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THE SCRAP HERO. -k;- A. - , JA " , SSSsS RUSHING Hz- Kjuiriea py iron fa Ey Jamas' J. Hill, Railroad Magnate. 10 2 . . .tilt .available iron deposits have been carefully catalogued. All the fields of national importance have been known 101 u least twenty years. Within that time their boundaries and probable capacity have been estimated, and the whole coun try has been prospected for this king of minerals. The most remarkable computation of scientific authority af firms that existing production cannot be. maintained for fifty years, assuming that all the available Iron ore known to us is mined. In fact, the limitation is likely to be less ,than that period. . By every possible means we are stimulating consumption, especially by a tariff that places a bounty on the exhaustion of the home supply of both coal and iron, thus prohibiting recourse to outside supplies and compelling the exhaustion of our own reserve. In the year 1930, as far as our own re sources are concerned, we shall be approaching an ironless age. For a pop ulation of 200,000,000 people, our home supply of iron will have retreated al most to the company of the precious metals. ... There is no substitute whose production and preparation for practical use !a not far mere expensive. Not merely our manufacturing industries, but our whole complex industrial life, so intimately built upon cheap iron and coal, feel the strain and must suffer, realignment. The peril is not one of remote Eeologic time, but of this generation. And where is there a sign of prepara tion for it? Where, amidst our statistical arrays and the flourish of trum pets with which the rise of our manufactured product is always announced, i . , . : c i iun .5 , P ilia time mflrrh- , yu umi tu uiucii us a wuisyei mi tuie uuuui uuj uccao ui - ing eo swiftly upon us? Instead of apprehension and diligent forethought for the future, the nation is engaged in policies of detail and opportunism. If any man thinks this prophecy of danger fantastic, let him glance at Gfreat Britain. That nation was not so extravagant as we, because It did not compel the instant exhaustion of its resources by a tariff prohibiting such "Imports, and' because its surplus population could and did scatter over the globe. But' it has concentrated effort upon the secondary form of industry J.UU ill J I Ui Ailfc 'tit liitj Cut 1 AULA; JL LliU jJi i:i:ai j ,uj i,.-, Iron supply i3 now nearly exhausted. It must import much of the crude ma terial, or close its furnaces and mills. Its coal la being drawn from the deeper levels. The added cost pinches the market and makes trade smaller coth in volume and in profits. Te process of constriction has only begun. None are advertising it, snly a few understand it. But already there is the cry of want and suffering from every street in England. And this is only the beginning of that in dustrial readjustment which the unwise application of industry and the de stiuction of natural resources must force everywhere. y Jiinnnrinf Xiiiniflf Number Has Grown With Surprising Ra pidily in Last Two Years. By the Editor of the Chicago Tribune. 4frsMlfr$INCE the panic In "Wall street last October twenty-eight sui fr . . cides have taken place which have been caused directly or indirectly by it. Even now, six months after that panic, suicides are recorded, one of the last being Charles Custer, the New York broker, who, a few days ago, after vainly striving to retrieve losses amounting to a million and a half dollars by operations of a purely gambling character; at last gave up the hopeless game and shot himself. Among these men who took their own lives because of ruinous finance are five prominent brokers, five bank cashiers, and seven bank presidents, showing that some bankers had imperiled their legitimate business and the money intrusted to them by others by illegitimate dealings In stocks or investments in risky projects. It is a curious feature of this sad record that so many bank officials should have been urged to death, the victims of their own folly and dishon esty. But they are not the only ones. The total list of those who have com mitted suicide since the 1st of January because of business misfortunes of various kinds is sixty-seven, and ome of theee cases also probably were due to the October panic. How many more will appear in the records time will show. The significant feature cf it all is the rapid increase of this class of sui cides. During the last twenty years the number haa been small, but during the last two years it has grown with surprising rapidity. This may be due in part possibly to the general increase of suicides all over the country, for they are now increasing much faster than homicides. It may be due in part also to the increased social strain and competition, and the mania to get riches measured by millions, for hundreds of thousands are hardly consider ed as constituting wealth. But in the majority of these cases, and in all the cases where brokers and bank officials have been concerned, it was the inev itable exposure of dishonesty and illegitimate practices which could be con cealed no longer, and which threatened the penitentiary and public-disgrace. Wtfe jKK$ "JENNY KISSED ME," TOO, $$PA'RV f Xli MMvK Sarah kissed me when we met, W'WE$r P' Ywn3fci So did Kate and Hell and Dora, So did Jane and Violet. lffW Dolly, Oloribe! and Mora. lf4NHv Thy ,aiyiked ?t nty velh n . K:?L tlnSf'T ' X'hm W And dear girls! they never hid ill fc W fWSWllRf V I don't like to kiss and tell- MmMKi 1 1 mmmm hwmmmrA stm, .they did it. Jim jf- M s -From the IuAianapolia News. CONSUMPTIOxN COSTS US A BILLION A YEAR. Startling Statistics Brought Out at th Fisher, . Washington, D. C. Professor Irv ing Fisher, of Yalo University, read a paper before the International Con gress on Tuberculosis which created a decided sensation. Professor Fisher's paper was on "The Cost of Tubercu losis," and he made the startling an nouncement that the great white plague costs in hard cash over one billion dollars a year. He estimated that consumption kills 138,000 persons every year in the United States. This is equal, he said, to the deaths from typhoid fever, diphtheria, appendicitis, men ingitis, diabetes, smallpox and cancer all put together. Then again, he said, it generally takes three years' to die, during which time the poor victim can earn little or nothing. "Five million people now living in the United States are doomed to fill consumptives' graves unless some thing can be done to prevent it," de clared Professor Fisher. "As each death means anxiety and grief for a whole family, I estimate that there will be over twenty million persons rendered miserable by these deaths." The scourge, he said, picks out its victims when they are young men and young women, at the very time of life e Tuberculosis Congress by Professor of Yale. when they are beginning to earn money. The minimum cost of doc tors' bills, nursing, medicines and loss of earnings amount to over $2400 In each case, while the earning power which might have been if death had not come brings the total cost to at least $8000 for each individual. If this sum is multiplied by the 138,000 deaths, thecost, It is seen, Is bigger than the immense sum of $1,000,000,000. Professor Fisher es timated that over half this cost falls upon the victims themselves, but the cost to others than the consumptive is over $440,000,000 a ye2r. As a matter of self-defense, he averred, it would be worth while1 to the community in order to sae mere ly a quarter of the lives now lost by consumption to invest $5,500,000, 000. At present only a fraction of one per cent, of this sum is being used to fight the disease. Professor Fisher expressed his be lief that isolation hospitals for in curable consumptives are the best In vestment of all, because in this way the most dangerous consumptives are prevented from spreading the disease by careless spitting in their homes 1 and neighborhood. tin Vj7 The Earliest KnowK'Trousers y Prof. Friedrich Delitzsch. HE head of the ancient Babylonian was carefully protected from the sun by various wrappings; it was sufficient for the rest of the body to wear a thin woollen or linen garment bound at the hips with a girdle or shawl, over which some times another garment was picturesquely draped. In Baby- Jp II Ionia and Assyria also head and foot coverings were subject tO iasnion, Out me lUUg, ciusc-uumo mciu iui iuiian;ij never went out of style, rousersthe un-aesthetical invention of the Medes are first found on the Parthian stele of about th first century 13. C, which was excavated in Assyria. Harper's Magazine, T I i n The jensaiions oj i ouia 1 Y 1 I I 3125 COAL MINERS LOST LIVES. Ricords Show 1907 Was ths Worst Year in History of Industry. Washington, D. C. Accidents in coal mines of the United States dur ing the last calendar year resulted in the death of 3125 men, and injury to 5316 more, according to statistics just made public by the Geological Survey. The death record among the coal miners during the year was greater by 1033 than in 1906, and is said to have been the worst year in the history of the coal mining indus try. The figures do not represent the full extent of the disasters, as re ports were not received from certain States having no mine inspectors. West Virginia reported the heaviest death rate in 1907, 12.35 per thou sand employes, and this State also showed the lowest production for each life lost 65,969 tons. New Mexico stood next on the list with a death rate of 11.45 and a production of 77,332 tons for. each life lost. Ala bama was third, with a death rate of '1.2 per thousand and a production of I 92,535 tons for each life lost. Mls- bUUll llciu L Lie luncci ucaui laic, neon- ing the roll of honor with .95 and 499,742 tons of coal mined for each life lost. Statistics do not bear out the pop ular idea that most mine disasters result from explosions. Of the total number reported during the last year, 947 deaths and 343 injuries resulted from gas and dust explosions, and 201 deaths and 416 injuries were caused by powder explosions. The chief cause of death amor g the miners, the report explains, was due to the falling of mine roofs and coal. Such disas ters caused 1122 deaths and 2141 injuries. E. W. Parker, chief statistician of the survey, asserts that much benefit will result from the action of Con tress In appropriating $15 0,000 to in vestigate mine disasters and take steps to decrease the number of ac cident3 each year. BITER FIGHTS BBVII FISH. Thirty Ft . Under. Water -in Hold of Wreck When AttackeJ. - - San" Francisco, Cal. Wrapped in the tentacles of a giant devil fish, Martin Lund, a diver employed by the Coast Wrecking Company, fought for his life in the hold of the wrecked steamer Pomona, which lies in thirty feet of water in Fort Ross Cove off the Marin County coast. The devil fish hadevidently entered the vessel's hold during the night. Lund had been at work some time before he was attacked. A giant ten tacle four inches in diameter first gripped one leg. Before Lund real ized what wa3 happening another en circled his thigh. The diver began to chop at the rubber-like bonds and at the same time gave the hoisting signal to the barge above. Two more tentacles squirmed out of the darkness and one twined about his neck. As the efforts of the men on the surface to comply with his signal threatened to pull his hel met off, Lund was forced to signal them to stop. With only his left arm free he hacked at the tentacles until they were partially crippled, but he was being drawn toward the fish when ha saw the outline of the body. Plung ing toward it he drove his knife with all his force into the head, repeating the blow until he had slashed it into sections. In its death throes the oc topus tightened its tentacles until the diver was aljnost crushed in its em brace. Lund finally cut himself free and was brought to the surface fainting. Bv G Stanley Hall, of Clark University. OUNG people need to tingle with sentiments, and the appe tite for excitement and sensation -is at ics height in the teens. Here is where the principle of vicariousness gives the teacher one of his chief opportunities and resources. Excitement the young must have, for feelings are now their life. If they cannot find it in the worthy, they are strongly predisposed to seek it in the grosser forms of pleasure. Hence, every glow of aesthetic appreciation, every thrill aroused by heroism, every pulse of religious aspiration weakens by just eo much the potential energy of passion, because it has found Its ldnetic equivalent in a higher form of expression. It is from this point cf view that some of our German co-laborers have even gone so far as to advocate a carefully selected course of love stories, chosen so as to bring J out the most chivalrk; side of the tender passion at this age, when it is most plastic and capable cf Idealization; while others have advocated theatre jjoing to selected plays, palpitating with life, action and adventure, that emo tional tension may be fischzrged not merely hanaJessIy, but In an elevating WW fat J .TMiiCI 4 V. CfcXl i-U i4" Washington, D. C. Physicians and the laity will be greatly interested in the result of a series of experiments made by the navy surgeons recently, through which they believe they have demonstrated that mercury is a spe cific for tuberculosis. The Govern ment Bureau of Medicine and Surg ery has published the reports of Med ical Director C. T. Hibbett and Sur geon Barton Leigh Wright. Surgeon Wright, who is the origin ator of the treatment, says he discov ered the efficacy of the drug by acci dent. He was treating a case which required mercury. The patient was tubercular as well. To the surgeon's astonishment the tubercular lesions bezan to heal. The mercury is administered by in jection into the muscular tissue In order to avoid digestive derangement Dr. Wright says: "I arn convinced," he adds, "that in mercury we have a specific for tu berculosis, and that the only qneetlon remaining is how long a time will be required to effect a cure. We follow the well established rules of treat ment during the administration of the drug open air, rest, proper food in abundance, sanitation, personal hy giene and selection of climate." Surgeon-General nixey declines to com ment on the tests. Of course it is not claimed by Dr. Wright that the new treatment will restore the lost lung tissue, but where there is enough lung tissue to support life hebelieves the victim can be saved. Bain Storm Uncovers Ilirli rincer Pockets of Gold. San Bernardino, Cal. Jacob L. Thomason, of San Bernardino, wa3 prospecting among the old Mexican placers near Hespc-ria when h w-is overtaken by a furious storm, which forced him to szek shelter. After a quarter of an inch of rain had fallen in le33 than ono hour, throwing the canyons into roaring torrents, Thom ason returned to his work. When the water subsided he found scores of rich placer peckete, and within a few hours panned cut $10,000 la gold. Kansas Mastodon Tnsk Crumpled Wlicn Found. Concordia, Kan. A large ivory tusk, seven inches in diameter, was found near hsre in a bed of clay. The find was made by Frederick Button, who was canoeing in the river. The tusk crumpled into small pieces when taken out, but parts of it were brought here, and Mr. Button will make a further search for the skele ton of the mastodon, which is b?lieved to be buried in the bed of Eilt and clay. Years ago the lower jaw of a mastodon was found in this district. Later in the day I met (And saluted) Maude nnd Daisy, And I also kissed Cozette. Clara, Julia, Ruth and Maisie O, I'm sorry for Ieigh Hunt, I who've had so many, many! While poor Leigh's one vaunted stunt Was with Jenny. "Richmond Times-Diapatch. MODERN LIFE. "Got much family?" "Not much. Just a pup and a rub ber plant." Pittsburg Post. THINKING PART FOR ETHEL. Ethel "Let's play house." Johnny "All right; you be ma away in the country and I'll be pa." New York Sun. A MAN'S COMMENT. "That's a smart pump." "And a smart girl wearing It. Nothi. ng short of genius could keep that style of footgear on." Louisville Courier-Journal. GIVING IT TIME. jeweler "Is your watch all right how, Mr. Smart?" Mr. Smart "Well, no, not yet; but it seems to be gaining every day." . Boston Transcript. THIS MIGHT STICK. "Have you made your campaign contribution yet?" "What's the use?" sighed the poet. "All my contributions are returned, with thanks." Washington Herald. SUITABLE ATTIRE. "I think," said Sue Brett, "I'll take a dip into vaudeville." "Take a dip, eh?" commented Yorick Hamm. "So that's why you've ordered a bathing-suit rig." Kansas City Journal. HAVE A CARE. "My mission in life," said the satir ist, "is .to put the dunce cap on the heads of other people." "Be careful," replied his friend, that you don't catch cold." Phila delphla Inquirer. REGARDLESS. "It will be an expensive wedding, L understand." "Oh, it will. They rehearse every day, and the prospective groom smashes a real camera at each re hearsal." Washington Herald. SOMEWHAT PREPARED. "I think that young man is a candi date for your daughter's heart." "Yes," assented, the indulgent fa ther, "and I believe he'll win out. I took for a notification committee any day now." Washington Herald. UNFRIENDLY VIEWS. Passenger Agent "Here are some postcard views along our line of rail road. Would you like them?" Patron "No, thank you.' I rods over the line one day last week and have views of my own on it." Chi cago News. THE GREEDY BARD. "When he was poor he was a good poet, but prosperity ruined him." "How was that?" "As soon as he began getting a dollar a word, he wouldn't stick to the meter. Insisted on jamming in extra words." Louisville Courier. Journal. BURDENED WITH WEALTH. "Did you try counting sheep for your insomnia?" "Yes, doc; but I made a mess of it. I counted 10,000 sheep, put 'em on cars and shipped 'em to market. The wad of money I got for 'em made me afraid to go to sleep." Washing, ton Herald. A SERIOUS MATTER. "You are being mentioned promi nently," explained the politician, "for this and that office of distinction." "But that doesn't provide me with the eats," expostulated his constitu ent. "Won't you have me mentioned for some place I could get?" Hous ton Chronicle. ESCALLOPED CABBAGE. Cut half boiled cabbage in pieces, put in buttered baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper and add one cup white sauce. Lift cabbage with fork that it may be well mixed with sauce, cover with half cup buttered crumbs, bake until crumbs "are brown. White sauce i3 made of four table spoons butter, four tablespoons flour, quarter teaspoon salt, little pepper, one cup milk. Melt butter, add flour and seasoning, stir in milk slowlyj cook until thick and smooth. Neif York World. NO TERRORS FOR KIM. The Angle Worm "How In the world do you escape being poisoned by the Paris green the plants are sprayed with?" The Potato Eus "Ms? My boy, I'm a faith scientist. I consider the stuff creme de menthe, and partake o it freely after meals." Judge. A CONSISTENT CUTTER. "Who on earth cut your hair?" sped Mrs. Gunson as her husband rived home. "A locksmith, my dear," replied Mr. Gunson. "Did you think a bar. ber had anything to do with it?" "Indeed I did not," retorted Mrs Gunson. "Judging from the shaggy way it has been trimmed I thought perhaps it was done by a hackman ' The Bohemian. HOT CHICKEN SALAD. One tablespoonful of butter, melt, add one tablespoonful of flour mixed with a pinch of salt, a little pepper cayenne, and if liked celery salt, or for a change a few drops of onion 4 i TT n1,n n -rv t til - 4-n make a cream. Stir in a beaten egg, then carefully a cup of chopped chicken meat. Don't stir much after adding the meat. Veal is good in stead of chicken, and lamb can be used, but cut it' into little dice in stead of chopping it. Serve on toast with fried potatoes. New Yorlf World. PICKLED PEACHES. Choose firm freestone peaches, pare them, cut them in halves, re move stones, weigh prepared fruit, put it into a deep stone crock. To seven pounds of fruit allow three pounds of light brown sugar, one pint vinegar, one ounce of stick cin namon, one tablespoon of whole all spice, one-half tablespoon of. cloves!! Tie spices in muslin bag. Boil five minutes in the sugar and vinegar;; remove scum and pour boiling hot over the fruit. . Cover and place in cool place over night. Next morn ing drain syrup out of fruit, boil again in the spices ten minutes then pour over fruit again. Do this for three mornings, but on the last morning add the fruit to the syrup and boil until it may be easily; pierced with a fork, then skim it out. Boil the syrup until thick, add peaches and cork until syrup boils again, then fill glass jars and seal. Boston Post. COOKING PRUNES. We wash the prunes thoroughly, then put them to soak in sufficient water to supply the proper amount of liquid or juic9 when served, and allow them to soak for twenty-four hours, then place on fire and boil for five minutes, then place vessel in a fireless cook box and allow1 to remain twelve hours, when thiy will be ready to serve. No sugacis needed. If one has no cook l)Ozfbut!$1' may be allowed to stand In a closed vessel for twenty-four hours after the five minutes' cooking, making forty-eight hours soaking. It is soak ing, not cooking or stewing, which makes dried or evaporated fruit pal atable, and few of them require any, sugar when so prepared, peaches, pears and nectarines being prepared in the same way. We have found this method a great improvement over the ordinary stewing with sugar and suggest that others, who find stewed prunes somewhat, unsatisfac tory, try soaking. G. B., in Rural New Yorker. mm l0U5E: mm hold - Keep all receptacles for garbage carefully covered and the cans cleansed or sprinkled with lime or oil. If rolls stick to a pan they can be put back on the top of the stove for a minute or two when they come out easily. When cookin- with old apples add a little lemon juice to give flavor. Summer apples need nothing but sugar. Bottles that must be air tight should have the corks dipped in melted parafnne until thoroughly coated. Should cakes stick to the pans put a hot cloth on the bottom for a minute or two. It papers are used! sticking is infrequent. Turnips boiled in their jackets like beets are much better than when pared. Adding a little sugar to the water will correct any bitterness. Heat a lemon thoroughly before squeezing and you will obtain near ly double the quantity of juice that you would if it had not been heated. Keep the flies away from the sick, especially thosa ill from contagious diseases. Kill every fly that strays into the sick room. His body is cov ered with disease germs. As soon as a salt ham . or tongue is cooked remove It from the boiling water to a pan of cold water for a few seconds. This will loosen the skin, which may be easily peeled off. Cantaloupes, like most cf our fruit, are picked a trifle green, and they should be put out in the sun for a whole day, turning them over every few hours, and'then put into the ics box atnigitrfs
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