(Dakota County Ilcrald
Dakota, crrr, neb.
John tU- Reaca, - FubttatMV
Tho rhinoceros trust ts th latest
ind
Che toughest
History, baring run as far back a
4241 n. C, ha become weary and
topped there.
A woaan who take a good photo-
S-apa baa always on consolation In
mes of stress.
Lots of people think tbey bpvo bcn
Hiented un'.eaa they get more than their
money's worth.
Let os hope that earthquake may
irear Itself out before it gets started up
tba Atlantic coast
The crop of college graduates this
year Is not at all commensurate with
the Kansas wheat crop.
A fool and bis money arc parted none
too soon, In view of the mischief a fool
can do with bis money.
In Chlcogo Prof. C. II. Fryo neglect
ed to go home for thirty-one years.
Borne men are very neglectful.
At last we hare It figured out to our
wn satisfaction. The men who de
Sign circus posters never saw a show.
King Edward, though conspicuously
t man of peace. Is believed to have
bade a big killing In American railway
Mocks.
One of the ocean steamship linos has
Earned a new vessel the Snmsland.
hereupon Uncle Sam will please look'
jfcratifled.
It Is promised that this year's apple
frop will beat the record harvest of
890. After this le! the election news
Bo Its worst or best.
Near Hays City, Kan., they have dls
covered a chalk bed that Is nearly 1)!)
Jr cent pure. That ought to Insure an
Almost pure milk supply.
There are nearly 10,000 uninhabited
Islands In the Indian Ocean. We might
f.dd that the world still hits a large
supply of Sancho Pnnzas.
A bank cashier has been arrested for
being $30,000 short In bis accounts.
It Is not explained how the examiner
happened to catch him at it so early.
Maxim Gorky still continues to rail
(it the American people, and the Amer
can people still continue to keep Oor
ky at arm's length with a pulr of
longs.
The chief of police of Seattle has or
flered all prize fighters to leare thnt
town or go to work. Cruel man 1 Per
fane the poor fighters are too strong
to work.
An actor was arrested In New York
because he looked like Banker Steus
land, well, anyone who looks like
ptensland ought to be punished In
tomo way-
And now they have gone and organ
liscd a rhinoceros trust and cornered
the market What chance has a poor
(nan to own a menagerie while such
brings on are permitted to the rich und
powerful ?
E. 11. Harrlman Is said to hare made
profits amounting to $10,000,000 In a
decent railroad deal. We hope he
(Jdn't got any of It from poor scrub
Women or hard-working men who hare
been saving a little at a time In order
to hare something for the rainy day.
Judge Ben B. Lludsey, of Denrer,
Who has had notable success In dealing
jrtth Juvenile delinquents and who has
mastered the art of getting In close
touch with boy life, declares that "One
million children in this country are an
nually drifting Into crime." This cer
talnly is an Important statement if
. true. But Is It true? Anybody who
has eyes to see and ears to hear knows
that there are a great many Juveniles
J ho have developing tendencies In that
lrectlon. But to say that a million
boys and girls are drifting Into crime
very yesr In the United States strikes
(it as absurd. We think that the Judge
ttoo prodigal In the use of ciphers
bis statistical utterances.
We hare reform schools for way
ward children, which doubtless do the
best they can. But If there could be
reform schools for parents there would
be little or no need of reform schools
for children. Delinquent parents are
to blame for delinquent children In
pine cases out of ten. If parents would
do their duty, If tbey could be forced
by state, church, society, press, public
opinion or the whips and scorns of the
time, to realise their responsibility for
the children they have brought Into the
world then there would be no need of
the State reform school. The purents
would keep that school.- Its course of
Instruction would be admonitory and
preventive. It Is seldom that a child
brought up In the right way by the
parents will afterward take the wrong
Toy.
Farming Is virtually the only greut
series of occupations that Is unorgan
ized, uncyudlcated, unmonopoll.eU. un
controlled, except as It U dominated by
natural laws of commerce ami the arbi
trary limitations Imposed by organiza
tion In other business. In a time of
extreme organization und subordination
Of the Individual the farmer still re
tains bis traditional Individualism and
economic separatoues. Ills entire
scheme of life rests on Intrinsic earn
ing by means of his own efforts. If the
farmer steps outside bis own realm he
Is met on be one side by organized
capital and on the other by organized
luttor. He Is confronted by flxtnt earn
ings. What he nlmsclf secures Is i.
remainder left at the end of a year's
lustuess.
Few men lu America have hud more
ftewspaper space devoted to them dur-
Ing the last forty years than the late
HiiMKcIl Sago, iunl yet there nre proV
nltlv few men about whose real el.r-'ic-
ti-r the public knew le. lils great
won 1 tli naturally made hint prominent
In the business world, but the things
tln.t were written about nun iiuu io io
mostly with his Idiosyncrasies or
rather with the one idiosyncrasy w hlcB
ninde him an unusual and picturesque
character amongAmerlcan millionaires.
namely.hls excessive personal economy.
Anecdotes of his extraordinarily clienp
luncheons, or of his anxiety to save a
penny whenever It was possible, never
failed to excite amusement, not to say
ridicule. It may readily be granted
that Mr. Snge's outward life had In It
little to appeal to popular sympathy
or affection j yet there was much In It
to appeal to common sense. His Inde
pendence or public opinion, me sim
plicity of a life led amid much cense-
less and disgusting ostentation, bis busi
ness probity and foresight, bis religious
constancy and the purity of his domes
tic life, are all facts upon which young
men may ponder with profit More
over, no man can be Judged with abso
lute Justice by bis fellows, least of all,
one who lived so reserved and self
contained a life as Mr. Sage.
The railroads In China now In oper
ation, under construction or projected
have an approximate length of 9,000
miles, according to a report made to the
government by our consul at Nankin.
That Is a smaller mileage than Illinois
possesses, but It Is larger than the rail
road mileage of Spain, and within a
thousand miles of the mileage of Italy.
And of course It Is only tlie beginning,
for China seems to bare started fairly
on a policy of Internal development
with prospects for rapid growth In the
future. A few years ago In discussing
Chinese railroads little or no attention
would have been paid to concessions to
Chinese companies. Such concessions
would have been regarded as Jokes,
mid all attention would have been cen
tered on the lines of political or stra
tegical lwixirtance dominated by Euro
pean companies. Now the list of con
cessions shows almost as many li: Chi
nese hands as In tbr hands of oil other
countries together. Sixteen . Chinese
concessions nre listed, some of them of
minor importance, but others com
manding main lines of railroad devel
opment In the empire. Such, for In
stance, Is the Canton-Hankow line, re
cently taken over from American capi
talists, which will form one-half of the
grent trunk line from north to south.
Another line, the Hang-chow-Soocbow
road, will form the basis for a great
east and west trunk line. It Is true
the Chinese capitalists and govern
ment olllclals are in many cases quar
reling over the control of these lines
and delaying their construction, and
much will dejM'nd on their ability to
smooth out their Jealousies. The fact
remains that In the majority of cases
Chinese engineers are busily engaged
In construction work and Chinese rail
road men arc personally operating lines
for Chinese owners. Tho other conces
sions are divided between the British,
Germans, French, Belgians and Portu
guese. American capital, after Its one
unpleasant experience, Is not apt to
enter the field In the Immediate future,
nor, Indeed, to have any opportunity
to enter, should It wish It
DIET8 AND THE DOCTORS.
Scarcely an Article of Food that
Ia
Mot Condemned.
Whut with the vegetarians win eal
no meat and tho rheumatic mll'i rt.ri
who eut no fruit and tho gouty w to
tuk..' no nitrogen If they know It cud
the dyspeptics who cut only loodicss
foods, life stands to lose oue of Us hcf
joys, a square muul, says the M-jdUul
Journal. And it is not quite true ttut
instinct rises superior to theory and
thut after all iooplo eut whut Is tood
for them. Headers und tbliii-.-rs are
deeply Influenced by chemical syiuLtls
mid It Is not rare for a pallid uyspep
t'C of therculosls tendencies to endeavor
to practice the economies of metabolism
Ingeniously set forth by somo of the
physiological chemists. It is high time
somebody raised a voice lu protect, for
surely no people stand lu so little need
of this couusel as do ours. Our hus
tling population require a good deal of
nutriment und Is suffering from luck
rather than repletion.
Af. a race possibly wo have not lived
Ions enough lu America to be thorough
ly acclimated.. We speak of
the effete populations of Europe, but
no one who bus seen them would ever
call the European peoples effete, and
tho impression Is Ineffaceable that what
we need here Is better cooked 'ood and
luoro of It, rather than the diet of feds
that now captivate our nervous coun
trymen. It would certainly be dlUUmlt
to construct uny scheme of dlot cn
which the profession would agree.
There Is scarcely an article hut finds
condemnation somewhere among us.
Tho banuua, dear to childhood, H de
nounced by the piedtatrlst as unwnole-
seme, though whole populations live
upon It; whl'o no printed diet list
would Include pork uud bacon, which
Dr. Woods Hutchinson insists are the
keystones of our nutional greatness.
Even In tho dietetics of disease this
rnther than health being our chosiu
realm utter concision nud dlsngrco
imut reign. Chemical formulas of hor
raying elaboration lead one to comlema
rv'd meut lu gout, another to pronounce
It a uutrluient readily nssliulluble and
easily disposed of. And the quarrels
over foodstuffs permissible to the rh u
HiHtic are equaled only by those over
niii-liohvdratcs In grave dlaln-tes. It Is
n crying need of the time that the prj
fesslon reaches a consensus of convlc
tlon and teachings on the basic facts of
nutrition In health and disease before
tt.ev attack the more venial suiicrstl
tli.i'h and absurdities of a much k,t
laity. First of all, brethren, shull wo
not cast out the beam tba'. Is In our
own eye?
lOsceedliml? Uood.
"Yes. Hunter Is really engaged
Miss Uoxley."
tf
"So be was telling me. Ho says she's
not very pretty, but she's good."
"Yes, good for a million In bcr own
right." Philadelphia I-edger.
Throw a buby lu any bouse, a4 It
will muuuge to Uud a welcome.
Sps?FnMs mm.
Work or riar.
"Mother won't let me go down to
(he deep swimming-pool," said Jack.
"My mother won't. And she won t
let me go off and camp with thJ other
fellows," said Imls. v
"And I can't go down by the wharf
alone," complained Jack.
"No, and I can't go out In a sailboat
without rapa."
Then tlio boys sat down unuer me
tree, and looked as If they had been
very much abused. Just then grandpa
came along. He had heard the com
plaint "No fun?" he asked.
The boys shook their heads. "We
can't do anything down here because
our mothers are afraid," said Jack.
"I know something that Is safe,"
said grandpa. "You know that old
chicken-run made of laths down there
by the brook, and the little low hen
house that stands there, all tumbling
down? Well, It Is to be torn down and
the wood piled up In the shed. The
brook runs, right down from the chicken-run
to the walk leading up to the
shed. Now If you boys take off one
side of the hen-house you can use It
for a raft, pile all the laths on It and
tow It down tho brook ; then you could
unload It at the flat rock and carry It
Into the shed. That would not. Bcure
your mothers one bit"
The boys went up and away before
be bad hardly finished, and soon the
sound of tearing boards and snapping
laths was heard. When supper was
reody the bit of land that had been an
eyesore was all cleaned up, and the
boys were hungry for grandma's good
biscuits. Tbey told their mothers that
they liked games that seemed like work.
Grandpa laughed, and said, "I guess It
s work that seems like a game."
fouth's Companion.
Bedtime.
Mother says the baby birdies
In their nests are sleepin' sound ;
No good little boys or girlies
Wide awake can now be found.
In my little "comfy" nightie,
With my curls all tied up tight,
And my bedroom candle lighted,'
I have come to say "Good-niglit."
Margaret G. Hays.
Something New In Game.
Here Is a Jolly game. It consists of
answering questions which are puns on
the abbreviation of our various State
names.
Pass around sheets of paper for the
different players to write them on, an
nounce iv minutes ror each nnswer,
and then begin rending out the ques
tlons :
1. Which Is the most religious State?
2. Which is the most egotistical
atute?
3. Which Is the State where untidy
oiks ought to live?
4. Which Is tho father of States?
6. Which Is the maiden State?
0. Which Is the State for pupils
having lessons to study?
7. Which Is the best State for
'miners?
8. Which Is the most unhealthy
State?
9. Which Is the State best fitted to
heal the sick?
10. Which Is the decimal State?
11. Which Is the best State In case
of a flood?
12. Which Is the State of surprise
or exclamation?
The answers are:
1. Massachusetts. 2. Maine 3.
Washington. 4. Pennsylvania. B. Mis
slsslppl. 6. Connecticut 7. Oregon,
8. Illinois. 0. Maryland. 10. Ten
nessee. 11. Arkansas. 12. Ohio.
DlfTereut Mcanlnaa,
Some words In our language have
several meanings, each different from
ihe others, so thut It Is not always pos
sible to know ut first Just what thought
the speaker wishes to express.
There is tho word "huiunnltarinn,'
ror instance, ir you win turn to your
Webster you will find that it intNins
1. Oue who denies the divinity of
Christ, nud believes him to have Itccu
merely human. 2. Oue who limits tho
phcre of duties to human relations and
affections, to the exclusion of the relig
ious or spiritual. 3. One who is net
Ively concerned lu promoting tlio wel
fare of his kind; a philanthropist. The
third sense Is the oue in which the
word Is now most frequently used, und
Webster murks this definition us "re
cent"
lie (Jot the Wron Uue,
A certul't Inspector, 111 one of his vis
its to a district school, was much an
noyed by tho noise of tho pupils In tlu
adjoining room. At lust, unable to bear
It any longer, be opened the door und
burst In on the class. Seeing oue boy,
rather taller thuu the rest, tulklng a
great deal, he caught him by the col
lar, carried him to the next room and
threw blm Into a chair, saying:
"Now sit there und be quiet !"
Preseutly a little bead apepared at
the door, and a meek voice cried:
"Please, sir, you've got our teacher!"
Jaat a Uood.
The drawing teacher bud beeu glr
lug a lesson on cubes, and some of the
"I -rJWtoil
pupils Iiad given examples. The teach
er wanted more, but no one could think
of any. Finally, a boy said:
'I know a good cube half a pound
of butter."
"Why, that Is excellent," cried the
teacher. "Now, who can give me an
other example, as good as Henry's?"
After ft long time she saw n band
waving wildly In the back of the room.
'Well, Willie, what Is It?"
"Why, the other half pound of that
butter," said Willie, triumphantly.
The Middle Boy.
I'm only Just the middle boy,
So all last year I wore
Delancey'a clothes. Most ev'ry toy
I had was his before.
But I'm "so hard on ev'hything !"
(That's what my fam'Iy say.)
Right from the shops they have to bring
New clothes for Richard Gray.
IHnncey always says, "Why, Jim,
I wouldn't care one bit !"
You'd think they'd be just fun for him
Old clothes that don't quite fit.
But father talks a di (Trent way.
"Not so very long ago
I was a middle boy," he'll say.
'You hurry up and grow !
Youth's Companion.
A Candle la the Well.
When a well has to be cleaned, It Is
customary to lower a candle Into It; If
the candle burns, the mnn who Is to do
the cleaning may descend wth safety,
but If It goes out, for him to descend
would be almost certain death. Carbon
ic acid gas often lies nt the bottom of n
well, and lowering the candle Is the test,
for this gas will at once smother the
light. Just ns it would smother the man.
The flume and the man botb live on
oxygen, and both die In carbonic acid
gas. Chicago Dully News.
HER BOOK OF BOOKS.
In Which She Set Down the Itlen
of The She Had Head.
She held up the fat little red leather
book for bcr friends to see.
"No not a diary. I kept one once,
but I burned It long ago. My father
gave me this when I was fifteen, and
showed me how to keep It.
"It Is my list of books I have read.
I call It my book of books. Here Is the
first entry :. 'Westward Ho,' by Charles
Klngsley double-starred because I
have read It three times; a star means
rereading. Underlined, too, because
when I looked the list over at the end
of the yeur It was one of my favorites.
A Mttle circle after the title that's
because It was a work of Action that j
set me to bunting fact, In history and
biography. I don't think much of any
historical novel that hasn't earned Its
circle.
"Not all the marks In my code were
marks of honor, though. Look at the
cross after number nine; that means
trash. And there, after number eleven
tho Frederika Bremer novel the
hlnck dash that means simply that I
didn't like It Father enjoined me to
be honest with my black marks. He
said I should find them an antidote to
literary pretentiousness. One enn hard
ly assume airs of superiority In dis
cussing classic masterpieces one has
given a black mark to.
"The list of one's rending Is so much
more than a list. It Is half the history
of n mind. I can trace here so ninny
delightful episodes- of developing taste
and temperament ; my long meander
lugs among the poets, my dash into
folk-lore, my digression Into sagas, my
return to solid English history and
biography, my rebellious bolt Into friv
olous fiction, my gradual achievement of
due proportion In my dealings with
fact anil Imagination.
"Then there Is the occasional encoun- '
ter with some new author who captl-
VHled my fancy nt tho Instant, and the
breathless rush through all his works.
Iiook at that page of u nor ok en Steven
son! One title nftcr another. There
they all are, und oh, whut a good time
I hud with them!
"Many people can't keep an Interest
ing diary; there aren't jnany who can
keep u true one true In the sense of
telling the whole truth. But a simple
list of books can deceive no one. can
hurt no susceptibilities, pamper no
vanities, encourage no morbidness, be
tray no UK-rets and yet It tells sn
much!, Try'lt for yourself. If you have
never tried, and soon there will be no
book In your library you will prize
moro than your own little book of
books." Youth's Companion.
Ill Scheme Worked.
It Is related that a certain man was
recently very sad because his wife had
gone out of town on a visit, which she
would not shorten lu spite of his ap
peals to her to come home. He finally
hit upon a plan to Induce her to return.
He stmt her a copy of each of tho local
papers with one Item clipped out, and
when she wrote to find out what It was
he had clipped out ho refused to tell
her.
The scheme worked admirably! Ia
less than u week she was home to find
out what It was that had been going
on that her husband didn't want her U
know ubout. Pittsburg Press.
Scnaaltoiial t'ablea.
"What's the news this morning?"
"Mighty exciting cable about Itocke-
felbr."
"What's that?"
"Why, he goes to bed every night
get up each morning, converses with
bis friends, cats when he Is hungry.
drinks if thirsty, and hasn't tipped n
waiter yet." Philadelphia Ledger.
Apiilva of llUiuril,
There are gains for all our losses.
There'll a cure for every pain ;
At the name time, friends, from eating
Apples green w'd best refrain.
Bulumore Sun.
lluneriutitinliiK.
"Aren't the lloneymouus very much
married?"
"Yes, they are one and Insufferable."
-Smart Set.
It's Just as easy to make a poor ex
cuse as It Is dlUicult to make a good
on.
SO THE OLD
The eld folks say, The times are changing.
The bygone years were surely best;
O'er land and sea, forever ranging.
Men wander now in vague unrest;
And faded are the green romances,
The morning light has died away,
The world has lost Its golden chances!
So the old folks say.
The old folks say, The days are duller,
The sweetest songs are left unsung,
The spring was full of scent and color,
Inig. long ago, when we were young.
Above our heads the sky was clearer,
And warmer was the sunlight ray ;
Yet heaven Is now a little rearer.
So the old folks say.
The old folks say, TIs Maytlme weather
Tlay, children, to your heart's desire,
But leave us hand in hand together,
Beside the swiftly falling fire.
For earthly chains are near their breaking,
And eyes are dim, and locks are gray,
But Love's s dream that knows no waking,
So the old folks say.
rail Mall Gazette.
A WILD
HE Falrrlew Express had steam
ed Into the statioi at the east
ern terminus, tho passengers bad
gone to their homes or '.heir hute's, and
Bob Sutton, the engineer, having deliv
ered his cars to the sh'fter," had run
his engine, "Big 02," to Its place In
the yard and gone home to dinner. It
was now 12 o'clock, and his start back
west again would not be made till 3
Falrrlew was a small place, with n
light traffic, and two trips a day were
all Bob's train had to mi.ke.
Nothing was to go out between 12
o'clock and 3, and Big 02 stood on a
yard track that bad its switch open to
the main line outside. When the time
should corns, therefore, il the engineer
would have to do would be to steam out
and put 02 at the head of the train.
. Sutton had missed his boy to-day,
and be did not understand it Regular
ly every day Harry came to meet bis
father on his arrival, and to feast his
eyes on the Joy of his life, that great,
puffing, glorious steam g'nnt of which
has father was the "captain." Time
and again had the boy mounted to the
cab while his father was there, and ex
amined with enthusiasm every lever,
ralve, bolt and screw that belong to 02.
Bob was proud of the boy's Interest
In his "machine," and never failed t)
tell blm something about how It "work
ed." Above all things Harry delighted
In seeing his father's hands throw for
ward the throttle to make the engine
move. It never ceased to be a wonder to
him how the moving of an Iron lever
rould start such a mighty giant as th
engine, for the boy was only 8 years
old, and a "kid" of thct tender age
THE ENGINE THROBBED ANT WHIZZED.
eould not be supposed to know anything
of the mysteries of steam power.
Bob missed his boy, fcr he hud not
conm ns usual to meet him and to ask
bis regular string of .piestlons about
the steum giant The truth Is thnt Ilar-
ry had started, but something that was
going on In town had "side-tracked"
him, and when he reaciied the yard his
father wns gone.
In fact, everybody was gone that U
to say, everybody but 02 herself she
stood as still as a mouse, but with little
Jets of steam Issuing from valves and
other pluces, here and there, as If she
were ready for her "captain" to give
the word for her to march.
It was the dinner hour, and the mn
usually at work In the yard were not
to be seen anywhere. Harry paid no
attention to that, however, for he had
no Interest In their presence or absence.
His eyes were full of the object of hts
Idolatry, Big 02, where she stood with
all her tremendous possibilities and hr
mysterious power.
What would he not give "to run" her
all by bis own hand? What earthly bliss
could compare with thut of standing
In her cab and commanding her to start
off on her route down the gleaming rails
that stretched out toward Helton Har
bor?
And while be was thinking thu?,
bathing his soul, so to speak, In the
waters of delightful r.tic!patlon, he
climbed up luto the cab, took a seat
upon the bench and gloated In his pres
ent happiness.
Only a few minutes pasted before be
was on bis feet again and standing ex-
acthly where his father always stood to
guide the action of the monster. There
was the throttle right before hliu, ac
tually within reach of his hand, lltt'o
though that band was.
Did he touch it? What a question!
Is there a boy lu the created universe
that could have resisted the tempt."
tlon?
Yes, he touched It; he did more, h
moved it a little. He wanted to so
bow slight a movement would make Big
02 reloiid. Of course he would do no
harm ; he would throw back the throttle
again, and then things would be as they
were liefore he threw it forward.
But Harry's hand was not experl
need, and when the lever i'ld not uiova
at his light touch, be put too much of
bis young strength lu his arm and sent
It forward much fartnr than be lu
tended. Big 02 wus ready and willing.
and with a throb and a quiver sne
started out of the yard.
The quick and unexpected movement
of the engine startled Harry so that he
forgot himself and eveijthlng else ex
rept the fact that be bad done wrong
bad put himself In danger, and won 13
be made to suffer for it tu some way.
FOLKS SAY.
ENQINB
In fact, the poor boy became sud
denly panlc-strleken, and In that condi
tion was ns helpless as If he were a
babe In arms.
In a few seconds 92 wns out of th
yard and on the main track, moving
with erer-lncreaslng speed. As she
passed out of the yard, some of thi
men, who were eating their dinner lu
one of the sheds, saw her and cried out
in consternation when the head of n
frantic boy looked at them from the cab
window. Dropping everything, the;
rushed to the station and gare the
alarm.
The station-master was oulet and had
a hend for business. He as once or
dered the operator to telegraph Bcltou
Harbor that a "wild engine" was com
ing, and to try to get the 1 o'clock ac
modation train on a aiding, out of the
way. Then be sent word to Sutton that
his boy was in danger and he must
come to the station.
The engineer came at once and
though his heart felt ns If It were la
the Jaws of a vise, he kept his head and
took counsel with his friends as to what
could be done.
This Is the situation that confronted
them : The line was a single track. Bel
ton Harbor, the nearest station, was
five miles down the road. In ten min
utes Big 92 would be there ; perhaps in
less time If the Ill-fated boy had thrown
the throttle far enough open.
The accommodation train was almost
sure, at that moment to be Just below
ueiton Harbor on its war up, and thers
fore beyond the reach of the telegraph.
u me engine were not stopped at Bel-
ton Harbor It would meet and crash
Into the accommodation, for there was
no menns of stopping the latter. The
station-master's message o Belton Har
bor hud been only a wild hope.
Hiere was n siding at Belton Har
bor with only one opening to the main
ruck, und thut was to-.vard Fnlrvlew
If the people at Belton Harbor should
open the siding. Big 02 would dash onto
It and thence to Inevitable destrucfion.
That would save the i.ccommodutloa
train and its passengers, but It would
be sudden nud cruel death to Sutton's
sou.
On the other hand. !f they did not
open the siding, 02 would meet the ac
commodation on the main track, and the
result of such a collision was fearful
to think ubout. In either case, It was
Instant death to the boy.
Can you Imagine a loving father con-
atinted by a situation more terrible
than this? But he bore himself witU
Spartan courage, and agreed with the
station-master, that tho Belton Har
bor station must be wired to turn ths
switch and throw the engine off.
Their consultation did not occupy
half a minute; they dared not delay.
You Fee, they knew the situation and
did not need the explanation thnt I
have given you.
Quick, throw the wild engine on tho
siding." ,
Thut Is. the message that the wires
flashed to Belton Harbor.
Meanwhile, what of the unfortunate
boy? He sat staring wildly at the fields
as they flew by blm, dazed with th-s
great fright that had taken possession
of his senses.
The engine throbbed and whizzed and
quivered as she dashed over the rails.
Under other circumstances Harry
would have gloried In the txcltemeut of
such a ride, but now he was going to
certain death, and death at the bauds
of the object that he most admired in
all the world
It was all like a 11 -sn of dazzling
lightning through his bii,rt, and then
without warning there came a great
shock and the darkness of utter obliv
ion!
If you should Iinppon to meet Super
intendent Sutton, of the Foirvlew Rail
road, lu New York Stnte, he will tell
you that the peculiar crook In his left
arm was caused by bis being thrown
from u "wild" engine one day at Bel
ton Harbor, when he was nothing but
un Inquisitive, meddlesome boy of eight.
Perhaps he may be In Juced to tell
you the story of the accident, as he told
It to me, If you desire to bear It again,
but that would hardly ls necessary, as
the whole thing is set down here. No,
not tne whole story, tor i nave not told
you that the first shock of striking th'j
switch threw the boy off. Mid right luto
a bed of flowers near the ttutlou.
The suierlntendent always says that
he Is proud of that crook lu his arm,
for It saved a whole ira'.nful of people.
Chicago Dally News.
Time tiles so fast to the man past
fifty thut be wonders when be takes bis
clothes off at night why he went to the
trouble of putting them on In the morn
ing. Half the people who are saul to be
mean are simply tiresome.
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Whea the Cons Come Home.
With klingle, klsngle, klingle,
'Way down the dusty dingle,
The cows are coming home;
Now sweet and clear, and faint and low
The airy ticklings from some far-off
tower,
Or pattering of an April shower
That makes the daisies grow
Ko-kllng, ke-klang, koklinglelingls,
'Way down the darkening dingle
The cows come slowly home.
Soft sounds that sweetly mingle,
With Jingle, Jangle, Jingle,
The cows are coming borne ;
Malime, and Pearl, and Florlmel,
De Kamp, Redrose, and Gretchen Schell,
Queen Bess, and Sylph, and Spangled
SmP
Across the field I hear Joo-oo,
And clang her silver bell,
Go-llng, go-lang, gollnglellngls, I
With faint far sounds that mingle, 1
The eows come slowly home;
And mother-songs of long-gone years,
And baby joys, and childish tears,
lAcd youthful hopes, and youthful fears,
When the cows come home.
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' With rlngle, rsngle, ringle,
By twos and three and single,
The cows are coming home. "j
.Through the violet air we see the town,
And the summer sua a-slipplng down;
The maple In the basal glade
;Throws down the path a longer shade,
'.And the hills are growing brown.
To-ricg, to-rang, toriugleringle.
By tbrecs and fours and single,
The ewws come slowly home. "
The same sweet sound of worldless psalm,
The same sweet June-day rest and calm,
The sams sweet scent of bud and balm,
When the cows come home.
With a tinkle, tankle, tinkle,
Through fern and periwinkle.
The cows are coming home;
'A-loitering in the checkered stream,
Where the sun-rays glance and gleam,
iStarlne, Peachbloom and Phoebe Phyllis
: Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies,
'In a drowsy dream.
To-link, to-lank, tolinklelinkle,
O'er banks with buttercups a-twlnkle,
The cows come slowly home ;
And np through memory's deep rarine
Come the brook's old song and Its old-tlm
; sheen,
'And the crescent of the silver queen.
With a klinkle, klangle, klingle.
With a loo-oo, and moo-oo, ana Jingle,
The cows are coming home;
And over there on Merlin hill,
Hear the plaintive cry of the whippoor
wlll ;
,The dewdrops lie on the tangled vines,
And over the poplars Venus shines ;
And over the silent mill,
Ko-ling, ko-lang, kolinglelingle,
With a tlng-a-ling and jingle,
The cows come slowly home.
Iiet down the bars, let in the train
Of long-gone songs, and flowers, and rain ;
For dear old times come back again
When the cows come home.
Agnes E. Mitchell.
CATECHISM OF CIVICS.
Qneatlona and Amnrri of Interest
to Americans.
Wbnt nre the principal products of
Hie United States?
Historical Novels and lljnlth Foods.
Where Is the Corn Belt R.cnted?
It extends from tie Chicago Ex
change to Trinity Church in Wall
street.
Does the climate vary much lu dif
ferent parts of the Union?
Yes.
What Is considered to be the hottest
region In the country?
Zion City.
And the coldest?
John D. Rockefeller's safe deposit
Tault
What common product Is raised In
the same proportions all over the coun
try? Babies.
Are there any exceptions to this?
Yes. Newport and Swth Dakota.
What are these babies used for?
In the South, to run the factories; ic
the North, to furnish New Educational
Systems.
How Is the Trust Crop grown?
By magnates and tho common peo
ple. What Is a magnate?
Almost any dishonest man who has
money enough to keep out of Jail.
And when tho common people liavo
gathered the Trust Crop, how are they
raid?
In common stock.
Does this yield anything?
Oh, yes. Y hen you squeeze It It
yields water enough to make a good
circus lemonade.
What are the principal trades of the
United States?
Operating for appendicitis, writing
advertisement poetry nn:l going out on
strike.
The Porcotten Gift.
She had been cleaning up her "den"
and came across various and sundry
unfamiliar books lu the process. After
thinking hard she had restored them
nil to their rightful owner with a fine
and conscious sense of virtue. Only
cue remained and one night the man
with whom she connected this parti
cular book called. She brought It out.
"Here's a little old book of yours."
tho nnuouirmcd In her usual flippant
way, "and I wish you'd take It home.
I've given It house room long enough."
He took the book and looked ut her
rut her queerly.
"All right," he said, but there was no
enthusiasm in ills tone.
"It's yours, Isn't It?" she demanded.
"Well, not exactly," lie replied. "I
gave It to you for n bir.hday present
about two yeurs ngo."
Now she Is writing her name lu every
took she owns.
What Ther Gut.
"I lH-lleve," said HI Tragerdy, "that
they bud hojied to catch the town with
'Hamlet,' but It was quite a fruitless ef
fort." "No, not exactly fruitless," replied
Lowe Comerdy. "1 understand the lieu
fruit was there In plenty, although
somewhat aged." Philadelphia Press.