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DAKOTA CITY, NEB.
H. REAM, ' rublleher.
Bnn Tsk&hlra snya talk rf war
arlth Japan Is inhuman. It certainty I
tolgbty tiresome,.
future i to Bare complete rMrw
of all the grievances which afflicted the
boy of the pnst.
It Is getting to be quite n while dn
Mark Twain baa loot money lit anything.
' Hera Is a Question that has oft m
fwthere tit ; la marriage always n str
eet when. It la not n failure?
; Ott 7,000 people committed wiii-ld'
W PruMl last j ear. Kviuen.l.- the
fmpelof hope Is unr-h nee'.eJ in t'.i ..
ountry.
A Congressman who has talkivl Iil.n-
Elf Into Congress quite mi tuiv. (('.'
at he lotut do a lot of talkliit: u . :
(eta there.
. Politics not tnly make Btrar-Jv
fellows, but It generally leal ..
Quarrel as to who sbouNI hive 'V a.l l
dle of the bed. V . '., i
i:
oee astronomers who
lmo
Ik?:!
discovering water on Mars mij'.it li.tr?
discovered a lot of It nearer bo:ne If
they bad looked this way. , . '
; Hetty Green says: "I'd rather lure
toy daughter marry a good, live ne.vs
baper man than any worthless duke In
ibe world." Is this 'her choice of two
frvlls? '
ipr Carnegie was right ohotil that golf
core. Perhaps, however, John 1. un
consciously gave himself a rebate from
tn ere force of habit. '
Meanwhile the watchman win)
v catches a burglar In the act and shoots
Hrlth fatal effect need not fear that a
Coroner's Jurv will hand him anything
worse than bouquets. i ' ' '
! Charles M, Schwab has shocked Ijou-
ob by wearing a top hat with a short
. . . . .I . i. i .
coat, dux we are assureu iuui ire mm
xtover armeared anywhere with tau
hoes and a clawhammer.'
All the ninln questions arising wit of
the general forestry problem are dls
citespd, or at least touched upon, In the
report of the Secretary of Agriculture
on the southern Appalachian and Whits
Mountain watersheds. The report was
rnn ? lor the purpose of Informing Con
gnwt us to tin advisability of purehsa
Irg iii.l setting aside the regions men
tion.'. 1 us national forest reserves.
Whatever '.'"ingress may do In the mat
ter. Hip report nud nil kindred discus
si. ai of forests have great value In edu
cating t!ie country. On tlie proper cars
of forest In pulillc and private hands
lepetulK primarily Hie supply of lumber
for nil I mure time. The Insistence of
exp i ts on this poii.i Iihi stimulated In
!''ivs;s in scientific cutting, the treat
niert -rtf lni:d which has lieen cut over,
thj protection of standing- wood and
ii'crtJi t'.'H IrCi ,More tksn
d liavj Laracd the value of t.ves
;.i : rev; -.'. ug (lie washing awny of val
nnllo soil and the consequent clogging
f i.'e;i:rscs. Without trees tha
PnTt'13 v.car the Innd down to the bone;
the nicking snows run unchecked In
the spring ninl cause destructive
So.'..s tt:cnuis which furnish p wer to
nil'.Is ennnot have a regular flow, and
rcs-.'rvoirs for pttbllc wat?r supply can
r.it be maintained. Moreover, entomol
ogists toil us (lint a rapid diminution
of forest trees In any region destroys
the hiilance between tree life and the
Insect life that preys upon It, and so
iucrccKc the burden on fruit and
shade trees. The problem thus affects
not only tlii lumberman and the indus
tries that depend on wood, but the
whole community. Nature has estab
lished a relation between the forests of
the North and the water that flows by
New Orleans. Knowledge of this rela
tion Is a bond between the states be
yond 1 1n power of politics to make or
break. The public Is becoming educated
In the science of forestry and In the
grcnter sclpuce of mutual dependence
and responsibility.
BAILOR'S AWFUL PLIGHT.
A Chicago woman has Just recovered
ber hearing after having been deaf for
eeirty years. Her neighbors can now
ork overtime telling her of the gossip
tie missed during all that time.
! Qrantland Rice sings: , "If ever I
fehould write a book, I'd make my hero-
Ine a- cook." Houston Tost, orant-
land will of necessity have a pollee-
nn for a hero If they are to marry In
Che last chapter.
Mr. Edison says his success Is due to
3 per cent genius and 9S per
-eat hard work. And yet some
den who think they are endowed with
per cent genius ana ao z per code
ird work wonder why they get only
day..
iA. New York paper asserts that Mrs.
(Betty wGreen Is known In Iloboken,
Vhere she occupies an expensive $10 n
knonth apartment, as "Mlas Warring
ton." It Is one of Mrs. Hetty's un
doubted rlgfats to live and travel In
cognito If afoe chooses and probably
It doesn't cost an extra cent to do It.
C'AUKhl lu l aliln of Slaklns; Veel,
He linn Terrible Experience.
Imprisoned In the cabin of a sinking
vessel, with the water rapidly rising
about him, Harry Wllley of London,
mate of the Hull steam trawler Quail,
escaped death recently by a remarka
ble Intervention of the fates. Ilia ex
perience would have whitened the hair
and unbalanced the mind of n less
hnrdy man. Like 11 rat In a submerged
trap he swam about until, stnndlug on
tiptoe on a table, he was able to ralne
his nose and mouth above the water
Into the few Inches of breathing space
that still remained In the skylight.
Finally after an hour of effort, when
he was about tj abandon the tight and
resign himself to the Inevitable, the
woter iK'gnn receding with the ebbing
tldef and lu a short time he was able
to force the -cabin door and reach the
upper deck. The boat had sunk In shal
low water.
The Quail was run down In t lie
Huiuber by the Wilson liner Dynamo,
while Wllley and the rest of the crew
were nsloep In the cabin. With the ex
ception of the mate, tho meu were obl
to escape, and were takeu off later by
the boats of the Dynamo. Wllley awoke,
however, to find the water rushing Into
tho cabin through the windows. He
Jumped out of bis bunk and made for
the door as fast as he could, but tho
water, whbdi nlrondy filled the cabin
up' to WlUey's waist, held it tight. He
struggled fiercely, desperately, to pull
it open, but In vain. The rnpldly rising
water drove hlin from It, It was now
about bis shoulders, and groping In tlm
.tbi svausH xjuroFUAam
rw-Tntr4 ( Wrl"a Cerre-
CrVr14 Is II.
Two-tbtrds of all tn letters which
pass through the postofllces of the
world are written by and sent to peo
ple who speak English. Tbert srs
substantially 500,000,000 persons speak
ing colloquially on or another of tht
tsn or twslva chief languages, and of
thesa about 88 per cent, or 183,000,0()0
psraona, speak English. Abont 00,000,
000 spesk Hnssian, 73,000,000 Germsn.
50.000.000 French, 4S.000.000 Spanish.
M.000,000 Italian, and 12,000,000 Por
tuguese; a ad the balaara Hungarian.
Dutch, riemlah, Danish, Polish and
Norwegian.
Thus, whlls only SDS-qnartsr ef
those who amploy the facilities of the
postal departments of rivlllMd govern
ments apeak English as thslr native
tongas, two-lairds of thoss who eorre
pend do so In the English lssguste.
This situation arises from the fact that
ti largs a share of the commercial
business 0 tjl? world. Is d'ifls In Eu
gllsK, kffi imong (hoee who do
speak English ss their natlre tongue.
There are, for Instance, mors than 20,
000 postofflces la India, the business ot
which In letters and papers sggregatt
more than 800,000,000 parcels a year,
tni (he business of these o&lces Is done
chiefly In English, though of India's
totsl population, which Is pearly 800,
900,000, fewer than 800,000 persons
either speak or understand English.
Though 90,000,000 speak Russian and
understand It, the business of the Rus
sian postofflce department Is relatively
small, for the number ef letters sent
throughout the Oar's empire amounts
to less than one-tenth the number
mailed In Great Britain alone, though
the population of Great Britain la con-
stderabl less than one-half of the pop
ulation of Russia In Europe.
Residents In many parta of New
England were awakened one extremely
cold night early In February by loud
explosions and alight tremblings of the
earth. They thought there hnd been
an earthquake, and were sure of It
'svlien they found cracks In the ground (rk he finally, with his feet, located
en Inch or two wide and from forty to trtie table under the skylight. Mount-
It hundred feet long. But when geolo- ing it, he attempted to force the sky
glars were consulted, they aald that the Might his lust hoiie. It stuck, even
cracks, as well os the explosions, were moro mvurely than tho door,
Caused by the frost, and were a repetl- -piie water rose rnpldly about tho I111
tlon In frozen earth of the rumblings
and shaking that accompany the freez
ing ot a pond In very cold weather.
It la no disparagement of the Quctin
Of Portugal, a woman of sterling quali
ties as the wearer of a crown, to sug
gest that her fearlessness and spirit of
eelf-eacrlfloe In the face of peril have
almost Innumerable parallels In the
Unwritten annals of the humble and
obscure. The mother of royal station
Jvho would shield her son from the rifle
of the assassin commands, very prop
erly, the admiration of meu and women
In all wallrs of life. The mother who
fendures grindiDg poverty In order that
She may give her children the advan
tage of education, who nurses them
through the most dangerous forms of
disease, putting her own life In Jeop
ardy thereby, Is equally worthy of re
verence and praise. It (a gratifying to
know that tho world abounds In women
of this type. If this were not the case,
our civilization would rest upon an un
stable foundation.
Boyhood hnd dimly outlined but
strong Impressions when It was didac
tically potlllod thnt John (Julncy Ad
ams and other classic worthies broke
the river's Ice to tuke the morning bath
In winter. The Iwy felt that .there was
somewhere a fallacy in the "New En
gland tendency to esteem a thing
blessed because It was painful. The
boy's Impression Is at last vindicated
by science, for a hygleulst says that
there la lu jumping from bed to liath a
risk of suddenly shocking the blood
eupply into dangerous plncex. Other
tiygteuists conclude tluit pie ami sau
sage are suerlor to beef, chicken and
baked beans. Proteld foods are likely
to pile up iiftroen In the system
while hot cakes', maple sirup, fat pork
and pie ure easily eliminated, anl,
therefore, harmonious with what Pro
fessor Mctciinikorr cans ortiioiiios k.
Too much school causes eye strain, and
eye strain cuuhcs dysppsln, nervous
Bess and Inability tu do work of a bli,-li
class. Too much muscular excriiun ex
hausts a eys;e;ii which him wen!; wpois
or low fundi c.:al euerjry. Kiieneo
whisiiers that cnou'li libvrty for 11 hos
ts n no'vesnry c!n;c;!i ills'lpLnc:
tbut growth Is the main -ibj ':-t lu raw
ing him, what h; knows :f( bow be t:
tiaves bdng usrcu!. but of le:'.s cii:,--ueace.
It ref.r. ttat lly boy 1,; the
prisoned man; to his knees, to his hips.
to his shoulders, and finally he wus
compelled to stand on tiptoe to utilize
the small space that still remained In
the skvlieht. .Two Inches more of
water and It would be all over.
Suddenly ho heard blows struck on
the top of tho skylight, and ho rightly
surmised that his shipmates were try
Ing to forco the top lu the hope that
he was still alive. It stoutly resisted
their assault, however, aud they finally
abandoned the effort, thinking that the
water Insldo was so high as to pre
clude the poimllillly of any one sill liv
lug.
Worn out by his efforts and unnerv
ed by the sounds of tho retreating foot
steps of his companions, Wllley slipped
from the table and went under. With
a great effort, however, he succeeded
In holding to a ledge and pulling his
heud above water In tho skylight again.
But the hold was a precarious and dlttl-
cult.one, and ho knew that be could
not last long. Just as he was about to
give up hope he noticed that tho water
was slowly receding. At first he did
not beileve bis senses, but as ho watch
ed the Kliiftlng mark of tho water on
the side of the skylight his tlrst Im
proMslmi was contlriuisl. After a time,
which to the exhausted man seemed al
most an eternity, be was able to uban
don liis uneasy perch and try the door
again. It yielded to his efforts, and as
it swung open the rush of water cor-
rled him off his feet aud lauded 111 lu In
safety on the deck. He lay there ex
hausted until the crew of the Dynamo
saw him aud came to his rescue.
Legal Information
The United States Circuit Court of
the Southern District of New Tork, In
Thomson v. Union Caatle Mall 8. C.
Co., 149 Federal Reporter, 033, takes
the position that the Sherman Anti
Trust Law does not spply to combina
tions by shipowners navigating between
jiorts of the United States and thoss of
foreign countries, and does not prevent
the giving of rebates by such shipown
ers. In McCulIough v. MeQrady, 102 New
Tork Supplement, G38, decided by the
New York Supreme Court, the majority
of the court held that a claim for wine,
food, cigars, liquors, etc., used In the
celebration ot a wake was a proper
charge against decedent's estate. The
majority depended on the case of Mo
Cue v. Garvey, 14 Hun, 002, In which It
was considered the rule had been rec
ognized, but the dissenting opinion In
sisted that the cited cose was not in
point, and repudiated the claim as ille
gal. , f
A husband, who has been decreed to
pay an ajlowance at stated times for
his wife's support, cannot escape Im
prisonment for failing to comply with
the decree by taking the poor debtor s
oath, according to the decision of the
Rhode Island Surf erne Court, In Mow-
ry v. Bliss, C5 Atlantic Reporter, Old.
Tho court holds that where a defend
ant in a divorce proceeding Is Incarcer
ated for'fnllure to satisfy an execution
for alimony and suit money he Is not
simply Imprisoned for debt, but also for
contempt for falling to comply with
the court's decree. .
The Missouri Court of Appeals. In
Richards v. Ileger, 00 Southwestern Re
porter, 802. draws a rather fine distinc
tion with reference to, the rights of an
officer to levy on money In the hands
or about tho person of a debtor. Ap
proving the doctrine of Green v. Pol- 1
mer, 15 Cal. 441, 70 Am. Dec. 402, thnt
money lu the hands of a debtor may lie
levied on, the court says that the seiz
ure of property attached to the person
of a defendant would be trespass
against his person, as It would tend to
provoke n breach of the peace, but 1 1
seize his property found In . his posses
sion not iiertalning to his wearing ap
parel, nor worn or carried on his per
son for use, nor as an uruameat, would
not be on Indignity against his person,
nor under ordinary circumstances u
trespass To seize money In the debtor's
hands will no mors likely provoke a
breach of the peace and possesses no
more of the elements of a trespass than
an entry by the officer on the premises
of defendant In the execution and
aelzure there, lu his presence, of his
personal effects against his will ami
over his protest.
T&EOT0U8 LOVE-MAKIH Q.
AmansT PeiU( There Ave
Lively FlBhta for Mates.
It Is probable that penguins pair foi
Ufa, although nothing definite Is known
on tha subject When mates are choa
rn the process Is as Interesting as It la
ttrlklng. As la the case with so many
creatures, the males fight with each
other for the females might being
right In the penguin code. Tha birds
bava regular fighting places, and on
anch battle grouud was found under
an overhanging ledge. The results of
Innumerable encounters were present
In the shape of great quantities of loosa
feathers surrounding the little fighting
ring, which Itself was clear of all do-,
brls. Although the beak of a penguin
Is so formidable 'a weapon when , used
on thin-skinned enemies, yet their own
skin aad blubber are so resistant that
they caa Inflict no Injury by this means
The customary mode of fighting Is
really a kind of boxing, or "flipper
Ing," 1) might be called. The two com
bat a a to proceed to the fighting place
and thea walk cautiously about each
other, Jockeying for on opening and
ready to take Instant advantage of a
false step or move on the part of the
opionent. All, however, la solemn and
decorous, consistent with the rest of the
life of these strange little beings.
When at last each secures a good
grip on the neck or body of the oppo
nent, the real fighting begins. As nlao-
tenths of the life of penguins Is spent
en the open sea, where they pursue and
capturs fish, swimming with great
swiftness by strokes of the flippsr-llks
wings. It can well be Imagined that tha
strength of their wings Is very great
and when the two fighters begin to
belabor aach other with rapidly vibrat
ing flipper strokes, each resounding
whack must make a considerable Im
pression even on the protecting cost of
blubber fat. No one has ever recorded
a finish of such an encounter, but It la
not probable that they result fatally.
The weaker of the two must soon suc
cumb under such severe punishment
and yield the field and the fair pen
guin mate to his stronger rival. The
strength of the wing strokes can be
tested by allowing a penguin to taka
hold of one'a coat sleeve, or, better, the
back of the hnnd. The. third or fourth
stroke will draw blood and one Is soon
fully satisfied as to the penguin's abil
ity in this respect. The tough skin
and the loose, rolling blubber beneath,
besides breaking a fall and protecting
the bird from the icy waters in which
It lives, sometimes subserves another
most Important purpose.
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PUBLIC OPINION a:jd PP.23S.
By Charles J. Bonaparte.
1 he press makes each community
anmiintod with Its neighbor. And,
as wc know oilier men better, we
recosnLe t'.ie more thoroughly and
led.iy tlulr llluraes to ourselves,
nndj i. .1. :-:i.'.y;?l the Universal
Vi-.i".!!:', u:.aei1ylng moral laws
a::::ddt ail diversities of national or
local custom or prejudice, it Is the
exercise of this common moral stand
ard which qualifies the press for Its
higUcst i.inl most useful function.
After nil, tiie most effective Instru
ment of coercion Mse?.a,d by society sgainst Its dHU
gerous members Is the influence of public opinion.
The first duty of -the press is to hold up before the
people a faithful mirror; If It display distorted pictures
It fatally betrays Its trut. No worthy end v.as ever
accomplished through deception, whether of ourselres or
Others. If we are threatened by overshndowlng dangers,
to escspe them we must first see them, and see them as
they are. Americans can say with confidence: "We will
know the truth and the truth s-H make us free."
C. J. BOKArABTE.
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SHOULD. A WOMAN GENIUS FALL IN LOVE?
By Marguerite O. Blgelow.
Nowadays, when many of our brightest and
best women are refusing to marry, evidently
preferring artistic and professional work, there
Is a great hue and cry raised that education
has made women less loving, that to be bril
liant and widely useful to society Is to be un
womanly, and that to love art makes It Im
possible to love a man.
No woman of real genlua and power ever
rafuaed love for art, and no man ever did. The men of
gsolue bava been men of love, and will lie alwaya. It Is
equally true of women.' Ouly the false lights guide us
Into barren and dark depths of lovelessness. The ques
tion of a choice betweeu them should never have beeu
raised either for men or for women, and never would
bava been aav for the mandates of tradition, and these
mandates wero of course founded upon an economic "'ne
cessity and Bodal pressure that no longer exists. There
will never be a woman of lofty genius who Is not also a
woman of lofty love, and when she comes who Is able to
spesk tho great and as yet unspoken woman word to
all mankind, she will be the truest woman of us all.
And when the woman spirit and the woman love are met
with the man spirit aad the man love. In the persons of
one man and one woman, we shall bavs songs and pic
tures, poems aud creatlcsa manifesting the huge genius
of the universe, publishing It In all perfection for the
giod of all.
SHOULD WOMAN 8UE TOR BREACH OF PROMISE I
By R. E. Noble.
' What art the anotivea tbat asually Inspire
tha girl Jilted la lava te seek asnsolatlon for
her dhaapttoiatsd fosliaga la a breach of prora
tes action T Brtoty, tkey range themselves
within tha threefold division of pecuniary
greed, revenge and vanity. The main object
which the law baa In view la permitting tbla
class of ess is d doubt to sbrain pecuniary
compensation for the personal affront offered
by a premiss which has not beta redeemed.
In a breach of promise action the law is but vindi
cating Its right of enforcing a contract; aad a privilege
afforded throughout the world of commerce In every'
other form of contract ought not to fall la the matter of
love. This is to be prosaic on a matter of sentiment,
biljt the law Is adamantine and no respecter of persona
or feelings.
Some shrewd observera have declared that the fact
that plaintiffs almost always seem to belong to the middle
class society Is proof conclusive that there Is a great loss
of dignity In bringing such an action.
It is well for human nature that natural pride comes
to the rescue In heartaches. On the whole, It Is probable
that with advance In general refinement and the spread
of education these actions will become fewer in number.
TOO MANY COLLEGE PROFESSORS.
By Prof. Hugo Muosterberg ot Harvard.
The American student has, to an extraordi
nary degree, all the. elements of mental com
position necessary to moat scholarly achieve
ments. He bas the brightness, the steadiness,
the keenness, the patleuce, the energy, which,
taken together, would make the most magnifi
cent contribution to the scholarship of the
world. One of the greateat evils from which
our American universltlea suffer is too great
an abundance of men.
As soon as an Institution gets some money the first
thought Is to add more men to the faculty to outdo some
neighboring institution. Every one of our American uni
versities would be nearer to the ldenl if It would kill
two-thirds of its Instructors and professors.
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KILLED BY A "BARE." I
ooeeoooeeeeefre-oe"
liiluslrutetl with III Work.
Not long ago l naked a young man
Imw lie was getting along, nud he Bald,
"I r.in Just Intoxicated with work. I
cannot get enough of it. I Just ache
every morning to get to my task, and
I leave it with tho same regret at
, tit that a liorii artist lays down his
nnih'.i when the twilight cuts htm off."
There Is 110 need of unxlety about the
future of a young man who faces his
work in this spirit.
Iletttlit uuil Urtneeu.
"la lie well to do-?"
"Not c.MMly. ills affairs are what
I fli'iuld (lcs'-rlbe as being at the lone
won :( He It neither rich enough
to U ..!g'it after nor poor enough Ui
Iuvj tj i.Uist:e." Washington Star.
Inventions r Belentlata.
It Is generally admitted that the De
partment of Agriculture haa been
brought by Secretary Ulson to a very
high degree of efficiency. One proof of
this is the remarkable fact that scien
tists in the department during the
rear 1000-7 Invented apparatus and
processes which will be worth millions
of dollars to the Auierlcnu people.
These discoveries were free gifts to the
country, aud ure likely to be more
than an offset to the $10,000,000 which
It cost to run the department during
the past flscul year. Among the new
Inventions by the Secretary's suliordl
nates was an Ink produced by Marlon
lHrsett, chief of the blocheuilc divis
ion of the bureau of animal iudustry
suitable for stamping carcasses that
pass the government meut Inspection
and which will not stain, spread, or
penetrate the meat. This alone will
save the government during the cur
rent year nearly. 8400,000, and larger
anuual sums as the quantity of inspect
ed meat Increases. Another lmiortnn
Invention Is credited to John I). Slum
alum, expert lu charge of grain stand
ardlzatlon. This Is a great tester
which enables producers of wheat to
test their product mid find out w belli
er it is No. 1, No. 2, or No. 3. It is ex
pected thnt the tester will bo worth
millions of dollars to the fanners o:
tho West, the quality of whose when
has heretofore been largely a mere inut
ter of the opinion of the buyers.
Of the 41,000,000 persons of Japan,
only 441 have fortunes of $250,000 or
over.
The Brltlsh-bullt vessel is said to
have a third longer life than the Amerl
can.
A new agricultural building is to be
erected for the University of Maine,
at a cost of about $35,000.
It is estimated that South America
furnishes about 63 per cent of tha
world's supply of India rubber.
A foggy day In London means that
the residents ore caxnpelledto run up
a gas bill of from $50,000 to $75,000.
More than 130,000 pounds of tallow
sre used every year in the manufac
ture of candles in the United States.
The London street merchants are put
out of business on a foggy day, and
their lost business amounts to $15,000.
Tha carcass of the average horse
yields 309 pounds of meat, as showu
by the observation of the French horse
butcher.
New York City has 113 public parks,
varying In size from a few square
yards in the angle at the crossing of
streets, up to Pelhum Bay Park, con
taining l,"5d acres.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the opening of the port of Rio de Ja
neiro, Brazil, to'lnternatlonal commerce
la to be celebrated next year by a na
tional exhibition of industrial, pastoral
and art products, from June 15 ta
Sept. 1. .
"Christmas day Is only three hours
long In the Finnish town of Tornea,"
said a traveler. "I spent last Chrtat-
mas there. At sunrise I got up to see
my presents and to read my Christmas
mail, and night had fallen before I got
through breakfast."
That earthworms as well as squirrels
may aid tne roresier is me novei sug
gestion of an American naturalist. Dry
maple seeds are drawn Into worm bur
rows, where they sprout, and It Is be
lieved that some of them must survive
In favorably moist seasons.
If you want an office, quuliilcuUon
Is the last thing te think of.
Orthography plays a larger part In
the universe of literature tha:i Is per
haps admitted. A child's artless at
tempts at spelling are refreshing and
enjoyable to the mature mind. Jaded
with monotonous accuracy. A little
variation from the accepted mode Is
refreshing. Bad spelling which is
studied aud deliberate is, however, sel
dom amusing because It Is so obviously
the result of an effort ; but such sell
ing as distinguishes the journal of Ja
cob Fowler, written In 1821, Is ko spon
taneous and nntural that it provokes a
smile even when usl to describe a
tragedy.
While we ware Ticking grapes a
Gun Was fyered off and the Cry of a
White Bare Was rosed. We Ware all
around In an Instant and Knch man
Run his own Cors to look for the des
peret anemal.
The Bare lay Close until they Ware
In a few feet of It When It Sprung up
and Caught Lewis and Pulled Him
down. In nn Instant A large dog
which belongs to the Party atacted
the Bare with such fury that it left
the man. he got up and Run a few
steps but Was overtaken by the Bare.
I was my Self down the Crick and
Heard the dredfull Screems of the
man. nolng the distance ns so grate
I Cold not get there In time to Save the
man It is Easier to F.mnglne my feel
lings than dlscrlbe them But before I
got to the place of action the Bare
Was klled.
It appeers the mans head Was In the
Bares mouth at leust twice and When
the monster give the Crush that Was
to mash the mans head it being too
large for the Spnn of His moutlu the
head Sllped out only the ttvth 'l'ore
the Skin to the bone.
The Wounds Ware Sewed up as well
as Cold be done llavoing no ssurgou.
the man still held his under Standing
but Said I am kiled I lK'iird my Skul
Brake, he spoke . Cheat-fully on the
Subject, he lived till the third day.
after doing all We Cold lor the man
We turned our atentlon to the Bare
and found Mini a large fatt aucnlal.
as well us by day, before they will
sign n lease ; consequently I have to
keep the gas going in all my vacant
flats. Such fastidiousness on the part
of my tenants plays right into the
hands of the gas company. No wonder
I suspect that they may be working
n partnership game."
SPEAKS FORTY LANGUAGES.
it
Hot Shot from n I'renrner.
One of the most smressful revival
ists In the middle west Is Rev. Billy
Sunday, the ex-ball pluyer. In tha
course of one of his recent "sermons"
he said :
"I understand that a young woman
Is going about this town into your
homes and business houses peddling
that low-down, infamous, malicious,
premeditated, damnable, dirty, black
hearted lie that at a town or soma
town at which I was holding a meet
ing I noticed two young ladles In the
audience who were wearing red hats,
and that 1 shouted that If there was a
cowboy in the audience I would like
to have him lusso those two red heif
ers. If I ever said such a thing I de
served to be tarred and feathered.
will willingly give $1,000 to any man
or woman who can prove that I ever
did such a tiling as that. It Is a damn
nblo lie a lie, a lie! If that's not
plain, come to ine. 1 dou't very often
pay any attention to stories about me,
but when any one tries to blacken my
character I'll fight with every drop
of blood In my body and won't allow
eny hatchet faced, frlzzle-halrcd hussy
to ruin my reputation. I don't want
to carry malice, but I will stand up
for my good name. If you see her to
morrow give her my love."
We never can make the expression
"vice ver&a" fit lu Jut right
Mlnm Culton Would Have B
1 at Tower of Babel.
Miss Elizabeth S. Colton of East
hamptou, Mass., has returned to this
country after a year's absence in India.
She has achieved the honot of being
known as the ohaniplon linguist of the
world.
Miss Colton's father, the late Rev.
A. M. Colton, was pastor of the First
Congregational church at Easthampton
for more than twenty-five years. When
a young woman Miss Colton went
abroad to study vocal music and later
was teacher of this branch at the
Fannington (Conn.) seminary for girls.
During this time she first became In
terested In oriental languages through
contact with several pupils from the
far East. This interest soon became
a passion, and she has since devoted
most of her time to the acquisition of
the different tongues. She has been
for many years a fluent user of the ro
ils, but on the following day we were
roust-d at 4 a. m. and driven to work.
It was raining fast, and for a whole
verst our way lay across submerged
laud. Every day for a fortnight we
had to cross this same flooded ground,
stripped to the skin, and carrying our
shovels on our shoulders. This was
our life of torment. Up every morn
ing at 4, working until 5 or 6 In the
evening, and returning then, utterly
worn out, for roll cull, prayers and
sleep.
"Sleep! In ragged and batten d
tents, open to the rnln and dirty aud
damp within. No mattresses, only sack
to lie 011. Sometimes stuffed with,
grass. We are already bitterly colJ.
here in August and in these same tenbe
we must live until the end of Novem
ber. The spot where we are
working Is between fourteen and six
teen versts from the camp. We have
thus to walk some thirty versts dally,
besides performing our hnrd task.
How hard that task is may be gath
ered when it Is said that ten men are
equired each day to excavate a length
of some 200 feet and a depth and
width of about a yard. One has to
work knee deep lu mire, and after
about three weeks rheumatism sets In
and the legs of the workers begin to
swell."
SEEING ROOMS BY GA3LI2JT"
MISS EI.1ZAUETH S. COl.TO.
Caatldlou IletiolreuieiitK of I'enulr
Who Hent Kpenlve A inri meu I .
"There is no end to the troubles of
the modern landlord," said the man
with pronounced wrinkles, to a New
York Press num. "What v illi the gas
comuanv and prosiiectlve ten.:i ts. his
days and nights are lllled wit'.: woe. I
believe those two forren of evil the
gas company aud the p is-oU' ten.wii
are leagued against me. Acyh-iw.
the situation is peculiar. On;- v.. 1
woman came to look at one "I iu,v u.oi
expensive apartments.
"The rooms seem very nice by d-i,v
light,' she said, 'but I c.ni'd i't ilunu
of taking the place until I lin.l 1. i:ov
It looks at night. I'll co::ie !: this
evening und see the decora. lo:i4 by
gaslight.'
''But the gas isn't turn.M! I c
plained. 'I'll bring In a lew ;aui;s
Won't that do Just as will?-
"'Not ut all.' said my poss;i ', tea
ant. 'There Is 110 comparison beiwe.-u
tha two kinds of light. I cutci-tnin a
great deal und 1 couldn't possibly Mm
a lease for a place th.-.t il.).-s:i't look
well when illuminated. IVuld:; "ii
get the gas turned on before uiglit?"
"I explained lmt It i;s an r.i.U.'ard
of thing to keep tin? gas meter at work
In au unoivur-Sed flat, but rather than
lose such a good tenant as that woman
promised to be- I moved heaven aud
earth and the gas cpiupniiy and g-t
the llluii:inatlt!; power turned on.
Since thtn I l.nve ,(: ted tli.it must
people who lv nt expensive iipartu.i uts
Insist upon seeing the ruou s by night,
malice languages, such as Italian, Span
Ish end French.
Her elementary training In the east
crn laicu.ire-i was obtained in Yale
college and she was looked upon as a
prodigy there. During her studies at
Yale slip became iicipiHtnted with Prof,
Frank Iv. Sanders, dean of the theolog
ical seminary, wIkj had siH'ut three
ve-ars lu Iudla, and while in Berlin
studying Miss Colton was Invited to
loin him In a trip to India to engage
in t.ie study of Sanscrit and other east
crn InngunKes, They have been In the
ni;uniains on the borderland of .VfxJiail-
iMan. where the first articulate speech
is Ki'.;iiise:l t,i have originated.
Miss I'ohon speaks forty languages
'.lU'iilly, iuclmlliii the most ditli.-ult in
!he world to learn, such as Chinese,
I'i'll. Avcstaii. Sanscrit, Hebrew, Syrl
in. Assyrian, Arabic and Persian. No
t linguist lias ever lieen known to
;uik uinre than thirty-three tongues.
e::il-3'"wcek i?x sibesly.
A Memory of a I.oat Delight.
A firepluce anyone may have, and
to me the wonder is that our civiliza
tion has abolished the very soul from
our Northern homes. Fire Is no loneer
the Joy of the household, but the slave,
Imprisoned in the cellar. Ah, but It
was delicious when the old-fashioned
family sat together in the great kltchpn '
around the huge fireplace. All the
evening we told stories, ate doughnuts,
drank cidei, all the time paring apples
and hanging the long festoons of quar
ters from tide beams. But the dear
little mother, she it was who told the
best stork hlle she was knitting muf
flers and eieks or mending our well-
worn oloUiifc'. There were no parlors
at all U those days, aud an for
thrummel pianos, we had not yet heard
f them. At 9 o'clock, honest and
drowsy, u knelt and thanked God for
life and love and home. Our bunks
und b4 and trundle beds were all
in oloe jyoxluiity, and from every one
of them we could see the flames still
JninplLj up the cblinney while the big
flrelog tra lowly eaten through. There
was not cue millionaire In all the world.
and. Indeed, we were not worried over
tho a flair. E. V. Powell, In Outing
Magazine. ,
v,nu- IrieH l What They Are ( urn-
liellcil tit lit.
A letter dated "August. I'.Ki", on tiie
Amir l;l-!i road." once more directs at
eation to the sufferings of the thou
. ri'-- ' lies banished to Siberia.
At t'n oa.'sct the writer explains that
he formed one of a party of PJH exiles,
twenty-three of them being state or ikh
litical offenders, detailed to work on
III;' c.nstriictloli of the Kolcssnaya
(lib-rally, wheel road), and sent thith
er under Cii!s.ick escort from the penal
settlement ut ii'kutsk. says the ltuss.
AtUT describing the Journey of the
party to l;uh!;ovo, a Cossack settle
ment 011 the A'.ulr, he says:
"One tingle day's rest wua ullowed
lie Met Shortr.
Nicknames are sometimes docept.lva
things, and they are oftentimes ex
tremely funnily. I was in a small town
not niauy miles south of Boston, and,
asking for a certnin piece of informa
tion, I was Informed by several that
Shorty" could give it to me, and he
seemed 10 be the only inun who could.
Not knowing Just who "Shorty" was,
I made further Inquiries, and was told
that he could be found lu the store
Just aeross the tKjiiare.
Must auk for Shorty,"' I was toid.
"Anyone will show hiin to you."
I went over to the store as directed
and looked vainly about for some (,no .
who 'might answer tiie name. Only one
man wa present, and he was almost a
seven-footer. After looking about a
moment I started to leave.
Iiokin' for some one, stranger?" he
observed.
"Yes, lu looking for 'Shorty,' I
told him.
A broad grin overspread bin face.
"Guess you've got him," ho mur
mured. "I'm your man." Boston
Traveler.
I'eople grow so suspicious with years
that If a man bears that u brother he
has not seen in twenty years Is coming
to hi him, he says, "Now whut doee be
wantT"