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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1904)
TOPICS OF THE TIMES. .A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER. E8TINQ ITEM8, Cctamaata and Criticisms Baatd Upoa Ik Uappanlnge of the DajUUtor. at akd Naw Molt. j uirls who eay in least are soonest married. ii ii i Harmony U nil right If It Is harmony of your lirniiu. The nearer you cet to greatness the mailer It appears. Terhapi Hugo thought Mrs. Langtry would like blm better tattooed man plain. ii Eating less beef In warm weather Is dictated from both hygienic aud finan cial standpoints. Ifjtyou see It In an unconfirmed ru .nior7 ilint Iho Japancso won a great .vlclory It Is probably so. Tibet does not yet know that It la a part of the British Empire, but It will learn the fact soon enough. And when Edward and William had finished tbclr spiels on peace the baud struck, up " Twos but a Dream." Dowlc boasts of his converts "worth a million," hut the man he professes to, follow had not where to lay Ills head. King Edward of England made no descent from his royal dignity when he, received General Itooth of the Sal vation Army. The Igorrotes may be happy In be ing unaffected by the present high price of beef, but they must have a standing feud with the dog catcher. Sir Thomas Upton Is charged with using American hogs for the manufac ture of his "Irish bacon." Just Insists upon giving his customers better than they nsk. Out of Duluth. on the Oreat Lakes, there Is a four-track lane, two for pas senger steamers and two for freight ers. Although the' oceans of the world have no visible streets or cross ings or sign-posts. In the eye of the navigator they are thus very distinctly marked. No railroad train makes so direct a line between poluta ns tho steamship. No locomotive engineer knows more exactly where he 1h nt all times than the sea captain. Hail ing vessels, rcspoualve to winds, tides and currents, go about more nt ran dom. Yet there are enormous areas of the sea where no sail or smoke-tta.-U Is ever seen. Even on the steamship lanes of the Pacific ono seldom spies a vessel In a trip across that ocean, Nearlng the Suez, however, from either approach, nnd It will bo the same with the Isthmian canal. It seems as It tho ships of the world were out on pnrnd so plentiful do they suddenly bocoui naiin ii' JUT OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS J. Plerpont Morgan Is gradually re tiring from business, but at the pres ent speed he shows in his retirement It will take.Jilm about 307 years to get clear out. John D. Itockefellcr's wealth Is esti mated to aggregate an even bllllou aud a few odd millions. President Harper Is understood to be Interested only In the few odd millions. A New York man, while eating his breakfast the other morning, found a diamond In a boiled egg. Unfortu nately, however, nobody has been able to find the hen that laid the egg. A man who died In Connecticut a few days ago at the age of 136 boasted that he had chewed and smoked to bacco and used intoxicants all his life. Aa usual lu such cases, the record hows (hat he bad to depend on the generosity of other people for what he consumed. A-lawyer in a courtroom may call ' a man a liar, scoundrel, Tlllaln or thief 'and no one makes a complaint when court was adjourned. If a newspaper prints such reflections on a man'a character there la a libel suit or a dead editor. And this Is owing to the fact that people believe what an edi tor says; what a lawyer says cuts no figure. Drink a glass of water when you get out of bed In the morning. Never mind tho slzo of the glass. Let the water be cold If you will. Some people pro scribe hot water, but that Isn't neces sary. You may have washed your face already and relished the expert ence. You may have taken a cold plunge Into the tub and delighted In the shock nnd Its reaction. The brisk uso of the tooth brush has left your mouth clean nnd the breath sweet Hut you are dirty still. Drink a gla of cold water and enjoy the sensation of being clean inside. All that luxurious In the cold bath cleansing the outside Is artificial. That which should prompt tho glass of water after sleeping Is natural. Aa a test, tell the 0-year-old protestant against his morn lnc scrub of cold water that he may escape It by drinking half a pint of tha fluid. lie will Jump at the opportun lty. Sleep has drawn upon the water In the blood, and the Instinct of tb animal, uudcr natural conditions, Is to replenish the circulatory system and distend the blood vessels anew. The food In the stomach which bad much to do toward Inducing sleep has disappeared, leaving a mucous sub stance In the alimentary canals. Yet man would wash his face and leave these half-clogged canals to the duties of another day. Drink a glass of cold water In the name of cleanliness. becomes one of the shortest and east est of toilet duties. It Is swallowed In a second and In Are minutes ha passed from the stomach, taking with It the clogging secretions of the all mentary tracts. It has left behind the stimulus that goes with cold water. and. by filling the arterial system to the normal, It puts a spur to the cir culation that has grown sluggish In the night. It Is obe of the greatest awakeners and one of nature's own stimulants. Drink a glaas of water before breakfast, another before luncheon, and another before dinner. ater Is the best, cheapest and pleas antest medicine. PRONE TO SEE QHOST8. Y'oung men nowadays are inclined to the opinion that the opportunities for making fortunes are not aa great aa they were a half or even a quarter of a century ago. As a matter of fact, there Is plenty of evidence that the avenues to fortunes are as unobstruct ed now as they ever were. Indeed, the demand for men who are capable and reliable Is now greater than ever be fore, and where there Is such a de mand there are opportunities for mak ing fortunes. There Is a savor of philosophy and a dash of originality In the venerable Bishop Huntington's diocesan address, particularly when In speaking of amusements he says: "When we see bow many persons make a labor of their amusement bow can we help wondering whether tbey would not better find amusement In their labor?" The beloved old churchman has struck the nail on the head there has struck It a blow which lights up the darker recesses of the human mind with the fire of everlasting truth. Farmers In Babla, Brazil, seem to be a long way behind the times. The state Is the second In population In the republic, and Its people are de voted to agriculture. Yet, according to tho United States consul stationed In Its capital, cultivators, planters and barrows are unknown, and there are few plows. The farms are worked with a hoe, a spade and a machete, with now and then a pick. Until the people down there wake up they will not send much to Europe In competl tlon with the products of the farms on this sldo of the equator. They are not yet able to raise even enough hay for the support of their own cattle. The completion of the new Panama canal will have some marked effects upon the gTeat lanes of ocean travel. Vessels have, to be sure, for years gone Into Panama and Colon for the transhipment of their freight across the isthmus by rail. The effect of the opening of the new canal may be Ilk enea to mat or me substitution of a strong bridge at a convenient place for .crossing a river for a more or less uncertain ford. Such a bridge attracts wagon roads. The canal will draw toward it the commercial highways of the hemisphere. Vessels which are operated by steam can pursue an al most unvarying line. Their managers accordingly prescribe courses between various ports, known aa lanes, over which, practically all the shipping moves, In caae'of a breakdown the vessel la much eoonor "picked up" on a lane than In less frequented parts of the sea, Moreover, rocks, derelicts and other obatructlons may be more carofully charted and watched on the highly traveled courses. There la usu ally Ail east and west lane a few miles apart to lessen the danger ot collision. Negro la Superstitious to a Dtsn- Anccdote to Prove This, 'Negroes are naturally afraid of ghosts and I suppose it will be a good long time before they outgrow certain, primitive Inheritances which made them firm believers In the existence of such things," said a writer In the New Orleans Times-Democrat "The NegTo will naturally shy around the dead house and the graveyard. And If there Is any chance In the world to see a ghost or to conjure up a ghost story you may depend on the negro to do It But there Is somewhat of the real In the story I have In mind. There was a certain old 'black mammy' In my neighborhood and she was thoroughly devoted to a certain family. She had known the husband and father of the house all his life was a servant In fact. In the borne of his father before, and after the war. He was good to her and she could find In him all the virtues of the old man. He took sick. She was with blm all during his sick ness. He died. "She still remained In the room and would not leave even during the time the body was being prepared for the grave. A sheet bad been pulled over tho body, and the old woman at the moment was the only person In the room. She was keeping a silent watch, Suddenly the sheet moved, as If the dead man bad pulled up one of bis arms in order to shift his position. She never remained In the room to see what was going to happen. She rush ed out of the house and went to the place next door, where she declared her young master was not dead, and that be bad come to life. Of course It was all quite natural. The move ment she had observed was merely the contraction of a muscle, a thing which frequently happens. But you could not convince ber of the truth of the matter. She still looks upon the whole thing as a manifestation of life returned. Curiously enough, she could not be persuaded to enter the house again after that time, nor would she attend the funeral of the man to whom she had been devoted during all of bis life. Superstltutlon Is a curious thing, Isn't It?" COWS THAT WEAR CLASSES. A SPECTACLED BOVINE. Cattle with spectacles are to be seen on the Russian steppes. The steppes are covered with snow more than six months of the year. The cows subsist .on the tufts of grass which grow above the anow, and the raya of the sua on the anow are so dazzling as to cause blindness, To obviate this smoke- colored spectacles are placed upon the cattle. These spectacles are a great success and are worn by 40,000 cattle, which no longer suffer from the snow blindness. What baa become of the old-fashion ed husband who gave satisfaction If be were a "good provider)" yyy Germany and Tramps. 4EKMANY ha solrcd the tramp problem. It la announced that she Is reasonably free from vagrants, and that such as are slinking about the byways are a relatively harmless lot, who seldom commit robberies and assaults ot mag nitude. And the way she has settled the dim culty Is this: She arrests all tramps and nuts tnem at work. She makes the work so much harder than the work of decent men that, after n trial of It the tramps reform and quit the road. In our own country we have an army ot the useless and vicious, from which Is anmi ally recruited a considerable addition to the ranks of the active criminals. There Is not so much lu vagrancy Itself which con duces to crime. Indent some men would be In better health and morals If they occasionally allowed their legs to run away with them and carry them Into the country, where they would renew the physical life that grows anemic at the bcuch aud the desk. It Is not the free and open air life that demeans; It Is the effort to live without work; to get all and give nothing; to shift snd sneak and steal lu onler to obtain food. Instead of tolling honestly even for an hour or two a day. Many of tho tramps that are now Idling along our highways and "hooking" rides on freight trains could pay for their meals by sawing a little wood, or weeding a garden patch, but they are ex tremcly unwilling to do It, although not Infrequently they work as hard at robbery as other people do at honorable employment Tramps carry moral corruption as they do physical contagion. Although mentally sodden and representative ot a class that gradually eliminates itself, slues It Is an easy prey to tho disease that are Invited by meager, un governed life, with spelts of dissipation and periods of ex posure and hardship, they exert some Influence over young people whose minds and habits are still unformed, and when a boy Is found In their company prison authorities assure us that It would be better for him It he were dead. The boys who drift Into the reformatories and gaols of the land, after a season on the road, arc among the most de praved that the authorities have to deal with. Our tramp army. then. Is a missionary company that Is going about the land preaching and practicing the most detestable of vices and often Involved in crime. Brooklyn Eagle. Time to Close the Gates. ONDON newspapers are gloating over the fact that the slums of that city are being depleted by reason of the $0.00 steerage rate, which enables the riffraff of Europe to come to the United States. As a result this country Is threatened with a deluge ot the offscourings of the world. We are menaced with an over flow of the scum and dregs of pauperized humanity. The managers of the transatlantic steamship lines engaged lu this despicable traffic apparently have no other thought In tne matter man or tne income it brings. Having lauded a shipload of the refuse of Europe's population ou our shores these steamship agents practically say; "Now, you beg gars, shift for yourselves!" The situation demands Immediate and energetic action on the part of the Immigration authorities at our Eastern ports. There ought to be a thorough sifting and winnow ing of this horde of newcomers, a majority of whom are chronic beggars and professional criminals. The steerage rate war. which has brought the emigrant fare from Liverpool to New York down to $10, Is the kind of a rate war which no thoughtful American citizen can regard with satisfaction. On the contrary It suggests a deluge ot pauper Immigrants of the most undeslrablo type. It Is easy to see how, under a possible continuation of these rates, several of the old world governments can well afford to pay the passage of countless hordes of their poverty-stricken-, ignorant and turbulent subjects to America, making this country a dump for the refuse of continental Europe. Here Is a subject which should arouse Congress to speedy action. When a person can travel from the Rou manian provinces to New York for $15, It Is time to set tbout putting up the bars In earnest This country welcomes thrift Intelligence and loyalty to law and order from whatever land tbey hall. But our republican Institutions are already taxed to the danger point In the effort to assimilate the legions ot Illiterate Immigrants that are coming to our shores from southern and far eastern Europe. There Is general feeling that the time has come to Impose greater restrictions upon the Importation ot this class of persons. Those who assert that this would be a violation of the tradition that this country It the asylum for the oppressed of all races should remember that with nations as with Individuals, selt-prcsevratlou Is the first law of nature. Chicago Journal. T ill Passing of tho Country Church." HE Passing of the County Church" It the title if an Interesting article In the Outlook by James E. ltoyle. From this article wo learn, If wo do not already know It, that the country, upon which we have been accustomed to look as the stronghold of organized religion, has lost lit character as such In recent years. According to Mr. Boyle, tho decay of the rural church Is duo chiefly to the tendency to schisms and divisions. Tho congrega tlous divide and' subdivide over tome new religious fnd or tome difference lu dogma, and with each division the amount ot true religion decreases. "The rural church," says Mr. Boyle, "seems doomed. Each time It changes name now Baptist, now Now Light, now Saint It loses lu membership and vitality. Its Are may be relumed temporarily, but Its ultimate extinction Is Inevitable. Soon the little church stands by the wayside forsaken. The doorstep decked with tall weedi, the win dows broken. Then It becomet a granary or a corn crib for some thrifty farmer, or It torn down aud carried away. This process may take years, oven decades, but It It Inevitable." Mr. Boyle does not think that tho decline of the rural church Is accompanied by an Increase ot vice and crime in the rural districts. The country school house Is better and more Influential than ever. The rural free delivery mall box Is fast appearing at every front gate, intelli gence la more widely dltsemlnated than formerly. There It less Ignorance. The people are no longer Interested by the kind of preaching that used to appeal to them. The higher onler of rural Intelligence demands a better church than the old country church ever was or could be. In the future Mr. Boyle thinks the church people of the couutry will belong to strong aud ably conducted churches lu the towns and villages. Thus the building of good roads, the Introduction of rural free delivery, the building of suburban trolley tines and the popularization of the auto mobile will have a good effect religiously as well as mate rially, for they will strongly tend to give tho rural com munities a better religious connection than they ever bad In the old days of small country churches. Minneapolis Journal. SBTvention Mil What Kills Men la War. AN the last Issue of the Army and Navy Journal some data aro given as to the number of wounds actually Inflicted by the bayonet and saber as compared with firearms and artillery. Of all wounds treated by medical otllceni of tbo Union armies In the Civil War about four tenths of 1 per cent, or 022 out of 210.711', were saber or bayonet wounds. In the Crimean War the English and French had 2H per cent of such wounds; In the Hchles- wlg-Holttcln War about 8 per cent, while In the Franco Prussian War the records show that the Germans received less than one-third ot 1 per cent. "A striking commentary this upon the advance of mod ern military science, showing that with the general sdoo tlon ot long range firearms the saber and bayonet are rapidly falling Into disuse, and the time Is coming, If It lias not already arrived, when thote old and honored weapons will become obsolete." But It Is not the bullet or the artillery Are which strikes down the largest number of men. It Is dlaeate. In the Civil War one man out of every 0.7 was wounded In action; one of every as died of his wounds; oue of every -12.7 was killed In action. Of tho total mortality nmong colored soldiers 00 per cent was from disease. Of the total mor tality among the white volunteers, 70 per cent was owing to disease; among the white regulars, 00 per cent Chi cago Tribune. ACCURATE RAILROAD WATCHES. Companies Itcqulre Kmplojres to Ad- jnst Their Tliueplecea to Standard. Absolute accuracy lu timepieces Is nowhere else so vital a matter as In the operation of railroad trains. If watches vary no schedule or time table Is of any value. Where so many thou sands of watches are In use It has been found necessary to adopt some system whereby perfect uniformity may be Insured. All watches are examined at close Intervals and kept In order by a staff of experts especially engaged for the purpose. There la no reason why railroad mans watch should keep Inaccurate time. It costs blm nothing to have It regulated and It Is part of bis duty to see that It Is In order. The time by which the watches of an entire railroad force are set Is tele- graphed from Washington. At a cer tain time the operator at the railroad headquarters receives the time, records It at bis own station and at the same Instant sends the Information to every train-order" station along the line. It Is the duty of the operator at tbo train order station to set the clock right by Washington time and from this clock every employe attached to that station must sethls watch. At every station there Is a clock that records standard time. At the larger tatlons there Is a clock that records the correct time to a second. If It arles from the standard time a notice Is affixed to the clock stating the ex act variation. Upon returning from a trip or before beginning the return trip fter a run, tbo trainmen must com' pare their watches with this carefully regulated clock. If It Is found that the watch has lost or gained during the trip the timepiece must be banded In to the time-keeping department. Here the railroad man receives an other watch for temporary use while bis own Is being regulated, and the ex pert employed by the company over hauls the condemned watch and re turns It later to the owner. With the watch Is given a certificate showing that the department has regulated It and It Is again a good ralltoad time piece. Besides the watches of the train crews, there are atlll tho timepieces of all the station eniployea, the signal tower men, the thousands of hands working along the tracka and In the shops, to be looked after. For these a special force of experts Is employed to travel up and down the line, stopping at all stations. To the expert como tho railroad men, watches lu hand. From constantly visiting the various points the watch repairer knows tbo timepiece as well as he knows the men, and a short examina tion determines whether or not the watch Is ticking to proper railroad time. Part of the duty ot the repairer Is to see that the station clocks nnd the clocks In the signal towers along the line are ticking according to railroad time. If they are not doing their duty be baits In his progress long enough to mako tbem register time according to the Washington standard. The railroad company will not per mit the employe to carry any watch bis fancy suggests. He must purchase a watch that meets with the favor of the management If a certain watch comes again and again to the repair department and proves to be always behind or ahead of the time It Is con demned Anally and the railroad man must provide himself with one to the liking of the company, or carry a watch that the company will provide at his expense. Wolves Grow In Numbers. The wolf Is more dreaded of human ity than any other animal. No doubt we of to-day Inherit that dread from ancestors who had occasion to fear the long-tanged quadruped, for there are few portions of the world to-day where the wolf Is really dangerous to man-. kind. Dangerous to man's pocket to his herds and flocks, be Is still to-day In many portions of the country. A ranch In Montana or New Mexico may pay many hundreds of dollars a year for gray wolf scalps. Such a scalp Is cheap at $12 or $15 to the rancher, for tho gray robber would certainly have de stroyed many times that value In calves or colts from the range. Yet lu spite ot all the warfare made upon them and all the prices put upon their heads these dreaded, mysterious, ghost like, terror-inspiring creatures still hold their own. Outcasts for ages, hated, persecuted, they still endure, each for himself and without a friend on earth, even among his own kind. , Last year the State of Minnesota paid over $0,000 a month In the best of ! the wolf season. One day of the month of last March the State Auditor puld $0,158.50 In wolf bounties. The total for the few months preceding was $30, 518.5a On this basis the current year will foot up nearly as much a.s tho two years preceding, which appears to Indicate that Brother Wolf la holding bis own, even as a matter of com merce. In many parts of the Western cattle range tbo gray wolves are In creasing rather .than decreasing. Field and Stream. DANCE8 A DAY AND A HALF. Souiull Woman Iufccted with Hcllnlous Frenzy In KniclUh Town, A Somali woman has aatotilahod Bradford holiday-makers by dancing without a stop for thirty-six hours. It was no part of ber business thus to exert herself; she simply entered with excessive and unexpected heart! liens Into the spirit of tbo great Whit suntlde festival. A number of women of the Somali tribe are proving a great attraction at Bradford exhibition, and It was ex plained to them that Whitsuntide Is a great religious celebration, correspond ing In Importance with their Muhar ruui, also an occasion of rejoicing. The festival proved infectious, for one of tho women broke Into what Is termed "tbo mad dance." Her com panions unconcernedly became passive spectators of tbo woman'a frenzied ex crtlons. A quick, eccentric and yet at times rhythmical step was maintained for the long period stated. Not for one moment did the dancer pause for re freshment or rest She collapsed at the close of the thirty-sixth hour. After an Interval she was boused by the other Somali 'women, who, by beating their tam bourines and by cries of exhortation, succeeded In encouraging her to an. other effort. The second dance, however, did not last long and the woman again fell exhausted. Following this bad attack another of the natives a man lost his bead and frantically threatened the holiday, makers, who were Htartled by lilt wild conduct He was taken In hand by the police, however, and eventually calmed down. London Express. We would alt raise the devil more It we could Induce others to do the work. How much you expect from tbe pott man. And how little you get The Naked Truth. She was a gushing young thing, given to springing curious queries on unsuspecctlng people. He wua a plain, blunt niun, who hated gush and gush ers. She suddenly flashed her thought ful eyes upon blm and said: "Don't you think poor Adam must have bad a great deal on his mind when he wandered alone In tbe Oar den of Eden J" Ho callously replied: "Well, from the accounts I have rend of tbe party you mention, I should say that whatever he did have on tnuBt have been on bis mind. That's tbe naked truth for you." Tno Imro Idea was borrlhlo, and alio was going to faint when she thought of her new dress and saw him clutch the pitcher of water. They apeak no more. In n test of the sense of time. In tervals of it quarter ot n minute to a minute nnd a half were overestimated, 45 per cent by 15 men atudenta and 111 per cent by 15 women. Mnuy European physicians treat al coholism by hypnotic suggestion, soma practitioners claiming ns high nt HO per cent of curet. The suggestion It utnnlly repented 15 or SO tlniea within a yenr. World-ehnklug enrthqunkea seem to be must numerous In the years when tho earth wobbles most. For exam ple, lu IPOO tho polo shifted 0.32 tec oud. nnd there were but 17 severe enrthqunkea, while In 1807 the pole's movement was 1.07 second, and about 15 great enrthqunkea were felt. The growing of acid fruits--aucb aa tomatoes nnd strawberries la among the menus suggested for lessening the mosquito evil. It Ims noticed that when mosquitoes bave access to ncld fruits their bites nre less poisonous, nud district ot Itnly teem to have been freed from mntarla by the culti vation of tomatoes, the natural food ot mosquitoes. It la supposed that the malarial parasite Is destroyed by fruit acids. Cnpt. Bnrrett Hamilton says that the popular Idea that iiylug-Ath bent their "wings" Is a mlstaae. The wlnga are not true organs of flight, but rath er piny tho part of a parnchute or an aeroplane. The whole motive power la aupplled by the tall, which acta na a propeller, nud tha vibration, or quiv ering, of the wlims In the alr-curreuti, and their occasional thlft of Inclina tion, are not phenomena connected with the propulsion of the flab lu lit aerial flight Without swift aud ante elevatora a modern office building ot 15 or 20 sto ries would be nearly as useless for business purpotra aa the Washington Monument or the Pyramid of Cheops. Some rapid elevntors give nervous per sons the Impression that they aro mov ing with tho velocity of a railway train, in truth, however, the highest practicable tpeed for a way elevator Is said by a writer In the Architectural Itecord to be 450 feet per minute, and for an express elevator 000 to 70" feet per minute. In a very tall building a greater tpeed la possible than In one of less height Unlike the famous blades ot Toledo aud Damntcut, Japanese tworda are not flexible or elastic. Tbey are un equaled for strength and hardness, aud hold a very keen edge. Japanese steel la said to excel even Swedish steel In purity. The manufacture f the swords Is a very elaborate process. Home cere monials and superstitions practices are Intermixed with the scientific opera tions. The sword-hardener Is regard ed aa the most Important personage connected with the manufacture, It Is his name that la luscrlbed ou the hilt, and his reputation that enhances the value of a sword. Those who abaps tho blade, ahnrpcu and adorn It are of minor Importance. ' of a woman who ta crazed with alco hol. I Thar are few humoroua Incidents In the woman'a want. Home time ago a woman wat aeutenced to thirty dare lu Jntl. It happened that at tho aatne time a man wns bring held at a wit nets. He waa given quarters In the Jail with the privilege of talking around. Ho hecnine acquainted with the woman nlrendy mentioned. A warm friendship sprang up be tween tho two aud they were toou lolently In love. Whenever the, ins tron'a back waa turned the man prete rd hla ault with ardor. Hut the lov era' Joy waa thort lived, tho matron Anally awoke to the situation, and tha lover waa transferred to where the object of hit affection waa out of tight. - . Many of the woman prlsonera make wild attempts to escape. Hut who can blame a woman for wanting to etcape from her Imprisonment. No matter how drtervlng of punlthiuent. the alght of a woman In Jail, wbera murderere, thuga and highwaymen nro kept, U lneiprettlhly pathetic. Woman waa never Intended for a prlt on cell. She feela her degradation and humiliation more than ahe carta to tell, and sooner or later, unlet! car ried away by the fatt pace tin hit been living, the flndi rest from the Jeers and taunta of the world lu a aulclde'a grave. --Chicago Trlbuue. OUn PRESIDENTIAL-CAM PAIONS. MATRONS SEE SEAMY SIDE. When a man carries hla gloves, It la a greater offense than wearing them. Their Field It Dark and Oloomj- but Not Altovt!ir Tlmnkleea. To those who believe that all wom en aro good there la no sadder specta cle than a glimpse Into tbe Interior of the woman's ward lu the city Jail, where the police matron holds full sway and In spite of ber better Judg ment sympathizes with the poor wretches under her charge. The path of tho police matron's life la atrewn with more tliorni thau roies. She deals with tbe scum of society, the dregs of the earth. The larger part of her time Is spent In their companionship, truly a dark and gloomy sphere of labor, and yet not altogether a thankless task. Women make queer prltonert. No matter bow low tbey may be, they recognize that the matron It but carry lug out tbo duties of ber position, aud the comet In for only a little share of their abute. That la reterved for tbe arresting officer. If there It anything In tbe old ssy. lng that peoplo's ears burn when some one talks about them, how the police men's ears must sizzle. All tbe epi thets and slanderous adjectlvos In tbe English language would be as tbe soft anawer which- turnetb away wrath compared with tbe monstrous abuse which It heaped upon tbe policeman by tbete unfortunates. He Is the one who has brought them to disgrace and thrust tbem behind prison bars. Noth ing la too bad to be aald of blm. When a man la arretted be takea hla arrest phllotophlcally, and while not entirely devoid of tbe feeling of retentment agalnat the arreatlng of ficer, he usually knowa where tha blame Ilea and aervea hla aentence In sullen alienee. But a woman feela ber dltgraco more keenly, no matter what ber atatlon In life. For tbla reaaon a woman In Jail la possested of a mania to take her own life. She tries It In a dozen ways. She will tear her bed clothes Into strips and bind them around her neck In a desperate effort to strangle her self. Again, If deprived of every pot alhlo meant for self-extermination. she will deliberately pound her head ( against the hard floor or endeavor to bat out ber brains on tbe Iron bars until alio falls bleeding and tense teas. I It la tho matron't business to pre vent a suicide, but sometimes the pris oner's cunning outwits the matron's vigilant eye, and s.io will take a dose of morphine which she has secured In some unknown way, and which was not detected while sho was being searched. Severul years ago a woman who was known aa "Big Ella" committed aulclde by putting a bullet through her heart. How the got a revolver no body ever knew. Morphlno poisoning has occurred several "-nea lu tbe Jail, but usually It waa discovered lu time to coim-nct tbe effect of the drug. A drunken woman Is usually the oc cupant of a cell In the woman's ward. Were It not for the sorrow that one feels for her there would bo some thing almost amusing In the ravings How Ther Kurt a Wbnleaonie Kneel Upon tha llodr Politic. Our presidential campaigns, It Is generally considered, occur too fre ourntlvln regard to the peace ot mind and business Interests of the commu nity, and too frequently lu eontldera tlon of executive convenience aud op portunity. The excitement and tur moil of a presidential campalgu are annoyances; but such annoyances do not constitute a valid objection tu the peedy recurrence of the event. The serious objections to Ibis frequency are, at already Intimated, based upon the fact that presidential campaigns, na now conductul, are a great drain upon the resource of many; and, more Important, that they bave a decided tendency to depress busluets, and thus temporarily mllltste agalntt the gen rral welfare; and, furthermore. It Is realized more and more keenly that a four-year presidential term Is too brlsC a period for effective administration, especially amid the complications of modern demands upon the chief execu tive of a nation aa mormons and "Im perial" aa oura. A President and hla cabinet need at least six months at tbe beginning to learn mere details; and during tbe Istt four months, If tho chief It uot re-elected, they are com paratively ineffective. The consolation for the Inconven ience of the too-soon recurring presi dential campaign Is Ita educational charactor. IC It tbe time of our great debate, when the principles and prob lems of our national goverumtut are multltudlnouily discussed In "the forum of public opinion." Tbe party lu power must thtn valorously defend Ita record, aud give new promise of useful performance. The party out ot power mutt thow Just cause for ttt re turn. Tbe ipokeimeu of each party, ou the platform and In the press, vie with one another In devotion to the na tional welfare; and while certain prin ciple! ure thartd In common by each set of advocate!, each side Insists upon the peculiar doctrines which are sup posed to distinguish the respective par. ties. This general excitation baa a whole some effect upon the body politic, and. at proper Intervals, Is highly desirable. It It a time when the whole nation , goes to school, lutereat In public at j fairs It qulckenul; the people's Imag ination It arouted to a sense of nation ality, and to a personal responsibility , with regard to that nationality. Great ' questions, about wbkb there has been much hazy and Inconsequent thinking, are made clear In tho crots-Are of crit icism and tbe light of lucid and earnest statement Century. la Wise Ileyond Her Years, At tbe Republican Htate convention In Springfield, III., Senator Cullom and Speaker Cannon tried to get a popular ruling at to which Is tbe handsomer man. "If I bad a face like yours, Joe," tald the Sonator, "I'd wear a veil or build a fence around It." "And If I looked like you, Shelby." replied "Uncle" Joe, "I'd walk back ward all tbe time. Your rear dera tion Isn't so bad, but the front facade Is a bad blotch." "I'll tell you, Joe, we'll leave It to this little girl, - She doesn't want any political Job and I guest tho'll be hon est," auggeated Senator Cullom. Tbe little girl's mother waa with her. "Which do you think la the best looking, Dorothy)" asked the proud mother. Tbe child looked at both out of big, frank eyes and said: "I don't like to Bay, mamma, which I like beat I might 'fend Mr. Can. non," New York Herald. Andrew Oleeaon'e Eloquence. For twenty yeara Andrew Cleeson, contractor and builder, was a mem ber of the Republican National Com. mlttee for the District of Columbia. He controlled the Irish vote, aud Per ry Carson controlled tbe negro vote; and they were very successful, politi cally. Carson, tbo negro, was a natural orator, but Oleeson, rich and powerful, could not make a speech. One even I lng at a political meeting, where on hundred Irishmen mingled with about 1 two thousand negroes, Perry Carson did not appear, and the crowd called on (llcoson for a speech. He hesitated, shook his head, but Dually arose and shouted: "Uod bless th) Irlah, both white and black." It was hla first, last nnd only speech; but It pleated the crowd all right Beoreoy of Aro, Miss Oldglrl isems auxloua to con ceal her age." "Yea. Blie clalma to bo afraid of the croup." "That fellow," aald u brukemau tbla morning, aa a man of leisure passed, "had a law ault with work u few years ago, and won bla case," Youth deals In fancy; age, In f,;ts- i