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.
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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
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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"
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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