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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1904)
1 ?l I f s THE TIOOD RIVER GLACIER. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, XOVEMRER 3, 1904. TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER- ESTING ITEMS. Comment and Criticisms Baaed Upon the Happening ot the Uuy His torical and News Notes. We all hold the doctrine of total de pravity as applied to our neighbors. Dowle says he "holds the key of heaven." If he does It's a skeleton , key. W. J. Bryan Is grandfather. Now let us hope that nobody will continue to refer to him as the boy orator. Is It not marvelous how a nation's view as to what Is contraband of war always happens to coincide with Its own interests? The manufacturers who put Iron In life-preservers should have millstones put about their necks and be cast into the ea. "Women smoke? Why not?" asks a correspondent of the New York Times. Because it might give tlieni the tobacco heart. George Meredith expected his re murks on the marriage question to "stir up a devil of a row." But any fool could have guessed that By this time, probably, Gen. Cor bln has learned from the commander-in-chief of the army that It Is not the policy of this administration to dis courage marriages. The report that a surgical operation was necessary to compel Russell Sage to pay out $750 to settle a lawsuit Is ill-founded. It was merely a case of paying $750 or fiiO.OOO. Joaquin Miller, the poet, has become weulthy through the discovery of oil on laud that he owned in Texas. It will surprise some people to hear that a poet can make money even in oil. Britannia not only rules the sea, but within certain limits commands the air and all its waves. A new British postal regulation forbids the use of the air for wireless telegraphy except by license from the postmaster general. Mrs. Pat Campbell was shocked and grieved at the attention which she at tracted when she went shopping In a low-necked gown. It was for the very purpose of avoiding such attention, of course, that she selected that gown to shop in. If some of the people In this country and other countries who are trying to master the new universal language would give their time ami energy to learning English they would acquire a linguistic asset that Is worth talking shout Even in this busy age there are men and women who have plenty of time for almost everything, except what they ought to do. AVhen three Belgian Catholic mis sionaries were murdered in China re cently, the French minister of foreign affairs ordered the French minister In Peking to demand the immediate pun ishment of the murders. This Is not, as it might seem, an unwarranted In terference by France in the relations of Belgium with China, but it Is the performance of a duty laid on France by its agreement with the Koman Catholic Church, under which It exer cises a protectorate over the Catholic missions In the far East. The effectiveness of a navy Is deter mined by the size of the force which It may have to go against. If we are convinced that the United States will never have to measure strength with a bigger nation than Spain, then the present navy Is all sufficient. But if we are to measure strength with Eng land, Germany or France, then we must have more ships and more fight ing power. Measuring strength docs not necessarily mean fighting. The best Insurance a nation can have against war Is such a military superiority that other nations will be loth to attack it. England is supreme as a sea power. She has been exempt from war with every othtT maritime nation. She would be attacked within a year If by any means her navy should become in ferior. How old are you? The adage says that women are as old as they look and men as old as they feel. That's wrong. A man and woman are as old as they take themselves to be. Grow ing old Is largely a habit of the mind. "As a man thlnketh in his heart so is he." If he begins shortly after middle age to Imagine himself growing old he will be old. To keep oneself from decrepitude Is somewhat a matter of will power. The fates are kind to the man who hangs on to life with both hands. He who lets go, will go. Death Is slow only to tackle the tenacious. Ponce de Leon searched In the wrong place for the fountain of youth. It is in oneself. One must keep oneself young Inside. So that while "the outer man perlsheth the inner man Is re newed day by day." When the human mind ceases to exert itself, when there Is no longer an active Interest In the affairs of this life, when the human stops reading and thinking and doing the man, like a blasted tree, begins to die at the top. It is the spiritual part that keeps men alive. Let one give himself over to the lowest forces of his nature and he will soon die of animal ism. Many a man is dead on his feet and Is only walking about to save funeral expenses. He has educated his children, accumulated a competence, accomplished his Ideal and he retires from bis labors in order to linger and die. Death readily accepts the Invita tion. Slowly the world Is learning the secret of longevity. And the average of the years of human life is being raised no less by mind habit than by improved conditions. You are as old as you think you are. Keep the har ness on. Your Job is not done. That there are some conditions con nected with farming which do not per tain to other vocations cannot be gain said. The day laborer, the wage earner, can compute to a certainty his financial status at the and of the day or month. The tradesman knows th,e cost of his stock In trade, the manu facturer of his products, and they can make sales for a certain net profit The teacher, preacher, lawyer, or doc tor, receives a stipulated sum for ser vice rendered. The farmer knows not whether little or much will be his for labor. He may plow and plant seed and till ever so diligently, but frost or rain, beat or drouth, slugs and bugs menace. Should nature smile and re ward with an abundant harvest, his commodities are perishable; he can not long hold for a paying market nor set the price for the present sales. He cannot say, "I will take," but "What will you give." Another, and not he, determines the market value of hla wares. Farm life has ample compen sations, however; there are satisfac tions deeper, enjoyments higher, than can be counted in dollars and cents, says the Agricultural Epltomlst. Coun try life gives a zest for simple pleas ures. And there are the boys and girls with strong, healthy bodies, minds and hearts developed In bright sunshine and pure air, anild the won drous beauty of forest and field. The city with its ceaseless noise and din, Its turmoil and strife, has naught to compare with these lnds and lassies from the farm homes of the land. Im proved roads, the electric car, the tele phone, and rural mall delivery, have brought to the country the advantages of the city without Its temptations. Its vitiated atmosphere, its moll and toll for dully bread. This Is a strenuous age; men rush here and there In their haste to get rich quickly, to gain the present emoluments of trade, of office or position, to reap to-morrow what they sow to-day. This Is not the true, rational philosophy of human life. Na ture Is never impatient, and the farm er works In accord with her plans. But how can we make farm life more attractive? By magnifying our call ing, by shortening the hours of labor, by taking frequent recreation. Let the farmer study his calling, fit him self for his profession as does the doctor, lawyer, merchant or priest. Send the boys and girls to agricultur al colleges, schools of technology, and cooking schools, to develop and train mind and hand under teachers with the best of modern thought and re search, where the chemistry of food nnd the science of agriculture can oe learned, with the Ideas to make of the farm a factory. Thus can we keep the boys on the farm, and the girls, too, bless them. RECONSTRUCTION OF CITIES. American Cities Must Be Rebuilt In This Generation, The urban population of the conti nental United States is now about It), 000,000 and the population outside of cities of 10.000 inhabitants and over Is about 04,000,000. This urban popula tion, also, Is Increasing ut a much more rapid' rate than the other. The esti mate of the census bureau is that the total increase between HKX) and 1003 nearly a half was In these towns. Moreover, Improved methods of trans portation and communication are now extending the suburban area more rap Idly than ever before and making It ur ban In respect of the density of popu lation. We Instance these statistics to bring them in association with other statis tics, gathered by the insurance Engi neering Magazine for the purpose of showing how combustible are our American cities. From this point of view of the insurance people this Is a matter of very grave Importance, for, as that authority says, "the I'nited States has an annual bill to pay for property destroyed by tire ranging from $150,000,000 to $1!(K),IK0,000," and this loss is largely due to the com bustibility of wooden buildings. In Chicago, for example", more tliau half of the buildings are of frame construction. In Newark, a town with a population of nearly a quarter of a million in 1!00, two-thirds of the build ings are frame. Even in Boston the frame buildings are more than two thirds of the whole. In San Francisco more than nine-tenths are frame. That magazine gives a list of about seventy towns in which frame construction pre dominates so greatly that, to use its words, they have a "kindling wood look." The same remark might be made of about all the 438 towns enu merated in the census bureau's com putation of the urban population. In Boston and Chicago the conditions, as this expert authority points out, are favorable to a repetition of the great conflagration from which those towns have once suffered. Now what does this Imply? It Im plies that at least all our more con siderable American cities have got to go through the process of reconstruc tion which has gone on In New York for so many years, and would now be proceeding at a rate more rapid than ever if it had not been checked by building strikes. Architects, builders, stone masons, Iron workers and dealers in materials for iron, stone and brick construction have a great future before them In this country, for practically all our large towns will have to be rebuilt during the next generation, or at least In the next half century. New York Sun. Hatch Fish Under a Hen. The Chinese have a method of hatching the spawn of fish and thus protecting It from those accidents which generally destroy a large por tion of It says the Ames Times. The fishermen collect with care from the margin and surface of water ail those gelatinous masses which contain the spawn of fish, and after they have found a sufficient quantity they fill with it tlie shell of a fresh hen's egg which they have previously emptied, stop up the hole and put It under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days they break the shell In the water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched and are kept in pure, fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into the pond with, the old fish. The sale of spawn for tills purpose forms an important branch of trade In China. When some men talk, one Just nat urally expects them to say something about the Best Ways for making Out Sunday School a Success. . It la bad enough to be old and poor, but so many who are old and poor are also bewildered. I ... . I I yuy I I popu W&ience From experiments in Belgium, Leon Thomas gives reassurance to dwellers a few miles away from stores of high explosives. Various quantities of dy namite up to a ton were exploded, and the destructive effects were confined to radii of fifty to four hundred feet, leading to the conclusion that the greatest store of explosives that could be collected would not endanger life or substantial buildings beyond "one hundred to five hundred yards. Fur ther away.up to three thousand yards, an explosion would give a return shock, with no more serious Injury than bro ken windows or dislodged tiles. The novel theory that the difference In the color of people's eyes is a pro tective adaptation to surroundings comes from Professor Wallace, of Klmberley, South Africa. Natives of regions where blue light Is predomi nant Swedes, Norwegians and sail ors, for instance, have blue eyes, while near the equator, or In sandy lands like South Africa, where Intense yellow light Is experienced, the eyes take a rich dark yellow hue, as those of the Kaffirs and Malays, Italians nnd Spaniards. Generally speaking, the Scotch have blue, the English gray and the French dark eyes. In the new process of D. Engels, carbon for hardening Iron and steel la obtained from carbides and certain fluxes. A mixture of slllelum carbide and sodium sulphate, for example. Is applied to the cold metal, and then heated to redness with It, the reaction being bo rapid that an eight-Inch steel plate is made to resist the best tem pered steel tools on one side, while the other side remains wholly soft. Last year's hydrophobia statistics at the Berlin Institute show that of 281 persons inoculated at once oh be ing bitten by a mad dog, 1 per cent died; of those treated medically, 0 per cent, and of those not treated 11 per cent. With the aid of J 10,000 granted by the Carnegie Institution the Yerkes Observatory has sent an expedition to Mount Wilson near Pasadena, Cal., for special investigations of the sun, under the personal direction of Pro fessor George E. Hale. A horizontal reflecting telescope of 145 feet focal length is to be employed to produce to an image of the sun 16 Inches In diam eter, which will be Investigated with a spectrohellograph of 80 feet focus length. The spectrohellograph Is an instrument with which it is possible to study the solar surface In light of certain selected wave-lengths, the other light being shut out. Thus a photograph of the sun taken with the light emanating only from the calcium vapor In the photosphere presents a very different aspect from that of a photograph taken with the light of the hydrogen vapor. An Interesting parallel Is drawn In a report to the Department of Agricul ture between the different varieties of rubber-trees grown In the tropics and those of maple-trees In this country. Out of about 1,000 varieties of trees, all of which produce more or less rub ber sap, only 40 or 50 have been found whose product Is commercially valu able. When a would-be cultivator of rubber goes to a tropical country and sets out a plantation of rubber-trees, which the natives know do not belong to the right variety, he causes amused comment, such ns would be excited by a South American who came to the United States and bored holes In soft maples with the expectation of ob taining sugar sap. Hubher-culture re quires great expert knowledge. Ex perience has shown that excellent rub ber trees transplanted from their na tive habitat to other regions having apparently Identical soil and climate may flourish In growth yet lose their producing power. , SHOULD FOOD BE SALTED? rench Scientists Pay There Is No Ne cessity fur the Condiment. This Is no new question, but appar ently It is not settled yet. In an ex haustive discussion of It, M. Rene Laufer concludes that while salt Is ab solutely necessary to the animal or ganism, enough of It for our needs Is contained naturally In our ordinary ar ticles of food, so that the addition of It as a condiment Is superfluous. Tales of disease caused by lack of salt be dismisses as untrustworthy. Says M. Laufer: "The desire for salt Is certainly uni versal. It seems to have been used everywhere at all times and In all civ ilizations. The same salt seasons to day the miserable portion of the Sou danese negro and the choice dishes of European tables. The need of salt is not limited to man; many ani mals seek It with avidity. So general a prediction, so Imperious a desire should not be regarded as a sim ple Incident, that is certain; but do they correspond to an unavoidable ne cessity ?" Is It not curious that the chloride of sodium should be the only salt that we take from nature to add to those con tained in our food Itself? Other min eral substances play a mucn more Im portant part In the constitution of the tissues, the salts of lime and the phos phate of soda, for Instance. When we use these by themselves It la as medicine. "The taste for salt Is not Innate or Instinctive; It Is acquired. The moth er's milk contains very little aalt Cow's milk has at least four times as much, but even this amount the adult who should live on milk alone say, three quarts a day would take more chloride than he needs. "Man in a state of nature does not salt his food. Primitive peoples who lead a pastoral and nomadic life do not add salt to what they eat The same Is true of animals. Dogs and cats do not like salt Even the domestic herbivores get. along very well if aalt Is not added to their food." M. Laufer discredits all tales of Ill ness from the discontinuance of salt The French soldiers who were said to have suffered from laek of salt In the siege of Metz did so, he says, simply because they required It to bide the taste of the spoiled meat that they were forced to eat The story of the Russian serfs who are reported to have fallen ill when deprived of salt by , their lords bears on Its face, M. Lau i fer thinks, marks of Its falsity. Among the chief morbid symptoms ; said to ronow xne mck or salt is edema, or swelling, but the writer shows that nowadays a diet without salt is pre scribed for this trouble and has been effective in curing It In the same way he disposes to his satisfaction of all the different ills said to arise when one Is deprived of salt I Finally, he calculates the amount of salt necessary to carry on the processes of organic animal life and the amount lost by excretion and comes to the fol lowing conclusion: Our food, provided It constitutes a proper regimen In the physiologic si rise of the word, contains In itself and with no necessity of adding to It from out side, sufficient salt for our needs. Kevue Sclentlfique. EASY TO MAKE AN ENEMY. Just Lend four Friend Money and the Trick is Done. Oh, the man who has asked me for a small loan. My friend, you have asked me for the loan of a certain amount, stating thut you needed it only for a short time and that you would pay me back by a certain date. In reply to your request I might state that I happened to be short of ready cash Just now and regret ex ceedingly that I can not comply with your request. But I shall do none of this. I shall refuse you the money on other grounds grounds which I shall endeavor to make plain to you, so that the matter may not again come up between us. In the first place, I would have you know at once that I am no moralist. My refusal Is not based upon any ab surd notion as to the deteriorating ef fect that a compliance with your re quest may have upon your character. Whether to let you have the money will do you good or will do you harm Is no concern of mine. You have ar rived at your present dilemma through agencies which are entirely personal to you. You may have inherited cer tain weaknesses which make It Impos sible for you to turn yourself to a proper account, or circumstances may have really been against you. But whether It Is bad luck, fatalism or fol ly, is entirely outside of my province to determine. No, my friend, I am refusing you the loan for other reasons, purely self ish. The fact Is that I like you. Your faults, so long as they do not obtrude themselves upon me, do not matter. But your virtues have contributed much to my pleasure and satisfaction In the past and, to be candid with you, I am Just grasping enough to wish them to continue to do so In the fu ture. The moment that we tamper with money affairs all will llien be over. You may be a scamp or a scalawag. What matters this to me so long as this part of you does not bother me 7 Or If you are simply unfortunate the same result follows. And so, my friend, I say to you. If you will, borrow the money of some other. But leave the rest of yourself to me. Life. Searching tor Treusurs. A number of Mexicans with teams, plows and scrapers are excavating near Westphalia, claiming to have In their possession maps and chartssbow lng treasure to be burled there to the amount of $100,000 In Mexican doub loons. They say that the treasure Is burled near what Is known as the Bull tank, and have agreed to pay the owners of the land on which they are at work a certain per cent of the find for the privilege of excavating. This treasure Is said to have been buried during the Texas and Mexican war. It la said a tradition has existed that a large sum In Mexican doubloons was buried somewhere on the bunks of Pond Creek and another that there whs treasure of considerable amount In Mexican money burled at some point along the bank of the Brazos River, near Marlln. Many excavations have been made to locate the burled treasure, both on Pond Creek and the Brazos Hirer. These efforts were not only made by home people, but strangers have gone In and excavated, among whom were Mexicans. A few years ago It was no uncommon thing to see deep holes dug along the banks of these streams, pre sumably by parties In search of the lost treasure, but If any money has ever been found in this manner the fact Is not known. A Royal Railroad. The King of Slam cut the first turf for the railroad at Bangkok. The Minister of Public Works read a short address, to whh'h the King replied, and then the King, taking an Ivory bandied spade, thrust the silver blade Into the turf, which be transferred to an ebony wheelbarrow. The. crown prince trundled the wheelbarrow along a carpeted track about thirty yards In length, followed by the King, the roval family, and the assembled guests. The turf, when removed from the ebony wheelbarrow, was sprinkled with con secrated water from a golden ewer by four priests. The national anthem was played, and that ended the ceremony. More Elegant Phrase. Florence I never was so annoyed! The man bad no business In the yard anyway, and when I went to the win dow to see what he was doing he had the Impudence to exclaim, "Massage!" Gertrude For goodness' sake, what could he bavemeant by that? Florence Well, of course, he said "rubber," but "massage" Is more ele gant don't you think? Boston Tran script Unlucky for th" Fish Too. Hicks How do you happen to be going fishing on Friday? I thought you believed Friday was an unlucky day. Wicks Well, I always have. But It occurred to me this morning that per haps it would be unlucky for the fish. SomerTille Journal. When a woman says in a letter, 'Tlease flud enclosed," It usually takes three letters before she encJoies the article. r::E no:,it will rm bc disrupted. Br Mls Susmn B. Anthony Nothing can destroy the home life. The more women become the equals of men and the more they are con sidered and treated as equals the stronger will the home life become. Women In the home used to be con sidered as dependents; I might almost say as lix-iuuhrauct. Now, with their increased education, ability and opportunities, they are better able to make the home life what It should be. It Is not simply bread-making, mending and dishwashing that make HISS ANTHONY. the home: women ing trained to preside in the home with skill aud science, and naturally they are better able to Improve the home life, to raise Its standard, to make It Ideal. The Increasing actllvty of women In all branches of Industry Is simply the result of our Improved civil. zation. Women are but following their work from the home to the shop and factory. Weaving and spinning used to be wom en's work In the home; now this Is done in the factory, and the women are there doing It. So It Is also with much of what used to be considered the real housework; even the preparation of food for the table Is almost tnkm out of the home. The home life Is work Is being taken away and women are going out to do It. and those who don't, go out to work are able to glvi their lime and attention to oilier things. But because our dally life Is now on a more economical and scientific basis It Is no reason why It should disrupt or lessen the unity of home life, it has changed, and will change, but the change Is In the line of progress. Girls are special avocations; If they prefer housework, and many of them doubtless will, they will be educated for It; but If thry choose to be lawyers, doctors, electricians, engineers or lecturers, there is no reason why they should mutilate n dinner, and thus deprive a capable cook of a chance to earn a living; or why they should rob a dressmaker, by tin lr amateur cutting and sewing, or a milliner by attempting to create their own bonnets. ADVANCE OF THE NEGRO. By Hooter T. hasnlngton. One hears much of the failures and the weak points of tlie negro. The world In my opinion should hear more of the successes and the strong (mints of the race. No race of people can be expected to get on Its feet and keep pace with the progress of the world unless It Is coiumendcd as well as condemned; unless Its strong points as well as Its weak points are made prominent The negro race asks to be Judged by Its best rather than by Its worst The average man sees the negro loafer and criminal; he rarely sees the negro who has bought a farm, who Is hard at work upon his farm or In bis shop or home; he rarely sees the negro school, church, or other negro organization which represents the highest and best of the life of the race. My race Is blotting out Ignorance Reliable slatislles show that til per are Illiterate, and that at least 70 per soldiers are Illiterate. In this country only 44 per cent of the negroes are Illiterate, and It will be found that at least JO per cent of the negro soldiers in the United States arc literate. The trouble Is that here we are up against the highest civilization the Anglo-Saxon. We are Judged by it. If we were up against the Latin or Asiatic nations we would show up better. When we shall have reached the plane of the Anglo-Saxon we will be up to Our salvation will consist In a gressive, constructive effort In tlie field hanics, domestic economy, and in the FRIEND OF THE HUNGRY. Louis 'hisiliiiinnn'B l'hilnntli ropy Was of the rrai'tloHl Kind. There u.ed in New York recently n man who was called 'the friend of the hungry and the homeless." He was Ixiuls Flelse'limann, founder of what Is popularly known as the 'bri'iid line." Every day he gave VV!IV Im iwt r.,,1 U lt fyM loaves of bread to lijuni- H in; uuu I- wise would have had ta irit hmiirrv V j J Louis Fleiscu "1 ma nn was born in i.. fj.kisciimaxn. Moravia, Austria, OS years ago. lie served in the Aus trian army for several years and won distinction for bravery at the battle of Sndowa. He came to this country thirty years ago and in 1H7U establish ed a bakery and restaurant at the cor ner of Broadway and 10th street In New York City. He soem built up a great business and accumulated a for tune'. One morning he found two or three hungry wanderers outside the door of the bakery. He gave each of them a loaf of bread and told them to call again. They were on hand the next day, with recruits in their ranks. Soon the dally crowd of hungry ones grew to big proportions. Then It was that Mr. rielsclimiinn organized the "bread line." The loaves of bread re maining unsold during the day were given away each night to those who applied for them. No questions were flsked. The fact that a man appeared In the line was sulllclent that he was hungry and he was given some bread. Some'tlme's there were 300 In line and again the crowd would number 600. They represented all conditions and classes. Occasionally a well-dressed man, against whom the tide of fortune had turned, would be seen In the group. For twenty-eight years the "bread line" has been In exlstene'e, and it is estimated that during that time 3,000.000 loaves have been given away. During cold winter nights Mr. Flelse-hmanii gave a cim of coffee along with the bread to bis strange visitors. He also secured work for hundreds of unfortunates and gave them a chance to get on their feet GAMBLING IN HUMAN LIVES. The Weird 8port Is Carried on in l,endon. "Policies, I'll wager, are already be ing taken out In Umdoii on the life of little Alexis, the new heir to the Hus slan throne," said an insurance agent to a writer for tlie Louisville Courier Journal. "The English gamble horribly In life insurance, and Alexis must ap peal to them as a wonderful risk. They will pay high for him, though. "The insurance rates on ail royal lives are a tribute to the power of the nihilists and anarchists, for they are so huge as to be almost prohibitive. The rate on the King of England is enormous, and among monarch s his is the lowest rate of any. That on the Russian Czar, is the hlgest. The Czar la a bad risk. Many companies would not Insure him on any consideration. "But Lloyds, .the great London con- 1 CEREMAC ART IN of to-day are be being simplified, the now being trained for architects, merchants, UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF GOVERNMENT. be traversed to-day attempt crosscuts deceptive results. at a tremendous rate. cent of the Hussliius cent of the Husslan the highest attainable. great measure in pro of agriculture, me- educational, moral ( ii "- ""a i The seeker after the art which exists In photography lionld be a sincere student of the best art to which he has access. The. art of palming and of etching may be widely different from the art of photography, but tliey have much that Is In common, nnd fortunately we lire able to collect at a very slight expense (lie rcprodue -lions of some of the famous masti'i-ple'ces of tbo world. To selee't carefully prominent examples eif landscape, marine, por trait and genre work, and have tlmse arranged In a portfolio, or, what is better, arranged In some manner upon the walls of the room, where .the'y can be examined from time to time, Is lndi'ed a valuable aid In the cultiva tion not only of an artistic sense, but also an art knowl.slge. for the two are ejulte different and both Important Artistic sense Is that power of recognizing the beautiful In art, and .becoming familiar with It to such an extent that our art Judgment becomes Improved anil matured. Camera and Dark Room, Even experienced photographers find dllllculty In selecting a good lens, so that a slight knowledge of the main faults to be looked our for should bo of servl.'o. Lenses are supposed to be corrifteel by experts for different faults, but now anil again bad ones find their way on to the market. A very com mon defect Is spherical aberration, a condition in which the lens falls to focus on the same plane, rays proceeding from a given point, the- results being fuzzl lii'ss of the linage. It Is best discovered by feicuslng a candle Dame, looking out for any halo rtmnd the light or want of clearness In the outline. Chromatic aberration constitutes the Inability In a lens to accurately foeos the colered rays composing white light, but the tests fur this fault are rather too delicate for unskilled opticians. Distortion Is nearly always present In single lenses, lint should be absent In rectilinear lemscs, which are expressly made to counter; the defect. It Is seen In the curving of straight lines as tlie margin of the plate Is appremchd, but should be so slight as to be prac tically nnnotlce-alile In gooil single lenses. ' Astigmatism Is the failure of a lens to focus vertical nnd horizontal lines at the same time; It Is a fault easily tested for, anil one which Is cor rected by the Insertion of a diaphragm. The same expedient may sometimes cure a flare-spot, a much more serious defect A flare sped reveals Its pres ence by showing a darkened circular patch In the center of the negative', light on the ground glass. It may be remedied by the Intervention of stops,' but It Is belter to discard a lens having this fault and procure another. Camera and Dark Room. cern, would insure anything or any body Prof. Ltingley going up In one of his flying machine's, a Japanese spy about to enter Port Arthur, a Russian battleship going Into battle. And hence Lloyds Is willing to Insure the poor little Russian heir, and a certain class of men, taking advantage of this fact are procuring policies upon the baby's life. "Gambling on lives Is a ghastly form of sport, and I believe that It Is prac ticed nowhere but In England. It ought not to be practiced there. The law ought to prohibit It. At Lloyds, however, It is always going on. Poli cies at Lloyds are continually being taken out on persotis of eminence all over the world." A Man's Kicurslon Mrs. C, the wife of an ardent lover of "The Wilds and the Wilderness," accompanied her husband on one of bit '"out-of-the-way trips," auft this la and religious advancement of our people. When I consider our progress In these directions ami then consider the short period from the days of bondage, 1 have no hesitation In saying that while I have always been proud of my race 1 have never been prouder ot Its achievements than 1 aut to-day. DENIISTRY. By ft. B. fuller, D. D. 3. The best dentists In the world are American and the best dental schools In the world are In this country. Dentistry In Its present high state of development at home or abroad Is mostly due to Yankee Ingenuity, Intelligence, and skill, and largely within the last fifty years. While porce lain teeth have been used for many years, they are not made by the dentist, but In factories, where. In nn almost endless variety of shape, and similes, they are turned out by the millions. It Is only In some special or peculiar case that the dentist makes a tooth from the raw material. It would not pay hlni to do so ordinarily. A "porcelain inlay" means a bit of that substance made to fit exactly and shaded to mutch perfectly the natural a p. pi'iiraneo of fho texith. it. Is set in place with a strong. Insoluble and durable cement, ami Is a highly artistic piece of work. The transluceiiee of porcelain Is almost or iuilo identical with that of the natural tooth and the delicate) blending of shadis e'un bc s; workevl out by the skillful operator with a variety of colors that a perfect match to the tooth can be obtained. A perfectly fitted, well shaped, and well shaded Inlay furnishes no suggestion of repair work, but Is of that character of art that conceals art. It Is remarkable what perfect restoration can be made' by the use of the inlay, because, on first thought, It would seem In many cases that repair in that way would be but a flimsy piece of business. By Maurice Maeterlinck. For centuries man has. so to say, only half lived. A thousand prejudices aside from the re ligious prejudices have hidden the glorious Hum mlt of his own reason and feelings from view. To-day, after most of these artificial peaks which have steod between him and his horizon havo been removed, he begins to realize his position In the economy of milure and the object for which he was placed there. He Is beirliinlnir to under stand that whatever cannot staml the test of reason Is noth ing but Idle fancy. He knows that the distance that cannot must 'be covered to-morrow, and that to is only to waste precious time and iralu At present universal suffrage is the highest political Ideal, but doubtless there Is concealed back of it a still higher Ideal. Willi good reason we find that Vlie universal suffrage ideal Is ambitious. Impatient, and even rash. The youthful organism rejects anything that might impair the purity of Its blood. It may be that the element gained, through contact with niomiivhlcal and aristocratic Institu tions whle'h we seek to Infuse Into the veins may be excel lent In themselves, but In spile of this they are Injurious, because they carry with them also the evils with which theme Institutions are tainted. Before a government by the people tun become clearer and wiser through the ad mixture of other forms of administration It must com-, plete the full course of i',s experiment. After they have, become secure In the possession of their power, then only can It (dioose profitably those features from the past that will be use-fill In the future'. Nations are right In re'Jectin In advance what may perhaps be better than universal suffrage. In time the'y may sive as Intelligent men now seewhat Is the common weal, and be able to rule more wisely. lis what she wrote home of "a man's pleasure excursion": "First of all, I made up all sorts of costumes to keep us from being eaten alive by green flies, mosquitoes ami fleus; then we got up In the mldelle of the night and took a train, im.i w..,,e Just as far as It would ua: then climbed into a rickety old wagon and roete to tne limit; then we got Into a beiat, and followed the water's eoiirsa to Its finish; and then we walked till we droppe'd down dead and Ike Is happy!" Johnny Make a Suggestion. Knlcker My eon, come with mo. Johnny Er say, pa, don't yon think since we have got a baby in tho family yon might abolish the knout?- New York Sun. We do not expect to find all we long for In heaven, and we are not hard ta suit, cither. 1 " 1
