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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1904)
EXPLOSION OF SUBMARINE MINE. r 3m A , i LITTLE STORIES AND INCIDENTS ( RoldUr Ileetlc. There are belles tu England (of tin family known to scientists Tele phorlado) that are popularly railed sol dlers anil sailors, tlia red specie being ml I i-d by the former name and tho blue apevlca by ttm latter. Theso bee tles are among the most quarre!onit of Inserts and fight to the death on the least provocation. It ha long been the eualoin among Engllnb boy to catch and net them fighting with web. other. They are aa ready fur tmttle aa game rock, and the victor will both kill and eat bis autagonlat Nicholas. Frank Lowell' kefcrence. Aunt Martha, young Dr. Snow's maiden sister, aat by the north whi tlow knitting and watching the boy 4-oinn and go. Dr. Snow had advertised for an offieo boy a lioy "honest, kind mid capable." A rior.cn or more boya lind ronio and gone, but at laat one anii, smaller thun any of tho other. Ill blue eye were frank, hi face lulling, hi whole air hopeful; but be, A WORTHY The Junior If President Roosevelt guess I can. Minneapolis Journul. too, waa rejected. He was too small, and had no reference. Aunt Martha stropped her knitting and started to Iter feet when she saw him go out. . "Call that boy back, Arthur!" Her brother went to the door obedi ently, and whistled, for he did not know the boy's name. When the latter turned his pale, dlanppolnted fuce Dr. Know beckoned to him. "Come In," ho said, shortly; "my lster wants you." "Sit down, my dear," she aald kind ly. He ant down near her. "What Is your mi me?" she asked. "Frank Ixwell." "Well," she continued, "I was nt tb''J . Any boy of to-dny who labors under the Impression that his life Is a hard one should make It his business to luTn something about the methods Kiictlsed in the schools of long ago. As late as 1831 "the pupils of the Rto-.it schools of Eton and Winches ter were forced to rise at five In the inornlug, to make their own beds and to wash nt tho pump In the courtyard. They bad nothing to eat until nine o'clock. Their chief diet consisted of poor mutton, potatoes and beer. Htnrvlng, freezing and flogging were nn expected pnrt of the dully routine, with tho additional miseries rutnllod by the fugging system. Sidney Smith nays that he suffered so many years of starvation and misery at Winches ter that be never could blot out tho memory. Hnrslier still was the treat ment in the mora ancient schools, u'd cd by the stern homo discipline. Peter, the son of the worshipful Sir Willnm Cnrew, was sont to lodge with onp Iluito while he attended a grammnr-Bchool at some dlstnnce from Ids home. A servant brought tho Ind nnC delivered lilm to his host us 'If be were a criminal. "My master says, 'Keep a sharp eye on him, und flog lihn If he does wronjr.' M Freer, the schoolmaster, was n' hard man. Daily he showered the boy with rnH blows. No marvel that Peter Hied the safe retreat of the woods better than the schoolroom. In vain Hulte lectured, and in vain Freer flogscd. Tbe boy constantly played truant und would not learn. Once IIulte bunting for him, found him established by a buttress of the city wiill, rondlng. "0 varlet I have caught you!" he exclaimed. But Peter bounded up and climbed to tho top of the wall. "Let me ber be cried. "If you rres me I shall surely enst myself headlong over the wall, and then That Will Interest and Entertain Younf Readers. Arlington a few ilaya ago waiting for a friend. Aa I looked out of the win dow I bow my friend Her lianda were ao full of package that h dropped one, and w ith It herpur. Shu uld not know It, but a boy picked up tho package and purse and gave thein to liur. She wanted to reward him, but ho wouldn't acept anything. Did you know that loy. Frank Y' Aunt Martha continued "Yea," ho aald, bla face fluahlng with embarrassment "lie waa honeat, waan't be7" she questioned. "All boya ought to be," aald Frank, meekly. , "Hut all boy are not," she answer ed. "That 1 what my brother wants an honeat boy." Dr. Know realized that after all hta alater waa not crazy. Hut by tula time alio was telling another atory. "It waa laat week, one windy day," alio waa anylng, "und I had Jnat atepped out of a ator., when I anw mi old womnu standing on tho corner. EXAMPLE. can get along without tobacco, I Just then there appeared the boy who had picked up my friend's purse. V heard him say, 'I'll help you acroaa the street, ma'am,' and he did." Frank rose as If to go, but Aunt Martha aald: "Just wait a minute. I've found out that the boy has been taking care of Ms mother, who la a widow, and Is sick. He haa kept the wolf from the door for two yenrs." "Well, luddle," aald the doctor, srall lng down into the small race, "my (rood sister Is your reference, I see, and could not nuk n better one. If you'll stny with me, consider yourself cn gaged." Morning Star. shall break my neck, and thou slialt bo hanged!" Reports were sent to Sir William of his son's wilfulness. The father came it once, accompanied by a servant having n -o!lar and chain. No word passed between the father nnd son. The collar was put about the boy's neck, and be was led by the servant Hko a dog through the streets. When home wns reached he was not allowed to enter tho house, but was chained In n kennel with a hound, and kept theie for days and nights. What wonder be was "still more desirous of liberty than of learning!" It is pleasant to know that the next master in wnoso cnarge retcr was placed wns a sensible and kindly man. 1 I - 1. n . who kept tho boy so busily and hap p'.ly engaged that he became a docilo lad, nnd grew up to be a line man in after years ho was Sir Peter CYrew, a gentleman of worth und mink, n friend of King Henry III Not Whnt She Einected. An English lord was recently dining with a family In New York. The host- ess' little girl sat opposite the lord and stared solemnly. "Are you au English lord, really and truly, sir?" she said at last "Yes." he answered, lauehlncr. "real- ly and truly." "I never saw an English lord be fore," she said. "I've always wanted to. "And now you're satisfied, aren't you?" Bald the yuong man, gayly. "No, I'm not. satisfied," responded the little girl. "I'm disappointed." Real Friend of Ireland. Teacher Who was the best friend Ireland ever had? . Irish Scholar 01 don't Just new re- member, but he discovered Amerlky. Town Topics. When the leap-year girl achieves a husband she seldom achieves anything great . When a man la In the right he can afford to remain silent. PRJSiOtNT KOOSCV.ELT, law In all the annul of conflict between nation there la recorded no more deadly or Inhuman Instrument of warfare than tbe aubmarine mine such ea blew up the Ituaalan flagahlp Fetropavlovsk and the Japanese battleship IlatauM. The submarine mines In the Tort If placed there by the Russia na to prevent Ingress of the enemy's ahlpa to their harbor have proved a dangerous preservative. That the late Admiral Malta ro ft realized this Is Indlc nted by the thorough examinations of the har bor which he caused to be tnde shortly before the terrible fatality which befell him and the crew of bla flagship. certain of tbe location of mines placed Neither the Russians nor tue Japanese feel secure in the movements of their ships In and about tbe fateful locality of the submerged mlnea in the roadstead before Tort Arthur and that part of the Yellow Sea contiguous to it The danger to merchantmen sailing seems not to have been considered by When hostilities between Rnssla made undoubtedly to clear the mine can never be accomplished with any do tbe mines extend that It may not and those that have gone adrift will an Indefinite time. NEW WAY TO TELL TIME. This Clock Will Show the Exact Hour and Minute In Klg-nres. With all the modern products of the twentieth century clockmakers before the world and clocks and watches no longer a luxury, It seems somewhat surprising, aa well aa audacious, for any one to declare that he will pro nounce all clocks "back numbers" and revolutionize all systems of recording the hours, minutes and seconds as they go fleeting past Yet a man from Connecticut the home of the clockmakers and, the land of clocks, has the precocity to make such an announcement He is not a clockmaker, but Just a plain Yankee genius. Samuel Powers Thrasher, of New Haven, Conn., has an invention that bids fair to make Yankee clockmakers CLOCK SHOWS TIME IH FIOURKB. creen wlt Ty.' J.n t&1' M' T1,ra8h,er proposes 10 ieu uiuc iu uguiva same as we read on the time tables of every road In the country. No long?r would he have us say It Is "quarter of 8" or "half-past 2." but as we look at hl9 Invention he proposes and insists that we must say 2:45 or 2:30. In the twentieth century bustle and bustle this proposal seems likely to meet with more than mere approval. Mr. 'inrnsu- er proposes to reconstruct the familiar face with which Father 'lime has weeu wont to remind us of tho passing hours and do away entirely with the cualnt old dial with its Roman numer als in use from the middle nges, and likewise take away the old clock s hands. Instead of pointing the way and letting us figure out the time foi" ourselves, Mr. Thrasher's new tlmi I piece will tell'us in plain figures at a glance Just what time it Is. It will be no more trouble to tell the hour, th minute and the second than to read the A, B. C's or see at a glance In tho time tables the hour and the minute. Any one with eyes and the ability to use them can tell time, and a mere comparison wlth'a time table and a knowledge of figures and the ability to read them will be the only essential to know the precise moment when a train is supposed to arrive or depart or any event is to take place. Three seta, of figures, one each for the hours, the tens and the units of minutes, revolving on separate rolls with measured accuracy and appear v 1 fir A". -J'L. .A'- . ' i. ' - - . J. Artliur roadstead are Innumerable, and As hla report showed, he was not by his own order. In tbe Yellow Sea is obvious, but the combatants. and Japan are over an effort will be from tbe paths of navigation, but this guarantee of security to vessels. So far be possible to account for all of them, remain as a menace to navigation for lng in a given space at the proper time, give us the hours and minutes on this wonderful new clock. A pointer con stantly traveling in a half -graduated circle tells the exact seconds. The pointer and the rolls Interlock and the whole Is Impelled by a device which Is simpler than the simplest clock mech anism ever made, which seems Impos sible to get out of order and never needs-winding. . Handicapped by Ignorance. Andrew Lang has read a book by George Ade, which, he says, was given him by a scholar of more than Euro pean reputation to fill a gap In hla philological knowledge. He complains about It In the London News, assum lng that some of the language in the book does not convey Ideas to him. The book Is "Fables In Slang." Mr. Lang professes not to know what a steamer rug" Is, nor what Mr. Ade's young man meant when be warned a waitress in a restaurant that unless she was careful "some one would sign her as a spotted girl." Why are spotted girls signed? asks Mr. Lang. Among other words and phrases that perplex him he mentions "Josher." "craft" cinch," "a one-night stand," " rube town," "a four-fiu9h drummer," "a root er from the days of underhand pitch lng." In the last expression he sus pects an ingredient of baseball, and professes to wonder if a "rooter" is equivalent to a "daisy-cropper." He quotes from Mr. Ade: "She could get away with any topic that was batted up to her, and then slam It over to sec ond In time to head off the runner," and makes surmises about what Is meant Reading of a lad who learned to shoot craps, he balks at "craps," and wants to know- what they are. So he oes along, and finally declines to ad in it that Mr. Ade's deliverances have amused him. But by his own admls slon they were given to him to Increase his learning rather than his Joy. An Organ Without Stops. There is a man living in an Eleventh street flat who has no music in his soul, and there Is a man on the lower floor whose soul is full of it The lower floor man not long ago added a four lung parlor organ to his lares and penates, and two healthy daughters of Ids began to practice on it. Several nights later a friend paid a visit to the first man, and as soon as he got lnstdo the apartment he htard the parlor organ on the lower floor. "Fine-toned Instrument that," he (-aid, because he, too, had some music in his soul. The uiuslcless man grunted. "W:hose make is It?" the visitor nBked. "Don't know," was the ungracious answer. "How many stops has It?" - The host pulled himself up for a powerful effort "Well," he replied, "It's been in the house for about a week now, and In that time It hasn't had any that I have been able to discover." Girls, brace up and get busy; it's long time between leap years. , . j - ;i l, ,. r'zzr ". , Woman In tbe Middle West. The social picture of the mlddlo West as a whole, however, presents the kexes occupying different Intellect ual and moral planes. There the worn- bn Is Indisputably the mistress In all that makes for culture culture In let ters and In art; the man U king In his own active realm. Fach Is moat def erential to the other In that other's sphere. The books on the shelves, the picture on tbe wall, are of the worn an's choice or selection. Tbe man speak of her literary or artlatlc tastes, tiaually of both combined, with tbe reverence that Is due to her superior Intellectual and spiritual gifts and ac quirement. She Is tbe hostess, and tbe host stands appropriately behind her. She la the Instructed and leads the Intellectual movements of her town. Tbe book club, the Dante club, the entertainer of the lecturing or the traveling lion, la the woman. Often tbe clergyman assists; but she, through her Influence over the surrendered man, has selected her clergyman, and on her he must count for the success of himself and of bis work. She is, indeed, generous and gracious, and welcomes with Joy every man who strays from business Into the company of books and plcturea, into homes which she has made. They call their houses homes, oftener than the East, and these homes bespeak the finer taste of the woman. Her education is likely to be more virile than that of her Eastern sisters, because It Is ac quired at schools and colleges where co-education of the sexes is the rule, Her domination In the home and her primacy In the higher life, aa we are inclined to call It are seen not only in the more obvious social affairs, but In the element of seriousness which marks most life In this midway of the country. As the man pays her high respect by recognizing her superiority In the kingdom of taste, of feeling, of tbe imagination, of the knowledge which comes from books, she returns his def erence by venerating him as the active ruler of the world of affairs. This atti tude was well expressed by a young woman student in one of the great edn cation universities of the West She was asked to write her view of Thomas Jefferson, and this was her response: Thomas Jefferson was timid and sly, but lovely in his family." She could judge him as one of the "world of men," because she was not of his fam ily; if she had been, the last part of her description alcne would have suf flced. Henry Loomls Nelson in Har per's Magazine. Collar and Cuff Bet. A pretty collar and cuff , set, to be worn with one's silk shirt waist suit or dainty blouses, la made of filet net similar to wash blond, or "footing." Tbe filet net comes by the yard and 1 just the right width for turnovers. Five-sixths of a yard is sufficient for set The edges are bound with COLLAB AND CUFF 6tT. taffeta silk binding ribbon, of some shade to harmonize with the suit About an eighth of an inch above this another row of the binding ribbon is placed (both rows are machine-stitched to the net), the two being connected by fagoting In embroidery silk. A Noble Woman. An unusual ceremony took place In New Orleans, when many thousand persons from every walk of life gath ered to do honor to a woman. A loving-cup was presented to Miss Sophie Wright whom her fellow townsmen love to call "The First Citizen of New Orleans," and the presentation was made the occasion for a public demon stration of affection. Miss Wright is a little, crippled woman, white-haired and sweet-faced. All her life she had been struggling against poverty and against the never ceasing pain of a spinal trouble. Able to go about only with the aid of a steel harness and a cane, she still has the strength of a multitude in doing good works. Twenty years ago she was but a girl of eighteen, yet she had already established a prosperous and growing boarding school, and was beginning to see ahead an end to poverty. One day a young mechanic, nsked her to teach him to read and write. Suddenly brought face to face with the fact that thousands of boys were growing up in New Orleans untaught and with out hope of advancement, she threw her school open to them in the even ing, and called for volunteer teachers from among her girl pupils. Thus was established a free night school to which thousands of men to-day owe all their education. This year it en rolled fifteen hundred pupils, and three hundred were turned away for lack of room. Fighting weakness and pain which would render another a helpless bur- den, she spends her days earning mon ey to support herself and her charity. and her evenings teaching her "boys." Yet with it all she finds time for th countless other demands on her. Ther Is scarcely a charity In the city but feels the inspiration of her aid. Last winter she engineered the raising of seventeen thousand dollars to build a home for crippled children. Her re ward Is In a love from the people of New Orleans such as few have earned. Her life 1 an example of what a noble woman can accomplish. Youth's Com panion. A'ROIITTOF mi 11 The domestic subjects sub-depart ment of tbe new London educational authority does not mean to do things by halves. If they teach young folks how to manage a baby the lessons are to be thorough. No dolls are going tr be used, or picture Illustrations, but a good, honest 3-month-oId Infant, warranted to scream at pin pricks, kick at bathing, and be sick when Im properly fed. Attendance at these do mestic Instruction classes Is compuls ory on all girls of school age for one- half day per week. Results of the most encouraging description have been noticed already from some of the classes. A well-known doctor stated the other day that a woman's life had been saved by the skilled nursing of a 13-year-old danghter, who had been a regular attendant at one of the board school sick nursing classes. Furnishing a Home. It seems a pity that the young wo man who Is about to establish a home and has a sum of money to spend for Its garnishing cannot be persuaded from laying it out all at once. She robs herself of so much future enjoy ment Tbe spick and span sets of furniture which are carelessly ordered from an upholsterer, and carried home and stood around her parlors by his men, will never afford her half the satisfaction she can get In a room for which to-day she buys a chair, and next week, seeing there must be a table to accompany the chair, she starts on a fresh shopping excursion, and finds a table which Is exactly what she was looking for; and in an other month, discovering the need of a bookcase or a screen, she has again the delight of the hunt, and the grati fication of obtaining the prettiest screen and bookcase In the city. Such a room is a growth, a gath ering together,-of household treasures little by little, and piece by piece. Each article, bought only when the need ariBes, or when something Is happily found to Just meet the need, will have family history which makes It an entertaining as well as a valuable pos session. Each couch and footstool la an achievement; each rug and curtain represents a triumph. Such a home, built up gradually, with careful plan ning In each part, with thought and loving consideration In all Its details. acquires a meaning far deeper than could be purchased by the longest purse from the most fashionable cabinet-maker. Housewife. Taking Life Too Seriously. Taking life too seriously Is said to be an especially American falling. This may be true, but Judging from appear ances, it would seem to be world wide. for, go where one may, one will find , the proportion of serious, not to say anxious, faces ten to.one as compared with the merry or happy ones. If "the outer is always the form and shadow of the Inner," and If "the pres ent Is the fullness of the past and the herald of the future" (and how can wo doubt it?) how many sad histories may be read In the faces of those we meet every day? The pity of It Is, too, that the sadness Is a self-woven garment even as Is the Joy with which It might be replaced. Ruskln says, "Girls should be sunbeams, not only to members of their own circle, but to everybody with whom they come In contact. Every room they enter should be brighter for their presence." Why shouldn't all of us be sunbeams, boys as well as girls, all along the way from twenty-five years and under to eighty-five years and over? Home Life. The home life may change, but it will not be disrupted. Nothing can destroy the home life. The more wo men become the equals of men and the more they are considered and treat ed as equals the stronger will the home life become. Women in the home used to be considered as dependents; I might say as incumbrances. Now, with their increased education, ability and opportunities, they are better abla to make the home life1 what It should be. It Is not simply breadmaklng, mending and dishwashing that make, the home, women of to-day are being trained to preside In the home with skill and science, and naturally they are better able, to Improve the home life, to raise Its standard, to make ' Ideal. Susan B. Anthony. i i i i ii a a j
