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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1904)
TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTINQ ITEM8. Conniali and Criticism Dastd TJpo Ik UapptnlDK of til Bjr HUtori rat d Naw Notts. Dressmaker' bills are the root of many divorce iulf. A man' auccent depends on what lie doe with Ills failure. A successful man root while his unsuccessful brother stands nround and squeals. When an old maid gets married In leap year It gives everybody a chance to say Biiiart thing. A woman Is wIIHiik to take the bene- lit of the doubt and let man havo tho doubt of tho benefit. College athletics are deadly. This Is proved by tho fact that most men who play croquet aro old. It Is not easy to decldo which 1 the greater nuisance, a South Ameri can republic or a North American des potism. , Somotlmes a man loses his Job be cause he doesn't know enough and sometimes because he knows too much. Tho Ill-fated steamer General Slo cum had an unlicensed first mate per haps the other officers had permits to take human life. If the millennium Is postponed until a mother admits that her own children aro 111-beha.ved and those next door are cherubs It will never arrive. Just about the time the boll weevil gets up a good appetite for the cotton 'plant along comes the red ant and finds that the boll weevil Is good eat ing. Tho Japanese people do not swear is do those of the West, but In an emergency the name of General Kodama ought to serve all practical purposes. Some scientist has discovered that the burning of Incense will keep away mosquitoes. Most men will, however, cling to tho Idea that tobacco smoke Is Just as good. Now comes a bulging-browed profes sor and tells us that anthracite coal I a luxury. Perhaps he will next tell us that Georgo W. Bacr Is a piece of reckless extravagance. The housekeeping of Mr. Roosevelt has been-criticised by the Daughters of the Revolution. Daughters who have time to criticise their mothers and sisters should be careful about Invit ing comparisons. A- Philadelphia chemist claims to have discovered a process whereby he can reduce the price of radium from 10,000,000 to less than $500,000 a pound. With meat and almost ev erything elso soaring skyward this must be welcome news to the strug gling poor. If matters go wrong In the English House of Commons a convenient ex planation would be to attribute the fact to the "sophisticated air" which the members breathe. According to the London Guardian, the winds of heaven are not suffered to visit too roughly the Interior of tho Talace of Westminster, for they are "filtered through cotton-wool, and wanned by passing over hot pipes, and then the dead and oppressive product Is forced through gratings In the floor of the House, where It picks up the mud from honorable members' boots." Medical colleges aro responsible for the horde of failures who parade ns doctors and do what they can to men ace the public health. Some of the medical schools are get-rlch-qulck schemes, taking every applicant who comes along with tho requisite fees. They spoil hundreds of good farmers, mechanics, shoemakers and black smiths, Issue sheepskins atid leave the medical profession to struggle with the reproach. Every decent doctor should Join htm and pursue the fakirs, grafters and moral perverters until It Is made too warm for them to con tinue In the profession. A medical diploma ought to be beyond purchase by anyone not fitted In every way for the responsibilities of a physician. From the common school of the coun try district to the highest university In the land, tho fundamental Idea of American education Is to make Ameri can citizens. There Is no thought of making soldiers or officeholders or mer chants or traders or Inventors! make citizens first, then let each young American choose for himself the Hue of life he deems best suited to his ca pacity; he docs choose, and that com monly without bias what he shall he, for your young American has Ideas of his own and Is ready to air uioin, too, on appropriate and even sometimes on lnapproprlato occasions. After all, however, tho best method of Judging of any system of education Is In Its re sults, and, without saying a word In disparagement of tho people of any other nation, It may be said that In every essential quality tho American citizen has demonstrated His efficiency In life and action the value of his training. TTVirMfrn rrltlpa frOflllentlV declare that Americans are living at too high a pressure, that they have a straineu, nervous expression, tuke llfo too seri ously and have no time to converse ,..! nnlnv themselves. Now. Is not the exnet opposite of this the actual case? Look at tho blograpmcai SKeicn ei lu magazines and newspapers of ' the most successful men and are they not all longer-lived than their doctors? Are not the captains of Industry, all ..oil ntruit- In rears, still In harness, , hala and hearty aiid traveling about the couutry attending to a trcmenuous amount of business? Why is not overwork killing them off? Simply becauso with all their business carca they are shrewdly dividing their tlmo Ui ucli manner that tbey have suf- Detent to spare In which to look after j the preservation of their healtn. There Is almost a touch of person ality in the way American cities have moved In relative position during tbo nineteenth century. Their changing fortunes are full of suggestlveness. Now York, which had become the largest city by 1700. has held Its placo In front In every census up to the present time, and now, with a popu lation more than double that of Its next competitor, Is not In Immediate danger of losing pre-eminence. Chi cago first appeared ou the list In 1SSO as the twenty-fifth American city. At each census It made a long stride and passed many competitors, until It reached second place In 1SP0. St touts appeared one decade earlier than Chicago, and by IKiO had Jump ed to the eighth place, a sensational advance. Philadelphia started In the second place, has never been below the fourth, and Is today the third American city, Boston started as the third, and stands to-day the fifth. Charleston, the fourth city In the orig inal list, lost steadily In relative. posi tion, until In 1SS0 It appeared for the last time among the first fifty. Haiti more has kept Its place very evenly. Northern Liberties, the sixth city In the first census, and Southwnrk, tho tenth, are now parts of Philadelphia. It Is Interesting to study tho Intln ences that make elttes powerful the world over. The greatest gathering of the Chlnee Is at Canton. Hong kong Island, at the mouth of the Can ton HIver, was well-nigh deserted un til European commercial Interests found their way into Asia, formed a new center of population, and found ed a city which Is already great. Euro pean cities have not had so many up and downs as those of America, al though the population of Home has shown extraordinary fluctuations. Careful estimates put It at more than two million In the fourth century, and at less than one hundred and forty thousand In the eighteenth. It Is now about half a million. For many cen turies London nnd Paris have been the largest cities In Europe. St. Peters burg, Berlin and Liverpool are coin paratlvely modem. For the dwellers In the town left behind in the race. It Is well to remember that quality, and not quantity. Is the important consid eration. I VOLTAIRE, THE PHILANTHROPIST Forney-Voltaire Is the name of a lit tle bamlet near Geneva, Switzerland. It was here that Voltaire, sometime skeptic and scoffer, proved himself the first great practical philanthropist of his century. He purchased there an estate which bore the name of the bamlet He Immediately became In terested In the poverty-stricken people, and although then past 70 years of age. began to help the people by tench lug them to help themselves. In "The Life of Voltaire" S. G. Tallentyre writes of Voltaire's work, which does not answer to the unkindly memory In which Voltaire is held in English sneaking countries. In 1707 he could write that he had formed a colony at Feruey; that he had established there three merchants. several artists and a doctor, ami was building houses for them. In 1700 he recorded with an honest pride that he had quadrupled the number of the parishioners, and that there was not a poor man among them; that he had under his Immediate supervision two hundred workers, nnd was the means of life to every one round him. From the first Voltaire had culti vated silkworms. He was never the man for an Idle hobby. Why should no use be made of the silk? Before 1700 the I'erney theater was turned Into a silkworm nursery. From busy Geneva came stocking-weavers, glad to colonize In the place. Voltaire, always alive to the advant ages of a good advertisement, sent to the Duchesse de Cholsel the first pair of silk stockings ever made on his looms. If she would but wear them tbey must be the mode. What stock ing would not look beautiful on n foot so charming? The lady accepted his stockings nnd his compliments, showed both to her friends, nnd thus put fcome fifty to a hundred people out of the way of want Voltalro established Geneva watch makers at Ferney, and Forney was soon sending watches to China, Spain. Italy. Husia, Holland, America, Tur key, Portugal and North Africa, be sides carrying on a considerable trade with Paris. As If he found weaving nnd watch making Insufficient for his energy, by 177:! he had startod a lace-maklng In dustry. If he wanted a reward for all thl trouble he had it. The miserable ham let had become a thriving village, and tho desert place bloswmed like a rose. Tho master's com fed his people. His bees produced excellent honey and wax. and his hemp and flax made linen. Here dwelt together as one family Catholics and Huguenots. When Gex was devastated by famine in 1771 Vol taire Imported corn from Sicily, nnd soli! it much under cot to the poor people of the province. Their suffer ings and sorrows were ills own. It might well warm his old heart to see his little colony firm on "those two great pivots of the wealth of a slate, be It little or gret, freedom of trade and freedom of conscience." Evening Up. "Why are you M haughty and over bearing toward )oung operatic aspi rants' Don't you know that some of them may one day become great prlmn donnaa?" "Well." said the lmnressarlo, calmly, "that's all rleht If they ever become great prima dqnnas, they will be more haughty and overhearing than I am." Washington Star. Holloing n Philanthropist. Willie Pa, what Is a phllunthooplst, Pa A philanthropist, my son, Is merely a man who has mora money than ho can possibly uso hlinsjlf. Philadelphia j.euger. f Opinions of Wage-Earning by Morrlcd f? 111-; American prejudice hktiiiisi n ni;c-i-;iriioi, I I by married women appears In the effort occa sionally mane lo mane mi- t-uiiiiuj ui.-i.i ... teacher In the public schools terminate with marriage. Hut thousands of American married women do earn wage, thousands more would gladly do so If they could, and other thousands would be happier and belter oft If they did. The prejudice against It seems disadvantageous. American men. ns a rule, prefer to support their wive If they can. If an American married woman works for pay, It Is either be cause It gives her pleasure or because her husband's In come Is Insufficient. She does not do It as a matter of course. How long she can keep It up depends uhiii what the wmk Is, and upon other circumstances. If she has children, that, or course. Interferes with her wage-earning If It does not slop It Altogether, and general acceptance of a custom which would restrict or discourage child hearing Is not to the public iulv.int.ige. Marriage tends, and should tend, to withdraw women from wage-earning, hut It need not slop It per so and abruptly. To make marriage a Imr to future wage-earning by a woman operates In rest ra tion of marriage, and that Is at least as much agalni public policy as restriction of child-bearing. It will alwa) depend on circumstances whether a woman who manic had letter go on Dr. Patten seems to be right In holding that it Is often best that she should do so. and that It Is often better that she should marry and still earn wages than not marry. Prejuaice should not determine conduct In these matters. There Utonld be a freer choice. Harper's Weekly. Waste Lands and Criminals. ASSACHUSETTS is about to try a new experi ment in the Industrial management of Its con vict. Instead of employing them In manufac turing goods to compete .with the products of iiou-crlmlnal labor. It Is proposed to establish industrial camps and set the convicts to re claiming waste and worthless land, of which MJ In- lta State possesses enough to keep them at work for generations. The plan Is a tentative one. the first camp having Just been established near Hutlnnd, but on the face of It the scheme appears to possess two merits. It furnishes out door work for the convicts without subjecting them to the humiliation of constant public observation, as would be the case If they were employed on the streets nnd high ways, and the work performed will be useful work. If they are able to make two blades of grass grow where one or uone grew before there Is authority for the claim that they will be transformed from malefactors Into bene factors. The experiment will he watched with a good deal of Interest for various reasons. Whllo no sane person would advocate the maintenance of criminals in Idleness, no one has as yet found a way of employing them that Is entirely satisfactory. The farming out of convicts which has been practiced In some of the Southern States has been shown to be subject to glaring abuses. These abuses could be minimized if not entirely avoided If the State did the farming under wise nnd honest management. Every State has an abundance of waste lands, which would be worth reclamation, and which. If reclaimed, would add to the public wealth. Philadelphia Bulletin. Automobile, Nuisances. UK wife of n railwnv magnate In New York & U I has been nearly killed by a le.iu wnue ruling in an auiomoune. ine l oiu-e Commissioner, discussing the event, says: "The mtomoblle people must be protected. This mat ter of hatred that has been growing among the mob gangs of the lower and upper East Side has got to stop If I have any power." no possible excuse for such nn action as throwlug a stone at a lady's head, but we wonder If It has occurred to Police Commissioner MeAdno that there are other people besides the automobile pecple. who need protection; that there ust be a cause for the hatred between the automobile people and the gangn. At the present 4 LACKED JUST WHAT HE WASTED. I v-: -:-i--:H-i-!-i--M-i"i' i"i i ih-h-h The agent for the "Inexhaustible Cyclopedia, In Twelve Hurts," ap proached .Mr. Hansom with a light and springy step, and was greatly cheered when he reiolved an Invitation to "drawr up an show your wares," and the other rocklng-chulr on the shady porch was pushed towards him. "You say there's everything anybody wants to know In It," said Mr. Hansom, genially, when the agent's flow of con versation had ceased for a moment ind he looked hopefully at tils h6,t. "Well, 1 guess I shall haie to buy It. Lawzee, yes, I can see how easy the pay ments'll be. Hut now I Just want to make sure o' one or two things before I pay ye down the fust money. "Le's tee, what parts have yo got with ye? 'Vol. One, A to Com;' that's at Irlglit. Now you find me the placo where It tells about ant-hills, and the best way to rid your dcorynrd of 'cm. I've tried more'n forty different ways a'ready." Mr. Hansom leaned comforlnbly back In his chair and rocked with a loud creak while the agent benrched tho pages of "Vol. One," with an anx ious face. "It doesn't tell about them," he btatnmcred at last. "You see " Hut Mr. Hansom raUcd his hand In prutest. "It's too bad," he said, "but prob ably that sllppid their minds. Jest turn over to the b's, nnd find 'butter.' Now see how you can make It come when It's contrary, same as It Is sometime when you're In a huny to get through churning." Again ho regarded the agent's red dening face with a calm and genial gaze. "Not there!" he said, when tho re sult of the search was reluctantly ad mitted. "That stems cur'ous, don't It? Hut still I'll give 'em another chance. Now you turn over the c's till you come to 'cats.' There, you've got lt. Now how do they undertnko to keep a Malty cat from shedding all over vis itors' clothes and the furniture, so the whole family won't be picking an' eat ing gray hairs tho enduring tlmo?" Tho agent shut the book with u slam nnd rose abruptly, In spite of Mr. Han. soul's benevolent smile. "Y'ou tan' thero a minute till moth er fetches yo a glass o' lemonade; It's n warmish day," said Mr. Hansom, cor dially. "Hut as to the book you'ie peddling, why, mother's got a 'Helps to tho Handy' that her mother had bo fore her that you'd ought to take a Great Papers on Important bubjects. Women. not n highly m young wnge-eanilng 11( (l44.lHMtii are forced to share the penally with hlin, or with her work, but .ii.1c.mI in lienr ull of to hang the Innocent his heirs a sum of ishment ror mimicr. the guilty shall be heirs deprived of the paid premiums. stone thrown at her Of course there Is ward to business time some of the look at somo time. What with tlat an' the World's Atlas an' the diction ary, I guess mother an' I'll make out to get along without nny cyclopedy? young man." ARE WE OLD AT 30? I'robjrterlan Oenerat Atucmblr lfui l'ut that Limit oil loutli. When you are 30 you are no longer young, according to a decision reached by the United Presbyterians In gen oral assembly In Pennsylvania a short time ago. Following this ruling, all persons over 30 years of age were re quested to withdraw from the "young people's societies" of tho church. This Is gloomy Intelligence for Presbyter Inns, and withal Interesting to tho tin regenerate. To be old at 30, shelved before tho crucial third of a century, recognized the world over as life's prime, sug gests to all of us tho plaintive Inquiry: "If I was to be so soon done for, why was I ever begun for?" It Is dreadful, but with all duo respect to tho lurking shade of Cnlvlli, bo It asked, Is It true? A question tho present generation Is apt to ask Itself about anything too uncomfortable to be believed In. So far as tho country of which tho statement was made Is concerned, It Is certainly ridiculously untrue. For at 30 tho average American man nt least In the Eastern States Is apt to con sider himself as Just marriageable, and to bo so considered by tho mothers of eligible daughtcrH. Nor Is the American woman of 30, If still unmarried, ready to bo classed ns an "also ran" In tho matrimonial sweepstakos. It seems, Indeed, that while a woman's chances of marrying aro numerically lessened after she reaches 30, she Is then apt to marry hotter from a worldly point of view, If she married at all, than If she had been led to tho altar from tho school room. Tho sensationally successful marriages that one reads of dally In tho news papers aro rarely entered Into by young girls a statement which, though It Is generally heard from ladles who are no longer young, Is nevertheless true. The American woman seldom reach es full mental and physical maturity before tho ago at which tho fiat of the Pennsylvania Presbyterians would rel egate her to tho dead past. And tho American man before 80 well, really, ho can scarcely bo considered as quite grown up. In extreme southern countries, whero women were reigning belles or even mother at 10, they aro apt to bo old at 30. And tho South American or Span streets of Montreal and the suburban roads are Infeslei! with automobiles. In the possession of a lot of howilnt Yahoos, who go out of their way to be nlTonslie to peoplt who do not happen to like the smell of gasoline. They do llbrrately try to frighten horses; to scare pedestrians, anil to splash them with mud. It would lo Interesting to know how some of the cads come to t In even temporary pos session of the machines. They certain!) do not belong tc the class that can afford to own or to hlro such luxuries It would be worth tho while of nil respectable people whr aro Interested tn nutoinobllliig to make a combined effort to suppress this nuisance. Anybody walking along a highway frequented by nutouiolilllsts can readily understand why hatred has grown up between the Hast Side gangs and the New York nutomoblllsts. Montreal Star. The Insurance of n Man llnngcd. Y tho ruling of a Pennsylvania court an In surance company has been freed from the necessity of paying the policy of a man hanged for crime. The man. of course, was beyond ilio possibility of having any concern In tho matter. Ills lielr.s were not. and ih,.r lirw tho ones who must suffer. In civilised country, tho relatives of It. Iii case of the criminal's escape. I ho courts of Pennsylvania may understand law and h.ue tho ability to construe It. To such credit lis they aro entitled for acumen, purity and fearlessness they are heartily welcome. And doubtless ou the lofly plane which they operate In the Interests of Justice they aro above feel lug a pang of discomfort at the Intimation that the Chinese theory, roll net) nnd modified and made presentable by a sot tine of wonls. atmoars In this decision. It would bo unfair wife of a murderer, or send his dill-, dren to prlsou. It Is not more daizllngly fair to siarvo Ihetn or send them to the poor house. Nobody desires the Insurance company to ho deprived of any legitimate protection. As a rule. It does not suffer much. Generally the rare swindler Is caught and a heavy penalty exacted. Policies carried for a certain tlmo become "Incontest able." That Is to say, the company will not contest them unless through some circumstance, probably a technicality. It sees n reasonable chance of beating tho claim of tho heirs. If It has agreed to pay a certain sum upon tho death of a certain man. and the man. havlug fulfilled Ills sharo of the contract. Is dead, nothing remains but the payment of the sum or a dishonorable attempt at evasion. In the Instance under consideration the man had com mitted murder. This was the business of the company only as it wis the concern of all law-abiding citizens. It Is a folly to nssumo that he committed tho murder with the purpose of getting himself hanged, aud thus securing for money. The law prcserines ine pun it st.pu.aie ui i-, ,..., .... . hanged. It does not add and his Insurance upon which ho may have .ew lork American. Educated Business) Men. ITDE.vrS of the history of education are fa miliar with the tltno when the object of the collegiate foundation was ainoit solely to train young men for tho priesthood or the ministry. Then the desirability of general scholastic cul ture as a preparation fur entry Into the law was recognized, nnd lastly, us a preparation , for entry Into medicine. The ministry, the law aud modi elne these nlmost up to our time have been the three , learned professions. Except for the comparatively small number attracted by the notion that an nrmlcmle education was fitting to gentility, the vast majority of academic pu pils were destined, In the order named, for the surplice, the robe ond the chnlse. From the three typical American universities the greater number of graduates now look for carccra or to technical pursuits which are closely related to business. The business man of tho filluro Is plainly to be n man of scholastic education. This ten dency Is likely to have an effect on business as It already has an effect on our universities. New York (Hobo. Ish or Italian husband of that ago ! often a plodding, patient, "spiritless creature, wilh a tendency to corpulency nnd nn excessive Intcn-st In his mcnla. Hut precisely III these countries, where tho curfow of youth Is sounded nt 30, aud where tho Presbyterian fiat might do somo good, the shade of Cnlvlli has never penetrated. And so the shape less, mustachioed ladles of tho 1-iitin race mny go on feeling young Just ns long as they like, and tho American woman, Just reaching the full bloom of her beauty, must bo shelved. Not only does the woman of Anglo Hnxou race att.iiu a physical perfection at 30 which sho has never before known mentally and temperamentally sho Is softer and moro rounded. In Franco poets, novelists and artists have always been unanimous In recognizing her supreme chnrin. And lu lucent years sho has sticcfonfitlly Invaded Amerlciin and English fiction, previous ly dedicated to celebrating the charms of tho sweet young thing. Nevertheless the sweet young thing need not worry. Tho hud of Itl can always be 30 there is lots of tlmo but tho siren of 30 can never, never bo ID. Sho doesn't want to bo? Oh, yes, sho does. Why, else, tho mania she so often develops for 10'h sweet simplici ty of attire for tho muslin nnd bluo ribbons that when sho wears them sug gest Hint somehow they aro never so becoming ns when they huvo ceased to bo appropriate? For tho woman of 30 can wear even these and miiko them appear clinniilng. New York World. Italy's Distinction. In Invention, scholarship, scientific research, and large enterprise, and lu national prldo (without which no country can claim tho respect of for eigners), Italy lias an cuvhihlo dis tinction. It honors lis Intellectual men Intelligently, not by mi Ignorant notoriety, nnd money does not tnko precedence of mind. If Its plastic urt has suffered a commercial eclipse, Ita ly Is not unique lu this experience, whllo In dramatic art It still lends tho world with Tommasn Halvlnl and Elo onorn Duse. In music and literature there Is much activity and a far from complaisant public opinion. Century. Trunin on tho Huez Cunnf. In splto of tho reduction of trans portation chMgcg of 10 cents n ton, tho receipt from the trulllc of tho Suez canal for tho year 1003 aro only a little less than thbso of tho previous year, so a further considerable in crease of traffic can bo stated. The receipt were $20,700,000, or $20,000 lea than In 1002. PASTIME OP AMEHICAN3. llu.ch.tll, the Hume Which U Our Trite .Nntloiiiil Hpoit. I Coining down to the lest of a nntlou 1 nl sport, how ninny Americans cnunot I tell you tho dlfferetico between ' "home run" and a "bao lilt;" between an "iiulsboot" nnd a "hot liner to short?" Not one In a thousand I" a conservative bet. Indeed, this genera tion of )oitlh knows bnsobnll by In-tiim-t. II has become n heritage by right of American birth. How elso will )ou explain the Indisputable fuel unit a tl year old boy knows Iho game so much heller than the lessons he Is be ginning to linvo poked Into him In tho schoolroom? 'I he Hist game In this counti has been Imcod back TO yearn, anil the first club of that misty era to Philadelphia. "Parties of it durei! or more used tn gather of an afternoon niiw n week on the field adjoining tho upper part iff Market street, near wtiere the Episcopal Church now stands, to play Iho old gnine, and nth era ngnln would go over to tho Cam den fields to enjoy the sport. An old resident of Camden used to say that the pla)er were laughed at In thnso days Tor playing ball, tho prejndlco against wasting tlmo In that way being icry prcwilent In the (Juaker City of that ttcrlnd The microbe did not spread until IKIUI, nnd thou II went through tho couutry, sweeping nil before It. Tho rise of professional Imsetmll Is nn oft told story, but back of Its history Is the most Interesting epoch of lis evo luilou. when the "primitive game of rounders" wns hammered Into sumo thing like. Its present form, a gamo which had room for skill and scientific development. Thero were four banes Instead of three, nnd the. base rilnner was put mil by throwing the bull at him. In these days ho would, Indeed, bo "down nnd out" If such a prm-tleo were permitted, and one league game would tally as ninny called ambulances I as "culled bulls." Eien an late as the ,..,.;, The luilsiiniii could bo put out oil nny fulr hit or foul ball that wns caught on tho first ImhiiiiI. I'hore wait no rule to punish wild pitching, and the rulo governing called strikes was such as to allow tho batsman utmost enttro freedom from out on strikes. One hntsmnn In a game between the Mutual and Atlantic clubs allowed moro thati 60 ball to pass him before ho struck at a single ball, no strikes being called cveu then. "The pitcher could only sond tho ball tn y square pltiir or toss, and not by any kind of a throw. Now. Kcaicvly n year has patsed , slnco tho crude and liiininpleins code of the early 'CDs Unit distinct Itnpmve inents have not been made In tbe game of busobnll along the lines of III ,.rpnm, .temand for skill and agility bg tmHn nMir w, KMmu . .......tan, American. nm why It Is becoming more popular every your. The Inventive talent, tho utii-easlug Itch to do things In n better and moro H-leuttfie nnd cc.ihiuul.it I way. Is fount In over)' department of American In dustrlal and commercial life. lllus trated Sporting News. Too much zeal Is miiuetlmci mora to bo feared than too little. Old Mrs. Ilrown was an energetic philanthro pist but there were linns when It seemed as If her energy was misdirect- ed. The well-meaning old ludy In Ileved Hint there was no ailment Hint cnntur oil would nut cure, no xirtlon of the human frame that It would tint reach. The meml ors of her own fam ily grew chary of mentioning aches nnd pains, for they knew the penal ty, but Matilda, the Swedish cook, had not learned discretion. One day thu mi 1.1 gave n graphic description f !ho trouble her brother wns having wilh rheumatism In his right elbow. "He softer to lots she's can't do no vork," said Matilda. "Bring him to me," responded Mrs. Brown, her eye fired with tho light of Imttln. ' I'll g.ve him wimo medi cine that'll make his nrin well In no tlmo. It'll euro anything." That evening Mrs. Ilrown heard voices In the kitchen. "Is that your brother, Matilda V" Mio nuked, culling Iho maid to the door. "Yes, ineosls," replied Miitlldn. Mrs. Ilrown, armed with bottlo aud upoon, appeared n moment later In (ho kitchen. "Open your mouth," she said, paus ing In front of the M'lilrcl visitor, and pouring out n generous spoonful, "Oh, mccHls!" began Matilda. "Not a word from either of you!" coinmiiuileil Mn. Ilrown, selz'ug tho astonished Swede's sunburned nos.i be tween thumb and forefinger with Iho case of long pnuih e. "Take this rH-ht down without a word," Nutiirojly the inn n was obliged to open his mouth In order to breathe. As he did so, In went thu oil, "Thero!" exclaimed Mrs. Ilrown, lu a loiin of deep satisfaction, "you won't havo any further tiiiublo with that el bowl Now, Matilda, what were you going to say? Y'ou tuny nny It now." "Veil, ineesls," said Matilda, with a broad smile, "1 tank tot lor pooty late. It vol' initio odder bruder uit have tho sick on heo elbow." Youth's Companion. Hllcnt Aiiuilon. To n Hlrauger u Chlneso auction Is a most curious spectacle. Tho auc tioneer leans over n slightly elevated counter and exhibits his wares. Ho say nothing, neither dues Iho bidder, who merely steps forward to tho auc tioneer and runs his finger up his sleevo, mnklug pressure ou tho sales man's arm, thus Indicating how much ho will pay for tho article. Then an other and another repent tho action, until tho ono signifying tho highest price receives the nrllclo without a word being exchanged on cither side. Only tho auctioneer and thu success- ful bidder know Iho prlco offered and accepted. Lot of worthy people are not popu lar. There' your case, for example. Y'ou will ho wise If you keep out of omo scraps. Tho Chlmno have twico sacked Mos cow, onco In 1237, and again In I2H3. Plus X. has adopted a whlto dove, which wn oliu of tho pets of his predecessor. rwelvo veiirs ago thero wero J.tHio Japuiioso In tint United Hlates. To- day Ihetn aro 2l,aw. dlrls dressed ill gnihly red, black and wiillo uniforms ntii selling butter and rhoeso III the streets of Berlin for a new coiupiiiiy. Norwnv's coast lluol,7ll miles III a trntght line--becomes 12,IX) miles If followed round tjio fjotds. Ill llies.i fjords mo over IfsMH) Mnnil". The coffee tiro reaches Its maximum of production In about twelve years. and should continue in run iiennng mr fifty years, though soma tiers aro known to bo n old n eighty-two )iiirs. A vard of rnlii-to ho pri-c i, J11.M Inches Is the rccoided downfall of the last enr In London. It has been an exceptionally wei year cn-n .i ..." Ilrlttsh Islos. Tbo record Is live Inches ahoie the highest previous Intnl. that of IN70. When we rend of thu men who In hnbllid tho caves of Kurupo nt n Hum when inniuiliolhs dwelt on that eonll nent. wo seem to have gone back it iM-rlod so liniiiensuinbly remote thin we enn hardly picture in ine iiiimi eyo the appeiirunre which Iho repr- entntlves of our rneo then pn ited Yet, ne.iir.llug to Prof. E. H Tylor, tie. untiles of Tasmania "remained wilh lu tho present century repie.enlallies or tho Immensely ancient Paleolithic period." Ilecenl studies of tbe ictl. of the Tnsiiiiinlans, who became ex tlnct when brought Into touch Willi modern clt Illicit mail, show thai tho workmanship of tln ir rude Implmiien s wns below that exhibited by Iho "drill nnd cavo men" of Paleolithic times The Chinese doctor sets up a le rl bio racket when culled to treat Ho' sick Tills Is supposed to drive rill pints away, and tt Hiiqiiell.iiinl.'y acts well In a grout many cases '! lllMitton demands rest and quleti ull notM) ts lmrr.il from Itm tck room. All American physician tells of a pn tlent who hnd sunk Into n coma pic .filing dentil. "Some one In Iho nest homo struck up Iho 'Anvil Chorus' from 'II Trovntnre' I was very line ii annoyed and distressed, aud tried l stop It. Suddenly tlm pulsation at wrist began again, the patient grade nlly opened hl ci. and motioned t his sister. She bent low. and bo wills prred In her rar: 'To dmn to ilea, that b my favorite tune.' said he lie ' cuperated nnd enllrely rrcoierrd." CHILE'S MINEIIAL WEALTH. (lrnl (oilier of This Hoillll Ameri can Country. The famous coal minus of Uln and Coronel hsio an annual yield of l,i. (j) tons and employ some U.' l.it r ers, nccorilltig to the Engineering Mag azlne. ThU not only supplies Chiles needs, but alsoioals iienily ail the l.u ropean slcami-rs loin lung the bord.-r The conl Is what l termed "sort, mil It Is of good quality. The country Im port some hard conl. The most Im porlant mineral Industry Is. or conr. tho nllrnte of until. Chile nt pieo-iit has over Id) nitrate work". The crud i mnterlal (called cslhhc) ts found un der conglomerate, in beds larylng from n few Inches to twelve fret In thirkne. The process of extraction Is ono of teaching and refining by rr tnlllzatloti. AlHiut l.Hyi. meirlc ton of 2,2H pounds ouch are minimi- ly reduced, estimated to be woilh s.'.l. pOO.Ii In Europe. Alxiilt foui-llflh of all the nitrate exported g.ei to Hug land and the continent, iire.it Britain nlono taking one third and tlermnny a Utile less. A large numunt of Brit ish capital l Invested lu the nltra'o fields, sixteen of the largest compa'nles alonii representing a capitalization of mora tlinii flO.UsU"1". 'Iho Chlbnii government exacts a duly of $ll.f2 .1 ton ou nil nitrate exported. hi metal mining copper come first, both us In present output and fiirtbe. opportunity. The country needs mod em iiietnllurgle.il pro. coos and kimwl edge of successful mctluds of hnmlllug low grmlo ores. The prccnt produc tion Is about IKMXio tons of copper an nually. Manganese Is iilso an Impor tant Industry. Sllier, once v. ry high ly profitable, lias drelln d; 74,00 kilo grams of sllier were exported In llsl. Promising gold deposits exist, is, oe'iil ly In Southern Chile; flu.OS) Itl gold, gold ores and matte have been oxpor. ed In Iho Inst ten years. ICnrim tli Pathway nr Nation. Nothing encourage the study of ge ography like war. It was In 1H71 Unit Americans begnn lo look up Korea on tho map. for ut that time we were ut war with her; tint there was only ono battle, and lu Unit baltlu only ono man was killed on our side. So thu geographies were soon put buck ou tho shelf. In 1KIII Korea ngnln caiiio lo the front, hut the fhlucHii tied no precipitately before the Japanese that before thu geographies wero fulrly open thu tide of war swept across tho Y'nlu and left Korea ngnln Iho "Lnnd of Morning Calm." Anil now ngnln lu this year of grace sho Is to bo made, (hough much against her will, tho chessboard for another game. In 1228 she was swept-from north to south by thu Mongols lu their effort to get nt the Jupuncso. In IMI2 sho wn swept from south to north by tho Japanese, film hn been verily tho pnthwny of nations, trodden of every foot. Century. Tho Jlluaii '1 fling. Dorothy Havo you tckeii advantago of leap ycur? Mlguonutlo Yes, I proposed to Charlto last January, nnd now ho Is suing mo for breach of promise. De troit Freo Press. Occasionally n man gets reckless and toll hi wife tho truth, and then sho fliida out what a brute she ha mar ried. Most peoplo get the spring out of their walk during June, July aud August,