Nebraska Newspapers

    Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, MED.
JOHN II. REAM, - - ru Wisher
A doctor cnii lmtdly be blamed for
foslr. hi temper when he gets out of
Bishop Follows thinks the avcrnge
man ought to live to be 120 years old.
Fass the word to Osier.
Mr. Asqulth, England's new premier,
Is a mnn with a past, and It Is a past
that Is highly to his credit.
A woman wants $7",oo0 for a kiss.
Wall street In Its palmiest days never
saw a more flagrant attempt at over
capitalization. Farmers In the dark tobacco district
of Kentucky are selling out and leav
ing the State. In some localities this
is too free a country.
An Indiana womuu claims to have
discovered how to keep eggs for a yeor.
Borne of the grocers apiear to have
discovered long ago how to do that.
According to Chancellor Day, men
get rich, get fat, get dyspepsia, and
die. But there was Russell Sage, who
got rich, but didn't get fat, and died
anyway.
Possibly Congress has the absurd
Idea that to build two battleships at
a cost of $20,000,000 will lie doing fair
ly well for a nation that is a trifle
shy on revenue Just now.
"We need women to care for our
souls," declares Hamilton Wright Mn
ble. Which sounds all right, but as a
matter of fact we keep them busy car
ing for our socks and underwear.
Owing to the hard times, Helen
Gould Is suspending some of her pet
charities. The hard times don't seem
to have affected Madame Gould. She
is thinking of taking on a new one.
Well up toward the head of the list
of mean men will be found the name of
that Chicago father who deserted his
wife as soon as he learned that she
had become the mother of twins, and
never came back.
We rather like this observation from
the Washington Tost: "The Smiths,
Joneses and Browns are the butt of
mnny Jokes, but you never find their
names In a list of wild-eyed, bomb
throwing anarchists."
More than a hundred millions were
spent for about fifty thousand new
pleasure automobiles by Americans last
year. Some of those who Intended to
buy an automobile this year have
changed their minds since the panic.
Trot J. W. Burgess says that the
German army is "a school of manners
which transforms the rudest peasant
Into something like a gentleman." On
the other hand, Judging by certain of
ficers, it transforms the gentleman into
something like the rudest peasant
nigher education for women has
been Justified in the eyes of the In
habitants of one New England town.
Some college girls at home for a va-
' cation -entered a spelling-bee, and two
of them spelled down their mates and
all the "natives." This will set at rest
in one community the suspicion that
, college students are deficient in the ru
diments. The recent burning of the town ball
and other buildings In Guayaquil, Ecu
ador, with a view to check the progress
of the bubonic plague, suggests that
mnny a structure In another place in
vites annihilation for similar purposes.
There Ve, "tuberculosis blocks" in New
Xork City, tenements so sat united with
the disease thnt an occupant Is almost
certain to be stricken. In Paris tho
municipal council has Just discovered
that several hundred dwellings In the
working-class districts nro dangerous
for tho some reason. There are noto
rious "cancer houses" In Lincolnshire,
England; there Is at least ono "plngue
tenement" In Bombay, India;1 nnd it la
recorded that Amber, the ancient capi
tal of the Indian stato of Jaipur, had
to be dispeopled and deserted becauso
it was so completely Infected with lep
rosy. To all such dwellings of denth
the- Guayaquil treatment should be ap
plied. Any municipality could better
afford to pay tho cost of replacing a
disease-ridden buildings than to let It
tand and take perpetual toll of lives.
7
"Summer baseball" Is a matter" which
rouses the interest of a great many
high school und college Utys, to some
of whom will come excellent opportunl
ties to earn money during vacation by
playing mi professional or seml-profes
Slpnal teams. By tho athletic rulei
How most universally In use, those who
accept such positions will be debarred
from playing on any college team. The
tule was established to keep college
port free from professionalism, and
has been regarded as wise. Lutely,
however, n (llvoltioii to question Its
wisdom has been shown by prominent
college presidents and professors. They
point out that what Is wanted to pre
vent college beys from giving undue
prominence to sport. To this end It Is
desirable to keep professional ball
players frm entering college merely
to play lull I ; but that Is no reason why
a genuine student, under the necessity
of earning his way through college,
Should not be left as free to do It by
playing :all as by teaching school or
oiling hooks. The cluuige of feeling on
this matter Is Interesting as showing
tendency to look ut college siort more
sanely than has lately been the prac
tice. Ten yeirs ng Congress formally de
clared thut war existed between tli
United States of America mid the king
dom of S;m!n. Wit:, that act fate
tunic.) the page upon a new chapter In
th history of the Amer-I-m c ple.
TV a at least li dear after ten years.
Perhaps to the wisest little elee Is dear.
'The mood of the nation to-dny has cer
tainly neither the enthusiasm of the
o-caTled expansionist nor the anxiety
and foreboding of the anti-Imperialist
The future looks neither so bright aa it
did to the one, nor so dark as It did to
the other. If our mood could be en
compassed In a phrase It would prob
ably best bo descrllicd as a somewhat
uninspiring belief In the Inevitability of
our present development. At times this
Is brightly colored by a sense of ths
new prestige of the nation before the
world, but this Is not so new and keen
as it might be, for consciousness of our
greatness has never been altogether
denied us. At times we grow restive
under a knowledge of new and Irksome
responsibilities and obligations. But
this does not last long either, since we
are a full blooded people, self-confident,
and not normally anxious. The chap
ter, therefore, thus far Is, In the main,
plain prose. Wliether It has a meaning
more olgnnnt than we suspect Is for
the future to disclose. We know that
the chapter Is but begun. That the
American Imagination has not caught
Are at the events of the Spanish war
and Its really splendid results Is, per
haps, explainable from the fact that our
energies are as yet so exactlngly and
so successfully engaged within our own
continent. However that may be, there
Is still something Initially Insolent In
America's eciy and confident entry
upon the stage of world politics aa
though tho country had bided Its time
In cool assurance of welcome and com
plete success as a protagonist In that
great drama, au assurance not unfitting
In the latest born of history, the heir
of nil the ages. However, a decade has
not been long enough to crystallize a
foreign policy founded upon our new
status and our new relations. That
public opinion which arises out of a
general recognition of needs and ten
dencies Is not yet formed with regard
to our situation In the far east, onr
ultimate duty to the Filipinos, our re
lations with China and Japan. At this
time It may be said to be In a state of
solution, but a comparatively slight
shock would precipitate It. That we
are awoke to the Pacific and Its prob
lems Is much. That we realize more
fully each year the significance of the
Panama Canal, that South America
rises more fully over the horizon of our
national consciousness, that we are be
ginning to think In terms of world rela
tions all this means that we are In a
new epoch, and that we are pledging
ourselves to Its Issues as consciously,
perhaps, as nations ever do. Our dan
ger Is thnt we shall enter and grudge
payment. To help rule the world Is to
pay a groat prlco not only In tnnterlal
treasure but In the precious coin .if na
tional character. The reflex of worldly
ambition and externul success upon
ourselves Is the main question. But
the genius of the race must deal with
thnt as it must In the generations to
come.
The statement that radium loses ac
tivity on heating has been tested by
Dr. II. W. Schmidt, who finds that at
1300 degrees C. its effects are exactly
as at ordinary temperature.
The making of false gems and. the
doctoring of others which are real, but
slightly blemished, has become a pro
fession, so widespread that in some
countries tho workers of entire towns
do nothing else, says Popular Mechan
ics, which goes on to explain how ru
bles and pink topaz are manufactured.
Surrounded by on immense wall of
Ice 8 to 10 feet thick, a fire In a five-
story building in Troy, N. Y., filled with
bnles of cotton waste, defied tho efforts
of the Fire Depnrtment to extinguish
It for seventy-eight days, and on the
last dar took a combined forec of fif
teen streams of water to quench the
flames.
Pluus have often been made, says
Cassier's Magazine, to devolop the pow
er of the tides, but In most cases these
have failed of commercial success. Now
however, a project Is well advanced to
harness the power of the tides on the
coast of Maine. A company has bond
ed land on either sldo of Back Bay, In
Portlund, where It la anticipated a ti
dal power plant will be located capable
of developing at least 25,000 horso-pow-pr,
or enough to run all the electric
cars, lights and engines in the city.
The third report of the giis-cnglnc re
search committee of tho Institution of
Mechunlcul Engineers In London re
cords some experiments which are re
garded as showing that the highest
economy Is obtained with comparative
ly low maximum temperature. The
Implication .Is that gas engines should,
Iks subjected not only to lower pres
sures, but to lower temperatures. Thus,
It Is said, many difficulties thnt arise
In large engines where charges of rich
gas nro used might be avoided, and
the maximum pressure kept down to
quite reasonable limits. If construct
ed to work only with moderate pres
sures and temperatures, the whole of
the working parts might bo very much
lightened.
Osmosis Is the passage of a liquid,
or a gas, through u membrane. Some
times medicines are administered in
this way. But how far we are from
understanding the details of this sub
ject as related to the human body Is
Indicated by some reecut experiments
of Prof. Louis Kuhlciibcrg. All at
tempts to Introduce lithium salts into
the system by absorption through the
skin have failed, und yet the same
salts make their way readily through
the mucous membrane. When the feet
lire soaked In a solution of hydrochlo
ric, or sulphuric, add, un alkaline re
action quickly takes place Internallv.
But citric acid refuses to uct the same
way, iilthough both of these acids hav
4 similar effect when taken through the
digestive tract. Sulphuric acid, then,
has quite a dlfferetit physiological ef
feet when It enters through the skin
Instead or through the mouth. Living
membranes act differently with regard
to osmosis from dead ones, und the
same membranes which Is-have alike
with regard to some substances behave
very differently from one another with
ward to other substances.
uermofid
Rtvrnnl PunUhment.
Xo sin has even been dreadful enough
to Incur nn eternity of punishment.
Kev. It. E. Sykes, I'nlversnllst, Denver.
I nrf.l rioted Activity.
Whenever life has unrestricted activi
ty It makes for health, beauty, power
and peace. Kev. E. W. Hunt. Unitar
ian, Boston.
A Prraelirr.
Every Christian Is called to be a
preacher Just ns truly as was John the
Baptist. Kev. Dwlght E. Marvin, Pres
byterian, Brooklyn.
Itluht lie of Money.
Ample opportunity Is given men of
means to i:hc their money for the good
of their fellows. Kev. Charles B.
Mltche!:, Methodist. Cleveland.
KnHli.
As knowledge Is gotten by hard
study, and wealth by hard labor and
economy, so faith Is gotten by practice
and toll. Bishop II. C. Morrison, Meth
odist, Blinilnghani 1
An Kvnnitellliir Power.
For the present day church to cease
to be it world evangelizing power would
mean Its spiritual devitalization and
ultimate death here at home. Kev. J.
Klnsey Smith. Presbyterian, Pittsburg.
The llrnrt of a Woman.
The heart of woman, while a weaker
vessel In t'.io face of daring di'eds nnd
trying moments, has n more active sym
pathy toward Christ. Bishop P. J.
Donahue, Koniun Catholic, Wheeling.
I n! vernal Ptanilard.
A universal standard at the present
time seems all that is necessary for a
union of nil Christian forces In the con1
quest of the world for Christ. Kev.
J. L. Loo, Presbyterian, New York
City.
llrll.
Those who go to hell do so because
they want to go there. God, Christ,
the angels, the very evil spirits them
selves, try to keep people out of hell,
but they will go there. Kev. A. C.
Dixon, Baptist, Chicago.
i:kimhi.
There Is something sublime about nn
egotist. We who live In the vulley of
humiliation look up with reverence to
those mountains of self-contldence.
Kev.. Frank Crane, Unlversallst,
Worcester.
(tiil'i Majruty.
Think of God's majesty us ninnlfest
d by the orbs of day and night, nnd
of Ills purpose in revealing their har
mony, variety, nnd obedience for man's
contemplation. Kev. Henry Hepburn,
Presbyterian, Aurora, 111.
I'arrleaa I.lrea.
Is It not true that most of us, ns re
lated to the great problem of human
sin ami need and suffering, are living
careless nnd self-indulgent lives? How
mnny of us nro making It any special
business of ours to search for lost
sheep. Kev. Willurd B. Thorp, Congre
gutlonallst, Chicago'.
The formal Man.
Jesus was the natural, normal mnn.
lie flames forth that which every mnn
shall be hereafter. He was the round
ed nuture, tlm one cosmic citizen, com
plete, symmetrical, ripe, majestic, beau
tiful. Kev. X. I), mills. Congregation
tlounllst, Brooklyn.
Perverted Power,
There Is not n sin but that back of
it Is the power for good. Put yourself
under the control of Christ nnd you
will begin to stand erect nnd become
master of those things you have been
submitting to. Kev. G. Campbell Mor
gan, Evangelist, Hartford.
I.ove Worth Krlalnlnur.
The newly-iimnicd man who assumes
the ulr of having bought n woman with
the wedding fee und lays aside his care
ful wiusomelicss loses what he thinks
he has won. If love Is worth wooing
to secure. It Is worth wooing to retain.
Kev. Dr. Png' Congregationalism Bos
ton. '
The I.I B lit of the (hurrh.
The church has not always been alert
to her mission and her work. Under
the cruel heel of tyranny, the Iron glove
of despotism und the dark cloud of big
otry, her light has many times grown
dim, only to break forth again with
resplendent brightness. Kev. Nathan
Bailey, Baptist, Providence.
Doliiu Something,
If It Is something real to be a Chris
tian it will show In what a mnn does.
A Christian will be busy being neigh
bor to some one who Is In need. The
most evident test of a man's religion
will be found In his .attempts to do
something for some other. Kev. WU
Ham II. Day, Congregational 1st, Los
Angeles.
Vltnl Subject.
Christian conversion Is n question
which has been under discussion or
hundreds of years in pulpit and on the
public platform. It has also lxeii dis
cussed In the homes before the fire
sides. In business places also and In the
low bell boles of vice, ami It Is n sub
ject of vital importance. Kev.'" J. O.
Boswell, Evmv.'cilst, l'a wtiieket, K. I.
I'or.n Ceixl llitlillx.
Form good habits, avoid bad compan
ions, smI-kiiis and gai'i'iliic, and don't
think that yon must have a "good
time," nuittcis not what It costs. Be
Industrious, honest, s.thcr, brave und
chaste. Form oiir habits before mar
riage; you ati't do so after marriage,
any more limit yo;i can teach an old
dog new i ricks. Kev, C. F. Thomas,
Koinan CiKholl', Baltimore.
A t;re:ilrr Ailllftluo,
A representative from a Southwest
ern Slate was, lot long ago, lament
ing to a illcic;i:c t tin t ills memory was
getting poorer each year.
"Things that I hear go In at oat
car and out a! the otli he said.
"That's b id sil.J the colleague, with
u broad smil:", ".nil you'd better be
thankful that your caw is not as bad
as that of Blank, of l idlaua. Things
go lu ut his car untl com,' out of hi
' moutu," HuriH-r's Weekly.
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
One of the electrical plants In Ger
many employs rt.ilK) workers.
Some s.ooo.ouo tons of moss pent are
located In the bogs near Lnke Tezcoco,
In Mexico.
A new theory by the British Medical
Journal Is thnt persons resnnbllng each
oilier suffer from the same diseases.
"I think the milk Is put there to test
people nnd see if they can residt taking
If," nld Mr. Mowden to a Isiy charged
at .Muryleboue, Londmi, with stealing a
frui ;f milk from a doorstep. The lad
was dischnrged with a warning.
Ail persons who have crossed from
America lo Kurox are familiar with
the Fiistnet Bock, the first spot of Erin
that they see o:i the eastward voyage.
Thereon has been erected a new light
house which has cost the record sum
of $10:1.200.
"Calais, co.OOO Inhabitants. Important
seaport; principal Industry, tulle net,"
so run tlie French geagraphy books,
ninl any one win lias visited the town,
except as n transitory passenger to
Dover, will remember tlis tulle factories
where half the Inhabitants earn tliclr
living.
Gen. J.mics Evelyn Pileher, editor of
the Military Surgeon, Is the new di
reclor general of the National Volun
teer Emergency Corps. The corps wns
organized In 1!K:, to render aid In time
of national calamity or In the event
if war. The corps Is now being reor
ganized on the lines of the medical
corps of the United States nrmy.
The new royal Dutch West Indln Mall
steamship Coppciiame arrived In New
York not long ago on her mnlden trip
from Dutch Guiana with the first cargo
of Surinam bananas 3,000 bunches.
The cultivation of bananas was begun
In Dutch Gulnim two years ngo, with
I lie assistance of the Dutch govern
ment, nnd has been a sivcess.
On a particularly blustery March
Horning, the story goes. Dr. S. Weir
Mitchell walked round the Philadelphia
City Hall square with a young editor.
As the two men held on their hats nnd
leaned against the blast Dr. Mitchell
said: "I think a shorn lamb should
be kept tethered here, don't you? Prov
idence then might be induced to temper
I lie wind."
Jewish chess players have retained
tlie championship nt that game for the
last forty-two years. Steinltz held It
for twenty-eight years till 1804. nnd
Lasker has been champion over since.
Dr. Lnsker attributes this predominance
of tlie Jewish genius in chess to the
fact that Its rules are entirely based
upon those of self-defense in the strug
g e of life, nnd Jews are adepts In this
art.
"Everything lias its cause. If we
hut find It," said J. McKee Borden,
can
retary of the department of charities,
nt a banquet In New York. "Once, In
n miserable slum. I heard two little
girl beggars talking. 'Why Is it,' said
the first, 'that the poor Is alius more
wlilln' to help us than the rich?' The
second answered promptly nnd bitterly;
'Them wot don't mind g'.vln' Is the ones
wot stays poor.' "
It Is only n few years since butter
was unknown in China, mid even the
milk from the cows could not be pur
chased. But recently Chinese restau
rants have taken to the serving of
"European style dinners," nnd the bet
ter eluss of Chinese nro becoming large
consumers of butter and other Euro
pean luxuries. In tlie ports where
fresh butter Is obtainable this Is given
tlie-preference, but In the Inferior Chi
nese cities tinned goods nre being large
ly used.
The demand for employment by edu
cated women is greater proportionately
In England than In any other country.
Nowhere In tlie world is the dilemma
of a woman accustomed to luxury nnd
suddenly thrown on her own resources
so distressing as in England. Thlg
problem was dWcussed recently at a
great conference in London, where rep
resentative women of England, Ireland
nnd Scotland met to decide on the best
means to help educated women to earn
n living wage.
Dr. Max Verworn. professor of phy
siology nnd director of the physlologl
cnl Institute of the University of Got
tlngen, has been appointed Kaisei
Wilhelm professor nt Columbia Uni
versity for the year l!0S-O0. The ap
pointment was made upon the recom
mendation of the Prussian Minister ol
Education. Prof. Verworn Is one ol
tlie most distinguished of living physi
ologists and has received high bonort
In Germany.
The Khedive of Egypt, whose great
fad is locomotive driving, had a nar
row escape the other day while run
ning an engine on tlie state rnilwny.
He suddenly found his way blocked by
a wagon loaded with pig Iron. The
royal engineer showed wonderful pres
ence of mind, lie reversed and used
his full brake p.iwer and stopped Just
short of tlie obstruction. He then left
the engine, walked back to n station
and had nn Interview with the respon
sible olhelal there which Unit individual
probably will never forget.
Berlin is said to be the quietest city
In Europe. Kailway engines are not
allowed to blow their whistles wlthlo
the cliv limits. There Is no loud bawl
ing of hucksters, und a man whose
wagon gearing is loose and rattling li
subject to a tine. The courts havs a
large disi relbm us to tines for nolse-
mal;lng. S.rangest of nil. planivp!ny
lug is regulated In Berlin. Uerore a
certain hour In tlie day, and lifter a
certain hour in tlie night, tlie piano
must ! silent In that musical city.
Even during the playing hours n fine
Is Imposed for mere pounding on tho
ilano.
Omlnoui.
"The bookkeeper," said tlie Junloi
partner, "has been married nearly four
months now."
"Well," item. in. led the senior part
ner, "what of that?"
'Why. he hasn't naked for an increnst
in salary "
"Heavens'. We must have bis ao
rouuts examined." The Cuthollc Stan
ard and Times.
WVORCES ONLY FOR THE CHILDLESS.
By Prof. Alexander Graham Bell.
wwaaaipafi
mm
"Sjl.
Throw wide the gntes of marriage,
and where children nre produced close
tight tlie doors of divorce. Every child
is entitled, by nnture, to a father and
a mother, nnd no people should pro
.luce chlidren who are not prepared
to give them purentnl care for life.
The grand spectacle Is presented to
our eyes of n new people being grnd
unlly evolved lu the United States by
the mingling together of the different
races of the world in varying propor
tions. It Is of the greatest conse
quence to us thut tile final result should be the evolution
of a higher and nobler type of man In America, and not
deterioration of the nation, i
To this end the process of evolution should lie carefully
Btudled and then controlled by suitable Immigration lnws
tending to eliminate undesirable ethnical elements and to
stimulate tlie admission of elements assimilated .readily
by our population and thut tend to raise the standard of
manhood here.
EMOTIONAL CONTROL BRINGS
When we yield to nn emotion our sentiment
always transforms itself Into a movement.
Joy, fenr, love, anger nre expressed in un
conscious gestures, In a perfectly clear man
ner. The strong man is muster of his emo
tions and his unconscious movements. In or
der to expend our strength to the best advan
tage Is Is needful to give out us little as
possible under that base form of energy
known as our emotions. All our emotions should be un
der control. The choleric lnun, violent, exuberant, is a
feeble fellow, at the mercy of his environments. With
him the nerves dominate or even nbollsh lndlvldunl in
itiative. " He is a creuture of impulse, no mutter where
it originates, lie Is n moral und a social slnve.
The mnn that is too lively, too pctulunt, dispenses his
forces as quickly ns they lire produced. He never has
but a small amount of energy to concentrate on some
thing really useful, nlthough he nttacks his problems
with vim rnd even with violence. A man who wishes to
hnve strength for the right occasions must husband his
resources nnd hold careful watch over his dally move
ments. Such a mnn has the advantage in that by his vic
tory of will power over his emotional tendencies, over
his animal centers nnd human instincts, he has purified
ills Judgment, reinforced his mental jsiwers, nnd given
T::E TRUTH ABOUT MEDIUMS.
Perfectly IloallUy Pciile Of;eu
1. ! Aliiiormal lVipr.
"I have had a good deal of experi
ence with mediums, nnd I've come to
the conclusion thut they nil start with
at least some small basis of abnormal
power. Is it not rather suggestive that
the number of practicing mediums does
not materially increase? If It were n
mere matter of deception, would there
not bo thousands nt the trade? As a
niatfer of fact, there nre not fifty ad
vertising mediums In New York nt this
yfioinent, though, of course, tlie number
is kept down by the feelbig that It Is a
bit disreputable to acknowledge posses
sion of these powers.
"There nre nice oues. My own moth
er had this power in her youth, so my
fattier tells me. Her people were liv
ing In Wisconsin nt tlie time, nnd the
settlers from many miles around came
to see her perform. An uncle, when a
hoy of four, did automatic writing,
nnd nn mint recently wrote to me In re
lation to my book, 'The Tyranny of the
Dnr!:,' that for two years ' (beginning
when she was about 17) Uhmo powers
of darkness made her life n hell. There
are mnny recent peo-lo who arc posses
sed by strange foivS, but are shy of
confessing these abnormalities. As!:
four family 'physician. He will tell you
that lie nlways lias nt least one patient
who is troubled by occult powers. They
call it 'hysteria. which doesn't explain
anything. Many apparently healthy
people possess the more elementary of
these powers often without knowing
It." Hamlin Garland In Every bidy's.
CATHEDRAL MADE OF MATCHES.
A conl miner named Wilhelm Leni
pertz nrrlved here n few days ago with
I cathedral a cathedral mmh of
matches. He cunie from Port Arthur.
Texns, where he hnd been employed
nntll recently. The cathedral reprc
lents two years of IjCinpertz's labor.
sro jrjir
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M K4 JjV m
Bear Admiral Coghlun, whose vessel, tlie Italelgli, ren
dered such conspicuous service at the battle of Manila
Bay, tells the Philadelphia 'Ledger, of the liiqiortaut
changes which have taken place lu the navy since that
memorable battle of ten years ngo. ,
"The greatest change," said the Admh'al, "has. of
course, been the great Increase in tlie strength of our
navy. Never lu tlie history of the world lias n nation
Increased Its sea power within any MTiod of ten years as
we have since the wur with Spain. We had then four
battleships. We now have 2.", nearly nil of which are lu
commission The four others which are under construc
tion should soon be ready for service. You might em
phasize this: that any one of these newer battleship
which we btrve built siinv the battle of M Mtlla would
have leen more than a match for the entire feet which
Admiral Dewey commanded.
"The other advances. Tin y have be 'i uotr.bV and
many. There Is the Increase in 1 1 ravl.iity of tire. We
now have act mil rapid fire. But ; tin s. days vueh
appllnnces us we were introducing might le disci Ibed
as tending to, well, say, deiitutt; slowutui of tire; that
THE CHURCH'S
POWER,
By Sllvaln Roude.
such painstaking labor as few men are
capable of performing.
For L'O years Lenipertz has been a
coal luincr. He worked in the mines
of Germany and America, but a few
years ngo he hnd to give up mining on
account of III health. While he wns ill
ho did various things to while away
the time. One dny he started to build
n toy cathedral patterned after a pic
ture ho saw In a mngnzlne. Ills build
ing materials were matches and glue,
his tools n pocket knife and a glue
lll'ILT OF 2,000,000 SPLINTERS.
brush. The plan wns laid out for a
building 14 feet high, 14 feet long and
7 feet wide. He worked with remark
able patience, oftentimes putting in all
his waking hours at his task. After
two years of almost continuous appli
cation tlie Job was finished.
Tlie walls of the cathedral, the tow
ers und turrets, the gullerles and stee
ples, the ornaments nil are of match
es. It took more thnn 2,000,000 match
es to build the church and more than
100 pounds of glue used In fastening
tlie 2.000,000 matches securely. New
York Press. ,
0
SIZES OF TYPICAL BATTLESHIPS OF 1898 AND
l i 1
himself the cnpaclty for discrimination In many other
matters between the Important and the insignificant, ta
useful and the Idle. .
INTEREST IN LABOR.
By Rev. Char leg SletMla.
The labor union is not the labor question.
If all the unions wers wiped out of exist
ence the Question would remain. This is th
era of the common man. The common man,
the worklngman, Is coming to hls own. Un
less that victory Is based on sound principles,
the last state will be worse than the first.
The square deal for every man should be our
Ideal. We are making mistakes, but we are
making progress. It the church did not care about tha
conditions of labor, I tell you right now I'd get out
of the church. But the church does care. Christ gava
no social system ; He set out to better the individual.
Josh Billings ance said: "Before you can have an
honest horse race you must have an honest human race
nnd I guess there was lots of horse sense In that state
ment It is not so much a question of man's surround
ings, but what he is within, within himself, that has to
do with composing the social unrest.
The church herself has created this increased social
unrest, in showing people the heights to which they might
attain. That is as Jesus Christ would have it a health
ful dissatisfaction with personal conditions to teach men
how to rise higher.
BANKERS' SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY.
By Senator Depew of New York.
Bankers do not claim, that they a re
in business for philanthropy or their
health. They do not deny that they
desire to make all the money they le
gitimately can, to pay good dividends
to their stockholders, and strengthen
their institutions by adding to their
surplus. But no student of finance
can rise from a study of what the
bankers, not only of New York, but
of Chicago and other large cities, did
in the recent crisis without feeling:
SEif atob DF.rrw. that the banks of the country are of
ficered and managed by wise, level-headed, exceptionally
able and patriotic men.
No better public service can be rendered by bank of
ficers and directors than to keep the machinery of com
merce going and to maintain strong and solvent the In
stitutions upon which the credit nnd business, 'the em
ployment and the living of the people depend,
The Exploitive Force of Water. f
Water, looked upon ns the tamest of
liquids, is as great an. explosive a
dynamite, under certain conditions. Ia
one day water breaks up more earth
and rock than all the gunpowder, gun
cotton and dynamite in the world do
in a year. These explosives can be
controlled by human agency, but water
does not hold Itself accountable to man.
It runs into the ground, freezes, ex
pands and spits the soil into little
pieces. Finding a crack In a huge
rock, it repeats tho same process,
forcing it asunder. If frozen in the
pores of a tree it often explodes with
a ' report like a gunshot and the force
of a dynamite bomb. Dundee Adver
tiser, f
Story of War Trophy.
Bose Garth, of Clinton, probably
made the first corn sheller used in Mis
souri. Fifty years ago, in 1858, he
devised one from wateroak plank and
teniK'iiny nails. He used it on his farm
until 1SC1, when Trice's men came
through there, saw it was a good thing
and took It down to Jackson's mill,
where It wns used to shell the corn
which was ground into meal for Con
federate soldiers. The old corn sheller
wns lost truck of for a number of;
years by its mnker, but nfterwnrd he
wns informed that it was being pre
served ut Washington among other cu
rious1 trophies captured from the South.
Clinton Democrat.
v Brok the Law.
"What got me iuto trouble? Fallura
to Ignore the law."
"That seems odd."
"Not at all. I couldn't resist the
temptation to give the law a swift
kick." Louisville Courier-Journal.
After an affecting scene at a play
tho men ail blow their noses vigorous
ly, and the women pat their eyes. A.
ninn's way of crying la to blow hi
nose.
1908 CONTRASTED.
TS9S
AMdAKA
JMntrjf 3.trr
DjZS3Hr ti'
AxscAJtMft 4 rtfJrttJtrjf jvma
r ax
would be the best way to express what we were doing
then. Then the minimum of time required between shots
of the heavy pieces wub two and a half minutes. Now
the maximum Is about 40 seconds.
"The Improved gun mechanism permitted of a vastly
Increased rapidity in firing. The telescopic sight brought
about a vust improvement In accuracy, especially when
firing at long range. One observer hnd become so much
impressed with this accuracy that he sought to tell
about It lu this wise: The captain peering through his
blnoculurs at a ship Just above the horizon, suys to tho
captain of a six-Inch guu: 'Hit that fellow on the
bridge In the eye.' 'Aye, aye suys the gun captain,
'which eye?'" x
Among the numerous other Improvements the Ad
miral noted the advance in armor const nut ion, a prog
nss so great that the 11 inches which the new Connecti
cut carries bus greater resisting power, than the 18
Inches which the Oregon und her class curried. Still
another luqiortiiiit udvamv 8 (no 8ni()k,.!es powder with
which our magazines ure now supplied, this being vastly
superior to the old smoking, brown hexagonal with which
we fought out the wur with Spain.