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Ikkota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NEB.
JOHN n. REAM, . . Publisher
With some inon the question of right
nd wrong m to be a mattef of per
sonal taste.
The milliners should be abla to make
more money If they could sell Lots
by the square yard.
A Montana man has inherited a coun
try home from a dog. He Will be both
fashionable and grnteful If he calls his
place "The Kennels."
A London scientist asserts that ex'
cesslve talking produces insanity. Un
fortunately the talker la not always tbo
nly one who In driven insane.
A Berlin scientist says men should
become ambiihe.trous nnd learn to use
both hands. Most men do when any
thing worth grabbing is In sight.
As n slight concession to the proprie
ties Miss Rible, who was arrested In
Chicago for stealing diamonds, should
Change her nanm to Lamentations.
It Is reported that Chauneey M. De
pew has become a vegetarian, but we
suspect that the story has been started
fcy some opponent of vegetarianism.
A Chicago minister suggests the
theory that moving day was originated
by the devil, Rather an extreme meas
ure for finding work for idle hands.
Dr. Wooda Hutchinson soys the fly la
an Insect that "never wipes Its feet,"
but numerous bald-headed men through
out the country must feel like giving
evidence to the contrary.
Washington, D. C, according to a po
lice census Just completed, has 339,403
.inhabitants, including several distin
guished pcrsms who will not bo there
when the next census is taken.
Chicago women are planning n "story
hour" for the public schools, but the
TeaJ story hour" always has boon and
always will be when teacher asks Jolm
Vf why he was absent yesterday.
A Cleveland man has been arrested
for striking his wife because she had
not spoken to him for three months.
There are those who will say he ought
to be able to get off on a plea of in
sanity If he wants to.
If tiie Inventor who claims to have
discovered the secret of manufacturing
gold expects to get people to accept his
product as the real thing, he will have
to seek out some almost Inaccessible
and wholly desolate region in which to
establish his plant
Promotion In the public service la
till the rule. John 8. Leech, the new
public printer, entered the government
printing ofllce as a compositor in 1880,
was afterward made proofreader, and
then raised- to the foremanshlp of a dl
rislon. In 1901 he became public print
er in the Philippines, and after seven
years' aervlce there Is called home to
take charge of the department in Wash
ington. China Is a silent country, and new
facta are constantly coming to light
to Bhow that half the atory of the great
tragedy enacted at Peking, when the
foreign troopa looted the imperial pal
aces, has never been told. The latest
is the discovery, in a barroom in south
ern Germany, of the marrlago contract
of the present Chinese Emperor. It is
a gorgeous piece of silk, four feet long
and a foot wide, richly emblazoned
with Chinese characters. To the Ger
man tavern keeper it was merely a
pretty piece of Chinese embroldory, and
hung aide by side with brewers' calen
dars and other simple decoration. The
finding of It was due to the world wide
search which Chinese diplomats and
consular agents have conducted ever
since it was stolen. , It has now been
restored to the Imperial fumlly.
If Canada selects all her citizens as
cautiously as her immigration commis
sioner in, London, England, is now do
ing, the northern empire may some day
be what its natives often dream of
the Utopia of the Anglo-Saxon race.
The Canadian government is not only
opposing most effectively tho influx of
Southern and eastern Europeans and
Orientals; it is making the English
( themselves pass a stiff examination to
prove their desirability. Fifty pros
pective immigrants whom the Salvation
Army bad arrange! to send from Lon
don hovels to Canadiuu farms have
been held back until the Canadian au
thorities have Investigated each mem
ber of the party. It will bo interest
ing to see how long tho government enn
continue this minute and scrupulous
control '.n the fuce of a growing de
mand for unskilled labor.
Des Moines, Iowa, has been governed
under a new system since early lu
April The government Is not divided
into legislative and executive brunches,
as Is common lu most Amerieun cities'.
The executive ami legislative otlleers
are the same. There are u mayor und
four counellmen, each of whom Is the
bead of on executive department. That
which the mayor controls is called the
department of public ulTalrs. The
mayor and counellmen meet together
aa a legislature and pass ordinances.
The will of any three prella. The
cayer receives thirty-live buudred dol
lars a year, und each of the couiicilinen
three thousand. It W maintained by
the supporters of the law tliut the sal
aries are large ci.oug'.i to attract capa
ble citizens to o!IUe. While considera
ble legislative power Is ested In the
elected oltlcers. they are kept from dis
regarding t!ie popular will by a pro
Vision which 'compels them either to
pass any ordinance su'mtlttcd to them
by a pel I Hen sli:e.l by a certain pro
portir.n of tbe voter, or to submit It
to the feneral public at a sp.-cl.il elec
tion. A slhjhtly dilTe;eiit system of city
government has been' in ; 'err. Con 'lu
Texas In the cities of Galveston, Hous
ton, Dalits and Fort Worth, where It
la aiul public affairs ate now nuaiiged
honestly, even If tjiere has been no gain
111 WUUOIIJ J ,
A recently published report of tiie
criminal statistics for an English year
Indicates that there baa been a notahlo
relative decrease In crime during the
last half century. The year lOOfl saw
practically the same number of thefts
and crimes of violence as waa recorded
for ia7. Between the two datee tho
population of the country has grown
from 10,000,000 to 34.000,000. Making
comparisons, It appears that crlmo baa
decreased about 40 per cent. It la a
pity that so much cannot be Bald for
this country, where there la a frightful
Increase of some forms of crime. Just
why there should be audi a atate of
things Is a matter for the sociologists.
The Improvement In the facilities for
education Is mentioned as one reason
for the steady decrease in crime. Eng
lishmen never have been ao given to
homlcldo and the greater crimes as the
lxxiplo of the southern European atates,
for Instance. In other respects, too,
thev seem to be becoming more law
abiding as tho years go by. Fairly
homogeneous in race, they do not have
the problem which the United Btatea
hos to face. Tho report mentioned em
phasizes another point often noted In a
study of English criminal statistic.
It Is the surprising number of convic
tions in relation to the number of ar
rests. During the year of the report
'22.4 14 persons were convicted out of
7'iO,or7 who were tried. Tho year pre
vious the proportion was about the
same. Tho figures suggest more care
In making arrests than is manifested
In the Tnltcd States. When the right
perHon is found 'the trial Is speedy. As
a result conviction follows in the large
proportion of the cases. The police
record of Chicago for thOBamo year
covered by the English report sliowa
over 78,000 arrests, but whon the casea
were tried In tho pollco courts nearly
00,000 of those arrested were die-
charged. This accuracy of Justice In
England when taken with the decrease
of crime in lta relation to the total
population, ought to awaken envy in
this country.
mWfm
Sick-Headache.
The sufferer from Blck headaches
miyraino and megrim and other names
by widen tho pain Is Just as bad has
no ne!d for a description of tho symp
toms of his malady., The racking pain
In the head, the nausea, the sensitive
ness to noise and to light aro all too
real to call for mention.
Tbe disease is one In the class of
what are called "functional" nervous
diseases, that Is, those in which there
are no 'lesions" or visible structural
changes In the body by which the symp
toms can bo explained. Tho term Is
really an expression of Ignorance, for
there must be somo abnormality Bome-
whero In the body at tiie bottom of all
disease that Is not imaginary. That
there is some real trouble of the nor
vons system In sufferers from sick
headache Is shown by the fact that tho
disease Is often, if not always, hered
itary. Tho trouble may not have ex
isted In tbe same form in one or more
of the parents or grandparents that
Is, there maybe no history of head
aches of the same character; but in
most cases it will bo recalled that thero
was some nervous defect of greater or
lesser degree, perhaps a twitching of
tho face or an arm, or an oddity of
speech or manner, or it may be an
actual nervous disease such as epilepsy.
Tbe defect In the nervous equilib
rium exists as the foundation of the
trouble, but this In itself would not
cause tho attacks of migraine. These
are excited by some other abnormality
It may bo In the nose or In the ear
or in the digestive tract, or, and most
commonly, in the eyes. The irritation
of these little physical defects reacts
upon the nervous system, Impercepti
bly at first, but lu a cumulative way,
until finally the Irritation becomes so
great that there Is an explosion, and
an attack of slck-headacho follows.
This, like the discharge from a Leyden
Jar, removes the tension and restores
the equilibrium for a while. Then tbs
Irritability is gradually increased until
another explosion occurs and so on.
The treatment consists in removal of
tho underlying physical defect. Ths
longer tho condition lasts the more dif
ficult It becomes to cure, but If taken
In youth, liefore a habit, as It wera,
has become established, tho result al
treatment is often most happy.
Astigmatism or some other visual de
feet l often the root of tho trouble
and the eyes should receive the first
attention. If glasses afford no relief,
then the nose, the ears and the othel
organs should lw examined in turn.
Older sufferers can bo greatly renew
ed also, even if It Is too late for a pel
feet cure. Youth's Companion.
( hlut-aa Faith In lilnifiig.
Many of tho Chinese believe thai
when all other remedies full. nni
"(lea 111 Is at hand, ginseng has till
Hiwer to bring back health and lon
gevity ; hence, when they feel the need
of it they will pay fabulous prices foi
certain kinds of roots. A root to lit
really valuable as a commodity muni
come from the mountains of Klrln or
be reputed to have come from there.
It must be bifurcated, so as to resem
ble as much as i-osslble the human
form, and lie semi-transparent, dry,
and tllnty. Of course, the larger tlu
root tbe better, and us It Is sold by
weight l.t Is;iiot very uncommon for a
good specimen to bring as much lit
$1K an ounce. The value of such a
root is In Its shtijie, Its texture, the
manner In which It lias been cured,
n.1 the region whence It came.
Ask any book agent or peddler who
sent hi in to you. and you will flud It
la on of yvur Ust frivuds.
OLD-TIME FARM BOYS
They Degan to Do the I'sual Chores
at the Age ol Seven
Years.
WOEKED IN THE FIELDS AT 10.
In the Evening They Had to Husk
Corn and Pare Apples for
Drying on a String.
What would the boys of to-day think
f the way the country boys lived sixty
and seventy years ago, or even forty
years ago, when tho writer was a boy?
asks a contributor to tho Kural New
Yorker. At the age of 0 we boys (I
speak more especially about boy, ns
there were no girls in our family) be
gan to have our regular chores to do.
At 7 we began to milk, and at the age
of 10 we were expected to 1m? out at 1
in the morning, and do our share of
the milking, feed tho pigs ami calve,
eat our breakfast and away to the field
(no compulsory eductlonal laws In
those days) driving oxen to plow or
harrowing with an old forty-tooth
drag; hoeing corn, for It must be hoed
nt least three times. We lioys nt 10
were expected to hoe a hill and skip
a hill to keep up with the men; fetch
the water for the men to drink and
rido the old mare to cultivate, for the
man who held the cultivator must have
a boy to ride the horse, but lie must
not let her step on n hill of corn, for
If he did the whole field was thought to
have gone to ruin. I wonder what the
farmers of those days would have
thought to, see tho farmers of to-day
gilding through tho cornfield with n
two-horse, double-row cultivator doing
the work of six men.
The boys of, those days had to work.
The majority of farmers seemed to
think that all a boy was created for
was what work they could get out of
him ; that a boy ever became tired was
something against the laws of nature;
if he lagged ho was lazy. Tho school
days of the farmer boys of those times
were from about Deo. 1 to April 1,
but mind you, we were expected to go
to the barn evenings nnd husk corn
until the husking was nil done. After
that was done, then for the apples, for
about 73 to 100 bushels must be pared,
quartered and cored, and strung on
strings with the rib of an old umbrella
for a needle, nnd hung up behind the
kitchen stove to dry. This work wos
all done evenings. A limit two or three
bushels were considered to be a fair
evening's work. Oh, yes, we us"d to
have corn husking and apple parings.
It broke the monotony, and we young
sters had lots of fun, but I guess the
boys of to-day would think it was. ruth
er tame sport, for now the hotels and
saloons have more attractions. The
average farmer's boy of the twentieth
century has more money to iend on
himself in one year than the boy of
fifty years ago hnd in his entire boy
hood days. There was not even a $1,000
boy in those days.
At the age of 0 nnd 10, respectively,
my brother and I rode our old bob-
tailed mare, 'Slippery Jane," to school,
a distance of two miles. What would
the boys of this age think to see two
such youngsters astride of one horse?
But as we became n little older we
drove her hitched to father's old pung.
In connection with this I never shall
forget an incident, although It was a
very common occurrence for boys of
those days to be left alone nnd with
the care of the premises. My brother
was 10 nnd I 11 years old. We came
from school one very cold, stormy night
In February. We stopped on our way
to leave a girl who lived at a neigh
bor's, and who rode to and from school
with us.
Tha neighbor was a relative of the
family and he told us that our people
had all gone away early In the day, as
l near relative of the family had died,
and that we mtwt hurry home ami do
up ta chores, which consisted of nliout
forty head of cattle to care for, also
horses, hogs, hens and varloua other
thing. Onr neighbor relative told us
to hurry home, do up the chores, eat
our supper, be careful of fire and get
to bed early and get up early next
morning, do up tho chores, give our
cowhide boots a fresh coat of grease
and make ready to go to the funeral of
the relative where our people had gone
the day before.
Well, we trudged home as fast as we
could hurry the old mare. The snow
was falling fast and a stiff wind was
coming up in the west. Our home was
t mile from the main highway and over
a mile from the nearest neighbor and
In the very shadow of the heavy tim
ber. We arrived home to find It desert
ed except for our old shepherd do,; Jim
and the house ns cold as an Iceberg.
Von can bet we were not very Uiug in
doing up those chores and getting our
selves tucked away in bed. it seems
that I can hear now the wind howl
around that old-fashioned Dutch house
Up there on the hill that cold and
stormy nignr. i no next morning w-e
were up bright nnd early to make ready
for our Journey, some live or six miles
away. Our neighbor relative came and
Iieipea u Home anoui cnores, so we
could get started as early as possible.
for tho funeral was to be quite early
for the body was to be Kliippinl by rail
road. At last we were off with old
"Slippery Jane" hitched to the pung,
but the high wind of the night before
had piled the snow mountains high ami
our passive was necessarily very slow
We tipped over no less than sixteen
times and had the old mare so deeply
in the snow that we were obliged to
shovel her out as many times, Put at
last we reached our destination. This
is practically the life the farmer boy
of our section lived away buck In
the 'OOb.
A SI !, of Wealth.
"He must be a very rich man."
"Not so very. I haven't read about
him presenting u dlplodocus to any mu
seum Just yet." Detroit Free Press.
Every tune a boy shows his bunds,
somebody suggests that he wash thorn.
WHAT KAKE3 THE SONGS "GO."
:;lim-lif Ulna- Tell ta Set the
( nliii(r- I: iiinmlnK.
"And I'll tell you what m..kes a Bona
popular," said Miss Blanche King to n
Philadelphia North American writer.
Do you realize the weight of that
authority? A good many singers think
they know What makes a song popular.
Hut Blanche King
Well, Miss itlng Is the young womua
who gave palpitating America "In the
Cood Old Summer Time," "The Belle
of Avenue A," " Bedel la." "Wultz Me
Around Aguln, Willie," and then some.
Oh, other people may have written
these songs and, besides tbe mighty
million on the street, one or two others
may have sung them from behind the
footlights. But Blanche King "made"
them.
That's her mission "making" the
sort of song that the hurdy-gurdy plays.
that the otllej boy hums till you kill
lilm and Unit runs In your own head
until Its melody has become a part of
your brain and Its words a portion of
your vocabulary.
"What the (icople want in the song,"
said Miss King, "is the catchy nlr;
something new and yet something not
only easily remembered, but HomeUiIng
that positively refuses to lie forgotten.
TlS) more suitable Its range Is to the
average voice the more certain It Is to
take hold.
"But. above all, the words must be
either clever or of wide human appeal,
expressing an emotion common to all
sorts of men nud women.
"After nil, I sometimes think that
half tho secret lies in the words. If
they have a cutoh phrase that can pass
Into current slang they are almost sure
of success and I've found It a never
failing rule t'liat the liest jxrpular music
won't serve to make jsipular a song the
words of which aren't up to the popu
lar standard."
So that was what they wanted In
the songs. Wluit, then, did they wnnt
lu the singer?
"Action," said Miss Bing. "Action
and plenty of it. The singer must act
the Implication of tho words and the
spirit of the music. She must sing as
If she liked to sing; she must seem
Just as much entertained as She wants
her audience to lie and first, last and
all the time she must enunciate so dis
tinctly that her hearers will understand
and remember every syllable she ut
ters." Better qualified to speak of these
things than any one else of nil the thou
sands who do npeak of them, Miss
King, even as she talked, threw into
her speech not a little of that Individ
ual sort of animation which, slm-e It
Is hers alone, tfho had modestly omitted
from this list of requisites.
One looked nt her and, remcmliering
her whirlwind career, filled with special
train dashes to keep engagements and
equally hazardous descents upon Lon
don's music halls, one ceased to won
der why fato had, for these five years
of her success, been so kind to her.
"And Is It hard to get the right kind
of song?" tho Interviewer wondered.
"Hard?" edioed the singer. "Are
the best things plenty anywhere? I
spent four weeks in New York last
month listening to Impossibilities nnd
since I have beeu in Philadelphia this
time I have llsteued to 200 more."
"It wouldn't be so bad," she contin
ued, "if coiirposprs only had a little
share of tho critical faculty. But It
appears that everybody, no matter
what his trade, thinks he can write a
popular song.
" 'What sort of songs do you write?'
I Inquired of the bashful caller.
"'All kinds,' Is his invariable an
swer." Hart-rat la I'erpetnal.
That bllllard-tablc country Argen
tina stands next to Bussla and Can
ada among the foreign patrons of our
harvester kings, says Everybody's. It
was only about eighteen years ago,
after three centuries of revolution, that
Argentina settled down to raise wheat
and be good. It raises more wheat than
Germany, and the country has become
a laud of milk and honey. It Is a
South American Minnesota, but eleven
times larger, more fertile by the slow
moving Platte river a buudred miles
wide when It reaches the sea which
moves through Its plains like an Irri
gating canal.
The fourth In rank of our harvester
buyers Is Australia, which Is now send
ing n yearly tribute of $:.km,hh) of its
gold to the International Company.
To-day the sun never sets nnd the
season never closes for American har
vesters. They are reaping the fields of
Argentina In January, upper Egypt In
February, East India In March. Mexico
In April, China In May, Spain In June,
Iowa in July, Canada in August, Swe
den lu Septemlicr, Norway in October,
South Africa In November and Burma!)
In December. It Is always harvest some
where. The ripple of the ripened grain
goes round the world nnd the American
harvester follows It.
Ilupeli-.a 'f,
The story U told of a Dutchman who
certainly needed the services of the
far-famed "lady from Philadelphia" if
ever any one required her assistance.
He was ussijjMed to a seat lu the
coach which obliged him to ride luck
ward through the Black lVrc-t. At the'
first stopping place be asked the post
master to give liini another scat, say
ing It made hlia ill to ride backward.
"Asl; the n 1 1 1 ii opiMislte to change
with you," said the postmaster, grnllly.
"But there Is nobody opposite to me."
complained tin- Dutchman, "so I cai.tMt
i:sk hlni."
Jiul ileiv.ceit Tlirmxi- t-i.
Actress (sotto voce) Sli, no one
mil: t know of this I"
Actor (surveying silm c.udi.mcc)
My dear, you may speak o tt ; t'.'.civ l
no one to hear us." Jinl; e.
In trying to Ir-lp the unfor;ui:ate. a
man is often laipresced with the great
nunilier of people there are In this
world who will trade olT a cow for a
cabinet organ.
There are duties a men owes to him
self. Imt they to u.'t;n iM:i;!l.-t wita
oliier pollen i-juijort that they are
called kcltibhncss.
WITH LOVE'S
If Lnve'Il only had me I'D never nik tbe way
Or if It's wild with Winter or blossom-blown with May.
If thorns I shall not heed them if roses well-a-dayt
If Iive'll only had me I'll never ask the way.
If Love'll only lead me will bcur the prayers I pray,
In even the darkest midnight my soul shall dream of day;
The thorn shall feel the blossom the night the morning's rayi
If Love'll only lead me I'll never ask the way.
vki ,vamv SIS
A little group of men stood In front
of the booth where visitors to the sum
mer amusement park throw balls at a
row of grotesque dolls.
A big fellow with n hoarse voice and
a very sad face was disputing with
the proprietor.
"I gave you a dime," he snnrled.
"It wasn't a nickel, it was a dime."
The proprietor of the boot!, n mild
little man with weak blue eyes, shook
his head.
"I haven't taken In a dime to-day,"
he said. "Here's my bank," nnd he
pushed nn open cigar box toward the
big fellow.
"I don't care anything about your
bank," the big fellow cried. "I tell
you I gave you a dime. I've hod my
three shots now gimme my change."
The little man looked about despair
ingly. No park policeman was in' sight.
The crowd was growing larger.
"You gave me a nickel," said the
little man, ''but I don't want any fuss."
The big man snorted.
''Do you mean to say I'm a liar?"
he demanded.
"That's what you ni-e," came a voice
from the rear of the crowd.
The big man whirled nround.
"Who said that?"
"I did," the voice replied.
The big man straightened up on tip
toe. "Where are you?"
"Here," replied the voice. It sounded
from the left of tbe crowd, which hnd
now grown to considerable proportions.
"Lenime.glt at hlra!" roared the big
man.
And he pushed Into tho group.
"Look out where you're going," cau
tioned a stout man, as he thrust an el
bow Into tbe fellow's side.
"Easy, there," snnpped a' little man.
"You're on my. feet." And lie kicked
the big fellow viciously.
In an instant tbe sentiment of the
group changed. The loungers hod en
joyed swing the little proprietor baited
by the red faced man. Now It turned J-
against tho bully. It pushed and buf
feted him, and when he was clear of
it lie hnd lost his desire to find the
man who had Impeached his veracity.
As for the latter, he seemed to have
incited Into the nlr.
The crowd broke up with the depar
ture of the bully, and In a moment or
two there was no one left lu front of
the booth save a boy.
He was a boy of perhaps ID, a clear
eyed lad with a sunburned skin nnd
dark curly hair, lie was neatly
dressed, but his clothes were old-fashioned
In cut, and he wore a broad
brimmed straw hat that had seen other
summers.
Tbe boy looked up nt the little pro
prietor. "Bad man," he said.
The proprietor nodded.
"Yep. He was out for trouble, all
right. That was n big bluff, of course,
but what could I do? I couldn't af
ford to have any trouble with him
Business Is bud enrfugh as it is."
He sighed as he spoke.
The boy looked at bhu curiously.
"Bad season, eh?"
"Worst I ever knew. An I've had
Borne pretty tough ones." His eyes
wandered over the grounds. "There's
that loafer, now. lie's having n fuss
over there at tho chutes. He'd better
not fool with those fellows. They'll
drop him in the pond." He softly
chuckled. "I wonder who 'twas culled
him a liar?"
"I did." said the ty.
"You? Why, you iisn't even look
in' nt him."
The boy laughed.
"Guess I hadn't the courage to look
at him when 1 said it."
"But the voice come from over there,"
persisted the proprietor.
"It was my voice." The boy suddenly
stooped ns If to pick something from
the ground. As he did so n dog snarled
and barked at the proprietor's heels.
"Get out!" the little man shouted, ns
he quickly looked around and lo
there was no don there, lb' turned to
the boy. "Did you do that?"
"Yes."
The little proprietor pushed the balls
toward him.
"As many shots ns yon like," he said
"Thank you," said tin. boy. ' Not
now. Business is bad, eh? Want a part
ner ?"
"There ain't a llvln' la It for one.
Jet alone two."
"But supimse a partner fuild build
It up and put It ou a pajtpjt basis."
"That's the kind o parwr I want."
The boy nodded.
"I'm bxiklng 'round." be said. "You've t
noticed I'm from the country. I had n
chance to go on a farm after I tiiiis!iHl
actool. but I thought I'd rather go xj
LEADING.
to the city and see If I couldn't find
some sort of oiiening. I don't wnnt
anything permanent Just yet I'vt got
too much to learu. At the same time,
I've got to get a living. Maybe you'd
bettor tnke me on a salary for a spell.
I don't want to tie up for long. Walt.
You needn't give me a cent if I don't
put your business here in a paying bn-
vwien i do I-want n reasonable
share of the profits. What do you
say?"
The little man stared nt'blni.
"You lieat anything I ever say," ho
said. "Where did you learn that ven
trlloqual business?"
The boy laughed.
"Out In the woods," he answered.
"I was cutting wood last fall, and, be
ing nlono, I fell to trying tricks with
my voice. Pretty soon I found I could
talk to myself in quite a sociable fush
lon." "I'll give you n, Job right away nt the
terms you mention," said the little pro
prietor. "What do you propose to do
to help the business?"
"I propose to look around the park
first of all," the boy replied. "I'll come
back again a little Inter."
"You'll be sure to come?"
"I'll come," said the boy as he turned
and walked nway.
The attendance was large in the park
that evening. And those who strollc-d
near the Carter booth noticed that the
little proprietor had labeled his dolls.
There were only five of them now,
nnd above tbe quintette stretched a
placard which nnnounced in large let
ters that they were the Original Goose
berry Family. There were Pa Goose
berry and Ma Gooseberry and Little
Willie and Sister Sue and Aunt Jane.
Tommy Carter's weak eyes almost
sparkled as he chanted the merits of his
show.
"Klght this way," be called, "an take
n whack at the only original Goose
berry family. Three throws for a nick
el. There's Sister Sue and Aunt Jane,
too. You can't miss 'em." And he
turned around and winked at Jim Har
rison, who was standing back ready to
gather up the balls.
Ills voice was so cheery that a little
crowd speedily gathered and the first
nickel was tendered. .
The marksman drew back his iirm.
"Stop, sir!" cried Aunt Jane In a
high, ( racked voice. "Would you strike
a lady?"
"Wh-what's that?" stammered the
marksman.
'Take one of your own size." said
Aunt Jane; "hit the boy."
The crowd roared and the marksman
threw wild. He threw wild with the
second ball and the third, and then lie
bought six more.
"Why, that's Pel-g Saunders," said
Pa Gooseberry. "Ilowdedo, Peleg?"
Again the crowd roared and again
and again the chuckling marksman
threw wild.
It was a big crowd now, and all tho
new-comers wanted to see and bear the
talking dolls. The nickels streamed l i,
and there were dimes, too, and even
quarters.
"I lit me If you can," screamed Sister
Sue. "I don't care! I don't care."
"She's nnlled on." said Little Willie.
"Naughty! naughty!" cried Aunt
Jane.
"Bow, wow, wow!" barked Little
Willie, and the bark was so fierce and
so natural that the man with the ball
nervously Jumped and almost hit Tom
my Carter in the car.
And the crowd roared with laughter
ond pressed In closer.
" 'Tls tli last rose of summer," snn
Ma Gooseberry in a cracked soprano.
"Hit her! bit her!" shouted the un
dutlful Willie.
But every thrower who came for
ward was bo convulsed with laughter
that anything like good marksmanship
was Impossible. Old Tommy Carter's
stock of cheap cigars was scarcely bro
ken Into.
And still th crowd pressed forward
and still the nickels and dimes pound
lu.
"Get tin' tired?" Tommy Carter found
the opiMirtunlty to ask the boy.
The latter straightened up with a
ball in his hand.
"No," be answered, "this Is only fun
How's the financial basis?"
"It's nickel plated an' n yard wide,'
chuckled Tommy Carter.
"What a very hanilpsome young
man," said Aunt Jane In her mincing
tones ns tbe next thrower poised ihe
ball.
"Don't you believe a. word s-'ie says.''
advised little Willie.
"Wiilyum!" said Pa Gooseberry se
verely. "I lodge, p-i, dodge!" shouted Little
Willie. 'That's the champed) thrower
tn klu' aim at you !"'
Am the crowd roared, and the nick
els flowed in, and Tommy Carter wore
an indelible smile, and the blg-.-cst
crowd In the jmrk pressed around and
fought for chances to throw.
And when the time was up and the
big hell over the main gate sounded the
signal for cleai'liig the grounds, the
crown reluctantly dispersed.
Toinn.v Carter turned und caught the
bov bv the shoulder.
Vi u're a'1 right, lad," he said, mid
bis v Vo lu-oV.- a llitle. "You're u II
right, purdiier."
The boy hud suddenly turned at Tom.
! ' words. Now h Just as suddenly
1 turned back.
i "Why. It's Col. Temple," cried Aunt
Jane. "Ilowdedo, colonel? I hop
jou're quite pernlcketty?"
Tommy Carter looked around with a
frightened start.
"Hush," he hoarsely whlsjiered to
The man strode forward. Ha had
laughed until his eyes were wet.,
"It's all right. Tommy," he said "Jim
and I are on the best of trms. Ill for
give you both for drawing the crowd
away from the other shows." W. It.
Kose In Cleveland Tlain Dealer.
HUMAN ASHES IN THE SEA.
Mldocean Orrmonr that Is No
l.ontrr an Uncommon One.
According to a London cable dis
patch, published here recently, a wom
an pnsscnger ou the latest eastward-
bound trip of the Luennia scattered nn
urn full of human ashes In mldoceau
and obtained a certificate from the cap
tain to the effect that she had done so,
says the New York Herald.
Though no names were mentioned in
the story, the woman was quoted as
having said the ashes were those of a
prominent New York business man,
who had dim-ted that his remains be
thus disposed of, and had specified the
Lucanla because it bad beeu his favor
ite vessel.
When the cable dlsjiatch w-as shown
to the manager of the United States
Cremation Company, he snlJ:
"Without some clew to the name It
would be quite InqiORslble for us to
Identify the case referred to. Such
midoccan ceremonies are by no means
so uncommon ns they once were. It
Is not at all unusual now for some man
or woman who has been a traveler to
request that such a disposition be made
of his or her mortal remains. The Idea
which appeals to them seems to be that
at the will of ocean winds nnd currents.
on the billowy surface of the element
they had loved best In life, they shall
continue thrtr travels after death.
"We have n sealed tin canister which
we use for that purpose; it has consid
erable buoyancy and will remalu afloat
for some time."
"Not Infrequently," the manager con
tinued, "It hns been the wish of the de
cedent that his ashes be permitted to
sink to the bottom of the sea. In that
case the canister is weighted. But, on
tho other hand, the desire sometimes Is
that the ashes be allowed to remain
afloat at the will of the elements. Not
long ago one of these block tin canis
ters, containing human ashes, was pick
ed up by a pilot somewhere off Sandy
Hook, nnd, thinking It might be of val
ue, he brought it to is, probably with
some idea of earning a reward.
"When we Identified tbe canister by
means of its number, however, nnd
communicated with the family of the
decedent, they were Inclined to be in
dignant because the pilot had presumed
to Interrupt Us wanderings.1'
BEAUTIFUL KINGSLEY LAKE.
It'a the Lnricrat nnd TIpepeat Spring:
In the State of Florida.
Every Starkeite admires Klngsley
Lake for clear water and high and dry
shores and pretty scenery, but that the
lake Is a remarkable one In other, re
spects Is not generally known, says the
Starke (Fin.) Telegraph.
This lake Is the largest spring in
Florida. It receives hardly any more
water than runs out of It through
iiluck Creek nnd the enormous quan
tity evaporated from Its two and one
half square miles of surface would sup
ply several su?h streams as Silver
Springs run. not to mention the water
soaked in it by Its banks. The lake
has been found ninety-two feet deep in
places, but Is probably deeper In others.
It Is situated on the backbone ridge of
Florida, nud while Its banks slope
steeply to the water its surfa'v is liigh-i-r
than the land some miles away in
auy direction. The shores are high and
dry, except the southwest, which is
flat and marshy. The bottom slope
gently everywhere except on the south
eastern side, where the sand carried
by the waves causes It to shoal up sa
rapidly that It will, no doubt, become a
dry beach in a few years.
Klngsley Lake Is nearly two inih-s
across In any direction and about five
and three-quarter miles around. In
bygone ages Its southern shore was
probably a straight line until the -then
prevailing northwesterly winds scooped
away the sand on the southeast side
until the lake became round.
By that time tbe winds encountered
vegetation; and could change the out
lines no more. The dunes conqiosln?
the "scrub" on that side were formed
by the sand dug from the lake bottom.
Vegetation took hold there but slowly,
und even as late a9 thirty years ago
large areas presented nothing but white
sand. But the' wild rosemary busC,
which only requires a place to stay,
prepared the way for other shrubs, un
til now that locality is well covered
with chapiiaral.
Davis Thomas, the govcrimicut sur
veyor who sectlonlzeil the land around
there in 1S!1, call the lake in his field
notes "open lake." and remarks lacon
ically "this lake is very near round."
Judging from his notes, nolsidy lived
on its shores at that tVie, ond even the
great Newinaiisville ami Mlddlelmrg
road which later ran ou the south side
of the lake did not then exist. The
lake was later named for Mr. Klngsley,
an Englishman, who held large Spmlsli
grants In other parts of Clay County.
Many kinds of hardwood trees grow
on the shoreH of the lake, and springs
of pure water are common. Tbe sol'..
Irrigated. Is unsurpassed for early veg
etables and fruit. Summer residences
lire numerous and will U- more so when
a coiiteiiqiorury pow er launch will make
regular trlim lictween different points,
on this beautiful water.
Tenure - l-'silitld.
"That man makes a great many mis
takes," said one factory employe.
"Yes," answered the other, "more
than nil the rest, of us put together.
The foreman keep him around to have
some one to Jump ou and show that
be' iMisjf." Washington Star.
I Ktcry man exciatc bit impatience in
the conviction that patience is puraly
I a feminine trait.
If you would make a fool aury call
I buu one.
