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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1904)
I Topics of the Times Tlilne wo don't possess mnko life worth Bring. A limn Is not n taint becauso bo can tell ttio truth. No man who does you an Injury will ver forgive you for It. Of tho ninny human buds but few ever bloom successfully. Bo sure of your tntted calf before essaying tho prodigal role. Ono would think that Canada is cold enough without annexing Greenland. Tho actor's fur-lined ulster doesn't always protect him against a frost. Borne men who Imagine they were cut out for politicians are mighty poor nts. It now costs n Chinaman $500 to get luto Canada. There arc nlready too many laundries. Sir Thomas Ltpton announces that ho still has n liberal supply of Sham rocks In the till. In the matter of musical farewell tours tho balance of trade Is always heavily against the United States. hand, thanks to a generous soil and to unwearied cultivators. The mills nnd factories arc not so busy ns they were n year ngo. Tho regret which that occasions Is tempered by the re flection (hat tho farmers have been ac tive to BUeli excellent purpose, ihe United States Is fortunate In that It hns more than one string to its bow. It has managed to secure diversity of Industries. It Is not dependent on agriculture alone, as It was a century ngo. It does not have to rely on man ufactures alone for prosperity, ns (I rent llrltaln does. It Is moro nearly self-sutllcing than any other couutry under the sun. When tho resources of Its tropical possessions are fully developed It will bo In a still better position to dictate commercial terms to nations which must have sonit. ot Its surplus products. Due would like to know about how- much It cost to raise tJio farm products or tins year. The manufacturer can ltguro out his profits closely. He has to, so he may know where he stands. The average farmer does not Imitate the manufac turer In this respect, or If he does his balance sheet Is not made public. If one can Judge from the prosperity pre vailing In the agricultural districts of the West, where the farmers are de positing In local banks more money than the banks can find employment for at home, the agricultural produc ers have been richly repaid for their labor and expenditures In 1003. They have dono extremely well for them selves nnd for the country. 1 1 WmVms Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. 5 .fol i The poem which Alfred Austin, the laureate, has llred at the Russians Is hardly an act ot war, but It was a pretty bad (went. In San Domingo they go to sleep under one administration, awaken un der another, and have to hurry some If they beat the third to breakfast. The school children of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, were recently asked to vote, the Issue being. 'Who Is the best and greatest person who ever lived?" A partial statement of tho re sult Is glen. as follows: Lincoln, M Washington, 11; McKlnloy, 0; ltoose volt, 4; King Arthur, 3; Joan of Arc, 3; ".My Father." 3; "My Mother." 3; King Solomon, 1. Here Is an Interest Ing revelation of the child mind. Tho tlrst thing that strikes one Is the over wbelniingly patriotic trend of tho chil dren. Another thing Is the entire ab sence of the commercial spirit. Thero Is uo millionaire or captain of Indus try on the list. It may be stated that those children who voted for their fathers and mothers voted their real sentiments. The other votes are the mere reflections of adult opinion. "My Father." Blessings on the head of the children who cast that ballot! Tho normal child Is tho one who thinks Its father tho greatest and best man. If Both Canada and the United States! the child thinks otherwise there Is appear ready to keep their eyes tight something the matter with It, or with shut while some one takes the Itush tne rattier, ine ratuer lias every ad- treaty out luto the middle of Lake vantage. In that, from the first the Michigan nnd reduces It to pulp. child looks up to him. He only needs I to oc a urm uut gracious sovereign to A man who was supposed to be a be always the king. There arc thoso They do some things better even In Italy. In Italy the octopus is used as an article of food, while In this coun try it Is, on tho contrary, quite the reverse. From tho Medicine Hat News we learn that there Is a "fire brigade" In that town. The popular Impression has been that Medicine Hat has noth ing but Ice houses. love-Making by Hulc. N13 cau hardly pick up a newspaper or maga zine without llmllng advice on tho subject of lovc-ninkPig, nnd the minutest Idiosyncrasies of woman and of man are so described that It would seem that the wayfaring man nnd the fool could not err therein. This abundance of advice loads to the query whether it would not be quite as well to leave a little something to the Individ ual. What fun Is there going to be In courting n girl, when every step In the way Is marked out with the, proclslou of the proper move In a game of chess? It may be true that If n mail wants to please a woman he will pretend that he does not care too much for her, and that If a woman Is particularly desirous of winning some particular man for her husband she will pretend that she does not care much (or him; but If they both do this, either they will get the Impression that there Is no use in going on with the affair, or they will begin to understand that It Is nil In the game, and we have Scripture authority for It that In vain Is the net spread In the sight of any bird. For all this multifarious advice, however, tl.ero Is very little danger that tho good old game of courting will Jose Interest for the majority of people. Human nature Is so varied that It will take any person more than one lifetime to learn all about It. and the more a man may think he knows about women In general, the more likely Is he to find that the one particular woman In whom ho Is Interested has some Individual traits different from the rest; nnd they will be enough to keep hlm wondering for some time. Tho mo? dangerous thing which one can do In a love affair Is to .jpntTnllse. The safest way Is to study the specimen In hand, nnd try to And out Its habits, fancies and tendencies, without much reference to those of other creatures. The ways of an oriole Cannot be learned by watching a blue Jny or a domestic duck. New York Dally News. aid Is Indeed unfortunate. We have long believed that this condition of affairs would correct Itself. One of Ihe reasons that our young men have been so willing to leave the old country home has been the hick of country attractions. This can hardly be said to hold good to-day. The trolley car, telephone and free rural mall delivery have well-nlgli wiped out the distinctions between city and suburban life Another powerful factor now working for tho upbuilding of the country life Is the agricultural college. Our young men are fust learning that farming Is no longer the hop. hasard business ot u former day, but Is one of the most exacting nnd sclentltle of pursuits. With this knowledge comes a higher respect for the vocation and a stronger desire to enter the Industry. The tide Is thus gradually but surely turning, and the time Is near at hand when farming will be held In the same high regard here that It has long been In England. In that country when a man achieves tluauoJnl success he at once seeks n country estate for a home. Here the reverse has long held true, and the city home hns been held up as tho Ideal. This false system of ethics Is rapidly going to the wall and a more exalted Idea of country llfo Is taking Its place, ltlch ulid poor ullko arc beginning to take to the farm. It Is tho Ideal spot for a home. Lenistou Journal. Man Should Not be Ru'cd by His Moods. KOl'I.K. as a rule, allow their happiness to de pond too much on moods: nnd these moods may be attributed In most case's to tho condition of the body. If a man works too much nnd sleeps too little one day, he Is very likely to wake up next morning In a surly humor nnd keep hlm self and every one about hlm uncomfortable for the day. In such a cne a man deliberately and with savage per wrseness cultivates his Irascibility. Instead of lighting against the mood and beating It off. he yields to It and takes a gloomy satisfaction In his condition. He willfully twists every Incident Into n cause of offense, goes out of his way to find slights, and discharges bis Ill-feeling on his wife or children or employes or anybody else whom he can bully without fear of being knocked down. On the other hand, when n man Is healthy nnd refreshed, and well fed, he benms upon tho world. Things must go very badly before they make any Impression on his buoyancy pauper died In Omaha with $20,000 of us who have gray threads In our Mniwinlail ...In tltn ll,it..,?a nf llU I h.llr WllO TPt belled fhllt "flthpr" Is WUWU.trU UIIUVI IUU . . . ..f, -J V .. ... I " - . . . . iAt.n. tr t,,o na ..Mt. oc nf. I flip irrandpst nml noblest mnn we li.irn,01 spirit. i, L-l,,,. li ,,-m, l.lm ever known. "Mv Mother" Those "'' 13 " uiouus, iiko a " - I -...,.. f ,! 1. . 1. . I. .1 votes come naturally. They voted a . ,,v m.uufcu un-ui iurj jiruiu To-day there remains only the com- real conviction. On second thought ue '""" '"'u wmcn paim me worm tneir own paraUvely small area of Africa which every child would have written "moth- ""u , "'"" " ' Iot1"- " ues can bo said to be still unexplored. This er" on his ticket. You will sometimes 1101 "ecomc a rauonai man. uowever. io ue ruieii by ins area lies between tho Sobat river on And n person who does not love his da"r nmuors. The intellect nnd will should be masters of nnrtlien.t nml tlm mnln White Vile father. Itare are tllOSe. Ch ldren or uu:r. onu r iuunm.11 uuul-UIl, on tlie west nnd southwest, aud Is oc- adult, who do not revere the mother, cuulcd by Nilotic negro tribes, with the I-ord Byrons are scarce. Mother Is a general characteristics of which we are queen who rules by divine right. Her familiar by contact lu tho already ex- sceptre is compelling love. Dlored regions of tho Nile basin. mention of her sacred name the to every neart aro un Darren In the American citizen's attitude name devils are cast out. She lures to toward his debt to the State, at least heaven and points the way. Father so far ns tho rich are concerned. Is per- and Mother King and Queen of the celved a steadily strengthening Inch- Kingdom of Love! Ob, Hearts grown nation to make fewer nnd less insistent sore nnd weary with the buffets of the demands upon himself. He discards world, ye have bent the knee to many the high senso of honor required by n liege lord nnd lady false sovereigns ;ht. Her NE of ti, At tholl TyI I fronts the be bolts J & W I the young Ia her 1 6 i.ST... there has : his social code and resorts to various devices, scarcely stopping short of downright perjury to dodge the tax collector. In your time: but the mild and gen tie reign of "Father" and "Mother" Is from everlasting unto everlasting. It docs not lead to respect of courts and legal processes wheu rich scoun drels nre let oft with almost nominal punishments and the little fellows re ceive the limit of tho law ONCE OWNED BY HANCOCK. Here Is Probably the l-'irst Upright I'iano Mads Over 203 Year Old. One of the rarest old pianos In the it tnmis tn country, and probably the first upright annnnrt file frennent nllojmtlnn n,nle ev hullt. Is OWned In Frankllll, N. II., thnt certain men in this land are free v"Ke ,ut to ilo nnvthlmr thev like nml nre In,. I,:lrlur ol "e OIU uncurls! mansion Oil mune from punishment so long ns they can write cheeks to secure the cus tomary delays nnd Juggleries In the courts. The allegation is not true, but It hns a certain foundation In current history. There Is a rising discontent in our country which ought to be heed ed by thoso who dcnl In law. Fow statistics have been bequeathed to us concerning the structure which tho descendants of Noah got into trou- blo over on tho I'lnln of Shlunr. It Is to be doubted, however, that In tho matter of height It would compare well with tho building which Is about to bo erected in New York. Accord ing to tho plans this giant of twenti eth century architecture Is to ascend forty stories Into the air. Tho Imagin ation Is strnlned by an attempt to con- celvo of such a creation of steel nnd stone. Even tho Washington monu ment nt the national capital will bo dwarfed In Its most Imposing dimen sion. South Main street The piano Is the property of Miss Mary A. Swain, and was willed to her by Mrs. Gilchrist, n near relative, wnoe uusuanu, mviu uuclirlst, one of the pioneers of the town, purchased it in Boston In ISP). The bill of sale shows that It was purchased of Lord A: Collision for $100. The piano was taken out of the Gov ernor Hancock mansion, and was orig Innlly owned by Governor John Han The search for tho fountain of youth has not been abandoned, as tho numer ous dietary experiments aundantly attest. Sclouco is tho modern I'onco Do Leon. The era of strictly scien tific living for tho most of us hns not dawned, nnd Is afar off, but may wo not hopo that tho tlmo Is coming when tho most casual caller nt tho lunch oui TIME WANO. coek, tho first signer of tho Declara tion of Independence. Tho ulnno u-jih linllt liv Wllllnm Stn. tuu.ui.-i niu ura u num.,- grams ot ,irt, and is Inscribed William Stodart, proicin, iai, caruoiiyurnies aim ine rest as his physical or Intellectual necessl- Buck to the Farm. the most serious problems that con- the economic world to-day Is to keep young men on the farms. For many years been n tendency to congregate In the cities, and to such an extent has this been car ried that all the vocations of city life have been so over-crowded that to-day It Is well- nlgh Impossible for a stranger to get a foodhold. For every situation there nre a score of applicants, and the young man who has no Influential friends to render him HiF Uacliclors Arc Spoiled. CYOND a doubt, society spoils many bachel ors, by making too much of them. The pur pose of society Is to bring the men ami the maids together, mate them and marry them, But society frustrates Its own purpose by pet tlug aud pampering unmarried men. It puts a premium on the single state, nt least for men. Bachelors are made so contented with their condition that It Is no wonder they nre loath to alter It. They stand, ns It were, on a pedestal. In heroic pose. Ilko demigods. In cense Is burned before them. Then the girls complain be cause the men don't marry. If the young women of this generation are left old tnnlds they may blame themselves .and the ways of society. Society, for Its own sake, ought to make things unpleas ant for bachelors. Unmarried men should be forced to feel that they have a duty yet unperformed, and that they nro received only on sufferance. They should be kept In the background In all events aud below the salt at table. The married man. on the contrary, should be received as one who has done his duty faithfully nud well, nnd has merited reward. He should bo favored In every possible wny In order to point the difference between his honorable state and tho unworthy condition of the single. Bachelorhood should be a limbo or even a purgatory; a state of painful preparation, lintcad of a heaven. If thlugs were as they ought to be, If society were alive to Its own Interest, there would be fewer self-satlsried, egotistic, disgustingly con tented single uieu -Sau Francisco Bulletin. - The Handicap of Wealth. ItESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard. In a recent address told a baud of struggling newsboys that the children of the rich were terribly handicapped and they are. In a majority of instances their lives have no purpose. They are reared lu an environment which makes them mere show animals. They know nothing of the tooth nnd-nall existence which makes men. It has not been brought home to them, as to those that are early thrust Into the vortex of life, how much of struggle and light and eniIeaor Is still needed to preserve the ground civilization and culture have gained for humanity. They merely grow. They sco people nbout them gratifying sensual desires and seeking pleasure, and In too many cases that becomes the sum total of their life's nlm. It Is a tremendous handicap for any one to overcome: nnd In the struggle for success, for the place of honor and esteem among the best elements of mankind, they will find that somehow or other they do not possess Helpful characteristics. Via 'MM Science tiventioii CLAIMS HE CAN MAKE DIAMONDS. Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, who Is a Norwegian by birth, speaks j Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German nnd English, and has a good under- standing of French. He Is one of the most accomplished linguists In the I Senate. Cats In Japan almost universally have short tails, and if n cat does come Into the world with a lengthy caudal appendage It is usually chopped off, for the Japs detect a likeness to snakes In the long tall and cannot endure it. The Japanese cat has the usual number ot bones In Its tall, but they are not de veloped. A startling fact which has recently been demonstrated Is that the equator Is not a perfect circle. If you could drop n plumbllne from Ireland through to New Zealand, It would Imj somewhat longer than another which cut the earth nt right angles to It. The differ ence has not yet been ascertained with absolute accuracy. A letter was received at the East Dorset (Vt.) postoftlco a few weeks ago postmarked at Spokane l ulls, Wash., and directed to Benjamin Ames or any of his descendants. It proved to be from n man who sixty years ago board ed with Mr. Ames for a time nnd left without paying his board bill. Ilo suld that he was now 8.'i yours old nml wanted to pay. Tho bill was sent him nnd he sent u check for the amount. Mule "housemaids" aro the most re cent contribution to the solving of the servant problem In Greut Britain, It seems. Several thousands of foreign young men have recently been trans ported to London to engage lu general domestic work lu British households. ties Bcem to require? Tho man who Is nbout to produce an epic will see to it that his bill of fare contains tho requlslto amount of nitrogen and phos- maker to their majesties nnd royal So far nothing but commendation is family, Golden square, Loudon, heard on the subject. These jnen ber- Tbero Is no dnto on tho piano, but , vants, say their employers, do tho work Miss Swain nnd others who hnvo seen that has generally been allotted to It claim that tho Inscription roadlng' women Inn tienner, quicker and moro "makers to their matestlOH" shown' thorough fashion than the sev (,,. phorus nnd that ho secures a sulllcient that it was without doubt mmln ilnrlun have disnlnced. Tliov wasln losa time number of calorics of heat value daily, tho reign of William and Mary, a have no grievances, no "visitors." nsk William III. and Mnr II. were tlm no higher wairos. and do tint lmtlmr Tho farm vuluo of tho crops of corn, only two sovereigns to reign touethei ubout "evenings out." Altogether. If tvlicat, rye, oats, hny, barley, pota- over tho United Kingdom. tho future carries out tho prophecy of toes, flaxseed, buckwheat and tobacco . Their relirn of six vears was from tho present It will not bo long beforo raised last year Is estimated at wsn tn icon, nnd if tho nlnno tho reign, of women workers in tho f2,CO0,O0O,O0O by the bureau of statls- uunt then It Is now over 200 years old. "essentially womanly field of house- tics of tho Department of Agriculture, jiiss Swain thinks that It was built wlfery" will bo quite eclipsed by tho To that great sum may properly bo ub an experiment, as no ono has ever nascullno superiority therein shown. tho long, sun tau-tcatucrs of a woodpecker enablo the bird to cling to tho trunk of a trco lu an upright post added about $700,000,000 for tho valuo 6eeu another llko It. of tho cotton crop. This Js nn amaz ing aggregation of "quick assets," A Bright Scholar. which can bo turned Into money when- Teacher Do you know anything tlon for n long tlmo nnd boro away for over It Is nectlod. It Is a gigantic pile nbout algebra? j food. Tho bill of a woodpecker Is of commodities which aro needed Bertie Young Plenso, teacher, I do. often as strong as Hint of a bird of ai.mmi ns well as nt homo. If Amer- It's a mulo what is covered wltli, prey, nnd in ttio woodcock of Northern lea Is Btlll In debt to Europe tho means stripes. I saw ono at a circus. Mnlno the bill Is found nt Its greatest hmi wbleb to nnr tho dabt aro at Woman's Home Companion. development. Ihe tongue much ro I'ltOFESSlHl MOISSON. The scientific world Is greatly interested in the claims of I'rofessor Mols eon, the learned Frenchman who asserts that he Is able to inniiufacturo dia monds In an electric furnace of his Invention. The process, according to M. Moiskou, who Is shown at work at his diamond making furnace, takes from six to eight weeks, tremendous pressure being applied to the raw material, which Is withdrawn at white heat from tho crucible. It Is then found Hint the glass, which has nssumed a grayish color, contains a particle said to bo n diamond. Charles Combes, tho well known French mining engineer, Is foremost among those who ridicule tho professor's claims. Tho small circles In the picture contain figures of tho-so-called diamond crystals. semblos an angle worm, nnd Is very long and admirably adapted for suck ing snp. Sometimes tho tongue Is not only long and brush-like, but barbed ut the point, so that It can Impale Its prey. Tho feet nro adapted for swim ming In various ways. MOUNTAINEER8" "DEAD LINE." An lutcritnto I'eud thatCoit the Llvee of JllltldreilH of Men "My boyhood home lu Hancock coun ty, Tenn,, was tho Bccno of many dead ly encounters," Bald W. G. Gnrvlse, now of St. Louis, at the Italclgh. 'Hancock Is lu east Tennessee, nwny up In tho mountains, nnd borders on Virginia. In my youthful days the state Hue, which separated It from Lee county In the Old Dominion, was com monly spoken of as tho dead Hue.' Between my countrymen nnd the Vir ginia mountaineers thero raged Inces sant feuds of tho kind that meant kill ing whenever there was a meeting, whether accidental or premeditated. s a lad, I often saw .wagons drive through tho little town I lived In with ono or more coupses of men slain In theso desperato affrays. Whenever a Hancock man crossed over the 'dead line' he know ho carried his life In his bands, and It was tho mxmo way with tho Virginians. "I liavo hoard It asserted, and do not believe It nn exaggeration, that In the years of the cxlstenco of this Inter state war there were between OoO and 700 Hancock men slain. As they were Just ns good shots as their fcxw, tho loss on tho Virginia fcldo must hnvo been equally heavy. Within the last decade, I am glad to toy, tho feud has almost, If not quite, died out, nnd n much better feeling exists than of yore. But even now, recollecting what tho former conditions were, If I were to go back to tho old homo I'd feel M)tno hesitation In crossing tho 'dead line.' " Washington Post. A Hung Fit. He I want to get n lady's belt. Clerk What size? He Ah, thero you'vo got mo. I don't know the slzo. She's pretty plump; but (suddenly brightening) sayl Just meas ure tho length of my arm. Philadel phia Ledger. Only 111 per cent of Germany's young men are tit for military service, Dr. Snicker finds that heart disease has Increased iUH) per cent In n decade. The hour of death has been record ed by a leading European physician for H.tiSO persons of nil ages. Deaths are not numerous between II vo nnd six o'clock lu the morning nnd fewest between nine nud eleven lu the morn ing. The death rate Is not largo be tween 10 a. in. nnd 3 p. m., the fatal hours being from 3 to U a. m. Human power and machine power are found by Prof. Hchuioller of Ber lin University to have been equal lu Germany In 1NJ0. when (he popula tion was eighteen million, one-half be ing laborers, lu IKIO, with a popula tion oftlfty-slx million nud the sumo proportion of laborers, the machine power hud reached six times the man ual, or, according to some authorities, ten times. Carl Hagenbeck, the nnlmal dcnle of Hamburg, has n number ot ver curious crosses between tho lion nnd the tiger. One of these remarkable animals Is now four years of age. 11 has tho head of a lion nnd the striped body ot ii tiger, although tho stripe aro not as distinct as lu a true tlge Ills father was a Senegnl lion and It! mother u Bengal tigress. He has re cently been In New York, nud seem to be a healthy, vigorous nnlmal. Houses of sand, as substantial a granite, nre offered by the new proc ess of I.. P. Ford, of (Irosford, Eng. land. A mixture of sand and quick lime In suitable proportions Is forced Into a very strong steel mold, which Is placed In a box, from which the nlr Is then pumped, when hot water 1 admitted. The heat nnd pressure o; the slacking lime and steam mold tho materials Into a, rock having (X) pc cent of the strength of grnnlto. Thl building stone, ready for use lu eight hours. Is very durable, and Its cost Is low, bricks by this process costing lit tie more than half as much ns the or dinary. In the suburbs of Berlin recently eoncreto has been employed In plnco of wood In making idles to be driven Into tho ground for foundations to buildings. These singular plies, vary Ing from 17 to 20 feet In length, are triangular In cross section, and con 1st of Portland cement mixed with river ballast, the composition being tnyed with an nrmnture comprising, for each pile, three-quarter-Inch Iron rods tied together nt regular Intervals, the rods being set Into tho concrete. Tho heads of the piles aro guarded by buffers, and, thus protected, they can bo hammered Into tho ground like wooden beams with a pile-driver. The Invention of ntckebsteel, and other causes of au Increased demnnd for the niftnl Hint Is so familiar to us In our five eccnt pieces, glvo wide spread Interest to every discovery of new deposits of nickel ore. During the past summer Prof. Coleman of tho University of Toronto explored tho hudtiury nickel deposits In tho pro vlnco of Ontario, nnd reports that In quantity they surpass any other nickel deposits In tho world. But although tho percentage of metal In tho ore sometimes reaches flvo per cent, It averages only two and five-tenths per cent, which is not equal to the rich ness of tho ores of New Caledonia. The Ontario deposits cover an area forty miles long by twenty broad. work. Mho makes (lie poorrot cotlngo pretty and homelike, nnd by a deft (ouch transforms the dreariness of oven cheap lodgings, Slio never sinks with her fallen fortunes, but brings up her children lo adorn tho society to wlilcli they belong. Sho Is simple and well bred a lady, every Inch of her and thorcforo free from foolish pretense and affectation, cheerful, companion able, well trail, Willi a kind heart and sound principles! "Her price Is almvo nlhlos." THE DEADLY CELLULOID COMB. PROUD OF THEIR INCAPACITY. lUniiaroiia Article nf Adnriitiient la HHiihtlx lltrrenl from Oniientton. Attention lo tho dangers attending (ho Use of celluloid toilet articles Is again culled by a contributor to the .Medical Press nnd Circular. Ho writes us follows: "It hns long been known that I'rens lug i-oiubs nnd other articles of llko nature have been manufactured from a modification of guueoltou. From (line to time wo have pointed out tho possibility of accident from Ihe liso of artlcly containing such Ingredient, but comparatively few ciims of accident have hitherto been recnided. Now It appears that, the original intent having expired, a vast number of Imitation processes have sprung up, and the pub lic nre flooded with combs made from guitcottoii compound by methods which render theiu uioio dangerous than thoho prepared under Ihe original patent. Thnt miiiio rent rid Ion should be placed on Its Indiscriminate use was proved by the recent en so of a girl, twenty two years of nge, who was suffering from cellulitis of tho scalp, accompanied by a marked degreo of nervous shock. It appeared that her head had been set on tire by the sud den combustion of a comb which alio wore lu her hair. Cooking her father's dinner ono Sunday, ho happened to bend down before the tire, when tin comb suddenly Ignited, nnd sho le cntne enveloped In flames. Her llfo was spared through tho luesciice of mind of her father, who Immediately eureloiHsI her with the hearth rug, and so extinguished the rontbignitlou. Ob viously, seeing that the mere storage of guncotton Is restricted by heavy penalties, It Is not fair or safe thnt makers should be permitted to placu a slightly modified, but actively danger ous modification, on the market, to bo umsI by a section of the public who have not the slightest notion of Its coin- (Nisltlon nnd dangers." INVENTIONS BRING WEALTH. Ksaonco of Hones. At present essence of roses Is almost tho only artlclo exported to tho United States from Bulgaria, and agricultural machines aro almost tho only direct Imports from tho United States. Too many people pray out of one side of their mouths and Ho out of tho other. Home Women Ulorr In Their Inability to io Common Taaka. it must ue numiucu thnt soma women and girls havo no taste for housekeeping, but this Is a distinct mis fortune. They ought to have It. They should try to ncqulre It. They have no reason to glory In such Incapacity, not to look on It ns a mark of superiority, of nn artistic temperament, a fastidious nature. Not n bit of It. The really fastidious people are always good man agers, for Oicy cannot endure to live In discomfort and squalor, and, rather than endure It, set bravely to work to remedy It, Tho young womnn who cannot cook a mutton chop, boll a iotato, or make a decent cup of tea, whatever her station In life, has uo reatou lo feel proud of her Incapacity. homo things every girl should know. whntover her wealth and position how to mnko a fire, how to bind up a wound, how to cook nt least some sim ple dishes, and how to act In cas of tiro or poison. On such knowledge llfo or tho loss of It may depend, nud sho who does not possets It Is Ignorant of an essential to u woman's education. A thousand possible accidents may mnko It of tho llrst Importance. Tho perfect woman, tho womnn tho world wants, Is tho nll-nround woman who can put her hand to nnythlng, should tho need nrlse, and who, having n cultivated Intelligence, quickly grasps how tasks unrninuinr to her should bo done. The cultured lady, accomplished equally nt homo in (lie drawing room, the nursery nnd tho larder, able lo en tertain her guests with easo and grace no drudge, no mere upper tcrvnnt, but capable, womanly, versed In all that It becomes a inodcrti woman to kuowj mistress, perhaps, of an art or - oiraiMU iu uiiiKU hid irucic in ono foro all that, n good wife, n good straight line; In fact, tho great number mother, a good mlstiess-thnt Is (he nnd the dllllcully of the curves form kind of woman of whom there cannot tho chief attraction of tlio "Crcsta" ns spectators. A, Kcu-Vlttf,l Circuit Klder of In liana Acquire Fortune, From a poor Methodist circuit rider, preaching Sunday after Sunday to small country congregations In Pike and other Southern Indiana counties, to n mnn whose wealth Is estimated nt JoOO.dOO. within two je.irs, Is tho record of the Itev. Jai M. Stafford, of Petersburg, hns made through In vention. wrought nut while traveling. Mr. Stafford Is only 27 jenrs of nge, but ho owns seven Inventions, six ot which have been patented at Wash ington nud for rnch of which he hns been offered n fortune. Probably his mo.it remarkable In vention Is a non-reUllnble bottle, which hns been tested thoroughly nnd Is soon to lie manufactured by a com pany organized for tho purpose. AfUr the first tent tho minister was offered $100,0(10 for his patent, but refused II. Tho offer wns Increased but ho re fused to dispose of the patent as n whole or even of a controlling Inter est. Ultimately he sold n tenth Inter- st for $10,000, nnd Is to receive n roy alty on all luttles manufactured. Another Invention Is a non-rtilllnhlo bottle cork, which" Is closely allied to tho non-reAllnblo bottle, but can bo mnde to lit any Initio that Is manu factured. Still another Is nn auto matic monkey wrench which does awny with tho screw and thread and ndjusts Itself automatically to any Izo. It Is said that tho wrench can bo sold much cheaper than the ordinary article. Tho minister Is not only enjoying his new prosperity himself, but Is do- ng much good with the money which has come to hlm. His first purchase wns a 200-acro farm, which bo gave to his aged father. Soon afterward ho bought the steam ferry at Peters burg and gave that also to his aged parent Heating tho Wttiit. There nro several other tracks at Davos, such as tho Clavadel, and tho Hchatzalp, but more Interesting stIU Is the famous "Crcsta" run nt St. Morlti, which Is coiwlderrd to lie tho most difficult course of Its kind In the world, and which Is undoubtedly tho most carefully prepared courso In Switzer land. Tho run, from flvo to six feet wldo nnd 1,300 yards long, with n fall f about lf0 yards, Is formed In tho shnpo of a grove. Jn cither side tho snow Is banked up, particular care be ing taken at the curves, where tho snow Is rnked In at various degrees, and tho banks thus built up resemble the curve of a bicycle track. Tho en tiro run Is thus flanked by a wall of hard frozen snow, which nt somo places la nearly twenty feet high. Whero a road crosses tho track, tho bank Is, of courso, broken. With tho nsslstnnco of water and a sharp frost -tho track, when thus prepnrel, Is covered with n coating of Ice, and tho great "Crcsta" Is now ready to ro celve the eager tobogganers who have como from nil pnrls of tho world. It Is, of course, neither possible nor do- be too many Sho may not bo required, by her cir cumstances, to busy herself with houso hold de tails, but she know s how every thing should be done. When sho finds fault It Is wilh renson nnd out of tho fulness of her knowl edge. to riders ns well Pltcnlin Knowles, In Outing. Wondor IT It la True? nils Is why Illlnolslnns wero first called "suckers," according to nn old magazine. Tho early pioneers iidnnleil Sho does not glvo Impossible ninny Indian hnblls. They Mrniuied commnnds or expect linposslblo per- clr Infants to bonrds llko papooses, fectlons. Sho Is Just and reasonable, After they began to raise swine, tho but If anything goes wrong sho knows mother, would lenvo her bnhv alono In Just why, and sho can point out tho 'ho cabin for hours, but to nlluvlnto reason. ins soutuue, sue gave him a huge ploco Sho commands the respect and eon- f w l,orl ' lclt, first tying It to his lldenco of her servant. If clrcuni- follt by a string, so that whenever hn stances compel her, sho Is ready to attempted to swnllow It tho natural work ror husband nnd children. impiuso io kick wotitit save him from She manages under nil elrciunsinnc, s choking. to preservo her grace nnd rollnenient ing.ntltudo makes n nmii look llko s aud to Import It Into her method of dollar minus 00 cents.