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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1913)
f4»4»4444444444444 44444444 ♦ IT’SDOGGEDAS DOES IT | 4 Terse Comments Upon the Uni- 4 Is form Prayer Meeting Topio of 4 ▼ tne Young People’s Socisties, 4 4 Christian Endeavor, Etc., for ’4 H August 3, “The Ideal Christian 4 •• VIII," His Perseverance. Hsb. 4 fj VI. 10:20. f ' ‘ 4 < - By Wm. T. Ellis. 4 " 44444444 444444444 More things are wrought by sheer stick ing to it than by brilliant flashes of genius. The old English proverb: “It's dogged as does It,” has never been outgrown. Th# men who have succeeded with any great task, whether It be Cyrus Field laying the Atlantic cable or the Wright brothers con quering the air, are those who have per severed and persevered and persevered. The same law runs in the realm of char acter. Everybody has Impulse to holi ness, and most persons know hours of high vision and resolution, when they de termine to dwell on the heights. But noble lives do not come by occasional In spirations. A steady, resolute, unshak able persistence, through all changes of temperamental weather In holy thoughts and Christ-llke deeds,—that Is what makes the saintly character. In the government of life, emotion may be the legislative branch, but the will’s quality of persever ance Is the executive branch. Anybody can run 26 yards; nobody but the trained can run 25 miles. It Is easy to start; It shows greatness to continue. When I am dead. May this wtth truth be said. On the rude stone that marks my lowly head. That, spite of doubt and Indecision, In spite of weakness, lameness, blindness, Heart's treachery and fate’s unkindness, Stark poverty and all Its woes, The body's Ills that cloud the mind And the bold spirit bind. Btlll through my earthly course I went, Not disobedient Unto the Heavenly vision. —Harry Koopmaa. 8ometlmes there comes to men con cerned for the welfare of the world and the glory of God a vision. It Is not such a vision of an opened Heaven as greeted John’s enraptured eyes. Nor Is it the glory that was revealed to Exeklal. This is but a vision of a company of Chris tians, perhaps a fiftieth or a hundredth of the church membership of the land, who have vowed a vow to stand fast by the Work of the kingdom. Their Intellectual and social qualities are a matter of indif ference. The one condition Is that each has made a pledge in his heart never to let go the Christian work ho has chosen until It has been accomplished, or until he has been called to give account of his stewardship to the Master In person. Dis couragement cannot lose such a servant's hold of his task, nor can criticism affright him. Others may grow weary In well-do ing, but for himself he persevers to ths end. In such a company one sees hope for the smcompllshment of the great tasks which confront the church today. Uke David’s soldiers who adventured to the well of Bethlehem, devoted followers of this sort can accomplish literally anything for the kingdom. All tasks are possible to them. They would become the church’s arm of conquest, like Caeear’s Tenth Le gion. And for this service, each volunteer may enroll by an act of consecration la his heart. A New York journalist once told me of a conversation he had held with a lead ing brewer upon the subject of reform In politics. Bald the brewer: "We know the church people can beat us any time they choose, and when we see that they are really aroused, we ha vs to bow to th* storm. But they soon grow tired, and than we can come book. They have the power, but we hav* the perseverance, and that Is why we are usually on top." There 1* the flavor of real greatness about this virtue of persevefence. It’s dis dain of opposition, discouragement, and the deadly drag of monotony rises to th* proportions of genius. A small-minded person Is scarcely capable of saying, with Paul: "This one thing I do"—and then of going right on doing It to the end. "The virtue of the postage stamp, my ■on, la that It stlcka to the on* thing un til It g*t* there." The long patience of Ood, the Immense stretches of hts plans, the persistence of his designs through centuries and mlllen lums, Is a lofty argument for perseverance on the part of all who would be sharers In His work. “Ood Is working His purpose out As year succeeds to year; Ood ts working His purpose out And the time is drawing near— Nearer and' nearer draws the time. The time that shall surely be. When the earth shall be OU'd with ths glory of Ood, As the waters cover the sea." McKInlsy-Mado Millionaires. (Savoyard, In the Houston Chronicle.) I saw In the paper the other day some thing about a man worth *$1,000,000. He is called "the tin plate king.’1 There are more than a score of tin plate kings In this country, their accumulations rang ing from *6,000,000 to *515,000.000 each. In 1890 the steel Interests of Pennsylvania petitioned a subservient congress to cre ate this Industry—tin plate. Theretofore we Imported tin plate*, paying for them with our cotton, our grain, our provisions, our tobacco, and other products of which we had a surplus. But In 1890 the steel people went to Mr. McKinley, then chairman of the ways and means committee of the Fifty-first con gress, and besought him to create a "tin plate industry," and McKinley did It, How? He advanced the price of every square Inch of tin plate used by the American people. Tin roof, tin gutters, tin utensils of all characters and descrip tions, canned goods for our urban popu lation and bo on and so on, and, directly or Indirectly, every one of our cltisens Is a consumer of tin—has to pay for Its production. All the people were taxed to create and support this Industry, and the only people who got benefit from It were the steel men. It was done In the name of American labor. The labor that makes our steel plates was Imported. The American farmer was feeding It In Eu rope. Now our farmers are feeding Jt In America. But we got an enormous crop of millionaires, and that was all the cre ators of this industry sought to produce. And that ts a sample of the workings of a protective tariff—the government re quites men engaged In Industries than can not be protected to build up Industries that can be protected. This tin plata concern Is a monopoly that congress cre ated for the people to support. So is steel, so Is wool, so Is glass, so is sugar, so It pottery—oh, their name Is legion! Faded Pictures. Only two patient eyes to stars Out of the canvaa. All the rest— The warm green gown, the small hands pressed Eight In the lap, the braided hair That must have made the sweet, low brow w earnest, centuries ago. When some one saw It change and All faded: Just the eyes bum now. I dare say people pass and pass Before the blistered little frame, Vnd dingy work without a name Stuck In behind its square of glass. But I. well, I left Raphael Just to come drink these eyes of here, To think away the stains and blare And make all new again and well. Only, for tears my head will bow. Because there on my heart's last walk Scarce one tint left to tell It all, A picture Xeepsjte^ -mehc,^. Mrs. John Astor Gothams New Social Leader? Home From Europe; 'Tis Said War for Supremacy Impends will be fought at Newport. New York's social leadership de mands elements of cultivation and con servatism, and also an inexhaustible supply of dollars. Mrs. Astor, beauti ful, aristocratic and determined, has these things. In opposition to her plans are Mrs. Ogden Mills, the present leader of the most rigidly exclusive set; Mrs. Stuy vesant Fish, who presides over the more "Bohemian," slightly less formal set, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, leader of the larger set In which sev eral have striven for the place of su preme power. Mrs. John Astor, It Is believed, will strive to embody In her entertainments the distinctive qualities that have made all three of these leaders such famous hostesses. She will need a sixth sense to know exactly those who, In the language of the poet, “are fit to enter the same cage with real royalty." It Is a big task, If she undertakes It, Upper left, Mr*. 8tiiyvesant Fi*H; lowar left, Mr*. Cornelius Vanderbilt; top I right, Mrs. Ogden Mills; bottom right, Mrs. John Astor. With the arrival of Mrs. John Astor, first wife of the'late Colonel Astor, In New York, society Is busy asking the question: Does she propose to become the social arbiter of Gotham's 400? Although Mrs. Astor declares that her sole purpose In returning to Amer ica Is to keep her son Vincent from turning farmer, there Is a well-defined impression among the city’a “smart set” that she plans a social campaign to take the place of her former hus band’s mother as the recognized leader of New York society. At least the Innermost inner circles, presided over so long by those three clever women, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Ogden Mills and Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt, are visibly agitated. They expect a war to the finish and the opening skirmish of the polite battle but New York believes that she wUl succeed. $ GREAT FIGHTERS IN ♦ X THE NEW WAR X 4i Terse Comment* Upon the Uni- 4 4 form Prsyer Meeting Topio of 4 4 the Young People’s Societies 4 4 —Christian Endeavor, etc., for 4 Sri August 10t "Heroes and 4 4 Heroine* of the Temperance 4 4 Cause.” Dan. i, 8-17. 4 4 By Wm. T. Ellia. 4 T4444444444 4 44 4’44444444444 hurts the common good. It Is of a ( piece with vile tenements, sweatshops, 4 child-labor and white slavery. The In- i exorable social surveys, with their j relentless facts, are proving anew the i case against the saloon, that It Is < linked up with crime and poverty, and 1 that It is wholly uneconomic, wasting both the money and the physical t vitality of the worker. If the day’s pro- c gram of social amelioration Is to win, 5 and no observing person doubts this, S then the saloon Is doomed. So we 1 should add to the roll of the noble i servants of temperanoe all the social i reformers, whose number Is legion. 1 Self-denial Is the first characteristic 1 of heroism. Anybody who disregards his own taste and comfort for another's £ sake belongs In the ranks of the tern- t perance heroes. 1 Lagging somewhat behind individual 1 reformers, the church has yet)swung 1 into line for the temperance cause. One 1 of the great occasions of the recent 1 PreBbytertan Congress In Toronto was ' when that vast body of leaders put It- ’ self enthusiastically on record as com- I mitted unreservedly to an aggressive 1 temperance warfare. In the United 1 Statos the moBt definitely effect of all 1 temperance agencies has come to be : the Anti-Saloon League, which Is a league of the churches, having no life apart from the churches. It has re peatedly demonstrated that when the 1 churches of any community are united and aroused they are Irresistible. Ulti mately, all moral battles are up to the church. When the temperance cause Is made whole-heartedly her cause, then Its victory will b» complete and abiding. There is one man who is seldom called a hero, and whose struggles are too often counted fair game for the humorists. This Is the victim of an ap petite for strong drink, who yet with stands the temptation. In all the wide realm of temperance there Is no braver, nobler figure than the person who resists this fiery craving for alcohol. Slowly, but with ever-increasing cer tainty and rapidity, we are building a better social order, free from all that hurts and hinders Ufa It is now en tirely conceivable that there can be a human society like that prophesied by the ancient Hebrew efters. In that day all the world, uncontaminated by al cohol, will Inherit the labors and sec rlfices of all who have served the cause of temperance and human welfare. Nature Is but the name for an effect, whose cause is God.—Cowper. “The man who can not forgive any mortal thing is a green hand in life.’’ —Robert Louis Stevenson. If only myself could talk to myself As knew him a year ago, I could tell him a lot That would save him a lot Of things he ought to know. —Kipling. That country Is fairest which Is peo pled with the happiest men.— Emerson. In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety. Psl. 4:8. “The shortest and surest way to live with honor In the world, is to be In reality what we would appear to be: all human virtues Increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.”—Socrates. We seek many changes and reme dies; the m«st Important change, the most necessary remedy, would be a general conversion to God.—King of Sweden. tie while leading hi* club at the bat. As Fletcher at short was also batting fiercely and field well, there was no place for the world series star to enter as a regular, although recognized as one of the most valuable players In the game. The Herzog-Shafer-Fl etcher shift iround the Giant infield has been one >f the queerest ever known. Last sea son at short, Fletcher was Injured and 3hafer took his place. When Fletcher recovered he was unable to beat Shafer out and regain his job. Then Shafer the regular, was called home through sickness, and upon his return was unable to beat out Fletcher. This season Herzog was taken sick ind Shafer Installed, and Herzog In turn was unable to wrest back his Job from Shafer. The presence of three ln tlelders for "two jobs, so equally matched, means that the two working must travel at top Bpeed to keep out the third, a system which has been a big factor in keeping the Giants so well up in the fight. There’s no great Incentive for an athlete to start tak ing things easily when he knows a rival on the bench Is ready for a run ning start to take his place at the first sign of slipping. AMERICAN ENVOY IS STUDYING EMIGRANT PROBLEM IN EUROPE W. W. Husband Sent Abroad to Investigate Steamship Booking Methods. THOUSANDS TURNED BACK! Federal Government Would Spare ^ Those Who Cannot Enter Pain of Being Turned Away at Gates of Promised Land. Thera is much talk of "temperance waves," and "temperance movements,” but It is not to be forgotten that be hind all moods and manifestations of this sort there are flesh-blood men and women. Reforms do not “happen." They are the effect of ascertainable causes. Nothing Is more certain than that It takqs real people to bring to pass any change In public thinking. Somebody has put blood and sweat Into every great movement which the public sees only In Its broader phases. If our day Is one of victory for tem perance, the cause may be found In man and women who, with lofty vision and tireless patience, gave themselves through weary years to •spousing an unpopular propoganda. Most of them have not lived to see this day of triumph; but by faith they perceived It from afar, crying, with the poet; “Ring, bells In distant steeples, The joy of unborn people; Sound, trumpets far-off blown. Tour triumph Is my own.” The most effective servant of the temperance cause Is the woman or man who teaches a boy or girl to abstain from strong drink, and to oppose the liquor traffic. The distinguished ex-president of the United States, who proved in court and on the front pageo of the newspapers, that he is not addicted to Intemperance, powerfully Berved the cause of temperance by the Importance he attached to a reputation for so briety. A generation ago it scarcely hurt a public man to be known as one who used liquor to excess. Now It has become a disgrace for any man. In public or In private, to be known as a hard drinker. Once the abstemious ness of <a “cold water fanatic" was sneered at; now It is reputation which every candidate for popular suffrage covets. The blood of brotherhood runs red in "grape Juice diplomacy." Wars are won by private soldiers. The strength of the commanding of ficer is the number and character of the men in the ranks. The most ef fective servants of the temperance cause will never be enshrined in any hall of fame. They are the plain peo ple, of conviction and altruistic pas sion, who have not enjoyed the ap plause which comes to public speak ers, and who have not had the distinc tion of office bearing; but who, In multiform ways, and most of all by example, have consistently fought this great curse of our civilization. The first qualtiy of sincere devotion to any cause is willingness to merge one’s self and labors into the general pros perity of the enterprise By this standard the heroeB and heroines of temperance have been legion. W,e see mothers and teachers, in countless host, leading the van. For a boy or a young man to come Into touch with a great woman Is to Inherit a priceless treasure of chivalry. Frances Willard had this effect upon legtons. She was a queenly woman, gifted In all the graces that make womanhood beautiful. Her personal ity touched with Inspiration countless lives, especially of young men. To know her was to believe In the Idealism of womanhood. One look Into her great, beautiful eyes, filled with tears as she pleaded' for {he cause to which she had devoted her life, was enough to consecrate a man to the service of his fellows In fighting intemperance. If this Inspirational quality, which was the rich Inheritance bequeathed to the temperunce movement by Miss Willard, could be shared by all women there would be no "woman question" in our time. Frances Willard made knights errant of men. Tongue, pen and ballot are the wea pons that will win the new temperance war. All who look beneath the surface of things sec a new formidableness in the temperance movement because It has become one with the whole vast and lrresistable struggle for social welfare. More dispassionate than the old cru saders and wielding new forces of scientific knowledge, the present-day sociologist is condemning Intemperance because It Is an anti-social force, It London. Special: From 10,000 to 10, 000 men and women are turned away from the portals of the United tSates every year, and sent back to the coun tries whence they came, in their en deavor to enter the land of promise, The reason is that they do not meet the requirements set for immigrants by the American authorities. This condition constitutes on© of the most difficult problems faced by the American department of labor, and in an effort to solve it, the department has sent W. W. Husband, one of Its special agents, to investigate and report on emigration conditions in England and on the continent. Every year, in spite of the efforts of the steamship companies to exclude such passengers from their lists, nearly 15,000 emigrants see the gates at Ellis island closed against them, and with the earnings of years swept away by the expense of the voy age, they are compelled to resume the battle of life under the conditions from which they sought escape by emigra tion. The department, does not either desire or seek, according to Mr. Hus band, the lowering of the present standards, but Secretary Wilson Is anxious to devise some plan whereby the shock and suffering incident to being turned back after sighting the shores of the promised land may be | prevented. In an effort to do this. Special Agent Husband will investi gate the bookings of prospective Im migrants by transportation agents with the Idea of devising some method whereby only those .who are practically certain of en(ry into the United States will be permitted to embark on this side of the water. Ents. Alternating currant pie; B'lrst a currant, then a fly— Swat!—Chicago Tribune. Fly in mother's butter dish: Wait a minute! Make a wish— Swat!—Buffalo News. B'ly upon the soup plate’B rim; He will soon be in the swim— Swat!—Scranton Tribune-Republican. Fly upon your slice of bread; If he wipes his feet you’re dead— Swat!—Houston Post. Fly upon the baby’s nose! Land on him before he goes— Swat!—Orange Leader. Fly upon the bald man's pato Lights the flame of basting hat* Swat! - From Collier's. The wheel of fate revolves In queer circles and with sudden jerks. A year ago last October Charley Herzog, Giant third baseman, almost won a cham pionship unaided by terrific and timely batting, brilliant fielding, and all around sensational work. In the same series Fred Snodgrass, center fielder, figured largely in his club's defeat by dropping an easy fly ball where the catch would have meant victory In the deciding game. Through the winter and parly spring It was Herzog the Wonder and Snod grass the Pub. Few figured that Mc Graw would carry the latter very long. Yet when the Giants fought their way back Into the lead through a brilliant dash uround mid season, Snodgrass was out In center field batting above ,300 and playing better than ever be fore, with Herzog on the bench, sup planted by Shafer. Herzog, playing well, suffered a 10 days' Sickness. Shafer was sent In to fill the gap and Immediately began a series of fins plaVs through each bat ■ J WOMEN EASILY OUTWIT SHERLOCKS OF LONDON Scotland Yard Sleuths No Match for Keen Minded Suffragets. ZELIE EMERSON “IN BAD” London, Aug. #.—It Is so easy for the suffragets to hoodwink Scotland Yard that the women are wearying of the sport. ' The latest case is that of Ewry Clay ton. The police were after Ewry, who was critically ill, and to make sure he should not escape they posted detec tives to guard his house night and day. As soon as he recovered sufficiently to walk abroad he was to be gathered in. Every day members of the suffraget organization visited the Clayton cot tage, bearing fruits. Jelly and flowers for the sick man. The police felt se cure as they saw the suffragets come and go; they would get their man on his recovery. Finally, the visits of the women ceased. The police, wondering, drew their ranks closer and finally en tered the house. Ewry was not there, but in America The house was filled with flowers, fruits and Jelly, enough to last Mrs. Clayton for weeks to come. Ewry had slipped away and taken a steamer a fortnight back, and the dally visits of the women were simply a blind. The suffragets took all this trouble for Mr. Clayton because he is the chem ist who was sentenced to penal servi tude on a charge of criminally conspir ing with the members of the Women's Social and Political union in that he supplied them with explosives for some of their arson outrages. He went on a "hunger strike,” and was released un der the provisions of the "Cat and Mouse bill.” He went home ill, and Scotland Yard waa watching to rear reat him when the women's ruse was put Into such successful operation. The leaders of the militants declare they did not desire the sacrifice of a man’s life In their cause and, when they were informed by his physician that a return to Jail would probably result In Mr. Clayton’s death, they per suaded him through the mediation of his wife to leave the country. They will not say where he Is, contenting themselves with stating that he Is safely located at least 2,000 miles from London. The payment of a fine by Miss Zells Emerson, when she was arrested for assaulting the police In connection with Sylvia Pankhurst’s Downing street riot, has caused the American suffraget to lose caste with some of the ruling pow ers, and It is said that only her close friendship with the Pankhursts saved her from being disciplined by the war cabinet of the W. S. P. U. A number of the militants asserted ■that In refusing to go to Jail, Miss Emerson gave the Impression to the * aa public that ths morale of the forefront of the fighting line of the organisation was weakening at the very moment It Is straining every effort to nullify ths effects of the “Cat and Mouse" bill. The Michigan girl’s first term in Jail, when she was forcibly fed, was the re sult of a raid she made with Sylvia Pankhurst on the windows of Bow and Bromley, since which time she has en joyed a close friendship with the Pank hurst family. Shortly after her release after a prolonged hunger strike, Miss Emerson was operated on for appen dicitis, and she defends her course In paying a fine by asserting that even a brief stay in Jail at this time would so impair her health that she would be unable to take her place on the firing line for many months to come. She feels that she can be of more as sistance out of rather than in Jail. NEW TREATMENT FOR DEADLY GANGER MAY BRING GOOD RESULTS Dr. Leo Loeb Has Already Had Great Success In Use of New Method. CITES SOME INSTANCES Dr. Woods Hutchinson Writes Hope fully of Latest Experiences of Barnard Institu tion. The American Magazine has got hold of an authentic and Interesting state ment of the first results of real promise obtained In the fight against cancer made by Dr. Leo Loeb of the Barnard Skin and Cancer hospital of St. Louis. The statement which Dr. Loeb makes as to his results are of the most cau tious and conservative character. In deed, he would have preferred not to have made any public statement for another year yet bad not his hand been forced by a partial and Imperfect re port of his experiment published with out his knowledge or consent. What he has actually accomplished up to date Is contained In the following extract from Dr. Woods Hutchinson’s article in the American Magazine: “The first results of real promise obtained In the field are those of Dr. Leo Loeb of the Barnard Skin and Can cer hospital of St. Louis. The state ments which Doctor Loeb makes as to his results are of the most cautious and conservative character. Indeed, he would have preferred not to have made any public statement for another year yet had not his hand been forced by a partial and Imperfect report of his ex periments—published without his knowledge or consent. What he has actually accomplished up to date Is this: “After much experimenting with var ious metallic salts upon cancers and tumors In animals, he discovered that the salts of copper had a remarkable action upon these growths. When a moderate dose of copper was Injected into the Wood It would cause, first, a swelling and reddening of the tumor, then a breaking down and discharge, followed by rapid shrinkage and disap pearance of the growth. After trial of a number of copper salt* it was found that the most effective and least dis turbing was what Is known as colloidal copper, a very finely divided form of the pure metal Itself, Its particles be ing so tiny that they float In water, making a milky or glue like (colloidal) solution. “ATter thoroughly satisfying himself that this was harmless to life, he se lected several advanced hopeless cases of cancer In Barnard hospital, which had been operated on several times without relief and given up to die, ex plained the situation to' them and found several of them glad to clutch at any straw and take any chance for their lives. To the mutual delight of both doctor and patients the same results were obtained In these cases that had been obtained In animals, as within a few hours after the solution of colloi dal copper and been injected Into the vein of the patient’s arm, the tumor or cancer, no matter In what part of the body It was situated, began to swell and redden and throb, while the patient became slightly feverish. This dis turbance, however, soon passed away, and was quickly followed, first, by a hardening and blanching of the tumor, then by its rapid breaking down and discharge. What was most striking in a great majority of cases, these rapid changes In the tumor were not only not attended by any Increase of pain but by rapid diminution and In many cases complete disappearance of the growth, so that It was no longer neces sary for them to keep under the Influ ence of opiates. "Of these five or six pioneer cases, which have now been under treatment for about seven months, In two the cancer has almost completely disap peared—although of course It Is Im possible to say what may be the con dition of the cancer colonies with which, at this advanced stage, the rest of the body must have been dotted— and two others are greatly Improved. It was. however, found that In some of the cases the injections, though helpful at first, seemed after a time to lose thetr effect, so Dr. Loeb de cided to find a still more active salt, or modification, of the metal before trying many more human cases of can cer. "In about three months more he had succeeded in working out a more active form of the metal, and since then some 20 cases more of cancer have been treated, covering almost every region of the body, except the alimentary canal. This largely from the fact that it was desirable in the earlier cases to teat forms of cancer which grew upon the surface of the body, and In which any changes produced could he readily ob served. by the eye. The same results as before were obtained, only more promptly and without the old tendency for Improvement to come to a stand still. The growths In all cases but two have undergone a decided shrinkage, the patients have been relieved of pain, and their appetite, sleep and general condition are Improved. "Considering that none of these cases were of less than three years' standing, and several of them had been operated upon from two to four times, and that ^ all were what would usually be con sidered incurable cases, the results are certainly most encouraging. Dh Loeb, however, with praiseworthy caution. Insists that he has made only a be ginning. No one can, of course, tell what has been going on In the sundry cancer colonies hidden within the bodies of these patients, and as cancer is on exceedingly long-lived process no victim of It can be regarded as cured until the original growth has entirely disappeared and he has been freed from any possible signs of it in any other part of the body for at least two years." Denver and the Consumptive. From the Christian Herald. Back east on some farm or In a pros perous city of the middle west, a young man Is carrying within him the seeds of consumption. The biting winds from the sea or lakes or the heavy humid atmos phere of sultry summer hasten the dead ly work, and the subject becomes weak, worn and mentally weary. When It Is al most too late, the doctor says: “Try Denver." He comes directly to Denver. He gets a harsh Jolt the very day of his arrival. He finds there Is no light work to be done. The supply by four times exceeds the demand. He must do the very best he can with what he has. So he does the very worst, from a hygienic point of view. He gets the cheapest lodgings he can find, down In the Darlmer street sec tion of the city. He buys the poorest, the least nourishing food. He sleeps In an Improperly ventilated room and breathes tainted air. Poor, poor unfortunate! He thinks he Is practicing the sharpest economy. He is. In a way, but his weakened vitality Is be ing sapped and Colorado is thus doing him far more harm than good. But he remains brave, and patient, and hopeful, until some evening he Is found sitting on the steps of some residence too weak to rise. Then he Is carried away to the coun ty hospital. The proper attention has come too late. By and by a letter goes to the folks back home, telling them that "Charlie passed away last night; his last words were of his mother, or his sister, or his disconsolate sweetheart; that he died hopeful of the future, and—what shall we do with the body?" The Chinese as Engineers. Prom Harper's Weekly. One of the most remarkable signs of the awakening of China la afforded by the spread of European engineering methods In that country. The railroad between Pekin and Kalgan, opened a eoupljp of years ago. was constructed exclusively by Chinese labor under the sole direction of native engineers. The Chinese do not hesitate to con struct cuttings and tunnels In the mod ern fashion. One of their tunnels passes under the famous great wall, the demolition of which was begun a short time ago. It has been observed that, while the Chinese students of engineering resort to America and Europe for instruction, as soon a they return to China they emancipate themselves from foreign tutelage and attack their problems for themselves. They show wonderful ca pacity in comprehending the practical sciences of the Occident and are espe cially notable for their mathematical ability. ++++44»»t»+4»»»»4444»»»+»f 4 TONS OF BEAUTIFIERS. 4 4 _ - 4 4 Berlin, Aug. 9.—Berlin's daily 4 4 use of face powder, cold cream, 4 4 scented toilet water and other 4 4 toilet accessories has been set 4 4 forth In tons and pounds by a 4 4 local newspaper, and the results 4 4 are striking. 4 4 Three-quarters of a ton of 4 4 face powder, and 350 pounds of 4 4 black and brown eyebrow pen- 4 4 ells are used dally in the city, 4 4 according to these statistics. 4 4 Seven hundred pounds of cold 4 4 cream are the figures for one 4 4 day, and the Berlin women—one 4 4 assumes that it is the women— 4 4 require 400 sticks of red lip- 4 4 pomade every 24 hours. 4 4 Hair bleaching has practically 4 4 died out, but the sale of hair 4 4 dyes is Increasing, “especially to 4 4 elderly men," says the report. 4 4 Scented toilet waters and bath 4 4 essences to the total of foiir and -4 4 4 one-half tons are disposed of in 4 \ 4 Berlin dally. Rose remains the 4 '\ 4 favorite scent, with violet sec- 4 \ 4 ond, followed closely by exotic 4 4 Indian perfumee. 4 '