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The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

Did you ever consider how much
trouble and turmoil in the world is
stirred up by loafers? Do it and you
will be surprised. Investigate carefully
and you will find that nine of the ten
fuses and quarrels that you know of
In your town or neighborhood were
started by loafers who had no business
of their own to attend to and so got
busy with other peoples affairs The
old Juvenile proverb that Satan finds
some mischief still for idle hands to
do" Is as true as gospel. There can be
no such thing as absolute idleness. Ac-
tiTity of some kind is essential to exist
ence. Men and women have to do some
thing, and when they have no work of
their own to occupy their minds they
get busy with the affairs of others and
make trouble always.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

A free population, ambitious to get
the benefit Of its own labor and enter
prise, is the making of any country
With freedom will come more general
education and great upraise in Mexi-
can life will result. By way of con-
trast Mexico and Sweden and Norway
offer an interesting study. Mexico,
with peonage and restricted education,
has q wonderful and rich variety of
natural resources Sweden and Norway,
with cold and rather sterile country,
have Individual freedom. and are the
only countries in the world in which
every grown man can read and write
Therefore the Scandinavians have
prosperity, good homes and a general
and splendid civilization, while Mexico,
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

According to q well-known alienist
Iaziness Is a great contributory cause
Of insanity, but the alienist probably
did not mean laziness but idleness,
which is a very different thing. Lazy
people do not go crazy, but idle peO-
pie do. The lazy man is satisfied and
contented or he would be working to
better his condition. The idle man
may have and frequently does have
an earnest desire to work, but is pre-.
vented by circumstances from work
Ing. Thus he chafes and worries un-
til he finally goes insne. 1t is no doubt
dangerous for a man who has led a
busy life to abandon work altogether,
yet such man may not be at all lazy.
Most men, indeed, who make a pre-
tense of quitting work merely ex-
change one kind of work for another
A man who cultivates carnations or
collects coins or even plays golf sys-
tematically is as truly at work as If
he were directing the affairs Of a COM
mercial blishment or practicing
cupation of any kind, physical or men
tai, serves to avert that deterioration
Of mind and body which results from
absolute lack Of occupation If the
occupation be pleasant and congenial,
so much the better, but, pleasant or
unpleasant, occupation is the one thing
that every man needs to preserve him
from decay. Prisoners in State peni-
tentiaries beg for work and when, as
sometimes happens, they are kept In
idleness for considerable periods in
sanity increases rapidly among them.
Men Of material means but no mental
resources find themselves without oc-
cupation and they too lose their
minds. One Of them killed himself in
New York the other day, leaving word
that he could find nothing to do to
keep himself interested in life, conse-
quently he decided to quit it. In all
such cases the trouble is not laziness,
as the alienist enormously declares,
but lack Of work. Women who devote
themselves to dress and bridge whist
are not making the best possible use
Of their time, but they are at least
keeping themselves employed. This Is
the safeguard against insanity Of the
retrospective type. 1t is not true, for
tunately, that what we call retirement
from business necessarily involves
idleness. We often hear it said that if
such-and-such a man were to quit
business he would die within a short
time, but we often see such men quit
ting business and yet not dying. They
simply find new employment for brain
md hand to replace that from which
hey have retired and they will live
S long-if they live right-as though
hey had continued in their old work.
Occupation, therefore, is the essential
thing. The lazy man desires none, so
| that the lack of It will not drive him
| insane. The wise man will find it in
one form or another and thus avert the
peril which turks in idleness, brooding
and introspection.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

Russia Is an agricultural country,
yet the manufacture Of bombs has
been unduly stimulated, judging by
the number discovered In various
places.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

Count Castellane announced some
time ago his candidacy for seat in
the French senate as a stepping stone
to the presidency. We fear the Coun-
tess, by her action for divorce, has OBJ
structed the path to the stepping
stone
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

with friendly climate and great natural
resources, lags behind. But the signs
Of advancement are many and encour-
aging, and there is every reason for
taking cheerful view of the futt of
our sister republic.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

Edna May announces that she will
not marry Oscar Lewisohn, of New
York, or any other man" with an en-
phasis indicating her pride in having
broken herself of a bad habit.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

A veil over the face, worn during
the mosquito season, is a good protec-
ton against the insect pests. Used in
other seasons of the year, 1t would
fiend
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

A biologist prescribes a pound Of
candy or dose Of cooking soda for
shat tired feeling" The young Amer
lean will know which prescription to
take
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

A little politeness provides a very
thin coating for our exclusion laws.
1t is doubtful whether it will greatly
deceive the Chinese.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

President Roosevelt received a
complimentary" copy of "Fads and
Fancies," but failed to take it that
way.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

Time was when a public land tract
was a private snap. Things are diff
ferent now.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17
Topics of
the Times

Standard Oil to New Jersey: EFT
tn, Brutew
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17

Some men make as many apologies
for not having shave as woman
makes whose hair is done up In curl
papers
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-17
A Pleasant WAY to Travel

The above is the usual verdict of the
traveller using the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way between the Pacific Coast and the
East, and we believe that the service
and accommodations given merit this
statement. From Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo there are two
through trains daily to Kansas City
and st. Louis, carrying Pullman's lat
est standard electric lighted sleeping
cars, chair cars and up-to-date dining
cars. The same excellent service is
operated from Kansas City and St.
Louis to Memphis, Little Rock and
Hot Springs. If you are going East or
South write for rates and full informa-
ton.
W. c. MCBRIDE, Gen. Agt.,
124 Third St., Portland, Or.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
GRAVEL FOR CLAY ROADS.
How the Farmers In One Section OF
Minnesota Obtained Spleen
did Highway.

No work has been needed on a half
mile piece of road since 1t was wei
graveled L. years ago. The roadbed Ii
smooth and almost as hard as a paved
street, but before 1t was graveled there
was not worse piece of road In the
country. When wet the clay would
stick to wheels as pitch and when II
became dry 1t would bake as hard as
brick and 1t was always badly cut VI
and SO extremely rough that It could
only be passed by teams at q slow
walk.
There was no money In the road
treasury to make any permanent i'm.
provement on 1t, explains the Mime
sofa correspondent OF Farm and Home
so the parties interested finally decided
to have the work done by special do
nation. Accordingly all interested put
In one day each hauling gravel, which
they simply dropped one load after
another in the middle of the road, one
load Of gravel per wagon length. A
year Of two later the road was covered
with gravel In the same way. 1t Is
how In the best condition and passable
At all seasons with heavy loads with
out danger of being stuck.
The gravel should be put on IL to Is
inches deep, In order to make the i'm
provement permanent. In my imme-
date neighborhood where 1t is too far
to haul gravel, we have used a large
quantity of coarse sand taken from the
lake shore, and placed it upon the bed
Of earth roads which consist principals
ly Of very heavy and sticky black
loan. Where 1t has been properly ap-
piled In liberal quantities, it has made
a great improvement in our earth
roads.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
sizes UP YANKEE WOMAN.
German Professor Says She Is Fear
fully and Wonderfully
Made

Prof. Emil Reich has been entertain
ing Londoners with his impressions Of
American women. According 70 the
statements OF Or. Reich, the American
woman must be- "fearfully and won.
derfully made" He says:
I'm America the woman governs
the man absolutely. In certain sense
the last man that came to America was
Christopher Columbus.
The American woman lives Tor
what she calls "a good time Her in
terest is not In man nor what is noblest
IN man--paternity. Her ambition 10
20 study spiritualism, then Buddhism
then wireless telegraphy, and then the
novels of Marie Corelli.
What charaoterixes the French WON
an ls that absolute assertion OF her
energy, not so much OF her will--for
che Ia easily yielding. The German
woman Is o combination OF the Eng
lish and French. In Ireland woman
is ~ beautiful as she 10 dangerous
The Russian woman knows Is Ian.
guages. she can play all instruments.
she has read everything--but she ID
not q woman"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
SOUR THINGS AND SWEET
Professional faster Tells About Pc
culiarity of the Human
Tongue.

A wine expert was tasting wines. In
tasting sweet wines he lowered his head
upon his breast. In tasting dry or sour
wines he threw his head back. states the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
why do you do THAR" said specta-
tor.
Il don't know. Habit, guess" the
expert replied.
You do it," the spectator explained,
because the front OF your tongue can
bnly taste sweet things. and the back OF
It only sour things, and the movement
OF your head is for the purpose OF throw
ing the wines upon the right part of your
tongue. The taste nerves have different
functions, some handling sweets, others
sours. others bitters, and so on, just an
the muscles have different functions,
some working the leg and some the
arm"
well, WE'LL" said the expert. "You
surprise me. At the same time, I'm
sure you are right. Everybody, come to
think Of 1t, holds sweet things on the
fore part OF the tongue to get their flavor,
and sour things on the hind part"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
THE sTEREoTYPED SMILE.
Man Wearing a Castiron Smirk Con-
spicuous Feature Of Philadel-
Ehia Suburb.

Many daily travellers on morning
and evening train to and from one OF
Philadelphia's suburbs have noticed
for number of years man, now past
middle age, who wears a perpetual
, smirk. This man no doubt thinks he
is smiling and looking pleasant. but
the smile is so purely mechanical-a
mere contraction of the muscles, eked
out with an oleaginous leer--that the
fixed, set smile is wholly unpleasant
and repellent. He Is known as the
man with the stereotyped grin, says
the Philadelphia Ledger.
1t so happens that the man with the
castiron smirk has written several es-
says on the duty of being cheerful and
of irradiating pleasantness In daily
life. He Is sociologist and reformer,
and has In mind several benefcient
schemes for the right ordering of tn
universe; but his wife cannot live
with him; his brothers have quarrel
ed with him and his sister and his
daughter-in-law do not speak to him.
He started In life with a good idea
drill your thoughts, shut out the
gloomy and call In the bright"-but he
failed to put 1t into practice, because
his smile and his pleasantness are
| merely on the surface, while his heart
action Is defective.
Almost everyone must have noticed
among his acquaintances certain
number who, In their casual greetings
on the street. use the mechanical
smile. The muscles of the lower face
are contracted with evident effort. The
sudden relaxation of the muscles dis
closes blank face, which, by reason
OF the quick transition, leaves a most
| unwholesome. forbidding impression
just the opposite of the intention OF
the specifically polite contortionist
A sensitive man with genuine feeling
would much rather be sworn at than
greeted with that kind of smile.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
A SNOW ROLLER.
Machine with Which the Roads in
Winter May Be Kept Passable
by Farmers.

In sections where heavy snowfall
persists throughout the winter, the
snow roller is one Of the most econom-
ical devices that can be used for road
breaking. Great success has attended
the use of this tool in Maine and YER
mont, where the problem of keeping
the roads passable during the cold win
ter months is particularly difficult OF
solution.
A road roller consists Of two sections
six to eight feet in diameter, each sec
ton about five feet long, built about a
central axle. These rollers may be
made OF two-inch hard wood, OF any
sort which is heavy and durable. A
roller composed Of two flve-foot sec
tons Ia preferable. since heavy road
way ten feet wide is quite sufficient
and by having the roller In sections
1t is more manageable. Large, heavy
land rollers may be used for this pur-
pose, but rollers especially designed for
newly fallen snow may be constructed
at comparatively small cost.
In sections where these rollers have
been used, says the Orange Judd Farm
er, four, six or eight horses are hitch
ed, according to the depth Of the snow
fall and the weight Of the roller. Where
deep drifts exist they will sometimes
have to be spread with the shovel, to
allow horses to wade through.
In sections where these rollers have
been adopted by the road supervisors.
the region is divided into districts, for
each of which a roller is provided. Aft
er heavy snowfall, the roller Is drawn
over the road at once by the person In
charge, who is held responsible for his
particular section of the highway.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
SIZE REFUSED TO OBEY.
Demise of Woman Who Had the Old
Marriage Service
Revised.

Mrs. Sarah ]. Harper Starr of Belle
tue, was buried the other day In the
family mausoleum at Zelienople, Penn.
and a most wonderful life was ended.
says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mrs. Starts marriage in Cincinnati
on May %. 1s49, is of historical Inn
bortance in ecclesiastical circles. Miss
Harper was 16 years old and had been
studying in college with view to
missionary life in foreign lands. DR..
Starr, young physician was studying
toward the same end and the couple
decided to wed.
Miss Harper had ideas of her own
on the question of the word "obey" in
the ritual of the church, and decided
that for her it should be eliminated.
She found friend in Rev. Maxwell
Gladdis, assistant pastor of Morris
chapel, Cincinnati, who promised to
omit the word during the ceremony.
aad she was married. but friends were
inconsiderate enough to say the mar
riage was invalid and at the next meet
Ing Of the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, held in
Cincinnati, the clergyman who had
omitted the word was "churched
Finally the question became general,
and later, when decisive action was
taken, the sentence serve and obey"
was ordered stricken out of the matri-
monial ritual of the discipline of the
Methodist church
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
Tall Queens and Small Kings.

This is the age Of tall queens and
small kings. 1t is a curious fact that
In the case Of nearly every royal
married couple in Europe the wife is
taller than the husband. The car,
who Is considerably below the aver
age height of men, is fully head
shorter than his beautiful and males
tic czarina. The kaiser, who is o
well-grown man Is, nevertheless, over
topped by the German empress. King
Victor Emmanuel OF Italy scarcely
reaches up to the shoulders of Queen
Helena, who is an unusually tall WON
an, while he Is a diminutive man.
King Charles of Portugal is also over.
topped by his queen. although he
makes up in rotundity of body what
ha lacks In height
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
BELL MADE OF PIPES.
One In Japan That Is Composed Of
the Metal Parts of
Thousand.

There is bell at Toxic. Japan
which is made from tobacco pipes. Sc
says the legend inscribed around the
outside In four languages, English
French, German and Japanese.
The English version runs as fol.
lows:
This bell, cast in the city OF Toxic,
Japan, Decem Der 10. 1892, by Tsuds
Sen, is made from the metal of tobac.
co pipes Of more than a thousand men,
once slaves, now freemen."
The story is that in 1892 a woman
missionary from America waged war
on tobacco smoking and persuaded
over 1000 men to forswear the habit.
They therefore had no further use for
their metal pipes, which we're melted
down and cast in the form of a bell.
The metal resembles bronze and the
bell has pleasant musical ring.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
TITLES CHEAP IN EUROPE.
An Instance Illustrative OF the Read
mess with Which They Are
Accorded

THE martial spirit that pervades
Europe makes the average civilian very
much Of noncntity as he journeys
about the gay capitals across the wa
ter" remarked Henry Stern. accord
ing to the San Francisco Chronicle
which leads up to the advice that
IL you want to attract attention when
you so to Europe. you want to have :
military title attached to your name,
The fact was forcihly impressed on
my mind while was on European
tour some time back. The clerk AZ
the Grand hotel In Paris remarked TO
me that two distinguished ofiicers from
my city had been spending some time
at the hotel little while before.
was curious 20 see who they were. so
we looked back over the register for
their names. We found them with
out much trouble. The first 10 greet
my gaze was written down in this
fashion:
"Col M. H. Hecht. San Francisco.
CAL. y. 8. A.
Further down on the page" inter-
rupted the clerk. you will notice the
name OF Gen. Sale"
There. In a bold hand. was In
scribed Jacob Sale, Gen. Mer., San
Francisco, Cal, u. 8. A.
"What actually happened was this.
al subsequently learned. Saiz, who
is well known as the owner OF BIG
tannery at Benicia, arrived at the ho-
tel. and. noticing Col Hechts name
and title ON the register. decided that
he needed q title himself. So he wrote
after his name what he thought was a
proper abbreviation for general mer-
chandise. II worked beautifully. Dur
ing his stay at the hotel he was re-
spectfully addressed az Gen. Salz.'
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
CROSS SECTION.

An ice-house. 1t will not be necessary
n have any floor II the soil Is clayey
and air-proof, otherwise a cement
floor should be put In. This should
have good drainage. by making sew
eral channels all conveying to one
corner where perfect air-trap, made
like an 8 laid on its side is placed.
Water will always stand in this, thus
preventing the entrance of air. After
|Hlling, as the weather commences to
be warm, go over the ice frequently
and see that there are no air holes.
which will quickly cut a way through
the ice.
In describing building which can
be utilized as an ice.house and cool
ing chamber combined, the Ohio Far
mer says: The dimensions of the
building as well as the cooling cham
Der could be made to suit the require
ments of the builder. The building
described Is IL II. wide, Ii It. long
and IL #. high, with the chamber 3
It. long and G IT. wide. Fig. l shows
the chamber with ice on three sides
|of 1t. The ceiling Is sloping to bet
ter support the weight Of the ice ana
secure the necessary drainage. The
door should be of cement and placed
about about feet below the surface
|of the ground SO as to take advan-
tage OF the GOODNESS of the earth. Az
10 In Fig. pipe IL placed to take
the drainage from the ice into Q trough
In which cooling cans for milk may
be set.
Fig. 2 shows cross section OF the
building. The door OF the chamber Is
protected by q porch. and should be
on the north side Of the building. To
further protect the chamber. vesti-
bule might be built at the entrance
and two doors fitted. This building.
II properly constructed. furnishes q
cheap and serviceable storage room
for summer use.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-03
THE SPEED LIMIT DEFIED.
Motorists in Great Britain Persist
emily Go Faster Than the
Law Allows.

Writes an automobiles: "There IA
a speed limit In England and through
out Europe. Nowhere can one go fast
er than 20 miles an hour. The result
is that, everywhere, everybody goes as
fast as he pleases, and the brutal rate
at which the cars fly through the mar
row village streets, regardless OF life
or limb, would make me socialist II
| were poor laborer. The English
roads are very narrow. All are lined
with green hedges instead of fences
and cross each other suddenly at right
angles. All through England, but es.
pecially In southern England, life ~
greatly concentrated, with the result
that the spring in the English lanes.
while the most beautiful thing on
earth, can be conducive to smash-ups
of all sorts and conditions.
while we were in Great Britain the
marquis of Queensberry petitioned for
the right to carry arms In order to
shoot any motorist on sight. He had
been in the wilds of Africa and In the
mountains of British Columbia after
grizzlies, he said, without feeling that
his life was in danger; but he was
afraid to leave the gates of his own
estate, and had pulled his own child
from under the wheels of flying auto
mobile. II a nobleman's child was not
safe on the roadside, how about the
child of an ordinary subject
al xryn fvxkr
funny experiences. The sturdy Welsh
ponies bore our advent philosophicaliy
but the inhabitants SHE'D Every hui
man being became pafic-str1oken at
sight of an automobile, and II he were
riding or driving. his collapse was
complete. We always stopped short
and let them pass VI when travelling
in the opposite direction, or would
overtake them slowly whom travelling
the same way. But we were meeting
q terroriEed population, who judged al
guilty until we were proven innocent"
A Mexican's Proof Of Bravery.
Jose Maria Huerta, with a number
of friends was standing In saloon
at Guadalupe, Mexico, recently, when
he suddenly drew a pistol, and to
show them how brave he was, declared
he would kill the first person who
passed, and. cooking his gun, he stood
in the doorway waiting. Suddenly q
shot was heard. and. looking out,
Huerta's companions saw Rafael Mar
tinez, who happened to pass by, lying
in the middle Of the street. in HIS
death agonies. Haerta had kept his
word. His friends. Mortified at such
cold-bloodcd murder. seized him and
delivered him to the police.