IN THE YEARS TO COME.
8 H O O T BIG B E A R IN C A V E .
T h r e e 'H u n t e r s H a v e I - iv e ly
e n ce on M o u n t H o o d .
••If you’re not good, a great, big Jap will eat you up.’
— Cincinnati P ost
PLEA
FOR
EARLY
M AR RIAG ES
K n g lin h S c i e n t i s t A i l v i . e s M e n t o D o
L o v e - M a k in g W h ile Y o u n g .
In the flrst of a series of lectures on
“ The Evolution of Man," delivered at
University College, London, Prof.
Chalmers Mitchell referred to the
modern tendency to defer the age of
marriage, and said that this was phy­
siologically undesirable. People should
get over their love-making early in
their history. Then, when they have
become sane, they should turn to the
more serious problems of Improving
themselves and doing the work of the
world.
"There Is no doubt” said Prof.
Mitchell to a I-oinlon Graphic Inter­
viewer, "that our statistics show that
early marriages are out of fashion, ex­
cept among the poor. Economic and
social conditions generally prohibit
most men from marrying before they
reach the nge o f 30. To my mind this
Is a bad thing for the well-being of the
nation.
"The social philosopher Metchinkoff
has endeavored to prove that the age
o f maturity may be considerably pro­
longed, and that the life of natural
decay may be considerably postponed.
There Is no reason he thinks, why. In
the future, a man may not produce
his best work up to the age of 90 or a
hundred. Instead of becoming senile
so early as he now does. At present,
however, according to our pathological
knowledge, very few men are In a per­
fect state of health after the age of,
say, 3ft. They have traces of gout, of
anaemia, o f blood troubles, and the ef­
fects o f smoking and drinking. It is.
therefore. Inadvisable that they should
marry when they have reached that
stage of life. It seems to me far better
that they should do so when they are
practically cuildren, and get over the
disturbance o f love so early that they
may use their full powers for the other
business of life, when they they are In
the finest physical condition.
"W e have got too much into the be­
lief that the various states of life are
fixed. But experiments with frog-llke
creatures and other animals show that
the reproductive nge may be rushed
either backward or forward. I nm not
at all sure whether the state should
not endeavor to push the marrying ace
of men and women forward, helping
young people to marry early. If they
are physically wound, hy giving
a
bounty on healthy children of a high
standard, while handicapping. If pos­
sible. the physically unfit
"There Is no doubt.” continued Prof.
Mitchell, "that loTe absorb* a great
deal of the energies of nny man and
woman of a good Intellectual and mor­
al standard. Biology teaches us that
love has a profound Influence upon the
body and brain while the passion lasts.
And personally I think that the ‘grand
passion’ Is essential to the highest
birth supply. In that wny the novels
which do much to foster this psycho­
logical turmoil have a healthy Influ­
ence. I do not approve of the man of
35, who, meditating over hls pipe,
comes to the conclusion that It Is time
be should marry, and calmly looks
round for a wife. That Is not love 1*
the highest sense. The grand pas­
sion’ is a fever which, as I have said,
should be got over and done with In
youth.
"But all our social economy and our
educational system Is pushing the age
of marriage steadily backward In life.
Our polytechnics and evening classes,
and university extension lectures, and
all that sort of thing, tend to keep
young men and women still unmarried.
O f course, my theory reduces Itself to
the somewhat startling suggestion that
boys should have married before they
go to college. Then comes In the ques­
tion of children, and that raises a big
economic problem; but I fancy some
of our best thinkers and social scien­
tist* are of opinion that some altera­
tion In our social code Is necessary to
promote healthy parentage.”
(tinging In (b e Colton Fields.
Singing Is a part o f cotton picking,
says a Texan, and when you find a
negro who begins to sing and holler
as soon as he bends over the row yon
may know thereby that you hare a
good hand. The negro as a rule works
by music. In no other line of activity
Is the fact so noticeable as In the
cotton patch. Here Is where the ne­
gro must sing If he would meet with
any satisfactory measure o f success.
It Is no loud, discordant howling,
either. It Is music, the like of which
yon cannot bear at any other place, or
under any other circumstances, a low,
soft hum. delicately Intoned, rhythmic,
mellow, soothing, and all the while the
negro’s body swings to and fro over
the cotton row as with bis nimble fin­
ger* he pulls the long white locks from
the boll. I have known a great many
cotton planters who would not hire a
negro cotton picker unless he was sat­
isfied that the negro sang as be
worked.__________ ___________
There ts more money In keeping a
cow than tn keeping s boarder, and
It 1* possible to get one of the former
that doesn't kick.
E x p e ri­
Shootloug a 400-pound black bear In
the darkness of a cave twenty feet
In the side of Mount Hood was the
experience laet week of three Portland
plumbers, says the Portland Orego­
nian, who have returned to the city
with the pelt
The hunters are Fred H. Schindler,
Jesse S. Hayes and Roy C. Maxwell.
It was three days out from Portland
that the party stumbled upon the
bear’s den. Just after lunch they saw,
behind a large rock, an opening about
six feet deep. Maxwell dropped in­
side, the others following. A candle
was lighted and fresh bear signs were
discovered. A fter going in fifteen feet
they found that the cave widened out
and pitched downward. Hayes was
In the lead.
By this time the hunters were In
darkness, except for the flickering
light of the candle. Hayes was sure
he had heard a bear moving about, so
the trio proceeded with fear and trem-
bllnd. They had come all the way from
Portland to hunt bear, but to steal
along in the semi-darkness o f the in­
terior o f Mount Hood was not on the
program as arranged.
When the party had walked 300 feet
from the entrance and were down In
the earth at least 200 feet, at the same
Instant all three heard the sound of
claws on the rocky floor and saw two
green eyes glaring at them, the bear
fearing to approach nearer to the light.
Hayes fired instantly. The report was
deafening, but as nitro-smokeless pow­
der was used there was no suffocating
smoke. There was a half-stifled roar
from the bear, and the hair of each
man went straight tip. Fearing an on­
slaught, all fired a volley o f three
shots each and awaited developments
on the part o f bruin. But the bear
was dead. H a lf the shots had been
wasted.
Not only the pelt was secured, but
twenty-five pounds of meat as well.
Bear meat at this season, however. Is
a I moat useless for food. No attempt
was made to explore the remainder of
the cavern.
Ayers
When the nerves are weak
everything goes wrong. You
are tired all the time, easily
discouraged, n erv o u s, and
irritable. Y ou r cheeks are
Sarsaparilla
pale and your blood is thin.
Your doctor say s you are
threatened wi t h a nervous
breakdown. He orders this
grand old family medicine.
“ For more than 50 vears I have used Ayer's
Sarsaparilla in my family. It is a grand tonic
at all times, and a wonderful medicine for im
pure blood.” —D. C. H o l t , West Haven, Conn,
#1 00 a bottle.
J. c. a y * r co „
All druggists. —
— Lowell, Mass,
for
Weak Nerves
K**ep the bowe ls reg ular w ith A y e r ’s
Pills, Just one pill e a ch night.
T a k en ut H i» W o rd .
Mr. Newly— We don’t appreciate
things we get for nothing. Everybody
likes the tilings best that cost the
most.
Mrs. Newly—Then you must love mo
a great deal, because I ’ve heard you
say that you paid very dearly for me.
— Detroit Free Press.
C For A Infants
S T and
O Children.
R i A
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature o f
Tact.
The lovely girl hesitated.
"T ell me, Mr. Tbrogson,” she said,
“ am I the flrst girl you ever loved T”
“ I ’ll be honest with you, Miss Eu­
W H A T R E A L S E L F C O N T R O L l a nice,” replied the young man. "You
are not. But you are far and away
N o t M e r e ly R c p r e u l o n o f O n t w s r d E x ­ the most beautiful."
p r e s s io n o f W r o n g F e e lin g s .
The rest was easy.—Chicago Trib­
To most people self-control means une.
the control of appearances and not the
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L ucas COUNTY,
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N o ta ry Pu blic.
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“ AH Signs Fall In * Dry Tim e’*
the man I bate Is counterbalanced by
T H E
SION OF T H E FISH
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sion and a very common Instance of
tlighfst iwanl World's Fair, 1904.
this may be observed in the effort to
control a laugh.
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to struggle out of It by the aid o f a
friendly band.— Zion’s Herald.
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