Cottage Grove leader., February 01, 1910, Image 2

THE LUCK OF SUMMER BOARS
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Opinions of Great Papers on Im portant Subjects.
BOYS AND THE FARM.
HE surest way to Interest children In
farming Is to let them make a little real
money out of it, money that they can call
their own and spend In any reasonable
way. You remember how It was yourself.
You couldn't see any fun In farming un­
til you began to And a little profit In the
business. You became enthusiastic after a good season
which gave you a chance to save money. The boy's
first paying garden and the girl's nice flock of profitable
chickens will anchor their owners If anything will do
It. A little good advice will soon start the extremely
Important habit of saving money. Can he clear $50
In a year? Sometimes. Fifty dollars placed In a sav­
ings bank every year will amount In twenty years at
4 per cent to the very respectable sum of $1,549.46,
enough for a good start In business. But the moral
and business training that goes with It should be worth
more than the money. A successful boy Is pretty sure
to become a successful man. The farm boy who saves
money every year Is not likely to grow Into the kind
of men who fill the poorhouses or live on their cred­
itors or drift abont the country telling hard-luck stories
They will be too busy being good, substantial citizens
and a credit to the parents who gave them a right start
— American Cultivator.
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DOCTORING B Y CONTRACT.
EDICAL men are getting their profession
down to a practical business basis. The
latest plan advocated Is called "contract
practice," and It 1s believed this will help
to solve the problem of securing proper
medical attention for people who cannot
afford to pay big doctor bills. It has oth­
er advantages. Many medical men who are really In
love with their profession and serve altruistically rather
than for mere profit believe the time will come when
the practice of medicine will be divided by specialists,
the general practice will be no more and physicians will
all be in the employ of the city or State to serve the
people of all classes commonly and equally.
Human life, In theory, has a common value. Irrespect­
ive of individual accomplishments or conditions. If it
were not for the altruistic disposition of medical men.
together with the natural desire of the scientist to en­
large hla scope by experience, causing him to treat
many cases without compensation, medical science at
Its highest development would be controlled and used
exclusively In the Interest of the life and health of
people who have the money to pay. and the poor Amer­
ican would be on a plane with the poor Hindu.
Fortunately the majority of medical men do not feel
that their calling Is for profit only—they serve to do
good. The majority of them recognise the fact that
society and the State has conferred upon them a privi­
lege and an honor, that their opportunity to follow this
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blessed work springs from the people whom they serve.
Only a few abuse the privilege.— Des Moines News.
PRICES AND FAR M LABOR.
ECRETARY WILSON returns from a West­
ern trip with the conviction that hie pre­
vious explanation of the upward trend of
food prices Is sound. He attributed the
troubles of the consumer to the scarcity
of farm labor, and he sees no reason to
change that view. Thousands of fertile
acres, he says, are lying Idle In the Far West because
their owners cannot get "hands’1 at any rate of pay.
American boys drift to the cities, while immigrants,
even If from purely agricultural districts, are either
unable or unwilling to do farm and field work, while
many of those who try It prove to be Incompetent owing
to the different methods and the Improved machinery
employed here.
Those who regard this theory as Inadequate and
who think that monopoly Is not without considerable
responsibility for the high prices of foodstuffs must
admit that the scarcity of agricultural labor Is a fact,
and as such It at least partially accounts for the phe­
nomenon In question. Hence, It Is highly desirable to
continue and extend the work of the Federal Informa­
tion division of the Bureau of Immigration, which has
sought to promote the better distribution of Immigra­
tion and has taken particular pains to direct the aliens
to the Western States or localities where the shortage
of labor Is greatest.—Chicago Record-Herald.
D R Y FARM IN G IN TH E WEST.
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OLORADO, Wyoming and New Mexico
have recently made large appropriations
for “ dry farming" stations and experi­
mental farms. This marks another step
toward the utilization of the seml-arld
lands of the west, where Irrigation le
either Impossible or too costly. Dry farm­
ing Is something of a misnomer. It Is not farming land
which Is dry. but farming land which is comparatively
dry. It takes land In regions where the rainfall Is
far below normal for old-style farming, and by a prac­
tical method of cultivation conserves the moisture
which falls and converts solle_ which formerly were
considered good for nothing 6ut grazing Into great
crop-producing sections. Dry fanning Is not to be rec­
ommended for the easy-going agriculturist. It appeals
most to the man who has a positive passion for seeing
things grow In untoward surroundings. With such
farmers at the helm, thousands of acres of heretofore
unproductive soil are being redeemed without the Inter­
vention of Irrigation ditches. In Montana alone It Is
estimated there are from 15,000,000 to 24.000,000 acres
of land which may be dry-farmed, to 6.00<J,000 which
may be Irrigated. It Is said that dry farming will reach
200 . 000,000 acres of land which have been considered
worthless.— Minneapolis Journal.
An experienced “ summer hoarder”
has been relating some of her adven­
tures In Putnam's Magazine. One sea-
. son she stayed at a farmhouse which
i was quite homelike— "so homelike, tu
fact. In fact, that the daughter of the
bouse didn't scruple to do Just as she
would have done when alone.
She
had no musical talent, but she prac­
ticed five hours dally. I made no
complaint, and left In the odor of
sanctity, trailing a good reputation
behind me." The next Incident was as
follows:
Another farm I found, where the
people were all kindness, and wanted
only one family at a time, they said;
where mosquitoes are unknown, but
poison Ivy Is plenty. With experi­
enced eye I noted the old-fashioned
piano In the wide hall, and was
pleased to find that no one played It.
After a few weeks’ bliss I saw, one
day. a bedroom being prepared for oc­
cupation.
My heart sank, and fell
right down when I heard that two new
boarders were to arrive the next
morning.
Two ladles came, "boarders—or bore-
ders?” I mused, looking them over and
through and through.
In the morning, after breakfast, my
chair— mine by right of three weeks'
occupation— had been dragged to the
other end of the piazza, and was now
a fancy-work emporium; while short­
ly after a noise as of a thousand tin
kettles and cats burst on my ear. The
old piano, that venerable heirloom— I
forgot to say that the house was a
hundred and forty years old— had
been awakened, and In company with
the voice of the young lady, who had
no voice, was shrieking out rag time
and all the current horrors.
Saturday night brought a "popper”
and a "young feller,” evidently the af­
fianced "feller" of the disturber of the
peace. The camel had got his head in
the tent
Sunday morning they appropriated
most of the piazza. "Popper's" cigar
and “ mommer's" perfume pervaded the
air, the "young feller” reclined In the
hammock, and the "disturber" fed him
with candy while she balanced herself
on the edge.
Perhaps I am a disagreeable, crusty,
unsociable creature, but I did not Join
the family party, although I had
known the whole of them for three
whole days.
G YPSY SM ITH'S ENGLISH HOME.
B e a n t lfn K
R u m
a
H rd jie .l-i n
G ard en
of
P ie tu re u q o e F e a t u r e .
I stretched my week-end In London
for a few hours to see “ Gypsy" Smith
(now In this country), not In the
pulpit, but In the garden. It took two
train hours to Cambridge and two taxi­
course, always be a profoundly serious this particular train, so far forgot cab minutes to "Romany Tan." A big
menace, says Collier’s. None of the themselves as to open a rear gate and dark man In his shirt sleeves ran out
uneasiness which Just now seems so get off there at their station without calling: "H ello!
Here's Mr. Arm-
widespread through Europe and Asia (first coming across with a petition to strong!” We w e r e fairly lifted out
could have as Immediate and far- j the guard begging the privilege, and borne bodily In.
reaching an effect as any real national Whereupon Special Policeman Leon-
The “Gypsy tent” Is a double two-
movement In India. The rest of what ard landed upon them and haled them Bfory red brick cottage, slated and
England governs or controls either to court.
| chimney potted, says the Rev. A. H.
consists of essential and willing parts
"And the prisoners.” said Magistrate Armstrong In Chicago Advance. There
of
the
whole,
like
the
colonies,
or
else
The late Rosa Nouchette Carey,
Fitch, after he had heard the com- are white bays all around, with small
Whose death Is regretted by many Is thoroughly in hand, like Egypt. plaint made by the cop, "had the coup panel casement -windows and quaint
readers, left the finished manuscript Only one thing, however, has made It age to actually get out of that train white porch pillars. The rooms are
of a novel which will be published un­ possible for a European nation to gov­ without first Inquiring of the guard high and spacious. The kitchen has
der the title, ‘Th e Key of the Un­ ern India, and that Is the lack of whether they might do so? Well, all a “ hob.” There Is an air of comfort
known." The total work of this In­ unity In India herself. Should that I have to say Is that they are open to an(j substantiality, typical of English
dustrious
and
wholesome writer heterogeneous collection of various congratulations. Had they slammed homes.
races, languages and religions, over a the guard onto the platform and made
amounts to some 40 volumes.
The acre or two of garden Is walled
Robert Hlchens' new novel, "The territory as large as Europe, ever ex­ a 'welcome' rug of his anatomy
I by a high, thick hedge. It flanks the
Knock on the Door," Is described as perience a wave of feeling sufficient to would, as an American citizen, been house In front by a trim lawn and
a dramatic portrayal of a contest be­ make It a unit, the control of England dee-lighted. As It Is. I discharge the an expanse of fern-grown rock.
At
tween materialism and Idealism. It could not last a week. She governs prisoners. The time has come, though the rear It goes rioting mad with leaf
opens In London, but almost Imme­ India by means of Indian troops and you special officers and guards do not and bloom and fruit. Is it sonl or air
diately the scene changes to Africa, Indian money, end there Is no other seem to recognize It, when we don't cultivation that makes these English
to the Nile and the Pyramids, to the way In which she possibly could gov­ need clubs held over our heads to gardens? There are pears, apples,
desert and the ancient temples on Its ern I t She obtained political posses­ teach us how to behave. I have had cherries, huge gooseberries, currants
border. This Is a pleasant bit of news sion, without design, because of her some experience with guards myself— and sweet English strawberries. There
for the admirers of Mr. Hlchens' pre­ wars with Prance. She removed an­ and I give these gentlemen their free- are big-leaved potatoes, rank peas and
vious novel, “ The Garden of Allah.”
archy and the terrible rule of spoils. dom with real pleasure."
| "broad beans" that look like limas
Tennyson Is regarded In France as As Hastings fairly boasted, "the plow­
And as the orchestra played low, growing on balsam plants. And roses,
a poet who Is "typically English." man la again In every quarter turning walling music, the special officer fad- roses, roses.
Rudyard Kipling “ does not express up a soil which had for many seasons ed slowly away Into the outside world, j I wrote my wife that there sere
English thought," writes a French re­ never been stirred except by the hoofs gnawing at his nails and wondering more roses in Gypsy's garden than In
viewer. "He has merely Interpreted of predatory cavalry." To what extent If the world were coming to a quick all Oak Park, and I think that Is lit­
transient and factitious feelings, a India could be conducted for the wel­ finish.
erally true. There were dwarf roses
temporary aspect of the Anglo-Saxon fare of the millions. Instead of for the
and tree roses, climbing and running
T fc e M a n o f M o d e r a t e M e a n s .
temperament" This was recognized spoils of the powerful. If British rule
roses, roses on trestles and fences and
" I could afford now," said the man a rose that smothered the rear house
by Kipling himself, for Tennyson, should be shaken off. Is a dark, unan­
of
moderate
means,
"to
die.
What
I
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_________ of blooms.
_____ There
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some time before his death, wrote to swerable question. The loss to Eng­
wall
the author of "The Jungle Book” to land would be almost entirely commer­ mean Is that I have now got together ware white and crimson ramblers, pale
compliment him for his poem. 'T h e cial. for politically that great and dis­ money enough so that If I should die damasks. red Marechal Niels, queenly
English Flag." and Kipling replied: tant province weakens her. There are. I could be buried In fairly decent American Beauties, scarlet chinas,
“ When the eoldler In the ranks re­ of course, no signs of an Immediate shape, and that Is some satisfaction. creamy La Frances, deep rose pink
ceives praise from his general, he approaching unity of feeling that could
"Once before I have been fixed that Duchess de Bramants. big modest
does not know how to thank him, but result In shaking off the British rule, way. even better fixed
At that time brides and Malmalsons. pride of the
on the morrow he fights better.” It but there are signs that some such I could have afforded to be buried in house of Bourbon.
Is said that Tennyson was delighted general spirit may be born sooner than almost any sort of style, fine casket If ^ Under an arbor with a thatch of
with the reply. The sweet singer In­ thirty years ago seemed at all prob­ I had wanted It, and that sort of th ing,'
a foot deep we sat down to Eng-
carnates to the Frenchman the Eng­ able. Even now there Is plenty of na­ and they have, nowadays, you know, Ilsh tea from under a "cozy." The
lish character. “ His calm life, labori­ tionality talk, but It Is confined mostly burial caskets of oak and of mahog­ thin buttered bread and tea rake were
ous. regular, had no vicissitudes other to those who call themselves the "In ­ any. elaborately carved, that run In served from ''the curate's delight," a
than those which might fall to the tellectuals." and It seeks and receives price up to $2,000. $3.000 and more.
three-story cake basket. We dipped
lot of the busy clerk or the tranquil some foreign sympathy by assuming
" I wouldn't want one of that sort three-bits" strawberries In sugar and
shopkeeper."
anyway.
You
can
buy
now.
at
prices
thick
yellow cream, holding them by
a similarity among the various popu­
The "Bookman," referring to the lations living In what Is cAlled India running from, say, $200 to $500. cas- the stems. We were much amused by
new edition of Jerome K. Jerome's much closer than any which actually kets of oak or mahogany that are a talented gray parrot which kept call-
"Three Men In a Boat,” tells us that does exist. John Morley. whom It Is simple and beautiful, and thats about |„a "Master's come home: where's the
since Its appearance In 1889 the book rather difficult to call Lord Morley, the sort of casket, of mahogany, that 0],j hoy?" and singing snatches of the
has been reprinted every year until Is an anti-imperialist of a species rap­ I ’d like to be buried In If I was go- hymn. "Saved by Grace."
there has been produced the large idly disappearing even among the lib­ Ing to be burled.
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number of 202.000 copies, the 6.000 of erals. It Is safe to say. therefore, that
" I am now so fixed that I could
HE K NE W H E LOVED HER.
this present edition bringing the total the selection of Morley for his present stand one of those If I had use for It,
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up to 207,000 copies.
During that poet Is proof that England wishes to and I suppose I might make sure of hew York i.iri'a Estimate or Her
period there has been only one edi­ deal as liberally with India as the real one now by buying It while I have j
Jealnaa Lover's Atrocity,
tion. and. like the present Issue, this farts about that region make reason
got the money and have It stored for
You've all heard of the Cockney wo-
has been published at 3s td— farts able and safe
m s I have heard of men who did man who was bragging about her hus-
which the publisher believes to be un­
that. or who at least in their lifetime band. ” 'E’s a good, kind man, 'e Is,”
precedented. In an "Author's Adver­
Indicated the sort of caslikt In which aald the lady. '* 'E alius take care not
ON BROOKLYN’S E LEVATED .
tisement" to this new edition. Mr.
they desired to be burled, and to that f0 ’|t me where the marks will show.”
Jerome supplements his publisher's
I never could see any objection. I And likely most of us have considered
O cca sion o a W h ic h th e M a je s ty o f
particulars about Its sales. "In Chi­
should do that myself If I could.
j that a good story, but have declined
th e U n a rd W a s N ot \ In d ic a te d .
cago," he writes. “ I was assured by
"Still, though I've got the money to accept It as a rscital of fact. Where
The special policemen employed by
an enterprising pirate, now retired,
Brooklyn elevated railroads had better now, I don't think I ’ll lock It up In as the author of that yarn proved that
that the sales throughout the United
look out or Magistrate Fitch'll git 'em! that way. for I don't really expect to he knew a certain sort of woman na­
States had exceeded a million; and
bs buried for a long time to come, ture very well Indeed. And one of
rithnnah
in consequence
rnVT..o..■
V " 1 And Magistrate
Fitch
although. In
of Its having
,
.
, will _ lam
. . them
.
and while It Is a satisfaction to me that sort is pretty Dora Stelnmesser.
heen published before the Copyright I wlth th* U w ' 'too<, and sum<-1* nt* for
Convention, this has brought me no ! h* has 80 dpclared himself. It all to think that I could afford It now. who used to be the prettiest girl em-
material advantage, the fame and pop <’am® aboul ‘ hroi.Kh two passengers on yet I am In no hurry about this, for ployed at the florist's shop down on
l find life very pleasant, even though 2d street, the Cincinnati Tlmee-Staris
ulnrlty It has won Tor me among the an "L" ,raln havln*
,he ,upr,m *
.. w
American public Is an asset not to be nel^re to le* Te «»id train by means of my means are very modest — Nsw New York correspondent says. Every
despised
It
has been translated
I
,hp r* * r * * ’ *• •*>'* th* N>w York ° ° r'
think Into every European language f»»P O »d« nl of Ihp Cincinnati Times-
except Arabian, also Into nme of those ' Star. Any one who has foregathered
with an " L " brakeman knows that. In
ot Asia."
addltion to the wondrous and non-
understandable vocabulary, he possess-
PROBLEM FOR B RITAIN.
es a corduroy manner and a cheek
that you couldn't drive railroad spikes
t s h y o f I s S I s ' u I'ciiglc Wnals Tee,
m i n a l c K s a l s s d ' u Rwle.
Into with a pile driver. The two pas-
Cnrest In India, such as threatens sen germ, overlooking the heaven-born
and disturbs the British, must, ef euthorKy Invested In the guard on
l
Y crk Bnn'
I hour of th* da* ,om e
f» c« d Young
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ster would slide Into the place and
BuulvaZwwt D i M m y .
| buy a bunch of carnation» Juet for
Fond Father—Take good care of the pleaaure of feeling Dora's slen-
yourself, my boy, wherever you go. for der finger» pin them on. There was
! i can't afford to lose you; you are my hardly an evening that Dora didn't
go to dinner or the theater with one
1 only son. you know,
| Son— Yes. but relatively I’m as hard of the numerous Infatuated. “ I can't
: up a* you are In that line, for to the make up my mind which to marry,
beet of my knowledge and belief you’re George.” eeld ebe to her Impetuous
, my only father.— Boston Courier.
( lover. George Albert. "1 like pen the
best— but how can I be sure that yon I
T H E Y MUST BE TOOTH».
lev# me truer*
George couldn't persuade her that « J e n o f Y e a r . A r e N o t W e l c o m e s A y
P u lp it a n d S ta g e .
be lived for her alone. And. pending
The average young physician leaves
decision on her part, she walked out
with a dozen other young fellows. And the medical college gritting h4s teeth
The 'first horse railroad was built
George stood In the dark corner bravely and striving to keep a "stiff I In 1826.
upper
lip,"
but
realizing
that
be
Is
“
up
around from the florist's shoo and
The velocipede was Invented b$
gritted his teeth until It sounded against It, good and plenty." He Drals in 1817.
knows
that
before
he
oan
command
like a corn shelter. Until the other
The only self-supporting territory of
night he won the rare privilege of a enough practice to make life anything
stroll with Tlora. For the thousand but one long effort to exist comfort­ the United States la Alaska.
The Chilean government has under
and first time he begged her to marry ably on almost nothing, he will have
him.
| to go through with a period—often contract 698 miles of railroads at aa
"But I can't be sure. George.” said several years In duration—o f humil­ sstlmated coat of $24.207,660.
she. coquettlshly, her dark eyes beam­ iating obscurity and privation.
A chimney of concrete block was
No matter how brilliant he may be recently built ll^ Germany without the
ing with the pleasure of courtship, her
red lips smiling demurely. And then In the conduct of his profession, or use of scaffolding, which represents a
George ripped out an oath. " I f I can’t how thorough In his preparation for great economy In the cost
have you. no one else shall,” he swore, Rs exacting duties, he Is admitted to
Levantine newspapers report that
and threw acid on her prettiness. It the confidence of his patients with Turkey hat granted a conditional con­
burned Into her rosy, dimpled face grudging hesitation. It Is sometimes cession to an American syndicate for
and dimmed the sight of one eye for­ humorously pathetic to see the efforts a 1.243 uille railroad
through Asia
ever and marred her plump neck with made by the youthful doctor to sim­ Minor.
ulate
the
appearance
of
age.
The
long white scars. But at the hospital
Alaska has three times the placer
that night. Informed by an Indignant premature whiskers he will nourish,
area California bad. California haa
nurse that George had given himself the dignified costume he will assume!
produced In fifty-nine years $1,400,000,-
up to the police snd was shrieking in He is conscious that every year add­
000 In gold and Alaska will produce
a hysteria of remorse, little Dora ed to his age Is a valuable asset add­
three times aa much when properly
StelnmesseV smiled happily. "I'm glad ed to his professional success. At 60
developed.
he did It." she whispered to the nurse years of age. when he Is at the top
Herr Rosenthal, the pianist, is noted
through the muffling bandage. "I'm of his power, his services are most
so glad he did It. For now I know he eagerly sought and most affluently re­ for bis quiet humor. An unsuccessful
munerated. The young lawyer Is Just pianist said to him one day: “ I am
loves me."
as heavily handicapped by the misfor­ losing a tremendous lot of money tn
tune ot youth. Even to look young Is connection with my recitals. What
ALLO YS IN METALS.
a heavy weight on his aspirations. shall I do?" "Give ' fewer concerts,"
T h e y A r e M in t Im p o r t a n t In M a k in g
Youthfulness Is something to be ex­ replied Rosenthal quietly.— M. A. P.
T h en * fatefu l to M a n .
plained. to be apologized for. Age and
Thirteen grams of radium chloride
In the metal working trhdeg things experience are held to be Indispens­
have been produced at the Imperial
are seldom what they seem to be. Most able.
Austrian radium factory, located at
people want things as cheaply as pc»-
But there are two professions which St. Joachlmsthal. It la estimated that
slble, and manufactured goods cannot will have nothing to do with age—
this mineral has a vulue of $45.000 te
be sold for less than the cost of the the pulpit and the stage. In rare and
$50,000 a gram, or more than $500.006
mere metal. Many articles are not, exceptional cases you find the actor
for the entire amount. Pure metallic
strictly speaking, the things they are of 50 or 55 still holds the stage, but
radium Is never seen.
taken for, and are all the more de­ he usually does so with lessened pop­
In Jewish houses of worship per­
sirable because they are not.
ularity and greatly lessened salary.
"Block-tin" goods, for Instance, are And his lease of popularity Is gen­ sons who are In mourning arise at a
steel goods, coated. Vessels made of erally determined by his ability to certain time during the service and
tin would melt on the fire or fall to simulate youthfulness of appearance. repeat the Kaddlsh. According to th#
pieces Immediately that they were A t that age he Is oftener found wear­ Hebrew Standard, there are trade»
used. Steel must be used, and “ block” ing his shoes out on the "Great White people for whom the mourners' prayer
only means that an extra thick coat­ Way,” which is the "via dolorosa" of is no bar to business. In a recent
Issue that paper says: "The trustees
ing of tin has been given.
the aged actor! He may have mark­
"Brass" stair carpets are not brass, ed ability and an exquisite command of Temple Israel of Harlem, should
but are rods of iron cased with very of the delicate technique of his diffi­ suppress the Individual who on Sab­
thin tubes of brass. Much "copper" cult art. but if he has passed the bath mornings distributes pamphlets
work is not copper at all, but coated "dead Une" of 50 he Is a “ has been.” to those saying Kaddish, advertising
the wares of a monument dealer."
Iron. The part pure metals play In to be pushed Into obscurity.
Britons are ceasing to look to the
manufacture Is nothing by comparison
In the sacred profession the condi­
with the alloys In their many hun­ tions are even more anomalous. Here United States for their beet and are
dreds of combinations.
Is a calling which not only demands turning more and more to Argentina
Pure Iron, for example. Is only a la­ generous scholarship, but the ripening for meats and cattle. Prominent Eng­
boratory preparation. Cast Iron, the influence of spiritual experience, some lish ship owners and Argentina cattle
most generally useful variety, contains personal knowledge of the deeper tides raisers have organized a company
about 5 per cent of Impurities, and o f sympathy for pain and bereavement, which will undertake to ship supplies
the curious thlDg Is that It owes Its and a wide touch with the temptations of chilled meat regularly each week
special value to the presence of these. and struggles and trials ot our com­ from the River La Plata to London
and Manchester. Work already has
Pure Iron can be shaved with a pocket- mon life.
knife; Impure iron can be made al­
And yet. In almost every Christian been begun on nine new fifteen-knot
most as hard as steel.
denomination. If a large and prosper­ refrigerator steamers, which will be
Steel Is a true alloy, containing sev­ ous church Is without a pastor, its added to the fleet already at the com­
eral foreign elements. Here, too. as supply committee demands In Its can­ pany's disposal.
In Iron, the special values of the dif­ didates the Indispensable quality of
Many Japanese women gild their
ferent steels depend on the nature and youth. Throw knowledge, experience, teeth. Women of Arabia stain their
proportion of these elements.
Steel wisdom and ripened character into fingers and toes red.
In Greenland
may be had as soft as the softest Irons. one scale, and youth In the other, and women paint their faces blue and yel­
Alloys, therefore, are of Infinitely the latter will almost always tip the low. In India the women of high
more value than pure metals are. This beam.
caste paint their teeth black. A Hin­
has been known ever since the pre­
doo bride Is anointed from head to
historic days when men cast their
foot with grease and saffron. Borne«
Strength at Varlnna Aden.
celts or chisels in mixtures of copper
According to excellent
authority, women dye their hair In fantastic
and tin. the tin being the hardening the muscles. In common with all or­ colors— pink, green, blue and scarlet.
element. By varying the proportions gans of the human body, have their In New Holland scars, made carefully
of these two. widely differing mate­ periods of development and decline, with shells, form elaborate patterns on
rials may be produced— materials that, our physical strength Increasing up to the women's faces. In some South
on the one hand, will fracture with a a certain age and then decreasing. American tribes the women draw the
blow, or, on the other, will stand any Tests of the strength of several thou­ front teeth, esteeming as an ornament
amount of hammering. — Harper's sand Individuals have been made, and the black gap thus made.
Weekly.
the following figures are given as the
The completion of rafting operations
averages derived from such tests;
on the Penobscot River for the season
UGLY MEN BEST HUSBANDS.
The lifting power of a youth of 17 shows that nearly 1211.000.000 feet of
years Is 280 pounds; in his 20th year logs have come down the boom from
P r e t t y G frla A r e W in e la th e S elec­
this Increases to 320 pounds, and In the the east and west branches of the
tio n o f a H o m e ly M ate.
30th and 31st years, respectively, it river and Its tributaries. When the
Did you ever ponder over the prob­
reaches Its height. 365 pounds.
few straggling rafts now In the river
lem of why pretty girls marry plain
A t the expiration of the 31st year arrive at the boom It is likely that
men? An English writer—a woman—
the strength begins to decline, very the total will reach about 134,000,006
has thought the matter out and thinks
gradually at first. By the 40th year feet for the season. This Is a great
the girl who selects a plain or even
It has decreased eight pounds, and Increase over the number of logs
ugly mate Is wise, an exchange says
such diminution continues at a slightly handled at the booms last year, wbea
"The wise girl," she asserts, "is per­
Increasing rate until the 50th year is only 13,000,000 feet were rafted down.
fectly aware that the ugly man will
reached, when the figure Is 330 pounds The total this season, however, In­
make a far better husband than the
Subsequent to this period the strength cludes 9,000.000 feet which were cut
Adonis who Is adored by every fem­
falls -more and more rapidly, until the last year.— Lewiston (M e.) Evening
inine beholder of his charms.
The
weakness of old age Is reached. It h Journal.
ugly man Is so frequently accustomej
Impossible to obtain trustworthy sta
In an article by Dr. Hans Schnel-
to being Ignored or slighted by the
tlstlcs of the decline of strength after kert. of Berlin, on police Identlflcar
empty-headed but good-looking woman
the 50th year, as the rate varies great­ tlon. the errors which may easily be
that the sensible girl who is able to
made When only physiognomy Is taken
see below the surface at once finds a ly In different Individuals.
Into account are dwelt upon at length.
faithful admirer and grateful slave.
"Compliments from the plain man Q n f f n F o n d o f A m e r i c a n S t o r ie s » The wriler tells of many Interesting
Queen Margherlta has a weakness cases of "double," where nothing
are of far more value than the easy
flattery of the much-sought-after hand for the books of American and En­ could so easily save an Innocent double
She also readR En­ from being mistaken for the criminal
some male, who Is seldom so sincere glish novelists.
through reason of opportunity and ade glish and American magazines, and It original as the finger print test, which
quate practice. And not being so run is her opinion that the American he believes to be infallible. The arti­
after,’ the man lacking In outward school of short story writers at pres­ cle contains the portrait of the double
charms Is less likely to cause bis wife ent is the best in the world.
The of Count Zeppelin, who Is the keeper
Jealous pangs or feelings of loneliness Queen gives over several hours every of a restaurant In Berlin, and of King
at the sight of an em fty chair and a day to fiction. She reads extensively Alfonso, who Is a merchant tn that
torn dress tie.
In Italian, of course, but her especial etty. Both pictures are “ speaking
"Ugly men who marry pretty women fondness Is for books In English. She likenesses" of the men whom they d «
are always far prouder of their wlvss talks and writes English fluently, and not represent.
than the romantic Romeo of girlish In all literature likes nothing so
“ Pneumonia and consumption follow
dreams. The former feel grateful to much as tales of western American frequently In the wake of the often
the beautiful wife, while the latter lm life, whether of the mining camp or neglected 'cold.' when the resistive
aglne that the debt of honor Is ou the the ranch. She has read almost every­ powers of the body are at their lowest
woman they have condescended to wed. thing that has been written about the ebb," declares Dr. Neff. Philadelphia's
All women are naturally attracted to cowboy. American and Engfish hooka director of public health. In a bulletin.
good look», and the man who Is fair to are sent to her by a London book­ "One of the beet preventives against
look upon Is more tempted to pose as seller as soon as published, and once tuberculosis," Dr. Neff adds, "la ro­
a bachelor If the chance of a summer she takes up a volume she finds It bust health, which gives great resistive
flirtation arises than his brother of difficult to part from It until she has power to the disease; and one of the
homely physical fascinations.
t'irned the last page.
first signs of depreciation In health
"The girl who marries an ugly man
Is fatigue. Although this, with other
can be certain that her love Is not a
minor ailments, may seem of slight
Can«* of Greatest Wonder.
mere fancy of the moment rising out
A farmer owned a dog— a very good. Importance, yet It Is frequently the
of her admiration for a well-cut nose
forerunner of more serious conditions.
and chiseled mouth. The love a girl Sigh-bred and thoroughly trained dog
If ‘colds' were less commonly neglect­
bestows on an ugly man is deeper, —that every morning for three years
ed. many case* of consumption would
-based
a
railway
train
that
ran
past
more lasting and more worthy of the
he discovered and cures effected, and
name than the quickly given and easily the farm. The farmer and his wife
pneumonia and many allied diseases
were
watching
the
persistent
but
vain
spent affection of the woman who ig­
would be prevented."
nores the fault« of the handsome lover pursuit one morning.
Many of the famous women In his­
"1 wonder,” the wife said, "what
and consider# only the shapeliness of
hie hands, the color of his hair and makes that foolish dog chase the train tory loved children, though deprived
of children's love most of their lives.
the lovely voice' as he warbles soul- »o persistently."
"Never thought about that,” replied One was Queen Adelaide, whose two
stirring sentimental compositions.
In Infancy.
She
"Plain men generally marry early the farmer, "but I ’ve often wondered little ones died
mourned her 'oss the rest of her life,
In life, as soon as funds will permit, what be would do If he caught It."
and sought solace In, bringing happi­
while the good-looking males prefer to
D a r i n « th e S ire n Y e ll.
ness to the children of others. It be­
enjoy the fun a little longer, and to
First Laborer— How do you tike came her custom to give a great
bask In the admiring glances and
Christmas tree as a gift to the boys
pleased smiles of the maidens upon them college boys' cheers?
Second Ditto— I got docked for an and girls whertver the court spent th«
whom they bestow their patronage."
hour yesterday, taking It for the quit festive season. The tree always stood
A H o p r lffifi C o « « .
whistle.— University of Pennsylvania under Chinese dragons suspended from
"W hat was the trouble with them— Punch Bowl.
the celling. The children walked la
Incompatibility of temper r
two by two, and each one was kissed
"Yes; he never would get angry
In turn by ths queen. Adelaide also
"Of course,” said Mr. Wiggles, distributed all of the Christmas p re »
when she was."— Puck.
"there are some people who will never tnta. It Is said she always enjoyed
Lack.
understand my poetry."
1 these gatherings until the little guests
That's fortunate." replied Miss Cay­ had gone, when the would be overcome
Many a man Is so lacking In the es­
sentials of success that he Isn't even enne. "They are much more likely to by a sense ot loneliness In ths thought
iful liar.— New York Tim es buy It.”—-Washington Star.
ot har o w l childless household.