; 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.
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