Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NE3.
IOHN H. REAM,
Publisher.
Mocy tr,l!;s. nlnl what It ny hat
soothing effect on a wild and boisterous
pnule.
If the lines of thought affect the lines
of tlie figure It Is remarkable thnt mors
women do not resemble tho Interroga
tion point.
According to recent estimates there
re S.000.000 tclenlwne girls In tho
world. Most of them are at this mo-
ment giving the busy signal.
Kins Edward of England wears a
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An Australian physician claims that
aour milk Is tho only real elixir of life.
That ought to suit people who have dis
positions to match it.
New York has a young engineer
named Herbert Spencer. He begins
life either with brilliant prospects or
under a fearful haudlcap.
Although "Uncle Joe" Cannon has e
pressed the opinion that "boys will be
boys," he Is not likely to overlook the
fact that a good many become voters.
If ever the complete story of arctic
exploration Is written It will be found,
doubtless, thnt the , astronomers on
Mars discovered the north pole ages
go.
The American who was arrested In
Russia while gathering material for a
lecture will, soon be back here with
some material that ho hadn't figured on
getting.
A contemporary describes a simple
and effective burglar alarm, operated
by means of a string. The burglars
doubtless have read of it with Interest
and will know what to do when thoy
meet It
One photographer reports that he has
taken 7,000 pictures of Mars. Still,
there Is no likelihood that pictures of
Mars will take the places of the pic
tures of pretty girls on the covers of
the magazines.
Having attained to that degree of
common sense where they Ignore the
"panic" cry, It Is not too much to hope
that some day the people will keep
their seats and laugh when tho Idiot
shouts' "fire" In the theater.
uracil, distinguished In the merry
comedy, "Charley's Aunt" as the place
"where the nuts come from," la also
Distinguished as a place where Ideas
trow. Thirty Brazilian merchants and
professional men, have been visiting
this country, In obedience to the advice
Which Secretary Root gave to all the
Americans to get acquainted.
King Alfonso of Spain kept his wife
awake with his snoring, and to pre
serve pence In the family he has bad
adenoids cut from bis nose, so that be
may breathe through It when asleep.
His physicians have ordered him not
to smoke so many cigarettes, If he
would retain his nasal health, and bo
doubtless will do as he Is told. Kings
and slaves alike must obey their phy
sicians and their wives. ,
The King of Aysbonla Is offering his
realm for salo, advertising in a number
of European papers that he will accept
1200,000 for his kingdom, together with
all his subjects. He even offers to
throw In thirty of his wives! Aysbonla
Is in Africa and Is 250 miles long and
ninety miles wide. Why doesn't some
heiress who has unfortunately married
a bogus count or a spurious duke buy
this kingdom for him, and thus estab
lish her right to the possession of a
title?
Mechanical traction hna been substi
tuted for horses on the Ladoga canal
In Russia. When the traction engines
appeared 2,000 peasants seized them
and stopped all traffic ao effectually
tbat troops had to be called out to re
store order. There were rlota of thla
sort In England a hundred years ago,
when power sawmills were Introduced
there, but In tlie more advanced coun
tries the laborer and the mechanic now
adjust themselves quickly to new In
ventions. Russia la about one hundred
years behind tne times. When one
realizes this, one will understand many
things that happen there that are oth
erwise Inexplicable.
The Department of Agriculture is
taking a paternal Interest In the pros
perity of the farmer. It is teaching
hlni to have better crops, better ma
chluery and better buildings. Now
comes Postmaster General Von Meyer
with an intimation that the rostofllce
Depnrrmeut also wants to take a pater
sal lute rest in the farmers. It wants
to give rural residents the parcels post
"This." according to Mr. Von Meyer,
" lnr a Philadelphia speech, "will bo a
great l oou to the farmers on the rurul
routes, because when they are able to
order tlielr goods by telephone or postal
card lr will relieve them of tho lncon
ventcuce of going to town to obtain the
lUH-esxarles of life." The Postmaster
General admits that country storekeep
ers ;:ngly object to this Torni of be
nevolence to tlie fanners. Rut he says
he will quiet their objections by giving
farmers a lower parcels post rate on
their local delivery routes than from
the outklde. Does Mr. Von Meyer lm-
cglne that even this coiiceHwIon will
Ir.t't country stores from the nggreH
sUe Ity mall order hotxenT The fatal
flaw In Mr. Von Meyer's renconliig, u
quoed above, is tho supiHltlon that
the farmer needs to bo pampered until
his conditions of living ure as artlnVlul
es those cf the average city resident,
Ho Id to h:ive tlie trolley car at bis
door, the telephonu in bis bouse, his
drill v mall delivery, which will luclude
11 lils groceries and store supplies.
Nekher the farmer, nor bis wlfo, nor
bis children are to fH'l the need of
gUi t town." One may well doubt
whether the average rural resident ap-J
predates or needs quite so much Men
tion on the government's part The
country storekeeper needs as much pro
tection ns tlie farmer, perhaps more,
Mjs tho Chicago Journal. The farmer
should be encouraged to deal In the
nearest town or village. The parcels
post Is an enemy to this rural com
munity life. It will Increase the artifi
cial markets In the cities and curtail
the natural home markets. The govern
ment's paternalism could find more le
gitimate objects than the suppression
of normal healthy nelghlnirhood ex-
change In the rural centers.
Dr. Forties Wlnslow has found In
Studying statistics of Insanity that
locomotive engineers and firemen are
unusually npt to become mentally de
ranged. In a list of seventy-four trades
and professions that of tho engineers
stands seventh from the top In this
respect. As records of 40,000 engineers
and firemen entered Into these statis
tics, they have a good basis of relia
bility. The three exceptionally destruct
ive accident to passenger trains In
England In tho last year or two, thoso
of Salisbury, Grantham and Shrews
bury, have all been due to failures of
thoroughly reliable engineers to see
signals or to Judgo correctly their
speed and position at critical moments.
Naturally there is active discussion or
the strain which is being put on en
gineers by their service, and of the ex
tent to which they weaken, If not to
the point of Insanity, at least to that
of unreliability of attention during
their work. The railway unions have
emphasized the heavy requirement ot.
the roads upon the engineers In the
way of making time, and the roads
have tried to place all the blame upon
the men. It la the conclusion of Kelgh-'
ley Snowdon, writing In one of tho cur-'
rent British reviews, based upon con
clusive reports as to the causes of all
three of the accidents In question, that
the engineers of fast express trains
have literally more work, than they
can hope to do thoroughly and unfail
ingly. Whnt between making time,
caring for the running of their compli
cated machine, and watching out for
danger signals, they are burdened be
yond the limit. And his remedy Is that
either a system of automatic signals
must bo adopted on all lines running
fast trains, or else that the .fast trains
must be given three men to run them
Instead of two ; one of those three hav
ing the sole duty of watching out for
the slgnnls. The Installation of auto
matic signals Is expensive and cannot
be doiio In a day. Where It Is most
needed by proof of experience the three-
man substitute would be perhaps a rea
sonable temporary expedient Certainly
the fact that two men were enough to
run a twenty-mlle-nn-hour train a gen
eration ago Is no argument against the
need of three men on many trains to
day." BEAUTIFYING A CITY.
American Towns mm Hal Par Little
Attention to Shade Trees.
In tho beautifying of a city special
attention should be paid to shade trees
in the residence portions and in the
parks. The 8t. Louis Qlobo-Democrat
ays :
In tho most beautiful, cities of the
world tho shade trees are scarcely sec
ond to architecture In pleasing effects.
The architects and city foresters sup
plement each other, and the most de
lightful scenes are those In which the
efforts of both blend harmoniously,
American towns, as a rule, spring up
without ettentlon to shade trees, but
the time conies when tho lack Is pressed
upon public attention by comparison
with other cities tbat have been less
negligent Suixrflclally viewed, shade
trees are a minor item. But in fact.
they are ono of the most Important
branches of municipal work. They add
to the value of property to an extent
but little understood, though every pur
chaser of a home knows how much he
Is attracted by a well-shaded street A
few well-developed shade trees on a va
cant lot, with other good specimens
along the curbs, are sure to bring along ;
customers wllllug to pay a little higher
price than on a naked highway. The
general vistas of a well-planted neigh
borhood are worth still more. All large
cities aro multiplying parka and boule
vards In which trees, shrubbery and
lawns are a main consideration. Com
pare tho price of projerty In stich lo
calities with tbat In other sections, oat-
side of business, and a true Idea la
formed of values and their basis.,
Bhade trees are property of a precious
kind.
"The city shade tree should bo a spe
cial object of care on the part of the.
municipal authorities. It should be
guarded and protected. No person,
should be allowed to hitch a hove to It,
No candidate or other advertiser should
be permitted to tack a placard on It of
allow It to be abused In any way. ' Not
only should the planting of "trees In a;
city be encouraged and tho trees out
side of the city along roads should be
conserved and protected for the pub
lic benefit. It Is shocking to ace fine
forest trees along the (llendale trolley
line and along the turnpikes defaced'
with all sorts of tin and paper signs1
thnt are tacked uon them. The trees
should be respected for tlie public's;
sake."
Predicament of Ave.
To-day our attitude toward old ago
has greatly changed. We no longer pre-
teud to treat It ns a hackneyed joke.
but instead have agreed politely to Ig
nore it No one Is old, simply because
he cannot afford to be.
Tho kluudom has been ulven over to
the young, uud ngo must borrow youth's
ninthim? it it aont.l atut hnM it .,un in
tho council chamber or tho market
place. Gentleman's Mugnslue.
To MmI lite Dfniand,
"IK these nuvol oranges really grow
without seeds, mamma" asked Tommy.
my.
'Yes," replied his motljer, "some
smart man discovered a way to make
them grow that way."
"(), wouldn't It be flue If be could
only find n way to make chickens grow
with four drumsticks." Philadelphia
Press.
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Some women marry for love, some
for money, and some for a home. It
is not known why men marry.
WASHINGTON MURDER TRIAL
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Woman, placed on trial in Washington tor tho killing of former
Senator Brown of Utah, the presiding Judge and leading attorneys in
the case.
' Although some of the salacious fea
tures which were looked for at the trial
of Mrs. Anna N Bradley for the mur
der of Senator Arthur M. Brown were
eliminated by direction of tho court,
there was enough of the scnsatlonul
connected therewith to hold the atten
tion not only of Washington but of the
entire country. The prominence of the
man and tho attractiveness of the wom
an, together with the manner of the
shooting, Invested the cae with uu
usual interest
Arthur M. Brown, lending citizen of
Bait Lako City, man of great wealth
and for a brief time United States Sen
ator by appointment of tho Governor,
was a :loo friend to Mrs. Anna N.
Bradley. This was some years ago
when the frall-looklng defendant was
robust of form and beautiful of face.
For Brown's sake she deserted her hus
band, and nlthough he would not heed
her pleas to marry her, she clung to
ihlm. About a year ngo Brown went
from Utah to Washington. Mrs. Brad
ley hoard that be was going to ninrry
Mrs. Anna C. Adams, mother of Maud
Adams, the great actress, and she fol
lowed him. At his room in a Washing
ton hotel they had a loud talk, the re
sult of which was that she wa said
to have shot him and he died five days
later. He refused to say anything
concerning the tragedy. Mrs. Bradley,
it la said, never denied the shooting,
pleading temporary insanity. Mrs.
Adams hna declared that there was no
foundation for the report that she wus
to have married Brown.
When the case came up for trial in
Washington Mrs. Bradley's story ujxm
the stand was that Brown won her
love by protestations of undying affec
tion and promise of marriage; that he
arged her to get a divorce and Induced
iter to get her trousseau.
' The chief counsel for Mrs. Bradley
was Orlando W. Powers, a native of
IKew York, who went to Utah to live
nd Is the. leader of the Gentile party
'there. He was mado associate Justice
f the Supreme Court of Utah by Pres
ident Cleveland, lis has sat in the
State Legislature and has been an un
successful candidate for Congress.
Once he declined a United States Sen
tatorshlp for an unexpired term.
The Jury brought In a verdict that
the was not guilty of the alleged mur
der of former Senator Brown. The
plea of temporary Insanity at the time
tlie killing took place won after nn nil
afternoon and night deadlock of the
Jury. ,
WORRY CAUSES DEATH.
RroodlnaT Over Trouble lnjurea the
Ilraln Crlla.
Modern science, says h German mist
ical contemporary, has brought to light
nothing yinoro curiously interesting
than the fact that worry will kill.
More remarkable still. It has been ablo
to determine from recent discoveries
Just bow worry does kill. It Is Ik
lleved by many scientists who Lave
followed most carefully the growth of
the science of brain llscascN that
scores of the deaths set down to other
causes are due to worry and that alone.
The theory Is a simple oi so sim
ple that uny one can readily under
stand It. Briefly put, It amounts to
tills; Worry Injures beyond repair cer
tain cell of tho brain, and tlie brain,
being tho uutrltlvo center of tho liody,
the other organs become gradually In
jured, and when some disease of these
.organs, or a comblnaUou of them,
WHICH ATTRACTED
ON OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
TIPS. J1KTOI
arises, death finally ensues. TIiub
does worry kill.
Insidiously, like many other diseases,
It creeps upon the brain In the form
or a Hlntfle, constant, never-lost idea ;
nun, as a dropping of water over n per
lod of years will wear n groove In r
Btone, so does worry gradually, lmier
ccptlbly, but no lens surely, destroy the
brain cells that lend all the rest; that
are, so to HiKak. the commanding offi
cers of mental power, health and mo
tion. Worry, to make the theory stm
stronger, is an Irritant at certain
points, which produce. little barm If
It comes at Intervals or Irregularly.
Occiisloiml worry the bruin can cope
with, but the Iteration and reiteration
of one Idea of n disquieting sort the
cells of the brain are not proof against.
It is as if the skull were laid bare
and the surface cf the brain struck
lightly with n hammer every few sec
onds with mechanical precision, with
never n sign of u let-up or the failure
of n stroke.
Just in this way does the annoying
Idea, the maddening thtmght that will
not be done away with, strike or fall
iiIKin certain nerve cells, never ceasing,
and week by week diminishing tlie vi
tality of these delicate organisms, so
minute that they can only be seen un
der tho microscope.
Pant Salarlea of Actor.
A number of autograph letters of Ed
mund Kean supply some Interesting In
formation about tlie salaries of actors
early In the nineteenth century. One
relates to an offer by Mr. Ellison offer
ing Kean 3 a week as acting manager
of "tlie new theater In Wych street."
Later this rosy to 2.1 a month. In
1S20 Kean was offered $12,000 n year
to go to America. In the prime of his
pularlty he received f200 for a week
In Edinburgh and apparently reached
the highest point when Mr. Bunn wrote
from the Theater Royal, Dublin, on
Feb. 8. 1S2!, and offered hhu 50 a
night to play In Dublin and Cork
Liverpool Mercury.
Srlf-Kvttlrnt.
Some humor was Interjected Into a
case In a magistrate's court in German
town, aejeordlng to the Philadelphia
Record. Two lawyers became excited
and somewhat crsoiial In' their argu
ment Matters proceeded to such a
pitch that the lawyers began to call
each other mimes. "You're an ass I"
said one to the other. "You're u liar!"
was tho quick retort of the opiMislug
lawyer. Then the magistrate. In a very
dignified manner, said: "Now that
the counsel have Identified each other,
kindly proceed to the disputed points."
In a Showdown.
A Japanese exponent of Jlu Jltsu and
nu Irlsli blacksmith In the Union Pacl
6 ' shops nt Cheyenne got into a mix
up. The Japanese resorted to Jlu Jltsu
and the Irlshuiau used a plain, every
day right swing. Tho Oriental a Woke
In the licHpltal and the Irlrtlntmn went
on with his work. Jlu Jltsu Is all right
If the other fellow permits It to lo
used. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. .
Strruitth of Labor t'nloua.
In New York one out of every nluo
tcvn ihtkoiis is a member of a labor or
ganization, lu England the proportion
Is oue lu every twenty-two In Germany
one In thirty-one. In France one In fifty,
lu Italy oue lu 123 and lu 8pala one In
every S20.
tiAEina eusetegs 07 eenevolence.
Dy John D. Rockefeller.
It takes n practical mind to make
n fortune. Men have often said In
my hearing. "Oh, how I wish I were
rleh! If I hnd money I should do this
re.it work or thnt." Now, those men
will never im; rich. They haven't got
the purpose and v practical bent of
mind tor It. They think of the fruits
of victory without the struggle. It
ts necey-sary to fix the iilnd pretty
firmly upon the making of money be
fore It is pof-slble to plan its spending.
I remeniler clearly when the financial
plan If I niuy call It so of my life
was formed. I whs In Ohio, under the
ndnlstrnt'on of a dear old minister
who preached, "Get money; get It hon
estly, and then gl. . it wisely." I wrote
that down In a little book. I have
the little book yet, with that writing
In It. t have tried ever since to "eet
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t. D. rock efclleb nionpy honestly nnd to give It wisely."
There Is a great deal of folly shown in the distri
bution of benevolence. If substance Is a trust, then It
is very serious business, this matter of dispensing It. One
can't simply get rid of It and have a free conscience.
A responsibility attaches to the distribution. I have an
Idea on that point, to this effect: Let ns have benevo
lent trusts corporations to manage the business of benevolence.
SMALL TOWN IDEAL PLACE TO
Some people In happy circumstances are un
happy. Many who are better off In their small
town would like to live in a largo one. Big
ness does not mean happiness. It does not
Insure content, which anywhere Is essential to
happiness. The town of 3.000 ulmost any
where In the agricultural regions of this coun
try Is more favorable as a place of residence
than is the average town of 00,000 or larger.
It is cleaner nnd healthier. It has a better class of .peo
ple. 'The overage of intelligence nnd of character Is
higher. If the small town Is without saloons it has that
distinct advantage over others, large and small, which
have, and the larger towns usually have the saloon and
the evils which congregate about It The small town
has no considerable vicious element, whereas that ele
ment rules many of the larger towns. Tho -nlr of the
small town Is clear ond pure ; that of the big town some
times Is loaded with srtioke and soot and burdened with
the bad odors of dirty streets. The smnll town has as'
good schools, as good churches, as good teachers, nnd as
good preachers, and recognition In the home nnd society
does not depend so much upon money. There is less
snobbery and dissipation. There Is a Juster recogni
tion of personal worth. At the same time the con
veniences and luxuries of life are to be enjoyed, and liv
ing Is cheaper.
The word that Is to be spoken to the people of the
small town Is the word of appeal to mnke the best of
natural advantage. If they are to go into manufactures,
economy dictates what they must be. If abundant raw
materials exist nnd if there Is practiculy unlimited local
3 IK THE WASTE-BASKET.
The recent death of Miss Julia Bry
ant, the daughter of William Cullen
Bryant, has called forth n number of
reminiscences of the poet uud his fam
ily. Although always kindly, Bryant
was not a man of winning personality.
Ho was too digulfled. But at homo
ho could uuho.nd ; with his children nud
their intimate friends he could occa
sionally even romp. With strange chil
dren the poet", perhaps being a little
shy of them, became even nioro than
usually dignified, with the result of re
ducing them to - solemn and hopeless
good behavior.
"I always, In my lufnutlle mind,"
confossed a lady who knew him slight
ly in her childhood, "connected him
vaguely with the Old Testament, and
revered him accordingly. Such a beard
ond such a brow were his us I knew
only in Biblical Illustrations depicting
Metbusalch nnd Jeremiah. It would
have shocked nie, I am lure, to see
him laugh." '
With another little girl, whom he
knew better, however, be often laughed,
and used to perch her on his desk to
listen to her uniuslng chatter. When
he bad had enough of it, and wished to
resume his writing, he would put ber
in tho big waste paper basket, carry It
outdoors, and merrily. tip ber out on the
grass.
Ills 'own girls were at that time
grown up, but it was a method of clos
ing a conversation first practiced upon
theirt. Sometimes, too, he used tha
same receptacle to hold a daughter too
small to be overconversntlonal, but
largo enough to Insistently demand
amusement Dumped lu among the
scraps, she would be bappy for a long
time, crooning to herself aud tearing
bits of paper into smaller bits.
Not until tho crooning stopped did
ber father need to give her any further
attention, but silence was n signal not
to be disregarded, for It meant that she
was, by no means figuratively, exercis
ing her literary taste upou his latest
discarded poem. Her opinion It was
never possible to extract; but the poem
it was more or less chewed and It
was removed from her mouth ns rap
idly as possible, and the little lady sup
plied with some other plaything less
tempting or more digestible.
The Common Dauifpr.
We have been used to hear that
while the fear of dangerous negroes
made It hard for white children in the
South to get to school, the negro chil
dren were not in danger, and going to
school without fear or risk had ou
that account an educational advantage
over the white children. A Southern
woman who writes to the American
Magazine about race relations in the
South touches ou this point to say that
the dangerous negroes are dangerous
to all women and girls, white or black;
that the negro children g to school In
groups, as the whit." cnildicn do; and
that the negro wjinrn, like white wom
en, iu the South rei-ognUo that It Is
not safe to go far from home unpro
tected. This statement has probability
in Its favor, aud for various reasons
sounds true. It wus worth making;
ths more so that we do not remember
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demand for the product, It Is a clear case. If there is
great local demand, while tvaivsportatlou cuts small fig
ure In the cost of the product. It may pay. Those things
settle themselves when men of means are wenned of
speculation abroad and arc satisfied with modest returns
of money Invested nt home.
PLEASURE IMPOSES YOEX OF IE.0N.
Dy Rev. Dr. Newell Dwlght Hlllls.
rev. n. o. hillis. of lron- Strangely enough, If many
people were to serve Christ with halt
the feal and self-sacrifice that they serva vanity, frivolity
end sensual delights, they would exhibit zeal that would
give them a place in the book of martyrs.
The time has come when some speak of the big, splen
did virtues of a former generation as old-fashioned vir
tues. Well, the old-fashioned flowers in a mother's gar
den are the sweetest flowers that ever grew. We never
will outgrow the virtues of our fathers, tbat were rooted
In fnlth, matured on courage, Illustrated In a struggle for
lllierty, and compacted In the laws nnd Institutions of
the land. These poor, silly, restless folk that want to
cast off the yoke nnd faith of their fathers choose yokes
of Iron. They want an easy yoke. But when It is too
late they find the yoke is iron, and that the shoulders
are worn raw, that the feet are cut, nnd the heart is
LIVE.
. By Milton Starr.
broken, and that
GHOSTS DOMNATE THE WORLD.
By Rev. Dr. Frank Crane.
world ghosts of dead creeds, dead passions, dead con
victions. Ibsen was more than a morbid breaker of con
victions he was a master and knew life. He perceived
the truth tbat men's minds are controlled not by reason
so much as by the long gray arms of vanished reasons;
not by living. Intelligent convictions so much ns by the
crystallized power of dead convictions; not by voluntary
will, but by automatic Institutions.
We are born into a nag-rldden world. We find all the
prizes of. life mortgaged by our fathers' fears. We are
bidden to conform or die. To revolt wildly at nil of this
Is folly; for the ghosts are too strong for us, and we
fight ns they who beat the nlr, only to make ourselves
ridiculous. But the way to freedom Is to find the truth
and sell It not, to cling to it to follow it unwaveringly,
better, to find, love and follow that strong Son of God,
who Is truth's self. Following Him we come ever into
wider chambers, and last to freedom
to have seen it lu print before. We
have all along known and deplored the
peril to tho white women and chil
dren, but no one before this has thought
It worth while to mention thnt the
negro women nnd girls were In nny
danger. The renson why this ought to
be known Is that a common danger Is
a strong tie, aud tho blacks nnd white
in the South are developing antag
onisms so fast that no tie that remains
ought to be Ignored. After tho Atlanta
riot decent people, white and black, got
together to discuss preventive meas
ures. That wus tho right way. Shot
gun methods will only Increase their
perils. Harper's Weekly.
Gulltr, but Good Smoke.
Tho tendency to preserve relics of ab
sent ones sometimes results In odd com
plications, If the experience of a man
who visited a West Philadelphia home
recently may be taken as on example.
He had been ushered Into a small sit
ting room until the master of the. house
should be nt liberty to see him. He
took a chair, and, noticing a corncob
pipe on a shelf, picked It up, found it
about half filled with tobacco, lit It and
smoked.
When the tobacco was exhausted he
put the pipe back on the shelf and
waited for his host The latter came
In, their business was soon finished,
nnd then the host explained that most
of the articles In the room were pre
served exactly as the son of the house
had left them when he went to Europe
to study, several years before. "Here,
for instance, is his pipe," he said, "still
half loaded, just as be laid It down
when he was last at home. It gives
his mother and myself great pleasure
to think that these things have not
been used or touched since he went
away, as If he were coming back to
finish his smoke. Sentiment of course,
but it consoles us."
Tho visitor naturally felt his sacri
legious conduct too deeply to mention
the fact that he had finished the ab
sent son's smoke. Philadelphia Rec
ord. Italia Are Kvener.
The fact that within tho past twenty
years two-thirds of the unevenness In
railroad tracks has been done away
with ou certain lines was discussed at
a recent meeting of tho American
Academy of Sciences.
The Improvement hns been brought
about principally through new designs
and methods of munufucture of rails.
A "track Indicator" car, traveling
twenty or thirty miles an hour, sums
up the Inequalities, the "ups nnd
downs'' In the rails for each mile tra
versed. Formerly tho "total Inequali
ty" per mile amounted to six or seven
feet, even for the best ronds ; now it
iias U'cn reduced to only eighteen or
twenty Inches, mid this remnant Is said
to be due to dents In the rails.
it lias lei!i ihilute 1 out that the Im
provement, which may bo carried far
ther, brings with It heavier locomo
tives and curs, longer trains and higher
speed.
Bcllrr Vet.
"I supise you had tlie six best sell
ers with you fit tho seushore?"
"No; but I bad tho six best fellers
the greater part of the time." Houston
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Consider that nil schemes of living
based on pleasure, sensual delights
or worldllness lmiiose on men a yoke
of Iron. If the biography of epi
cureans tells us anything. If the lamp
of experience throws nny light on the
puth of life, then the way of worldly
pleasure Is a thorny way, a steep
path, nnd pleasure's yoke Is a yoke
hope Is dead.
In Ibsen's play, "Ghosts," Mrs. Alvlng
claims, upon discovering the evil bent of her
son. and realizing that it is traceable to the
father, that she seems to hear ghosts. Ex
tending her thought she adds that she feels
that her own so-called principles ore but
ghosts. Ghosts, she cries, fill the earth, thick
as the sands of the sen; she sees them between
the lines of the newspaper, they dominate the
AN EXTINCT ANIMAL.
The Saber Toothed Tiger Wu nj
Formidable Creature.
The most remarkable of all the ex
tinct feline animals are those known
to naturalists as the saber toothed cats
or tigers, a group comprising the
greater part of all the fossil forms.
They date back to the earliest times of
which we know anything about the
family In North America and reach,
down to the time of man himself. A:
large nnd powerful species described
from the Indian Territory by Cope,
lived conteuiporaenously with the hairy
mammoth, as evidenced by the com-:
mingling of their skeletons. There can,
be little or no question but that the
hairy mammoth was contemporaneous'
wltn man in North America as well
as In Europe. Its geological range Is
from the close of the eocene to the lat-
ter part of the pleistocene.
The chief peculiarity of the animal:
is the extraordinary elongated canine,
teeth. The tall is of unusual length
and the legs are short The animal
measures about seven feet In leneth
aside from the tall. The lower laws'
have a downward projection in front,
due to a flaneellke whlpninp nt thm.
Jawbones, which doubtless served as a,
protection to the teeth, preventing their
injury or loss. In some of the larger
forms from South America this flange
was not present, while the ea nine
teeth were even more elongated than
Is the case with this species, attaining
a length of over six inches and nro.
truding far below the Jaws when,
closed.
Two Tragedies.
A poet had a wife and the wife halt
little to eat After several weeks of
failure to get money wherewith to
chase food she ran away with a cab
driver wno owned tils outfit and acted.
as though he owned the city.
"The blow will kill him" cried neo-
ple. "She has ruined his career."
It didn't kill him, for he turned Tils-
sorrow Into a Bonnet that he sold for
$5, ond reviewers said that the font of
inspiration nnd nt last been opened to-
hlm. 1
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A man's wife deserted him, and tW
neighbors were more interested than!
he was.
"Poor fellow," they said, "it will drive-
btm to drink."
It did, for he was one who never lost:
nn opportunity, nnd his wife was a'
strict tee-totaler. New York Sun. '
Kxlled Forever.
The gray-haired man. tall and rtlirnl-
fled, stood on the deck of the outward
bound steamer trying vnluly to control
the tears that coursed down his worn
and haggard checks. "Alas," he sighed
us the ship moved slowly from the dock,
"I shall never see this, my old home
again!"
"V."!:iit was your sin," asked the sym
pathetic nassenger, "that it Is muiish,
by external exile?"
"Sir," answered rue tearful man pt-,
thetlcally, "It was not sin. It was folly.
I was a Judge at the buby show."-!,
Florida Times Union.
Much that pass.es for patience is slm-,
ply laziness.
, No Idle person recognizes the right
Jot busy people.