he stiouid lie con' kind. While the farmers of the West plead for helti In gratulated. for tho life of tho well their fields, the cities are tilled with the wretchedly poor regulated camps Is a Joy unknown lo wno win not leave the city, where they subsist largely on ltie coopea-up city man. charity. It Is not alone In the West In harvest time1 Tn ,cnt ' "10 "nportant feature, that labor Is needed lu the conntrr: tho ,1,.mn,i tnr i.t'and a Kood ons Is absolutely neces, nt good wages comes from every farming district In every 1 MT- Otherwise the camper win !e mate in me uniou nil me year, and one of the moat serious sunjeci to uu.-.yrv.v.. ..-. problems confronting tho farmer is the scarcity of work ers. among the commonwealth thnti they (Hisses now. nnd this nscendeiicy will be shared In a particularly lurge do grew by their gtvnt renters of Industry nnd commerce. St. Louis (llohc-Dvm-ocrnt. inc rusn to me cities continues nevertheless, and the poor nnd lulo find the rourso of nature and tho basic eco. nnmic laws reversed by tboso who sro actually seeking ways oi neiping wiose to live wno deliberately will not work. Philadelphia Ledgrr. RADICAL CURE FOR LOCKJAW. Severe Nature of the Itemed? Calcu lated to Inspire Kcnr. A large number of deaths from tetanus that have recently come to light Invests with great Interest any report of a cure of the much-dreaded disease. The severity and radical nn ture of the remedy, however, are well calculated to Inspire almost as much fear as the original attack of the mal ady. Unlike other kindred Infectious aliments, there Is usually no calcula tion for results until the poison hns done Its work by attacking Uie brain and nervous centers nnd producing the fatal spasms. Hence the only hope rests In the injection of the tetanus anti toxin directly Into the brain substance. The operation Is a severe and dangerous one, but is the only means at hand that appears to be founded on the rational scientific basis of directly neutralizing the poison. The successful case reported from San Francisco is one In point In which It was necessary to bore Into the skull of the victim for the purpose of Intro ducing the neutralizing agent No more forcible argument In favor of prevention of lockjaw could be urged than that afforded by the necessity of the situation. Although of late a large majority of the cases of tentanus have been charg ed to the toy pistol and poisoned cart ridge, It Is well to bear in mind that the real cause Is tho accidental pres ence of the bacillus on dirt-solled hands, and that the microbe, being naturally developed In damp and fer tilized earth, can thus bo easily driven Into wounds by an explosion. Itusty garden Implements, nails and the like are also frequent causes of Infection, Why. vou know," said he, smllin thouzbtfully down at her. "I always . especially when they produco punctur think that with so much space theie ed lesions. When such conditions are if most persons were asked which la tho more dangerous occupation, that of soldier lu battle or ot tho over- ought to be room enougli for every body." Minneapolis Journal. Mall by the Hlberlan I toad, European mall can now be dispatch ed to the far east by means of the great Trans-Siberian railroad. Letters can to-day bo sent from Paris, Iter lln or Vienna via Moscow to Vladlvos tock and Port Arthur In from twenty. two to twenty-four days, while the time required by steamer mall via the Suez canal route Is from six to eight weeks. ltaue Problem. "De race hez got ter rise en hustc ef ever it hopes ter git dar," said tho old colored citizen, "Too many of us thinks dot all we got ter do Is go tor sleep In de hot sun en rise up ter cat watermelons 1ft de shadel" Atlanta Constitution. Cheap Horsepower In Frisco. The melting snows and glaciers of the Itoekles, and petroleum now fur nish such abundant power for San Francisco that the cost of one borso power one hour la two cents. A lazy man can never know th Joy of a well earned rest present obviously tho only course to pursue Is to endeavor to anticipate lockjaw by Immediotely cleansing the wound and by Injecting the anti-toxin locally, knowing full well that with such an opportunity lost the last, most despernto remedy Is all that is left In connection -with such facts, too much stress ennnot be laid upon the avoidance of all wounds from soiled or rusty Instruments. Kept the Company Awake, He couldn't have been more than IB nnd he was a perfect specimen of tho typo of street boy ono reads about, but seldom sees. He was standing on tho back platform, smoking, when tho at tention of tho genial passenger was first called to him and this because the boy brushed oft the genial pas senger's coat and apologized for nearly setting It on fire. "Been ter ther ball game?" the boy Inquired. Tho genial passenger ad mitted that ho hadn't had that pleas ure. 'Tench of a game," said the boy. Just as this point a fashionably dressed young man boarded Uie ear and went inside, where, after seating himself, he pulled up bis trousors, dis playing a pair of brilliantly colored socks. The boy moved over to the doorway, and, crouching, with his bend Inside the door, fixed his eyes In a fascinated stare on the gayly clnd ankles. When he was sure he had attracted the attention of all tho pas sengers to the offending articles, he yelled derisively: "Bum show! Drop dcr curtain!" By this time the genial passengei hail reached his corner, hut leforu lie had a chance to get off n good-looking middle-aged woman pushed hy hi m and stepped off the car, remarking sharply as she did so on the evil of smoking. Of course her speech was directed at the boy. Quick as a flash he retorted: "The girl's mad because I would not flirt with her." The car moved off with the boy smil ing and happy and Uie woman flushed with anger and wishing she could box the young scamp's ears. New York Press. CURIOUS PLACES TO DWELL. Timely Warning. A novelist who was giving a lecture on the characteristics aud surround ings of the class of people with whom some of his books deal, noticed a dis approving face lu the front row of listeners. It was the face of an el derly Scotchman, and at the close of the lecture the man waited upon the speaker. "Sir," he said slowly, after a sol emn shake of the lecturer's linnd, "I've read all your books up to this, and liked them fairly. Man, you wouldna gle up writing and tok' to speaking to get your living, would ye?" "No, Indeed," said the lecturer, so berly, "You think It would be unwise, don't you?" "It would be sao great a mistake that I felt I must tell ye ma thoughts aa an honest man," said the Scotchman, with great earnestness, "I said to mysel', 'He may need Just a word to set him right, and I'll not deny It to htm.' There was ane o' your books I found a bit dull, but as I listened to ye to-night I said to mysel', "Twni na so dull as It might ha' been, that book, after all.'" A Nubterfugo. "Don't you know that It Is wrong to gamblo?" "Yasslr," sold Pickaninny Jim as ho shook tho dice, '"I knows It's wrong to gamble, but dlshero Isn't gnmblln'; dlshere Is a guessln' contest." 'Wash ington Star, Accounting for tho Trouble She The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Ho Possibly that's why so many poor devils havo dyspepsia. Baltimore American, Aj-bltcr of Men's Fashions, The Prince of Wales has taken his father's palace as arbiter of men's fashions. He seldom wears a suit moro than two or three time. Porao l'op1 Have Ifomts ! Cave an.l Otliera In Cralera, Many thousands of the people of the enrth dwell benenlb Ita surface. There are humnn habitations In caverns where the light of day never pene trates, and the crater of extinct vol- ennoes furnish shelter to scores. The pe qile of Tupuselcl hnve no need to travel fnr when they want to take a snlt water Iiuth. The town Is built on plies, which hnve been driven Into a submerged coral reef situated fnr out In the Torres straits to the south of New (lulnen. Opposite this extra ordinary settlement, on the mainland, Is another vll.nge that Is perched high In the nlr among the gigantic palm trees with which the count hi fringed. Tho object of both communities In choosing these curious site for tholr dwellings Is Identical. They desire to assure themselves against being sur prised by their numerous enemies, and especially they seek safety from tho prowling Dynk head hunters. People utillcted with diseases not In frequently develop strango fads as re gards the choice of their abiding places. Not lung since, for Instance, a number of consumptive agreed to gether to dwell within the dismal depths of the Mammoth Cave In Ken tucky. In pursuance of this extraor dinary pro ect, building materials were actually carried Into the cave nt con siderable trouhlo nnd expense, nnd n tiny suhterrnnenn village sprang by de grees Into existence. When It wns completed It wns Inhabited by thirteen families. But, ns might hnve been foreseen, the profound silence and eternal dark ness of tho place exerted upon the un fortunate Inhabitants n deleterious ef fect which fnr outweighed nny benefit derived from the undoubtedly pure, dry nlr and equable temperature, Home of the Invalids died, others gnvo up the experiment In disgust, nnd the houses so Mrringily and laboriously built ore now given over to tramps, outlaws and other similar chance so journers. Better luck has attended the little colony of people slmllaily nlillcted, who, a few years back, settled within tho Inndlockid crater bny which con stitutes practically tho wholo Interior of tho volcanic Island of 8t Paul, in tho Indian ocean. Hero they nro en tirely protected against nil wind, no matter from what quarter of tlio com pnss It mny clinuco to blow, whllo hot natural baths at varying temperatures are nlwnys available. The very ground, too, Is kept nt n constantly equable." heat by tho latent volcanic fires within, And, lastly, food of all kinds Is plentiful and varied, nnd In cludes such curious and unusual deli cacies as sea elephants' fins and tails, crayfish nnd other succulent "Kerg uelcn cabbage," No wonder that many of those who hnve been cured havo preferred settling on the Island to r turning to their homes. mny wake up to And himself without cover In a windstorm. The camp fire Is another Imporlnut consideration. Several style are used, depending on the locality. A good fire place Is built of stones, piled one on top of the other In circular shape. The spsces between tho stones furnish draft. The stone retain heat and Uie fire will give greater hent and burn longer than In the open bonfire. To hang kettle, uprights and crosaplece. as shown, will tie found useful. A simple table can be made from fence bonrds or from the cover of a packing box. a shown. Cots suitable for all requirements nr made by driving crotched sticks Into tho ground nnd placing the Mrctcher-mnde cot (n piece of ennvas sewed on two poles) Into the crotches. Another simple cot Is shown In tho Il lustration. BUILD UP GREAT EMPIRE8. Railroads the Instrument of Creat ing Wealth and Power. Just fifty year have passed since tho ground was platted on which the Seattle of to-day stands. Just about tho satno length of time has passed since the state of which It Is the me tropolis was organized as a territory. In the case of each of them, how ever, the real growth has been but ro cent, and It has been largely n crea tion of the railroads. Although Wash ington was organized as a territory In IBM, It had only 11,000 Inhabitants In 1800, 23,000 In 1870 and 7G.O00 In 1880. Then came a Jump to 340,000 In 1800 and to 618,000 In 1000. The spring from tho 70,000 mark to 310,000 be tween 1880 and 1800 was duo to tho fnct that Vlllard's Northern Pncltlc railroad, which wns comploted In 18.8.1, had connected that Htnto with the out- slda world In the Interval. Throughout tho wholo of tho West and of course through the Kast nnd South nlso tho railroads havo exerted a baneflcent Influence, although its ef fects are not qulto so mnrked on nil communities as they hnvo been on Washington and Its leading city. At the outset Seattle's expansion was so slow thnt ns recently ns 1880 Its popu lation wns only .1,500. It has n lino location on nn nrm of Ptiget Sound, through which tho Asiatic nnd Alaska trade of a largo part of tho continent Is pouring, nnd through whlrh In Im measurably larger quantity will pour n few years henco. Tho lumber Indus, try, which has had much to do with tho growth of Its Htnto, nlso contrib uted greatly to Senttlo's advancement. It Is tho ra I Iron tin. however, which hnvo been tho chief Instrument In Hint Northwest city's oxpnnslon, Tho North ern Pacific road opened In 1883, sent that town's populntlon up from 3,500 In 1880 to -12,000 lu 1800, nnd It wns 80,000 In 100O. Probably tho Incrcnso In the current deendo will bo greuter than It wns In the past ten years. The entire West Is growing nt n rate not touched In the decade which had tho 1803-7 panic In It. Tho new North west Is gotttng n largo share of this growth, and as tho trade with Asia and Alaska Is bound to Increase with great rapidity In tho approaching time Washington, Oregon and California, es pecially Washington, aro sura to no quire a much greater importance MI8EHV8 MILLIONS. Lost Itelliiloiie of "the (treat Alijaa" In London, l-nndon'a wealth, says Men and Women, la uvcr before us. It tnkea enre Hint It shall bo. Hut tandou's poverty Is hidden nwny In vast areas of ngony with which rank nnd wealth nnd fashion are n uiifnmlllnr na they nro with Krunz Jtucph I -and or On tnil Africa. Tho moment that a small contingent from the menu street of working class Iindon reveals Itself to tho eyes of tho wct there la mi outcry. Kashlnu turns shuddering away and complain of the men with the begging boxes; wealth buttons It pockets aud calls upon tho authorities to withdraw their countennuco nnd the bodyguard of m)1Ico from "a pack of Imitator." And fashion nnd wealth aro perhniM wise In their protest. If them- unemployed worker nre nllowvd to parade In search of sympathy wo mny one dny see all the lost legions or "tho great abyss" crawling forth from the alleys nnd the slums to glvo the west an object lesson oa the poverty that the great city hide sway In It nook and crannies. The women and the children, the one room helots of unapenkable slums, the dUenaed and desperate outcasts of our great guilt gardens, may form up in one mighty mass of misery nnd surge Into the crowded thoroughfares mid aristocrat ic streut. which fashion regards a It own. Picture, If you enn. Ixindou given up for one dny, not to the gny page ants which on great occasions gladden our eyes aud mako our hearts swell with pride nt the vnstness of our em pire nnd tho splendor of our court, hut to n dead march of London's lost ones. Crowd balcony ami windows with rank nnd fnahlou, with the world of wealth and the middle clas well-to-do, give to tho fnlr maiden nml ma trons who lead a llfo of pleasure and of cnite tho front place on the lino of route. Then let tho millions of Misery Land creep by I Such a spect acle. If It could be arranged, would be a revelation which would shock the national conscience as It has never been shocked before. Prom the win dows and tho balconies the women of luxury would shrink back trembling, white faced, terrified. And tho men, tho busy gatherers of gold nnd the Idlo squanderers of It, would feel a shnmo thnt no written story of tho city's wnnt nnd woe hns ever tnnde them feel before Hven as one pic tures wlint such a sccno ns this pro cession would menu, ono feels the hor ror of It For tho comfort of tho pros perous citizen thnt sort of thing must bo kept within Its own nrea, to bn looked upon only by Ihosu who uro of the company of woe. Seeking an JSvorlastlng Ink. flovcrmueiit chemists are much In terested In obtaining Ink which will ho lasting. Mnny government docu ments have to bo wrltton In Ink, and It Is desirable that tho Ink should remain leglblo as long ns the document re mains Intnct. Notwithstanding the popular Idea that everything made In tho olden times was perfect tho oldtimo Inks were by no means perfect Tho original copy of tho Declaration of Independence Is almost undecipherable. Only ono signature, that of John Hnu cock, stands out clenr mid bold. All acts of congress aro Hied with the Stnto dopnrtmont for safe-keeping aud roglstorod. Up to n fow years ago It wns customary to engross tho nets of congress by hand with pen mid Ink, but now they nro printed. It Is claim ed thnt printer's Ink will outlnst writ lug fluid nnd that thero will bo no trouhlo for futuro generations to read the acts ot tho present congress. A number of farmers were today discussing tho merits of different plows. "Woll, men," ono lnzy looking man said, "my notion is that any rid ing plow Is good." What hns bocomo of tho old fashion cd patent right man who used to come along, and sell "territory)"