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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1908)
; Lcia Octy Herald DAKOTA CITY, NEB. IOHN H. REAM, Publisher. There 1 ft ran' horse mimed Magn etic. Wonder If lie In four-fifth ad vertisements too. , We can't lii'l wondering v!io d'ic Mies work lu the homes fif those Eng lish suffriis.'ettc, Thin world would he mighty lnne omc If nil great questions could be yorniiinently sealed n( nui. A few more wedding to women of Vanderbllt family iiiul 1li Hungarian nobility will lit least have enough to cat There 1 luilliiiiK to uiake oiip afraid of the future, says James .1. 1 1 111. We might say ho, too, It' we IimiI Jim II ill's moiipy. Russia mid Turkey arc preparing for war. but we nrp glad to rc!ort that Switzerland and Lunembourg nrp peace ably attending to business. TI'O iipw system of "religious thera iPutIcH" Is curing n good ninny people who would get fighting mud If told by a doctor thnt nothing ailed them. This Is the yenr 4!0r In Hip Chinese calendar, which shows thnt the Chi nese began to keep count much fnrther bark than our oldest Inhabitant ran re member. Harry K. Thaw has leen acquitted. This, It Is to be hoped, will cause a rapid decline of Thuw publicity. The most deslruble future for the Thaws la one of tbe strictest seclusion. A New York man has been sentenced to prison for "not longer than his nat ural life.'' It must be a relief to him to know that he will not be expected to bang around the place after death. Tbe Countess of Yarmouth has se cured a divorce and the restoration of her maiden name. It will be hard for other heiresses to understand why she didn't Insist on clinging to the title after paying so much for It. A Montana Judge has ruled that the right to labor Is a God-given right and cannot be tnken from any man. How ever, there are doubtless a Dumber of hoboes in Montana who will offer no desperate resistance If they are de prived Of It. fc, After fighting for five hours against IntetiNO cold nnd a high sea the Nan tucket life-savers recently rescued u woman, baby and seven men from a wrecked boat. These life-savers re ceive ?."0 a month and are forced to take a alxty-duy vacation without pay every summer. They have appealed to Congress, with little hope of suc cess, for higher wages. ' They deserve It, but they have llttlo or no political influence will they get It? How many congressmen would duplicate the feat of the Nantucket crew for ten times f50 but that, of course, is aside from the Issue. i . Although for twelve years the con stitution of New Tork bua forbidden pool-selling, book-making, and all oth er klnda of gambling, race-track gam bling has continued under a law which la a dead letter because the penalty Is frivolous. The governor, In bis recent message to the legislature, called upon that body to enforce by proper legisla tion the constitutional prohibition, All friends of the race-tracks denounce tbe proposition, but labor leaders have commended the governor for bis at tempt to prevent young men from wasting their earnings by betting on norso-races. i' British pluck seems something more I than a phrase when one reads of the diversions of the boys in a Bernardo Orphanage at the East End of London. All these lads are physically defect ive, yet they box. awlm, make ardent use of tho apparatus in their gymna sium, and this winter capped the cli max by organizing a football-team. Of course they play a modified form of the game, a boy who has no legs being permitted to handle the ball, and a cripple being allowed to "kick" with his crutch. Even so, however, they must needs display the same qualities Of nerve and courage that, outside the football-field, huve enabled our race to score many a goal. Almost every greut world fair that has been held in this or In other coun tries bus left some permanent legacy to the city in which It wns held a public building or other enduring mon ument ' The Jamestown Kxitosltlon Is not to bo an exception, although in this case it is the national government rather than the city or state which Is to benefit The great pier which was built by the army Is to be retained by tbe Navy Department. It has Ik'ch found that the pier will bold ojm hun dred thousand tons of coul, and be tween it and a neighboring pier a large fleet of collier can He fully loaded, ready for an instant start, and safe from storms. The pier will therefore be retalucd by the government ns a coal depot, in part payment for tha money advanced to the exposition ooni pany from the national treasury. Ten years ago It was discovered that two wealthy contractors and a United States urmy engineer had conspired to defraud the government of large urns of money In connection with the Improvement of the harbor of Savau nah. 1 Inn began one of the most celebrated cases In American criminal Jurisprudence. AH three men bad lu fluent lal friends. Tha two contract ur, John F. (jayuor and Benjamin D. Greene, had large wealth. All of them fought tho case with determination and even- device 0f hrcwdncss, every tvtunlcality, that thj ablest lawyers could devise. Tbe army engineer, Captala Oberlin M. Carter, after ex hausting every legnl resource, was con victed In Ib'JO, and seuteuced to heavy fine and fire years Imprison ment. Greene and Qsynor forfeited their ball and fled to Cnnuda. For years they were able to defy extradl tioti, nnd Ix'fore they could be brought buck to United States soil, their case was carried by appeal to the highest British court, the Judicial committee of the privy council. Tlw decision of that court wns In favor of the United Slates, nnd the men were surrendered m:d taken to Savannah, tried, convict ed, nnd sentenced to pay a fine of more thiin half n million dollars each, and to spend four years In prison. From this sentence, rendered a year ago last Apri.l, the two prisoners took an ap peal to the Supreme Court of the I'nlt- d States. In the form of a petition for a writ of certiorari. Their petition has been denied. The finding of tbe Soul hern District Court of Georgia is iiilirmed, and the prisoners are at last In prison, where they must serve their sentence. The celebrated rase la set tled. It was once remarked by n cyni cal New York politician that no man who has a million dollars can be con victed of n serious crime In tl.ls couu- try. The remark has often been quoted, and perhaps has been believed by many persons. The outcome of the case against wrcene una i.uynor win go u long way toward correcting this pernicious belief; for if ever t lie mat- tor had a fair test, this case has af forded It. It Is one of many cases In which men of great wealth, defended by the ablest lawyers, have been con victed and punished. The lesson of all of them Is that the arm of the law Is long nnd Its memory tenacious, and In the end nil meu nre equal before It. Ulce paper with which cigarette are made has nothing to do with rice, but Is made from the inner lining of the burk of the bread fruit tree. A French scientist has Invented a process for producing a substance called "molten wood." It Is made by submit ting wood to dry distillation and hl?h pressure whereby the escape of gases Is prevented. After cooling, the mass resembles coal, except that It Is with out organic structure. It Is bard and can be shaped and polished. It la said to bo a perfect nonconductor of elec tricity. tn France a so-called lamp has been Invented for the production of dark ra diations which, although themselves In visible, nre capable of Imparting a phos phorescent glow to certain objects brought within their Influence. A stat uette coated with lime sulphide, for In stance, when placed in total dnrkness near a "dark lamp" soon begins to shine, emerging Into sight as If It bad been created out of nothing. During the long drought of last spring,, in Mauritius, a singular spec tacle, amid the stretches of dying and desiccated plants, was presented by the while flowers of giant aloe stems, which Nprang up on the mountains and over tho waste lnnds with amazing speed. At the time of flowering, shafts as thick us a man's arm shot up from the heart of the plants, crew from 12 to IS Inches In twenty-four hours, and reached n height of 30 feet. A cluster of aloes before the flowers appear resembles a gigantic aspuragiis plant The vlslblo trails left by meteors ns they shoot across the sky have seen In vestigated by Prof. O. C. Trowbridge, who concludes that they are clouds of self-luminous gas combined with very minute particles of meteoric dust. As these trolls lire usually seen at height of fifty to sixty miles seldom or never above sixty-five or below forty-five ndlos It appears that their formutlon must depend upon encountering a certain de gree of atmospheric density or pressilro. The trulls are ften visible for ten to twenty minutes, and usually contain a volume of several cubic miles. Even the most solid mctala lose ame of their molecules by dispersion from the surface, but some curious pccultKtrl- tle are observed In the process of molecular ' dispersion. For Instates, when a piece of gold Is pressed against u piece of lead, some of the moccules of the former disperse Into the Ued The process Is, of course, extraqeely slow, and years are required before Its effects become evident But slow s it ts, the dispersion of tho molcculas of gold Into a mass of lead takes place fnster than Into either air or wter. The surfnee molecules of water tfla perse readily Into air, but refuse to en ter oil. The molecules of salt disperse quickly in water, but refuse to enter air, or most solids, In appreciable qijtu titles. V Lively hill. The old-time "darky"' hud a great lid' miration for high-sounding words aid phrases. He also had a dep rcsutct for a man who has the boldness to do Vise innovations of sccch. "I Jes' toll you, Miismii Itawson bn a pow'ful control oh language," said one oid plantation negro, thoughtfully, on his return from a neighborly call. 'Hect to learn fomct'lng ebery time I hear him talk, lie wns telling Major Williams 'bout his wife being tooken sick lifter dat dog bite she had, an' 'Mead o' saying in respects to her shak ing tit she had, dat she 'shook like she bad de nger,' same as most folks would way, what tlgur Is you a'poslug he used?" "I dunno," said the obi mnn'a w!f, sulkily, from the tronlug-board. "He said she 'shook like nu nsh-pnn.' Dat's his tlgur, an' I ain't gwlue for get It." Ibr Mrauitv l'.irl, "Isn't It strange that so few meu discover the secret of success lu life?"' "Vts, but It's stranger still that the ticcrct Is still a secret. Surely some of the men who discovered it must have told it to their wive." Philadelphia Press. We are all struggling forcibly for fame and money, and will not stop for anything except to abune those wbo have already succeeded In acqulrlog that which we are seeklog. NEXT EXPOSITION TO BE ILO li) EMID France and Its Colonies Aid in Mak- inz exhibition a Success if, Acres Are Use J. 2.000 ATHLETES TAKE- PAflT. Seventy-Six Building in Grounds and Lagoons Add to Beauty of the Surroundings. Millions of dollars are Itcing ppent In preparations for the Franco-British ex- motion, to be held In north Iuidon Loudon. Paris, the iirlfisli colonies and lie French dependencies, are aiding In he exhibition. Its object is twofold o cement the existing friendship be- ween Great Britain and France and t'i stand as a monument to t'.i.' peace in' rlii rope. The location of the fair Is at Shep herd's Bush, a suburb of North London. nit so situated that It Is e.isy of mc'ch i.v train, tube, or car from almost any xiliit of the great nictrepol is. It cov- rs an area of 1 i:i acres. Tin famous uternationnl exhibit ion of lv. o"cu- iled only twenty-one acres, and the re- ent exhibition In Glasgow, S.-otland. Jxty-nlne ncres. In all. there will be wenty huge palaces which will be ded- cated to science, art and Industry f the two nations- Britain ami France for on no account will any other poult ry be allowed to exhibit. Then there :ire fifty-six other fine buildings. The buildings are spacious and artis- 'Ic structures, of steel, iron, concrete Mid plaster. Wood Is conspicuous by Its absence, with the result that all the edifices will be fireproof. Tho giant of the palaces Is the ma chinery hall. It Is the largest building ever erected at any exhibition. It cov ers an area of six ncres, and consists of a main building running northeast ii ml southwest, Joined together at the south end by a building of similar con struction, the whole resembling in de sign the letter "u." One of t lie most advanced ;:tni"tuiv s the palin'p of woiiKiu's worl;. Antith T structure that Is Hairing vimi;ilctIon Is the Fine Arts palace. The hangin.v; space for pictures lu this edifice is two nnd a half times greater than that at the British Itoyul Academy. Stadium I.Ike Home'. A striking feature Is the great stadi um, built after the design of the fa mous Coliseum at Koine. Here will be held the, quadrennial Olympic games In which It Is hoped all the civilized countries of the world will1 meet. rpward, of 2,000 representative ath letes will take part In the varied eon- esls, and the curves of the running track have been so delicately calcu lated that a runner will be able to get round a corner tat full Hced. Besides ithletlc games of every description, great angling and fly-casting tourna ments will be held, and n week lu Octo ber will be devoted to games of Uugby and association football, lacrosse and hockey, while lit the stadium the Aero Club will conduct a number of flying machine contests and competitions. The attractions will 'be practically ununi ted. WHEEL OF YESTERDAY. fclattat Iclan of the C'rnaua Unrua llrtMird Its tlrellne and Fill". Ten years ngo even persons with fork legs rode bicycles, says the Louis ville Courier-Journal. Not only did tiol pollol buy "wheels" on the Inst'ill nient plan and tear down street nnd tioulevard nnd pike nnd path lu mad pursuit of pleasure, but society strad lied the "bike" and did feats that evl- Icnccd hitherto uususpiM'ted grit nnd brawn. The fat rode to reduce, the lean to build up, tbe old to get young and the young to get muscle. For one reason or another every one gripped (tie handlebar with both hands, pawed t the pedals with both feet and rode "t-lth all of his or her heart and soul nd strength. Not to ride was to miss something like heveii-eightl'.s of life and ive the other eighth lu solitude. Where is the wheel or yesterday? l.nrly 'he morning, when all men are abed ave then,, who are forced by hard taskmasters to be up:in their way to vork, the bicycle Is seen threading Its ay to mill end factory. Throughout ic day and niglit It may be Keen con eying the mcas-'iigcr Uy upon bis elsurely way. There Is an occasional 'oldllmer" who Kill I wheels for health Hid pleasure a lonely figure upon ilghway made noisy If not musical by he honk of the motor car, The sta Istlclans of tho eensua bureau tell uelaacholy tale of tbe decline nnd fell if the bicycle us u pleasure vehicle. la 11KKJ the bicycle industry paid iit " r- . "i,7wr. vMnvv m h' i . . y" hwtswits 9 t r ii nil saw win Tn, v". iAMIljlAljUyAMA- Qvkv vie'w of the zochtibitiok' 6itouNP.sv QXIJGDLOlAXaXaXX?- 110,000,000 tn wages ana alsrles, bought $17,000,000 worth of materials nnd employed 20,000 Americana. Since then the business has slumped until ulHiut ."0,(!(io mnchlnps a ypar are manufactured now, as against 1,200,000 In 1900. The 1,200.000 persons who bought bicycles In 1900 nre not :uotor Ing. Most of them are walking or rid ing upon street pars. From the stand point of the consumer nothing has fili al the gap caused by the death of the bicycle ernze. And yet bicyclists were never offered such opportunities for good sport ns they nre to-day. Where there wns one mile of good roadway In and about the pnrks and approaching the country roads ten years ago there nre ten to-day. Ten years ngo n god bicycle cost $100. A belter one inny be bought to-day for ?'!.-. Both bicycling nnd tbe ownership of a bicycle present simpler problems than were presented to the cyclist In the dnvs when "pverylody" rode. That Hip bicycle craze wns a craze Is Indisputable. Many persons rode to excess. Many of the physically unfit, so physicians assert, rode despite their unfitness. More time and money and nerve forep were wasted upon the s;,ort than, lu strict economy, should have Ix-en devot.d to it. But In the :imlu bb'yclii! was a wholesome, liealilifiil form of recreation wlipn U was expensive nnd arduous. It Is' Just as healthful since It hns become inex pensive and less wearing. Its revival would le beneficial not only to manu facturers and wage earners but nlso to countless men nnd women who do not rtet out Into the country been use they have neither horses nor motor cars nnd who need the fresh air nnd the ex ercise that bicycling once gave them. GREW TREE FOR HIS C0FFIU. llnnriln C'nrt-il for lr Farmer l'cd for the llnx lnrlalnic Caaket. The wlh of Ember Mason, a farmer, made fifty years ago and carefully fos tered through tlie long years following, thnt he be burled In n coffin nrade from a walnut tree which he had grown himself, is only to be. partly granted. Mason died last night at his home near T V . ...... I . T -. . . m. f . , ' Fifty years ngo Mason found a young walnut tree, particularly straight and pretty, while he was clearing some ground on his farm. He was a man of queer Ideas and he decided to let that tree grow for the particular nur- ioso of providing wood for his coflin. The tree grew in the center of a mead ow from which all the other trees had iceii cleared. Fearing, however, that It niglit be striii'k by lightning and de- troy ed, and It was already grown large nough for the purpose for which he in tended It, Mr. Mason about three years ngo had It cut down and sawed up Into lumber. The "butt cut," from which he took the lumber for his coflin, squared fourteen Inches. The boards were plnced in Mr. Mason's barn and were carefully kept. ' Last night Mason died, nfter an Ill ness thnt had lasted for several years, but to-morrow, by the decision of the family, these boards which he cut from the walnut tree will be used, not for the colIin. but for the box In which the asket will be inclosed. A queer man was Kmber Mason, who was ill at the time of his death, and be took great delight In caring for his coflin tree nnd later from the boards cut therefrom. 'I reckon I'll take these boards to town air have 'em made up pretty soon," he said to a visitor several years ago. "I'm glvin' out putty fast o' late an' I might need that coffin most any time." But "those boards" were never taken to town. The old man became weaker every day and never found the oppor tunity, lor fifty-six years, with the exception of four years In the Civil War, Mr. Mason lived In his borne, a quaint, old-styled structure on a bill overlooking the valley of the Blue Riv er, lie was born in Tennessee and used to remark often thnt he was a lllck ry Jackson" Democrat, a Rebel In the Civil War and bldes all that a hardshell Baptist." "An" they didn't lick us In tb' Civil War," he used to say. "We Jes got plum wo' out a klllln' them Northern ers. For the last several years of his life Mr. Mason gave up work In the fields, but he kept several hives of bees, by which he used to sit all day Matching over them. CHARACTER IN OLD SHOES. Cobbler Ntnillea lie I'rua and lrvrliia I nlque 'Olouj." "Ologlsta" have for years been tell lug people's dispositions by the bumps on their bends, the lilies on their bands, the contour of their faces, their hand writing and a dozen or more other methods. Now a new "ology" hns come Into the field, called "shoeology" ; nnd by it the cobbler to whom you take your shoes can tell whether yoa are "square' or "crooked," level-headed or rattle brained, shiftless or painstaking, tickle- niluded or stubUirn and to on ad luflnl turn, says the Columbus Dispatch. Columbus has cue "ahoeologlst' tli Is David Cassady, a cobbler who also owns a small shoe store. Just as a man's handwriting or his eyes or thi way he wears his clothing betray some characteristic part of his nature, so does the way he wears his shoes out also tell Its story. Why It is so, even to a certain ex tent, Mr. Cassady doesn't pretend to explain. The shape of the foot ha something to do with tbe wny the shoe wenrs out; tbe way a man walks has a great deal more. But why the honest ; man walks one way and the dishonest man walks another, or why the heels of chnngoable men are Inclined one way and the heels of stubborn men inclined the other, Is a question yet to be solved, j The man who wears bis solo off ! acrofs the toe will steal," snld 5Ir. Caa- sady. j "But Just think or the women s shoos that come lu here worn out that way?" said another. "Well, what of It? Won't women pilfer little things quicker than a man? They take little things where a man wouldn't take the chance, because he knows the value Isn't enough to risk the chance of being caught. Look at the shoplifters. "Now, a man who wears his shoes off evenly across the bottom Is a pretty level-headed sort of a chap. He doesn't go off half-cocked nnd when he says n thing you enn pretty generally bank on It." lie thought It ever before he snld It. "But when the shoe wenrs out on the outside of the sole look out for that man. He Isn't a man of his word. Don't extend any credit to him, because you're liable not to get paid. He's liable to be a pretty slippery customer In a deal." "JIow about these shoes?" nsked an other listener ns he held up his for in spection. "I can't tell anything about the soles, because you've just had them mended. But I can tell by the counter that you're changeable In your anture. You're not os steadfast as you should be. Pull your shoe off," and as It was handed to him he said : "Now If you'll MM look down on that shoe from the top, or from tho back, you'll see that the counter Is swung Inward. The man who breaks his counter down toward the Inside of his foot Is changeable lu Ills narure. It Isn't very marked in this shoe, so you're not so bdd." "What about the man who wears his heel off on the outside?" "Every one does thnt. It doesn't mean anything In 'shoeology. But there nre men who wear their shoes out squarely on the back of the heel come down so hard they break the counter dCjjvn. All I've seen have belonged to successful men." "Is there any difference between the wny fat men and slim men wear out their "hoes?" Not that I've noticed. They wear them about the same as other people." Waihlnilon to Have Prince. ustrla has come to tho rescue of the American capital, says the New York Press. In the new year assignments to the embassy are a prince, a count and a baron, all bachelors and belonging to the old aristocracy. Counts and barons are rather common, but the prince may cause a flutter. He is known In the ofllclal records as Vincent Alfred Gull laume Marie Gabriel, Prince of Wln- dlsch-Graetz and Baron de Waldsteln, and he will Inherit from his father oth er high-sounding titles. The prince be longs to a mediatized family of Aus tria, and, though he may marry royal ty, he Is not comiielled to do so. It may be he would like a wife such as his friend, Count Szechenyl, has won. Prince Vincent Is 23 years old and la described as one of the representative aristocrats of his generation. He fig- urea merely as an honorary attache on tho Austro-IIun'garlan embassy staff, and that will leave him free te follow his social bent. The family owns a big estate In the Syrian mountains, long famous for game and for historic hunt ing parties. It hns fine houses in Vi enna and Prague and a superb chateau in Tachau." llandaoma Doita Are (iood Ilofi, In the most characteristic of English dogs, with the Fngllsh bulldog as an unfortunate exception of a glaring sort, common sense principles In the canon of Judging are distinctly murked. In the case of hounds any good eye can pick out the best animals. This was curiously illustrated not long since in private when an artist taken over one of the bigger kennels of foxhounds picked out the prize and pedigree dogs one after the other. lie wetit purely by his own sense of what was strong and comely, ftf "strength and beauty met together, as Shelley says In a very different connection. Loudon Outlook. An Adutlaalou. Alice I rather like that young Thomiou. He has such a good, firm mouth and chin. Hazel Goodness! Has he been kissing you, too? Kansas City Independent Nothing hurts a woman more than ! to have a man tell her thnt she Is noth- I The man with a swelled bead usual Inf but a wr oi. ' fc wears a small bat 6UN-W0USHIP AMONG THE INLIAN3. INDIAN SUN-WOKSIlir. Amoug the remnant of the Blackfeet Indians, who once ranged over th territory of Montana and Wyoming, on the east side of the Rockies and be tween the Yellowstone nnd Missouri rivers, and who were one of the most ferocious tribes that the white race has encountered on the continent, the worship of the sun still survives. Among the Blackfeet, as among the more settled and civilized Incus, sun worship was the central part of their religoin. They believed themselves to be the children of the g..it luminary, and it was the custom of mothers to hold up their children to lie blessed by tho beams of the rising sun. Our illustration depleting such a scene Is by the "cowboy artist," Charles M. Russell, and Is reproduced from the Illustrated Loudon News, BLACK ART IN INDIA. Leading Imp la Small, bat Mran Oat of All Proportion. It may not be generally known thnt the black art flourishes to a certain extent In southern India, especially on the west coast, says a writer in the In Jlnu World. The avernge Malayalee Kernlnn Is superstitious to the very highest de gree; he considers himself to be always under the influence of some devil or other (the number of devils and demi gods on tho west coast Is legion), nnd every house In Kerala has a temple dedicated to the patron devil of the family. In this country the place of honor Is given by the superstitious Malayalee to the Imp Kuttlcbathen, who Is consider ed by him to be the most mischievous nnd frightful of demons. This Imp Is about three feet high, with hair all over the body and capable of any mischief. He Is the most drended of nil nnd man ifests his displeasure In n thousand ways. Prlmarfly he begins with throwing stones over the house of a man under his displeasure. If steps are not taken immediately after the preliminary stages of the manifestation of his dis- I pleasure, it Is said the consequences generally are very violent. It Is said that every sorcerer has a devil or demigod under his command to do his wishes and carry out his com mands. To get mastery over a devil or demigod, It Is said, one has to under go severe trials. Keeping vigils. Inces santly uttering the name of the devil or tho demigod he wishes to subdue, In 'crematories nnd lonely Jungles, is the primary duty of a man wbo aspires to become a sorcerer. On the forty-first day of the vigil the devil will present himself to the candidate who aspires to take the de gree of honors In sorcery and surrender himself to the latter. A sorcerer wlw has already one devil at Lis command generally aspires to exercise sovereign ty over another. This can only be enjoyed after a great trouble. It is snld that the demon whom the sorcerer wishes to captivate will generally nsk the candidate to fetch Inaccessible and Impossible things as a proof thnt he Is sincere and capu ble of doing anything. They say that snch candidate generally meets the de mand through the aid of the devil al ready under his command. la Self-Defenae. It Is fortunate that the various theo ries in regard to the training of the young do not make so very much differ ence, after all, and that the little In dividual grows up, somehow, Into the man or wonfan It was Intended to be. The Washington Star has a story, told by a well-known Instructor who holds to the old-fashioned Ideas. He says. I place little dependence upon moral suasion. Good healthy boys under moral suasion huve too easy a time of it. They get out of hand. There Is a friend of mine who is rearing a family of six boys with the help of moral suasion. The mild little chap argued the matter the other night at the club. "And do you believe," said I, "that moral suasion Is better thnu corporal punishment for big, lusty boys like yours?" "Yes," said my friend. "And do you mean to say you have never whipped your boys?" I nsked. "As true ns I sit here," answered my friend, earnestly, "I have never struck ono of my children except In self-di tense." The Mii'itii, K-tlrlt. "When you go ;!.. b.u;l,," aid . 'w human analyst, "do you feel your iieuit surge with hostility toward the foe, or anything like that?" "Yes," answered the military expert. "In time of war we feel even more re emitful toward the foe than we feel toward our rlvul associates In time of a Wa shin irton Sf ,i r TRAMP'S IDEA OF SQUARE MEAL Hobo C'nlla a IlluflT and Stows Away Conatderable Umb, John Mendel "panhandled" a man on Main street, Des Moines, and the man approached thought he smelled whisky on the tramp's breath, 'Sri he said : "I will buy you all the food you catt eat, but will give you no money." "Lead mo to it," replied the tramp, and the pair entered a near-by lunch room. "Cau I order nil I can eat?" nsked the tramp, skeptically. "Eat all you can alid I'll pay for it," was the reply. Then began a gastronomic feat. "Six chicken pies, half a dozen eggs on bread, three orders of beans, and a cup of coffee," said the tramp. In ten minutes the first order was gone and the tramp Inquired hungrily t "Cam I order more?" "Knt all you can," replied the host. "Four soft boiled eggs, three cups of custard, and a couple more chicken pies, and a glass of milk," called the tramp. "And some toast, well butter ed," he said as an afterthought It took a quarter of an hour more for the hungry man to dispose of this or der, and then came another. "Gimme a whole pumpkin pie and a lot of cheese, and some of those apple- fritters, ubout half a dozen will be enough." By the time he had finished with this the lunchroom was crowded with spec tators, rlien he stowed away a big plate of bananas and cream, two pieces of apple pie and another cup of coffee. "Is that all you want?" nsked the Samaritan, who -had begun to count his money. "Just one more piece of that pump kin pie," said the tramp. The bill amounted to $.",.8.". Dea Moines Capital. Still Trenaured. Ail army officer in charge of a native district In South Africa, says a writer In Answers, presented to the Kafir boy who acted as his particular servant a pair of strong, heavily nailed 'army boots. The Iki.v wns delighted with the gift, and at once sat down and put the boots on. They were the very first pair he had ever had in his life, nnd for' sev eral days afterward he strutted proud ly about the camp with them. But at the end of the week fee np jeared as usual with bare feet, ard tb boots tied round his neck. "Hello"' snld his master. "Why don't you wear your boots? Are they too small for you?" "Oh, no, sab," replied the Kafir, ''tho7 plenty big. Berry nice boots, sah, but no good for walking or run ning. Make tint fellah too much slow, sah. Keep boots' now for wear in bod." From the Chronli lea of Plain Hollow "Yep," said the native, "be wuz mighty fond o' makiu' Jokes. An' he'd take no end of trouble to work 'em up good an proper." He paused nnd puffed nt his corncob pijie. "Do you remeuilHT any joke In par ticular that he perpetrated?" inquired the visitor. "Why, yes, I do. One of th' best of 'em wus a sort o' quotation Bill bad seen somewheres, tin' In order to work it out he had to keep coiu'ny with n girl named Llbbie Tinglefoot. One day we wuz all slttiu' round Hi Basconi's stove when Tom Barlow spoke up nn says, Better look out fer tliet gal of yours. Bill. SlieN ponty flirtatious.' That wuz Bill's chance. 'Eternal vigilance is th' price of Libble T..' be says. Porty ilern good, wasn't It?" Houston Post. A t it jr of llnpny Moines. Dublavlu took a walk In tne ceme tery, where he noticed on the tomb stones, "Good Husband," "Good Wife," "Good Sou." "It Is evidently here that the happi est homes are found," he reflected. Nos Lolslrs. Some politicians huve lotig lingers and short memories. a