Nebraska Newspapers

    Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NEB.
IOHN H. REAM, Publisher.
He J' f Is at court i1n srr who never
tried to Him vp himself.
Any woman who Is not an ntinrchlst
hns a perfect right to talk i;i this coiin-
try.
"A California rii;tm:i::'.n h;' lnv-itod
nn oilorU-sx t.i;l:iii." Then it isn't nn
onion.
"Just you ;.it." sty :.k- pessimist,
when ho Is reminded that h.s prediction
was wrung.
"Why American Moi:i.-.: Fail." Is the
heading of n iua,;:;zi;.e ariii'i.'. P.ut
they don't.
When n man with a wo".- .-:td several
grown-up daug!.rei- In a '. " i-'.u! dis
position, It's a sign that he ,r.:i a pret
ty good Income.
The "nightmare ri I ts'' v.o.il.1 i-ppi'ir
to be a inoro pultuMc ::. o for thost'
KcntiK'klans who are : 1 1 :tvf ')
inany depredations.
Ono of the professora dcila'vs t Tin t
saving nionoy In dangerous, perhaps the
inoat inon nro ma;::mi:!:i: 'y endeav
oring to jirotcct us fr.mi i! iiiicr,
The Kins of Italy may bo "Wio the
possessor of the proud right to say
"our Anierlcan cousin." A kins, yon
know, nay say "our" Instead of "my."
The Oklahoma Legislature has passed
o law forbidding eavesdropping over
the telephone. 'J'hiis has one of the
blessings of living In the country been
taken nwiiy frfttn the dear p op.
A rcnnsylvnnla boy who recently re
covered from typhoid fever now has a
mania for writing poetry. Some of the
after effects of that terrible disease
seem to be worse than the malady It
Self. The Mnuretanla, Been at night, I de
scribed ns resembling "a city iidrlft at
sea." Those who have lichold hirg'j
coinnnuiltles voyaging about the ocean
will have n vivid mental picture .if the
big liner.
Chancellor von I'.uelow says Germany
has no desire to deprive England of
the mastery of the seas. The London
Times will regard this as a cunning ef
fort to Induce England to waste her
resources In building war ships, thus
weakening Jierself on land.
Ton millions growing moldy In th
United States treasury stilTerlng for un
owner! What n buntj.i to aii over
worked government to have to Bit up
o' nights and watch It, and not know
to whom it belongs 1 For something
over forty yenrs this vast store has
been gathering dust, being the proceeds
of "abandoned property" captured by
the Union soldiers, sold for cash and
the money turned into the treasury. To
be strictly accurate, there still remains,
after millions have been distributed to
approved claimants, $10,028,351.83 for
which Uncle Sam has never been able
to find a proper owner.
Defective designing was the cause of
the collaise of the cantilever bridge
across tho St, Lawrence Uiver at Que
bec several months ago, according to
the report of the royal commission ap
pointed to make an investigation. The
designer used the standard formulas In
computing the strains, but in the opin
ion of the commission he should have
modified them, as the bridge was larger
than any that had hitherto been at
tempted on the cantilever principle. It Is
easy to say this now, for all engineers
know more about the subject thnn be
fore the falling bridge demonstrated
that the old formulas were Incorrect
But it Is Important to future brldgo
builders, as well as to the public, that
an adequate explanation of the Quebec
accident has been found.
In advising China to accede to Jap
an's demands, the United States had
China's interests in view. There Is a
Btrong probability that Japan would
have made the Tntsu Incident a pretext
for war if China had not receded from
its position. War would have resulted
in humiliation for China, and possibly
in dlsmemlwrmeut. The present out
come has aroused a strong feeling of
hostility to Japan throughout China.
At Peking the United Stutes holds tho
favored place among the nations. That
alliance of oil tho Asiatic peoples
against the whiles Is "ofT." Not for
years to come will the yellow peril bo
mentioned again. The boycott In
Shanghai ami the other Chinese ports
against American goods, no fur ns any
trace of the embargo Is left, will be
lifted Immediately,
A Boston neurologist of largo repute
bas udvuuccd a novel theory about
nervous collapse, based upon u case In
bis own practice. He relates that a
wealthy business man consulted his
physician for relief from u nervous
breakdown, lie was ordered to go to
Europe und rest, but It did him no
good. Ilewas sent to lest cures and
anitaiiuii)s, where he was ordered to
do nothing which would tire him, lie
was Informed that rest was his only
salvation. He rested week after week
and month after month, and all to no
purjMise. At last he consulted this phy
sician, who believed In doing some
thing. After studying the ease he de
cided that' his patient was not In need
of rest anil was not In the least fa
tigued, but Kluiply did not have enough
to do. IIL. nn-ordingry advised him to
go to work and quit worrying. The pa
tient did so and was cured. The rem
edy and Its encouraging result only go
.to prove the truth of the old axiom Hint
Work Is fie pan.uvn for all evils. Cases
or overwoi;., m often n p u-t.-d, are usu
ally eno:i of overwoiry. Care mav even
kill the cat which has nine live lo
Umu's one, but hard, woik without wor
ry never kllk'l any one. Work with
worry may produce nervous collapse
arm onen iiit to suicide, but good
poiaait hard work without excitement
or strain, and performed within rea
sonable time, is the best of remedies
to guard against nervous breakdowns.
It would be an excellent rcinwiy in so
ciety, also, if society! women, Jntled and
worn nut by the Incessant excitement,
late hours. Imprudent eating, and wor
ries of social functions and rivalries
Instead or going to rest cures, would
take the broom and flatlron and put in
several hours of good hard work In the
house. They would lie surprised to find
how rapidly they would recuperate and
restore their wanted energies.
It Is well enough known that fre
que.;:l human beings when bitten by
dogs have died agonizing deaths. Hy
drophobia or rabies is the name for the
dlseafo under which they have suffered,
but so great have been the uncertain
ties us to the course of the disease and
so poor the opportunities for experi
mentation that some medical authori
ties have held there was no such dis
ease whatever, and that the victims
have really succumbed to. self-hypnotism
or hysteria. The bureau of ani
mal Industry Id the ' Department of
Agriculture at Washington has had this
question under consideration and has
made injury experiments at its experi
ment station at Bothosda, Md. Its
chief, Dr. A. I). Mel v In, now announces
that he has coucloslve proof that such
a disease exists and that It is germ-generated
and Infectious. One of the In
stances which Dr. Molvln cites Is that
of a dog bitten by another dog. The
biter died of rabies. Tho other dog
was taken away and kept under obser
vation for two months. It then de
veloped u well-defined case of the dis
ease, ran amuck and bit n horse and a
cow. The cow wus attacked in sixty
days, the horse In about a hundred
days nnd both died after showing all
the typical symptoms. Dr. Melvin states
that there are two forms of the dis
eases one of them dumb, the other fu
rious. In the early stages of the dumb
tyic a dog is dangerous, but In later
stages It Is not, as Its Jaws become
paralyzed. A dog suffering with the fu
rious type of rabies Is very dungerous.
The frothing at the mouth Is not a Ac
tion but a real characteristic of this
typo. The experience of England,
which, through its strictly enforced
quarantine law, has got entirely rid of
rabies and kept free from It for inuny
years, has been sulflclent to satisfy
most Impartial observers that a genu
ine disease was In question. The proof
that is now brought forward by Dr.
Mehiii's bureau should put an end to
nil further quips and flings about the
Imaginary nature of the disease. Ra
bies Is fortunately not common, but It
Is terrible enough where It occurs to
Justify full precautions against it
One of the most Important addition,
to astronomical science In years was
the recent announcement from tho Low
ell observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz.; that
the atmosphere of the planet Mars is
very rich In. vapor. This Information
was gained by a comparison ot the
spectra of Mars and the moon. Astron
omers have been trying for forty-live
years to settlo the question.
There has recently been completed at
Lorain, Ohio, a dry dock 74o feet long
and 125 feet wide. This makes It the
greatest fresh-water dry dock In the
world, and it comes within Ave feet of
being as long as the new dry dock of
the League Island navy yard. Four
vessels C05 feet long have been launched
on the great lakes within the year, and
It Is believed that vessels 700 feet long
will be built within a few years.
A curious occurrence, deemed worthy
of scientific record, was witnessed by
Dr. J. S. Diller, of the Geological Sur
vey, In Oregon last September. It was
A mortal combat between a salamander
About Inches long and a garter-snake
two feet In length. The salamander
gripped its foe at the base of the Jaw,
and bung on with bulldog tenacity.
The fight lasted about three hours. At
the end of that time the snake was
nearly dead, whereas the salamander
"seemed fresh In the enjoyment of his
victory."
If the sun were blue thore would be
only two colors In the world, blue and
bluckj or 4t It were red everything
would Bo red or black. In the luttcr
case there would be red snow, red lilies,
black grass, a black clear sky and red
clouds. There would be a llttlo variety,
however, If the sun were green. Things
that are now yellow would still remain
that color, but there would be no reds,
purples, orange rr pinks, and very few
of those cherry hues that make the
world bright and pleasant. Besides
color, the temperature of this earth
would bo very much changed.
Efforts are being made to develop
more extensively tho petroleum re
sources of rem. The known dejioslts
of oil occur on a very narrow strip
of land between the foot-hills of tho
Andes and the shore of tho FaclHc, and
much of this Is flooded at high tide.
I'lles of railroad Iron driven In tho pure
ocean sand, which varies In 'depth from
5 to 50 feet, are used as foundations
for the derricks. The shallowest of the
driven wells Is ISO, und the deepest
1, "til) feet In depth. There Is very little
gas, und the oil is very heavy, so that
it can be put Into buckets with shovels,
and It Is carried direct to tho furnaces
to serve ns fuel.
Iiicrriulu,
Squlggs Say, Squnggs, you golu' to
raise a garden this year?
Kquuggs Don't know, Squlggs; I'm
golu' to plunt some seeds, hut whether
they ylll turn out to be chlckeu feci
or garden It's too early to determine."
Toledo ltlade.
Th Heal Teal.
Job may have displayed great pa
tience, but it is not written tu tho
bMk that he ever had to weur a saw
edged Millar.
It Is always a xcmree of wonder to
a man that a woman can have so much
fulth In htm.
Ul.ht you are. Al.aaio; the fouuUIn
plays becuuae the water works.
vttceless.
Boy S II (nn Project Poire
Wltlmnt 1 of Wire.
Hurry M. (Smut, a high school Isiy
of Spencer, Mass., says ho lias dls-or.
ereil the secret of. transmitting electric
waves uirougn tne air wwuout uiu am
of wires. Ho has ls-en studying elec-
trhrlty for five years and has already
biH-ome an exort operator with wire.
loss methods of communication, accord
ing to the New York World.
lie now llghtssa dozen Incandescent
bulbs In different rooms In his house by
merely pressing a small lever In his
room and projecting the electric waves
There are no connecting wires letvoen
those different lights and the machines
which he operates. Each light Is mere
ly -onnected with a small battery of
It own.
Just how the electric jiower which
the hundred-odd batteries In tho oer
atlng room produce Is made to travel
through tho air young Grout as yet re
fuses to disclose. He declares that he
can now cause this wireless electric
jiower to he projected several hundred
feet and he further Insists that when
he Is able to own n dynamo and pro
duce suhVlcnt electricity nt once he
will canst? It to tierforin all the maneu
vers of customary operation from the
shore or from his own room.
Ho asserts that when he has accom
plished this ho will applyhls tests to
torpedoes, i lie young Inventor Is now
In communication with n United States
weather observatory olliclal In Had
dam. Conn., who has been studying
along similar lines with Grout and
whose first letter to the high school
boy said that the Connecticut man lie
lleved the two together would be able
to communicate with the planet Mars.
Young Grout admits that he Is'llevex
such a thing jMissil'ile, and he also Is
convinced that It can be accomplished
from what he has n I ready discovered,
providing power enough can be obtain
ed to send the force waves such a long
distance.
.Many electricians have visited the
boy and have satlstied themselves that
he Is actually causing electric power
waves to travel through his home by
merely turning on and off the lever.
The young electrician said: "I am
merely In the experimental stage of my
work and now, of course, am not willing
to explain Just how I can light the elec
tric bulbs In my house without wires.
It is sullicleut to say that I do hope
to do something more practical with
these power waves before spring. I
an operate a motor at !)( feet and
feel sure that I shall soon be able to
put a motor boat through all kinds of
paces from the shore within n short
time. When I have accomplished that
of course the way will be open for sure
and safe propulsion and operation of
ot'her craft of greater or less size and
also of torpedoes In time of war from
the land."
Grout Is only 18 years of age. ne
became Interested in electricity at
high school and Immediately branched
out beyond the routine work of which
his courses consisted. He has charge of
the electric equipment of a large man
ufacturlng concern In Spencer.
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LEARNING TO SWIM.
Persistence In undertaking is a laud-
ablo virtue, but It can be a bit over
dono sometimes, as In a case described
by Y. L. Molloy In "Our Autumn Hol
iday on French Klvers." Mr. Molloy
and his friend, longing for a gtsd dive,
went to a swimming school on an Isl
and In the Seine. They donned their
rented costumes and were preparing
for tho plunge, when a man with ropes
came along nnd insisted on tying them
about their waists. It was according
to police regulations, and although they
made an Indignant protest, they were
obliged to submit.
While we were dressing, says Mr.
Molloy, we asked the two swimming
masters for an extra towel.
"Pardon," they replied, "wo must at
tend to our monsieur."
Then we saw that there had come
upon the platform a short and absurd
ly fat man, dressed In bathing cos
tume, swimming sandals and oiled cap.
"Let's see hlni go In," said we.
What a splash he'll make!"
The swimming masters received tho
n?w arrival at the middle of tho plat
form. ' There he balanced himself on
his stomach on a wooden stump two
feet high. The masters seized him by
ids hands and feet, and with slow und
deliberate movements made him strike
out with the action of swimming. They
kept this up for a quarter of an hour,
and the perspiration rolled off him In
great drops.
"He'll be awfully hot to go into tho
water after that," said I.
Hut he did not go Into the water.
Tho swimming lesson over, he moved
toward the dressing room, saying:
"I have done better to-day."
"Ah, yes," answered one of tho mas
ters. "Your progress Is admirable."
The fat man beamed with complais
ance, and went In to dress.
I called the swimming masters
as4de.
"Itocs 'our monsieur' practice often
like that? He must have great perse
verance." "Perseverance! lie has worked like
this for live years, nnd he has never
been In the water!"
Not on lliu t.t-vrl.
First Legislator I don't like "the
way that subway contractor goes about
things.
Second Legislator Why not?
First Ligislatoi Well, I don't think
he works on the level llarvurd Lam-
tMMlll.
Tho Only Wu.
"Then goes a man who made a for
tune w rltlng poetry."
"Wh-what !"
"No, Fin not Joking. He wrote ten
der verses to a romantic young heir
ess." Kansas City Times.
M tat it rurmt-tl.
Clubman 1 underhand, sir, that yoo
began life as u newsboy.
Guest lT the Evening I fear soma
one has b.Vu fooling you. I began life
as an lnfaut Hostou Transcript
SOLVES SECItET
'lermorid
A living faith makes a live church.
Rev. T. II. McCoi.nell, Presbyterian,
Chicago.
Men of power are always men of
prayer. Kev. E. L. Powell, Christian
Church, Ioulsville.
Every phase of the life of Jesus Is nn
open lsxik for ew ry man. Kev. A. W.
I odder. I 1 1 1 : i s t , P.rooklyn.
In this day of crime God Is looking
for men and women who will stand out
for Illm. Kev. J. O. Hoswell, Evangel
ist,' Pa wt in kel.
Tho modern methods of business and
politics thiMW men In the way of temp
tation and dec -it.- Kev. .?. II. Iarry,
Congregatitiiiallst, Providence.
There Is less graft. In proportion t(
the opporf iiuit;, in Koosevelt's tinn
than there was i:i Washington's. Kev.
It. S. MacArlhur, Hatlst, New York.
Great wealth has kept more young
men away from it pure life than ever
bus the want of It.- Kev. William Ed
ward Iilcdenvolf, Evangelist, North
Camden.
It Is not always sale to take n man's
profession nor his standing, but to
measure him by the cause he cham
pions. Kev. Ch tries (i. Kindred, Dis
ciple, Chicago.
Each mi ml must pay Its own debt.
Each man must save himself In the
same manner In which Jesus rose to a
mighty saving relation to tho world.
Kev. William Forkell, People's Church,
Aurora.
To be good when It Is Impossible for
us to do wrong, is no honor to man, but
to do good when on every hand there
are opportunities for wrongdoing is
Christ-like. Kev. L. M. Zimmerman,
Lutheran. P.altimore. '
The strongest woman In the world Is
not the richest, the best educated, the
most graceful nor tho one endowed with
the greatest physical beauty, but the
purest woman. Kev. P. W. Snyder,
Presbyterian, Pittsburg.-
. No man can be a mighty man for God
or for humanity who has not seen God.
who has not touched God, who has not
come in contact with the Eternal One I
Himself. Kev. W. P. Macl.aurin, Con
gregation;! list, P.rooklyn.
No matter how much you think, or In
what fields of n search, you have not
done your duty as a thinker, if you
have left unoximiiueil and unconsidered
the great Christ prnlHem of the world
Kev. J. W. Francis, Presbyterian,
Parkersburg.
Jesus dumaiubi of every man that he
utilize all tho thought, every capacity,
every potentiality he iossesses, and that
he put down the lower, selfish nature
und exalt tho divine nnd the noble that
Is within him. Kev. M. Le I toy Hurton,
Congrogatl ilist, New Haven.
A beautiful house may shelter evil
people. The chances are that bad peo
ple in the teude'.-loiu would be no more
pious if they were suddenly lifted Into
palaces. It Is the Individual life and
heart that must Ik? changed. Kev. H.
Mitchell, Methodist, Cleveland.
The richness of the Intellect ami the
reflections of the heart that should be
Client in meditation upon a better ami
a higher life ami in love for God and
the Christ are wasted upon worldly
lusts and the things that lead to ruin.
Kev. G. II. Ko-.ve, Christian Church,
Aurora.
It is evident that the desecration of
Sunday is on the Increase, for we are
told that nearly fifty millions of the
American people never enter n church
Pit that day. It, therefore, behooves the
Catholics of the republic, by word and
example, to Insist upon Sunday observ
ince. Iilshop McFaul, Itmiian Catholic,
Trenton.
Do not think lor n moment that a
man who has enlisted under Christ will
have no more battles, or that the first
battle will be tho only one to be fought
It will be a fight nil along the way, but
be will be undor a captain that has
never lost a battle, and victory -will
purely follow. Kev. (. Campbell Mor
gan, Evangelist, at Hartford.
The great blessing of forgiveness of
sins which are past and even the bless
ing of being awakened from the sleep
of death would profit mankind but lit
tle if the arrangements of that future
time the millennial age were not on
such a scale us to permit a thorough
recovery front present mental, moral
and physical weakness. Kev. C. F.
Kussell, Congregatlonallst, Cincinnati.
Permanent success In any undertak
ing Is conditional upon working with
God. In every department of activity,
certain laws prevail which must le
obeyed In order to Insure success. These
laws are all God's laws. The physician
must understand and observe the laws
of health to cure his patient. The Chris
tian Is the one who undertakes to con
form to the laws of (od in every de
partment of his i;fe so far as ho under
stands them. Just so far as ho does
that, he s a co-worker with God. Kev.
J. P. Roberts, Haptisf. Providence'.
Religion Is a life, and not un opinion
alKiut life. Red 'inptloii s a new and
divine spirit, am not a definition of re
demption. There Is a new theology and
there always will be one. God. love,
redemption, remain unchanged. The
deilr.itiou of tlios,. things changes. Doo
trhvs are like the leaves on a tree.
The kindly autumn comes and kills
them off. The tree puts forth new
leaves. If It does not. bat shows the
old, withered leaves clinging to the
branches. It Is dead. Doctrines should
be evidence of a living spirit. Doc
trines die. but the truth d s-s not die.
It lives on. Rev. Dr. Eakin, Enlsoo.
")tilian. Toronto.
In Cincinnati a man re.vutlv tooU
seventeen wives In oue day. He's a
photographer.
Women wiih natural curls are ant tm
have u few kinks lu their disposition
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PREDICT WAR WITH AMERICA.
Vc-m-ziM-Inn Ofiii-lntN Seo Only On
Oiileomc ot Axphalt Itntv.
War with the United States over
fifty miles of swamp land Is predicted
by leading Venezuelan oMi-ia's. The
strip was under control of tin? asphalt
trust until the beginning of the long
series of dlfllcultlcs thct now may end
in a contest with America.
All the turmoil, bloodshed, revolution
and International controversies have
their origin In this sjK?ck of territory.
Upon Its proper development depends
the wealth of tho nation; f.r it Is the
natural outlet for nil the resources of a
country so rich in the earth's treasures
that the dreams of a Plzarro might be
realized. It was granted to the as
phalt trinrt with the agreement that it
would lie developed. Canals were to Ut
dug so that the boats could sail up the
river to the gold mines. Jw silver
mines, the oil wells ami the rich coffee
plantations. Railroads .were to have
been built. One of the Venezuelan gov
ernment's principal complaints against
the Amerlcau asphalt trust is that it
never fulfilled .any of these promises.
All the trust did was to push its own
bouts Into the pitch hikes, load them
and take nway the valuable natural
product.
The district has remained Impover
ished because undeveloped. Its .'.(itiil,
CKM) people were poor because they could
not get their wealth sold. The rail
roads and the canals promised never
materialized Into anything better than
mule caravans and canoes. The cus
toms which composed the chief Income
to tho national treasury fell off, for the
asphalt was free of-duty.
Then the temper of this mixed race
of Spanish, negroes, and natives reach
ed the boiling point. They tinted those
4,000 white men and their trust greed.
They made life dangerous for the for
eigners. Suits were filed in the shaky
courts of the country to try to get back
the asphalt wealth given away. Castro
found he was fighting tho most expert
trust lawyers, men who knew other
tricks besides those of tho courts. Revo
lutionary leaders took ndvnntage of the
turmoil to start Internal troubles. Ev
erybody in Venezuela believes that the
Matas rebellion was financed by the
trust nnd all Venezuelans Insist that
It was Castro's duty to the people to
dispossess th(.vtrnst.
Meanwhiljtthls land of wonderful
wealth lies like n shining diamond in a
hill of sand. Its Hrazll wood, coral
trees, Indigo, rubber, bananas remain
in the forest. Its gold and silver and
copper nnd marble and granite are still
In the earth, valueless to Venezuela nnd
the - commercial world.
SEEING LINCOLN IN 1303.
lion- n Private Solitler Attended
White. Iloum. Ilei-i-tlnn.
It was In the spring of 1st ;:. when I
was stopping for a while in Washing
ton, says u contributor to the Ho-ifon
Transcript. I attended, one day, a re
ception at the White House. The
rooms were, of course, crowded with
olllccrs of tho army, legislators and rep
resentatives of foreign courts In great
abundance. Mr. Lincoln held his r.
tvp'lons In the blue room, "opposite tic
main entrance. For a long lime ihe
passage to him was crowded, but biter
the crowd thinned out nlsiut him, so
that he had short spaces of rest. I had
been wandering mound, and at last
found myself close to the main en
trance. Soon I saw a common soldier
come up to the hall. He was an ex
ceedingly rough Junking specimen. Ills
clothes rere worn nnd soiled, his boot
outside his trousers, dirty beyond di
groo. You could hardly conceive a more
unfit person to enter that great crowd.
He evidently had a great desire to st;
the President, but knew his uu.lt uess to
enter. Hut It was not long before li
mustered courage to push his way un
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der the cover of others well Into the
hall.
Noting the anxious yearning look on
his face, I became Interested to watch
his movements and note the result. It
was not very, long before I observed
that Mr. Lincoln had nn eye on him,
as he chanced to come near the door of
the reception room. Once nnd again I
saw his eye search out this soiled and
bespattered soldier with the most ten
der look. Then came a more vacant
space between the two. At length Mr.
Lincoln, with an enormous stride and
a long outrenchlng arm, advanced,
zrasped this soldier by the hand, with a
rreeting that must have been scon and
heard to be fully understood: "Come
forward, my friend ; we are all equal
here."
With this hand grasp nnd welcome
Mr. Lincoln's attention was turnqd else
where but I can remember no other In
cident that thrilled me as did that Ut
ile scene. And the effect of it upon
that soldier it seemed to transform
him in u moment. What a new manli
ness It put into his face nnd attitude.
In a few moments he was gone, but It
was plain that from that hour Mr. Lin
coln had at least one man In his army
who was ready to give his life to help
Mr.. Lincoln save the cause for which
both of them were tolling and sacri
ficing. And It seemed at the moment
that I could easily do the same.
A Marrlaite Fiction.
The polite fiction obtains that mar
riages are made in heaven. This ro
mantic viewpoint Is particularly popu
lar lu America, where it la held to be
highly Improper for parents to make
any move toward securing good hus
bands for their daughters and Immod
est for girls to manifest any Interest
in the subject themselves.
The conventional theory Is that the
matter Is on the knees of the gods and
that in due season husbands will be
provided like manna In the wilderness
for. sustenance of tho faithful. Unfor
tunately this miracle does not always
come off for every womnn. The supply
of manna gives out. There are not
enough husbands to go around, and
these are unevenly divided. Some wom
en get three or four, while others get
none. Hut neither the old maids nor
their parents realize that the reason
that they did not share In the dispen
sation was their own fault, because
they did not put themselves, as old
fashioned Methodists used to say, In an
attitude to receive the blessing. Dor
othy Dix, in Aiuslee's.
.evr Zealand Mutflr.
From New Zealand comes tho follow
ing weird yarn :
"The tohunga (native magician) was
even credited with the power of Influ
encing the dead. The present writer
was a witness of the following Inci
dent: A branch of-the Arawas, the
tribe of the district of Kotorua, being
at war, had sutl'ered defeat, and one
of their braves had been brought home
dead. The vainniisl.ed sought at once
to find out by s nne omen connected
with th- dead chief whether they would
be successful lu their next encounter.
The tohunga was requested to procure
the desired omen, the people squatting
in a ring i .bout the bier. Advancing a
few pans from the dead body, the
; i ii .it began to recite a powerful incan
tation, lntent'Nm making the deceased
give some sign, the eyes of all present
being fixed on the slain warrior. Pres
ently the corpse was observed to move
slightly to one side, on which a great
cry of Joy rose from the people. The
movement was Interpreted as a sign of
future victory. This feat was often
lirformed by the tohunga of olden
times." Chicago News.
Wor.t than Kmiltab.
The man who forgets his friends
may le ungr.-'teful. The one who for
gets Ids vno'iihs Is foolish. Chicago
Hecord-Heruld.
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CONTENTION.
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Cafzxo or t&cezvxla
MEN OF EARLIER AGES.
Were They the Mental Peers of the I
Men of Today 1
The general Idea that our enormous "
advances In science and commaud over
nature serve as demonstrations of our
mental superiority to the men of ear
lier ages Is totally unfounded. The evi
dence of history nnd of the earllesU
monuments alike goes to Indicate thn?'
our intellectual and moral nature has
not advanced In any perceptible degree.
In the second place, wo And that the
supposed great mental Inferiority of
savages Is equally uufoundod. The more
they are sympathetically studied the
more they are found to resemble our
selves in their Inherent Intellectual
powers.
Even the so long despised Australian
savages, almost the lowest In mnterfal
progress, yet show by their complex
language, their social rcgiilatious and
often by an Innate nobility of charac
ter indications of a very similar inner jf
nature to our own. If they possess
fewer philosophers and moralists, they
are also free from so large a propor-'
tlon of unbalanced minds Idiots ail
lunatics as we possess. On the other
hand, we find In the higher PacUJe
types men who, though savages as re
gards material progress, are yet gener
ally admitted to be physically, intel
lectually and morally our equals. If not
our superiors. Thirdly, we
have no proof whatever that even the
men of the stone age were mentally or.
Trt rr-n 1 '. rr Ina.lA. 4-a n..n....T n nr...i
Russel Wallace in Fortnightly Review.
wnT Mvavr-v -mr -man
Wherein the Writer Hee tabled the
Man on the Buoy,
"That writer," said a publisher, re
ferring to an author who seemed to be
Idling away his time, "is in reality try-'
ing hard to work, to get his ideas flow
ing, but he is stuck.
"He said to me himself that he re
sembled a man who made a bet on
summerday at the shore that he wouluf
swim put a mile and a half to a certain
buoy. The bet was accepted, and the
man stripped and plunged in. His
friend retired to the hotel to watch
his progress from the window.
"From the window with a field glass
the friend saw the swimmer reach the
buoy in due course, draw himself up
out of the water and sit down com
fortably, with his legs dangling over. So
far so good. Evidently he was resting
well pleased with ils feat
"Some minutes passed, and the swim
mer had not moved. The watcher "re
turned to his book. But every now
and then he looked up, and still the
swimmer sat in the same position on
the buoy.
"An hour, two hours went by. Still
the swimmer remained. A white, slhu i'1
figure seen against the oncoming dark,
he sat on the buoy's edge. Ills feet
dangled In the soa. He seemed to be
musing.
"Finally it began to grow quite dark,
and, thoroughly alarmed at last, the
watcher got a boat nnd n couple of
bargees and rowed out to his friend.
'Out there the mystery was soon ex
plained. The man was stuck fast to
the buoy, which had been freshly tarred,
that morning." Washington Star.
lie Waa Particular.
One day the mistress of the house
had some special delicacy on the table,
and the thought came to. her to share
it with her laundress, whose day It
was at the house. So before the latter
went homo she packed a box carefully
und took It to her.
"I want you to tuke this with you
and try it. We consider it unusually
nice. I thought perhaps it would save
you some work lu cooking when you
get supper lonigut. '
The woman received the parcel In
the spirit In which it was given, say
ing, as she received It:
"Thank you, ever so much. I know
Mr. will enjoy It. He's Jest as
pernlcklty about his vlttles ez though
he oarnt 'em." Poston Advertiser.
I)llt tinted lfutn.
Bacon I see It is said that rats aro
judges of music.
Egbert I guess that is right We
haven't had one in the house since wo
pot the phonograph. Yonkers States
man. Maple Syrup.
Maple syrup which has ferments
and U-come sour ran be freshened by r"
iicaung 10 i ue mining point and adding ,
a little soda. Stir thoroughly, then
skim.
W hen a wise man is too tired t
think his talk U sure to sound foolish
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