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Dakota County Herald Dakota crrr, mob. JOHN n. REAM, ... rnbtl.Mior W head that wear tho crown 1 doing some more uneasy lying. Giro great trouble with flying Is tlint the earth Is such n solid tiling to fall PufTnlocs are quoted nt $1,000 n howl. Hm tho beef trust secured control of the buffalo market? . anadian author has written a book called "SThe Dungeon." wldi the bleu, perhaps, flint it will be n good collar. If those three nlrsliljm prove thMr ability to Mil across t ho English Clinn ol, where will Hrltuhi's "walls of onk" grt off nt? King Edward. It lias been announced, fe 01 of debt. Like the village black smith, lie can now look the whole world In tls face. strong suspicion exists that t ho Iclc nian of KuroiM' never will lie well But! Uc jmcks tip and goes over to Asia, where lie properly belongs. Amortcnns, declares Prof. Zuoblln, prefer the exclusive to the common life. The man who owns a motor car will bo Inclined to deny this assertion. When the Englishmen hear that Chi cago's smoke nuisance Is greater than that f Loudon they will put it down an notMng but nnothec Yankee boast. Mr. Edison may be taking 'a phys ical rest, but his Imagination appears to be working overtime when ho pre dicts fhat we will Cy ! the north pole la forty minutes. A Chicago man Is said to be afraid to Inherit $1,000,000. He should overcome his fears, for even when one has a million the ownership of an automobile la not compulsory. It Is wild there aro more blonde criminal than any other. Still, blondes who have mnnnged for a life time to keep ont of Jail need not give themselves unnecessary worry. Mr. Edison thinks the present type of aeroplane will not be the flying ma chine of tho future. At tho proper time Mr. Edison will drop a few guard ed bint as to the future airship. In a recent football game between teams representing two eastern collegen seventeen players were knocked uncon scious. Yet there arc people who bo oms excited over th"S danger of war In the Balkans. King Edward has paid off all the debts he Incurred when he was the Prince ef Wales. This Is highly t rod Itablo to hla majesty, but with a life long Job and a good salary how could vb have done otherwise? The publishers of John D,, Rocke feller's forthcoming story of his life advertise that Mr. Rockefeller does not Indulge In any moralizing or arguing. 1H merely tells hew It happened," says the advertisement, "and lets the reader draw his own conclusions." In view iff tho fact that the reader has his onclnslons all drawn now, this Is prob ably a sensible course for the autobiog rnpber to take. A year ago, when times wsre hard, eastward-bound steamers wera crowded with foreigners who had lived for a time In this country, but were return ing to their native land, many of them Intending to stay there. When the big Cunarder, Lusitanta, came Into New .York the other day, It had on board feven hundred Swedish immigrants, six hundred and thirty of whom had gone home last fall. Many of them had. not Intended to come back, but nearly all of them, when questioned, declared that they had returned because they found that they "could not live in tho Ameri can way", on the other side ) nnd they bad become accustomed to the freedom and the luxuries of American life. It will be thirty years In December since the death of the Woman who la supposed to kavs founded the collar In dustry In Troy, New York. As twen ' ty thousand persons aro engaged in making collars and cuffs there, and as the city produces nearly nine-tenths of the oollars and cuffs made In this country, It Is evident that the distinc tion of starting the business U consid erable. It teems that Orlando Monta gue, a Troy shoo manufacturer, was scrupulously neat, and that his wife found the labor of washing his shirts burdensome. The shirts of the time had the collars and cuffs attached, as have many lino shirts to-day. To avoid washing tho whole shirt when only the collar was soiled, Mrs. Montague made detachable linen bands tied round the neck with tas-s. I'nder this arrange-' nient her husband could put on u clean collar every morning ami every even ing without compelling her to spend too B-'Ui-U time over the wash tub. Her I'clgUbors followed her example, and th demand for such collars was so (jrreat that a Methodist minister, who kept a notion stow in town, soon em ployed several women to mako them, while lie peddled them from house to bouse. Mr. Montague saw that the business might be profitable, and icn ed a collar factory, where tils wife's Invention was developed and exploited. Unlike many Inventors. Mrs. Montague, through the prosperity of her husband, profited by her discovery. Another expedition In seurch of treasure lost in the Spanish main lu the days of the galleon nnd tho free booter has come to grief. This time It was a purty of five old Harvard men who blithely set forth lu tho former cup defender Mayflower, with divers and all the paraphernalia necessary to penetrate the hold of a sunken treas .ure ship and recover enough doubloous and bullion to place the gold reserve ob an Impregnable basis. About the tlms the treasure seekers set lull It m reportr-l tt. :i t a swarthy crw of Jolly Rogers who wore the blue of old Vale had chartered a low, rakish craft to trail the Mayflower. Willi cutlasses and pikes, nnd not forgetting the barrel of rum, these bold pirates planned to let the sons of Harvard perform tho hard and dangerous work of recover ing tho fabulous treasure; then a shot across the liows, boarders over the side with cutlasses In teeth, five wearers of, the crimson walking the plank, a seuti Hod Mayflower, nnd then a scoot to ttn fastnesses of some West Indian coral buy to divide tho booty. Hut Uiero ''il lie no chance for the amateur Cup tiiln Kldds and Morgans to carry out I heir part of the Joke; It lias been far :roiu a Joke with the original treasure seekers. A hurricane came up. and the Mayflower Is now n dismantled derelict somewhere in the gulf stream,, while the party of five, together with tho seven members of the ortrw who were rescued from the battered hulk, to which tl.e; bad clung for forty-eight hours, have been landed at I be port of Haltlmore by an unro'.nnntlc Norwegian tramp Moanier. Treasure trove has a seemingly Irresistible fascination for the adventurous. It also excites the cupidity of those who are not adven turous, nnd a promoter, It was an nounced n few days ago, proposes to capitalize that fact by floating a mill ion dollars of stortc In a corporation to recover about $50,000,000 worth of gold from a vessel that foundered some hun dred years ago at a spot that has been "exactly located." Every school boy knows that tho ghost of the lamented Cnptnln Kldd stalks to protect his Ill gotten hidden wealth, for which vain search has been made. Now, It's Just as certain that the spooks of other free-lK)oters and mariners who sailed the Spanish main are on guard. They resent the iienttratlon of their senti mental past in this day of steam and piNollne, except by the del vers of the pen, who And fiction's most thrilling Held In that romantic era; nnd they mnke the hurricanes blow as a warn ing to those who would disturb the mysteries of Davy Jones' locker. If ou aro not superstitions enough to be lieve It Just lender the net results of Viet treasure seeking In real life. Ilrart-Mrnln. The heart Is a long-suffering and pa tient organ, nnd fortunate It is that this Is so, for even the gentlest or tho laziest person puts burdens on It that nny less obliging organ would resent to the extent of quitting work. Tho digestive organs do this some times, and tho result Is much suffering for tbo time being; but when the quar rel Is pntched up, and tho offender census to abuse these useful and neces sary parts of the body, life goes ou as before.' , The heart cannot stop work for a minute, for lf.it should llfo would end at once; and so humtn nnture presumes upon Its knowledge of this, and puts all sorts of dlflicult tasks upon tho heart There Js a limit, however, that can not be exceeded, especially by those who have passed tho fortieth mile-post, without risk, If pot of instant death, at least of chronic Invalidism. The heart is a muscular bag, divided Into four compartments, the function of which is to pump the blood to all parts of the body, which it does by the regu lar contraction of Us walls. In health and under normal conditions this pump ing action goes on regularly and quiet ly, but when an Impediment is offered to the flow vf blood In the arteries, such as oceurg during act ive exerclso or under tho stress of some strong mental emotion, such as grief, anger, or great Joy, the muscular wall must contract more forcibly. If tho opposing force continues b yong a certain time, the tesjrt gets lired, and Its cavities dllat a little, while Its action grows more rapid. The sign of this Is shortness of breath. Young fcthletes, by n course of Judicious "training," gradually streagthm th heart muscle so that It Is ubla to meet th strain and overcome It by more forcible contractions. Id south, nlao. the organ Is elastic, ami nattily returns to Its norninl size, even In the alweuce of "training." as soon ks tho strain Is reduced. ( In Inter life, however, this elasticity (lisapHars, nnd n severe tax ou tho organ, such as bl.-jvllng up-hill, run ning, or even a strenuous game of ten tils, when one Is "soft," may result la it dilatation which is not reduced read lly. or which may even persist ns a crippled heart, making Its owner more tir less of n permanent Invalid. Every person over 50 should avoid povore physical strains of nil kinds. Ho sluiuld exercise regularly walking la the best kind of exercising for the heart but he should avoid unusual feats of running, bicycling or even horseback riding, such as the nriny oflUvrs are now subjected to, if ho would keep bis heart In condition to last us long as the other organs up to NO or 100 years, which Is the natural limit of u well spent life. Youth's Companion. A 1'o.lliv Itlrntinoatton. V. . sicrnratpi MAIL, f Stranger (at st ollice window) Any mall here for John Jones? Postmaster What Jones are you I Stranger I am the John Joues what wauls his mail. KAISEB AS A MATCHMAKER. flana to Wnrry Ulr. nnly Ilanahtrl o llclr to ttr4-llaiitcir . Interesting reports are ntlont to th eflect that the KnWer his Iks eye upaii the youii'j niii ii win will s line day be emperor of Austria and king of llun pir.v as the future husband of bis only daughter, the Plyear-old Princess Vlo torla I.ulse. The scloti of royalty who Is the object of tills alleged august iiuilelittiaUliig ' Is the Archduke Kirl I'raic. Joseph, gmmlncplicw of the reigning emperor, l'rancis ' Joseph, says the Iterlln ctirresMindcnt of the New York Times. Youi Karl Krnii,, who Is just 21, Is tic iMiM son of the late Archduke Clio Fran;: Joseph, brother of the Aiv'nin!;e 1'ranz Ferdinand, who in be:ils liie Ausl ro-l I imgarlun throne when I lie present aired monarch dies. Archduke Karl Franz is directly In the line of sU'.'t't'Ssloii because the Arch duke I'riuir, Ferdinand has renounced hi rl::'it of succession for bis own chl'tlrcn. In ciiiisetpienee of his morga, I'Mtie marriage with Princess von llo Jioiibcrg. t eiuinna! Ion of the reporls ns to the Ccriuan Kaiser's plans for bis daughter is naturally dlliicult to se cure, but Hie Viennese are persuaded that his majesty had them definitely In mind when he P"ik his daughter C long to Vienna last May, on the occu- Ion of the congratulatory Jubilee visit of the (iernian ruling Sovereigns. Archduke Karl Franz. Joseph lately pnlihed one year's service lis lieuten ft nt In n iennan hussar regiment. J'llneess Victoria r.uise, although not n pre'ty girl. Is said to be growing up to be an exceedingly sweet and talent It 1 young woman, who, as the only 4laugMer In a family of six sons. Is the constant chuin of her mother, the em press. The Nllsul Trading Company of Japan does a $I(ki,(ki,(iimi business with Kurope, Australia, America and Asia. In London more fires occur on Satur day than on any other day of the week, nnd more In August and December thnn lu any other months. After twenty-five years of operation of the Postal Savings ISank of India the depositors number l.PMI.i'l'O and the deposits amount to f40,i'j;j,2S:5. Merchants In South America com plain that manufacturers In the United States are too often inclined to "un load" undesirable goods on them. v There art- now over 250,000 words In the F.nglish language acknowlcdM by the best aullioUi's, or about 70,000 more than in the (Jermnii, French, Spanish and Ita)'.;:r. languages coin blued. Among the 'latest horticultural pro ducts exhibited lu Kiifjland Is 'a rose so dark as to bo almost black. Many gardeners are eagerly trying to . get a blue rose; success in this Jlne means a fortune. There Is a difference between the Are departments of London and of New York City,. The London department costs 10 cents a year for each inhabit ant, while' the department of Now York costs $1.7"t for ench New Yorker. The amount of wTialeboue taken an nually does not now much exceed 25,000 pounds. The largest part of this Is taken by the whalers sailing ont of ports on the Pacific coast. A few years ago the amount taken was ns much as 000,000 pounds annually. A party of some thirty men, former ly sailors on tho Russian cruiser Knala I'otenikln, who have been employed In tho petroleum factories in llomnanla, have left for Canada. It will lie re membered that the crew of tho Kuala 1'otemklu mutinied and many of tho men took refuge In iiouinauhi. The average resistance of the human body from the feet to the hands, when the soles of the shoes are saturated with water and the hands are wet. Is about .r,000 ohms, nnd may be repre sented approximately by the resistance of a copper wire about one-two-liun-rtred-aiid filty-fourth of an Inch lu di ameter and 7,710 feet In length. Dr. Ida Kahn, a Chinese woman phy slclan, who took her degree several years ngo from tho University of Michi gan, has returned to thb: country to take a post-graduate course In Johns Hopkins. Miss Kaliu is a missionary for the Methodist ICplscopul church and opened the city of Nunclmng to mis sionaries after It had been forbidden ground for some time. She accomplish ed this by curing the wife of -Tustal Taeo. the vUvroy. John W. (Jates looms up rather larg er across the water than be does at home. This from a London newspaper: "Our Washington correspondent tele graphs that John V. t!at(s, the sport ing millionaire, Is constructing n golf course that Is to cost $1,000,000. His race course will cost three times ns lunch and bis automobile track, fifty yards wide, thirty-four miles long and constructed entirely of concrete, will mean an expenditure of $1,000,000." Mow lo I '111 l't llnlr In Wood. It sometimes becomes neeessary to fill ill t cracks or dent in the tine wood work, furniture, floors, etc. The fol lowing Is the best way of doing it: White tissue paper is steeped and per fectly softened In water ami by thor ough kneading with glue transformed Into a paste and hy means of oehrs (earth colors) colored as nearly ns pos sible to the shade of the wood. To the p.ste calcined magnesia Is then adtknl, and It Is forced Into the cracks or very lirmly to the wood ami after dry ing retains Its smooth csrface. - So II I. teacher If a vehicle with two wheels Is a bicycle and one with three wheels a tricycle, what Is one with only one wheel? Scholar A whet Ibarrow. Illustrat ed Itlts. When two men are life long friends, each man thinks It U largely due t bis fwrbeorauce. POSTMARKS For, 47 Y2AP.3. U. IV. 1,. Smith of Smith' Pnsln, V. V., Ili.l.l. Thin II root-1. Tlii- obb'st postmaster In New York State and perhaps the oldest in point of eniitlnuons servb-e III the I'nitot States Is Coorgo w. I Smith of Smith's I'.nsin. Washington County, a little town wl'li a tioitulafloii of less thnn .",01 , situated on tho Champlaiu tnnal. says the New York Sun. I'ost- mwter Smith was appointed April 1!). IH'il. by Montgomery Itlalr, postmaster general during Lincoln's first term, nnd has survived all the Democratic r.dmln Istnitlons since that time. l'.efore bis appointment ns postmas ter Smith bad served ns clerk In fir; m stollieo f,,r ten years, giving him fifty-seven years of continuous service. Smith has really served the posfohVp department one year less than James IS. Kerr, nn octogenarian who Is now employed -In the ofbVo of the superin tendent of the malls In Chicago, but Kerr has never risen to the dignity of fielng boss of a postofllce. Smith's success In clinging to bis job through the Democratic years was said lo have Ix-en due partly to the fact that there wt-re no Democrats in Smith's Hasln who had the heart to terminate the veteran's long service find partly to President Cleveland's dis inclination to do so. Smith's Hasln Is ns promt of the postmaster's record ns lie Is. nid once when an unsympathetic Democrat slatted n petition for Post master Smith's job overyliody else in town signed one asking that Smith be rcti'liicd. When Smith first went to work in Cat- little Washington County postoflico ei cry letter was recorded, waybllled tiinl wrapped separately, and every three months the postmaster had to pend a record to Washington of each letter that left his oilb-e lu that time. Now the veteran receives ond sends ont eight daily malls and has two rural delivery routes to look nfter. Mr. Kerr, whose record Is n year longer, was born in 1S2S and became a mail clerk when he was 21. serving first In I'aliiesvllle, Ohio, where his uncle was postmaster. lie was sent from one city to another until he final ly landed In Washington Just prior to the Civil War. After establishing posts to tnke care of the mall for soldiers In parts of tho south con quered by the union army he ran the flrst railway mall service south of Ma son nnd Dixon's line. He went to the Chicago postoflico In 1870 and for the Just thirty-two years has been correct ing the galley mail proofs for the Chi cago newspapers. S HE "BESTED" THE PARSON. Lord Uncoil Is the author of a dictum that for a child It is probably no harder to die than to be bom. This saying conies toTTie mind when one reads the account In the Spectator of the death of Jesse Pen roe, a gloomy old bachelor who raised fine cows. For some years lie had entertained u strong dislike of the village pardon, with whom be bad had difficulty over n piece of land. "'Kss," said his old housekeeper, "he'in gone, and parson didn't bury 'en, for he'd gone furrlii ; so parso:i from Stoke parish did put 'en In tho dirt. Measter. n did always say. 'A wiinn't bt;v thlecy fellow tn put I in the dirt wfien I be carried out by town end feet foremost.' n said. "'The land wer' mine,' said he, 'anil passon be hadn' no right to 'em, but I did best 'en,' a said. So parson, be wer' gone somewheres, girt ways off, when monster took sick, nn' he says. 'Surah,' says he, 'I'll best 'en yet. I did Isst 'en over the land, nnd I'll best 'en to my burylii',' says he; ;.n' after that he didn't take no more hood. "Hacks of pain he wer' In. but a didn't cry out for naught, an' when I seo the poor nose of 'en so kvon's a razor, nnd him so like In the face to's brother that did die thirty yenr buck, I did know how 'twould go. Hut a never cried out, only did pluck nt sheet and speak low to blsself. " 'My cow,' a did say, 'my dear beau ty, A shann't niver see her no more,' an' the tears did inn down over's cheeks.. For he did love thlecy cow, look, so well's a Christian, and wouldn't niver let none milk tier but I. for I did sins to she when I did milk, so milk would come easy, nn' monster, lie did set thlecy cow above any o's kin. "An' there he did fret, the denr soul, that he shouldn't see her no more. Nor dldn', an' her a beauty, too. Hut ho bested parson, did measter. an' I reckon that wer' a rale comfort to 'en." ITALIAN TOBACCO CULTUEE. Ilrult on l'-rrurii Hiix-riiuciitul I 'iii-iii I"rov Sill In Curt ory. The results of the experiments of to bncco cultivation In the province of Ferrara, northeastern Italy, in p. KM! mid 1007, by the Socleta Agricola Ln Codl goro, have been published, from which Consul D. it. Hirch of tjenoa has pre pared the following summary ; An experimental field prepared In the commune of Cotllgoro la p.Mitl was lim ited to twelve and one-half acres o." ground, but the necessary tlryhouse erected was suitable for a much greater cultivation. The total expenditures for the trial exc-oded loo.Ooo lire ($20, 000). The first experiment In P.mh. was considered of ' much advantage, there fore, In 1007 the area of cultivation wus Increased to forty-two acres, sit uated in several different localities, ac cording to the exact provisions Includ ed In tho concession given by the gov ernment. The result of this second experiment, however, wus not so good as that of the flrst year, but this par tial failure Is said to have been due to causes not connected with the tpies tlou of the availability of I lie soli for tobacco culture. It Is announced that the project will not be abandoned, us fulih In the pos sibilities of the soli of Italy Is still strong enough to warrant further ex lieriments. In fact, uuotlier company, known as Socleta (Jrande HonlhVa, hat projiarcd alstut .Too ucres of land for a much more extensive excrlmeut Is tobacco planting 1 PUSLIC SCHOOLS LACK INDUSTRIAL TRAKTI1TG. Dy Andrew S. Draper. (The lei gth of (he si iiool period and the pro ductive ihlue of Hie citizen are closely re lated, lmlnt'u-inlisiii is the great basis of a nation's true Kirengtli nnd real culture. Knowing this, we have seen Hint there Is not Milllcieiit urtieuhitioii lietween the educa tional nnd the tniiusti'ial systems of the coun try. We have sven the Indefinite expansion of Instruction and the unllnibeil multiplication nf appliances leading to literary snd professional nnd managing occupations without any leal solicitude about the vital Industilal foundations t the nation's happiness and power. A situation manifestly unjust to Hie greater number, even enjiist to thoe fur whom It has done the most, has resulted. Notwithstanding our lastcd universality of educa tional opportunity, there lias grown up nn nbsurd hiatus lu the educational system which denies the Just rights of the Mtige enriilng masses and grievously menaces the Industrial efllelwity and the material prosiierity of tho country. There should be un open chance for every ..American ibild. The Influences of the schools uitist not lend boys who might become excellent cabinetmakers Into being no-account lawyers and girls who might be first class breadniakers into being fourth-elans musio teachers. The school system has grown deformed ; It Is one-Bided and not broad enough at the base. A GOOD HUSBAND'S HARD LOT. By Louise Sometimes, It seems to me, that worn ami worried wives iintl mothers forget, or nt least neglect to remember, that good husbands bear their eoual half of the burden. A woman who runs a house and cares for children has no sinecure; this Is the truth; but the man who has lo flint every cent to pay for It all bus no easy snap of It, cither. ' v woman's work Is never done, the old saying runs, and where there are children It truly Is, never, done; night as well as day Hie mother forever has the yoke upon her neck; a thousand trifling duties and exasperations pursue her like a cloud of midges. So, if she sometimes complains, who can Maine her'.' Though there are thousands who never utter one word, but do their best always and cheer fully, so long ns they live. Hut to the Woman who be lieves Hint nil Hint husband does is to go downtown and there while the hours away till 0 o'clock in Joyous free dom I wculd fay that 1 would like her to really know what It means. To many a man it means being virtually u slave. The mother, at least, while she may bo slave to her work, can order It as it suits be:; but tin' man who Is servant of another must take what is said to him, obey orders nnd put pride and in many ascs principle in his pocket. Ou such a husband rots always the haunting responsibility Vf maintaining the home. Ho can never forget that mother and children look to him nnd to bini iilono for bread ami shelter and food. This burden is no slight one. Ho must stay for every day in the week ln one room nt on.' place. U it bright or dark, clean or AIDS THOUSANDS OF MUTES. Lo li ilo a lu-t'lor Tulkw lo i-'.OOO In IIIh f'hitrrlt Hint Glvm Ket-tly Iltl. London has 2,(K;) deaf and dumb per sons who attend St. Savior's Episcopal Church In Oxford street, tho rector of which is the Rev. F. W. (iilliy. who, al though not a deaf mute. Is uson of parents thus afflicted. His congregation Is mixed. Including aristocrats and even bootblacks'. He makes his blgns as pic turesque as possible, v.hleh action not only quickens the process of "speaking" .::':; i.3 V KKADINU THE SEUVICH to Ids congregation, but enables the clergyman to give more Imprcssiveiicss to words und passages tbuu could ' obtained from the simple spelling of words on the lingers. Many young men and women are helped to positions by their rector. They become proflcituit and are well paid. The lute Sir John Hiiimlell Maple niado It a point to employ us many as he could and always paid such appren tices regular wages from tho start. In that way he Indulged id a form of prac tical charity, but It was a bit or phil anthropy which Inflicted no wound upon he pride of the beneficiary. NOT A MYTH. Story ol "'h Duy stand wit lb Burning Ur-rb," Founded on Fact. Few people know that the "Hoy ou the Burning De:k" Is not a myth, but u actual fact, and still fewer know that the man who gave the order for the destruction of the vessel, on wbose deck the aforesaid boy Htotvl. w.'.s born tn Jamaica Plain, and lived there till bis royalist father, who objected stren- ly to the American revolution. Pit i i i ' V h U- - :',, -. f J "St J -rtt- THE SENSATIONS Sattcrthwalthe. transplanted him to England, where ho served under Nelson In the battle of the Nile. The boy was French, son of the nd miral of the French ship l'Orient, nnd that was the vessel that blew up with tlit Immortal boy standing by the mainmast. The boy's unconscious destroyer, Capf. Hotijaniln HallowoH) was born in the old Hoylston bouse still standing at the corner of Hoylston and Center streets. In Jamaica Plain. The house mm, i ( :t IK ii-'i V 4 " , t 7 J W is IN THE SKIN LA.Mil'AUE was built in 171 by the 'Hoylston u:td afterward passed to Hip rabbi royalist, Henjamln llullowcll. after whom the captain was named. The old man lived in Jamaica Plain long enough to make himself unpopular when the American revolution broke out. The son had been curly sent to England for bis education, and ho be came one of the seven American-born men to attain distinction in the Hritlsli navy. Iii the battle of the Nile dipt. Ilailr well had command of the ship Swift sure, which ran down the luckless l'Orient. When Capt. Hallowed gave the command for the French vessel to lie blown up be knew nothing of the Ll-year-old sou of the French admiral, who foolishly, but heroically, obeyed his stern father's tip.'er, Don't leave the vessel till 1 give you permission." anil bis "proud, though childish, form" graced the doomed vessel when she "with fragments strewed the sea." Capt. Hallowed afterward beard the' sud tale and was much moved by It. Tb boy called out three times in axony to his father, lie learned, but if it '3 - t.4 hiHiiiiiu grimy: be must there put In bis days ntnl never bo foumT away from there; and lit hlni try ever so hard nnd work with his last might, always and forever,. be Is in that jeopardy (but the next day may bring him the words. "Your services are no longer required." His Job may he wanted by the boss for h frieml, or It may lie decided that what he does Is not paying right, lie Is nt the mercy of any trivial circumstance, nnd he knows It. Does he succeed in holding it down for many years, still when gray hairs come upon him he limy get tils walking papers nnd nt Inst his lifelong fear bo realized. Such Is. the n rt tiind lot of the hard-working, good huxhunil whose only liojie Is to provide for his family so long ns he lives; and while Ills wife has It hard, she must nlso remember that he Is bearing his equal share. OF YOUTH. By O. Stanley Halt. Young people need to tingle with sentiments, and the appetite for excitement and sensation Is at its height in tho teens. Here is where the principle of vlcariousness gives the teach er one of his chief opportunities and resources. Excitement the young must have, for feelings. lire now their life. If they cannot find It ii the worthy, they lire strongly predisposed to seek It In the grosser forms of pleasure. Hence, every glow of esthetic apis'ociation, every thrill aroused by heroism, every pulse of religious aspirutloi weakens by Just so much the potential energy of passion, because It has found Its kinetic equivalent ln a higher form of expression. It is from this point of view that some of our German co-laborers have even gone so fai ns to advocate a carefully-selected course of love stories, chosen so us to bring out the most chivalrlc side of the tender passion at this age, when it is most plnstic and capable of Idealization; while others have advocated theater-going to selected plays, palpitating with Ufe, ac tion and adventure, that emotional tension may bo dis charged not merely harmlessly, but In an elevating way--American Magazine. VOTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR POLITICAL GRAFT. By H. C. Loudenslager We will never have really pure politics lit America, until we devise some menns for com pelling voters to perform their duties. At t he present time tho percentage of men who shirk their resiMinslbillty, particularly nt the pri maries, is enormous. The result la that the political game In America is played too often only Ty an inferior class of citizens, who could easily be outvoted by good men. These tie- ' faulting good citizens who neglect their duty to the com munity are icsponsible for graft in public life, for boss Isin in States and cities and for practically every In iquity of American politics. This is a fact which n known to every practical lKilitlciau and to every man who has ever run for public oflice. If they would do their duty we would have clean politics. We never will have clean politics until the exercise of tho right of voting is made compulsory by every jiersnn who is eu-tltlt-tl to cast a ballot. stood resolutely by the mainmast, though his father lay cold in death. So much moved was the captain Hint ho had a coflin made ln the boy's honor out of the flontlng fragment's of the l'Orient and sent It to his friend nnd patron. Lord Nelson, with the story of flie boy's bravery, nnd expressing doop. regret for the young hero's untimely end. Nelson had the coflin placed ln th cabin In remembrance of the boy, and Capt. Ha Howell himself told the tale to the then widely known poet, Felicia Hemnns. Her sympathies were imme diately excited and she Immortalized the boy in her sentimental bnt im mortal verses, nnd she named hint wisely, ' Ciis.ibiauca, White Soul." RABBITS ARE HARD FIGHTERS. C'ltnrare ol 1'nwnrdlee n Slundri- De feat ol a Ferret. Tell a man that he hasn't the pluck of a rabbit and If he doesn't disprove' it by hitting you he Is certain at any rate to be extremely annoyed, says Pearson's Weekly. Yet the taunt is a libel on the rabbit A doe rabbit will , fight like fury In defense of, her young. She will charge like a battering ram and use those long sharp Incisors of hers to capital pur pose. An old buck rabbit is not to be Hght y tackled by weasel, stoat or eveu fer ret. On the sanded floor of a small public bouse near Chestnut a ferret of long experience was matched with an old lop-eared buck, tho property of tho landlord. The ferret made straight for the rub- bit's throat, but the latter was In tho' ulr before master ferret could rea:U him, and leaping clean over the ferret's head let out with those powerful hin t legs of his a kirk which buried ti,0 ferret bodily against the wainscot. Twice tho ferret returned to the nttneic und twice he missed ills grip and went hurilng through the air. The third repulse was enough for him. He knew he was beaten and eouli net bo persuaded to stand un far a fourth round. Cnaniiltlra Kxiectvd. During one of Speaker Cannon's bit ter political fights lu his district in Illi nois, the opposition resorted 'to desper ate tactics. Among other things. friends of Ciulo Joe were suinmarllT dismissed from positions they held n the public service. Some of his friends became alarmed at this, nnd one of them called on the Speaker at his resi lience, and salt! somewhat excitedly. .me, Miiun una Jones have lost their positions In the postoflico. What are we- gotng to uo about it?' I'ncle Joe took nnother nufT at bin cigar and then nswensl. with a benev olent smile. "Nothing, if y K0 hlto. a battle, you have got to expect to have some dead and wounded." Th llllrr lll. Hewitt Who was that fellow who in a tit of absent miudedness fried to light his cigar from the electric Hh Jewett He's a Joke writer who make a specialty of Jokes uUmt countrymen mowing out tne gas. Now York Press. Still Kb XV nm Lovrd. I can uot iiiug the old koiign " Her promise short ami tr She kept. Hut llicu uUo went and The uew onra wl,ii4i unm ltoatoa Traveler. 1