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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1903)
mm The Turklih atrocities are beconi Ing nearly as deadly aa football. Nome"! gold output will bo amall thU year, but Ita graveyard keeps growing rapidly. Peru can certainly report progress, It ba seated n new President with no tbootlng. It mul be bargain day when the as sessor calls, because fortunes are ! ways marked down. Mr. Peary will make another dash for the pole nnd then another dash for the box office receipts. "What would the nation be without women?" frantically asks a magazine writer. That's easy. Stag nation. A German missionary has been at tacked by Chinese pirates. Another big chunk of territory for Wllhelm. Land grabbers have shown a con tcmptuous disregard of "Keep off the grass" signs In the Indian Territory. Buenos Ayres has come to the front with 000,000 Inhabitants. It seems that there are others besides us after all. It will never do to again speak of Vesuvius as "she" or "her" after learn ing that It has thrown rocks a distance of 000 feet. In reply to "Please Answer," we would ray that the 8ubllnie Porte Is so called because of Its sublime nerve and subllmo Indifference. President Rocscvelt condemns the use of profanity. In the President's estimation no stronger swear word than "bully" Is ever necessary. All the powers have agreed upon It that the Sultan Is to be reformed, but It Is doubtful If they will succeed In convincing the Sultan that such Is the case. A London soapmaker Is clamoring for the next chance at racing for the cup. The excellence of Sandy Hook aa an advertising medium Is being properly recognized. A man slipped on a banana peel, fell under a train and lost a hand. If peo ple generally realized the peril that lurks In the Innocent-looking banana peel they would make their wills and carry accident Insurance. The chewing gum trust recently dis tributed $000,000 In dividends. This sum represents OO.OCO.OOO sticks of gum at the retail price of n cent a stick. How many million other stlcka were sold to yield that profit Is an In terestlng problem which the reader may try to solve If he choose. and companionship and devotion, and the cow, the next animal to be domes ticated and to glvo her milk, should havo been held sacred? The history of civilization Is a development of wor ship, lly superstitions If you earo to call them that man has been llghicd on his way to progress. Yet we know no more about Immortality to-day than ihVKn OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS In game, the Turk for a celestial ha' , IHi I THE AMERICAN GIANT IS THE AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILD rem, the Chrlstlau and the Jew for gates of gold and streets of Jasper, the Asiatic for reincarnations on tattb, The scoffer, noting these contradictious, pretends they are all but misty super stitions. Maybe they are. Perhaps they are only shadows of the truth, ltut the truth Itself the Arm belief In Immortality has been through count- fuel of tho future. T was recently calculated that the vlslblo coal supply which Is never vlslblo till It Is brought to tho surface, hence tho real meaning la. tho calculated supply would last the world for about a hundred years longer. Hut within n few weeks reports of remarkable discoveries i nf nitiv imv iiwni immeiit rrom mo miu less cycles of generations Inbred In ,,.. -.i. .nthrnelto 1 nlleced to havo been dls the human mind; It Is the very core of i,,,. tne south, especially In Tennessee, about 70 Taught to play ball, Latln-Amerl cans would forego rebellion and bull fights and expend their energies In three-base hits and home runs. Al ready It has pacified whole provinces In our oriental archipelago. Let us take a hint and send, not more teach crs, soldiers and alleged statesmen to our colonies, but teams of professional ball players. Examination of the pupils In the pub lic schools of Boston has shown that nearly all the children enter school with normal eyes. In the higher grades one-fourth are found to be myopic, and In the colleges from CO to 70 per cent are said to be thus af fected. In other words, near-sighted' ness Increases steadily from the prl mary school upward a bald statement of fact which makes evident the neces sity of every possible care. The NeV York newspapers have dls covered a young man, an employe for eight years of a street railway com pany, who, by his own admission, has worked sixteen hours a day, at an av erage wage of ten cents an hour, ever since be has been with the company, On the face of It, here la provocation for lurid oratory; but before Indigna tion rises to too high a pitch, let It be added that the young man was ap pointed general manager the other day, Perhaps his willingness to work long hours had something to do with his promotion. The longest distance a man has ever thrown a baseball Is a little more than 881 feet. The record for women was held, until recently, by a Vassar cham pion, who threw a ball 181 feet. There has now arisen In Tacoma, Wash., a young woman who beat that record by twenty-four feet. Anatomists have frequently explained that the forma tion of a woman's shoulder-blade pre vents her from throwing straight and far; but the Tacoma record, 205 feet, Is Just about the distance from the deep outfield to the borne plate. Evo lution seems to be at work producing shoulder-blades that will enable the American girl to share the delights of the national game. Tho human mind, slnco It began to think and believe, has thought of and believed In Immortality. Mankind early divided Into races widely separated in vastly different climes and conditions, but wherever the human mind Is that thought and belief Is also. Is It any wonder that when primitive man first learned that by standing upon his bind legs and wielding a stone with his fore paws he could beat off an enemy, he should Invest the stone with reveren tial awe? Is It any wonder that when lie found out that by striking two pieces of flint together be could start a Are to save him from the cold of the steadily-encroaching ice period, be should worship fire? Is It any wonder that wheu be discovered that grains sown upon the tumuli of the dead sprouted and produced again he should conclude that the grateful ghost be neath thus repaid him an hundredfold tbo offerings be bad madoT Is It any wonder that the dog, the first friend to come to man and lend him warmth all civilisation, the nu.l.us of all devel opment, the force of all progress, and It can no more be cast out of a single mind than can the difference between a human brain and that of a monkey. The proof? The world is full of It, Tho whole history of the development of man Is proof of what the belief has done for him. The whole vast differ ence that lies to-day between mankind and apedom Is proof. If chairs of common sense will bring young ministers Into contact with com' mon things and common people, let us have chairs of common sense In all the theological seminaries In the country. Wo are all tired of the ministers who know so little of common things and of common people that they have to preach about Assyrian cuneiform In scrtpttons, or about Shakespeare'a hero ines, or about Huxley's mistakes. Archaeology, metaphysics, poetry and science can all be made Interesting and Illuminating to a congregation, but only by a man who knows bow and where to apply them to the lives of his auditors. Therefore the minister must know the Urea of his auditors. What are the books that people read now adays? They are not usually the books written by recluses. They are not usu ally the books written by men who have received a purely literary and academic training, and who bare lived purely literary and academic lives They are the books written by men like Mark Twain, Bret Harte, George Ade, Stephen Phillips, Lincoln J. Steffens, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, and many others, great and small, who have actually seen the thlnga they are writing about. This Is an age for the man who knows the world about him and not for the man who draws his spiritual sustenance from written rec ords. What Is true of books Is true of sermons. We have no time for the minister who reads all the week and Sunday momlng disgorges himself of his reading. What we want Is a ser mon permeated. It Is true, with supe rior learning, but nevertheless con structed out of the dally facta of dally existence. This does not mean that a good minister must preach about wom en's fiats or about the latest murder. The title of h's sermon may be "The Stigmata of St. Francis." As bs dis cusses the stigmata of St Francis, however, one will perceive In his lllus tratlons and In his applications that be has spent many days and many nights with people as well as with books, and that be has lived In the hearts of per- sons of the twentieth century. For such a man, skilled In the knowledge of the human heart, consumed with love of the human race, and disciplined by study and meditation, there will al ways be an audience. In literature the man who thinks be can write because be haa studied Itusktn's construction of sentences Is rescued from Immedl' ate oblivion only by the observer's momentary laughter. In the church the man who thlnka he can preach be cause he has studied Newman's figures of speeecb will have the same fate. The sermon writer needs an even deep er acquaintance with common things and with common people than the story writer. The story writer simply shows us things and people. The sermAn writer has to show us things and peo ple In their spiritual possibilities. A professor of common sense In a theo logical seminary could talk on this point every day and never talk too much. miles from Knoxvllle, and in tho Peace lllver region of Athabasca, where It li claimed that 250.000.1XX) tons are "In stght" The supplies In China arc alio considerable and If Grant Land and Grinned Land can bo reached moro easily In future, there are deposits In thoso Arctic regions that may be worked at n profit. And In splto of the activities of forest choppers and burners, farmers, and others who utilize tho products of the soil, the world Is still putting forth so considerable u quantity of vegetation that the making of new coal may be going on, unconscious to us, and not to be completed for centuries. Every bog Is a possible peat bed, ntul peat Is but unhardened coal. Tho great feru forests nud marshes of calamus that we arc burning now under our boilers and In grates uo longer exist, but we have certain of their ana logucs, and no attempt has been made by scientific author! ties to estimate the mass or value of potential fuel that Is bJltig Btored In odd corners of the earth to-day Hut possibly the fuel of.the future will be water. That Is, we shall uot turn much of It, but we shall use It for heating purposes by converting tho force of Us fall luto electric currents, as they are doing already at Niagara and on the upper Hudson. For our posterity the blazing hearth shall i.ot burn; the family will collect about a steel plate, on cold nights, and do the cooking over a metal basket. Most of the wood will be obliterated by that time, and with them of course, the streams will go; hence we must look to see the power of the ocean converted to electricity. But It Is a comfort to know that we have coal to burn for a few years. Brooklyn Eagle. Barbarous Punishment. It was sixty years ago that England abolished flogging at sea; It has long been abolished In our army and navy and now the Czar of Russia has abol ished the harshest remnants of the barbarblc punishments of former times, namely, castlgatlon with cudg els and cat-o'-nlno talis, chaining to the car and shaving the head, which were still Inflicted for certain offenses on persons exiled to penal settlements or to the mines. Castlgatlon with the cat-o'-nlne tails and even with cudgels not Infrequently ended In death, and was one of the harshest forms of the death penalty, being death by torture. The abolition of the cudgel and of the cat" does not, however, mean the pro hibition of corporal punishment alto gether. The revised statute of June 15 prescribes chastisement with birch rods up to 100 blows. Barbaric pun lshmcnt can be Inflicted by birch rods. If not as severely as by "cat" or cudg. el. The better way would be to abol Ish punishment by flagellation alto gether. Leslie's Weekly. Kaiser Wllhelm's Modesty, At dinner one night when the Em peror was staying with Lord Lonsdale, a guest talking to another across the table quoted a little known passage from Sbakspeare, and, that there should be no mistake as to Its source, ended with the words, "as the divine William said." There happened to be a lull In the conversation at the time, and -the remark was audible to every one, the Emperor Included. Turning to bis host, the Emperor said, with a puz zled expression; "Curiously, I do not remember that my sainted grandfather ever said thatl" M. A. P, Berenado and Illumination. Tom Wasn't It lonely out In the country? Jerry Lonely? We had crickets and lightning-bugs In our bedroom every night Detroit Free Press, Chinese Crews on Board. Over 1,500 British vessels plying In eastern waters are manned by Chinese crews. farms and farmers. N a long and thoughtful editorial, the Chicago Trlbuno of recent date dwells upon one feature In our agricultural situation that Is far from reassuring to the man trained to think along American lines. Statistics are marshalled to show convincingly that the percentage of farm ers who own and operate their land has been steadily diminishing for years, tenant farming showing a corresponding Increase. In 1SSO. 74.4 per cent of the farms were operated by their owners. In 1800 tho per centage had fallen to 71.0, and by the census of 1000 Is shown to have dropped to 03 7. Coincident with this decline has been a gradual but very perceptible growth In the aver age size of farms. It was 13115 acres In IKK) and 140.0 acres In 11)00. There can be no mistaking the trend. It Is In the direction of larger holdings and an increase of the landlord class. All this Is to be expected by one who has studied the tendency of our people to flock Into the towns and cities. The strength of thin tendency is amply exhibited In census figures. Away back in 1700 only 3.4 per cent of the popula tion lived In towns of 8,000 people or more. By 1800 this proportion had risen to 10.1 per cent It was 22.0 per cent In 1SSO, and no less than 33.1 per cent In 1000. There Is thus outlined what almost amounts to a revolution in the last twenty or thirty years. Our farmers, having secured a competence, retire to the cities, where they may enjoy advantages not to be bad lu rural communities. Their land Is rented to tenants, and whatever of surplus Income ac crues Is forthwith Invested in Increasing their holdings. Tholr children, bred to city life, cling to it, so that farming is more and more given over to the bandB of those who have not the Intelligence aud energy that characterized the farmer of twenty years ago or more. It Is not difficult to see In all this the operation of the same economic and social laws that have developed conditions In the Old World. They have been retarded by our Institutions, no doubt, and In case we adhere to present Ideals, their fur ther action may not bo destructive to personal liberty and national virility as In other countries, ancient nnd modern, At tho same time, there are few who will not regret that tho day of tho small, Independent American farmer Is giving way to that of tho landlord. New York News. Ft Money In fact and fiction. IlKSK arc strniign times In the accumulation ot fortunes stranger than nny fiction could ever havo made them. Think of It for a momentl Andrew Carnegie, n canny little Scotch boy. enmo to this unknown laud n few decades ago barefooted, mid last year offered to settle tho Venezuelan Imbroglio between Germany, Ihiu land, France, and Italy and tho South American republic liy loaning cnciuela tho entire sum of these International debts. And yet n fortune so huge us to permit of such offers Is as nothing to tho power of another man. Mr. Rockefeller, personally a quiet American citizen from Cleveland, a slmplo liver, with few habits of luxury, could easily buy half a dozen of tho Independent kingdoms of Europe; could without feeling It to any great extent In his pocketbook take up the debts of all tho republics of Control aud South America. - Again, In 1844, Alexander Dumas published a book called "The Count of Monto Crlsto." the basis of which Is tho fabulous wealth of an Individual. Tho Count finds a cave full of almost priceless Jewels. He buys men's lives; he spends money everywhere; bo comes to Purls wllh a notice from his Italian bankers giving him unlimited credit on a Paris bank. There Is uo limit on what ho can draw from M. Danglers. It Is entirely unprecedented. Nothing llko It was ever known before. He draws five millions of francs, nnd ruins tho banker, and still no complaint from his Roman house. Ho rlghta wrongs; he Baves more Uvea; ho punishes the guilty by tho use of unlimited wealth. And thou by nnd by he leaves Maximilian on the Island of Monte Crlsto with his brldo nnd sails away. As Maximilian sees ms snip disappear on tho horizon, ho finds Monto Crtsto's will leaving him his wbolo fortune. This fortune. Dumas suggests In two or three places, was ono hundred million francs 520.000,000. It la tbo greatest private fortune tho Frenchman could concclvo of In 1844 It Is considerably leas inuu mo income or jonn u. Rockefeller In 1003. Harper's Weekly. Hard Working Human Heart. v OME one with an nptltudo for statistics has been doing a little calculating on the subject of the human heart and Its activities. The nor mal heart, It appears, beats about seventy-tlvo times In a minute, so that an hour's record would be something llko 4.320 beat Suppos ing that n man lived to bo 00. his heart would have beaten 1.802,1(10.000 times. If a son of this man, more robust than his father, should till out the Scriptural allotment of three score years and ten his heart beats would number 2,010,- 024,000. It Is easy to understand, after such a computation. why this bard-working servant of tho human body so frequently wears out. Harpers Weekly. a""""" s fresh Air and Sound -Health. HERE are many persons who seem afraid of the fresh air. A little rain, a little wind little fog, a little chill In the nlr will keep them within doors. Going out, they bundle up In clothes so thickly that one would think they wcro tender shrubs transplanted from some more genial clime. Tho healthy people, how ever, are not the health cranks, not the people who run to tne doctor every nine mey reel an ache. They aro the peo ple who walk a great dcul In the fresh air, who live lu the open as much as they can, and who tnko a vacation In the country every year. San Francisco Bulletin. T III 8TURDY AMERICAN FIGURE. Thomas XSwInir, Oar First Secretary of the Interior. Certain events In the Indian office have directed attention to that depart ment and havo caused comparisons to be made between the present head thereof and the first secretary, Thomas Ewlng. In sterling Integrity tbey were alike; in the experiences of their lives wholly unlike, Ewlng Is one of those inter estlng figures of whom the student toouas iwi.no. of American history finds bo many. Born near West Liberty, Ohio Coun ty, Va., Dec. 28, 1780, he was the son of a revolutionary father. It was In the region of Athens County, Ohio, then unsettled, that he was reared. His sister taught him to read, and In the evenings he studied tbo few books at his command. In his 20th year he left bis home and worked In the Kan a wha Salt establishments, pursuing his studies at night by the aid of tho fur nace fires. He remained there till he had earned enough money to clear from debt the form his father bad bought In 1702, and bad qualified him' self to enter the Ohio University at Athens, where. In 1815, he received tho first degree of A. B. that was ever granted In that section. He then stud led law In Lancaster, waa admitted to the bar In 1810, and practiced with success for fifteen years. In 1831-8T he served as United States Senator from Ohio, having been chosen as a Whig. He supported the protective tariff system of Clay, and advocated a reduction In the rates of postage, a recbartcr of the United States Bank, and tbo revenue collection bill, known as the "forco bill." Senator Ewlng opposed the removal of deposits from the United States Bank, and Introduced a bill for the settlement of the Ohio boundary ques tion, which was passed In 1880. Dur ing the same session he brought for ward a bill for the reorganization of the general land office, which was passed and be also presented a me morial for the abolition of slavery. In July, 1830, tho Secretary of the Treasury Issued what was known as the "specie circular." This directed receivers in land office to accept pay ments only in gold, sliver or treasury certificates, except from certain class es of persons for a limited time. Sen ator Ewlng brought In a bill to annul this circular, and another to mako It unlawful for the Secretary to make such a discrimination, but these were not carried. After the expiration of bis term ho resumed the practice of law, Ewlng became Secretary of the Treasury In 1811, under Harrison, and In 18 10 accepted the newly created portfolio of the Interior, under Taylor, and organized that department Among the measures recommended In his first report Dec. 8, 1840, were the estab lishment of a mint near the California gold mines, and the construction of a railroad to the Pacific. When Thomas Corwln became Sec retary ot the Treasury In 1850, Ewlng was appointed to succeed him In the Senate. During this term be opposed the fugitive slavo law. Clay's compro mise bill, reported a bill for tho estab lishment of a branch mint In Califor nia, and advocated a reduction in post age, and the abolition of slavery In the District of Columbia. He retired from public life In 1851 aud again resumed his law practice In Lancaster. He was a delegate to the Peace Congress of 1801. During the Civil War Ewlng gave, through the press and by t-orrcsiraud-ence and personal Interviews, his coun sel and Influence to the support of tho national authorities. While ha de voted much of his time to political subjects, the law was his favor I to study and pursuit. He early won uud maintained throughout his life unques tionable supremacy at tbo Ohio bar, and ranked in tho Supremo Court of tho United States among tho foremost lawyers of the nation. In 1820, Just after bis father's death, General William T. Sherman, then a boy of 0, was adopted by Mr. Ewlng, who afterward appointed blm to tho United States Academy, and In 1850, Sherman married Ellen, the daughter of bis benefactor. 8TAQE PEOPLE IN 8UMMER. Soma of Them Have a llard Tims In Tiding- Over. In summer what becomes of the numbers of stage people who return to the metropolis penniless at the close of tbe season? How do they live? These questions were put to the man ager of the theatrical agency In Broadway. "Indulgent landladies, friends In the country, and parents in the city solve tbe summer problem for hosts of theatrical people," replied tbe agent. "An actor would sooner starve than be seen by bis mates working at an other trade. About 75 per cent of those who remain here get trusted for tbelr summer's board and lodging. Tbey pay up, In most cases, In the courso of tho noxt sea son, sending from week to week to tbe landlady sufficient to cancel their summer's Indebtedness. "Of course," went on the agent, they're not all Improvident. See tbut little girl going out?" lie pointed to a petite figure In the ceaseless stream of applicants. "Got plenty or money enough to last ber until the season opens and a bit to spare. They call her stingy on tbe road, because she won't spend ber money. Laugh Is on ber side now. Many of 'em come licio without a rag to their backs for sum mer and have to wear their winter clothes or last year's suits and drossou. This one wears good clothes summer clothes, or tne newest pat tern, and promenades la Broadway like a queen. When she's signed, and the hot weather Is on to stay, she'll go down to the shore or Into the coun try nnd enjoy herself. Dresses well, looks well, lives well. Next winter she'll pay her hotel bills, with no 'In cldentnls,' "That one over there, the seedy one, couldn't buy a cigar at a cut-rate stcre. He'll come out all right, though, .Never has a cent, but always at work. He's Just In from a long tour. Pret ty Into for stock, but he's an old stager and may land. A good -many eko out the year's Income by play ing summer engagements at various theaters throughout the country. Near ly every city of any size has from ono to half a dozen stock companies this summer; the summer-stock business has grown enormously In the last two or three years, and gives employment to bui.drcds, Not enough to go round, though. The best people, us a rule, don't play summer engagements, al though there are exceptions. Com parntlvely few of the best play sum mer stock, unless driven to IL" New York Evening Post. Wordsworth and Ills Neighbors. Tho worthiest of Wordsworth's vil lage In the lake country of England had their own ideas of his value as a man and poet When questioned after his death as to his personality, they read lly admitted that he was kind to those who were In sickness or need. They could count on him on a pinch. But ho did not hobnob with bis neighbors. "Ho did not uotlco them much," said an old man, In answer to questions asked by the author of "Lake Country Sketches." "A Jem Crow and an auld blue cloak was bis rig," continued tbe old man. "And as for his habits, be bad noan. Nlver knew him with a pot 1' bis baud or u pipe I' his mouth." After deep probing tho author brought out: "Ves, Wordsworth was fond of a good dinner nt times, If you could get lil ni to It; that was t' Job." Then the poet's uloofness was again touched upon. "Ho was forever pacing tbo roads and his own garden walks, and always composing poetry. Ho was terble throng In visitors and folks ye mun ken at times, but If be could get awa fra them a spell, bo was out upon his walk. "And then he would set his head a bit forrad, and put his hands beblnt his back. And then he would start a bumming, and It was bum, bum, bum. and go on bumming for long enough, right down and back again. I sup pose, ye ken, the bumming helped him out a bit." Don't bo surprised so muck. 1 J I A 8TARTL1NO AND SIGNIFICANT COMPARISON. Tbe American giant Is the American school child. Under Instruction In the public schools of tbe United States are 15,003,151 children. Of these 7,811,570 are loya and 7.7(11, Ml girls, In Chicago, according to tha census of 1002, there were 220,421 children In the schools, making an arerago yearly Increase of 15,871. Tbe Increase this year Is much greater, the estimates of attendance ranging from 250,000 to 281,000. Tbe statistics for 1003 show that the entire German army, white on a peace footing. Is composed of 005.811 men, whllo the army of tbe United States in 1002, whllo on a peace footing, numbered only U3.US0 men. Chicago American. AS8END8 THE HIGHEST PEAK. Miss I'eck Performs Hemarkatile Veal In Houtb America. Aided by oxygen carried In cans aud other carefully selected helps to the modern mountain climber, a woman- Miss Annie H. I'eck of Chicago has attained tho highest altltudo ever reached by man. She has ac complished the feat of ascending Mount Sorata, In Bolivia, whose height Is estimat ed from 21.000 to 25,000 feet, and la exceeded only by tbo unconquercd peaks of tbe Him alayas. Home scientists believe Sorata to bo even higher than the Htma laya peaks, and It uiss AHrur. a. rzcic. ja possible that when tbe measurements niado by Miss Peak's expedition are received man will be known to have reached tho highest point In the world, and the honor ot having accomplished this will be a woman's. Miss Peck, who Is well known as a mountain climber and Is known social ly In Chicago and other largo cities of tbe country, was accompanied on the trip by President W. A. O. Tight of the University of New Mexico and three guides, one of whom Is Autolno Maqulguaz, who guided Sir Martin Conway, the noted English explorer, when ho attempted and failed to do what Miss Peck has accomplished, Tbo ascent of Mount Sorata crowns remarkable career of mountain climbing by a woman who lu a few years has ascended tbe highest peaks of Europe and America, Including Mount Orizaba In Mexico, which Is 18,000 feet high, and, next to Mount McKlnley, Is the highest peak In North merlca, Mount McKlnley being 20,000 feet, Miss Peck Is a graduate of tho University of .Michigan and formerly was professor of Latin at Smith Col lege. FURNI3HINQ8 OF A HOME. Ifssence of Ulevance Lies In 8tiu- Iillcltjr and Oooi Taste, There Is no Idea more erroneous than that It requires a liberal expendi ture of money to have a comfortable and urtlstlc borne. Tho vory essence of elegance lies in simplicity. It Is not art to make a parlor tho duplicate of an exhibition room In a furniture store. That simply calls for an outlay of money without any exercise of taste. There Is no tone to such a room uo air ot repose, no comfort, no Individu ality. It speaks for what It Is an ex hibition. A room of that sort annoys Just In the same way as does an Ill bred woman wno cannot forgot the gown tho la wearing. Furniture has a voice Just as well as clothes. True art In furnishing Is found In allowing a homo to slowly develop under the tastes of those who live In It tbe adoption of an Idea here, another there. The development requires time aud cultivation. No house worth living In cau be complete at ono time, A bomo of comfort unfolds Itsolf, no to speak, aud unfolds slowly. Truo Im provement comes In this way, and In no other way. Everything about a home depends upon tbo way Its possessors start. A beginning mude without due thought given to what wu aro buying means waste; It menus buying things which before long we are certain to find are not what we wanted, and of which we are suro to become tired. Buying In haste means repenting at leisure. Whero tho tneomo Is limited, there par ticularly must be exercised delibera tion of choice. We must let our home speak our own likes and dislikes. The home should speak Its owners' tastes, their Ideas, and not the tastes and Ideas of their neighbors or friends. What suits one house rarely Is In place lu another. Let the start bo niado on the basis of one's own originality, and not a de pendence upon the Ideas of either fur nlture people or neighbors. Let time be a factor In tho development of a home. Do not get the mad desire to complelo every room at once. A homo furnished for tho mere Idea of getting It finished always shows tho earmarks of the effort. The Household. Ilaln and Disease norms. In Chicago in Slay, at a time when there had been no rain for three weeks, sit glass platen two and one-half Inches sqtiuro were exposed In as nuav streets for one minute. Tho plates were then Incubated, so tlmt mrh m,. tide of dust to which a germ was clinging would soon bo surrounitnl with a colony of germs whlr-ii o,,i,t bo seen and counted. Tho average per pinto wns 1,050 colonlm. n in- day following nearly an Inch of rain mi. ana on me uext day similar plates were excised at the suine strnnr r. ntrs, which after development, showed urn -iu coioiiii-H, A good rn ii lin.l ,11. mlnlshed the number of microbes moro than 80 per cent. Moans IT Transportation. Tho railroad car will carrv ns mnM, as twenty tennis of horses ennlil imui nnd tho great ocean steamers will transport as much as 400 tan curry. It Is a good sign when a commiinltv endorses husbands nnd wives bolng In love with each other. No one ever fooled thu neonlo with false teeth,