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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1904)
TOPICS OF TIIE TIMES. A CHOICE 8ELECTION OF INTER. E8TINQ ITEMS. Comtnsnta anil Criticisms Dated Upon tbe Happenings of the Day Histoid cat and Newa Note. Women know at much about polltlci men know about war map. Some men are eagerly ought after becauio they don't pay their debts. A man's Idea of hard work 1 any kind at which lie can't alt down and moke. "Ha wa a follower of the golden rule," should be a soul-sattfylng epi taph for any man. Civil service U said to work well In the Philippine. Walt til the Filipinos get on to the ways of civilisation. For a steady, consistent casualty rec ord, however, the gasoline can has the Kusso-Japaneso war beaten a mile. Pauline Astor Is not the only Amer ican heiress who has becotned allied with the Spender family of England, Men should be elected to office be cause of their qualifications for the Job and not for the purpose of keeping them out of Jail. We've seen so many sales of "mill ends" advertised lately, that only the central portions of all the factories must be left by now. After walking homo from the race .track a man Is In the humor to sneer at lilt wife for taking chances on the prlxe cake at a church fair. A Kansas woman Is said to hare left her husband because he persisted In refusing to argue with her. Could anything be more aggravating? rrofessor Mason of the Smlthson lan Institute declares that "the blondes are a disappearing human type." Not while the peroxide supply holds out. professor. A California surgeon operated on a ptlent while the bouse In which they were was burning. If s simply Impos sible to stop some surgeons when they get their patients down. Newspaper wits do not always treat antiquities with proper respect. One of them remarked, upon reading about the discovery of a capstan two thou sand years old In the Forum of Rome, that It must have been the one used In winding up the affairs of the Roman Empire, Russell Sage Is not the only mnn who does not take a vacation. The editor of the prison paper at Sing Sing admits that he has not taken a vaca tion for Ave years, and says that his engagements are such that he does not see how be can take one for at least seven more years. A Southern clergyman Is trying to convince a convention of his church that Santa Claus Is a myth and an abomination and that to allow little children to believe In him was to train them to be deceitful. Let us hope that the good, foolish man has no children of his own who are never allowed to play that a doll Is alive or a chair Is a horse or that there are Indians and grizzly bears lurking behind the rose bushes in the garden. One .thing must be said for John Alexander Dowle he never steals upon his victim from behind. For In stance, he has made public announce ment of his Intention to dethrone Ed ward VII, with an added warning that the kaiser Is to be the next victim the czar and Emperor Francis Joseph to be spared until further notice. may ba assassinated for saytng these words," exclaimed the lnterpld Elijah III, "but I fear nothing." With such a dare-devil adversary his majesty would better look out When should a girl marry? Govern. or Warfield, of Maryland, thinks not before she Is twenty-six, and be bases this age on the fact that bis wife was twenty-six when she blessed blm with her presence. A certain Dr. Smith regards eighteen as a good age, and Dorothy DIx sends a long screed to the Sabbath press giving various suggestions. Meanwhile the person most vitally Interested makes her ar rangements to accord with her oppor tunities, and we Incline to the optn Ion that from now on to the end of the chapter the girl will marry Just when she Is satisfied that he cannot afford to throw away the golden chance. Girls are very much alike In this respect; so are parents. One of the distinct features of the age Is the tendency to return to agri culture. Where a few years ago the farmer boys were rushing to the cities to crowd the professions, there Is now a decided move In the other direction. The natural reaction that must always follow a movement so radical In some measure, accounts for the disposition to return to the soil for a livelihood, but there Is more. The agriculturist has become a professional man. The college and the university have added a special course for his benefit, and gives him a degree. He Is a botanist and a chemist, and science has taught him to take In the Jaded and worn out farm, and with Intelligence cause It to blossom like the rose. The dis piriting labor which bent the forms of tho elders and sent the lads scurrying cityward has been lightened by de vices that better accomplish the end sought The long bourse are short ended, and the farmer finds time to In dulge In the enjoyments of life. This new condition, added to the faclnatlon of Independence, has turned many men from other professions toward the country, carrying with them the man nerism of their class until the exter mination of the chin whisker Is threatened by the Prince Albert coat Recommendations for n change from the vertical "'system of penmanship have been raado before the Chlcugo Board of Education. One of the trus- 1 tees, Mr. Cameron, Is quoted ns say lng of vertical writing; "It may bo good to write love letters, but It Is not good for keeping books. I do not know of a set of books In Chicago where tlio up and down writing Is allowed. If a boy can rlte only In the vertical stylo I business houses have little use for htm." If that Is the case It Is a sum dent reason why pupils should not bo required to learn vertical writing. If business houses have no use for boys who write only the vertical style surely no boy ought to be required to learn that style against his natural Inclination. It docs not follow, how ever, that those to whom It Is natural to write tlio vertical should bo forced to learn the Inclined style. The ob viously common sense rule Is. not to attempt to force the pupil out of his nnturnl bent. That Involves something worse than a waste of time. It results clthpr In total failure or the acquire ment by the pupil of an Irregular, nondescript style not suited to book keeping or anything else In which uni formity and neatness are desirable. Very few pupils left to themselves would write the vertical style. Per haps as many would write with a backward Inclination. There Is no danger that there will be any lack of penmen writing with the forward In clination If pupils are taught to make tho best of the style which comes natural to them. There la no obvious reason why books should not be writ ten In the vertical style, other things being equal. Indeed, that style has the advnntage In point of legibility. When Thomas A. Kdlson was a tele graph operator he bad few equals In speed and anybody who could read "coarse print" could rend what he wrote at top speed and his page was almost as even and handsome ns print. There Is no vnlld objection to a set of books kept by such a writer so far as the penmanship Is concerned. But If business houses will not have that style very well. Those who can write It like Edison can flnu enough writing to do If they wish. They should not forco themselves to write another style which they can never master merely to please tho business bouses. 1 51HSWE! Wearing monocles, the latest fashion for ladles, a cjaze recently started in Parts by ladles of the Servian colony. is extending to London. Chinese firemen seem to be Immune to the flrce beat of the fire room on ocean steamers, and stand up to tem perature that would prostrate white men. General Joubert's chair, made of ebony, bok horns and hides, and caji tured from bis laager at Llsabon, near Lydenburg, Is now treasured by Lieutenant-Colonel Vrmston, at Glenni roven, sound of Mull. That meteors contain gold has been demonstrated before the Royal Society of New South Wales. This suggests that the thousands of tons of meteoric dust which falls upon the earth each year deposits gold everywhere. Kltusto, a Japanese mlcrocoplst. first showed that the pin-shaped microbe of lockjaw lives In the earth. In or der that It may multiply and poison the blood It must be deep In a wound so that the air does not reach It When he was but a schoolboy tn the Jesuits' college at Dijon Jacques Bos suet was known as one of the best classical scholars In Europe. At eight Louis dc Bourbon, "prince of Conde, was a perfect uun scnoiar. inree years later he published a work on rhetoric, and at seventeen he was ap pointed governor of Burgundy. In London we find there are sixty' five libraries, which contain reading rooms, and on the bookshelves are six hundred thousand volumes, which have four million readers. Fiction forms eighty per cent of the reading matter. The parks under the control of the council cover 3.833 acres, and cost over 100.000 a year to maintain. The Mexican Postal Department has taken a novel means of Informing the public of the weather bulletins given out by the weather bureau. fc,very let ter which passes through the office Is now stamped with the Indications for the next twenty-four hours. This stamping Is done at the same time that the postage stamps on the letters are canceled and the receiving stamp ar fixed. The habitat of the elder duck, whose down Is so highly valued, practically coincides with that of the polur bear. It Is found on all arctic coasts, but also lives considerably south of the southern limits of the polar bear. The time was when the elder duck girdled all the nothern coast lines of the world with Its myriad nests; but the bird has been so mercilessly hunted that it has now disappeared from thousands of beetling cliffs along the sea where It was formerly known. A four-dollar gold coin belonging to Dr. Charles J. Lange Is on exhibition at the Gennaiila National Bank In Mil waukee. The piece of gold Is thinner than a five-dollar coin, but of the same diameter. It displays on tho obverse side the "Liberty bead" without a cap and the thirteen stars, Interspersed with "0G3S7C7 grams." On the re verse side Is a five-pointed star with this Inscription: "One stella 100 cents." "E plurlbus unum. Deo est gloria," and on the rim, "United States of America, 4 Dol." The coin Is val ued at ?200. The simple ordering of a Joint of beef for dinner Involves pulling the strings of an almost Incalculable num ber of different trades, which, It every one gave up beef as an article of diet, would cease to exist The butcher of 1001 could make no profit out of the beaBts he kills were he not to use up every atom or me oxs uouy ue sides that fit for food. Thus you are encouraging the making of buttons, of toothbrush handles, of billiard balls, of mattresses, of mouthpieces for pipes, of chessmen, of brewers' Isin glass, of gelatine, of rennet; alsoof many valuable oils and medicines, such as thyroids, thymus powder, glycerlno and neatsfoot oil, ns well as of that terrible poison known as cy anide of potassium. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Corolng Money, returned Alaskan miner went to sleep In a Pullman car In Pennsylvania the other night with $12,000 In gold on his person. He may not have been wiser when he awoke next morning, but he was $12,000 poorer. If ho bad put bis money In a bank and carried only a letter of credit and a small sum of cash on the Pullman be would have had his fortune yet. The mistake of carrying too much one. r.vcn -rood business men sometimes no sense In nny man's carrying more than a very small amount of cash. Whether he lives In the country and Is going to town, or lives In the city mid Is going down town, a few dollars will be sufficient to meet nny cmcr gency which cannot be met by chequing on the bank. A Utile money to pay for lunch, for possible telephone and telegraph messages, for street car fare, for n carriage In case of accident everybody ought these purposes, and there usually la anyone should carry more. Even those who are traveling need habitually carry. So perfect and so extensive baa the mod em banking system become that a man can go all over his own country and around the world on a few slips of paper that would be worthless to anybody else but a bold and skilful knave and would be very dangerous for blm. The best and safest place for one's roll Is In the bank. Banks fall onco In a while; but the chances of losing money de posited In them are Infinitely few compared with the chances of losing ft from the person. Women ond Work. HE census returns of the United States show very clearly that women are pressing forward tiore and mora Into professions and positions ,onuerl held by men. nud this In our opinion h an excellent sign, although In some branches of labor there Is nn outcry against this usurpa tion of what Is termed man's prerogative. What T women more particularly require Is n training from nn early age which will euable them to take their own part in the battle of life when through the death of thosoon whom they were dependent, or through misfortune. It becomes Incumbent on them to provide for themselves. This early training Is a matter which does not appear to receive the attention and consideration that It ought, for bow many women are there who can, for example, compute Interest Intelligently and accurately; bow many are there who are even capable of managing their own affairs, or their owu property. If they have any, with anything like business capacity? The education of woman Is not complete unless shehas as part of her equipment a knowledge of at least the rudiments of business. Women who arc blessed with a fair share of worldly goods need this knowledge hardly less than those who have to make their world, and who have not the protection of husband and father, for such women that they may not nt any moment be called up to earn their own livelihood. How to Live. The Church and the People. HE pastor who asks why It Is that the younger generation Is losing Its respect for (he church, need not go tar afield In search of an answer. It Is because a majority of the churches do not meet the demands of people now on earth for an outlet to their physical T ana mental activities, The congregation to which the preacher propounded bis query appears to real ize this fact It Is erecting a house of worship which, when completed, will be furnished with a kitchen, dining room and gymnasium for the boys. It will supply the cravtug for social and physical enjoyments while minis tering to the spiritual needs of Its members. But the church which hopes to hold the young must go even further than this. It must compete with the school. I I III ,. l l ll..n....l.. I I I I I I 1 I 1 1 ALL FOR HAROLD. 3 H i l l l-M M-H'H H-H-i Mr. and Mrs. Fuddleston try not to spoil Harold, but they are willing to sacrifice their own pleasure at any time to give him a treat that be will "remember when be grows up." They planned a treat lately, but, as the story Is told In the Brooklyn Eagle, the outing will never figure In Harold's reminiscences of his happy childhood. The circus was In town, and Mrs. Fuddleston said they ought to take Harold; a child thought so much of such things, and he was old enough now to appreciate It. Mr. Fuddleston agreed. "I will try to take him to-night," he said, resign edly. "I shouldn't think of letting you go alone with him!" exclaimed Mrs. Fud dleston. "That Is asking too much of you, dearest. I will go along to re lieve you of some of the care. I shouldn't ask you to go at all, but it is hardly the thing for me to go with out you." "Certainly not," said Mr. Fuddle ston, chivalrously. "But the little chop mustn't be deprived of the pleasure, even If It Is rather of a bore to us." In the afternoou Mrs. Fuddleston's two sisters dropped In, and Mrs. Fud dlestone told them, with a sigh, that they were going to the circus that evening on Harold's account. "Oh, my dear!" paid Sister Jane. "Of course he will enjoy It, but he will be a dreadful care to you and Jack. I know you will have a head ache to-morrow to pay for It. I think I shall Just go along to relieve you. Now don't say a word, dear! I'd much rather do It than stay at home think ing of you wearing yourself out watch ing that boy alone." "So should I," put In Sister Mar garet, "and I am going, too. He will he so excited that It will be all 'the three of us can do to hold him down." Mrs. Fuddleston looked at her with gratitude. "Well, then," she said, "come here for dinner nnd we'll get nn early start I should hate to hnvo Harold miss a single thing." At his office that day Mr. Fuddle ston happened to speak to his two partners about the ti eat he .was going tc give to his little boy. . "My sturs!" one of them exclaimed. "I'd like to go along Just to see tho little chap enjoy It." "So should I," said the other. "I'd rather be horsewhipped than go to tho circus with grown folks, but It's a cir cus In Itself to watch a boy at such n show." So It came about that three men and three women sat down at Fuddleston's table that evening for an early dinner When It was nearly time to go Mr, Fuddleston naked his wife IfAbo had told Harold. "No; I thought It would be best to give him a surprise," she answered. the club, the social the Joy of living. nation having for Ills and human cessfully or fail In close to the world quiring, practical money Is a common satisfying than mako It. Thero is people. Mumming Chicago Journal. to carry enough for no good reason why serious less cash than many ceived cover. sition year for five years before tho directors lion nt St. I,ouls, IT mm which tbo association bad decided In 1SDS must be formed." Kansas City Journal. What progress great educators be reformist? At lion recommended were called Uon tight for spelling ling confession that tempt to use the spelling languishes The own way In the and guardianship school Don't can never be sure early In not give fore she Is 23. The world has years. We have a woman became erb prevailed: "At G herself for n husband: at four and twentv. one as cood eight an'd twenty, experiences a certain shock when a girl of 18 marries. The finest years of womanhood lie between the ages o 25 and 33. It Is whether she shall duplicated bliss. point of view of the or no marriage at Just then one of the partners look ed out of the window. "Why, It's raining!" he said. This was serious. Aunt Jane at once grew concerned over the risk of taking Harold out In the night air when It was raining.. "What do you think, my dear?" the fond father asked of his wife. "Why, of course. If It Is going to be a rainy evening It would never do to take blm." Then the other partner peered through the window and said It looked pretty bad; not n mero shower, ho thought, but the beginning of a storm. "I shouldn't take any risk, Julia," snld the other sister. "It's lucky you didn't tell Harold!" said the Junior partner. "Where Is he?" asked Mr. Fuddle ston. "Upstairs with the nurse," answered Mrs. Fuddleston. "Well," Bald Fuddleston, decidedly, "we won't take nny chances. Besides, my ticket Is for a box, which only seats six people. Bo little Harold was left at home, and six adults, Instead of two, sacri ficed their entire evening that he might not run the risk of getting wet ard catching a cold. CITY MAN OUT.OF.DOOR8. Vacation Habit Means Improrement In rubllc Health and Ifapplncaa. A general and killing absorption In the business of life wus once tbe nc ccpted theory of American activity, it Is true that there Is still tremendous stress shown by Americans In the pur suit not only of their business voca tions but of their social avocations. Yet tbe business man's summer vaca tion Is getting to be more and mora an accepted Institution. He manages to get longer periods of complete rest and recreation, and he contrives, more over, to seize upon any number of half holidays and over-Sunday outings, es pecially In the warmer months. When he can control his time he gives great er portions of it than ever before to horseback exercise and to golf ami kindred sports. The business man's family, Instead of being satisfied, ns of old, with a few weeks In a crowded hotel by the sea or In the mountains, spend tho whole summer In the coun try, as boarders In hotel or farm house, or as dwellers In a country place of their own, modest or sumptu ous In accordance with their means and taste, The city man's modern discovery of the country and bis Increasing use of It In the summer months has been a subject of comment now these many years, There uas oecn discussions of Its effect upon the city people them selves, nnd upon tho country people Into whose communities they enter; of Its effect upon manners and morals; of Its economic bearings nnd Its rela tion to the abandoned farm problem, function, the outdoor diversion and the many other attractions which go to swell the sum total If also must compete with every organ Its piirpoo the amelioration of huma wretchedness. And It must compete suc Its mission. Tho church which lles and moves and does Us work and its tolling, struggling, aspiring, I millions will be successful In retaining It hold upon tho people. Mankind demands something mor sounding theories; something more nutrl tloua than doctrinal husks. To retain Its Influence tho church must be of th people, for the people and by tho up, the church must come down out the clouds and abide with tho people living hero below. Olow for Phonetic Spelling. HE cause of "spelling reform" has received setback. Tho valorous and persistent champions of "phonetic' orthography havu re a blow from which they may not re When It came to a discussion of the propo to make an appropriation of $2,000 for missionary work In phonetic spellln of tho National Educational Assoc! the distressing fact was revealed that none of the educators could remember the dozen word can be made In spelling reform If th themselves cannot remember tho words t the meeting In 181S the national ossocla twelve orthographical reforms as fol lows: Program, tho, thru, thoro, thoroly. altho, thorofare, deralog, pedugog, prolog, catalog and demagog. It now transpires that, notwithstanding the vigorous missionary work that has been done In behalf of these twelve "re form" for six years past, the educators at St IaiiiIs who to consider the question of extending th reform were forced to make tho humllla they bad not used the words and hence could not recall them. Could anything be more thoroly exasperating? 'I'll these pedagogs have continued the agitation of spelling re form thru six years they confess they have made no nt adopted words In private correspondent or In any other way. And so the great cause of phonetic Chicago Record-Herald. Girl of Twcnty-clqht. OVEltNOR WARFIELD, of Maryland, Is evl dently not an advocate of large families. In an address to the graduating class of the high at Wilmington, Del., he said: do the foolish thing of getting married life. I have three daughters, and will my consent to ifhy one to marry bo- changed a good deul In the last forty "girls" of 30 now, whereas In the old da) an old maid at 23. Seventeen years wa then deemed an eminently marriageable age, and this prov 20 a woman gets a man better than one much worse." Nowadays the public the prlrlegle of every woman to decide spend them In. single blessedness or In Considering marriage merely as a refuge, or even as a business venture. It may be that she who de liberates up to the age of 28 Is lost. Regarding It from the Individual woman's own preferences, she may quite properly wait longer If she pleases. It Is with her a question of marriage with tho man she wants alL New York Mall. and of the Influence upon the nation of tho great mingling of people from various parts of the country. With all this search for recreation and health, what with Westerners going East aud Easterners go ing West with .Northerners go lug South and Southerners go. lug North, summer nnd winter; with all this search for the opportunity to fish and shoot, or to enjoy socl.il pleasures; with all this Interchange of national advantages (for any and every climate can tie found in tho United States), one may look for an Improve ment In the public health and happi ness, ns well as for n. dissemination of a knowledge of our own peoplo nnd of our own. country which ought to bp decidedly conducive to an Intelligent patriotism. Century. ARE WE MATERIALI8T8. The Very Development of the Country HreitiB to Refute the Claim. Nothing Is more common than tho charge that the American peoplo are too materialistic, says Leslie's Weekly. That was Matthew Arnold's chief In dictment against us, nnd nearly cvory other critic of American life, before Arnold's time and since, has said the same thing. Dickens described us as a people who cared for nothing in par tlcular except to eat pork nnd chew to lincco. That we are as a whole a set of sordid money-grubbers seems to be In fact, a very general Impression among tho cultured men and women of other lands. But the Impression Is a false one. Hamilton W. Mablo, who speaks not unadvisedly on any subject, Is entirely right In denying that Ameri cans are materialists, It Is true, as Mr. Muble says, that If we were asked to name the highest types of-Amerlcan life, It wpuld not be the leaders of commercial life, but tho pioneers of tho West, men of the old South, sturdy Now Euglunders Idealists all; men not of the selfish and sordid order, but dreamers of splendid dreums that have had a glorious realization. It required a noble ldeullsm to Iny tho foundations of u nation like ours and to develop and maintain It as It exists to-day. A land of churches and schools, of more noble philanthropies aud magnificent- charities than any other land under tho sun this Is not tho product of that gross materialism unjustly ascribed as our chief characteristic, an estimate of life In which nothing Is counted as of value or of consequence that docs not make for tho filling of tho purse. This view may prevail among us moro than It should, but It distinctly Is not tho view of the vast majority of tho American people. Every one seems to be going mrough the world compelled to sco u good deal of tho society of those ho doesn't enjoy. t Is hard to get u good wushwomau but then It Is mighty hard to wush for a living. GOOD t I Short CtoHesf A man In North Carolina who was saved from conviction for horse steal ing by tbe powerful plea of his law yer, after his acquittal by tho Jury was asked by tho lawyer: "Honor bright, now, Bill, you did steal that horse, didn't you?" "Now, look a here, Judge," was tho reply, "1 nllcrs did think I stole that boss, but hoiisc I heard your speech to that 'ere Jery, I'll be doggoned If 1 ain't got my doubts about It." At a dinner given soiuo time ago In honor of Hall Calm, Thomas Nelson Pago was Invited to Introduce tho Eng lish novelist. One of the guests next to Mr. Page, Just before the toasts be gan, passed hlit menu curd around the Initio with the request that Mr, Calno put his signature on It. "That's a good Idea," said Page; "I must do that too. I've got to Introduce t'alno In a few minute, and 1 want to be able to sny that I have read something he has written." A young globe-trotter vvwi holding forth during it dinner tn Pari about the loveliness of the Island of Tahiti, and the marvelous beauty of the wom en there. One of the Barons Roth child, who wa present, ventured to Inquire If ho had remarked anything else worthy of note In connection with the Island. Resenting the barons In qulry, the youth replied: "Ye; what struck me most wa that there Were no Jew and no pig to lie seen there, In that so?" exclaimed the hurou, In nowise disconcerted; "then If you und 1 go there together we shall make our fortune, I'rutik E crest, of Atchison, Kan.. a good deal of an American, having small admiration left fur foreign lauds or people. Not long ago he went lo Europe on business. During tho voy age lie aud other passenger were much annoyed by a Bostoulan, who alked a groat deal about the number of time he had been nbroad. He laid great stress on the fact that ho went over t)vlce a year. Have you evVr been abroad?" he linked Everest. Ev erent admitted be wa making hi first trip. "I go over twice a year," Mild tho Bostoulan. "Oh, do you?" replied Everest; nnd bo added: "Have you ever been to Omaha?" The Bostoulan said he hadn't. "Well," nahl Everest, "I go there twice a week, Noah Webster was, as might be niipposisl, n nllekler for good English, aud often reproved hi wife's misuse f the language. On one occasion Web Nter happened to Ik alone In the dill lug-room with their very pretty house maid, nud, being susceptible to Mich harms, put hi arms around her and klss.il her squarely on the mouth. Just at till moment Mr. Webster entered the room, gasped, stood nghust, and In n tone of horror exclaimed: "Why, Noah, I am surprised!" Whereupon Mr. Webster, coolly and calmly, but with every evidence of disgust, turned iiHin her. "How many Hint-it must I correct you on the use of simple words? he remarked; "you mean nailam. that you are astonished. I, madam, I nm the one that Is sur prised. HOW TO DETECT FORGERY. scrl In llandwrltliiir Are Atila to Read Many HIkiim. "I am not an expert In chlrography, but I have nt least made enough of n tudy of handwriting to tell why It Is ften easy lo delect tho forgery of n name, though even I he man whose nine ha been forged may declare thn handwriting n perfect replica of bis own." Arnold Keating says: "O; oume, you know cvcrylx-dy knows, for that mutter that a man or woman never writes hi name twice exactly the same way. There Is always n light difference, anil where two signa ture of the same inline appear Ideutl- ally alike It Is safe to assume that one or lioth Is n forgery. Rut suppose tho signature has been forged but once, suppose tho handwriting of hlch It Is an exact copy has been do- troyed or Is not obtainable, of what vail 1 tho comparative method then? ho oxact comparison cannot bo cm- loyed, but other almost Infallible comparisons arc still available. When child Is taught how tn write, lit llrnt It penmanship I severely stiff and ramped; then it becomes very much like that In the copyimok, but after this Is discarded the child's character legln to creep Into Its handwriting. hero are little Idiosyncrasies apiiar- nt that are not to bo found In the hlrography of other children, and this manifestation of character In writing continues to change It with develop ment until about tho age of 2ft, when person's character Is fixed and his handwriting from that time on con tinues about the same. Tho furger'a copy of the signature or writing will appear to be exactly like that of th? man, but when examined under n powerful microscope, the tiny evi dences of character that appear In rv- ry loop nnd Una will bo found to be rgely missing, for tho samn character not behind tho pen. It I In the minute details that the forgery Is din- ovcrcd. Then, again, a man's mental nudltloii will Impress Itself upon Ills rltlng. If he Is nervous, bubbling er with Joy or depressed, tho fact will be apparent to tbo expert In writ ing. If the alleged handwriting doesn't how truces of tho menial condition e man was really In at tho time he was supposed to have written a rcr- In letter or signed a certain letter, the Ignaturo or the writing Is a forgery. These nro somo of the wuys by .which an expert detects even the most suc cessful forgery." St, Iouls Globe- Democrat CINEMATOGRAPH OF HORRORS. KiimIuii Doctor's Htory of Rcenea In the Field Hospital. ' The parents of Dr. HamollolT, who was with tho field hospital after tho buttlo of Klulcnchciig, havo received (at Moscow) a letter from their son, giving an appalling description of his work. "It was not a hospital, but a sham- bin, and after tl o first hour's work It seemed to in that wo were not min isters of mercy but demons of blood, working frantically, recklessly, calloip to pain and life. "The stream of pierced and shutter ed bodies poured III so fast that wo handled them ns Indifferently as sucks of flour. As wo hacked and sawed- lor It was not surgery, but hurried bungling I counted the writhing row on tiie lloor, praying that It might get less, but for every one maimed and bandaged man borne to his couch two were carried In and cast on the ground. At last my brain, dlr.zy In n mist of blood, pictured the whole universe as nothing but n string of clotted bodies stretching to Infinity. "Yes, I admit that wo were callous. So petrifying to the sensibilities Is this hurried work of blood that some of u Joked like llends over our atrocious task. Tho hospital servant who car ried out thn basket of amputated limbs bantered one another. 'That I Petrusha's leg,' wild one. 'I know Ills toenails.' 'That' no Christian leg,' replied Ids companion; 'It's n Jew's.' "One of these clumsy fellows slipped In the blood nud sent n streaming arm In the face of n boy lieutenant, who screamed with fright. Hut at the limn oven this seemed humorous, nut horrlv u1' l "Sometime the shells fell near i?' tent, and wo wondered If wo leu would be laid In tint eternally grow ing row, and whether somo one, callous a ourselves, would remove our ampu tated limbs ami speculate n to their ownership. "What made thing worse was tint deficiency of anaesthetic and blin dages. Before we were half wa through we had torn up our shirt. Luckily more bandages arrived' before tho end." I,ondon News of tbo World. MErT'TiOtjBEtEPEna Why They Would Nut He Out or Place In the Husrurated llolr. A writer In an English review ex-pro-men the opinion that If, for a while, men could take over all houseekeplng duties, keeping women entirely out of domestic management, the ensuing rev olution would solve the servant prob lem. By planning everything on busi ness Hue about M per cent of Hie' pres ent tabor would be saved. It I assert iil that all the lalwr saving devices In use at present are the Invention of men, and that there are plenty more of these lioni-fleent Idea on tap In thn masculine brain only awaiting an op portunity for realization. ' Men do not have the same troubles with their em ployc that women do with their ser vants, say the writer, ami It would not lake the mighty masculine Intellect very long to do away with the servant question entirely. We are Inclined to agree with tho writer to tills extent: that after a mail hnd conducted the domestic affair of a household for n few week there would be no servant question, and no servant, either. It would bo a task of herculean difficulty to persuade n servant to enter that house again. We ran picture In our mind's eye the do mestic chaos that would result, the as tuiitahlug Innovations that would ba Introduced from cellar to garret. Kan ty the average man attempting to dis cipline the cook by employing the same method with which ho 1 accustomed to coerce the office boy. Imagine this man delating the vital questions of "Thursday afternoons out" and "What shall we have for dinner?" with an Indignant Abigail whose eloquence ex ceeds her loglcl As for us, we do not want a home run on "strictly liuslnes principles." There aro plenty of them In the land. but they are called hotels. Here I n conundrum: When In n home not a home? When It ha a man for house keeper. Home Is that realm where woman rule. Housekeeper. A Cabin full or Cuckoos, Ail Old prospector "ho, between his periods of gold-hunting, has made his home In a little cnbln In n lonely can yon a few miles rroin l.os Angeles, Cal., says the Detroit News-Tribune, has dlscovend not only gold, but n continuous entertainment for tho hours be must spend Indoors. Alsiiit six months ago the prospector "struck It rich." Ho was able to show such assays of the ores In hi claim that a party of capitalists purchased hi property and paid him forty thou sand dollars, On receipt of thn money tho prospec tor visited Lot Angeles. Among other places he went Into n restaurant In which Is n cuckoo clock. It was Just the noon hour, and the clock uttered Its cuckoo notes twelve IIiikh In suc cession. The old prospector was charm ed, lie remained In the eating hoiine nearly all the afternoon, listening to tbo music of the clock, which nlsn an nounced the quarter and half-hours. He learned from the proprietor tho name of the linn of which tbo clock had been purchased, and hastened to the shop, He wanted a clock which would cuckoo every live, minutes, Not being able to find this kind, he did a little mental problem, and devised a plan for "continuous performance." Ha bought a dozen of tho ordinary cuckoo clocks, nud took them to Ids lonely cabin. Tho cabin Is no longer loudly. Ho has set the clocks nl different times In tlvomlnuto sequence, so that with tho voicing of the hours and qunrtra- hours there Is scarcely a moment of tha day In which a cuckoo Is not singing In the cabin. On III Trail. The Lady Now, If I could only trust you, Gritty George Lady, did ycr over hear dut old proverb, "Don't trust a man dat a dog won't follow?" Tho Lady I have. Gritty George Well, ycr, can trust me, 'cause every dog In the country follows me. He Knew. "You must visit our now country club," said tho suburbanite, "Tho grounds nro beautiful; tho golf links superb. You won't Dud such scenory olsowlierc. On entering the grounds tho first thing that strikes your eyo "I knowl" interrupted tho city man. "A golf ball!" Philadelphia FrcBS. All spinsters are single from click's they say.