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Dakota Connty Herald DAKOTA OITY, NEB. f&HN M. RCAM, PuMtaksr. Ij i. uvea ijb awMt It drunksuuets Is an excuse for Elnie, by Uio wy, what la the es se for drtrnkonnsss? Love Is always tbo game old story, S Will be seen by the love letters that et Into court now and then. Tie Topeka Journal knows a woninn fwho will fuss when she gets to tea von because she cnn't get n halo lmmcd to suit her." Can a farmer who t-ell preserved feSgs, with Uie statement tluit they are irtah laid, be a Christian nnd hare kope of a glorious hereafter? Still, It seeius cruel for Tom Lnw pon to desert the country In Its hour Of trial, merely for the purpose of mak ing a few beggarly millions himself. An Ohio sonvlet made $20,000 while Serving a five-year term In the peni tentiary. Some people are such finan cial geniuses that they can make money 'anywhere. i Mr. Rookeellsr Is pleaded at the thought of being regarded ns a patriot ffo doubt he finds It a blessed thought that a man doesn't have to he poor to 'be patriotic. Tom Laweon hopes the country will kit etnl an be good while he engages Ja the unpleasant but necessary job of cheWng a few millions out of the sys tem for his n use. Ta Ehnmensan, of Clnelnnntl, Is said .to be busy settling the debts of his son-in-law, the Duke of Manchester. The duke's creditors will doubtless be glad that pa has decided not to hoard his money. The Washington Post has discovered a number of Congressmen In Washing ton with spaochss In their pockets. In asmuch as taore la no law against car Tying concealed speeches It doesn't teen that there Is anything that can be dose. A public school principal declares taat "Obloago boys and girls twist helr parents areund their Angers." One of time's chaages. A generation (go It was the boys and girls who were twisted, and not around the fingers, but over the parental knee. Premier Stolypln has given the Duma to understand that the Czar's will con tinues to be the only law In Russia. Perhaps the Czar created the Duma merely because he thought It would 'be an easy way to keep Its members from tlrrlng up trouble elsewhere. ,W note that the American press generally refers to Loszto Czechonyl as nil Vanderbllt count." This is not meant as any sign of disrespect to a jncMs Austrian bouse, but merely illus trate the fact thut the democracy la Requiring a proper consciousness of its own aristocratic values. : Missouri boasts a new society, "The United Veterans of the Civil War," tpade up of Union and Confederate sol diers. Missouri was on the border land between North and South, and '"brother against brother" was more jjtsan a figure of speech. The Missouri fwclety may leud to a united grand iarmy of blue and gray. i The Finnish Diet has passed unanl pjously a bill providing that no aleo bol shall hereafter be manufaceured Ja Finland or Imported into the coun ty. In Russia, of which Finland Is a part, the manufacture of alcohol U a State monopoly. The Finns evidently Object to many things from Russia be sides the government of the Czar. "Healthy games, healthy foods and Wealthy homes" would be enjoyed by every youth, if the birthday wish of Field Marshal Lord Roberts could come to pass. "Andkeep young," adds the famous commandcr-ln-chlef of the Brit ish army. "I have kept myself young pa purpose, I never drink and I don't smoke, and I am really not a day Older than in 1880." At that rate ?Bot," who was born In 1832, Is 48 Instead sf 75, and the boys he speaks Of so generously need not hesitate to Wish him many moro happy returns. 1 Of the many wonderful things In the world, few, If any. are more woiulerfni than the manifestations of the care which God takes of the helpless. There was a splendid Illustration of this care, exercised through human Instruments, in the will of the late Robert N. Car son, of Philadelphia. Mr. Carson I.e. queathed an estate worth fa.ooo.ooo for tne purpose of rounding uud maintain lag a college for orphan girls between the ages of 5 and 10 years who huve neither father nor mother. They are to receive such training as will fit thei for a life of usefulness, and are tin to be discharged at the age of IS i Jens. Tho girls are not to be dressed la uniform, but are to be allowed tho exerel.se of some degree of Individual taste. Oscar II., King of Kweden, who died recently after a reign both long and ros)erous except for one Incident amid the sincere mourning of tils pe. lio ana the esteem of good men of all nations, wus one of the nioxt umun pllshed gentlemen and best men of his time. Ry every standard of public de votion and private morals he measured well. It Is au Ironic comment ou cer tain traditions once potent and mill re garded that Oscar of Sweden, who he came the kingly oi'dee ho well, hud scarce a drop of so-called "royal" or even "prlueely" blood in bin veins. Ills paternal grandfather was Jolm Roruu dolt e, a French peasant who found a marshal's baton in his soldier's knap Back. .Ills puternal grandmother was the daughter of a Marseilles stock bro Iter of plebeian extraction. Ills moth er was the daughter of Eugene Reau barnals. with no claim to hither rank Ay birth than that of the distinctly "lesser noblense" of Franc Oscar ILj was the second king of distinction en his farailyi There Is no question thatj John Rcmadolte managed his affair well. Called to be heir of tho cbild- less ruler over a isiopln of whoso lan guage even be was Ignorant, lie adroit-; ly prcsened and enlarged the domin ions of flip dynasty Into which ho hadi been adopted. None of the princes "made" through the successes of tho, grent Napoleon saved so much from the Napoleonic wreck. Ills son and the first grandson who succeeded him made no notable mark uisin history. The second grandson of Ueniadotte and third kin of the race bad abilities sullcd to his times. Intelligent, cul tivate:!, realizing fully the forco of democratic Ideas nnd the change from th: traditional attitude of the king toward his subjects which they liwolve, he conformed cheerfully to the facts, lie was ici:lred to be a thoroughly "constitutional" monarch, and lie played the part with enthusiasm. He deserved and won for himself and his country the respect of nil nations, lie devrved and won the love of his peo ple, lie was the only king of his time who could go nliout his country like any other man and be unattended when he so desired without fcur and J without dancer. In the closing years of his prosperous reign he met with what was, from certain vlewiolnts, a '. misfortune and at least n mortification, i Them came n day when there must : have echoed In his ears t.lie words of an ancient Scandinavian king, so finely paraphrased by an American poet: What was timt?" snid Ulaf, standing on the quarter fleck ; Something heard 1 like tho stranding of a shattered wreck." Einnr then, the arrow taking from O.e loosened string. Answered, "Hint was Norway breaking from thy hand, O King." Yet Oscar of Sweden had not Uie mort Ideation of OJaf of Norway, that misfortune had come to him from go ing too fast and far and getting ahead of his times, nnd he had the consoling knowledge that through no fault of his were the lands over which his scepter extended and the dominions of his house diminished. Two peoples had got at cross purposes,' and It was not In the power of a constitutional king to lead together those who had to be driven If they were not to separate. It Is estimated that South America furnishes about (13 per cent of the world's supply of India rubber. i It Is computed that about 14HH) words wero sent over the Atlantic on the opening day of the wireless teleg raphy from the United Kingdom to Canada. I Certain kinds of noises, saya the Madras Times, attract snakes. The whirr of the mowing machine Is one. and In six months as many as 120 cobras alone have been kUled on a grass farm In India by the advancing machine. Ry rubbing metals with salt before applying mercury, the ancients obtain ed a rend Ion similar to that for which copper sulphate is used. Tho chlorine released from tho salt formed a silver chloride easily attacked by the mer cury, so as to form an amalgam. According to the Engineering and Mining Journal, chilled steel shot of extremo hardness and adopted to re place diamonds in drilling through many formations Is made, by spraying or atomizing molten steel into cold wa ter, thereby chilling It Instantly. In August there was Inaugurated at the Col d'Olen, close by Monte Rosa, at au elevation of tt.S-10 feet, one of tho most remarkable Institutions for sclen tlllc research In the world. It owes Its exlstenco to the Initiative of Prof. An gelo Mosso, of Turin, nnd Is called the Institute of the Col d'Olen. It con tains laboratories for research in bot any, bacteriology, zoology, physiology, terrestrial physics and meteorology. All these subjects are to be studied from the special point of view of the effect of Alpine condtlons. Monsieur Carbonclle, a Relglau, has Invented au apparatus by means of which a picture can lie reproduced by telegraph In the form of an engraved plute, from which printed copies may be .Immediately taken. The picture to bo sent Is printed with thick, non-con ducting ink, and wound round a revolv ing cylinder, over which passes a stylu4 electrically connected with the tele graph line. At the receiving end a similar cylinder in encased with lend, or other soft metal, on which prenses the point of a graver. Tho variations of Intensity in tlm current produced by the stylus passing over the picture at the transmitting station causes the graver to cut more or less deeply, and thus to produce n typographic copy of the original, which may be placed with out change on the prWitlug press. 'l lm "Frniiaa de I.umc." There are In theso days tho train tU luxe, edition de luxe and hotel de luxe, but It seems to have entirely escaped attention that there Is also the feuime de luxe. Tho feuime de luxe associates only with the rich and prominent, lives but for tunusemcnt, spends money reck lessly. Tills femnie de luxe and bomme do luxe dllllculty Is the disease which, spreading with enormous rapidity, threatens to remove good conduct from the civilized world. A handful of nieu break every law, divine or human, swindle with Impunity, nnd behave like hooligans, and with theiu are a hand ful of women who have abandoned all restraint. These are held up to the rest of the community as of such social Importance thut their misconduct Is to bo udmlred. Loudon Truth. llurruwlnic Trouble. "Ever felnco his wife has brought suit for divorce he has looked terribly worried." "He oughtn't to worry; she'll proba bly get it." Houston Pot No, AJonzo, family Jars do not com under tbt head of brlc-a-brac. fJlivcience TO RESTORE CHTTRCH AS Patriotic Americans are fathering a movement to restore I'urlelgh Church la Eisex, England, an ancient and much decayed structure, as a memorial I'L'HLKIGII Clll.'RCIl TO IIKCOAU; to Otorge Washington, "Father of Ills Country." Lawrence Washington, groat-great-graudfathcr of Geuernl Washington, was rector of this church from 1(;: to '1043. The family records show Ih ,yond doubt that he was the father of John Wushlngtoii, the first of the Wash ington family to emigrate to Virginia. Although the church Is still open for KES. ATIIERTON WINS SUIT. .Woman from Whom llnkr Wan Token hy King Urtm Ilevrner. Mrs. Mabel Louise Atberton won her breach of promise suit against Captain Yarde-Buller In Loudon. Mm Atherton acknowledges her supreme satisfaction over the outcome, though she receives none of the$ 100,000 she sued for. Her solicitor's admission at the close of the trial that she had no desire for money, being independently rich, unveiled the real motives behind her attack on the Ai. I WVVv' c 1 IX-' V""- " r.r. .8 A' rv i . gallunt young captain. Jealousy and revenge that's (Tie story lu three word. Cnpt. Ruller was only one of ninny victims of the wiles of the fair charm er, who as tho wife of Colonel Ather ton brought disgrace upon him and be came the talk of the army during their resldeuce In Cape Town while her hus band was at the front. The Duke of Wostmluster was one of Captain Ynrde Rullers' predecessors In her affections. King Edward summoned him home to marry the present Duchess of West minster and break off with Mrs. Ath erton. Yarde-Ruller fell Into the same pitfall. He wrote letters professing un dying love, promised to wed Mrs. Ath erton, and married Miss 1 ionise Orme, actress. Then bo learned the fury of a woman' scorned. Ills counsel, desiring to end the case, readily admitted the promise to marry, and the captain must pay the costs, but no damages. IMPROVING THE VIOLIN. 'U Slrliitf Trap" Mnkea v Har monies a I'onallitllt jr. An Innovation In violin pinning that Is attracting considerable attention ly been brought alsiut through the ingenu ity of Icster L. Sargent of Washington. D. C, who has contrived a simple but distinctly useful " hiring prop" to ('li able the violinist to play simultaneous ly on three strings of his Instrument, whereas heretofore it has Ixvn hsh'. blo for him to play sustained chords of two notes only at a time. Thus the do minion of th "king of Instruments" will bo extended Into the realm of bar inony as wi ll as of melody. The new device Itself is a small wedge-shaped piece of bridge wood In erted ou the violin bridge under the O string. Its dimension, while de pendent to some extent on the height of jthe bridge on the particular violin on mm M- ' J w4 i u Cam WASHINGTON MEMORIAL. services, having been rebuilt In part half a century or more ago. It lacks In ninny details, especially with relation to the tower, it:i early architectural features. The tower In particular will 'k- reliiiilt complete, and a peal of belU, iich as It originally sheltered, will bte :U!!'. Last year General Jatncs Grant Wil on, of 157 West 7!th street. New York, isitcl the old church with a party of incrlcan tourists, r.urt there the Idea l rcsioriiif; It dh a Wa'dilngU n we iiorliil was e'T'lrcd. R. T. 1ivc. rceti,.' :u ascertained licit It will (t ap rolii';i 'e'v ?'!.(.(;o t !''' V .l KMOltl Ah J O WAnlll.MnO.,, and the church proier. (encral Wilson has charge of the collection of dona tions In America. The ancestry of General Washlnngton has been traced with the utmost caro and accuracy, and the summary on file In the library of the Itrillsh Museum Is complete and convincing. John Wash ington, tho emigrant, was the grand fat her of the President. whicli It Is to be used nnd the charac ter of the mude to lie played, arc ordi narily as follows: Thickness, 3-(M of nu inch; length, of an inch; width. i'.-K! of an inch, or slightly lesn. The hyjiotliemise of the prop Is curved to fit smoothly oil the bridge of tin? vio lin, and a notch for the ( string Is also made. To erect the device on the violin is tin easy matter. It being only neces sary to turn down the (I string about a tone, to insert the prop undcnieath and then to tune up the siring with care. In effect It becomes n component part of the bridge Itself, but It cr.n al ways be easily removed. This method of elevating the C, Just enough, to be sounded siniultancoualy with the D and A strings takes away the mechanical obstacle that Ole Hull managed to overcome by means of n flat bridge nnd his remarkable tours de force, but which no other violinist has attempted to cope with. That this method of playing Is en tirely novel Is evidenced by the fact that all works on orchestration have stated that sustained chords on the vio lin are restricted to two notes and that throe and four voiced chords must lie played as nrpcgglos. Rut n new and beautiful effect Is now placed nt the command of the violinist, although It is true that there arc few compositions in which use has been made of the possi bilities, of writing lH-autlful chords on the three lower strings of the violin. Ie Rcriot has a notable passage in his fifth conivrto. Rut It remains chiefly for future couijMisers of music for the 1 violin to enlarge the present excellent repertory of the violin with composl- , tions containing violin harmony. I The Inventor has refrained from pat enting his device In order to make it i more obtainable by violinists. NEW ELECTRIC LAMP. Hull. Which It foiifnln Said to tlnrn .'..lOO, Hour. Consul E. T. Lief eld forwards from Freiburg aa abstract from a Paris newspaper concerning n new electric lamp which It Is said will revolution ize the present system of lighting. The article was wired from Vienna nnd reads : "An Austrian chemist. Dr. Hans Kuzel, hay, after many years.' hard work, succeeded In constructing a new electric lamp which he calls the Syrlus lamp. As Is well known. Incandescent gaslight is cheaper than electric light. because the filament wires of the light are very exjienslve ami the glass bulbs soon wear out. Dr. Kuzel has now in vented n new substitute for the glow thread by forming out of common and cheap metals and metalloids colloids In a play; ic mass which can be handled like clay and which when dry be comes hard as stone. Out of this mass very thin wire threads are then sharp ened, which nre of uniform thickness and of great homogeneity. These two characteristics are of great value In the technics of Incandescent lamps. The Kuzel or Syrlus lamp hardly iIcimIs one-quarter of the electric cur rent which th. ordinary electric lamp with n filament wire requires. Experi ments, it Is asserted, have shown that the lamp can burn for .'LoOO hours at a stretch. Another advantage is that the Intensity of the light of the new lamp always remains the same, the lump bulbs never become deadened, as Is now the case. The new lamp. It Is said, will he put on the market soon. Hon to tirow I'luuip. It Is the unversal rule, says Mrs. Scanlon. that wives of successful men are fat. If they are not, she asserts, it is proof positive that they k not love their husbands. A fat girl, says Mrs. Scanlon, has all the best of the thin, willowy creatures, in sliowiiiiss, in disposition and in temperament. Mrs. S 'linlou hits obesity cures a hard blow by thus declaring that to be hap py women must be fat. "The reason Is plain," declares Mrs, Scanlon. 'The wives of the Kiuvessltil men are fat because they tire imt wor ried about Hie next mouth's rent and the children's clothes. People who pity fat women simply show their Ignor ance; women who complain because they are stout make themselves un happy when they should be the happi est women on earth." fleveland News.' Borne conned navit labels remind us of tombstone epitaphs; they are misleading. HEXARSAELE 0" By Drii: i In Sot;i!i .'..',. . .u:d the West In dies negro c . . -lion Is advancing and the arts v.:d 'NuUiila of civiliza tion have made way. N'jwhere, per ' ' ' I lie progress rce:a to lie ipnte so .'-atlsractcry, or, at any rate, finite su Intev.'stli'g urd full of promise, as in I'.asuto land, where a Kiiliir people of several hundred thousand souls is developing, under the gi-.h'.u'i.v oT P.rltlsh oilUluls,,but retain!;;; iis own tribal system, Its own chiefs, iU own language, In dustrious and prosiHU'ous in a ter A M BAS3AIX'li URYI t. ritory which land spc. u!:itois and mining prospectors are not permitted to enter. Our upwnrd prcgrc-s has been : ' w an well as grad ual, nnd yet our ancestors had the advantage of living in n climate end on a soil which compellej exertion and gave that stimulus to prepress which the Inhabitants of troplcnl Africa did not ret i ive. Progress will, we trust, be far more rapid among the colored people now than it was among the races of Northern Europe or among the uboriglnes of America, because all the influences which n highly developed civilization exerts arc at work around anil on them. Rut when we remember how short a time has elapsed since freedom and responsibility, the factors that make mnnhoorf, were ntlalr.cir. and how short even the time since the progenia;:-) of thr- colored people were living us savages in the African jungles, we shall wonder not at the defects we sec, but rather that, those defects are not far greater. There must be patience, nnd with pa tience hope. OUR IGN0HAKCE 0? OUIt DESTINY. .7 Maurice Mssterlinck. In the invincible ignorance where we are our imagination has the choice of our eternal des tinies. A first hyiKithesis Is that of absolute annihilation. A second hypothesis, ardently caressed by our blind instincts, promises us the preservation, more or less integral, through the infinity of time, of our consciences or of our actual ego. Remains a double hypothesis of u survival with consciousness or with a con sciousness enlarged and transformed, of which that which we possess to-day cannot give us any idea, which It rather prevents us from conceiving, just us our Imper fect eye prevents us from conceiving other light than that which passes lstweii sul'red and ultra-violet. The hypothesis resolves itself Into a simple question of con sciousness. To say, for example, as we lire tempted to do, that a survival without consciousness is equivalent to annihilation, Is to argue a priori and without reflection this problem of consciousness, the principal and the most MICHI3AN LEADS IN DEEH. Severn! Ijulcru State Have n Snr prlnlnKly it rue Supply. According to reports received by the Agricultural Department, nlwut 12,000 deer wero killed or captured In Mich igan last year, says the Kansas City Star. Pennsylvania Is not usually counted among the big game Stutes, yet nearly 700 deer were killed in the mountains there In the same period. T. S. Palmer, of the Agricultural De partment has embodied the reports f rom tho game wardens of the various States In which there is big game In nn article printed in the Agricultural Depart ment Year Rook. Michigan led In the number of deer killed or enptured. In Minnesota, Wis consin and Texas deer were rcKrted plentiful. In the Adirondack moun tains In New York about 20O deer were killed. Hundreds of deer were killed or captured In Wyoming, Vermont and Maine. In Wyoming more than 000 elk nnd 11( 0 antelope were killed. An Invasion of Wyoming by Indians resulted In serious consequences to the game. Two bands of I'tea, each about CiK) in number, entered the State the latter part of July and the first week In August nnd penetrated northward In Converse, Weston and Cook counties. The Indians' stripped the country of ! game wherever they traveled. They killed hundreds of sage hens and many antelope and deer. The game wardens aud .Statu authorities wero powerless I to prevent these depredations, and It :was only by the aid of federal troops that tin! Indians were finally returned 'to their reservations. The demand for elk teeth was re ( sponsible, as In former years, for the killing of many elk. In Washington a i few Indians from the Ou'nalt reserva tion were engaged in killing elk for ! tusks in the Olympic mountains, but through the efforts of the Indian agent the practice was promptly stopiied. Nov. i 20 a carload of trophies, composed of , heads, skins, scalps and horns of many I elk killed in Wyoming and on the bor der of the i ellowstone national park and shipped from Idaho to a taxider mist in Ixs Angeles, were seized In the latter city.' Two of the shippers were arrested while unloading the car. At the preliminary hearing It was shown that they belonged to four teeth hunt ers who had been operating in Western Wyoming, north of Jackson Hole and along the southern Isirder of the parj. The teeth are used l.-irgely for watch fobs for member of the order of Elks. ' MADE THE THIEF CIVE UP. "Iton't TaUe lh:it iftt.io," the Xegrn It n!i lit-r Siiiil. "ICj Mine." The pawnshop of Morris relngold, at Kansas avenue, West Side, was In the care of Mrs. l'elngold resvntly, fays the Kansas City Time-!. .v'lie was In the storeroom, where tlie safe is, when a customer called her to auothcr room. This left the s:.fe without a guardian. Rut M.'s. l'eaiL-ol.l w as alert. She heard a noise in the 'lero 'm ami went In quickly. The il-ior of the s.ife was open and she rei.ii ..ibc:wl it had been closiil. And liioiv. oruuehite i:i i front of It, she miw a negro. j The pawnbroker's wife i'.idi"t sei a--.: 1 and she didn't la'nl. iU.- is a ..ie!: I Woman. b;;t sdie giabiied the i'egv.i by! the coat and put her hand. i:i his jMH-kets. There she found jflMi in bill and clun ks which had been in .:'.e n.'i:'c. Then she dropped the money ii'lo her apron. "Don't you take that ".K," nio ne ro told her. That's mine. PR havj you arrested if you take it. Please, miMmd, give u-e buck my if J. 10. Vuu . 3.0. ' mzedor Rryce. MY LIFE DOES wouldn't take a man's last cent, would you?" Rut Mi's. Felngold was pitiless. "I was afraid he'd take all the money from me if he got a chance," she said afterward, "so I turned and threw it In the safe and locked tho door. When I turned around he was gone. "I thought only of the money. I didn't even think of calling for help, though there were three men In ths next room. The negro was scared. Hs was a lot more seared than I was. No, he didn't try to strike me, but kept repeating. 'I ain't got nothing; I ain't got nothing.' Rut I held ou to his coat with my left hand and searched his pockets with the other. And I fouud the $1S0 in money and checks." Mr. l'elngold examined his books last night to learn If the negro was truthful about the $3.10. "I don't know exactly how much money we had," the pawnbroker said, "but I don't believe we have any of thnt negro's cash. Of course hi can come back and help us Investigate If he wants to. "Resides the $180 In money and checks there were diamonds wsrth $200 and Jewelry worth $.'!00 In the safe." The police haven't found tho negro. KSS. CORNWALLIS WEST. Beautiful Amerleau Wlioae English MnrriHifr Proved Happy Ones. The marriage of Jennie Jerome, daughter of tho late Leonard Jerome, of New 'ork, some years ago to Lord Randolph Churchill was considered at tlnlt time one of the most Interesting of the International alliances at that time comparatively few In number. MIIS. COR.NWAU.IS WEST. Lady Churchill's experience contradict ed the general belief that an Amerleau girl Is not likely to get along happily ulth a foreign-born husband. She was wry happy in her married life and t'.iroiiih her own qualifications took a c,u:spii-iioi:s part in the most exclusive l.'cnion social ret. She had much to il i with her husband's success and pop ularity in politics. Al"' Li-rd Churchill's death she married (iconic Coniwallis West and continued her activity In public affairs. She had charge of the hospital Ship M;'.i:;e in the war ln-twceu Great Rrlt al:i .u d the l:.a :s. and for her work she was made Lady of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem ami a fneiuber of the Red Cress. In recent years she lias founded and edited the Auglo-Suiou Review. Even If a womau is economical, her husband will go to bed better content if he tin J j bhe Ir.ibu't been duwu town all day. tew IMii'I obkeura of all those that interest, us. It Is, as tlus meta physicians have all proclaimed, the most lUtlicult there Is, Inasmuch as tba object of consciousness Itself U what we would know. That which debars ut and for a long time will debar us from the treasures of the universe is the hereditary resignation with which we hojouru in the limited prison of our' suL-sea. Our imagination, such us we have to day, la acconiuiodutiKl too easily to this captivity. It does not cultivate enough the intuitions and presentiments which tell It that it la absurdly imprisoned and thnt It should seek egrtw uud search for the most grandiose and the most InflulU circles which it represents to itself. It tells Itself mors and more seriously that the real world begins thoukuikls of leagues farther away than the most ambitious and timorous dreams. s NOT BELONG TO ME. By Leo Tolstoi. The end of life ! No such end exists, It can aot exUt, and no science can discover It. Tho law of direction, the path of life? Yes. Re llgisn is wisdom, If you like replies to this. It aDBWsrs that It gives the lie to all the waya that do not follow the one truth. Ry the ne gation of false directions it indicates and llltunluates the only true way. This Is how it presents itself to me: The law of organic life Is strife; the law f life, reasoning; conscious life Is union, love. Abovs the orgunle life, ubove the life of struggle. Is born Uis lif of reason linked to the first The end Is svideut ; to dwttroy the struggle and to estab lish union whr there was dlword, at first among men, then between men aud animals, and finally between ani mals and plants. I wvuld wish to accomplish the will of Cod, and to de sire nothlug so passionately as that one thing. Is It possible? Yes, It Is possible. COUNTRY'S DUTY TO THE INDIANS. By Bishop llfadrlx. It Is not enough to make the Indians owners In severalty of their lands and to teach thetn to till the soil and to trade; to teach them the laws of health and sanitation. That Is sUuply to elvlllze them. One duty Is to do mors ws must Christianize them. The Indian must know of a revealed relig ion and not simply the religion of nature. He must learn of the Holy Spirit, and not alone of the Great Spirit. It Is not the bringing of the Indian to civilization thut Is needed, but the taking of civiliza tion to the Indian, not as veneer, but as the fruit of Christianity. We owe him more than rations; we are his debtor to give him the Gospel that saves. Already 00,000 Indians have become American citizens. They have needed paternal missions to muke them strong for citizenship. . j The Name of Norway ' Klngr. As to the uncertainty of the spell ing of the King of Norway's name, a Norwegian authority writes: "The genuine form of the -up me Is Hakon. Suck variations as nakun, Hakunn, llakvln, Latin Hagulnus, I leave out of consideration. Tho name Is made tip of two elements ha, the root of har, high; and kon, for knur (like son, for sonx). The older form of konr was kunr, 'he of the kyn (kuul), of tho family, the noble race.' According to ths Elder Eddu poem, Rlgsmal konr was the youngest son of Jarl (Earl), who himself was the son of the god Helmdall ('Illuminator mundl'). Konr ungr, the young kon, swung hln sslf, by deeds of amis. Into the posi tion of n kouungr, king, which, though the old poet knew It not, simply meant: the kon-lng, 'he of the kin' ungr be ing a suffix Indicative of descent. j "Accordingly, tlie name Hakon meant originally 'the high one of the kin,' nnd must have been a title for a prince, a king, before It assumed the exclusive character of a proper personal name. The old Norwegian pronunciation of the 'a' In ha seems to have come close to the sound of the English 'ow' In know; but in the course of time It has broadened Into a sound as nearly as possible identical with the English W la hawk. The o' in kon Is very near ly equal to the English V In on. The accent falls on the first syllable. In modern Norwegian tlie spelling of the nam Is Haakon ('aa' equals 'aw')." The Pianoforte. The pianoforte was directly evolved from the clavichord and the harpsi chord. In 1711 Selpione Minffei gave' a detailed account of the first tour ln strumeata, which were built by Rartol outmeo Crlstoforl, named by hint piano forts, aud exhibited in 1700. Marlus in France exhibited harpsi chsrds, with hammer action, in 171fl,: and Schroter In Germany claimed to haT Invented the pianoforte between 1717 and 1721. Marlus at1 first was, geusrally credited with the invention,' for It was not until 1738, when CrlstcJ forl's Instruments had beccoe famous' that the Italian odvaii'4 his claim, and It was in 1763 that JLrought for ward the proof of his contention. Pianos of that rerlod were Bhaped Ilk the modern grand, the first square piano leliig built by Ereiderioa, an or gan builder of Saxony, in 1758. Ths first genuine upright was patented In England and the L'ulted States by John Isaac Hawkins, nn Englishman, In 1800: Scrap Rook. Uot Too I im txirtant. "What has become of the maid you, thought such a prize?" "Oh, I had to let jer go!" replied uie HiM-onu maiiioouiMC! wouitiij. Arrer . i i...i.t......i.i ,i . her operation for appendicitis she thought she was one of us." Phlladel. phla Ledger. l'er erne. Wife Do come over to Mrs. Rarker's with ine, John. She'll muke you tvel just as If you were at home. Her Husband Then what's the of going? Judge. fruiu tbe -Mouth of llHbe "Is it true we're made of dust, Aun tie?" "Yes, dear." "Then why don't wo turn mudd when we drink?" HUM Ou. Wlsejuy-It must be a great pleasure to tell a Joke to an acrobat. Softboy Why? Wlsejay Recause he tuwbk tso ouslly. Morrlstowu (Pa.) Timet. -