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Dakota County Herald It will le hard to put n permanent eoat of whitewash on tliu licorice trust When a girl la pretty she doesn't tiave to learn housekeeping to get mar ried. The man who doesn't want anything from the public baa a way of helping himself. Indication are tb.it the Interurbun la going to make Itself a charnctcrls tle of 1907. Can you tblnk of anything that l easier or that pnya better returns on the Investment tbnu pleasing a little child? . rrofessor Lowell says there are ca nala on Mars that are thirty-five miles wide. This may be accepted an a rath er broad statement. Now that several Frenchmen have been accidentally Injured In duels, we may soon expect a clamor for the de brutallzlng of the sport The world Is certainly growing bet ter. Fewer public officials are riding on free passes this year tl.au In uuy former year for n generation. It Is explained that the robber who held up a train In Virginia recently got nothing. That Is unfortunate, lie should have got five years at least. All Merzl, the new Shah of Persia, Is described as a man who possesses an Iron will. Also ho baa more ft op mothers than any other ruler now ex tant The new pure food law does not, as we understand, prevent the manufac turers puttlug pictures on the cans that will make our mouths water to look at them. The Standard Oil crowd may be fined $58,000,000 by the Ohio courts. Don't, however, make any big wagers that the maximum penalties will be Im posed. Nobody Is now talking about annex ing Cuba. It seems much more satis factory to have the United States mili tary down there, with Cuba -paying the expenses. The Howard Goulds are again being ued. Mr. and Mrs. Gould have for some years past been enabling the New York lawyers to keep from being over taken by anything like ennui. Diamonds are reported to be going flown in price. This Is probably due to the fact that general prosperity has made It possible for so many people to have diamonds that they have become common. The Czar has written a poem In which he expresses the belief that sad ness will pursue him through life. If sadness la the only thing that ever gets after hliu Nicholas will lie luckier than most of the other prominent Rus sians. ' With a view to facilitate the trans actkui of business, the London Times Company has been converted Into a limited liability corporation. The shares of the private company which publishes the Times have become so subdivided In tlio course of descent through four generations that thero are now about cuie hundred ami fifty proprietors, some of whom hold as lit tle as one-fiftieth part of the one-hundred and fifty-second part of an orig inal one-flfth. Assassination never yet won a victory for an Individual, a party ox a cause and It never will. The murder of Lleuteirtant General Tavloff adds an other to a shamefully long list of sim ilar crlmea In Russia, but like all those that have gone before this one will bring no fruits to the assassin nd his friends. A class of people, whether under a Czar of a president, who resort to the torch and the bomb are not entitled to 'liberty. Tho man who slays In the dark or who shoots down In cold blood and the party which supports such a man are unfit for self government The yoke of national op pression can't be broken by murdering Individuals. A corporation recently paid mora than a hundred and fifty thousand dol lars In fines linitoscd by the court for breaking the laws relating to rebates. Shis was an Important episode In the moral housecleanlng tq which Ainerl 'can business is being subjected. Hut It Is not so important as another pay ment that was made within tho same week. A prominent cllliea of New Xork voluntarily paid the city twenty seven thousand dollars back taxes Which be had bad deducted because Its misunderstood the law relating to phe exemption of mortgages. How many Americans pay tho taxes which they knqw they owe, even If the amount more than the assessor determines? Joseph II. Choate tells lawyers that they should be courteous lu the cross examination of witnesses. He also ex presses the Judgment that rudeness and discourtesy hurt the lawyers who employ tbeni. Lawyers as a class are Dot loved. Most men at some time or jobber have had disagreeable experi ence with them ami while they may respect Individual lawyers their feel jtngs toward lawyers in the macs Is not pne of respect and affection. Tho badgering of witnesses under cross ex amination which small lawyers delight Jn and which Judges permit when they Should uot Is an old evil which creates tor the badgering lawyers the cordial dislike not only of the badgered victims bat of most of the laymen who wltneiw the performance. ' 'There Is a homing instinct among men as there is among birds. It U pretty fact in what may be termed Innate psychology that uieu as they grow old and ree the end approaching have n disposition to return to tho places where they were born to await the nimuinn. .They do not always e.bey this prompting: Indeed, It Is dis regarded l:i more cac than It Is heed ed. Hut the Instinct Is there. It Is declared by ntwlcnt of biology that the love of one's tiirthplnce Is congeni tal and that a mm who was horii near the wa. for Instance, will always have a yearning to return to the ocean, even though he dwells fur Inland from In fancy to old age. Another phase o this homing Instinct Is the desire that men experience to bo burled among their kindred. It Is this Instinct which accounts Tor the transportation of dead bodies over thousands of miles of land and sea that they may lie In some coun try graveyard, porhnps, within sight of a farmhc.uso deserted half a century ago. Tho nuthor of "Wnverly" com pared the course of a man through the world to thnt of a hare, which Is start ed from her form and after a long chase and making a lnrge circle ends, by returning to the nest from which she started. Like the wounded deer, man . yearns to rench borne to die. Any enstbe.und overland train contains evidence of It In the poor consumptive who, having vainly sought the climate of Arizona or California In the hope of prolonging life, turns his fnce home ward when nil hope Is at an end. "Go ing home to die" Is c.ne of the saddest sights In life. Collateral to this In stinct and nkln to It In origin Is the desire which city men of country birth experience for rural life as they grow older. This yearning for the country Is, Indeed, not confined to the country bred. Nearly all men cxierlence It and this Is the result of atavism In herited love fc.r the soil persisting through many generations of city dwel lers. As man grows old he desires to get bnck to nature. So that In these things, ns In many others, we are really not free agents, but the creatures of heredity, governed literally by the In stincts and tendencies of ancestors dead for centuries. Our forefathers live In us and It Is a picturesque thought It promises an immortality that we enn all understand and appreciate. MARK TWAIN'S "INSIDE PRICE." Hon the Poor llooksrllrr Kelt Over "DUcounta." Mark Twain sonic time ago told this story at a dinner given tc Tax Commis sioner Charles Pntzel at the Freund schaft Society Clubhouse In New York : "1 saw Mr. IMitzcl twenty-five years ago in Putnam's book store. I went In there and usked for George II. IMjtnniu, and handed in my card. A young mail took It in, but came hack and suid th.it Mr. I'utnam was busy ntid could uot see me. I had merely gone there on a social call and started to leave. As I was going out my eye was attracted to a big, fat, Interesting-looking book, it was entitled The Invasion of En gland lu tho Fourteenth Century by the Friars.' I nsked the price of It. " 'Four dollars,' was the answer. "'What discount do you ullow pub lishers?' " 'Forty per cent off.' "'Well,' I said, 'I am a publisher.' "lie put down tho figures '40 per cent' on the card. "I said : 'What discount do you al low authors?' i "He said: 'Forty per cent.' "'Well,' I said, 'I am the author. You can put that down. What discount do you allow the. clergy?' "Ho said, '20 per cent' "'Well,' I said, 'I am on the road.' So I took 20 per cent for that "lie put down the figures and never smiled once. Here I was working off all these scintillating brilliancies on him, and not even a spark of recog nition. I was nlmoKt lu despair. I thought 1 would try him once more, so I said: "'You know I am also a member of the Human-. Race. Would you allow me 10 per cent off for that?' "ne set that down never smiled so I said: ' There Is my card with my address on It. I have no money with me. Send the bill to my borne at Hartford. "I picked up the book and was going away when he said: 'Walt a minute; there Is 40 cents coming to you.' " Publisher's Weekly. WHERE IDEALS QUICKLY DIE. Commercial Atmosphere of New York (llr Art as Cramp on Qeniaa. What ability or skill the great man of tho provinces brought with him to the metropolis may be only the foun dation for real work. There will sure ly be extensive revising of Ideals and methods, A story Is told of s poet who arrived la town with a complete epic. This found no acceptance so after cursing the stupidity of the public and tho publishers he took to writing "Sun day stuff." Soon the matter-of-fact at tltudo of the workers around him, with the practical view of the market he acquired, led him to doubt the literary value of the work he had done In the sentimental atmosphere of his native place. Presently a commission to write a column of humor a week came to him and he cut his epic In short lengths, tacked a squib on each fragment and eventually succeeded In printing it all as humor at a price many times larger than the historic one brought by "Par adise Lost." Another newcomer brought unsal able plays and high uotlous of the aus terity of the artistic vocation. Three months after bis arrival he was de lighted to get a commission to write the handbook which a utllltarlnn pub lisher proposed to sell to visitors seek ing the metropolis. This commission brought not only a fair payment for the manuscript on delivery but Involv ed a vital secondary consideration. The title of the work was "Where to Kat In New York," and Its preparation made it necessary for the author to dlno each evening for a mouth In a different cafe at the proprietor's ex I tense. Atlantic. Am long as Father retains any rights at all, he Is pretty sure to remove his shoes out by the sitting room Are. "I can get along with uuy woman I am not married to," a divorced man said to-day. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS PRESERVE PUBLIC DOMAIN. IIP M'lii,!ialA franca In (rnvnrnment lends I has called from the President n reeomtnen I I datlon that Congress amend the laws gov- J I i .- ...r i ln Im. tIUUI IUV lltlilUIIUI UUUHIIII 111 Dcm, lortant particulars. Greater protection must be thrown about these lands In order to thwart the schemes of speculators. . The aim of the government la to facilitate settlement and create homes, but some of the provisions which were Intended to encourage these objects have been utilized by land grabbers to their own selfish advantage. Thst these frauds may be stopped, the Secretary of the Interior must be given authority to Increase the num ber ef Inspectors to see that homestead conditions are carried out In good faith, and the President further rec ommends the employment of mining experts whose duty It shall be to determine the nature of mineral deposits. Development of coal and Iron mines Is greatly Impedeu by the present leasing restriction, and a more liberal ar rangement Is suggested. The trend of these recommendations Is unmistakably In the Interest of reform. The public land frauds have been a travesty on government, so easily have they been perpetrated. The President would have this vast public domain so -policed that these frauds will no longer be possible and he would have the method of distribution for the encouragement of settlers so changed that the primal purpose of the government can no longer be de feated by speculators and corporations. Toledo Illade. HIGHER SALARIES FOR CONGRESSMEN. HE members of the Fifty 1 who voted for the mileage grab defended I I their action on the ground .that their sal A I -i vuoro un low t tint ticrnulsltcs of this kind should not be questioned. Their argu ment no duubt induced many citizens to look tiKn the offense with Indulgent eyes. The Dally News denounced the mileage grab because It was an attempt to secure money from the public treas ury on false pretenses and for the direct benefit of the men who voted for It. A proiosal to raise by a formal law the salaries of Congressmen hereafter to bo elected is, however, to be commended. The suggestion Is made by leaders In Congress that the pay of the nation's law makers be Increased from f.",(j(iO to $7,500 a year. Living In Washington Is expensive. A man who ai-rves the public as a member of Congress Is obliged to leave his home for a large part of each year and consequently tho profits of his regular business or of his professional activities are much curtailed or nro destroyed altogether. The temptations are many to accept offers of employment or business opportunities that involve a surrender of legislative Independence. Salaries and wages are rising ln all lines. Hecause of this fact capable and disinter ested servants of the people In Congress ore under more I A POLYNESIAN JOKE, Some of the people of the South Sea Islands are not lacking lu a sense of humor. This, says the author of "My South Sea Log," generally maulests Itself in some form of buffoonery. The town of Mantautu, on one of tho 8a moan Islands, once boasted a "town fool" iuuned "Pulu-matau-tane-ese-Lnva," "The Superlatively Handsome Bull." They were ulways fond of tin town fool, and to this one they gave especial latitude. Ono day there came to Matautu an English yacht on which were sewra! titled gentlemen, one of whom soon be came known to the untlves for his ex treme stinginess. He made a practice f offering not over two shillings for articles which were worth ns high as fifty dollurs. So the natives dubbed him "Ll:na Vale." "The Close-fisted." One Sunday Lima Vaio attended church at the mission, arrayed ia frock coat and tall hat, although his fellow yachtsmen wore tho usual white ducks of the South Seas. At tho conclusion of tho service, nr he left tho church, his lordship found his way obstructed by Pulumatau-tane-ese-Lava, who pre sented a striking picture. He wore the cast-off uniform of a German Infantry captain, which was much too small for him. On his bead was a battered "minstrel" white top-hat, leut to him by one of tho yachtsmen. In his mouth was a long German pipe. Ills appear ance caused on outburst of luughter, of which be took no notice. Striding up to his lordship, he took him by the arm, despite bis energetic protests. "You aro my brother," lie said ln English, "and I shall now give you my name, Pulumatau-tane-ese-Lava, and I shall take yours, Lima Vale, which means the Stingy One." Throwing on English penny amidst the laughing natives, be added, ln Sa moau, "Go away, good people, and en Joy yourselves with my and my broth er's benevolence." Then, despite the frantic struggles ef his lordship to free himself from his tormentor, Pulumatau pulled his "brother" down to the yacht's boat aud lifted him Into It as If he were a child, adding insult to the Injury by offering to exchange hats with him. Bfoaeow'e Old Prss Store. The greatest drug Btore In the world will be found ln one of the most back ward countries of the world. It pxlsts In Moscow and Is 208 years old. Its ti tle Is the Old Ntkolska pharmacy, and llnce 1833 It har, been In the family of the present proprietor. It Is a building of imposing dimensions, with many de partments, lncludng one of profc&aonal education for the staff, which numbers 700 persons. They make up about 2,000 prescriptions a day and so perfect Is the organisation that en error is sel dom recorded. London Globe. Proper Coat of Anus. John Thomas Brady got In to-night from St Louis. John Thomas stopped S little while In Pittsburg on Ills way er. I ueara some or tuem guys out there talking about getting a coat-of arms," he said. "Now, take It from me that the only right thing for nost of this bunch In the way of a ..'oat-of arms would be a set of burglar's tools properly displayed." Washington Cor- resjoudeneo. It Is generally wise, when a man at tempts to Jolly you, to keep your hand j su jour p ckct book. and more pressure to leave thefr positions as legislators and engage ln occupations that bring larger pecuniary rewards. Raising salaries would tend to elevate the standard of service ln Congress. Therefore the extra money re quired for the Increase would be well spent Chicago Dally News. THE CHILD ally or collectively. Girls are more easily stampeded, they vote without reason, they do not aim at the good of their college or their class, but satisfy the whim of the moment To these serious accusations the young women reply that the young men are mean things and that they may keep their old paper to themselves In the future. Without attempting to decide whether or not the charges are true, It may be stated that If true they con stitute a formidable argument against giving the ballot to women In elections of public officials. If the most highly educated portion of womankind is Irrational and irresponsible It may be presumed that the less cultured majority will be so. There Is a public danger threatened here. If It be alleged that the college students are young and will know better later It may be answered that ln such matters the child Is mother to the woman. Chicago Tribune. -eighth Congress portance. The obvious lesson cannot be without, profit. No one will pretend that men and wom en of different nationalities may not and do not marry happily; but such happy marriages are based upon a personal attachment that overcomes all ordinary differ ences and discards all considerations of advantage on either side. Marriages of convenience, also, may prosper between persons of one race and kindred, one bringing up. But arranged marriages between different nation alities are always hazardous. Even European fortune hunters are beginning to learn this, and It Is high time for American girls to learn It. It Is one thing to give a fortune for a coronet; It Is quite another thing to pay for It besides by the sacrifice of honor and happiness and one's own and the world's esteem. Philadelphia Ledger. WORLD'S MOST CONVENIENT COAL MINE. The open air coal mine shown In the picture is nt Hongay, In French Tonquiu. Tho working la on the side of a lit 11 which is a solid block of coal about 1M0 feet In height. To get at the coal It is only necessary to remove a thin layor of schist on the surface. The coal Is of an excellent quality, and about 1,000 tons are mined per day. This mine Is conducted by a company of European capitalists, who employ 3,.r)C0 natives. t "ARTISTIC" ATROCITIES. $ The well-furnished home Is now uni versally regarded among people of good tuate as the home from which cheap ornamentation Is eliminated ; where the plain aud solid furniture depends on its good lines, good material and per fect construction for Its beauty, and where there are no dust-collectors or useless objects. The New York Tri bune records the conversation of sev eral middle-aged ladles who were de scribing a less-advanced period. "I remember some of the fearful things we used to make to 'beautify' our homes. One of the things I pre pared before my marriage to make my home beautiful was a clove apple," said one. "I took a largo red apple, stuck It so full of cloves that none of the ap ple was left visible, decorated it with a gorgeous red bow, and gave it a prominent and honored place on the chaudeller of the frout parlor." "Lovely I" laughingly exclaimed a friend. "Hut I don't believe that for real true art It would quite come up to Borne of my. decorations. Did any of you ever make any crystallized grasses?" A Bhout of acquiescence wient up from the group. "Gathered all the weeds for miles around onr place," said one, "and dip ped them ln alum until the whole fam ily went around looking as if they bad accidentally bitten Into a green per simmon." "Yes," said the author, "and when the process was over you hung them against the wall or put them In a vase on the mantelpiece " "Hlght next to the scoop-shovel, ar tistically gilded, and adorned with a winter scene, painted ln oils and pow dcrcd with diamond-dust," put In the teacher. "I used to be 'long' on photograph frames,"' said the woman physician. "I made ttiem out of glue aud coffee-berries, real triumphs of art, and I made others out of broken glass, bits of cork and pieces of broken chiua. I cut out oval or square pieces of paste board, covered them with nice, thick, sticky glue, then pressed these things into It, covered them with a board and a piece of rock, and laid them away to dry." "They were as useless ivtf the worsted mottoes and knitted tidies, merely dirt catchers," sa'.d the first spvaker. "No IS MOTHER TO THE WOMAN. PERIODICAL nnhllshed br the students of I a co-education institution has published a f I brtter article on the influence of the girl stu- ui-iiis iu course elections, ine gins are ac cused of being influenced by the good looks of a student, by the elegance of his cloth ing, or his devotion to themselves individu INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES. UK exploitation of the domestic troubles nt A I the Castcllanes and Marlboroughs Is no I more catering to the appetite for scandal. jjulii ui must; nuui ure i.iuieu oru- llant" marriages, and their sordid and hu miliating end gives them International Im wonder that women hadn't time to take an Interest In really Important things. All our time was taken up In making and dusting those dreadful glmcrack things." CAUSES THE DOG TO LAUGH. Practical Joke Played by Master I'pon. Intelligent Toby. "That dog of mine," said a man who lives on the outskirts of the town, "Is a wise dog." He was talking to un other man who had called upon him on a matter of business and thought it would be wise to gain his good will by Interesting him ln the pup. The beast was as ugly a specimen of the canine family ns could be well scared up. "What can he do?" was asjeed. "He can talk If lie wishes to," said the owner, "but he don't wnnt to. He knows the value of keeping his tongue, but now I'll show you something," no said, and explaining that he had names for each one of the three pipes that he smoked, said to the dog: "Toby, go and fetch me Zach Taylor." Toby wagged all the tall nature had vouchsafed him and rushed upstairs with cyclonic sieed. He came back with a box ln which was Inclosed a well-colored meerschaum pipe. "Now," said his master, "get Bis marck for me." Away Toby rushed and his owner said to the visitors, "I have that pipe in my pocket " Toby was gone for some time and when be came back he was a dejected looking animal. Ills tall was between his legs, his ears drooled and he looked as If he wanted to cry. Then his master said; "It was all a mistake, Toby. I had it and no wonder you couldn' t find it Aren't you glad?" "If you believe my word of honor," said the man who witnessed all that "Toby laughed all over his face and actually got upon his hind legs and danced." Washington Star. I'sed to De a I)ro- Clerk. Subscriber Give nie seveu-dauble-O-seven-elcht. nlease. Telephone Operator I can't do that just at present, mauam ; nut I cau give you something Just as good. Somen-II lo Journal. Show us u man who think b. knows It nil and we will show you tho personification of ignorance. Telegraph o)srators do business on s sound basis even if it Is on tick. Some people seem to think that louil talk makes a sound arguuieuL Daetleea Ana Shifter. Many a man often wishes that the ah sifter nt home was really dust proof. Without a doubt a groat deal of coal saved knew unconsumed would be If hubby that ha could sift the ash es without danger of ruining his clothes. The ash sifter shown here looks Ideal In con struction. It Is cyl indrical ln shape and made of sheet ash sifteb. metal. The cover Is made lu two sections, qne-bnif being hinged to the other. The ashes are taken directly out of the fire and placed ln the top of the sifter. The sifting Is accomplished by means of a wire screen operated by a handle at the side. The screen Is invisible, the opening In tho side of the can to allow free operation Of the handle being very email. There Is thus small chance for the dust to es cape. A small opening ln the lower end serves to afford a method of dumping the waste. Pencil Sharpener. Every large manufacturing plant long since recognized the value of a good pencil sharpener one that would do the trick successfully ln n few seconds. Take, tox Instance, a telephone ex change, where each operator Is sup plied with a couple of freshly-sharpened pencils about five or six times a (lay ln exchange for her old ones. A hundred operators I'tACll. bHAKl'kiSf.U. keep one boy busy putting points cji COUNTESS OF CLANCARTHY. Fnmona Slna-cr Who Won Over firlt lnh Nobility. The death of the Countess Clnncar thy, who passed away at her home In Garbally Park, the Irish seat of her husband, has removed a former favor ite oX the London music halls. As Belle Itllton she was best known on both sides of the Atlantic and as Belle BI1 ton she gained that music hall renown which brought a lord as a suitor to her feet Belle Bllton, or Lady Clancarthy, was the daughter of a soldier named Bllton, of Woplwlch, Eng. She had a younger sister named Flo. When the BELLE BILTON. older was 15 both left home and tripped through several chapters of their un usual careers, Including gypsy tramp Ings through the provinces and lively performances at music halls. Both were extraordinarily pretty, which brought them success. Belle Bllton, In particular, acquired a reputation as a beauty, and was much co.urted lu Lon don. 'Of her admirers she chose Lord Dunlo, who married her. The marriage caused an explosion in society, and Lord Dunlo's father, the old Earl of Clancarthy, declared he never would recognize the actress. He sent bis son away and brought ln the young man's name a suit fe,r divorce against Lady Dunlo, charging unfaith fulness on her part The bride won a complete triumph ln court and she and ber husband were reconciled. Until the old earl died a year or so later she supported her husband, who was cut off by his father, by returning to the stage. On the death of his father Belle Bll ton became the Countess Clancarthy, Baroness of KUconnel, Baroness Trench and likewise Marchlonesse of Hendsen In the Netherlands. At the same time she became mistress of some 25,000 acres and the country seat of Garbally, where she died. At the height of ber popularity In Loudon she earned C500 a week and she o,wnod and drove the grandest equipages ln the metropolis. After set tling down ln Ireland she became a se date and happy matron and was ex tremely popular among' her IrlBh ten antry. Although for years she was not welcomed by society, she triumphed at last, and was presented to Queen Alex andra. She leaves three sous and a daughter. PARADOXICAL FASHIONS. The Socletjr Wonian'a Halnient I Mo Indication of the Weather, The fashlonuble woman on 3th ave nue and Broadway this season Is a sartorial paradox, says the New York Press. You cannot tell by looking at her whether It Is summer or winter, raining or fine, morning or afternoon. Her head, which you might take to pencils. Some of the pencil sharpen ers now lu use will slice off the wood, but the lead must be sharpened by hand. The pencil sharpener shown, here will trim off both the wood nnd the lead at the same time. The Illus tration showa clearly the method vX operation. The end of the pencil to bo sharpened Is forced by a guide against an emery wheel. The latter Is oper ated by cogwheels nnd a handled A few quick turns of the latter will put a fine point cn the iiencll. Automatic C.n Lighter. The tendency of the majority of in ventors seems to be to devise some Cjn trlvanco which will relieve mankind of duties and labors he Is now com pelled to perform. It Is no exaggera tion to say that another century will find machin ery doing practic ally work of all kinds, with prob-, ably an attendant to watch the Intri cate mechanism to OAS lighter. see that every thing runs smoothly. One of the latest Inventions In this class Is n contrivance for lighting the lamps ln store win dows at a predetermined moment Tho storekeeiKT can thus be relieved of any anxiety about the lighting of his shop. AH he is required to do is to set an alarm clock (used ln connec tion with the lamp) at the time he wishes the store lighted. The mechan ism does the rest. This device is use ful only In connection with those gas lamps In which a "pilot" Is kept burn ing at all times. A cord connecting the gns regulator and the alarm ciqck increases the How of gas nt the pvoper time, tho mechanism of the clock ope rating the cord. be rensonubly warm under its natural protection of mountainous pompadour, she covers with a heavy fur hat or cap, a pound or so of feathers and flowers nnd a lot of little false curls. Over all these she sometimes ties a loug, thick automobile veil. What for? . Her poor little? ankles, however, ara left completely out ln the cold. She wears her skirt quite as short us she dares, her shoes as low ns her dancing -pumps, nnd between these two points there Is n stretch of bare skin show ing through very openwork stockings. About her neck she wraps several yards of lined and wadded fur, but her arms from her wrists to her elbows are bare save for a thin covering nr suede kid gloves. From her waist liuo up she is usually incased ln the tight est nnd wnrmest of fur Jackets, whllj about her legs blows a light-weight, much-plaited skirt which appears to ba mainly intended to let in the breezes. She carries a huge ISliO muff, large enough for Gulliver's hands, but the soles of her shoes are of paper weight. The burning question Is, when she is comfortable about the feet and skirts, how does she feel with all that blan keting on her head and shoulders? And when she is just warm enough abaut the head and shoulders, isn't she ach ing with cold nt the other extremity? Or Is It, after an, only a case of men tal gymnastics? Protecting the Sea Cow. People who visited the Cincinnati "Zoo" on a recent holiday greatly an noyed the keeper of the sea-cow, a new acquisition, by poking It with canes or pencils. Exhausted by his efforts to stop the practice, the keeper engaged n tramp for 50 cents and told him to keep track of how many people looked at the manatee. At 0 o'clock the keep er looked up his substitute. How the tramp had done his work is told In the Cleveland Leader. "There's been more than 5.000 people here," said the tramp. "1 haven't had time to "reckon up the exact number yet. nnd won't until I nudlt my books." "Where's the paper you kept your accounts on?' asked the keeper. "I dln't have any paper," answered the "hobo," as If proud of his Ingenuity, "but I had a good soft lead pencil, and I kept tab on the sea-cow's back." He pointed to the patient manatee, the back of which resembled a black board In a country school house after the annual examination. 'Tha Lair Worm." A large district ln the middle of Porto Kico, with a population of 100,000, Is afflicted with the "lazy worm," and official efforts are being made to Improve the Inhabitants' con dition. A hospital has been establish ed" at Albonlto, with an endowment of $15,000, and will do what It can to check the ravages of this minute rep tile, of the existence of which the old time native Porto It lean never had the slightest notion. Last year an Ameri can medical officer, Captain Ashford, treated 4,500 eases, and nearly all of them were cured. As a result, tho population la aroused to much enthusi asm, and the afflicted are applying ln great numbers for treatment. Hereto fore the malady has leen deemed In curable. Dundee Advertiser. Kler trio llalreattlnar. A French Inventor Is responsible for the Introduction abroad of an electric substitute for the barker's scissors. This device consists of a comb carry ing a4ong one side of Its row of teeth a platinum wire, through which flows an electric current. As the comb puss es through the locks to be shorn tho heated wire Instantaneously fevers the hairs, leaving them or even length aud sealing the cut ends as lu the ordinary process of singeing with a taper. A similar device Is a curling iron kept at aii even tcmiierature by an t loctriu wire lu the interior.