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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1906)
tDakotCounty Herald IX4JEOTJL CUT, BKU, faohn H. Ream, - Ptfbtt&her aanRjuuuji-i.m i mi jilh .i a, Some people rtlHjiIny the hrst of taste ly cutting out originality from tbdr feonrorsatlon. Many women have a way tbout them Jthat g calculated to drive sensitive ken to drink. Mm. Sage will not uid rich beggars. To him that bath shall be given" she jfloe not take literally. Governor Magoon I going ti abolish fueling In Cuba. Ha must 1 afraid somebody will get hurt. Possibly Mr. Hughes we.ir th.it Ibeard In fulfillment of a rush vow itnadc at some earlier period of his cu teerv ' Peary hasn't found the pole, hut ho Bias eutraled farther north than any (other navigator, giving America the ifeeord. t In view of the general nrtvaticc In IMages the walking delegate la be;ln Inlog to think It U time for lilni to strike for an Increase. i Swiss hotels are aliout to bar Rus sians, the proprietors having no desire 'to see their furniture and 'crockery Antlssed up by a bomb explosion. When one reads of the actions of Count Bonl de Castellano It seem n rolty that Mrs. Jay Gould never taught Iter daughters how to use a rolling pin. According to Anlhonv Coiniirnek. lAdam "hid behind the skirts of Eve." It will bo recalled that on that menior able occasion Eve wore her apple-green There are likely any number of tn- ftriotlc American citizens who feel that an opportunity to kick Couut Bonl de Castellane should lo added to the tnan- II fold blessings of this country. Governor Magoon la dlacharglng government' oftlclals In order to cut down Cuba's expenses. Cubans will 'regard such proceeding as a iioor iWay to try to aave tho country. ' A man la Pittsburg, Mast., killed his prlfe and lihuKcJf bocause she spilled !a ntn rf jk - of 4lm u:,(iruip tot. I.. "There's nothing liko tlwroughnes. He Inever will bo bothered In that way iagaln. , All the old clerk employed by Rus ;ell 8age have had their salaries dou ibled by Mr. Sage. Thia must put ithem la tho embarrassing position of trying to mourn Vacla Russell's death ind look pleased at the same time. Harper's Weekly publishes story Ito the effect that lu the reading-room Of one of the most exclusive clubs of ! Boston there la a sign that says: "Only 'low conversation permitted here." In jview of tho tyiet that It la an exclusive club, perhaps' the Joke Is on Umbo peo ple who tbirik, Boston doesn't know bow to say what aha means. Certain ChlnefiO who led the boycott on American goods In Canton lust year, and were punished by Imprisonment, were released the other day. A crowd of enthusiastic Chinese gathered and applauded the men, and a magistrate Cava. a luncheon In their honor. Indeed, ,the boycott leaders were treated very much as the leaders of the null-Chinese agitation used to be treated In the and lot days of Ban Francisco. Many Americana are astonished be cause they see grave discontent In the midst of ' unprecedented prosperfty. They can not understand the unrest of uiany citizens, native born and natural ized alike, wuen the times are better 4ban ever before. It is nothing strange. iHuman ambition feeds on success. The ifarther from actual want men and (women get the more they desire. Com fort Is conservative, but It Is not an lOplate. , If It were tho world would tagnate when It was beat able to un dertake and carry out great enter prises. There la never euough prosper ity to go around, In the Important sense of appoxlmato equality.' One of the Philadelphia paper has given considerable space to correspond ence upon the problem of domestic economy and the cost of living. Writ era whose resource vary widely have given their experience and offered their advice. One woman whose husband gives her five thousand dollars a year for her family of four Is uuaMe to pet along comfortably on that mm. she wants a sample bill of fare for a w;ek. and also Information as to where suo can "get a hat for less than fifreen dol lars." Another woman with a family of three Pts less than flve hundred dol lars a year, yet she says they "have the best of everything and plenty of It." She does her own washing. Iron ing, cooking, dressmaking and mending, baa a garden and keeps liens. One of these women ought to study domestic seloiiee. The other might easily got a chance to teach It. "While this is aa age of Intellectual ity and bialua and all that sort of tuff," said a young business man yes terday, "ytvu've no Idea of the absolute lack of knowledge of little things that most of us have. Fur Imstauee. yestot- day I was In conversation with a friend j and, although we were talking upon j tome absolutely Irrelevant snbj -ct. I ! wus startled by suddenly having htm ask me: 'What l the capital of Flor ida?' Tallahassee,' I angered, and h thereupon began to nk me the names of capitals o' State after State. I an swered corritly thirty or more until we came to a distant Kiate. Think as I would I could not remember the coi tal of that State. Whet, he saw he had in cornered my friend told me of the theory be had that c;ily cue man out of very ten had more than a uperfielal knowledge of these little things. Ac cording to htm I was the eighth mau he tad tackled and not one of them could tell without ;i lrnk the capitals of all1! tlie States In the Union." Holding up railroad trains ban be come so common that It nttracta no more nUcntloii than the killing of a few people on a trolley car, but the exploit of a lone In mil t In holding up a train near Glasgow, Mo., Is a little more Interesting.' Iu this case a single robber, masked and with u pistol In each band, compelled a sleeping car conductor, a porter and a flagman to go before him and wake up all the pas sengers In a sleeper, nml as fast as ho came to them demanded and received their money, lie then left the train ami there was tin usual fruitless effort to follow ami arrest him. He got only a small amount because the door of the other slivper was locked. This is the climax of what has always len .in astonishing thing, which Is the ab ject and unnecessary cowardice dis played by both train hands and trav elers on such occasions. That women wili Fcream and that nine out of ten men will cnyer and tremble Is to be expected. The wonder Is that with 1(iO moii on a train never la one found nf Milllclcnt nerve and daring to put a Lain robber out of business. This Is remarkable because It Is something that could Im easily done. It would not le nii-esnary to face the bandit and begin n duel with him. Any man with a pintpl and a moderate share of nerve could conceal himself In some dark nook In the train and blow the bandit's brains out ns he passed, without ever being seen. The facilities for such strategy on n railroad train are In numerable. The way most men reason alsmt It Is; "This mnn will certainly shoot me IT I give Win any provocation. My life Is worth more to nie nnd my family than my money. It would even be cheaper to give up my money than to receive n serious wonnd. It Is the business of the railroad company to protect me and I am not going to do Its police work at the risk of my life."' Xo one will blame a man for reasoning In this way, but the wonder Is that there Is not oeca.-'onnlly some plncky Individual who will risk his life to kill villain and protect a tralnful of pas sengers. This Is wonderful because every newspaper eontnlns an account of some feat of heroic daring In other walks ef life. In the last year hun dreds of people have risked their lives to save others from drowning or from burning to death. Even women rush Into burning buildings to save a pet dog or parrot. Mr. Carnegie has estab lished a mill to tura out medals, di plomas nnd pensions for , heroes and the applicants are Innumerable. When win It happen that a Carnegie medal was given to a man who rushed at a railroad bandit with pistols In bis hand and choked him to death in tlie presence of the passengers? It may be that not many men on a railroad train hare pistols with them, but If that Is so they ought to carry tbem when they take long railroad Jonrueys In this country. It a girl hasn't nny mnn to write a love letter to she will write one to an other girl. We all have an Idea that everybody can fool the farmer, but somehow the farmer keeps on getting all the money. One bad thing for a girl about stoo ping being engaged nnd getting married Is slie stops getting presents from him. A womnu'a Idea of a good husbaud Is one who doesn't forget to tell her how pretty she looks whenever he comes home. Men havo very strong will nower to be able ta go on thinking they get more real happiness out of belmr married than they used to. New York Press. Itoaro Meyer's Awful Error. The announcement that Huiro It. Meyer, formerly an Instructor at Har vard, had secretly married In the west was like a bolt from the blue to the few who knew him at all Intimately In Cambridge. He was known as a recluse, mote or less, as a long distance runner who always chose the streets of Cam bridge for his Jogs, and then always late at night and clad lu a blanket or two nnd nn outfit of sweaters, and as the most precise mau as to facts and figures wno ever gave a lecture In economics. While at tho head of a course on railways, a few years ago. he had occasion one clay to give bis small, but very select, class In Ilar vard ball a few figure having to do with car mile prices. When tho course met again bo apologized In a voice bowed down by weight of woe for a llttio mistake he had made. "I s:ild that the llctircs for such and BiK-h were r..(K)i!!irS2." he explained In his contrltlm. "That was not at nil exact, I should have said 5.00u'Jli28;j." Boston Herald. I'nllnillrd Yrraadlttr, Senator Hick of Ohl; not long ago secured for the young son of an old rle:nl a position lu a Cincinnati busi ness bonne. A short whilo ufter the youth had entered on his new duties, the Senator met the bend of the (Inn. "How is the boy getting on?" he asked. "lie was rilsehnrged three clays after be ctime," the answer. The Senator was surprised. "Why," declared he. "I iiU- sys underxtood that Tom was a mii-t versatile young inun." He's vena tile. Ml right!" re.oiidcMl the head of t.i" firm: "thero Isn't any ' kind of work he won't shirk!" Success i MugHxIne. Of l Mti lruUlloua Turn, "li ih.it ail the wom you can do la a day?" as'.ed tho discontented em- llnvur' "Well. su!i.'' ;uiMvr..j Kr.istu Pink- j ley, "1 s'poso I c iiid do mo', but I never was unw'x of a !iu-4 fob suowln' off." Vuhliig!' n Star. 1 pLms KGfiNIiM1lJS SPEND) TO:E?T5 7 ALU. ACES wnTSfl COUNT BONI DE Caste llane wim m 30.oootopo 6m t' ,-, ; i - ' - - ' 'Count Bonl do Castcllane has squan dered $8,000,000 In four years. Half of the millions were the Gould millions and the other half belonged to trusting tradesmen. Notwithstanding the Ill timed boasting of Pliny, Seneca and Juvenal, now principally read by col lego boys against their will, of the abil ity of the royal money spenders in their time, the Count do Castellaiie appears to deserve the? palm as the king of sindthrirts. Starting out to vie with Aplclus who, upon the statement of the ancient writers mentioned, squandered $4,000,000 on riotous living, he has sur passed Lucullus, who "at one meal de voured a whole estate." Although the late Jay Gould Is cred ited with having left an estate of $7-V 000,000 In rapidly increasing Invest ments, the dowry Anna Gould brought to tho French nobleman was only .$.'!, 000,000. This was regarded ns ample, considering the fact that it was prac tically $.',000,000 more than the Count was accustomed to enjoy. Under the French law the husband has full con trol over the Income of his wife, so that at a btroko of the pen the ior Count had millions to spend. Wisdom does not nppcnr to have guided any expenditure of which tho Count has been guilty. He put his wlfe'a whole dowry into a town house In Pnrls, modeled after the Little Tria non. Then there is a country house which cost another half million. A yacht cost $200,000 and a yacht cannot be kept In commission for nothing, nor a crew paid with "I. O. U.V His at tempt to become a politician cost an other $400,000. But the enumeration of his follies Is by no means concluded. ' Bonl Is fond of entertaining.. Most of tho entertain ing was of a character resiwnslble for leading him Into court as a defendant hi a ault for divorce. Yet It was not at all equal to tlie extravagant way In which he provided entertainment for royal guests. He gave a bear hunt for tho Grand Duke Boris of Russia. ThU THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. The Cathedral of St.' Isaac at the Russian capital. Is not only one of the most Imposing churches In St. Petersburg, but It Is nlso a somewhat reduced replica of St. Peter's at Rome. It has all the dignity of the Roman model, and Ita proportions are rather more successful. Tho Interior of the Russian templo In nowise resemble the great basilica of the Piazza dl San Pletro. It Is far more splendid In Us ornamentation and abound In color and gold. It wns begun In 1S1!) and was under construction for thirty-six years, it Is certainly one of the best examples of neo-classic architecture In Euroj.e. Marvelous, j. j Quaint and Curious. m m m 223 Tower of Thundrrluir Wlnda. -1.- P .1', 3 Tho Great Wall Is certainly a won derful monument of ancient times; but It la almost the only one that we read of In China, except a famous Temple, or Tower, partly In ruins, which stands on an eminence In the nclghlsirhood of Haug-chow-foo. It Is called the "Tow er of the Thundering Winds" mid Is supposed to havo lvu Built about 2,000 years ago. Sura of Her Karl. A tmull girl was fascinated by the tale of the "Three Bears," us told her by a visiting nurse. Kvery time tho nurse came she was asked to repeat It In "The Queeu's Poor" the nurse tells of the child's opinion. Noticing that during the almost dal ly recital the little girl kept her eyes on a picture of some boys playing football, I wondered what connection there was in her mind Is-tween the two, and finally I asked her, "What are bears?" With the level tones of a ierson per fectly sure of her facts, she rcpilod, "Bears Is boys.' Yes, the sua shine for all when It Jattt cloudy. J V) cost Bonl $100,000. The Duko 'could have given a bettor one In Russia for one-twentieth liie sum. A bunting party for the King of Portugal cost only $2.". 00O, for lils Majesty Is very stout, and his activity as a bnnter Is limited to shooting at released trapped birds or freed deer. The luncheon which fol lowed was rcnponslble for so large an expenditure. No extravagance was too stupendous or too astonishing to be neglected by Count Bonl once he had conceived the Idea for an entertain ment. His dinner to the King of Por tugal made him famous. According to various reports It ran the Count about $50,000 In debt. Another entertainment wliien was the talk of "nil Paris" was a "l.ttlo dance, Ixmls XVI. Rtyle." This cos tume ball was very charming, nnd trot to r dear at $200,000. A more modest dance Louis XIV. style cost $130,000 Both of these fetes were appropriate lu the palatial setting which the Castel lane mansion afforded. One celling o" the palace, that of the Countess's room, was decorated at an expense of $100, 000, as an evidence of the Count's grat It tide. When tho Countess' lawyer de uounccd Bonl as a "monumental spend thrift," he evidently was well Inform ed, for the rapidity with which tli-j Count showered money and ohllga tions for more money has perhaps never been equalled. There Is far more fiction than truth in the accounts of the royal spend thrifts of former ages. For instance, the statement that Caesar's supiier bllla for four months were more than five millions sterling or almost $20,000,000 Is probably exaggerated. Some ex planatory notes are needed also with tho uuecdote of Antony glvlug his. cook a town of :ir,0(X) inhabitants. Next morning, very likely, Antony rvbuked him for fulling to take a Joke. Hut the case of the Count de Cnstellane Is one of those modern Instances which, In a measure, Is open to the Inflection of the world. ISAAC AT ST. PETERSBURG. MAKING FARCE OF WEDDING. Keimeleia and Cruel t'nMom Ilettrr Honored In (be Ilrriich. A wedding episode In which the brldt rode t the railway station i i n street cur rather thun make tho tr''j In a car riage ornamented with tlutt-frlng whit ri'H'otts and pasteboard hea.-ts furnish eJ iiitcvsting reading for the Wash ingto . public recently. lliere Is a more or less serious sldo !o rueu Ind dt i n which la often overlooked, owing to the fact that tho serio ion le villain Is okely to be a Jolly good Mloiv wto In til vealy abandon or his frolicsome iuilaul nature force his sli'istlck per sonality Into tho drama lu the best of trieudly high spirits. Anl r-urely the ,bi:y good fellow is all right where t,e le!oic;s. Hut when he p-esumes m. tie- a burlesque of sa-.Tud cerema ni;.ls and terrorizes blushing brides and pallid bridegrooms he becomes, to use a feminine expression appropriate to the subject, u mean, horrid old thing. lu the home circle or umoug the close friends of "tlie happy pair" a 'Hie Innocent waggery may not appear tinU'arahiy out of place. But wag gery as soon as it appro i. -he. horstt play is objectionable as a feature of wedding festivities. Tho marrlago rite is nt holy and as Impressive and as beautiful, as any associated with wlat Is known us our Christian civil ization and tho Jolly good fellow who Intel feres with its proper observance U at once changed Into a Jolly bad yahoo. The cruelty of the thing la also worth considering. All tho remlalio love of ceremonial display anil oarelul atten tion to artistic details is uwi.kened lu a bride nud of all things tn tire heav en i nH)ve or ou the earth incn ath there is nothing shemild ratn.r have per fect and altogether seemly than her marrlago day, even to the uo.t trifling circumstance connected with It. But along comes the Jolly good fellow and makes it a source of torment. Wash ington Herald. 0 Their lloneyntuuu. She Oil, George, I want all these people to know that I am married to you. lln Well, my dour, you had better carry the dress suit case and the u brcllas. Le Rlre. FORTUNE BY ACCIDENT. aM InTentlnaa Which lfnve Made the Iarsrrt lletarna to Inventor. It pays to think even about trifles. Not long ags a young man who win visiting In a pt range city had thnt ex perience known to so many when rid ing on street cars. He wanted to get off nt n certain street, the name of which he knew, but tho locality of which be was In Ignorance. The car was crowded. He had told the conduc tor the name of the street, but, ns Is not unusually the case, the conductor forgot. "Vour street's two blocks back." said the conductor suavely when the youug man nvked Jilm If he had arrived yet. More or less angrily, the youth said : "It's a wonder somebody wouh 't tliiuk of something that would tell ft pnssengrr when he got to his street." "Well, why don't you Invent soiue thlng?" asked the conductor. The young man, got to thinking and to working. The other day he refuser" 200,W0 for a street car device that could be utilized to'show the names of the streets automatically. He thinks It la worth more. The mnn or woman who conceives an Idea that Is patent able almost Invariably lias visions of Immense wealth, but bow the dream Is realized may be found by consulting the patent ol'.lce authorities, the men who handle thousands of these "dill dren of the brain" that never bring to their Inventors even the amount of money necessary for getting them pat ented. But, on the other hand, there are n great many patents that have hinde their originators Immensely wealthy, nml famous ns well. One would naturally suppose thnt the greatest returns would be from the large nffalrs, such as the electric rail road, the telephone and the telegraph, but Fuch Is not the case, for the small household Inventions, mechanical toys nnd puzzles have giveu quicker returns and greater profits for the money ex pended than any of the large affairs. The man who Invented "Figs In Clov er" IiapiM'iiod to strike the public fan cy, and millions of people all over the country were chasing the little marbles Into the middle pen. That man made millions on his simple pu.lc because he launched It at the right time. J. W. McGiM In 1807 In veil ted the little metal paper fastener, without which no ofllce Is now considered com plete, and though but a trifle It made wealth for Its Inventor. Such a llttio thing as the rubber tip on a pencil brought $200,000 to Its Inventor, ' Hy mnn L. Llpmnn, and that small piece of metal which yon wear on the heel of your shoe to protect It had made up to 1887 over $1,000,000 for Its projector. A man named Can field first hit upon the notion of making armpit shields seamless with n sheet of cloth covered with rubber, and It brought him an In come of nia:y thousands a year. The man who Invented the metal fastenings for buttons must have been a bachelor, for It did away wlt'u sewing, but It made him a millionaire. The barbed wire fence, about which many have said unkind things as they disentangled themselves, was worth over $1,500,000 In royalties to the orig inator. A countryman, whose loss from eggs being broken on their way to mar ket was a serious thing, evolved the Idea of packing thein In seperate com partments, and this simple device Is now used altogether, and that country man Is not obliged to toll for his dally bread. Criminals have played an Important part in some of the world's greatest Inventions, and some have made small fortunes out of their discoveries. Charles Filer, who devised the new lockstitch sowing machine, was serving his fourth term for burjdary when his Idea was perfected. When ho wns re leased bis Idea was backed by some capitalists and lie wns given a salary of $5,000 a year to superintend the construction of the machines, In addi tion to a royalty. At the same time ho sold his English rights for $o0,000 cash and $2o,000 worth of slock of the En glish company. Chicago Inter Ocean. Her Directions. Before Mrs. Sage left her home for her annual summer visit at her moth er's she told her husband thnt if he 'wanted anything thnt wasn't in plain sight, to write to her for directions. "Don't turn the house upside down, as you generally do," she said, with un happy recollection. "I will answer by return mall and tell you Just where It Is." Mr. Sage found everything to his hand, but soon after his wife's depart ure u neighbor came In to borrow a pattern which she was sure his .wl fo lia d. Mr. Sage wrote, as he had been requested. II is wife's reply subsequent ly found its way Into the Springfield Republican. " "You will find it hanging ou the wall by the atlie stairs," ran the letter, "or In tho box on top of the sewing ma chine lu Ellen's room the green box, or the rod one, I forget which. Per haps, though. It is on the top thelf In the closet In our room left-hand side. If 1 remember correctly. But look on the other side, too. "If not there, It Is In the bottom Drawer of the hlgh-lioy in tho upjier bull. That la where 1 keep mj- patterns, and don't untie all the bundles. If is among tbem somewhere. 1 mil not sure but It Is In the second drawer from the bottom. It Is somewhere upstairs, any way, so don't rummage downstairs, "P. S. Come to think of It, I may have lent It to Mrs. Hall. Write me If you tlud It." Irrn Cianit fur llrlllab r'leet. Desperate means were sometimes resorted to In order to get men for Brit ish warships. A chronicler writes that lu the year 17113, "a fleet of ships be ing required immediately to be manned, the press gans placed a live turkey ou the top of tho monumeut, which, drawing together a great number of Idle people, they bad the opiiortuultr of seloctlng as many meu as answered the purpose of their Intended scheme." Tho scene so outraged a citizen that he fired a shot at tlie bird, "which oc casioned It to fly away." Rut the mis chief bad beeu done. Too many blows will extinguish the light of love. "POSTED OROTOrS.' ss fih vvWSI An episode of the hunting season. and I may as well tell you," he said, sitting down on the top step with nu affectation of ease badly assumed, while Miriam sprang up and looked down at hliu with blazing eyes. "The revenue officers have been noti fied. They must have arrested Kirk wood by this time. He and his gang have a still lu Black Cave. They'll be caught red handed. I'm afraid Dan will have to go up.' It's a penitentiary offense, you know. He has made piles of money out of It, but It's bad busi ness to fool with the United States gov ernment You'll be well off, even If he la In tlie pen." With a hoarse cry Miriam caught up ber riding whip from the ball table. "Get out of here, you cur!" she said, pointing to the gate. "It's a lie 'and you know it. You are a spy and an In former. Dan will look after you when he gets back." With a cackle Intended to imply In difference Bill retreated from the steps. "I thought you'd cut up rough. Don't like to know where Dad's money came from, do you? Guess they'll bring him home soon." He was right there, for a sqund of revenue officers rode rapidly up to the bouse, Dan Klrkwood in their midst. With a low cry Miriam sprang to ward blm. "Dad! Dad! It's all a mistake, I know. Tell these men you have noth ing to do with It. Send them off!" she cried, ber arms around bis neck. Dan's face lit up with a strange look of triumph. "Come Into the house," he said, turn ing to the men with an air of author ity. "Ollieer, bring your men lu, and that fellow, also," ho added, pointing scornfully to BUI Jones, who had stopped when they rode np. While they were dismounting a road cart, driven furiously, pulled up before the steps and Dal ton sprang to the ground. ."I wish to speak to this gentleman on a private matter. It will take but a few moments," be said, turning to tho officer in command. "If it's got nothing to do with this business " "Nothing whatever." Daltou drew Dan apnrt and spoke rapidly and earnestly. Dan's face, lu spite of his stern self-control, showed great emotion as he wrung the young man's band. They were grouped In a handsome room, Dan's library. "Gentlemen," Dan said, passing his arm around Miriam, while Mrs. Carter Bobbed on a Bofa. "You wore informed by that cur that I made Illicit whisky In Black Cave. That for years I have defrauded the government nnd grown rich on Illicit whisky. You are mistak en. There is u gold mine of consider able extent running back In the moun tains from Black Cave. I discovered It, and I've been working It for years. I have legalized my claim. How much I have made out of It Is my concern. I kept my secret, not wishing to bring into these mountains a horde of gold seekers. . You may do as you ploase about It now. Here are my titles. 1 will sell out and go back to my old borne with my daughter as soou as she is married." -New Orleans Times Democrat. FREAKS IN ANIMAL WORLD. lloraea, Owl and Frosa Have Pecu liar Natural Defecta. Unlike most animals horses have no eyebrows and bares are minus eyelids. Consequently the eyes of the latter can not be shut nnd a thin membraneous substance covers them when asleep. The eye of the owl Is also very pecu liar, seeing that It Is Immovably fixed j In Its socket nnd can not stir In any direction. To compensate for this seem ing disadvantage It can turn its head almost completely arouud without mov ing Its body. If you va're to keep a frog's mouth open many minutes It would soon die, as owing to Its peculiar construction It can only breathe with tlie mouth closed. On the other hand. Ashen are compelled to keep o'ulug nnd closing their mouths lu order to give their respira tory organs full play. A curious fact ulsmt the eel Is that It lias less life in Its bead than Its tall ! consequently when killing an eel the fisherman smashes Its tall. It also litis two hearts. Snakes usually have their teeth In the bead, but one variety In Africa, whose principal food Is eggs, Is provided with a substitute for them In its stomach. Dundee Advertiser. About the only comment tho average man hears on his iM-raoual npearan-e Is when some oivs says to him: "You need a shave." Indianapolis Sun. A JEW IN THE CAEINET. Oaeur . Slraun to He Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The selection of Oscar S. Straus to be Secretary of Commerce and Lalsjr Is of more than ordinary interest for tho reason that he Is a Jew the first ever to be selected for a place In the official fam.ly of the Pres ident of the I ; lilted. States. He has been recognizee! 08 mum . W w at. . J i! a Kepumtcan ror only a few years. Under President ir.iA.'y.Ki ..'K'i'itf akMfeJiVtoiiUfcl Cleveland be was o. s. siKAtJs. minister to Turkey and President McKlnley appointed him to the same place. Even nt that time he wns considered a gold Democrat, but of late years he has allied himself with the Republican party. Oscar Solomon Strauss was lMrn In ISfiO, son of the late Lazarus Straus, tlie New York Importer. The boy was born In Georgia and remained there till 1So. The war ruined his futhe who in that year moved to Now Yorl nnd established a crockery business which became a great success. Oscar graduated from Columbia University, supiortIng himself while at school by writing for tho newspapers. Th.'ti he took up the study and practice of law. It was In 1SS7 that ho was apixrinted minister to Turkey, his knowledge of International law and his natural apti tude for diplomacy making blm a suc cess in that position. It waa under biro that 50 schools and 5T0 missions were oioned and amply protected. All bis life he has been a deep student of his tory and international law and is tho author of several works dealing with these subjects. Ho is president of the New Y'ork Board of Trade and Trans portation, vice president of the Na tional Civic Federation, a director of tho Hebrew Orphan Asylum and of sev eral religious and nou-sectarlau lusti tutlons. Though there has never been a Jew In the cabinet, there have been five elected to the Senate. Judah P. Ben jamin was the only one of thes who became a .leader among his colleagues, no was a sympathizer with the soutb In the Civil War nnd was Secretary of State In Jefferson Davis' cabinet. In. the House of Representatives there have been about 40 Jews, of whom four are serving ut the present time. Color Tronblea of Whltiier. '' It Is well known thnt the poet Whlt tier was color blind and unable to dls-' tlngulsh red from green. He once bought for himself a necktie which he BupKsed to be of a modest and suit able olive tint and wore It once. He never wore It again, for his friends soon made him nwaro that It offended against the traditional quietness or costume enjoined alike by the habits of the Friends and by his own taste. The tie was of flaming scarlet. On another occasion, when he found a little girl lu distress on account of a new gown, made over from her elder sister's, which was not becoming to her coloring and complexion, ho tried to console her. "I wouldn't mind v.-hnt a rude boy says about It, .Mary," he said kindly. "Thee looks very well Indeed In It, like an oread, Mary, dressed all In green." Unfortunately, Mary was not dressed In green. She was red-haired, and her dress was red. That was the trouble.: A I'luekr Itllcenian. Policeman Jacob Farra, of West Chester, Pa., who has tho reputation of being afraid of no dog, attacked a dog which was apparently mad, drag ged It from a porch nnd shot it. Tbe dog was on the porch of W. R. Ottey nnd had chewed the legs off a rocking chair when the policeman arrived. Ho did not hesitate, but grasped the ani mal by the tall, threw It over a fence and then shot it lu an alley. The future Klre. "Do you really believe." asked the unscrupulous - business mnn that 'hon esty Is the best pidlcy?'" "I believe," replied the Rev. Mr. Goodley, "that It Is the very best eter nal tire insurauco policy." Phlladel- ' phla Press. These ore tho real facts about tb standing of the noblest work of God. mau. lie Is first known as the son ol this mother; then the husband of bl wife, and ends by being known as tb father of his children All things come quickly to tboa who wait on themselves. A f"