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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1904)
if The smiling fsce of William J. Jeffords wi mn en our atresia yesterday II lives 'n ('Inrlmistt, ami has done well. It It hit Brit visit to hi old bonis In twenty years. He li topping with hU aged p rents, Osptslo and Mm. V. J. Jeffords, That ) Just it homely niri Item clipped from a country paper. It has mime thoughts In It for you. Sir. Iliur Man. Nearly all of us live In the future. Wo nre on the rlflit Hide of BO, and have, we hope, many lone years lirforn us. If we lire rich we ho;w to become- richer. If we aie poor we hope to become wealthy, and few people who consider olil age ami n completed career a something illtnnt Hop to think of the duty we owe to the old folks -Mown In the country." That is where the majority of the success ful business men came from. In thousands of cases father and mother are still on the old farm, content to die where they have lived, far from the strife of city life, close to the soil and nature This year you should slip a few things Into a grip, catch the last train and spend Christmas at home. It will be different from other Christmascs, for hospitality means much lu the country. It'a genuine. It's uu mixed with business considerations. Yonr father or the hired aian will meet you at the depot, and on the way to the old home on the farm he will tell you of the things you did when you wore a lioy He'll point out the old schoolh.iuse where you learned your a-b nb's and had some of the cussedness licked out of you, and the little old church where a preacher preached brimstone and fire In a way that made your flesh crinse and you didn't dare sleep alone. It will all come back to you. You had almost forgotten that, .you were a boy hadn't yon? You'll fill yonr twigs with pure air. feel the stinging breete against your face and your heart will begin to throb with good Impulses. Here everything seems to be honest and real and good. And the welcome! Don't be ashamed of the tears that wet your cheeks. An old man with snowy locks, trembling with affection, a grand old woman, your mother, who weeps softly, as women do, because her heart is filled with hap piness. You couldn't make that woman believe that yon ever had a petty meanness; that you had even thought wrong; that you took a narrow view of Ufe, or that you had enmities that embittered your ex istence. You couldn't convince that old man that In the world could be found a smarter '-boy." Love forgets faults and exalts virtues. To them your little successes seem like triumphs. Don't forget the little room. You oc cupied it as a boy. You slept well In those days. You hadn't a care. You were free, and you were sound in mind, morals and body. It Is good to think of those things. It is good to think or Christmas Day, of the gifts and the pleasure and good will that went with them, 'of the dinner and the long table, surrounded by relatives and neighbors, too poor to have their own Christmas dinners. And when the gray old man bows his head, nn J with the faith of a child, says: "We thank thee, O Lord, for the mer cies thou bast shown us," the simple prayer that follows will appeal to all that is good iu your and give you new hope, new life, new courage. Cincinnati Tost. i Oil UEMl LIE h THE city's streets were thronged. Crowds of Christmas shoppers hur ried to and fro. Electric lights from the big stores shone on their rosy and happy faces, and the younger ones laughingly shook the snow from their hair and capos. Charlie Wemper noted all this as with his band on the con troller be held the big suburban car in check. It was crowded to the doors as it started on its trip Into the country with its human freight. The passengers were In a merry mood. They had re mained until the last car, the opera run, and were going to their homes on the line, with their arms full of bundles and their hearts filled with good cheer. All this swept through the brain of the tired motorman, and there was no onsweriug smile as gay laughter reached him through the closed doors of the ves tibule. Here it was Christmas eve. He bad had fairly steady runs up to the time the summer business began to slack off, when the time table changed and be went on the board as first extra. A wife and two little ones at home had td be fed and clothed, and bis 20 cents an hour, with an average of six hours a day, bad not placed him In a position of affluence, nor enabled blm to look forward to the glad Christmas time with any degree of joy. He thought of the scant supply of coal In the shed, the almost depleted larder and empty purse with pay day still more than a week off, and sighed to himself. "Eight dollars and a half coming to me," be said, as he almost savagely swung around to six points. The car felt the current and sprang forward along the shining ribbons of steel which show ed up in the glow of the headlight in the endless stretch of white ahead. The city had been left behind and the farm bouses quickly slid back into the shadows as the car sped by. The s.'iiu ing rails no longer showed up ahead. It was all a dead level of white. The swiftly-falling snow had covered with Its mantle the rails of the line, but the wheels still sunk through it and clutch lug tho rail drank lu the electric fluid. Thoroughly acquainted with the road, and with the cor under perfect control, Wemper, one of the most careful, but also one of the newest men on tho road, had no misgivings as he sped along the now covered way. Suddenly ahead there was a bluish light which seemed to dance In the air. "My God, what's this?" he exclaimed as he sprang from his seat white as the driven snow which Bur rounded the car. Ha shut off the cur rent and put on tho air with such force , as to bring the car almost to a stand still, and throw the passengers from their seats. Quickly the controller swung nrounil and the car slowly started to move backward. To the man in the Vestibule it seemed an age before the wheels began to revolve backward. The car was oa a long but abrupt curve. Wemper knew what tho bluish light meant. It was an Inbound coming to ward hint at full speed. What caused the tuliup Wemper did not know, but ho did know that to be caught on that curve meant certain death to himself and the sixty odd passengers ou the car. The hesdllght of the Vip proachlng car now loomed Into view . It was coming at breakneck speed, but Wemper's car with its load of human be ings was now also speeding backward. There had been no orders at the last telephone booth and the out-bound car was supposed to have n clear track. Whatever tho error. It was a palpable fact that the coming car was upon blm. There seemed to lie no effort on the part of the man In the other vestibule to attempt to check the speol ami the tinvrt Kemper could hope to do was to lessen the force of the collision. On came the opposite car until less than 100 feet. It waa one of the newest and most power ful on the road and Kemper's heart dropped as he resitted that fact. The passengers by this time had ascertained they were speeding back, and the con ductor had his hands full striving to check the panic. Uxiklng now right Into the vestibule nf the opposing car, Wemper saw a livid face with glaring eyes. One strong, Iwny hand clutched the controller, trying to force It still further amnnd to gt more speed. There was a terrible smile on the white face. Tho man was mad. A town at the end of the 11ns for ?100. "A Christmas for tho weo ones, atttr all," exclslmcd Wemper, his face light ing tip. "Here. Mill." he shouted to the conductor. "Ws go whacks on th cash." Mill was loth to accept, but finally con sented and there were two merry Christ mascs on the Main IJne. - Detroit Free I'rcsj HISTORIC CHRISTMAS Noteworthy ccnrrence During? the Holiday Season. While no event comparable with the event of all events In the history of the world which Is commemorated by nil Christendom on Dec. 23 has ever taken place on or about that day, It has never theless marked the occurrence of not a tew noteworthy deeds and other happen ings in the annals of our race. Some of these things have been of that happy and propitious character In keeping with the spirit of the time Itself, and others have been quite the reverse of this. Among what may be regarded as Joyous events taking pls.ee on Christmas day, or there abouts, may be Included the coronation of William the Conqueror, which took place on Dec. 3, W In the same category we would place the lauding of the Pilgrims, which occurred only four days before Christmas, In litiiO. The same hsppy season. In ISll. witnessed the ratification of the quintuple alliance turn and Is given a rosette with which h must "decorate the true," ICach per son alma to pin his or her rosotts un or near to the highest number vf the tree, Ksch competitor hns three trials, tho three numbers to which ha plus nearest being written down to his credit by the hostess, who keeps tally. The ona whoso three numbers added together gives the largest sum total wins tho first prlie, "Christmas candlss" Is a good old time game. A lighted candle Is placed upon n table. The player la blindfolded niul stationed with his back to tho caudle, alnuit n foot from It, He's then told to tnko three steps forward, turn around three times, then to walk four steps toward the candle and blow It out. His attempt to do so will probably be as amusing to the audience as disconcerting to himself. CHRISTMAS IN SERVIA. tun tit Clntia H retires 1'rrsents Instead of (living Them, In Servla they keep Chrlstmns eve In a somewhat peculiar way. The father of the family goes Into the wood and cuts down n strnlght young oak, choosing the most perfect ho can find. Ho brings It In. saying, "Good evening and n happy Christmas," to which those present sny, "Slay Cod grant both to thee, and mayest thou have riches and honor!" Then they throw over him grains of corn, Presently the young tree Is placed mW ;3kmnmtf& TO t m ...ia,ni,pW,iM., CUTTING CHRISTMAS TREES. CIVILUtD MtN SHOULD DC ABOVE WAR. m- Kenrr Isftoar Here. I prefer teaching our children Unit wnr Is one of the direst curses Hint Millet this earth, nnd that, while all should be prepiiroil, If needs be, to defend our Independence, our persistent nlm should be to avoid nil wnrs, nnd as was well Mid by linl Percy "nations should collider, not how little they can concede to ono nuolhir. out how fur they can meet each other's views." This Is the spirit tlinl now animates the unik- lug men of France, of tlennany, and of Itnly. Their lend er are ever deprecating any recrudescence of the military spirit that lias conduced ho often In wnr In the pnst. It Is the' spirit that animates our own wurkliignieii. if we were attacked they would need no inllltnry tomfooleries In na tional schools to Induce them to tight for their country. Hut they know that pence Is the best of policies for lliein. ns never hns there been n wnr which hns not been harm ful to thote engaged In Industry. Napoleon Infused n mili tary spirit Into Frenchmen. What did the worklngmcn of France pi In by hit conquests? What do Mrltlsli work ers gain by our nnnexntlons of Vgnniln. of the Soudnii and of the empire of Sokoto? Wha,t hnve they gained by our war In South Africa, except having to pay more for some of their necessaries and the knowledge that It has pnved the wny for the Introduction of Chinese chattels to work In the Transvaal mines for the benefit of cosmoHlltnii mil llonnlrest . A tribe of savages Is always cultivating a military spirit Its solo occupation Is wnr, nnd the arts of peace nre de spited ns contemptible to men of spirit. Among clvllltcd men there ought to be n higher Ideal, nnd there would he were It tlmt there nre usually too many missionaries of strife among them ever appealing to the baser passions nnd trying to persuade their fellow-countrymen tlmt there Is something noble nnd elevating In wnr nnd that n soldier 1 the noblest of human beings. Armies nre necessary evils, but for my part I prefer n procession of trnde-uiilon Ists to the marching by of nrmed regiments, nnd the simple nnd homely garb of n worker to the tawdry trappings of men of war. I respect n man who honorably fulfills his calling as a soldier, but he Is no better In my eyes than the jmnti who honestly labors In other and more peaceful avocations. WHY IIEUOCS TAME IS ACCIDLNTAl. fir T, r. O'Connor, There are hundreds In every great city, and In I every country there are thousands of men, women mid ihlldren with a Intent capacity of heroism who go through life unnoted or despised, because no accident has evoked It. Again, the I recognition or precognition of those heroisms which nccldeut has evoked Is often accidental They happen, perlmpH, Inopportunely, when at- Mention Is absorbed by something which Imisises I more iion the public Imagination. In the same week In which the name of the boy hen) of the Norgo was In every paper and on every Hp n hnv hero of our own. who threw himself In front of nil express train to selie n little brother and tllng him nslde off the track nt tho cost of tits own life, attracted hardly n moment's notice. I Dumoiit records the following Instance of n woman's heroism during the siege of (ilhrnltnr: "The count d'Arlots I cane to St. Much to visit the place and works. I well re I member that his highness, while Inspecting the lines In company with the Duke de Crlllnn, both of them with their suite, alighted, nnd all lay tint on the ground to shun the effects of a bomb that fell near a part of the barracks ! JR. cold sweat broke out on the forehead of Wemper. A cottage within which sat a woman smoothing the hair of a little boy while her body swayed gently to and fro as she lulled the baby to sleep, came before his vision. Who would fill the empty larder now? Who replenish the dwindling coal pile? A groan burst from him as they, pursuer and pursued, sped by the iower station nud back over the switch. There was no danger from be hind and tbey dashed ou back Into dark ness, leaving the sub-station keeper root ed to the spot wltn astotusnment. The fatal race was drawing to a close. Not ten feet now Intervened between the headlights of the two cars when sud denly there was pitch darkness. The speed of the cars slackened and the wild In-bound gently came upon the spe cial. There was a crashing of glass as the two headlights, now dull and dark, came together; a slight Jnr and the dan ger was passed. The sub-station tender with a heaven-born gleam of common sense bad stopped the machinery and turned off the power. Springing from the vestibule as soon as be realiied what had happened, Wem rer climbed into the vestibule of the other car, livid with rage at the danger Into which the otner motorman naa Dlaced blm. There was no need for bis anger, for it was a dead band that held the controller, and the stare was one of cdhblned madness and death. Not a living soul was on the in-bound car. Turning off the current, Wemper took the controller from the atiaerlog angers and ran back to tho sub-station, about a quarter of a mile, and the power was once more turned on. During bis absence the truth was discovered and when he came back to the well-lighted and com paratively uninjured car, a cheer went up. The men passengers grabbed him by the hand, while the women shed tears of gratitude. His own eyes moistened and a lump came In his throat as he thought of the cottage and its occupants. Coupling the two cars the journey was resumed and the passengers began to get off. As tbey did so every one drop ped something in the hat at the door. When the end of tho run was reached, a man came forward. In bis hand he. held a hat which was stuffed full of bills and silver. Taking a slip of paper from his pocket tho passenger folded it and turned it with the other contents of the hat, Into the cap of the astonished Wemper. "Take this with a Merry Christmas and a God bless you from the passengers you saved from death," he said, and then left the car. His eyfcs glistening, Wemper counted the treasure. There was over a hundred dollars in money. The slip of paper was the check of a prominent banker of the for suppressing the slave trade. But, strange to say, occurrences of a sad and tragical nature seem to have been more common on Christmas than any other notable events. During the fourteenth century there were three dra matic Ohristmases. In 134S the black death was raging. In 13St the persecu tion of Wycllffe was rapidly bringing on that paralytic stroke by which he died on Dec. 31. S.iddeit perhaps of all was the Christmas spent by Isabelle, Dow ager Queen of Rdward II., In Castle Itislng, where she remained a prisoner for the next twenty-seven years of her life. For the Stuarts of England Christmas sometimes breathed a tragedy. Mary, Queen of Scots, was bora on Dec. 8. Eight days later she was hurried off to France, immediately after the death of her father, James V., on the 13th. Dur ing December, 1044, Montrose opened his fruitless campaign In Scotland; on Dec. 23, 1018, Charles I. made his last mourn ful Journey, under escort, to Windsor, and in 1G50, on Christmas eve, Edin burgh surrendered to Cromwell. On Dec. 22, 1CS8, James II. escaped to France, leaving Judge Jeffreys to flee for safety to the Tower, and on Dec. 28, 100-1. Mary Stuart, wife of William, dies, comparatively young. On Dec. 22, 1719, the old Pretender landed at Pctershead, and, curiously, In 174S, It was during December that the campaign opened in Cumberland. Philadelphia Ledger. Santa Clous In the Philippines. Santa Say, young fellers, I can over look the absence of chimneys, but you must have stockings. Two Christmas Games, A Yuletldo version of the donkey par ty Is played thus: On a sheet sketch or paste a design of a Christmas tree. Iinvu each branch of thu tree terminate In a circle containing a number, using the numbers from one to ten or one to twenty-five, according to the size of the tree, Each person playing la blindfolded In upon the coals, where It remains until ChrIstniamorn!ng, which they salute by repeated firings of a pistol. The national dish In Servla Is pork The poorest family In Servla will pinch themselves all through (he year so as to have money enough to buy a pig at Christmas. Skewered to a long piece of wood, the pig Is turned over a blazing Pre until cooked, the guests watching the process with Increasing Interest. Af ter dinner stories are told and songs sung. Santa Claus, who. In the person of an honored guest, Is present to receive Instead of to give presents, departs, af ter the feast, decorated with a long ring of cakes nround his neck nnd laden with such gifts as his friends can bestow. MEXICAN CUSTOMS. Visiting nnd Ol villi- Presents the Peat urea of Yaletlde, A series of festivities beginning nlnt days before Christmas and ending on Christmas evo marks the Yuletldo cele bration In Mexico, In n clrclo of friends it Is arranged that nine visits shall be paid to nine different houses. Each evening's gayety begins with prayer and the lighting of candles. These are fol lowed by the presentation of a gift from each guest to the host or hostess of the evening. The first evening's gift Is of small worth, but the value of the offering Increases with every succeeding evening. That there may be nothing unfair in the distribution, the recipient of the first evening's offering one year becomes the last the following year. After the pre sentation there are dancing and supper. At midnight the candles are extinguish ed. No two evenings' entertainments ar exactly allko save In the offering of pray ers, the lighting of candles and tho pre senting of gifts. On Christmas ove, a few minutes beforo midnight, all proceed to church to hear tho midnight rrnss, nnd this ends tho Chrlstmns celebration for the year. Good Tiling, Too. Tha Christmas Tree It Is strange that children are so green as to beliove in the existence of a Santa Claus. The Christmas Candle (sputterlngly) Hut they are not evergreen. Woman's Home Companion. Tough Jjiiolc. "After all," said the busy merchant, "Christmas comes but once a year.". "Yea," rejoined the old man who had seven children and nineteen grandchil dren, "and I'm heartily glad of it." The night before Christmas Is one q the rare occasions on which the small boy Is threatened with insomnia. Puck. where n Frenchwoman bad a canteen. This woman, with two children ou her arm, rushes forth, sits with tho ut most sniiKfold on the bombshell, puts out the match, and thus extricates fi-oni'dungcr all that were around her. Niim hers were witnesses of this Incident, and Ills lilghnc granted her a pension of three francs a day and promised to promote her husband after the siege. Tho Duko do ("rlllnn Imitated the Prince's generosity nud Insured to her a payment of live francs a day." Here, from a contemporary Journal, Is nil account of an act of similar Intrepidity, giving tho names of the heroes! "After n royal aaluto from the principal fort, St. Ilellere, In the Island of Jersey, the mulches used ou the occasion were lodged In the niiigaxlno without being properly ex tinguished. Ou the uiciilng. of the mime day amokv was perceived to Issue from an air hole lu one end of tho mngn due, and the alarm was soon spread. Three men volun teered their services and wen lild enough to advance to and break open the miignrlne, where tbey found two cais sons of wood, tilled with aiiiiiiiinltlon, on tire, near which stood no open barrel of gniiowder. A llauiie) cartridge was almost burned through nnd wimo of the beams Unit supported the roof were on lire, lly their exertions the lire was extinguished. The mngniliie contained IStW barrels of gunpowder, besides charged bombs." lOKIinC TILLING IS UNStltNIIIIC ftr Anitrvw Mlton. To nssiimo that In some mysterious fashion or other the Indications, not of chnr-ietor merely, but of n person's past and future, nre to bo deter mined by n survey of certain lines ou the palm, Is to assert n doctrine which Is monstrous In re spect of Its absurdity. Such n statement Is easi ly made, but when one calls for proof he does not llnd It In the results of the palmist's pmetlee, nud certainly no explanation Is forthcoming from Hut side of physiology. The whole sisithsnyliig business is a matter of tricks, such ns can Impress the credulous alone. I never hcurd the case ngnlnst palmistry and fortuni-tell lug at large better summed up than lu the expression nf an American critic. He declared that If there was any truth or reality In tho art. the palmist could make Ills for tune on the turf by Imeklng winners. Hint his oHrstlons ou Hie stock exchange would soon render blm Independent, and that If a life Insurance company could trust to his ii'vclflthiua regarding tho duration of life of Insnrern, ho would be retained by It nt the salary of a president. That which also surprises me Is the ful III which cul tured people occasionally are found to place lu fortune telling. I hnve rend of cases In which It was averred that a lady looking Into n crystal described to bystanders scenes she had never witnessed, tint with which si cues (hey were themselves familiar. Now. one would wish, here for much more exact evidence than mere hcam.iy. In a scientific In vestigation we should have nil the evidence duly liotisl, and every possibility of fraud or error avoldisl. Theru would require to be nu exact Inquiry Into all the circum stances under which the alleged reproductions In the crys tal, construed by tho brain of a person unfamiliar with the scenes, were carried out. I do not know If In a slnglo Instnuce this plan was pursued. Why should we not apply the cure we exercise In ordinary matteri) of llfetto the pre tension of the fortune-teller? llesldes, even on scientific grounds, we might llnd In certain tiraln-vngarles materials for accounting for' the phenomena on the lines of uncon scious memory and reproduction of Impressions. As for the pnlmlsls. let us del on lly hope we hnve hoard the last of them. On this point I have my doubts. NEW ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVc. Future ltallrouitlnir Mar lie Greatly Chuugcd by HK-edjr Kiigliir. A now electric locomuttvu which tuny revolutionize the motive power on rail roads was given u trial nt Schenec tady. N. , n few days ago, while scores of men prominent In railroad nnd electrical circles watched the tests. The locomotive was built In that city for the New York Central terml nni service lu New York City, nnd the trials demonstrated Hint It will ultt- mctmpotls. With one of this typo, trains of ten or moro cars tuny bu haul ed at express speed of IK) to 70 miles per hour, and the design nnd mat hod of control are such that two or moro lo comotives can be coupled together and oMTiitod by n single engineer from the leading cab. so that the site of tho train that may Imi under tho control of one engineer Is practically unlim ited so far ns the question of motive power Is concerned. The locomotive Is double-ended and can bo run In' either direction with . r-r- . ' f NEW YORK CENTltAI8 NEW ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE mately provide high er"'d motive pow er for rullroud tralllc. It Is expected to develop n speed of 100 miles un hour. The official tests of tho big, 05-ton electric locomotive took placo on n stretch of four miles of especially pro pared trnck near Schenectudy, nnd In tho presence of many leading railroad officials nnd hundreds of deeply Inter ested spectators, This extraordinary locomotive, the most powerful trans portation englno In Uio world, pulled n train of four henvy coaches ut tho rate of 72 miles an hour, and only the shortness of tho track prevented It from attaining an oven higher velocity. In the cab of the locomotlvo when It left its shed for the trial wni W. K. Vanderbllt, Jr., who worked the con troller. The engine was pronounced a great success nnd nil who watched tho tests were strong In tho belief that it will bo a great fcaturo In rail roading In the future. This locomotlvo Is the first built of 40 ordered by tho Now York Central for Its New York terminal. It had hnd several preliminary trials, but this was the official tost for pecd, drnwlnir ca pacity nnd acceleration. Prominent electrical engineers and rallrond men from nil over tno country wero pres ent. Thcro is llttlo doubt In tho minds of tho officials who witnessed tho tests that n speed of 00 to 100 tulles un hour can bo mndo. There wus no hont In the cab, no noiso snvo tho whirring of tho ntr com prcssora for the brakes and no snioko to nolluto tho clear country nlr, yet this huge machlno with Its D.OOO horso nowcr pulled n train of ten earn weighing 000 tons, nt tho rnto of CO mllea an hour and nctunlly bent nn ex press train which passed on another track. It also pulled a 400-ton train of five cars nt a speed of 02 miles an hour. Tho locomotive Is ono of a number ttiat will bo used by tho Central for hauling through passenger traKs through the Park avenue tunnel In the equal facility. The maximum horso power of this locomotlvo Is approxi mately 3,000, which Is considerably greater than that of thu largest steam locomotive. WHAT WOMAN CONFE8SED. When Wealth unit llusloess Come In Love Flew From the Hearth. "Did anybody over tell you that In some far prehistoric 1 1 tno i was lu lovo with my husband?" said Mrs, Komulnu carelessly. "Well, I was. 1 used to go to afternoon services In iA-nt und pray for that lovo to last, bccnuso tho sensation wus so much to my taste. I used to have ecstatic feelings when his foot was on the stair nnd I sat sewing llttlo baby clothes. Wo lived In a plulnlsh wny Htlicii; f.3 spent In two thentcr tickets wns n tremendous out lay; nnd wo walked out to dinners 1 tucking up tho train of my host gown under a long clonk and laughing If tho wind snntched It nwuy from mo nt tho corners nnd whipped It around my feet. Then lio grew richer, nnd wo broadened tho borders of our phylac tery, nnd then how when dear knows If I can remember, wo grow fnrthcr nnd father nway from each other. Now, when he Is nt home, I mn nwnro of It, because bo Is there behind n newspaper; but Hint Is nil I When our Hps meet It Is like two pieces of dry pltli coming together, I know nothing of his affairs, nor ho of mtno, I hnvo money In nbiindnnco. Money money who cares for monoy when a innn'H.heart und soul and brain hnvo gone Into It?" Tho aboro Is a true experience In mnny n woman's life, soys (1 cor go T, Angell In Our Dumb Anlmnls, nnd In reading It the thought comes wlmt a blessing It would bo If a hundred thousand Amerlcnn girls, now striving to get places In shops and stores and do unhealthy work In offices, could thoroughly prepnro themselves for do mestic life, nnd, marrying young men of about their own nge, be content ns wo wero yearn ago to biro n lltllo house out of town nt $I.V rent, nnd living with economy, with no need of wentth. have moro of heaven In this world than they nre ever likely to t In nny other wny. RECORDS OF WAR OF 1012. l-'otlilit Aitionir Waste Paper Hcnl from ICiiulmid to This Country, What scorn to bo tho original English records of tho American naval prison ers of war taken In the war of 1S12 have coimi Into the possession of F. W, Hnrwond of Springfield, Mass., says tlin New York Tribune. The records, which nre In three IxuikM, contain thu names of hundreds of prisoners and the iinmes of the ships from which they were taken. The handwriting Is old-fiishloued In style, although clear, nnd tho luniks hnve been kept with tho utmost accuracy. Mr. HarwiNsl Is a gold beater nnd uses hand-made paper lu a certain part of tho process to protect the molds. Such paper Is very scarco In this coun try and gold beaters hnvo been send ing abroad for it for some time. Re cently Mr. Unrwixxl has been getting his paper from un old hook storu lu England In tho shape of old ledgers and bVink !ooks of various kinds nnd old legal documents. I-or business rea sons bo does not euro to reveal tho namo of tho book store, but says ho cannot Imagine how such Important records should have come Into tho pos session of the store. The hooka are hand ruleil with Ink and ono Is bended "(lencrnl Entry Hook of American Prisoners of Wnr, at Ilarlmdocs, Lieutenant John Darker, It. N nud niiother Is similarly headed with tho word Jnmnlcn substituted for Itarbiidoes. Then follows a careful tabulation of tho namo nf thu ship making tho capture, thu time of tho capture, the placo of capture, tho namo of thu ship taken, tho character of tho boat taken nud n list of tho prisoners, tho qunllty of each prisoner nud, final ly, when discharged, If discharged ut all. Tho iinmes of such well-known boats as Doflance, Decatur,. President, Vixen, Loyalist, Enterprise and Yuukuo are among tho prizes taken, and of theso the Decatur und tho Loyalist hnvo tho longest lists of prisoners. Something of the fnto of theso prisoners Is learned from a few romnrks In tho records. Most of thorn nro discharged or ex changed, but occasionally there Is it noto that such n prisoner died from fever, another wns shot by tho guard, and still another was shot while trying to muko bis escnpo by cutting n holo through tho boat Soiiiii nro dubbed riotous characters, others notorious nnd still others despnrntn. Often thcro Is n record of tho dlschnrgo of .a prisoner becnuso of his being of other national ity than American, as Spnulah, French pr Musslnn. Tho documonts contain no accounts of battles, but itro merely dry records of tho prisoners taken mid their final disposition, Such good names ns Mad ison, Iluchannn, A ml rows, Stouo, Har rison, Williams, Leo, Morris and Hams dell nro found In tho list of prisoners. Whothcr theso records have been carelessly sold by the Mrltlsli govern ment for wasto paper or hnvo fallen Into tho hands of tho booksollors by some othor moans Mr. Ilarwood has na way of knowing.