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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1904)
TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER. E8TINQ ITEMS. Comments and Criticisms Based Upon tit Happening of th Dajr-Ulstorl eal and New Note. Credit If all well enough until th bill collector begin to come around. Th mott magnificent thing Jay Q&uld ever did wa to become tba fthr'of Helen. Tb Jap nre aid to be using "hu man" bullet. ThU 1 one of tbe few humors of "civilized warfare." Never itrike a man until you are aaUitted that ho deserves It and don't do it then unles you outclass him. Ella Wheler Wilcox's latest poem sayst "Whatever you do, keep sweet" Thl would be a nlco motto for a 1cm' on, wouldn't It? The men say they havo no desire to organize a fathers' congress. They get their Innings while the mothers' congress Is In session. It would be like the beef trust to explain that tho worry and expense of being Investigated will necessitate another Increaso of prices. A British scientist claims that the earth Is kept hot by radium. Perhaps the great rush for radium was what mad last winter so cold. The Bev. M. J. Savage In a recent sermon undertakes tcTtell "why more people do not go to church." He finds the principal reason to be that "they don t have to." We would like to learn the Mormon methods of making a living. A man who can provide for five wives and 100 children under present prices Is a fl nanclal wonder. John D. Itockcfeller began his bush ncss career by learning to milk a cow, A good many people would like to know whether that was when he learn ed, to water things. Doctor now assert that bedrooms are filled to the doors with murderous microbes and baleful bacilli. That's another excuse for your not going to bed until very late. When Dr. Italnsford says to us lay men, "We ministers are no better mo rally than you," we laymen. Instead of feeling elated, are liable, knowing each others' Infirmities, to be decidedly de pressed. Somebody says that the Parisians furnish the gowns and the American women furnish the figures. When It takes three figures for a gown the American father at once becomes an active factor In the little epigram. Wash a baby clean and dress him np real pretty and he will resist all ad f ances with tbe most superlative cross ness, but let blm eat molasses, ginger bread and fool around the coal hod for half an hour, and he will nestle his dear little curly head close up to your clean shirt bosom and be Just the cun nlngest little rascal in all the world. The Victory, which bore Nelson's Hag at Trafalgar, hag been thorough ly repaired, and towed to her former moorings at Portsmouth, where she will be the flag ship of the naval commander-in-chief. The prediction Is made that she will float for another half-century at least. It is 140 years since the Victory was launched at Chatham. To exclude Immigrants for illiteracy i unjust Most of those people are illiterate because they lacked oppor tunity. Hefe they soon learn, and their children become as bright as any in our public schools. An illiterate man who is industrious and honest makes a far better voter and citizen than tome native born citizen who has edu cation and a keen desire for grafts. A dog in England has lately been honored by the receipt of an Ilium! nated address, in which he is informed that be Is the most successful collec- tor for the Victoria Infirmary at Nor wich, and Is thanked by the board of managers. Tbe dog is a G-year-old fox terrier, named Prince. He does not wear a cup or basket or carry one in bis mouth, as do most mendicant dogs, When be receives a coin be goes un bidden and deposits It In a box kept for the purpose. During 1003 bo col lected more than 2,000 coins. One bopes that if illness or accident ever overtake Prince there may be a' warm bed for blm at tho infirmary, with plenty of good sirloin Bteak and dog biscuit Cuba has entered the third year of ber independence and self-government and she has every reason to be proud of the record she has made. Apart from a rumor or two of rural riots that were greatly exaggerated and an ex ceptlonally large amount of noise from the defeated party at tho last elec tions, she has nothing to her discredit and if such things are really dis credits, what has our own country to say for itself? The best of it is that the Cubans appear to be In every way contented and happy. Undoubtedly this could not bo said had the United States seen fit to retain a closer bold over their government With or with out reason, suspicion and dislike would have taken root. Moreover, tho last two years have taught the Cubans a vast deal more about the benefits of quiet and peaceful government than they could ever havo learned in any other way. If they havo been on extra good behavior for the sake of showing us what they could do, that does not detract at all from tho value of the training they have gained. It Is too early a yet to show by facts and fig. ures what material benefit Cuba has grained from tho reciprocity net which went into effect last December. The fact that tbe law was pending caused tbe Cuban sugar ready for exportation last fall to bo held back in order to secure tbe benefit of tbe lower duties. Ai a result Cuba sent us during tho first tbreo months of this year goods to tho value ef ?23,000,000, as against $13,000,000 to the corresponding month of 1003. At the same time our export to Cuba Increased from $3,200, 000 to $0,600,000, the more Important Increases being In flour, cotton cloth, sewing machine, locomotive, lumber, leather and furniture. Beyond ques tion our merchants can secure enlarged market In Cuba It they but exert tbemielve to take advantage of the preference In their favor, while It Is to be anticipated that Cuba's Industrial and agricultural development will fur nish proof that It ba been greatly stimulated, even before the present year I out If any one think that the United State ha a monopoly of all the en ergy and enterprise he should revise his optntons forthwith. Tbe whole world is wide-awake, and every peo ple Is alert for opportunities for ad vancement. There are the Hussions, for Instance, whom we havo been ac customed to regard as somewhat slow and behind the times. They have re cently secured the services of Horace O. Hurt, formerly .president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, to assist them In making tho Siberian railroad as efficient as the transconti nental roads In tho United States, whero the problems of carrying trains across wide plains and over snow capped mountains have been solved. Then there are the Spaniards, who are planning tor closer trade relations with tho Spanish-speaking peoples of South America. And the Germans are seek ing outlets for their surplus popula tion In countries which will buy the products of tho German factories. The Ilrltlsh are considering plans for a commercial federation of their colonies for tho development of their resources and the preservation of the trade of the mother country. The Trench nre developing their possessions In North ern Africa and undertaking the re clamation of the Sahara, as well as pushing their railroads across the Py renees into Northern Spain. And all these people are studying the Ameri cans, that they may ovoid our mis takes and profit by our successes. Within a few weeks the reports of two Independent Ilrltlsh commissions to this country have been made pub lic. An official of the railway depart ment of India, after a tour of the United States, reports that "the one Idea In the minds of the American mil- way men Is to 'get there." " He thinks that this Is the secret of American railway success. One of the members of a private commission to study the relation of tbe schools to American commercial success says that "The schools have not made the people what they are, but the people, being what they are, have made the schools." The American peril," of which we hear much, is that the Americans shall grow complacent and satisfied with themselves. Instead of keeping their place In the company of the other wide-awake peoples. THE HEART'S FARE. She was a little, bright-eyed Scotch woman, old, crippled and poor. So long as she could work she bad stood at her wash-tub, her dauntless face set against the foes that she knew were closing about ber. She had to give up at lastdisease was too much for her; so followed the unspeakable bitterness of help from tbe parish. But when she surrendered her body her soul did not yield. A tiny two roomed thatched cottage and $35 a year were her all, but tbe poor pittance nourished and sheltered the same sun shiny spirit No, that was not all. Years before a lad from the village bad gone across tbe sea. He was no rela tive of hers, but be came of a family whose heritage were all the needy and sorrowful within their ken, and over In the new country he did not forget Every Christmas $5 went from Amcr lea to the tiny thatched cottage In Scot land enough to pay for ber winter's coal and give her a bit of meat dally for three months. One day the young Scotchman re turned, bringing bis bride with him. The tiny old woman, slowly hobbling to meet ber callers, beamed upon them with a radiant face. She welcomed the young man with exclamations of de lighted admiration. She would not con sider herself worth a question. "Hoo am IT Oh, brawly, thank ye. Tbe legs? Ah, weel, they're no that bad the day." Then her bright old eyes turned to the bride. "Ye'U be a malst fortunate wiue to wed wl' a Chalmers frae Collnton," she declared. "They are a' alike a' guld to them that needs It and It's malr tbe luve than the money that does tbe hert guld, ye ken. Ye're a fortunate wlfle to wed wl' ane o' them." "Malr the lure than tho money that does the hert guld." It had been tho fare upon which she kept ber brave spirit alive through the difficult years. Tbe little bride smiled across at tho "Chalmers frae Collnton," but she bid the beautiful lesson in her heart Ho Witch Ilurned In Salem. It is a fact that no witch was ever burned or put to death by flro In Sa lem or any other part of Massachu setts, say the Washington Post How tbe impression tbat Cotton Mather and his associates bad perpetrated that hor ror gained currency is inexplicable, but it has been floating around for gener ations and In all probability will "go on forever." Salem was tbe scene of the trial, con viction and execution by banging of persons accused of witchcraft. Gal lows hill, the eminence on which the hangings occurred, Is perhaps the most interesting show place In New Eng land. It may bo doubted If more sin cere or conscientious men ever lived than Cotton Mather and his brethren. They went to the Bible for their au thority to tho Mosaic law omitting tho Christian dispensation. That law told thorn: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Firmly believing in witchcraft and having no doubt that tbey bad witches to deal with, what were they to do but to kill them? From their point of view they exer cised great humanity in employing tho gallows rather than the fagot. If a man can't be bought you can usually land blm with flattery, imBBX m-fMcmu a. Opinions of Triumph of forestry. CCOIIDINO tx United State Consul Tuurgee, A of llordeaux, the growth of jr marine pine. In the I.amlps and adjoining do- virtmciibi of France, "undoubtedly marks the most remarkable achievement ever wrought )' humau opener In tha modification of tmtunil conditions of soil and climate for tho benefit of mankind." A centifry ngo tho region between the Pyrenees wns In most of It extent "not only one of the moot barren In tho world, but apparently altogether hopeless of reclamation." Sand dunra were advancing from the sea at rates varying up to 200 feet a yenr, swallowing up fields, meadows, vineyards, houses, and leaving uotlutig but a gray desert been destroyed, and now nature wns There seemed no hope for the heart occurred to Hreiuoiitler, a native of the that the devastation might bo arrested by planting the "pin maritime." The Idea was submitted to Napoleon, and ordered Us execution. The result has been the greatest of bis victories. "Today the dark squadrons of the pin maritime are posted ou thousands of sandy slopes, faithful guardians In tho shelter of which the vineyards and wheat fields rest secure." They give not only protection, but profit. "Lumber, firewood, turpentine aud all tho by-products of resinous distillation are now pro duced In such abundance here as not need of Importation, but to make southwest France a con slderable and profitable exporter," States. Meanwhile, by permitting the reckless destruction of our own much richer loug-leafed pines, tected our coasts and which asked only are bringing upon ourselves the same desolation that threat ened France a century ago. Milwaukee Our Bad College Spelling. I'CH Is said In the papers about college En glish. Tho people within and without college Ml walls declare that students J there Is a thing more fundamental than their mm poor English style: It Is the matter of their spelling. Many college men.jis proved by their essays, cannot spell. They frequently make the mistake of transforming writing ilnlng Into dinning an echo probably college dining room. But poor spelling Is not confined College professors nre not free from the blame. A letter lies before the writer In which the distinguished head of n most Important department In an American college de clares that a certain candidate, whom be Is "coinpetant" A New England college professor has recently said that In making applications for a place In English several candidates wrote of the salery. Of course, also, a man may lack culture aud spell correctly. Spelling Is more or less a matter of an arbitrary bit of knowledge. But whatever may be tbe psychological relations of the art the schools should teach boys and girls to spell. By In correct spelling the higher ranges of learning are rendered less Impressive. Leslie's Weekly. When Divorce Is Not an Evil. HOLE3ALE and reckless denunciation of di vorce, so often heard from the clergy. Is not fn keeping with reason or with public policy. Divorce Is not always an evil. Often It is a blesslug. Tho woman with a brute for a husband would be In sore straits. Indeed, If there wen- w no escape through the law from a union The wife who found herself hopelessly sot might well despair If she could find laws. In most States of tbe Union divorce procure as the ministers would Intimate. provide that there must he good and fore a husband and wife can he legally IN A TIBET NURSERY. Itock-a-by-UabyUm lit the Forests of ThU LIttlo-Known Country, Our first meeting with the Hlfans presented many ludicrous features, says a writer In Collier's Weekly. We were plunging through the gloom of tho forest when our ears were assailed with a concourse of yells which echoed through tbe supernatural silence with ghostly welrdness. In this forbidding wilderness we bad not looked for signs of human habitation, so hastily ar ranging ourselves In position we pre pared ourselves for what seemed an inevitable hostile attack. Long and anxiously we awaited tbe onslaught of our supposed hidden assailants, when again tbe peace-disturbing sound echoed almost, It seemed, over our very heads. Glancing upward, the mystery was soon explained, for In tbe lower branches of the treo we could descry numerous small bundles, each too large for any eyry and too small for a wind fall. Both my Klangsl and Gharlkauese escort, with their superstitious natures roused by these ghostlike sounds, vis ibly paled beneath their dusky skins, and gazed furtively round In order to seek means of escape from this en chanted spot. Even I was not a little puzzled and awed until, peering mora closely, I became aware of the fact that the disturbing elements which had caused so much concern arose from the fact that we bad unwittingly stumbled upon an aboriginal nursery, and that the weird and ghostlike sounds emanated from several hungry and lusty-lunged Infants. Then the solemn stillness was broken by our hearty laughter, the Klangsl and Gharlkauese, as If to mako amends tor their credulous fears, making tbe woods ring with their forced guffaws. The Slfan Tibetans, a we subse quently learned, place their children In skin cradles and hang these from the trees. In the forests near to their villages, for two reasons the flrst, from a belief that they will be In. structed by the deities; tho second, that their full existence may not bo endangered by tho abominable tilth and squalor of the settled regions, Sev eral times In the day they are visited by their mothers, who provide them with food and remain with tbcm dur ing the night, and in this forest borne the child remains until it Is 3 or 8 years old and has grown strong and healthy enough to stand the rigors of hardship and disease. Mormon Missionaries. According to tbe Mormon authori ties, upward of two thousand mission- Great Papers on Important Subjects. tho "pin maritime, the Glrondo and churches, villages Tho old forest hail taking Its revenge of Frauce, whon It threatened region who saw Ita value says Cousul Tourgeo. only to prevent the the correspondent bo treated as a even to the United mostly In winter Everybody 1ms down the receiver which formerly pro to be let alone, we neighbors. But hero Free Press. tho censors, and, "cast dispatches on ou tho Justice of write badly. Hut means that public er It Is a breach Into wrlttlng, and of evidence, prefers to of the noise of a to college students govcruim uts there has recommended. been words to deny lenged doings of to we save our face humor. We give a English language, process. When a remark that he is wo steal n ride from laughingly refer to wo bribe we merely wo are bribed we worse than death. commissions" or bound to a drunken no relief In divorce grave definition of humorous If so many piled them with a Is not so easy to Most State laws sufficient reasons he- separated. Every xy Everybody's Magazine. PROOF OF THE NECESSITY FOR IRONCLADS. I V'ltLUM Helplessness of the Wooden Ships "Auomemnon" and "Sansparell" Under the Shell-fire of the Sebastopol Forts, 1054. arles are constantly In tho field, most of them young men, and all under tho supervision of experienced lead-rs and directed from headquarters established at central points. Hardly a week passes that the newspapers do not con tain some Item concerning this inva sion: Mormon elders stoned in Ohio, a rich convert In Now York, a new Irrigated valley opened and settled In Wyoming, a strong new church organ ized In Illinois. Utah Is', of course, under Mormon political control, but It Is not so generally known that tho Mormons also control, or at least hold the balance of power, In Idaho, In Ne vada, and possibly In Wyoming nnd Colorado, with a strong following In Arizona, Washington and other States, thus electing, or at least Influencing, not a few United States Senators and representatives. Nor has the growth of tho church been confined wholly to the United States, Tho Mormons urn migrating In consldcrabl numbers to the newly opened Alberta country In Canada, and they havo taken up for Irrigation considerable tracts of land In Mexico. Century. GOPHERS MAKE BLACK LOAM. Industrious Little Animal Keeps the Boll Thorouullly Mixed. I have visited nearly every State ami province west of tho Mississippi, I have availed mysolf of the researches of the Agricultural Department mad') under Dr. O, Hart Merrlam's careful biological survey of tho West, Indeed, of all sources of Information, and I am satisfied that the ordinary earthworms are not native to any part of America south of tbe Saskatchewan or west of 3 lawyer of experience knows that almost Invariably when couples aro divorced there aro the very best of reasons why they should bo. The Inside history of unhappy mar riages, ns told in tho private offices of attorneys, la some thing appalling. Kveu the ministers, who deal In theories often Instead of actualities, would stand aghast at the revelation. Tho Indissoluble marriage of intimated men and women would bo an unnecessary hardship which tho people, whose Intlucnoo makes the laws, would not stand. Nor is It to be presumed that an Indissoluble marriage law would make any difference In tho matter of hasty marriages. The couple who embark ou matrimony do not look forward to or take Into consideration the matter of escape, should the tie hecomo burdensomo. Tho thought of divorce, like re morse, comes luter. Chicago Journal. Tho Wonders of tho Wireless. HE time Is coming when tho anient newsgath eror will go to a hilltop, rig up a small Jointed pole, point It heavenward, and read tho hap penings of the world on a dial; when tho cur ious man will thrust his wireless Instrument Into tho azuro and pick therefrom the doings of tho nations, lint Just at present Hussta Is objecting, and raising questions a to the legality of such measures on tho part of tho Japsneso aud British par ticularly tho British, who have a fondness for getting au thentic news no matter to whom It belongs. Husala says who purloins any wireless messages shall spy. Wo pass up the question of Just how she Is to enforce ber demands, seeing her navy Is quarters tor the war. an opinion about tho woman who takes on a "party line" and studies up on her Is another problem: Is It gentlemanly according to International law, to speak over the heads of as the Injured New York Times puts It, the uiicovenantcd air?" Our own government does not feel called upon to settle this little question. The Department of State prefers to wait till some American citizen Is Involved before It decide tho Husslan claims. But this simply opinion will step In and dctermlno wheth of neutrality for a man who has some thing to tell to say It through the atmophero Instead of by copper wlro through a strictly guarded office. At present tho London Times, whose correspondent Is tho person In speak of the three-mile limit and neu trnl u. iters. It contend-:, with British mildness, that If the Itrlti-li Hag files ou the correspondent's ship, there ran be no nia-stion that It Is all right. In the cabinets of the Is pondering and palavering, and the result mu.v ! a Joint note agreeing to the Husslan con tentlons. S.iu Francisco Argonaut Politeness and Crime. fit language and vocabulary, with our grow ing slackness, are changing. We nre carrying things (otherwise Insupportable) with a laugh, and coining phrases for the purpose. As has said, we are still sensitive to such course as "thief" and "steal," but It Is vain among ourselves that certain unchal - day forcibly suggest thoso terms. So with nil Indulgent gnycty not devoid of twist and a turn to the rapidly changing and the ugly words disappear In the conductor steals a fare we Jocularly "knocking down on the company;" whxj tho same company nud conductor we our success In "heating tho game;" when "Intluenco" or "square things;" when collect "assessments" or "rebates" or "retainers," and so on until wo reach a "honest graft," which would be more people did not feel that the term sup long - felt want. Now, these expressions and others like them may bear a strong resemblance to thieves' slang, but they merely reflect the language of a people unconsciously retreating to a lower moral level. the Mississippi valley, exclusive of tha narrow humid belt along the Pacific coast There exists, nevertheless, a flno stratum of humus In all parts of the country whero there Is molsturo enough to produce annual vegetation. Tho black earth In Manitoba Is from one foot to two feet thick, an amount probably not exceeded over any large area clsowhcro in tho world. This Is not a solid bed of decayed vegetation, but Is thoroughly mixed with the upper formation, nnd forms tho black lonm. There la no doubt, then, that In the absence of earthworms this mixing Is done by n number of apoclcs of bur rowing nnlmuls, but by far tho most Important of theso are the Geomyldao, or pocket-gophers. Gophers are found In tho whole of the region west of tho Mississippi val ley, as far os tho Pacific coast, south well Into Mexico, and north us fur as the Saskatchewan, In other words, their distribution is general over tho whole region that Is without earth worms, though It Is not likely that tho rodents had to do with this limitation. Ernest Thompson Seton In tho Ccn tury. An Amorlonnlsm. A good way to find out how small tho world Is la to do something crooked and try to hldo. To get an Idea of the earth's Immensity try to spread the news of a good deed all over it Bal timore American, It's a smart baby that understands the baby talk Its mother Indulges In, The wise man who has anything to say to a mule says it to bis face. INCREASE OF DIVORCE. Phllndelnhl Itnpldlr (lottlntf Into Line with tbe IliiUotoi. Flgutes drawn from tho divorce teo ords of the Common Plea courts or Philadelphia show, whou compared with the rccoul of marriage aud the population of the city, a surprising In cichho of divorces In this city, bring forcibly to mind tbe ease with which tho marriage tie It dissolved In this State, aud suggest the possibility that Pennsylvania may before long acquire the disagreeable notoriety which ha for years attached to certain Western Htntes. Ten or eleven years ago there was on the luerage ono divorce to every twenty-four marriages In Phlla dclphla, according to tho Ledger of that city. Slnco then the proportion of divorces has been steadily Inrmis Ing, until In 11KK1 there was one dl unco to ItlP marriages, and the causes for which the courts grant divorce have Is'cn mi broadened by statute and by Judicial Interpretation that pilgrim ages to the HaLntns are no longer need ful, fuses of collusion are all too common, and tho annulling totals of tho annual divorces Indicate a laxity or linlirrereneo ou tne port or mo Judge which Is deplorable. It 1 to ho noted that there Is a wide discrepancy In tho dlwirco record of the several Common Pleas courts of Philadelphia, a dlffeienee the slgulllcaiico of which has not been lost upon member of tho bar engaged In dlwirco practice, guiding them In the selection of tho court In which to lllo such suit. Philadelphia In respect to the In crease of dlwirco Is U'lter than sonio other American eltle and worse than others, hut rolled merely tho general tendency In the entire country. Socio). oglst who haw studied tne problem have shown that dlwirccs are more nu merous In the I'lilted State III propor tion to the population than In any other country of which the record aro ncrcsnihlc, ami that there hao been J curs In this country when more di vorces were grunted than In nil oIIut cMllzcd countries put together. Ill 1STO It Is said that ll.n per cent of tho marriage ended In divorce; In IRso tho proportion was -t S per cent, and In lMs) It had Increased to It.'.', in In diana In HKsi there wn n divorce for every R.T marriages In tho Slate. The record of tho principal cities Is given In the following table, which shows the number of marriages aud divorce and the number of marriages to ono di vorce In ItsJl: . MsrrUtfts to olio rnr -New Yolk . . . Iiurrslo llnlllluore ... I'Mlsili-liihta . Wiutltlljitoo . I'lltahurg lloaton Now Ortmti Marrlsera Dlrorrf. illrorr. ... la. 1 17 si; mo ... a.tvs m not . . . 4ll 170 SH t ... o.til'i 4H3 :"t ... a.is.1 pis is o ... a.ti.i lwi 13 ... 11.1 IJ Ui! 14 1 ... :.ioi lit l.ni ... t.lllS llM II H ... UI.HNI lrt II 2 ... 3.A1H 4C1 Nil ... S.tM 4.M TO ... l.WS K.1 tl ... S.ftS 4tt A3 ... 8.IVW HOI 4.1 ... l.TOI 4'.D 4 0 t'lurlliuatl ... flrrrlauil ... rrovlilrnee . . IniHsnnpolts . Hsn rrsm-Uro Konsflt Cllj . The statistics of divorce presented In this way are Miitlclcut to Justify alarm nnd to eiplalu the attention which I now being given by sociolo gists nnd churchmen to the problem of checking the evil and establishing some uniformity of praelhv. EXPLORED ALASKA WILDS. Government (Initio Tolls nf 111. Ilipcrl rme lit tlio I.uiul nf (lolil. a. . i.um.ii-r, who ror ten years has been a pilgrim In strange lauds, a guide, n scout nnd n United State customs officer, I a Washington vis ltor, say the Washington l'ost. Under the direction of the War De partment In ISPS Mr. (lumacr wa tho guide and surveyor nf tho alt-Amcr! can route from Vnhlez to Eagle City, Alaska, when tho country was an un known wilderness, where no white man hud ever set foot "Our pnrty," Mild Mr. Giimaer, "wn nut of nil touch with civilization from February to November, during which time the Spanish-American war was fought We know nothing of the con flict until wo reached Forty-Mile Hlv- er, 00 mile below llnwnou City. 'Our parly consisted of flvo men Lieut 1. (1. Lowe, Stephen Birch, mir veyor; two army packer, myself, tl pack horses und three burro, which wo took a nil experiment. They lasted only 100 mile, when they were aban doned. Tho Montana puck ponies wero the only onca that could stand tha strain even In summer tlmo. In win ter only reindeer nnd dogs ran endure tho cold. "Otir expedition had to cross tho Yiildcz glacier, nu extremely hazardous undertaking on account of tho numer ous crevasses and fissure of from four to ten feet In width. To get over them wo used snow bridges roped together, ns they do In Switzerland. Many peo ple Jin vo slnco lost their lives In fol lowing this perilous trull, hut slnco then n route has been found by dipt Ahcrcromhlo around the glacier, and no more live need to bo sacrlliced. "Within two years n railroad will penetrate the now gold ..-.lis at Tan- nun, that aro Just now causing n sen siitlon among hunters of tho precious tiivtul. Vulilez, with tho most bcnutl ful harbor In tho world, and surround ed with mountains ft.OOO foot high, will bo tho futuro eupltnl of Alaska. Tho territory ha a futuro splendid beyond mo imagination or its most enthusias tic, citizen, mill In dollars nnd cenls will give greater return than nny ter ritory over owned or over to bo pos fcCLMua by tho United States," Lincoln' Passes. Lincoln's humor armed him effectu ally against tho Importunate persons with whom, ns tho head of tho nation. ho was beset at all times, During tho Civil Wur n gentleman nslied 111 in for a pas through the i.Vd- oral Hues to Itlchiuouil, "I should ho happy to obllgo vou " said Lincoln, "If my passes wero re spected, But tho fact Is, within tho Inst two yeurs I havo given passes to Itlchmond to a quarter of a million men, nnd not ono has got thero yet." Discovered at Last Twinkle, twinkle, little star, I've discovered what you ore. Sure a gunj, I vow, I vum, You're a hunk o' railhiint Philadelphia I'rcss, A woman Is seldom as strict with her children ns she Is with her bus- bund. Senator Stewart of Nevada enjoys tho distinction of being tho only mini In tho Heiiato who ha never been shaved, ills beard began to grow when ho was 10, nud has been grow ing for Oil year. John Burns, member of Parliament for Hattcrscn, recently took n iW-mll walk with mi Infantry Imttnllon In or der to see tho wolk done by tho army. Ho Hindi nn nveriigi of '.'3 miles a day and declared lit the end of the trip that ho enjoyed It greatly. Missouri, Arkansas nnd tiiilslana do not allow noil resident to hunt. In Nevada, fallforiila, Arizona, New Mex ico, Texas, Kansas, Mississippi, Ala bama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Indian Ter rltory no license I required. The hlghet llccnso Is that of Wyoming f.Mi; tho lowest that of Washington -I. An estimate Is iiiado that an cipcusn or JI.ikmi.ixhi ha been homo by two rival homo owner within three year pant to bring tho record to It present point. The men Interested nre f . K. (I. Billings, the owner of Lou Dillon, and 11. E. Siiialher. who own Major Del mar. Tlmo ha thus been knocked from t lut reeoitl at the cost of mora than I'JTiIMmoi n second. A recent maritime disaster call at tcutloii to n tiny Maine village of his torical Interest, t'eiiiaquld Point wa ono of the earliest of the New Eng. laud while settlement, nud the ruins of tho stone fort, built there In It'MI, till slain near tho Ktenmboat laud Ing. With a short nnd bloody history, Indian hostility making tho locality uninhabitable, the town site was short ly afterward nbaiiihuied. All Interesting article In the shapo of nil old straw hat that ha passed several year of continuous travel till railroad nil over the country, arrived at tho llrnltlelHiro (Vt.l station recent ly. Tho hat was started from Mil wnukeo nud since then ha visited nil part of the Fulled Slate. It I cov ered with check bearing tho mimes of tho different town It ha visited. It wa scut from Ilrattleboro to Bellow Fulls. Illondi hair I characterised by a high proportion of soda ami also of silica; red hair contain a very high proportion of slllcn: black Is poor In roda nnd poor In silica the latter he tug almost entirely lucking -hut on tho other hand I rich In potassium. Tim we have polnsslc hair, silicic hulr and sodlc hulr, and as tho hair I con- tlnually growing ami being cut or fall ing out, It I evident that by mean of tho hair then I both roiistnnt and linitortniit elimination of certain min eral compounds. Tho largest organ In Maine Is nt thn Universalis! Church, nt Portland. In It arc over ftouo pipe, tho smallest piccolo, being half nn Inch long, nnd lie lnrgest, n double open diapason, or .T.' foot "C" pipe. The vox humans stop alone, having 111 pipe, cost JiHsl. Tho pipe room, of which thero aru four, nre each nn largo ns nn ordinary bed chamber. The organ wn voiced by J. 11. Brown, who voiced the organ, nt Westminster Abbey. It has tlirco manual, and I blown by a Ihrro hnro-power electric motor. WAYS OF THE MOSQUITO. Itnw Home of tho Adult lllhtrnata Ilurlnu tlio Wlutor, Thnt adult mosquitoes llvo through the winter I evident to all who havo seen and felt thm on tho first warm day of early spring, say n writer In the Literary Digest. Now wn aro told III addition that larvae nnd even tho egg of tint Insect may survive great colli. Huys n writer In the Itevuo Sol enllllque: "it Is well known that mosqultoe hibernate In thn adult state; a certain number of theso vexation Insects pas the winter In various retreat In slaughter houses, granaries, cellars, etc., and In the spring they resume active life and multiply their kind. Hibernation, however, doe not nlwny tuke plnee In the adult form only; tho larvue can nlso pns tint winter with safity. Tills ha licen shown by tho observation of John It. Smith inn do during the winter nf Hmii-iink! nnd nt tho end nf It)'.'. The winter cold docs not regularly tleslrny aquatic larvae. They will bear n considerable degren of It, they have been Been surrounded with Ice, tho water having frozen around them, nnd lifter tho melting of the solid envelope they still lived. Tho same larvae may bo allernntely frozen up nnd melted several times In lh courso of tho winter. Thl I true of the culex piingen nud of several other species both of culex and of anopheles, etc. Certain specie hlberunto In tha adult state; other In tho larval statu also; others still hlberunto In tho egg. But many havo lilliernntlug larvae: with many tlio lurvnn pass tho winter under tho Ice, or In tho tee, without tho least Injury. It may easily ha seen that cold will not kill mosquitoes, for numbers of polar explorors havo noted tho abundance of the Insects In tho regions of Ice, and It Is well known that tho mosquitoes aro ono of the plagues of tho summer In tha moist parts of Alnskn. Tho Lash In English Prison. Flogging Is still allowed In English prison us a punishment for mutiny or violence, but recently published stalls tics mako It doubtful whether even In theso extreme enses corporal punish ment serves tho purposo for which It Is Intended. It Is shown that slnco thn number of prison offenses for which flogging was allowed was reduced In 1HU8 the number of offenses against prison discipline has decreased from 1-17 to 131 per 1,000 prisoners, wbllo there has been nn Increaso In tho num. ber of thoso offenses for which the "eat" is still tho penulty. TvUo Fellow. Fuddy Why wero you so awfully afraid of that pistol? You know well enough that It wasn't loaded. Duddy It Is tho unloaded pistol that always goes off nnd kills somebody. Boston Transcript. What a good many churchgoers need Ib a praying macblno that will wind It stlf.