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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1904)
TOPICS OFTHE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEM8. Comment and Crltlclim. Iled Upo inw ntid les order tlmn nn.v other poo Ilia Happening; of (ha Day IlUtorl' pie on enrth. The Chlcngo thenter dls cal and New Note. nstor, for Instance, lino developed the The man who wears the corset vest fnct thnt hardly n single thenter hulld niiint not ho offended If renl men call Inn In the whole .Mimtry I tmllt In lilm sister, conformity with the Inws for safety. . . Wo hnhltunlly shut our eyes to the Dig nround In your back lot nnd If mil,, violations of Inw, nnd out of these 'you enn find n few grains of radium grout disasters come. Look through you enn quit working. ,tho list of railroad wrecks, thnt nre nl- - I most constantly horrifying the public. An Ichthyosaurus hns been discover- nna n mnny enses It will lo found ed In South Amerlcn. Hut tlicre Is no ( ttint the cnuse lies In some violation of cause for alarm. It's as dend as any mnekcrel ever wns. Itnths hnve been Installed upon sonic of the regular railway trains In Bus sln. It will not be hard to keep the tramps from riding on those trains. Itussln Is an overbearing nnd grasp ing nation, but It Is pretty near the truth that "there never wns n good war nor n Imd peace." The Emperor of Korea 13 arming his subjects with guns. This Is n danger ous proceeding. One never can tell which way such careless people as the Koreans may point their weapons. "The Available Energy of Timothy Hay." Just Issued by the Agricultural Ocpnrtment, will be followed shortly by "The Diplomatic Energy of John liny," published by the Department of State. I'cople In a new lloston sect are call ed "Itcllglous Israelites." They wear long hair thnt Is the men do nnd hnve It colled on their heads. If they guarantee that, we might be tempted to Join, If anybody had asked Paul the Apos tle what he considered the "three es sentials" of a home he would proba bly have recommended his usual for mula, 'faith, hope nnd charity." But Paul was not n married man. There Is n lieutenant In the German army who has fought eight duels and Is preparing to do some more challeng ing "for the sake of his family's hon or." There must be something pretty shaky about family honor which has to be protected as hard as that. At Bayonne, N. J., the other day ft man wns Sued ?10 for trying to stop a family quarrel, the magistrate In forming him that the fine wns admin istered "to discourage butting In." A better excuse might have been found in the old saying that "a fool and his money are soon parted." The clerk who stands long hours be hind the counter In the retail store comes into contact with some peculiar aspects of human nature. "I want to see your fifty-cent mittens," asked a customer. The clerk showed the en tire stock. "Oh, but I wanted them with fingers." The clerk straightway pulled down all the varieties which he had of that description. "But this Is not right," continued toe troublesome customer. "These are gloves; they are not mittens at all." The wearied clerk, who vouches for the truth of the story. Inwardly rejoices that nil his custom ers are not like this one. In this age of special investigations there should be a thorough Inquiry Into our system of railroading, to see If it Is not possible greatly to lessen the number of accidents. The wreck Jear Connellsville recently would com pare In destructlveness with a small Jnttle. Certainly the loss of sixty dne lives In a single engagement (could attract serious attention. The occurrence of several "accidents" that might have been avoided If due care had been exercised has led more than one person to remark that the opera tion of American railways leaves much to be desired In the way of safety. The preacher who seeks to shine in oratory, scientific nccuracy nnd histori cal learning puts himself on perilous ground where some of his bearers may , the summer. have him at a disadvantage. If he "Alone?" asked Dr. Tuckerman. Dr. chooses the appeal to the affections Channlng assented, nnd Dr. Tucker and the conscience, he Is In his own man. responding, said: undisputed province. Similar Is the "Do I understand you to sny thnt danger In attacking so-called evils. Mrs. Channlng hns gone Into the coun Mnny n preacher hns forever destroyed try alone to open the house for the his usefulness with some of his parish- ' summer?" loners by dipping Into local political or "Thnt is whnt I said. Dr. Tucker business questions. The man or worn- 1 man." an who has been hurt by bitter words "Well, Dr. Channlng. you will per from the pulpit can hardly be reached j mit me to say that I should not think by appeals from that pulpit, and tho of asking Mrs. Tuckerman to go to the surest way to reform the world Is not i to drive the sinner from his sin, but to lead him kindly to righteousness. With American wngons ordered for war service by the Czar of nil tho Mus sina, Amerlcnn Hour girdling the world, nnd American cotton, machin ery nnd manufactures of nil kinds known far and near beyond our bor dors, it sounds as If we were doing all the International selling. Instead, we nro one of the greatest buyers zmong the nations and our markets are everywhere. Wo buy beeswax , from Cuba and onions from Bermuda, ns well ns from England Spain, Italy, West Indies, Canada nnd Mexico. And this In spite of (he thousand of acres set out to onions In tho United States every year. As for cheese. It nlone comes to us from twenty-one countries. And then there nre eggs. Why, China alone had to help us out with eighty thousand dozen, nnd wo lincl to cull on Canada, Mexico, Japan, England nnd France beside. The sheep herders of tho world watched their flocks by ulght and by day that Americans might be covered with woolen cloth- ins. Pepper and spices aro Imported, too, and Uncle Satn had to buy horses from Norway and Sweden, milk In Denmark, cider In Spain nnd Cuba, sausages In Hongkong, nnd coffeo from various places, we generally suppose that, except for the stpecs, most things that we cat aro home-grown, but Uncle Sam's records tell qulto an other story. Tr nnniii1lw in 1 1 nit ecnl riu n fme people. TbTfact is we are ..together too free. We boast that there is no ' power over us but that of God and I we show It clearly In our everyday ' disregard for law and order. We gov- orn ourselves, we My. nnd thnt inwms, Interpreted In the llgh( of actual fact. Hint wo nrc nut governed at nil. It Is no exaggeration to sny thnt the peo ple of tlic United States linve more inw that wus considered too Inslgnlfl cant to bother about. Violation of nu totnobllc speed onllnnnces Is consid ered of no consequence. Almost every man who owns an automobile runs it to suit his own sweet will. Yet if the victims killed nnd mnlmcd every month through this violation of Inw bo collected into one great disaster, the public would be nppnlled at It. It is the little things that make up life. It Is the little thing thnt form the basis of grent nchlevements or of grent fail ures and great disasters. And in the everyday little things we gtve the law small respect. In little thtngs we are a lawless people. Some reforms seem to come by chnnce. There were complaints of overcrowded schools nt Itntnvln, N. Y and the board secured seven extra teachers. The superintendent. Instead of setting them to henrtng recitations like the regular teachers, set them to giving Individual Instructions to pu pils that were behind In the course and were a drag on the whole school. The experience was, to quote the re port of the State superintendent, a startling and Instantaneous success. Discouragement, which is the bane of school life, has disappeared from all faces nnd tears from all eyes. The backward pupils hnve become forward, so to speak, and In mnny cases have passed the bright lights nnd lending pupils of the class room so that these have all they can do to keep up their old standing. These seven extra teach ers go from room to room In their work, helping along the backwanl wherever ound. They are not assist ants or subordinates, but rank with the regular teachers and receive the same pay. They do not In any sense do the pupil's work, but show him how to do It for himself, how to con centrate the mind, how to study. The Journal of Pedagogy unreservedly ap proves the plnn thu: "A rather wide observation of public school conditions Justifies us in saying thnt there may he seen In Bntavln a healthier, hap pier, more Industrious body of teach ers and pupils than are to be found In any other public school system In America. The first Impression one gets is that of an abounding physical and intellectual life. Although the teach ers and pupils work ns bard In the Batavia schools nt elsewhere, there 1 Is no complaint about overwork and nervousness, and there Is trustworthy j evidence that the health of the pupils entering school in a physlclal condition below the normal has shown a de cided change for the better." Of course the system Is not new, except to the public schools of this country. The private tutor In British Institu tions is as old as the educational sys tem there, and the , office Is funda mental In continental education. Its accidental application to the public schools seems to have worked wonder fully well. It is worth thinking nbout Family Discipline. Dr. Tuckornian, clussmate of Wil liam Ellery ("banning, wns one of Channlng's few Intimate friends through life. They were always ex tremely frauk with one another, and sometimes gave each other sharp an swers. On nt least one of the recorded occasions, says John W. Chadwlck In his life of the great preacher. Dr. Channlng came out ahead. Dr. Tuckerman, on one of his fre quent visits. Inquired for Mrs. Chan nlng, and was Informed that she had gone to Newport to open the houe for country alone to open me nouse ror tne summer. Then Dr. Channlng laughed his small, dry laugh and rejoined: "Very likely. Dr. Tuckerman; and If you should, most probably she would not go." Thereupon questions of large public Interest were taken up. What She Ilecognized. People like to be told what they al- rnn.lt- L-nnw tn, linnt- nlinllt nl1 fi-tnnria lln(i old in(eres(s. Absolutely new In- formnt)on ,iag notulng , tno mlnd to ,,,. t0 Thg gt from the Memo. ,., f)f cu,m.. Js an )llu8traton: probably before the child's Rc,100, dnjg )c'gan, somebody took her to seuoo, commencement, an(J a en. tlcmnn made a long, long address, to which the child listened with respect ful attention. The general sound of the words wns familiar to her, nnd she wns hardly aware of the fact that she did not nt till understand. But nil at once he said something nhnut u illU BllhIl- an(1 tue Chlhl innked aromi t the person who had brought i,er amj laughed delightedly. She knc,v ,vlat a pink bash was, and she 1Ilew hu Wiis saying that girls liked to w,.ar ,,nu snshes; nnd, oh, how re- freshing It wns! Then nnd there the cuild decided that It was a very nice fpeech. Hun Curo in devolving House. A French physician, who believes In tho sun curo for most diseases, has had some houses built for his patients. The houses nre made on a plvo(, ono wall being glass, so (hat by turning tUe bu8 the Patlent bo ln tlle Bun a Itemember, when a guest at a party, that you can't stay so lato you can wurd off all talk ubout you. S Opinions of v Tho Need of Ihrllt. HEX "times are good," labor fully employed, production active, and the nation apparently growing rich, the necessity of thrift Is over looked, nnd the nation mny be In reality grow ing poor. Even the most prudent Individuals' are npt to bo affected by the provnlllng spirit of life nnd extravagance. The fortunate and w HI the sanguine buy useless and expensive things; diamonds nnd steam yachts, or build palaces too grand for ordinary use. As n rule the money that comes Into the hands of promoters Is wasted. After a period of excitement and everybody seems busy, n reaction or dull times set In. Everybody retrenches expenditure, some because It Is the fashion. Labor. It Is true, Is not fully employed, but that which Is employed produces use ful things; food, clothing nnd necessary Is sunk In steam yachts or extrnvagaut tlon lives within Its Income, nnd saves and grows rich with out knowing It. Had debts are marked off, no enterprises are carried out unless they nre demonstrably certain to be remunerative. Eoxtravagant people are too poor to wnste the fruits of the labor of others. cumulate slowly, nnd after nu Interval years It Is found that the community Then begins another era of wastefulness. This paradox, that when the country growing poor, and when times are dull by enforced economy, lias been established by experience since 183d. The cycle of about ten citement, extravagance, deficit, hard thrift, accumulation and prosperity through mnny times, and will be run Epidemics assume a "mild form" occasionally, and so do economic stages. It looks now ns If we were not to suffer from a very long or severe attack of "hard times," though we :' been reckless enough to bring on an aggravated case Hartford Times. Sending the Poor to the "joME enthusiastic persons ganized "The Field and Workshop Society." the object of which is to take the tenement districts of provide them with homes making themselves self-supporting in the coun try The society made some experiments In this direction during the last summer, nnd the results were sufficiently satisfactory to encourage plans for enlarged effort in the work for next year. The plan of the society Is not material ly different from that of the Snlvntlon Army, which hns been most successful In Its plans for redeeming victims of the slums, nnd helping them to become honest, worthy anil Independent by work and association with the army's dlffeient farm colonies. The plan is a splendid one for the alleviation of the condltlou of the well-nigh hopeless poor, who are compelled to spend their lives In a fight for a miserable existence In some of the crowded tenement dis tricts In the cities. It removes their children from the temptations and vices that thrive In the Ives them something to live for. something to look for ward to. and a prospect of final possession of property and personal Independence as rewards for Industry and proper living. Washington Post. Causes of Railroad Slaughter. It. TOLMAN. head of the .New York Institute for Social Service, s.iys that .IS.NMI persons have been killed on American railroads during the last five years and 'JoIl.Sil Injured, an average of 21 deaths and 1.1!' Injured every day. Whnt liSyJ a re the causes of these disasters? Principally carelessness and Inefficiency employes; greed. Indifference, or taking things for granted on the part of officials. There Is an "If" attached to every December disaster. If employes bad not been grossly care less the accident on the Burlington nnd Qulncy Itnllroad would not have occurred. If freight cars had been prop erly loaded the accident on the Baltimore nnd Ohio Itnll road might not have occurred. If a brakeman had not been kept on duty nearly thirty-six hours he would not have been so sleepy that he failed to flag the 'Frisco train nnd that accident would not have occurred. I f-the block system had been In use on the Pere Marquette Railroad the POPULAR SOVEREIGNS. Klnic Charles anJ Qneen Elizabeth Who Kale Over Koumanfa. One of (he youngest of European na tions is the kingdom of Itoumania, over whom King Charles nnd his consort. Queen Elizabeth, better known ns Carmen Sylvn, rule. The kingdom came Into existence by combining (he (wo municipalities of Moldavia and Wnl lochia and over It Prince Charles, of the German house o f Ilohenzollern Slgmarlngen, was KIHO CHARLES. called to rule, In 180, as prince. In 1881 Itoumania became a full-fledged kingdom and Charles took the title of King. The heroic qualities of Charles and his spouse, Queen Elizabeth, who Is a daughter of the princely German house of Weld, were displayed during the Husso-Turklsh campaign of 1877-8, ln which Itoumania was Involved, tak ing sides with Itussla against (he Turks. King Charles had rendered Itoumania splendid service by his niedniN of reorganizing nnd training the Iloiimnnlnn army, which wns In a bndly disorganized nnd untrained stato when (be young Prince Charles became ruler of Itoumania. On the outbreak of the war the King placed himself at the head of his sol diers to battle for Itussla. He was in the thick of mnny a battle, as brave and fearless n soldier ns ever fought for what ho believed to be right During the wnr, Queen Elizabeth wns constantly active caring for the sick and wounded. She established a hospital out of her own private purse, nud rendered personal service In the hospital. One may seo to-day ln tho public place of Bucharest n splendid monument representing (bo Queen ln the net of giving a drink of water to n woutided soldier. Whnt counts for most In the history of this stntue Is tho fuct that It was paid for with (he contributions of the wives of the sol diers of tho Uoumniilaii urmy. They gave It ns a testimonial to their Queen, to whom they had given the expressive title of "the nether of tho wounded." Since the stirring days of battle the King und Queen hnve devoted them, selves with untiring zeal to every pro ject thut tended to advance the Inter est of the klncdn-n. The Queen undor the title C'urmen Hylvu has takeu to, EDITORIALS Great Papers on Important Subjects. accident would not for two-thirds of ness of railroad extravagance, when comes. Hard timed tools. Less money displays. The nn Thrifty people ac of two or three ns a whole Is rich. Is prosperous It Is It Is growing rlcli years prosperity, ex times, retrenchment, again has been run through many more. Country. In Chicago have or the very poor from the large cities nnd nnd facilities for nnd convenience, some other person crowded district. every Juno a small and writers. There nre hopeful ou the part of the created. Thero Is of tho fact that over-crowded, and can tnke the places who built up great Dean James II. on the part of rourth or one-fifth one-fourth went Into There are not T T Chicago Itccord-IIerald. FIFTY MILES AIM HOUR ON AN ICE BOAT. Ono of (he mos( courageous lce-yach( women In (he country Is Miss Flossie Phelps, of Bed Bank, N. J. No matter how hard tho winds blow this fair skipper does not hesitate to Jump Into the cockpit of an ice yacht and take a spin on the river. Mlss Phelps has never met with an accident, although she has had a number of narrow escapes. She comes of a family qf well-known amateur sailors. Her grandfather, the late Commodore Charles Fisher, owned the Florence, which wns In her day the fastest yacht of her size afloat. Her uncle, Delford Fisher,, Is a skilled Ice yacht skipper. ansa i-neips is one oi me Bocieiy Dionue wun long, wavy i.mr, mm me jjiciure sue manes in nn ice yncnr, traveling at a speed of forty or fifty miles nn hour, Is pleasing. literature nnd has published many novels and poems. The great grief of her life was the death, ln 1874, of her only child and this melancholy has tinged many of her writings. Tho heir apparent Is Prince Ferdinand, nephew of tho King, who married Marie, daughter of the late Duke of Saxe-CoberK-Gotha, Third nail a Protection. A protected third rail, which has so often been advocated for tho elevated system In New York city, but has us often been Judged a practical Impossi bility by engineers of the Manhattan Elevated company, Is permanently In stalled for seventeen miles on the elec tric road ln Switzerland between Lo Fnvet and Chamounlx. This protected system Is entirely successful and has been beset by none or tne Qimcuiues put forward by those opposed to Its lo cal adoption. The protection Is afford ed by an Insulated box of paraffined beech, which makes contact with the rail impossible except through tho nar row slit at the side toward the car, through which (lia mstal connection M have occurred. There Is an "If" which would have prevented nearly every big disaster this year them were collisions, anil It Is the busi officials to prevent collisions. Criminal negligence Is the chief cause of railroad slaughter. Tho railroads, like everything else, nre run ptln clpnlly to make money. More money enn be mnde by run nlng them ntid taking chances of accidents than by pro vhllng against them. It Is cheaper to work a man to the exhaustion point than to employ two men. Negligent men nro cheaper thnn careful men. Hence many of tho roads nro run In criminal disregard of public safety. Dividends on stock nnd bonds tiro too often paid on tho hazards to human life. What will Congress do to stop the railroad slaughter In tho United Slates, which Is greater than that In Great Britain, Franco and Germany combined 1 Chi cago Tribune. Who 0ns the Prescription? HE ruling of a New York magistrate that n physician's prescription belongs to the person who buys It, nud not to the druggist who fills It, reopens nu old nud much debated question. While the magistrate settled the particular con troversy between the (iotham druggist nnd his customer. It does not follow that all druggists accept It ns a finality. This particular druggist, Indeed, was threatened with Imprisonment for larceny before he dually concluded to give up the prescription demauded by his customer. The question of ownership of a prescription would scorn so very simple 1o the mint! of the layman as to require no ruling from n court of equity. A prescription Is certain ly the property of the person who buys It of a physician, and whether a druggist may lie permitted even to retain a copy of It Is obviously u question for the owner of It to decide. As a matter of safe practice the owner should always demand n copy of his prescription If ho does not retain the original copy. It may turn nut to be n prescrip tion of grent vnlne, anil the druggist of course has no right to It, nnd few druggists, indeed, claim such a right. Tho samo principle has been held to apply to photo graphic negatives. When a person pays the photogra pher's price for a negative It Is his property. If he cures to do so he has a right to tnke the negative uwny with him nnd make his own prints from It. As a matter of custom however, the photographer Is permitted to store the negative where It may be easily found when new prints nre desired from It. It Is very clear that tho photographer has no proprietary right In n negative which has bought. Chicago Hecord-IIerald. College Men and Business. HE principal complaint against (he schools nud universities has been thnt they tended to aug ment the already over-crowded "professions;" that they gavo prominence In their curricula to tho studies thnt were calculated to equip men for the so-onllcd polite pursuits of life. As n result there came from (he college doors army of doctors, lawyers, preachers Indications, however, of a tendency colleges and universities to meet the demand for educated men In the various lines of commer cial ami Industrial endeavor, which modem conditions hare gradual nnd more adequate recognition the so-called "professions" are already that tho great demand of our times Is for trained commercial and scientific men, for men who of the self-educnted nnd self-made men Industrial and commercial enterprises. Tuffs, of (he University of Chicago, In his address to n recent graduating class, declared that In most classes to-day fully three-fourths of the men grad uating Intend to enter commercial pursuits Instead of the professions. Twcn(y years ago one-third of the men In the graduating classes of tho colleges became teachers, one- entered the ministry, and not more than business, said Dean Tuffs. enough patients for all the doctors nnd not enough clients for all the lawyers. It Is time the uni versities were turning out men to take the places of the rcat builders, merchants and producers of our time. gins oj me rown. nne is n nenutliui - 1 with (he motor of the car Is estab- Ilshed. The top of the box Is fixed with Iron dlstatico pieces which support It only on (he off side of (he box, (hus allow- lug tho above-mentioned opening. No connection would bo established, (here- fnrn tfltll Ilia ll,.a mil nl.. thing wns forced In through this silt, Anyone could wnlk over the rail by stepping on (ho box with perfect safo- ty. Although It might naturally be supposed (hut such a support would not possess sufficiently high' Insulating qualities for the pressure employed to prevent considerable leakage, It is com- puted that the maximum loss in this system Is less (ban one ampere per yard. However, tho leakage, It Is as- r.rtcil. ilecrensns with n fnll of rnln snow, owing to this action washing off the dust and accumulations that have taken from the strength of the current, New York Press. Somehow It goes hard to sit out sermon devoted to the beauties of the Now Jerusalem, and theu have to wado In mud going home. SSBftVention London produces ten lunatics per day. New York nearly us ninny, with greater proportionate Increase. The self-lighting Huiincu burner of n German cheinlst depends upon the Igniting effect of a pellet of palladium sponge, which Is passed over the es caping gas ns the tap Is opened. Overfatigue Is regarded by Dr. ltur- ton-Fanning ns the determining cause K,milg ,,,,, K ,,, WI1f or Is linril a of in per cent of Ids cases of ptllino- ,iw,mnfnl of washing soda, but miry consumption Even a slnglo ex- .,, KHm, j10 ,(ed to every gal-cess-as unusual bicycling, climbing. (,m r .,,,r n,,, ,er, tho hoiIii hunting, or even dancing or tennis - ,,,,, rHt diHMolvt-il In n llltle bull may bring Into activity unsuspected inK t,,r, if it s put In without molt Intent tuberculosis ( n ,,. ,,llt ,, ,im. In tho clothes. The statement Is generally made that I If (he water Is soft n lllllo melted soap the principal geysers of the Yellow should be used distend of soda, ntid stone Park greatly exceed In size and soup should be rubbed over each plccu power nil others In the world. .1. A. Ituddlck, now of Ottawa, Canada, con trndlrts this, and says that the Wnl malign Geyser In New Zealand far ex ceeds In proportions anything describ ed In the Yellowstone region. Mr. Ituddlck has never himself seen Wal iiiangu ln action, hut has often wit nessed the eruptions' of Ihe geysers called Fiilroa and Pohotu, the former sometimes playing to a height of more than '.'is) feet. The curious electric heater of M. Ca mllle llerrgott consists of conducting wires woven Into carpets and other fabrics, and It Is designed to give a moderately high temperature to tho fiber hemp, cotton, linen or silk. It does not affect the pliability or appear ance of the material. It Is claimed that the heater Is perfectly safe, nnd that the wires cannot be raised above n certain temperature. Tho arrange ment can be applied to mnny purposes. Carpets, rugs, etc., can be kept at the temperature of the body or higher, and dry or wet medical applications can be kepfcoslly n( 1B0 deg. V. In (he Industries numerous uses nre sug gested, ns In fillers for fatty or gelat inous matters, nnd for warming car riages or trains, etc. New materials from which paper can be made are continually found. Ite- cently In our Southern States yellow pine waste tins been successfully man ufactured Into that universal sub stance without which so mnny fea tures of modern civilization could hardly survive. Kino paper can be made of corn stalks and of rice straw. In addition to spruce, whose useful ness ln paper-making has caused grent uneasiness concerning tho ultimate fate of the beautiful White Mountain for ests, marsh pine, fir, nspen, birch sweet gum, cottonwool), maple, cypress and willow trees all contain fiber sultahlo for the manufacture of paper. Hemp, cotton. Jute, Indian millet nnd other fibrous plants can also bn used for this purpose, so that there seems to be no danger of a dearth of paper. Mnjor Powell-Cotton's expedition In Enstern Equatorial Afrlcn resulted In the discovery of six tribes of men pre rlously unknown to the civilized world. One of these tribes Is known to Its neighbors by the name of tho Ma gicians. The Magicians dwell on the high lands half way between Lake Itu dolph nnd Lake Albert, nud their vil lages consist of two-story houses built of wa((le, and grouped together on the upper slopes of the hills. They In spire great awe among (he dwellers 111 (he valleys below, although the lat ter outnumber them n (hotisaml to one. Their formidable reputation appears to be based upon their superior Intelli gence. None of the new tribes discov ered by Major Powell-Cotton had ever met a white man, nnd they treated their visitors In n friendly manner. LAUNDERING IN WINTER TIME. Method br Which Clothe M.ij He Kept White unit In Oouil Comlitlon. Mnny housekeepers find difficulty in doing their laundering during cold weather. In the summer season cut tons nnd linens can be blenched on tho grass nnd dried In the warm sun shine, nnd, while they arc whiter for being frozen nnd thawed, there Is sel dom warmth enough ln the depth of winter to thnw them on the line, and If they nre handled in the frozen state they are apt to crack. For Ibis rea ton good housekeepers will not allow fine table linen to be dried out of doors In (he wln(er, even (bough It may bo lightly yellowed by Indoor drying. Kino handkerchiefs are very easily torn and dellcnto underwear can bo ruined jmore quickly by being tnlien from the lines and folded when frozen than In I iny other way. t If white cotton garments aro much stained freezing will restore them lo their proper color, nnd If there Is tlmo they can be left out on tho lines until they freeze hard nnd thnw out, pro- Ivlded they aro not handled In a froz- en state or lef( to flap about In the wind. Loosely woven materials, like itocklnette may also be left outdoors on the lines until they are dry enough to bring Into the house. A largo laundry Is a very useful place In winter, as the clothes can ho dried thero and tho dangers of freezing avoided. Such n room Is also ery useful for Ironing In hot weather. It should be provided with n laundry , dove and tho lire kept up i, the I clothes aro dried Flannels and woolen stockinette ought to be dried on wooden frames:, which nny enrpenter will ninke, anil tvh1-h will lirAVfUlt till H lltr I in. 'I'lilo lo hecauso the ultimata fiber of wool Is 1 "Plral, nnd the drawing up nnd Inter- , locking of the libers being what con- , Mtntfn shrlnknge. In underwear fac- lories tho garments aro nlwnys washed ! nd dried on frames so that they may l" offered soft and unshruiilten lor . le. Is much bcUer and easier to scrub ' soiled flnannels with a small brush than it Js to rub them clean on a board. I A rather stiff brush nbout four m- Men Inches long Is tho best nrticlo for lids j purpose. Scrub the hands nud seams of heavy woolen shirts, as well ns thoso of cotton, In (his wuy. This small brush Is excellent In washing corsets or nny henvy pieces thut nro , difficult to rub on n bonrd. If the brush has n small handle Ihe gurnients uuij b more easily cleaned with It Mnny excellent housekeepers dlsn grco as lo tho best method of wash lug while clothes, Homo of tliein pre fer to souk their clothes overnight In colli water others who nre equally good mnnagers. after examining each piece to see If Ihere lire any stains nt spots (hill need Npeclnl attention, I'lungo them Into boiling hot so.ii- suds nud let them stand fur several hours or overnight. This latter liielliod teems to draw tho dirt qulto thor oughly, ns the wnler ll'clf will nllesl next morning. The clothes are then lifted out of this wnler Into cleitu warm water, the few willed places that ro main are rubbed out nud the clothe are put In the boiler to coino to (hi) , ns II Is put In the boiler. Very few of the licst laundresses boll their dollies longer thnn three minutes, Just long enough to allow them lo be thor oughly scalded. Longer boiling only tends to make while clothes yellow. When the clothes nre taken from tho holler the water they went boiled III should bn poured over thcin nud they should be allowed to stand III It sev eral hours or overnight. No woiiinii who does this will eMir be troubled with yellow clothes. Thero Is no bet ter way to bleach them III winter. About once n mouth Is often enough to blue clothes In winter, nnd tho old fashioned Indigo bag, which costs only a few cents, Is the best thing to use nt nny time. , THEATER FLOATS ON SCOW. Itnw People Alntiv Three Orent IMvera Are Hiipptleil with Amusement. A filiating theater, designed to sup ply the towns along the Ohio, Illinois nud Mississippi rivers with dramatic cutcrtnliimcutH, hns recently been con structed nud Is about to start on Us Journeying. Its Keating capacity Is for l,(i people und there aro boxes for (he elite and a pit for (hu orches tra. In addition (he vessel Is sulll clcntly large to admit of numerous sleeping rooms for the actors, (ho deck hands and all those connected with either the show or the boat. Tho en tire force numbers forty. On tho steamer which tows the floating (hea ter, besides the boilers nud engines, there Is n complete electric light plant, besides n kitchen nnd dining room. In view of tho fnct thnt tho long water route of the flouting thenter cur ries It Into the warmer portions of the South the season for the show docs not close until late In the Southern winter. The entire route comprises "J,W) miles. The hunt starts nt Pittsburg nud visits tho towns of the coal miners und steel workers along the Munongiihela river. Next It returns nud goes down tho Ohio to the Keunwha, thence to Cairo, and luter up tho Illinois river to La Salle. Then, after going back to tho Mississippi, the boat slowly makes Its way In the direction of New Orleans. The Idea of ) floating theater Is tint exnetly new, but the extensive scnlo upon which It Is being conducted and the fact thnt It Is the drama Instead of the vaudeville program thnt Is be ing presented attracts unusual atten tion. "Knust" Is the production which hns been presented this season. Along the route of tho flouting thea ter the towns are often but ten or fifteen miles apart. Therefore thu Jumps of the bout and Us company are not long ones. Ou the upper deck of the steamer Is n calliope. Long be fore the theater reaches tint town In which It Is to show the sounds of this Instrument mny be heard. The Idle population of the river towns lit once begins to assemble ou the wharf. Ah Hut steamer comes within u few hun ched feet of the dock the calliope Is silenced and a brass bund strikes up n fnmlllar nlr. The crowd on the whnrf then growH larger. Many aro theru awaiting the first opportunity to se cure reserved scuts. When the boat touches the wharf the sailors, somn of whom nre Inter transformed Into no tors, make the vessel fust und put tho gangplank In place. The scenery Is ar ranged nud the orchestra rehearses while the rook Is preparing the next meal In the kitchen. The people come nhonrd nnd select their seats, Instead of doing so from a diagram on shore. At night the thenter Is brilliantly lighted by electricity nnd n searchlight Ihihhes over tho surrounding territory. Tho entertainment lasts about threo hours. RAT8 MADE BEDS OF MONEY. When the Nest Wn. I miml the Miss ion Hills Wcrr All Intact. A short (lino ngo Mrs. Mlko Hullcr, who keeps n grocery on the corner of Eighth and Elm streets, hid away where she could easily llml It, ?7 In bills for use nt u time when necessity or deslro required It. Sim thought of thieves, but not of the rodent de scription, und was, therefore, qulto particular In selecting n biding place. A fow days later she thought she would take u look nt her hidden treas ure, with the! view of assuring herself that tho money wns where she had !"',,,c" U '"" " ol" lo ,c! '"'r mrt,ri; " Imagined when, nn plnclng her hand whoro (ho money ought to havo been, she dis covered that It was gone. Matters remained In that condition up to a few days ago, when, lionrlng ". rl,t 'rnvp'jnB "round tho house, tho UW' truck 'ier, tlmt rn,B wcro tho real of money. Going to "'0''? w,t" " vlm B,1 Wl" "ot lo"B 1,1 f "",two or(",r "ln"lt,, from '"' llnor uf," r0oms of "'" I"",H" ""! In,BV , "R. " eloSO etttch J? l'11 cl?lX "n" "lnt rt",e''" ,"',,ll"ly Btolc" money, packed u "w'iy ","l m , c"sey bed of fm' l,lp,1'0 " wn8 Vc1foro llcr Kv- 'l"' 1)111 wnB 'ollml "Itnct, not II dollar """""ig, Henderson (Ky.) Glcnner. Making Money Out of nnrbago. Thu borough of Fullmin, London, by (ho uso of Kb gnrbngo In (bo furnaco of tho municipal electric lighting plant 7, ' 3", SVJS T'"" si" Laugh when u friend tells a ioku- it u one of the taxes you must paV. '