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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1903)
Selfmade pedestals are a good deal more num ero ua than self-made men The sooner a man recognize» defeat the earlier la It possible for him to get a new start. We can never hope to conquer Canada now. She has determined to keep rig arettes out of her borders. The Vanderbilt Neilson wedding cost the mother of the bride *6,500. All things considered, It was cheap at that. The pessimist thinks the world la worse than It really Is. and the optl- mist thinks It Is better, and both are wr ng. The Atlanta bank clerk who filched *94,000 drew a salary of *'*» per mouth. Yet be was what may be termed a high priced man. If the accounts are true Mrs. Regi nald Vanderbilt will have to take along a dummy annex when she desires to wear all her diamonds at ouce. Wbenever there Isn't anything else exciting going on sonietwidy flourishes a revolver in St. Petersburg and an other plot to kill the raar Is discovered. The dressmakers have declared that the comfortable shirt waist must go, and now It remains to be s<-en whether or not modern women has Independence enough to wear what she pleases. The number of leaves on a large slxty-foot high oak tree has been count ed and found to exceed 8,000.000, de Which goes to clares au exchange, show that some people have time for al most anything. The Emperor of Germany bss order- ed on Investigation of the case of an army officer who ran hl» »word through a common soldier because the latter'» salute was unsatisfactory. It 1» feared by the officer's friends that If he la found guilty he may be told not to do it again. It’s a trifle late In the history of American progress to attempt to throt tle the American press. The freedom of speech and the liberty of the press were two of the things our forefathers fought for and it might Just as well be under- stood now that their descendants won't surrender their Inheritance without a Struggle. A Kansas court has decided that If a railroad company has good modern ap pliances and careful and competent en gineers and firemen damages cannot be collected when a locomotive spark burns a planing mill, a lumber yard, a Methodist Church and several minor buildings. This Is quite Important to both railroads and owners of buildings. The ''»hot heard round the world" was only a little louder than the drum beats that echoed with It. The Ma»- aacliusetts Legislature has been asked to give to the Ia-xlngtou Historical Ko clety the drum which woke young America on April 11», 1773. that It may be kept with other relies of the battle. It Is now in the office of the State Ad jutant-General. Whoever think» nature study a fad of modern times should read ancient history. Nearly three hundred and fifty years before Christ Alexander the Great placed at the disposal of his tu tor, Aristotle, the servies» of one thou sand men through >ut Asia and Greece, with Instructions to collect aud report details concerning the life-condition* and habits of fishes, birds, I h - usis and Insect». To this.magnificent equipment of assistants Alexander added fifteen thousand dollars III gold for liooks and laboratory supplies While praising the modern millionaires who give so generously to biological research, let us not think that Interval In natural pin Bomena began with them. i “Keep your friendship» In repair" Is the advice a New York clergyman of fers to young men who find themsrive» "lost and louesotue" In a great city. In hla native town tbe youth Is an Individual; be 1» under observation: people notice hl» good deeds, ar.d their wholesome scrutiny frequently re strains him from foolish actions, but in the city no one serins tn see him. and ills loss of Individuality disheart ens him and leaves him open to tempts lion. "Make your way to some social settlement, some night school, » me church.” tbe wise preacher advises such strangers; "surround yoursrif with a little group of friends who will ap plaud your succsas and encourage you after failure " Great teachers often tmitat» nature's way of silence. He was uot a foolish man who said to his son. "There are the letters of the English alphabet. Go Into that corner and le»rn them." Ma ria Mitchell. an unusually suecesaful teacher, would draw a complicated dla gram on the blacktsMrd and My. "To morrow tell me what that means." It may bare l>een unintelligible to the clnss at the moment, but the next day moat of the students had discovered It» application. Buch a claa» room la a re hearsal for after life The elaaa-room where the teacher flora all the thinking amt the pupils none prepare« one for nothing more practical than twlng en tertained. or. more likely, bored, for life. Apparatus, elucidation, opfmrtu nlty—three are the crutches of the lame and the couches of the laity. "Newton rolled up the cover of a book; be put a small glass at one rnd and a large brain at the other It was enough!" The coward on the field of battle breaks hta word and fling» It from him liecause it 1» not a Damascus blade The king'» ton —the man with the masterful mind - pursued and wsaponle»». »natehee up the broken sword and wins the day A Hugo or an Ibsen could find an endleea serle» of chapter» In the Bur dick murder mystery. And raveling the tangled threads, they could find the cause of It in one man» fall from grace now? Via Dollar». Arthur Penn>-ll was a defaulter to the extent of ,150.- 000 or *200,000. This man w ho was the ev|l genius cf a social circle bandied Investments for Eastern people who know bls family and bls w ife’s family. These Eastern friends sent him money which he squandered In luxurious liv ing Dollars! Dollars! Dollars! When will men learn there Is something In the world besides money? The desire for money corrupted the life of this young man who came to the City of Buffalo fresh from Yale College with a reputation to be envied, He wanted money for what It would buy—eaae, comfort, high-living. The desire bred In him a loose standard of morals pro- during greed, lust, embezzlement, mur der. suicide. He changed the Golden Rule Into a Rule of Gold. In the per sonal equation of bls life be eliminated the soul of thing». He forgot that the man who ceases striving to do right tiegins to do wrong On one side of bls scale be lialanced spiritual con sciousness; on the other Ease. Pleas ure, Luxury. The scale tipped the wrong way. Dollars! Dollar»! Dol lars! When will men stop to ask them selves the question. "What sliall It profit ■ man If he gain the whole world and lose bls own soul?" E ditorials OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS CABIMT Of FICERS EARN EVERY DOLLAR OF EHE SAURIES THEY RECEIVE. HE position of cabinet officer must be a snap in Washington" _ marked a visitor to a resident official friend In the office of an uptOw hotel this morning. “I would like to Lave the office 'tendered' to m. Tbe alacrity with which 1 would 'accept tbe portfolio’ would be a»to^ T isb • But there might be reasons why you would not accept," replied tbe official. "The position Is very far from a snap, as you say. and 1. being t p , .r man. would, for one man in the capital, decline tbe honor, no matter now much 1 might secretly desire tbe office. dally when much of tbe go-d old stock ba.( been> .up- "There is not a member of a cabinet, with possibly an exception her» *ni Vigor from the farm. planted by people of Inferior and neglected training there who gets out of the game for less than *20,000 a year and no one ECRETARY ROOT, who la a native of Clinton, ever can be done by way of remedy mult e 11 ...... under *10,000 or »12,000. To properly maintain the position of cabinet offl. Oneida County. N. Y., deplores the fondnesa of the go.gl citizens, aud 1» a part of tbe personal Americans of rural communltleji for city life. He of each. There are officers to be aroused to their duty, cer and to live upon the salary would entail the practice of ecouomy which would be quite unusual. A member of the bouse can live-and many estimates that the urban population of the country 1» laws to be enforced, children to be kept In sc oo . » now 23.000.000. The movement to the cities goes on at an be furnished, religious and charitable measures to be em practically do-upon hls mileage, but not a member of tbe cabinet upon hla salary. 1 have known of many members of different cabinets who hare Increasing ratio. "We are facing." says the Secretary of ployed. What many a town needs more than »“J’11 8 spent from »30.000 to »150,000 a year. In tbe Senate and House combined War, "a new »<-t of condition» in the formation of national Is Belectznen and constables who are willing an anx o character. Life In the city tends to greater alertness of to perform tbe plain duties of their office.-Amerlcan Culti there are scores of men who have practically no Incomes other than their salary of *5.000 a year. These men work for what may be properly termed mind, to a sharpening of the faculties and greater nervous vator. tbelr wages. energy, but at the same time to a »trained Intensity and "Cabinet officers do not work for their salaries; they merely accept what refinement of the nervous system which will make a dlf Eve» and Headaches. the Congress decided a eentury or two ago. tn stage coach days, to be ferent race of us. If the strong, self-possessed, self-cen OST medical books for popular reading mislead adequate compensation. The salary of tbe office, did not enter into their tered, dominant man Is to continue his race he must con By confining himself to wbat he calls a biograph calculations In ninety-nine cases out of 100 when their portfolio was ten tlnue In contact with the soil. No race of the city bred ical clinic,” Dr. George M. Gould has succeded in dered them. can perpetuate these qualities, for the nerves and sinews hls book called "Genius and Eye Strain.” In writing “When a cabinet officer Is a wealthy man. aa most ot them usually are strengthened and the moral integrity enlarged and one of the most useful works on popular medicine are. that they work for a variety of reasons. Some have wives who have social deepened by contact with the soil, by the soothing and ambitions and tastes which cannot be gratified In their former environment». has recently appeared. calming Influence of nature." Some four centuries of investigation In modern medicine Others work for the personal pleasures, tbe privileges and the honors the The city 1» always calling to the rural American of the were necessary before the faculty discovered the relation , position bestows, the last being more or less passed down to their posterity. In Bellevue Hospital, New York, a old stock It offers him golden opportunitie», and he comes between the Imperfect lens of the eye and nervous strain, Others give up *100,000 a year Income, toll like messengers over tbelr desk» to make the most of them. Run through the list of the patient afflicted with hysteria, which which registers itself In large or small derangement of the by day and eat official dinners at night for reasons past finding out. Some took the form of laugbter^-lncessant generals of Wall street, the leaders of the bar, the skillful entire system from a passing headache down to life-long believe, usually erroneously, however, and occasionally correctly, that ser and for several h >urs Incurable—work- physicians, the merchant prince», the big contractors, the derangement of digestion. It is not surprising that this vice in the cabinet may prove of future use to them in presidential conven id more wonders than ii whole college engineers and architects who are most in demand, and you relation is still little understood by most of the commonalty. I tions or In senatorial elections. Dozens of members of tbe cabinet bate will find that a surprisingly large numtier of them came to ful of chlrurgeuns or the congregation By taking four men—De Quincy, Carlyle. Huxley and resigned before the end of the first two years. of a l-'alth Cure Church. Ward after New York with one suit of clothes, a change of lluen and a "The pay Is incommensurate with the responsibilities and the work, a Browning—and using them as examples of the neglect of ward was infected by his mirth and ramshackle trunk. Their capital Is thrift, hope and an cabinet officer once said to me: 'My salary pays my bouse rent and gas this fact. Dr. Gould bas made one of those convincing appetite for work. Their constitution was a bank which was the better for It. Nineteen In mates of the alcoholic ward— a place honored every draft upon It. They out work, out fight and personal demonstrations which will lead any one who bills. My work is performed solely for love; It is uncompensated, and, upon Inhabited by blue devils — rose from out-live the city man, and fail 1» not In their lexicon.—New watches tbelr own development or has to do with children the theory that tbe laborer Is worthy of hls hire, I am going back home »nd to be prompt to understand that where there Is lnterrup-, gather up the stray strings to my scattered Income,” and home he went their cots and expressed a desire to get York Evening Sun. tlon of normal function. In adolescence or during any work shortly afterward. out Into the air of sobriety. Their de "To tbe feminine members of a cabinet officer’s family tbe rule Is re of any kind, mental or manual, one of the firat questions mons bad been exorcised, and Instead English Jury System. versed. They get about »1.000,000 a year each out of It In the gratification of which should be asked Is whether the eyes do not need of enjoying a morning of the horrors HE English Jury system remains so far unmodified their personal ambitions and desires and the fun they have. they went forth suffering from strained for two reason»—that it has worked well on the examination, not by some one who does nothing more than "You often hear men say: T would go into tbe cabinet for *8.000 a ribs and distensions of the Jaws. We whole, and that public opinion La not easily roused in fit glasses, but by a competent physician who makea this year.' These men can’t get In. Ninety five per cent of the cabinet officers field hls specialty. have not heard that any fractured favor of innovations. But the requirement that all There are fretful children. Juvenile delinquents, women of the United States, who are not multimillionaires, serve tbelr country at a tames or dislocated Joints were mended the twelve good and true men shall be unanimous does by the laughter, but we do not doubt flagrant who are unable to control their tempers, and men ” bo find sacrifice, and the latter do, too. to a certain extent. Upon a single meeting occasionally cause great Inconvenience. We a bad a course of William Reilly persevered In Illustration In tho Pasenhall case, where two •uccesslve themselves unequal to the task of plying their craft, their of the cabinet may hang the fate of hundreds of thousands of Ilves and th» would work some strange healing of Juries disagreed. And in the London Sheriff's Court the calling or their profession, whose life would be changed expenditure if billions of money, yet the men who thus are to pass Judg ment are paid salaries on a par with the cashier In a New York bank of the hurts that seek Bellevue for re other day. one obstinate man held out against the other and altered If this were once understood and acted upon.— small size.” lief. We are glad to note so uiurked eleven, and caused all the labor of tbe hearing to come to Philadelphia Press. • "I should think that Congress would properly Increase the pay of cabinet a case of the therapeutic value of a naught. In the opinion of the under sheriff, who summed officers.” laugh. Although It marks no new up. there was no point of difficulty to be decided; but. ihousand-Dollar Bills. "My friend, you do not understand Washington life. For over a century discovery, tlie medicinal value of the whether there was difficulty or not. It is amazing that HE recent finding of a thousand-dollar bill has there has been a deadly social feud between the members of tbe Senate and cachlunalory Irruption of laughing one Individual, a twelfth of the whole body, should have brought out the inquiry, How many such bills are the members of the cabinet. Up lo the time of the passage of the presidential William Reilly wan exhibited In such the. power of nullifying the unanimity of the rest. Of there in existence? As a number of correspondents succession act, placing the cabinet In line for succession to the presidency a public and general way that it must course, the Jury Is “the palladium of the Englishman's 11b- have asked us this question, the answer may be of In tlie event of death, the Senators had the best of It, but to-day the wire» ueeds attract attention from our men ertlea,” and as such has furnished many a flowing oratorical general Interest to our readers. According to the tables of the cabinet members carry the trophy flag. There is no Immediate pros of science. Koon we may expect to IM’riod. No one, however, propose» to tamper with tbe "pal prepared by tbe United States Treasury, there were out of the passage of the bill you suggest.”—Washington Star. pect read of laughter sanatoriums, where ladium.” The only change advocated 1» the substitution standing on Jan. 31, 1908. United States notes of the value all dlseaae« are cured without the use of a two-thirds majority for absolute unanimity The of *1,000 each to tbe amount of *28,035,000. Of the treas of medlriue or the employment of sur Scotch have got on very well with a majority system, which gery, wet or dry, and to which a sick applies In England already to coroner's Inquests, and would ury notes of 1890. *5iM,000 was outstanding tn *1.000 bills; I *25,000 was outstanding in national bank notes in snch world may flock at the usual prices of not do any harm at Assizes as well.—Liverpool Mercury. bills; *46.735,500 in gold certificates, and *168,000 In sliver admission -board and lodging extra. certificate». making the grand total $73,515,580, which ; Problem of the Country Towns. would seem to prove that there were outstanding, accord-1 There can be no doubt about It that VERY year or two somebody of an Impulsive turn of Ing to the treasury estimates on Jan. 81 list, 73,315% the mosquito Is an undesirable Immi HE naval program of the British government for the coming flnaocljl mlud publicly discovers that the country towns are *1,000 hills. The greatest amount sf our paper money Is I grant. No objection will be made, year Is bold aud comprehensive, says tbe London correspondent of going to smash, whenever a number of particularly In *10 bills. which foot up to *440.556.992. Then come *5 therefore, to the measures now being tbe Washington Star. Although tbe details of tbe ships to be ordered tough cases have been brought to light, through the bills, amounting to *349.1)94,204. with *20 bill« third, footing taken by the surgeon-general of the are not yet drawn up, it has been derided to order thirty-one new up *336,531.586. These three class«» make np practically courts or otherwise. These prophets of woe are of tbe marine hospital service to prevent him fighting vessels, exclusive of a river gunboat, a new admiralty yacht, same claa« »» travelers whe Judge a city by Its slums two and thirds of the paper money now outstanding. The from landing on our shores. The mos and a surveying »hip. The new program Includes three battleships, three quito 1» Ignorant, vicious, Illiterate, and back streeta. The country town la no annex of realms fourth class is *10,000 bills, the fifth (100, tbe sixth *1, armored cruisers, four »couts, fifteen destroyers, ten submarines and two filthy. He baa no adeeming qualities. celestial. It has Its toughs sometimes. Its degenerates occa the seventh *1,000, the eighth *50, the ninth *2. and the coast guard cruisers. Even the “forward group.” who desire the navy to As a usual thing, vicious people have re sionally. aud Its »hare of no-account folk», like the city tenth *5,000. The great bulk of tbe ones and twos, and be Increased at the expense of the army, will be satisfied at tbe estimate», deeming virtues and virtuous people Only a few of them, to tie sure, but police supervision being even the fives, are silver certificates. More than half of which propose a net Increase of the naval expenditure of £3,250,000, com have vexatious faults. The mosquito necessarily limited, moral lapaes sometimes become pro the tens are United States notes, while national bank notes pared with the last year. lias a character which Is a monotonous, nounced and offensive, yet much less so than would happen and gold certificates make up the bulk of tbe twenties. Be Exclusive of £1.250,000 met by appropriations, tbe total expenditure will unrelieved black. Jim Daly, the miner, In tbe cities were the restraints squally lax. The big cities yond tbe thousand dollar limit there 1» practically nothing be £34.500,000. The personnel will be 127,000, a net Increase of 4.600, for according to his epitaph, “did some without a traln-jd police force would be scarcely endurable, but gold certificates, the only other paper money, according which £619,000 Increase Is taken. The biggest Increase, however, Is £2J50,- things that were menn," yet, accord as places of residence. However, such comparisons do not to the treasury table, being three United State« notes, two 000 for new construction, principally in contract work. Tbe Item for arm ing to the same epitaph, he also “did disprove that room for country Improvement exists, espe- for *5,000 each and one for *10,000.—Boston Herald. aments has decreased by £150,300 to £3,250,000, but there Is an Increase ot other things that were meaner.” His nearly £500,000 In works. character had lights and shades. Va Those who have complained In the past tbat the naval authorities appear rlous birds which have been accused of smallest horse in world . to have been asleep while other countries were making a great fuss over Injuring crops have been able to prove Lilliputian Twenty-Two Inches High, the doings of their submarines will be particularly pleased with the state that they also destroyed noxious In Weighing Hev»nty-Three Pound*. ment explaining the navy estimates. The admiralty have been active in sects. The mnn who la convicted of a What Is undoubtedly the smallest the matter of submarines and before long England should have a nice little corrupt political record always pays horse In the world, says tbe Los An- fleet of these queer craft. A year ago five of these vessels were under any people understand In a vague way that the purest American the rent for the poor widow In the next geles correspondent of tbe Buffalo construction and they have been delivered. strain of tbe United States Is found In the Southern States. In some block. The man who gambles away his News, has Just been brought to Tam Trials will shortly commence to test their practical utility both for of these tbe proportion of foreign born Is a minute fraction. Of wife's property la always willing to plco, Mexico, by Tablato Esposito aud defense and attack, and one may expect to hear some interesting details course, tn the Atlantic coast and gulf line States there Is a large black lend a flver to some poor wretch who 1» sold to A. J. Morrlaon. of Los Angele». Meanwhile four vessels of an improved type have been laid down »nd mixture, but In the Api*alachlan Mountains the white Anglo-Saxons are found dow n on hla luck and hasn't any money Cal., for a large price. Thls Tom It Is hoped they will be completed before the end of March 1 I One of almost pure. This is an enormous region, stretching from Pennsylvania to to bet on the next day'» races. So ev« ry Thumb of equines, which la approprl- the four has so far advanced that preliminarv trials have begun but se Mississippi and making up the mountalu hinterland of nine States that front kind of creature offers » -me kind of atcly uaiued "Llllputlan.” stands Just crecy Is maintained as to the results. Evidently they have bTen satisfac on the ocean and on great navigable rivers. »<M-lal service to be weighed In the bal high enough to reach to bls owner's tory, for It is proposed to build ten more. The President of Berea College, which lies near the Kentucky mountains, ance against Illa personal offenses. The knees and weighs only seventy three describes these people In a recent lecture In the North as “ our contemporary mosquito Is tlie exception, lie carries pounds, though fat aud plump. The malaria and yellow fever. He sting» pony la 7 years old and la 22% Inches ancestors." Tbe phrase describes them like a picture. These mountaineers, to DON’T DROP BEHIND. the numtier of several mlllloqa. are living In the precise manner and amid destructive weapons of war are life Even Ills extraordinarily large family, —five and a half hands tall. almost forgotton conditions of colonial times. Industrially the women retain saver» and peace-preservers; bow the which might commend him to the pres Lilliputian has a history that is al No Woman Should Lose Her Hold Upon telephone will affect morals and elevate Identlal clemency, doe» not seem to most as remarkable as his diminutive the art of the spinning wheel and hand loom; the men are clever In the use Progress and Growth, the standard of honor; how the arc lifM tn at people to be an argument In his size. The Mexlcau who disposed of of the whip saw for getting out lumber and the baud mill for grinding corn. Oftentimes one bears a woman com favor. There Is a utmnlinona sentl kriin claims he stole the animal nnd as The mountain stills use the primitive methods of the last century and the plain that she is losing her hold on serves as good police; how the elev»:or mountain potteries make open lamps in which grease Is burned with a is affecting social problems by piling ment for his exclusion from this coun he Immediately disappeared there progress—that she' hasn't time to read floating wick Intellectually they have rather degenerated than developed one city on top of another; how th» try. Even the liberty mongers of Bos seems to be no reason for doubt lug and to keep up generally. from the Scotch-lrlah ancestors of the eighteenth century, but they have ton will hardly venture to make quota the assertion. The wily senor, It ap Why has she dropped behind? Some ocean cables, the telegraph and wire retained strict, though narrow, religious Ideas. tion» from Lincoln to prove that no man pears, got Lllllputlan from an lulaud women do not. Under any circum less telegraphy are creating new world What la to be the future history of these colonial Americans of pure Is good enough to ham|H-r the off th« coast of South America, be stances. amid any surroundings, they conditions which are producing a new movement* of a free born, independent tween Guatemala and Samoa. The blood, hardly changed for five generatlona. who thrive and multiply in lonely develop. Take them into a log cabin world-life, and bow the bicycle and the Insect which may belong to an Infe natives there worship pretty little homes, only a day's Journey from modern civilized life? They have phys’eal In the wilderness and they return to automobile, by securing for us better vigor and latent intellectual power The few Individuals like Andrew Jack- rlor race but la neverthehws possessed horses and keep them constantly civilisation aud talk so delightfully roads, will not only Increase the wealth, of Indefeasible powers of self govern guarded on a high cliff. Esposito took son and Lincoln who have risen out of tbe mass have left the strongest mark about their experiences that everyone but also improve the intellectual and upon onr national life and history It Is a common question. In playing with ment. Let the anti moaqulto Immigra this and another dwarf tbe two envies them the chance of tbe wilder moral life of the country, but the Unfits tion edict be enforced as strictly as pos • mallest be could find -and made historic analogies, where the Imrbarfans are to come from to renew decayed ness and tbe Joys of the log cabin, In of this article forbid. American civilisation as the Teutonic tribes renew that of Rome Perhana If Inventions are to be measured by slble. • their success one finds a hint of the away with them by lowering them th»y will pour down, when the time la ripe for them, out of this mountain possibility of catching up with the their effects, by far the greatest in the j from the cliff with a rope. lie was backbone of the continent. Minneapolis Tribune. GIRI AN ADIPI LASSO IHROMIR. procession, and keeping up with it. too. history of the world was the Invention botly pursued. Before reaching Mex- What is their secret of progress, where of the steam engine. In 1769. the same than One of the pretti»»! girl» In the Ok- Ico tbe other horse, less hardy the Philippines can hardly be over other women fall out of tbe line of year In which the Duke of Wellington "»team and swelter In Its own atmos lahoma Territory Is Mlns Agnes Mul Lilliputian, died. and Napoleon Bonaparte were hot®- estimated, as recent statistics place the phere." the locations brat adapted to advance? , The tiny pony came near being eaten hall, 21, daughter of Zack Mulhall, James Watt patented his steam engine world's demand for cacao (exclusive of the growth of the plant, tbe soli. It, One woman, relates Harper's Bazar, up the other day by a big black maned general live stock agent of the Frisco, which was destined to exert more influ local consumption! at 200.000,000 who lived In the most out-of-the-way drainage and preparation. and leading cattle mau. She and her lion that bad been on exhibition In ence in shaping the world s future tin* pound*. value! at more thau *30.000. place in all Texas for some ten years, ls>s Angeles Tbe lion was In his cage The cacao, relatively to the size of slater Jennie lead the society of the 000 In gold. There Is little danger of tbe tree, may be planted cloaely. for It and came back more charming than both of these great captains put tir town of Mulhall. which was named and Lilliputian was browsing nearby overproduction, and consequent low rejoices In a close, moistureladen at- she went, explained it thus: “I never gether. From the beginning, man b»a on straw that had been scattered after their father. Both girls sre typl- about. Tbsre was an opening In the prices, for many years to come. So far mosphere and thus permits a <• loser let either my dress or my mind get had to struggle with nature for bls W* cage where the keeper could put In a as known, the areas where cacao pros planting than would be admissible careless. There is a great deal In 8he scorched him; she frosted him; ’•* girding up ones loins, as tbe Bible starved him; she smote him with dis bucket of water. The lion reached per» In the great equatorial lone are with any other orchard crop. smalt and the opening and develop advises, and keeping them girded. ease; she overawed and terrorised b ® hls heavy paw through and caught Once loosen everything and you dis her winds buffeted him; her wst«1 The Poor Horse Rubbered. LIHIputlan i by the tall. The little tel meat of suitable region» has altogether low gave a i kick and a squeal and part failed to kepe pace with the demand. * "“!d ,b* obs*>'T«nt lady solve In sloth, and lose ground before drowned him. Before her lightning’- ed with a handful of hair and flesh Cacao Is cultivated nearly every to the cabby, a» sbe handed him the you know IL” She was determined her floods, her cataract», her «'*•’ Mick. Mr. Morrison's bulldog, went to where In the archipelago It Is known strictly legal fare "that your poor not to drop behind, and. having the anches, her tempestuous seas, be •** the rrecue 1 and seized the lion by the In several provinces In l.uaon. In Mln hor,« ha» got a large blist.r on the will, she found the way. She kept up powerleM. Against the triraaurel»* under lip In the mix tip Lilliputian dauao. Jolo. Bastian. Pansy. Negros. •Mr of hl. neck. Do br careful with her correspondence with many friends, force« of nature he could oppose onf subscribed for a New York newspaper' bls puny arm. On that arm be » escaped I He 1» Intended for a family Cebu. Bohol and Maabate. and Its pre» hlui. wont you’" "Yes mum.” the C cabby replied; “he and read It regularly, even If a trifle rely to wrest from her his food ■ pet at Mr. Morrison's home In lais An eura can be reasonably predicated grie» upon all the larger Inland» anywhere hurt hlsself turning around •o often to late, and studied with so much inter raiment, and shelter. Such was tbe under an elevation of l.CMM) or possibly «re If any kind hearted °M party eat the life of tbe far-away spot where equal contest for long thousand* CACAO IN PHILIPPINES. she lived. Its people. Its animals. It» year». But to-day nature Is tnan ’ — 1.>M) meters In most cacao producing would glv» uie an extra c copper or two its customs and Incidents, that vant; her mighty forces de bls hlJ_. V.w Hourv» nf Wtaltli l*«v«loped in countries tta cultivation has long »Ince for an extra feed for hlni It did hap plants, when she came back to her Eastern and run bis errands.—Dr. Josiah St the t*l»»<1*. „ surprise,] passed the experimental Stage, and the pen once, and he was *» home i and ‘ talked to her friends about rording to a bulletin of tbe Philip practices that govern tbs management and pleased that be wept tear» In Success. - —-J of joy. it. every Bureau of Agriculture on cacao of a well ordered cacao plantation are ■y * woman of them sighed and n"T\’ ’hlnk ” Mid. * “ rk * Oh. what an opportunity you culture the cacao grown In tbe archl as clearly defined an are those of an em all into one spot, and they A Human Candle. prlago la of such excellent quallty tbat orange grove In Florida or a vineyard •ubsidci yet.- U,n,Ion Tit Rita ala t had in bring there!" Instead of com- Candidate for Mayor-l h*v« niiserating her for having been a thou something beside a candle that <■ there I» keen rtvalry among buyer» to tn California. MISS AOSrS Ml LHAlL sand miles from a woman's club. procure II at an ad va ne» of fully 80 An Engravers Feat swer ’ at old riddle. “Tbe^loM*" In wldoly scattered localities the stands the shorter It grows A» engraver of Odessa has enrr.r~* cat products of the West, and can ride per cent oser the prlce of tbe conimon done observer will find In ths Philip GREATNESS OF INVENTIONS. n,.n Friend-What I. It? her and throw the lasso In expert style export grades of the Java bean, not pi nee many young trees that tn vigor, tbe entire Russian national hymn Candidate for Mayor-A ’ Mias Agne» is the recognised champion wltlistaudlng the fallure on the part of <-olor and general health leave nothing a grain of corn, and recrntli Tr « Mes.ur. Their Mrvlce to «octet, The longer be stands fer offle» - horsewoman of the Territory, and won the Flilp'no to •proessa" it ta any way to be desired, and with due precaution •ented tbe curiosity fo th, c 1« Infloeacsoa CivUlaatimi. shorter he grows Inanclally. first prize» at tournament» at Oklaho In parta <<f Mindanao and K«gn>a. am! with clone overnight there Is no majesty ba» now forward.d to hi The greatness of inventions Is meas ma City and Memphis. Tenn. Although desplte lll treatmeM or no treaiment reaw'n why growing cacao may net tbraoqh tbr Clvtl Governor ot a ured not by tbelr Ingenuity nor by the more American. her father has a palatial home at Nt. tbe plant exblblta a luxuriance of become one of the most profitable hor • Fold w.tcb .nd chafe. wttb hta fortunes they make for tbelr oriitn- J.apauese Calendar» ftw Ixtala. Mo., Miss Mulhall spends much growtb and «ealtb of prodoctlveonn» rtcnltnrel etiterpeleeo ’hat can engage thanks for carrying oat »nch a labo- •t n> .» others, for that 1» a small mat- Oue of the prettiest caht-d- » a tbat dem«>n»trate« It» entier fltne»» to the attention of planters In the Philip rioua undertaking. • of her time on the ranch. ter. but by tbe service which they ren be ->>n»ldered • valuable crop tn tboB» ptnea The bulletin treats of climatlc year balls from Japan It * der to 25.*!? society ,nd sod by h» ,b > k . ** i . ■_> ___ The man who thinks hls wife Is Influence with quaint Oriental jingle* i»i •' A young man sometimes gets a ferlons coedltioM necessary for ths best de- tn hls fault» M saUUed to at blind f ? ,iOa 1 h ‘ d 1B '*ndedPtherw I bad intended? there- TU» importance of cacao gren'ng ta other f're. to interpret briefly some of the book which 1» inustrate^by Jo 0 plump refusal from a atender girl. vslopment of the cacao, which loves to think* | mat Intentions, to »bow bow tbe arat artists and printed on tbe <1« 1 P«»W. M T T ENGLAND’S NAVY TO BE INCREASED BY ADDITION OF THIRTY-ONE NEW VESSELS. E T AMERICANS OF PURE BLOOD STRAIN ARE FOUND IN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS. M