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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1904)
Topics of h the Times Contentment comes to those only who want but little and are satisfied with less. Don't thlulc because a man Is an ex pert mathematician that he always counts with tlio fair sex. A girl has It In her power to mnko any number of men happy for life by declining to marry them. The railroad statisticians now have another opportunity to show us how much safer it Is to travel In America than In Europe. It must be remembered that .'t Is only natural for army otllcers to pre dict war as Inevitable. If they assert ed their confidence In the permanence of peace they would be proclaiming the uselessness of their own calling. That Texas Judge who sentenced n negro to 1,000 years In prison did not give him the usual admonition to so conduct himself that his time would be shortened, and express the hope that when released ha would try to lead a better life. A scientist, after much thought and calculation, notes that a man. u "- could use his legs proportionately as fast as an ant. would travel some where about SOO miles an hour. As we recall it. this was about the gait we struck as a boy when we left the vicinity of that sweet apple tree In the orchard near the big dog a nouse. Do women really want to vote? With sadness we are compelled to state our belief that no appreciable percentage of them do care much about it. vtiw sadness, we suv. because we also be lieve that if the majority of them did run, to do so. and would take tne trouble to Inform themselves thorough' ly, the results of their balloting would be very beneficial. In the United States the rate of mor tality to railway employes during a year Is 1 for every 300 employed. In Germany It is 1 for every 750 and In Austria 1 for every 1,007. Human life Is held twice as cheap here by the rail ways as in Germany and three times as cheap as in Austria. In Injuries not fatal the comparison is still more humiliating to this country. In the United States 1 In 33 Is injured. In Germany 1 In ICO and in Austria 1 In 282. There Is no dearth of opportunities In this country for young men. They are more plentiful and more easily availed of than at any time In the his tory of this country. The place for their development has simply shifted to new fields. While it is no longer possible to trade a pair of boots for the site of the city of Chicago nor buy up square miles of mineral and timber lands in the North for a song, a few generations hence stories of fabulous .wealth, based upon modest Invest ments In the great undeveloped South, will sonnd as apocryphal as many of those relating to the amazing develop ment of other sections in years past. which are nevertheless true. man cannot long owe for anything; the creditor calls for his pay with great punctuality and takes offense It he does not receive the cash at once. Yet the same creditor will trust a worth' less bummer and wait for his pay mouth after mouth. Dually to discover that there are "no asset a." The bank mptcy court doubtless Is a good Instl tutlon, as it affords the honest debtor the opportunity to divide what he has with his creditors before It Is all gone, but It also affords many a rascal and spendthrift the opportunity to plunder the public. B3 Editorials 611 .Bpi XmL sm i In no other country has the local postolllce filled so large a place lu the life of the small community as In this, The hour of tho arriving mall Is often the signal for a neighborhood gather tug, while within a small enclosure the letters and papers arc slipping Into the different boxes with a rapidity that suggests the distribution of the fruit of a Christmas tree. In Kurope. where population Is more dense and labor cheaper, house-to-house delivery of tho mall lias long been general. Ameri cans, besides "going to the postolllce," have been large users of its privileges. It has been the national pollfy not to look upon the service as a source of revenue, but rather, by low postal rates, to encourage correspondence and the widest diffusion of current publi cations. The Fourth Assistant Post master General suggests in his annual report that the small postolllce may ceaso to be tho neighborhood center. Some signs point in that direction. The number of postofflces rose steadily, bar ring the interruption of the Civil War, from 75 under Washington's adminis tration, to nearly 77,000 two years ago. It has now fallen to 74,000, although the larger, or presidential, offices are still Increasing at the customary rate. Coincident with the decline in the number of country postofflco has come an Increase In the carrier service, both urban and rural. At present the de partment needs as much money for this branch of Its work as for the whole postal establishment 20 years ago. Yet city free delivery Is only 40 years old. Although millions of Amer icans no longer go to the postofflce for tneir mall, tne country Is so large that "home delivery" will be years in com pleting its conquest. Nor can the post offlco as a business headquarters be displaced. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IAIPORTANT SUBJECTS Tho Mnrrtng Mood. T is safe to say that If there were no love to urgo men and women luto marriage there would bo very few weddings and mankind would finally become as extinct as the dodo. If marriages should be made after mature de liberation and careful reasoulug one might expect those contracted by persons of advanced age to bo tho happiest. And yet that is not tho common experience. Tho coimnou ex perlence Is tlMt the happiest marriages are those which take place early In life, aud that when an elderly man or woman gets married wo are not speaking of widows and widowers they more frequently make mess of It. Tho reason for this Is not hard to find. It Is absolutely essential to the happiness of wedded life that there should be common concessions. Two minds cannot always think alike; two people cannot always desire the same thing. Una of them must, therefore, give way. touug people can learu to do this more readily than older one. As to the wisdom of getting married and marrying young. there should not bo two oplulous. Homo life Is the most wholesome aud the very best estate, und every noiuin should be a homeuiaker. There are many things, as society Is now organised, which militate against marriages except among tho rich and the very poor. Among the very poorest classes of the population poverty Is not considered a bar to marriage. Hut there Is a great class in every community which Is ambitious to "keep tip appearances." and which thinks It cannot afford to marry. The jouug woman has Ih-i-ii ued to living with a certain amount of luxury, anil there Is a disinclination to fail lower In the social scalo by living In a cheaper neighborhood and with fewer of the comforts and conveniences of life. Kach one wishes to begin where the parents left off. l'laln living and high thinking arc no longer the aspirations of the many. Haiti more Sun. T HI According to a number of marines and bluejackets aboard the United States batfle-sblp Texas that ship has the worst record In the American navy, as far as desertions are concerned. No fewer than 200 have taken hasty leave within the last year. It is said. In ad- dltlon to the reputation of the Texas as being a "hoodoo" ship, the marines claim that they are granted very few privileges. An Infraction of the rules Is punished by a solitary confinement to the brig. If the men fn the case de mur on account of the fare which they get, which is said to be bread and wa ter, they claim that they are In many Instances ordered to be placed In dou ble Irons for five or ten days. Members of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union did a most sensible thing In deciding, at a re cent meeting, to discontinue what has been known as the "Chautauqua sa lute," or the simultaneous waving of handkerchiefs. The action was taken on purely sanitary grounds. It is now pretty generally agreed among physi cians that "colds" of certain kinds are contagious diseases, duo to the dis semination of special germs. No plan of disseminating these germs could be more effective than the shaking of handkerchiefs which have been used by persons suffering from colds or from nasal catarrh. A handkerchief Is at best an unpleasant necessity, and when it Is not in use the place for It Is In the pocket. In this free land of ours it Is the blessed privilege of every one to talk nonsense publicly whenever be can find people to listen to him. A great many of our citizens, says the Chicago Chronicle, avail themselves of this privilege trad a surprising number of them succeed In getting their utter ances Into print. Some of these pur veyors of conventional balberdash have even gained a reputation for saplency uecause or me impressive manner in which they deliver themselves of time- worn humbug. One of these gentle men, who makes a specialty of depre dating the worth of wealth, though he himself is one of the world's wealthi est men. has lately reiterated the old, stale and utterly untrue nonsense that a child is lucky to be born into poverty Instead of Into wealth. That the speak er does not believe any such thing Is manifest In the fact that be has allow ed his own children to bo born Into the enjoyment of riches, though he easily could have averted that misfor tune by giving away all bis posses sions. He attempts to show how hap py the poor child is and how miserable the children of wealth are, but he is careful to guard his own offspring from the blessings of poverty. Of course this constitutes an obvious in, Unrest and Work. UK remedy for unrest is to earn oue's rest. This Implies not merely duty to oue's calling, but to oue's self. The man who tries to get somewhere and feels at the end of the year that lie Is farther on the road than he was at the begiunlng of It, Is not pessimistic aud downcast, oven though he Is still distant from the reali zation of his hopes. We cannot restore the old conditions of labor. We tend evermore toward working with our heads and leaving the work that used to be done with hands to senseless machinery. Many of us, too, are afflict cd with a fool notion that It I' beneath one's dignity to work with the hands; that It Is better to be a spruce clerk on ten dollars a week than a greasy mechanic at twenty Hut it iu't. If many of those who suffer from this unrest will take up an occupation or a fud that calls for the use of the muscles, we shall bear more whistling and less sighing. Our hands are made to use, aud we grow Just as discon tented when we are forbidden to use them as If we were ordered not to use our feet, or our stomachs, We have outgrown the occasion for the appendix vermlformls, but It will not do to neglect our bands till they wizen to fringes that cannot crush mosquitoes. The man who has no more to do with his hands than to fold them, or to rest them on the top of a bar, Is a man whose unrest may become dangerous. Members of unions who uted to work grow so restless after a year of suppresilon by wholly senseless strikes, that they go forth and destroy. Men who used to be kept busy teaching school or practicing law grow so restless under long raealious and perennial postponements mat they get up sociological theories and travel around worrying everybody with tbem. Urooktyu Eagle. conscious and covered with bruises. This, was the "first degree." A few days later tho "second degree" was ad ministered. The next morning, not unnaturally, the studwiit was dead. Ills chum, who had experienced a similar Initia tory ceremony, was dangerously 111 Ioub(!es this was an exceptional and extraordinary case, hut It was uot so much uullke some other recent col lego fi-itlvltlivt in character as not to give grounds for speculation regarding tho standard of conduct toward which the young Amerlcau collegian Is tending. Much has been said and should bo said In favor of athletics and robust physical development, but the recent "rushes aim the eommou charge of slugging In football matches Indi cate that physical development Is leading uot to the health, strength and euduranco of the athlete hut to mere row dyism. lly dint of vigorous and prolonged effort most of the college faculties of the country managed to tuppreawi luting a few years ago. Hut the "lulliatloni," the "ruthe" and the football slugging show a resort to practices quite as repugnant. Has tho strlvlug after the strenuous life lid to a confusion belwccu manly courage and the strong-arm work of the back-lot bully J Chicago Dally Now. was niitriicrsl to dcnlh, It I nn.uii that Alfred .rer after .11,1 not inS lilmmdf among Die Ihoxi ,VUI) upon thirteen as nn unlucky iimnhrr New York Hun, MCxictTAtTAllCBOHT. Chan,,., that Tim. and um.,, M.h. In . Il.i,l,r. "" Thine of us who remember r of Mexico as It was twenty ,ln, when neither the Cenltiil n,.r n, La. SL.1I1IM lllllllll (.fatal .ll.ai.t..j . ' To show the shadow .. " -""- """" """'i near wtln,,, of the brightest .lrs. -M Touehet o something different ,ln, . f place, aom object In a long box black- , the very nlr of Ihe Me.l,,, . ' cued liidhle. ml oh-ed X ground , Hum. It ,.,m to I i,,,!,,.,,! ,, 1 The , inHtngrnph Is belli t;' ' ..... to l'arls surgeons In teach ing student, how t I"""'' vrl(,,,i surgical operations ' oil In. m glass. The shadow can vj " the Im has been plnrteittttphe.1. 11 hand and IU wmlefftll Intelli gence give Ihe monkey advantage ocr all olher lower animals. It cannot well -h.ini-., rold and leiiUKrat climates, and this fact. It Is suwested. ha. pre vented the rhm) HsswotlliHi wlih man that would have made Ihe monkey the most useful of doine.tlt nlmai. in the experiments of 1'ruf. Jehu Trowbridge, a toerfulelei'lrle euttriit U iwimmhI between terMlnal f wood and cotton wool MlurtiHl with dis tilled water, ami a gup '"ur l'','li I. bridged by a torrent of bright spark, with a deafening iwlte This Is thutiirht to More Ihat tkttwli-r Is large- ly due to explosions of hrdrwren wl ,,,,,., oxygen from ueofiaiei i-- In his scientific peart f"lg. l'r feasor Dubois has transmuted a col ony of i war I oystets tnm the cast of Tunis to a point near Toulon. Of lln-M oy.Icra, on In IJW yielded n Acting on Ihe tkewy w ! deetiee rtfiilti... .,..1 n. he recall, this capital In ih,. .,' IK-HH. think, of a, i -,. fllllll II.. llltBM 1- ' , . " ""- "in-in iriiriii, n Hi,f harlH.r of refugi. whi.ro th,. ,., , Kcliele. of competition m, , ' spoiled the Joy. of lire The .MniueJ, In particular, tlmugh sadly .muI..,.,i' compared wlih 11. present .I,,,' was symbolical of the M,.i, f ,J lime. IVupIo tprni ,e lU), ( hem-hen. under the tree, nltlH.iii , .llseoinfnrtlng self rcpr. i ..f . , .. thins neglected. Law student.. . Illlllllfll llf.lllllt.ft ,Hlual...l ...... ' . . .. i.-.i iiinm r ih.iii llially lu study, bin really . , f, . miii. uu run ur in ngie timl.il. liven t,e IHm aeeiucd lu Graft a National Mcc. KAKTINli la by no means couflurd to Ihe petty and wholesale robbing of the community by public olllclsls. There Is the grafter who Is folio tu the Interest of hit emnloyer: tho ,., ,.,,,.,i,.,J tHiirl or company to a dishonest end. In every,."" ,-... ..,.,,...... , i....ib.u. nnsn-1 the ai erellou of mother f pearl mler clal and Industrial world Is found tho gvsfter. .mug of jib "'"' ' lr.tt. th 'Jl'1' race, dlscrwt of tongue-a suako warmed In Ihe lom of ""' "as l"l ,e ' .. . . ...... ... .t. ...... .... .Il-a lu other ovUer. I ml ha IIC- uio one no sysitmaucai.y piumier. mis -vouniioii ua --- - i- -"- iimii, miu-n. i rioiigti become the besetUug and shameful sin of the American ' producing one tr more pearls louche! by the mllw.).. !,,, iM tie mint big Jillmv !. utter. wing Hie Nir l, i miirtilnif. or tl, r, ,,.i. Ilia lung, .iitiiir nfiii..i,. ....... ... lly lhaii now. The difference helween Ihe Mejlft, of tu..ay and Ihe .e,c r tlr), Um lie. nut much In ili.-nint.t ui tant fiirm.llou .,f the cliy tti.i l.n, heea aermpll.,iM. but In It. im.nt.l t, phete Meih-u was mil then the l.,. eo.HM.illlsu place llmt it i, ,t l.lf" Mowed III a pliteld ttre.tn n, , till Mow In .uch Interior .III.-, it Morvlla niM Jtaiimra. .li-h. thmifti iieonle. from every ten oyster There Is hardly an occupation or profelou which doe An ancient flilnese fuk of Ibe Hsu not affonl opirtuully for graft. The time tut cum 1 Iiynasly. II. i' ItSO, was ffceiuly hwii when graft Is a reoogulied and conventional factor In de-'ed aud was found to contain a brum tenululng the Income, of th.wo who profit tbKeby. mirror decorated with lld animal If the lleuedlct Arnolds of a city the site of New York or figures. Tbe agure. Weh were of Chicago were to march In solid rank pant the respective sn astrological rh.r.fK. rej.riweuted oily halls, it would take them long to pas, and It Is to be 1 tbe twenty eight mausMa of cvlwtel feare.1 that they would be grretnl and sppltu.Ii-d by throng nutans of Ihe uiooii. utM llthough the of envious and admiring followers 1 slgti were nearly ikfsci-l the HrtMnt We may accept It at a self evident proposition that the ' colled around the turtoUe a JUIIiicl- msn who buys his way Into oRlce Intend to stral his way ' ly visible, tu addition to the mirror, out of It. Thet are the professional grafters; they nuke .mutt small red glaied bowls were no pretenses of a fin .pun morality. Hut equally dsnirer found of eou.itter.hle betatr aud finish ous and far mors detplcable are the grafters who pes as 'nnd bearing a glas of ctewl Mnostth- respects!)! members of society Tb. grafter of the lunw nets and uniformity of erlng. nas his counterpart In the genteel, educated character In I t... r fi... ... ...i-i broadcloth, who prates of patriotism and atks lb. WeMlng. 1 fur idool, of K-tlh. mrlh,t of rrovldenc. upon his peculations. I , ............ 7.. ..... , ... Is Ibelr gtsst MHslally. To avoid Ihe effect, of Ittweeallug. Ihe scientific (ierm.ii farmef rarely plants tee.1 potatoes from hi ua fWW. He either get uew tartellet from the es- Hiinient .Istloin. of ewtuuge with Rod)ism in Colleges. T HE year's uews reports from various collegi- centers have been enlivened by some start ling nrcounts of student activity In the way of "cane rushes," "color rushes" and similar diversions. In koine cases the girl Undents took a hand In the rough aud tumblo of physl- cal encounter. Now come the details as. to the late case of hazing at a Baltimore college, where a student was New York people have complained of Inadequate transportation facilities for many years, and although Immense sums of money have been spent, and tracks extended and bridges built and rolling stock multiplied, the congestion continues and even Increases. Great hopes have been placed in the new subway. When that is completed, peo ple have thought, thero will' be room for all. A careful analysis of the sit uation leads to an opposite conclusion. Tho increase In population Is more rapid than the Increase In the means of transportation, so that by the year 1015, the Sun estimates, the propor tionate number of men and women who will be unable to rido will be as great as It Is to-day. In view of the seriousness of this problem, a special commission 1b suggested which shall consider tho whole matter of transpor tation in Greater New York. Wo notice every few days reports of bankrupt who have applied to the court of Insolvency for relief from their Indebtedness, where It Is said thorn aro "no assets." Plenty of debts, but nothing to pay them with, hence tho application 10 unioau, aro supposed to represent value re ceived still, "no assets," not a dollar In sight. How la it that a man can g on piling up debts until hl assets all disappear It Is not so with the man who promptly pays his debts. Such a Helped Ills Father Ours.. A small son of a well-known Insur ance man was given a $5 bill to buy Christmas presents for his pnreiits and little friends, relates the Philadelphia Lodger. Among the articles he pur chased was a very handsome cup and saucer for his father. The little bov had nerer been known to keen a se cret, aud when he arrived home his mother cautioned him whatever he did not to tell father about the present which nun ucen purchased for him, All went well until the father came borne to dinner. "Well, Ned," was his greeting, "did you buy all your presents" "Yes, father, and I bought one for you." "Thank you," exclaimed the father. "and pray, what is It?" His mother shook her head. After ten minutes of very far fetched guess ing, the child felt that ho could stand It no longer; so, putting bis elbows on the table, and looking at his father, he said. In the most pleading tones: "Father, why don't you guess a cup and saucer?" Fortunately for his neighbors tb man who borrows trouble never payi It back. If girl's the apple of a young man'i eyes he thinks she Is a peach. CRACK SHOT. OF REVOLUTION. Kxploit of Timothy Murplin One of Morgan, ttuaru-ihootcr. The buttle of Saratoga, fought lu Oc tober 1777, has its place In hUtory as one of the fifteen decisive battles of the world from Marathon to Waterloo, so wrote the English historian, Creasy, and thus far nearly half a century has elasped, nnd his word lies never been questioned. Let us kok at two characters who shared In this battle. Col. Daniel Mor gan, afterward general, ever the stnm.li friend of Washington, und at the date of which we write, the leader of 7to sharpshooters; and Timothy Murphy, tne crack snot of Morgan s corps. Morgan was a far-sighted and clear headed soldier; he had ole-wved lu the action of October 7. a noble looking Hrltieh olllcer, w ho, mounted-on a mag- nincient charger, dashed from one end of the line to the other. While tills of ficer llvtd, Morgan cunsldcred the lsuo of the contest a doubtful one; he there fore selected twelve of his best marks men, among whom was Timothy Mur phy, and, lending tbcin to a suitable position, he pointed out to them the doomed olllcer. who was dresd in full uniform, and said to Ihem: "That gal lant olllcer yonder Is Gen. I'razer. I ad mire and respect him, but It Is neces sary for our good that he should die. Take your stations nnd do your duty." Within a few minutes n rifle ball cut the crupper of Krazer's horse, a second pasted through his horse's mane. Cull lng his attention to this, his aide said to him: "It Is evident you are marked out for particular aim; would it not be' pruuent ror you to retire from this place?" Trazer milled: "My duty for bids mo to fly from danger." The third shot was from the rifle of Murphy, and l'rnzer fell, mortally wounded. Ills death so disheartened the Itrltlajj that the moment he fell the tide of bat tle turned against Ilurgoyne. Ho had initiated" Into a (.reek letter frnternti ir... ,...... nl.tinv Ti.i . I 1. . .. . . - ....v. ua, .w . .uoameacy Deen unaresseu. uiinuioiuea .mil laid on a cake of Ice the no more apparent than that which Is student was taken upstairs and thrown from a halconv mftnlrest when n m.n mnttnttolle i.n.. ......... . v miiiug upon a oianiiet ne u ny nil miow students twenty of the disgrace of dying rich, yet ob- five feet below. He was tossed In the blanket until un Mivaua iu i.lV Ul Ilia L (KJJOUS fate. It Is the inconsistency of a man who talks from the Hps outward, not believing what he la saying the con ventional cant of a rich man who af fects to despise that which he In truth most highly prizes. It Is absurdly false to say that poverty is a blessing or that riches are a curse In themselves. Wealth rightly used Is one of the greatest aids to human happiness; poverty Is a boon to nobody save peo ple who would misuse riches. The uses of adversity are sweet only when sustained by somebody else. That pes simistic philosopher Schopenhauer was accustomed to assure his disciples that tliere was nothing in the world worth living for and that It was the duty of every man upon attaining the age of discretion to go out nnd hang himself. Yet Schopenhauer himself, so fitr from acting upon his own advice, took pre cious good care to prolong his life ns long as possible. He lived to be more than 70 years old and ho quitted Ihe world nt last with great reluctance. And so It Is with the rich men who go about disparaging riches. They really mean that riches are bad for other peo ple, but not for themselves. In troth, riches are good and not evil to any one who uses them aright. 1-Hla .... ' - I .. .... . I, . 1 .,. . . I . vutj iwuvu iu lue niHiu nuere ill. asmim; ,,w . ... . . tm t . . . ... - .. u. a 1'uuui- uuice rai.e. a luspicion as 10 me cnaracter or the Incumbent. We have not enouih civic, t.rld. to out weigh the energy and the Influence of the grafter. Klnce this astounding and deplorable ttale of affairs obtains In 1 no other nation, the Inference Is clear that we hare reached low moral plane. The grafter I an effect; not a cause. He It the retainer of dishonest business Interests: the henchman of that to carried away by the lust of greed that they do not he!tate to plunder their fellow citizens Uiroush lb. bribe.! co-mn. tlon of those who are elected to protect their Interests. uruoitiyn Kagle. T mi Tho Wife and tho Criminal law. II B law lags behind the advance of women, tt we are reminded by a cate which was trM at Alarylebone the other day. In which a young woman and her husband were charged wlih stealing and receiving. It It not for U to apportion the blame of a sin to whleh Ihe hn. band has pleaded guilty. Hut the magistrate fell hack al once on the old legal maxim that when hatband and wife act lu concert the wife It not restwnnihle. being under her husband's control. Hurcly the whole world of modern womanhood will rise In reiolt agalnit tuch an assumption Even the magistrate hinted that It ought to be "reviewed " I'nder the present law the man was remanded am! the wife was discharged, lo prolett. as she turele m. the last remaining feminine wronr. Nn u-m.' down calmly at home and consent to t-cape reins .id on ...v h.uu ...n i .ne. was unuer control of her husband .mwuu iiiuiiii-ie. It became Murphy's lurn lo lire. He lay down on the ground nt full length, resting his rifle on his hit, ns thr- others hud done, and, after glancing over Ihe barrel, he was heard to tay: ".Sure, and I believe I enn tee Ihat ns.ll." Again he sighted his piece flred. and Ihe pa per fell. An examination showed a center shot: the bnll had driven Ihe null exactly In. In person. Murphy was stout and well made, handsome In face, with Jet black hair and un eye that would kin dle and flash like the lightning when excited; quick ns cat In all his move- den movement of determination, and ueiu out ner nanus, pleadingly. sow joti mutt marry me!" she said. .-.man cv. Itll.kln a a Card ner. Fond ns llu.kln was of flowers, es tuw-lntlf -.. I ....... .-. ... ' """. ue iinii iii. own ;..eH iis to wimt a garden ought to be mill tn l.l. . . " i-imuvm Knruemng was qiuu. a lannsonplst. lie liked tusking path and contriving pretty Umil, When ho llr.t caiiie to llraum-nod he would have his coppice cut no more .. "INIIIIIC.1 nil iu trreet lull .... militu ntul nnnuelii.. .... I . .lto.l... ...... ' ."""". nn iiuii inline "iih.uk, promising tin 1 1 ru that nothing apparently could affect. ; ber. and ist the ngo for all cotmner What, moreovir. Is very remarkable. I. inl use or lime hoiu.ri i- . , . . . . -. ..eiiai- ! Ihat In the most dangerous duly ihat '"rH shook Ihelr heads but thee .11 l-l.r pnnhl imit.tl.ti- f..ll .,... 1 ... ' : - "" "i"'i iiiiii.i"". mi.... in.- ini'itire 0f Itnttlcelll aim iiuskiu Imil made his oopple,. nt(, In w hich he passed sevm years of nrmy life, his body was never woundfil or even scarreL I'nlud Service llevlew. RUSE OF THEREJECTEb ONE. How a Girl Who Unci I'rnnil.ed to II. u Sl.ler Va llruliiihl tu Terms. "I understood you to say that you reject me," he suld. "Your understanding corns;!," she replied, "although somewhat bluut. I feel that I cannot marry you." She look a step forward and gently touched ids arm. A tear was lu her eye. "I'm so sorry," she said. ' ! bometblng lu her voice made him straighten up. He had not asked for sympaiuy. He rcseulcd it so suddenly that It was as If some outside power uim maun position of him. He fell niuu riguc turough. --lou neeun t be," he replied. "Whv should you be? If jou entertain the .ngmrai nouon mat I'm going to Jump vi. ug uu ui mm my lire dismiss It at once. There are, I can assure you, worse things than being a bachelor. In the first place, there are no enormous bills to pay. Then, a man can en n.i come as he pleases, without let or hind- kit his besf subordinate, the only one lone womau, subject to her whlmslilr of his officers who had Uie sllgbleat In- Hd flandes, be I. frJfor 7l. Hc' niirnra wltti ltlm I ... ' tall pursue ms cuensaeu amblUona wllhout imcrruuuuu. vnen ue is sick he can secure proper care without being nurs ed by an amateur. He doesn't have to attend dinner parlies, or any other klrd of parties, If he doesn't want to hi, time Is his own. Ho can imoke or not, without question, and he Is abso lulely free to pursue his own IdeaU There are worso things than being S!n gle, I wai willing to run the risk, with you, but don't sympathize with me I haU get along all right, thank you. She turned toward him with a sud- fiuence wlih him. At the closo of the Revolution Mur phy married and settled tn Schoharie as a farmer, hut his old habits still clung to blm. To his last day be maintained the rep utation he had won as a sharpshooter In Morgan's corps. It was a custom In those days for riflemen to shoot for a prize. On one occasion a large oak tree had been blazed near the ground and In the circle a small piece of white pa per was fastened by a brass nail. The distance to be flred was over 100 yards. Several close shots had been made, and .. .-Hrij- imiiau nllar piece. Then hi. had his espalier of apples ami ,, gK..M.rry pat.-h , ft.w ,UlM,Hr(I fruit trees and some strawberries mixed with Mowers. ,, ,, then, were beehive, In the ol..fuion. i pent house trailed oier wlih creep ers. Here and there wero Mm. ...... mocks, each will, lis especial Interest of fern or flower. Clove, fbr -Nuu.oa. "Clove." mmIiI n ... ..,,..,. ......... n,t''u'' "make an for the headache due i.. i .....' and for slight attacts of , Z,. ". . .. . ,1.',1M JmT "" the the approaches of Msndckneiw. (ook a clovo every hour all ,0 of ly and by midnight attack had left me and It did not return agal," My wlfo Is much given to liidlgw,tt0,. tleularly when she eat. paut ex Pcrlenco has taught her tlwt she lilelaittfpiHcd by thrill tet all (hi I. ervrplll.le i.nl, 0 Ihe yrii who have b.ng rr.Me. In Mexlni To tlranger from th .stale, thl rlly I. Jtirl s rnpnlile ..f (li.r,. nig i lie rvl cure a II m ln,ir year Ngu The fat pace, the i-.t, that kill, of northern .-lite. . unknuHu hete. The .uuthin charm and the ant Ihat give grace ami rt.-wt" r tn life ara Jill prominent, and llexivh a l.rz. slIKMinl nf butlnem I. ihim .l.me here at thl capital, there I. the intlitllrr. tal a well at the imlltl.-al ..-nl.-r ,.r th. reimnik.. no one I .t.nntM.1 m ihe ' puraull of wraith a to he liiM-u.iht lo the anieulltf. uf ell.lele e The l.tiH- ' el malt ha lime la .hake hainb. M4 11 exchange greeting, with hi. rrl.-h.la, 'j It I prUial.ljr thla um' la I gnii.ln,, ! waking the people of Oil. II) a.-, u, nv one big family and causing en. h in- II dividual f the ruininmiltx in r.s. thu R he ueruple dl.tlnrt pl.re In the r. '1 teem ami eufi.lderallnn of ulhera llitt i eautlllutnt one of the charm uf lift In Meilco Wa.hlngti.il m.r g OltOWTM OF INSANITY. ft In Chit. It I. I.irr..liis an.t lUparlt IS l.an.l a lli.u.a. -f Wltat rhange can t made In rj m life lo atop II iMuiniHiu prialui-il.iu ef S liuwiully, ysnrly liii-reatliih-T Here Is a ijucatluu whirii u j,t t0 an l ..lire.! 'Ilie riKsllcnl fraierully it 'U' at a la for a general rviimly. puttied U to IIikI ni.sina of oiereuinlug Hie tune. fill rffecl. of a elly. acute actliliy jflj on It general menial condition. th Ixjixlm pro!ure tevenly I una tin i STj wwk ami New York It slimwl at Uti. tu and Ita Inmsiie U grt-ater pr .tirt fco- Ml ately. Ktp-rta tay llwt If II were tvA f& for the fact that nature step In and JUJ gmw-rally refute, lo grnnl children Jjp aftssr the f. mrth or flfih generstUHi, n coiHllthtn wouhl be far worts' thai fg they ire. Tim nutlwk of the future I n.4 Afj bright, arenrdlng tn medical opinion, 53 tllllrsa the mind, of Hie city ptsipie ara bWler able within Ihe nest few giinT- ntloiM tn adjust themselves to Ihelr progn-Mlvely rs.mpllcaltd eiivlroumeiit, l unless iMlanrlng Intrreata and menial ,iUt liablla are devidopss! l ovis-emne the unnatural nervou. tension of city ,ll5 life. ffl Ko comidlcatwl I the cn Iniumrnl of tb.M wlm live In great town, so many iTr, ""llet or Hope Aiwa..; Btrauger (In Frozen I)0g)i, .... an mien in. i,. . . . . mero ir ii puys c an? Hronco Illll-Cau', lay haniL Is. In this community in i.n . . '.. 1 dle.1 of.i.i, uu' "lki IJrltlan's l'opulailon"v77T,n Hfty years ago the popuh,tio or igland and Wale. -.. ,n. ,,on or ly between city and Vn per cent of It Is urban. 77 Homo melt are cnnm..,,.. . . ''jwordjorj ,0 bit nelgbleirs whtMs. fsrsM pna.wa a.it differing from Ihat of hit own farm. An lulereallug f.et Is HMt psitatoe. grown on litgh bill alopet produce twit when plantnt In tallejt, tml lluit h- taloe from the heavy, wet land make the beat teed for u lu light, dry tolli. Curlou liffect of TeriuaaW. fine or two remarkable el.wi.lei of the efferl of the .u.bleH eipanMn ef air In.kle bulldliigt when tho psrolal vacuum prwluctsl by a tomada (mims over them w.a noticed In Ik norm that .leta.laltHt rialrMMVllle. (leivrgla, tail June. The wall of a mil were blown outward, and the nttf lifted Int.. Ihe air and tuapendwl Iber. for acveral second. A aland pipe Ul feel In diam eter and 80 feet high, flared M) feel above the ground, lost II sheet Iron cover, which weighed Mrral ton. It was lifted b4lly off. cacrM high Into the sir. and drot.pe.1 HO feet away in us ill it kiiiesl aevertl persons. I'rof. lima Vtollarb. Prague, has rerted to ihe Vienna Academy of Sciences Ihe discovery of a lamp light ed by meaiM of barter!, which be claims will give a Miwerfnl light. ,nd be free from tlanger. thla Mug rBU. able for work In mine, .m) towder magaaliie.. The lamp Dwalata of a glass Jar, In which a Using nf M peter and gelatine. InotnUted with bacteria. I. t.larw.1 ..... liwulallontheJarbe.-omtaiiiuminal.Hl "Tl " V".U',, ? "'" C11 ,""" ""'lr with wonderful blul.h grren iiel.t r . "-lrut and uimn ihelr effurl mak- ed by the Innumerable atcterln which lmv"ft ,"n' a'rW ,m'""" '"""'In have develoiwl In Ihe Hue. The light Tr '" nl' ' ,M,comt' ",,,rp """I'h'i. w burn brilllautle r..r r. ... inria ns utre num. coininuuou ni.u ihree week, afterward, dlmliil.hlnc ndJu""'"t "l ,M! wl,le maclilno In brlghm... It renders fare. rv.J" u n,orv "I'1 lu ul" of ' 10 suffer dernngeinent llian lu tlio mora primitive and lea. emotional life of even Imlf a century ago. It U not overwork that Is tho determining came of tho disturbance, of mental equi librium, but cnrklng rare, worry und anxiety. New York World. freak Coin. IIavo (Iiiiio. Iteccnt mention of tho dbviaHirance jjiS of Ihe I'J.fX) gold piece from circulation and the pretnliiin this coin comtuanilJ 'ppgj as a curio luive set many to rummaging fmi In old iNickelbixika ami the liottoms of cash boxes ami drawers In search of tjag odd or out-of-ihite coins. Konio hae turn found a 12 niece, but not many The JK f.1 piece, one quite common, but always ffl! a sort of curiosity, Is oftciiiT found, J and many luivo specimens of the llltt jsjbj gold coins riqircncnllng nnd M ccuti, Bnjgj which wcro not mlnlisl liy tlio geiuril jsloif governmeiit ami prolmlily hnvo not so jw much gold lu them as they represent. M' Tlwy uims! to pnt as coin, but wcro S nuvcr In gcuenil circulation, being so j-jfei iimlly lost that they soon becams rrji, scarce. Will One of tho ImniUomcat coin relics grwj svn Is a 10 gold pleco lusirlng ths IJ'IfB mint slntnp of 170l. It Is Inrgcr thi the pnvieiit 110 gold piece. Tho i)otr jmQ hni It hung In a hand nnd wears It ' ,ulti ii i.linpiii mi Iila wntnti Mini... The dWD jt i Kalph was given the first lh.... .,.i rr sail ho refustsl an offer of IM) for MQ, no urinv aivnu ... . . . i .. . .. ... . . . , t'S 15; .no niuiim iu.y.n.1. tins true, me oiu ociognuai "vi u' .nul " '''"'I't JuhllHiit I'b'ccs were quite common In Cullfornl o'llcelwx was Ihe, g,-, uj Af,,, In early days, when gold dust w II. .. - I. . " " uianu.T- ui .iwianee or to mr.l. ,. large ly! I easily legll , ,,ro. feK.r Mollh isaerts itat the lamp yield, a cold light whit, is entirely safe. KAISEIT8 FAMhOUaDtATH DICE. Curloua Oh! Ktor of )l..a .. .. . .i.iii.iniii lenlurj Tlia(t, The German emperor k. ,... . !o0Ut..",t,T""1, "U,url 'niatIo to tlie llohetyu Hum M... .. . U1.I....1 . '"SIIU. ii con- help of which one of Kalm, wiiMm"! 7. , ... "mw " UI"lciF4 ciiho about the middle of the ae-vwicwu century A beautiful young girl h.T 0 dered and juap It.,0I1 fcll 0Iwo ,( Italph and Alfrtsl, who w.to rlva ZTnSSS", A"l,so,! 1 in . either Prl . C"?"" "' either. I'rlnco I'red.Tlck H'llllnm tho lordlan knot win, ,iH. d,J, " wo ko dlers sh,lM itlt? 0 lives, the lowr to i eicrti.Mn. l murderer. Tho event. w.U celbra si vlth gr.t pomp ,, . tho prince himself n,,i.,. i' ,l.l.jr: ne.ll In ,11.-1... .... -""in mis np- accusisl theiiia..i.-... 'Winning the 10011 ?IOi . cotm ,n.. ...... " ' eei ue throw Ihn or ino goiu coins in 7. .. "''u frco Hint nt.. nt ii,... inont In thoso days, ninny still rcmcni ihowe. T.,; : . 1,10 wken one " 1'""' " Immlsorncst coins they on iiin i c ,"'okwi nlM' ow(h1 six ever saw. Many proplo now wouM 1,1 .1 etr. lmrii", and tht lilt that consider them handsome on account of MotiUohlrieJ:'' "lM . RIvIb!"" '-' thcm.-Portt,.d Orcgonlan. row o lllS " Tho'whr ""i!' ",0 ' Cost.y dob fur ftussTa. U'rllled will, ...tonlshn . ? J,1",',"0,.1,t' '''" Svcrnmcnt has tv , ,u,m," ovit tmmm 1,1 Mn"c":"! tow heaven . "nicio at n sign ' A sprinter ahould novi-r wear wn'Mwl his guilt, nnd Ihut are warruutcd not to ruu. itienn "Y. DcJ( i.