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THE GREAT ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE. pEFEW AS A STORY TELLER. l '-J aW' IM .- m i infiii limn i m .V""- Ir-vrvwj--, .-'1 1 " if i,. 1 ILvV.2.S e5 iEirf 1 P. -rT ail ( A. eWe-v I 1 M 1 1 .'-a 11 I m W M . r". m t is. aW' Im .-SnA- rw 11 js. r Tlie earthquake which took place lu Calabria anil Sicily must be regarded as the most devastating catas trophe recorded In the world's history. It Is stated that some 200,000 lives have been lost, and It la Impossible to realize the number of persons left homeless and destitute. The above sketches arc founded on photographs taken la the various districts affected, and give a vivid Idea of the misery and horror of the disaster. DEATH OF COQUELIN. Coqucllii, greatest of French actois. Is dead. Indefatigable as always, he was preparing for the leading part In a new play by Edinond Uostnud when the eml came. We can Imagine the sense of loss of the French people by recalling our own feelings when Joseph Jefferson died. I. Ike Jefferson, F.enolt Constant Ooquelin bad become air Institution. Ills long and successful stage career, begun in the prime of a former genera tion and continued so far in the life of Its successor, was calculated to diffuse a sort of Impression that he always had been and always would be. Securing the first prize In comedy at the con servatory in 18."!). he made his debut In the following year at the Comedie Franca isc. The last opportunity Americans had of seeing Coqui'llii was when be made his tour with Sarah Bernhardt. It Is no secret that he was dissatisfied with the Impression produced-on American audiences, who manifested their pref erence for the divine Sarah unmistak ably. With the exception of Cyrano none of his roles seemed to appeal par ticularly to playgoers over here. Yet says the Chicago Inter Ocean, he might have anticipated that. Woin- an, romance and tragedy are universal. Man and comedy are national. The comedian, on going to another country, lias to overcome a host of national con ceptions to make himself acceptable. Few nations boast of their tragedy as distinctly national. But all make that claim for comedy. It could hardly be otherwise. No nation believes that an other has a real sense of wit and humor. M. Coquelln was, of course, a come- dian In the best sense. It Is unfortu nate that the word has lieeii Veducrd lu this country to serve chiefly as the designation of farceurs. The fountains f tears and laughter lie dose together; and the great comedian Is the real brother to t lie great tragedian. No char acter of tho drama Illustrates this bet ter than Cyrano, one of Coquelln's fa vorite roles. Cyrano has a poignant suggestion of tragedy all the way through. It Is a trick of the actor, whether one smiles or sighs. There Is something especially pa thetic In the deutn of a great actor. Ills Is a doubtful Immortality. The jxet leaves his books, the sculptor the chiseled marble, the statesman bis la o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo o o o o The Mournful Woman o o o o o o o oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o NCK there was n woman who gloated over tho most melancholy topics of conversation, believed laughter a sin, recreation a waste of time and fresh air a menace to health, and found her grentest delight In attending funerals. "I hope I'll be as beau tiful a corpse as that," she would remark, ns she stood beside the bier of some friend. ,land It won't be long now; It won't be long." Everywhere she went this sad sister carried on at mosphere of gloom. Depression filled her mind,- fairly embalmed her per sonality and exuded at every mental pore. She was a perpetual wet blan ket to everybody, and her friends dodged her like the butcher's bill or the rent man. By and by she actually made herself believe that her liver, heart and other economy were out of kilter, and at ence she acquired a library of home-doctoring books and devoted herself to study. The more she studied the more certain she became that she was on tho quick road to the giive. She Just knew that she had every symptom In the calendar of diagnosis. About every ten minute of the day she dosed herself with one of the seventeen varieties of medicine she needed to ward off aliments, and getting out of bed every hour of the night to take her tonic soon trained her so she couldn't sleep at all. Then she had a simply be-eutlful time picturing herself In a lovely rosewood casket, lined with pink silk, and a gilt-edged prayer hook in her hands with the floral tributes banked in the parlor bay windows, while Dr. Snoozuni prayed sonorously for "our dear.departed sister," her friends sniffled Into lace handkerchiefs (they always take their Tery best to funerals) and the choir sang "Nearer, My (Sod, to Thee." For hours and hours she used to He awake worrying which dress to be laid out In and what kind of a tombstone to order. By and by she died Most anyone who thinks about It hard enough can die. Chicago Journal. for a witness to future generations. The great actor, who surely ranks as an artist with other artists, leaves only a name, which the years will make more ghostly. Nothing becomes more InconwNptetithil than a dramatic tradi tion to the world that faes the proscenium. FOUR BOXES. World (inverard bjr artrldir Roi, llnllot Roi, Hand Ilos and Jury "The world is governed by three boxes," said an American wit of a cen tury ago, "the cartridge-box, the ballot-box and the bandbox." Between the first two of these great governing powers no one questioned the natural alliance; hut that the sex whose box was the bandbox should also claim a right to use the ballot box was, in his day, undreamed of. Half a century later, during the Civil War, Horace Greeley, the famous edi tor, held the same opinion. "Madam," he said, bluntly, at a pub lic meeting, to the pioneer Suffragist, Elizabeth Cndy Stanton, "the bullet and the ballot go together. If you want to vote, are you ready to fight?" "Certainly, sir," replied the quick witted lady, to the delight of the au dience. "I am ready to fight Just as you have fought with my pen." Not all the early women suffragists would so readily have countenanced warfare, even In Jest; for a notable number of them were Quakers, or of Quaker ancestry, to whom force was abhorrent. In the Society of Friends tlie rights of men and women have been always absolutely equal ; so that, as I.ucretla Mott declared, It seemed but natural to wish to counsW and act with men everywhere on even terms, as she had always done In Nantucket. One Quaker philanthropist, Abhy Hopper (iilritons, who had never been Identified with the "woman's rights' women, yet acknowledged with demure humor that, although she talked little about her rights, she had "been In the habit of always taking them" when sht couia. Onco, however, she failed to take very important one when slin wua mini tnoned to do so. She had a singularly ioia aim firm handwriting, easily mis taken for a man's, and often signed business communications A. II. Gib bons, so that she one day found her self, as a citizen and a tnxnaver. im perstlvely required, lu the name of the uiw, io lurnisu reasons wny she shoul not serve as a Juror. "I know of none," she wrote serene ly at the foot of this formidable docu ment, and sent It back. But the off! clal who read this annarentlv lmnoi-ii nent response must have Investigated me recora or ins correspondent, nnd found a reason; for A. II. Gibbons, householder of New York, was excused rrom service in that fourth box, so Im portant In civilized communities th Jury-box. Youth's Companion. Orlwln of Domlion, The origin of domlulea has been at trlbuted variously to the Greeks, the v ninese anu jews, hut a l'arls contem porary has discovered that the ever popular gamo owes its Invention to the Benedictines of Mont Cassln. Two of ine oruer were sent Into lengthy re treat, and they hit upon n method of whlllng away the spare time without infringing the rules of silence by play lug witli square stones upon which varl ous dots were marked. While perfect nig menisci ves mey perfected or rather evolved the game, and were accustomed to frequentlly repeat when placing lu me i-vtMiuig psauus rrom vespers, espe cially the first, that Is Fsalm 109. which lieglns "IMxIs Domlnus Domino meo." When the retreat was over game wus soon known In tho convent. Then Its fame spread to the village and lieyond. 1 he verse was reduced to word "Domino," hence the name as have received It. the one we Tlie iiihii who is libera! with nrom lses Is apt to Im miserly wheu It cornea to making food. It Prt ThiM the Hare Ilried III ltratlom. Maybe It is a sign of age lu Seuatoi Depow that he should undertake a de fense of his reputation as an after-din ner speaker. But he did the other night, at a semi-public dinner, where he was known personally to most of the diners, says the Cincinnati Tlmea 8tar's New York correspondent. De pew let it be known that he felt al ready the charge often made against him that he told old stories and cracked Jokes that had earned retirement. "If my stories are sometimes old," said he, "at least they are my stories, and no one's else. The fn't Is, the news paper I the ruin of the modern after dinner speaker. A gvnl story Is taken up, sent broadcast, ascribed to any one of a thousand sin-akers rather than the one who had originated It, and if, In the end, he ventures to tell his own story n second time, he escapes hissing only Itccausc of his auditors' good na ture. Let me Illustrate by a cae In point. Years ago I was asked to speak st a certain dinner. 1 sat down and thought. In (he end I Invented sev eral stories, among which was oue of the fanner who asked the transporta tion department of n railroad for four freight cars to ship frogs In. "The summer hotel down at tho point,' aald he, 'has promised to take all I can catch. And from the racket taeni frogs out In my ond make, I reckon I ?an ship four -ars full and leave enough for next year's crop.' But a llttlo later he revised his order. 'I dreened my pond and I found th.it two bullfrogs and n tree toad had been doln' all the hollerlnV Well, that story was well liked, because It Illustrated a point I wanted to make. The papers printed It. At the next dinner I attended, the speaker who preceded me told It as his own. I've henrd that story an aver age of twice a year slnco then, and I have neor told it a second time. And yet that was my story. I made It. The nevspaers have destroyed mo as an nfter-illniier siK'tiker." SHORT METER SERMONS. 4'unai'lrnee. A guilty conscience makes cowards of us all. but a clean conscience makes heroes of men. Bev. W. V. Hlnes, Bap tist. Iicxlngton, Ky. Oratlflrallon. Gratification Is only n temporary teasing and superficial sensation. Grat ify one wish and It ouly begets a big ger one. Bev. J. H. Hobhs. Episco palian. I'tlca, X. B. Truth. Truth changes Its garments to be In harmony with the age, but Its spirit never changes. nev. J. Hale Larry, Congregational 1st, Providence, B. I. Ilnlldlngr Character. Creed Is necessary In the building of the character. It must dominate a man If his character Is to be "built on a rock." Bev. A. P. Wedge, Baptist, Lowell, Mass. The Living- Church. The idea of n living church Is not n soulless corporation, but a body with faculties and powers, able to receive and assimilate truth and communicate It to others. Bev.. J. It. Stevenson, Presbyterian, New York City. x Applying taod'a Law. The laws of the state are applica tlons of the law of God or of the law of nature, which Is divine, and no hu man law is Just that does not rest ou these solid foundations. Bev. John I Belford. Boman Catholic, Brooklyn, X. Y. Rmlnru of Life. Tho business of life Is to become Godlike In character. Thought, feeling, will, tho three powers of intelligence, are the potencies whose right of devel opment will bring that result. 'Ber. T. Rdwatvl Barr, People's Pulpit, Milwau kee. Wis. Lethargy. The greatest danger that faces out nation to-day Is not the ponlblllty of a foreign Invasion, but the lethargy and Indifference of our citizens to the welfare of the various municipalities. Bev. J. II. Mcllvnlne. Episcopalian, Pittsburg, Pa. Snliafluii. Salvation Is the gift of God in Christ and is free to all who will take Hie way of life. But to take Ills way that Is a more vital and practical mat ter than Is commonly understood. It means to live the Christ life, sharing Ills Ideals and purposes, and thus corn lag into Ills likeness. Bev. E. A. Han ley, Baptist, Providence, B. I. The Will of Mil. The sovereign will of man Is the mightiest force In human life; It Is the absolutely fundamental power in per sonality, the executive of the Individ ual life. Every man is a small army of faculties, but the will Is the com mander, the pilot that runs the ship, who can bring It safely through the stress of weather and wave to its des tined harbor. The will Is the king on the throne of the soul! We are not led Into right relations to God in our religious life through the feelings or the Intellect ; it is not what a man knows, or what he feels, but what he wills to Io and do, that makes him a Christian and a man! Bev. Cortland Myers. Baptist. Brooklyn, X. Y. All In the Family. "Those two girls are ns devoted to each oilier." "So It appears." "And yet they love the same mim." "Oh, Impossible:" "Not at all; the man is their fa ther." Birmingham Age-Herald. No 1 for New Stle. "They can't drive my wife Into any of thetie new-fangled, slim-Jane styles of dressing." "Independent, eh?" "Weil, It ain't so much that. Rha'i SS Inches round the waist." Little Nephew Auntie, did you mar ry an Iudlau? Aunt Why do you ask such silly questions, Freddie? Llttla Nephew Well, 1 saw some scalps on your dressing table. Fllegende Blafr tar. Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. c ARE AMERICAN WOMEN SLAVES? 1HARLOTTE PERKINS UILMAis ns ueen talking again, and almost every time sho talks she groans up a grievance. This time It Is the awful discovery that the Ameri can wife in the average American home Is nothing more nor less than a H L-A-V-E. What do you think of that! The real ob ject of Mrs. Oilman, like a Urge number of her sisters. Is revealed In her protest agalust the ownership of one woman by one man. She makes no protest against the sole proprietorship of one man or many men by one woman. It is all the other way. Apparently sho Is vast ly Ignorant of the fact that human society Is a complex rganlzatlon, in which the husband has a duty to the wife, and usually does It quite as well as the wife does kr duty by her husband. If she and her sisters in the cause of "economic Inde pendence" for woman are anxious to earn tbelr own II v lag It is safe betting that 00 per cent or their husbands will be glad to get rid of them. If she is honest In her demand for- "the iwwer of se lectleu" of a different father for each of her children, acceralng to her whim of the moment, why doesn't she aailgrate to Tibet, where sho can have as many hus bands as ah wants, and display her economic Independ nee by supporting them? Such talk as hers is dan gerous to rubllc morals and an Insult to every hnppy, ure American woman who has a husband nnd a home. Chicago Journal. THE PRESIDENT'S SALARY. HE bill to raise the salary of the President F I to $100,(HH) a year and of the Vice President I I to S25.000 is the revival of a plun often dls- nll..,i if nlat rvlvM fm,in!i rluon m-tth tJie allowances of other "rulers," a form of ex pression that would have been resented a few years ago. What tho Kings, Emperors and Czars receive is, however, of no Imixirtance. The ne question for consideration and settlement Is whether the present salary Is sufficient to remunerate the occu pant of the White Houso for the services he performs. There can be no disagreement over the fact that the President should not be obliged to pay the expenses of entertainments whose giving Is a part of the seml-soclal bllgatlons he is under. When the salary was fixed, first at S25,(KI0 and subse fuently at $50,000, the obrloua purpose was to make the fflce the best paid In the country. It long ago ceased to be that. The nation has entered) on a new era In which the best services command Ia,rge rewards, itH there Is no doubt that Mr. Taft, In the practice of his profession, could easily earn more than the presidential alary. Another view Is that the salary, considered in Its relation to the wealth of the nation, Is .ilggardly. Tno real point, however, seems to be that It Is not a sum which permits the maintenance of the dignity of the ofllee without tho exercise of extreme cure, and, un less the Incumbent practices reasonably rigid economise, he will have nothing at the end of hla four or eight years of service. There seems to be a aense of obligation to our ex-Presldenta. It la frequently argued that the na tion should take care of thorn. A much better way would be to pay them enough, so that they may take cart of themselves. St Louis Bepublic. A PURE POISON LAW. HE buff men of the nation, encouraged by & W A I the success of the pura foed law, have aet I I seriously about the bustaess of securing the now Is that we are feeling the bugs of the land on Impure, adulterated and ineffective poisons. The parts green that la doled out to the Industrious potato bug often contains leu than half ita bulk of arsenloua oxide. The bug eata merrily away without serious discomfiture, and laya eggs on the arithmetical progression system that obtains In bug dom. Meanwhile, makers of Insecticide and fungicides are growing rich off the praceeda of their dishonesty. And also meanwhile, the bug experts are reviled because of the ineffectiveness of their prescriptions. The proposed law makes it a misdemeanor to manufac ture adulterated or mlsbranded Insecticides or fungi cides In any territory or the District of Columbia, and such products are shut out of Interstate commerce. Bg amlnatlcns are to be made by the Department of Agri culture, and dishonest products are to be confiscated and their makers prosecuted. Foreign frauds are to be rigorously exiuded. The entomologists ars on the rlghfc track. The bug Is entitled to pure poison and should gat It. Minneapolis Journal. POVERTY AND THE MILLIONAIRE. PICTURESQUE atory, which may be fact I or fable, found Its way by cable from Moa AQl I cow the other day. It related how the dy- S Uk I ftmr nllliilna all tta ttktu 11IH U1I4I iSU(t & w A k . u .... ut k. a... w tune from the banka In the form of bank notes nnd had it Incinerated In hla presence. Then he summoned certain starving rela tives and congratulated them upon their escape from the evils of wealth. PetrofT waa plainly a dramatiat who had waated his life In making money by other means. Ills little climac teric si-one was good, but his theme Is aa old aa the In stitution of property. Millionaires always have been re gretting the evils of riches and singing the praises of poverty. But there Is none who voluntarily puts away tempta tion no. not even Mr. Carnegie none embraces the blissful state of penury. Even this philosopher Petroff postponed his wisdom to his deathbed, a fact which raises his play up from a melodrama to the plane of satiric comedy. Though the half-starved poor relations In the audience might pluct- It atlll higher, as tragedy. -Chicago Tribune. REVIVE OLD DIME NOVELS. TWO NOTED LONDON SUFFRAGETTES IN PRISON. Uses Found fur Material tinea Sent to the Scrap Heap. Unexpected methods are sometimes employed in the production of books, ays the New York Hun. A striking case In point is the dark, mysterious past of certain paper-covered detective romances sold on trains nnd news stands for 15 cents. Each volume eoii talns three dime novels combined Into cue connected narrative. These curious combinations are is sued by a firm which gets out detect ive stories in pamphlets as well ns in beek form. It occurred to the pub lishers thnt they might utilize some of their fiction a second time. After a little experimenting It was discovered that three dime novels similar in plot could be combined into a fairly read able book if the Individual stories were connected by a few Ingenious para graphs and had some of their chapters rewritten. Another Instance of fiction worked over lately occurred wheu a firm resur rected somebody's stories popular ten years ago and cut them down from 00,000 words to about HO.OOO, in order to fill a certain number of pages in a aeries of complete stories appearing weekly. Still another novel literary operation Is that which was recently performed n a hundred uncopyrlgbted English ! love stories of the type recording the affairs of an impossible heroine who finally marries the mill owner's sou after going through vicissitudes un heard of in real life. The pages are touched up for Americans by convert ing the Strand Into Broadway and moving the Ijim-asier cotton mill to Lowell. Mass. Sometimes standard novels are Issued In cheap reprints which reach the pub lic with koiiio of their parts left out. In order to compress them Into vol umes which have a uniform number of pages the work Is pruned of many de scriptive passages and minor Incidents not likely to interfere with the main Story. A different case Is that which In volves a change sometimes made neces sary lu a page of text when a book reaches the electrotypu stage. Tlie re viser keeps In mind the exact number of words ns he writes In the uew mat ter, taking palus to have Just so many Syllables on the lust lino of the plute. It becomes a little more difllcult If the last line Is part of u sentence at the top of the next plute. This kind of work was made neces sary last year when a publisher de cided to reprint some cheap novels front plates lie had used live years be fore mid lu putting tliciii on the mar ket a second tlmo thought it advisable to make changes lu the text where the local references seemed out of date. 'Plit last example has to do with po etry. Verse at the bottom of pages in some iiiagu.lueM is nfteucr u matter of nicasureuieut. The appearance of Just one stanza docs not mean thnt hard luck overtook tlie poet lit tlie end of the fourth Hue and starved his muse Into silence. Not Improbably other Uiu.uN were part (if the poem, but unfortunately for the pt the exigen cies of a small blank space at that time made it Impossible to consider tlie respect due tho whole comiHisltlou. One poet who has studied market conditions turns this method of select- lug verse to good account. A little be fore publication day h calls up en the Mm f"te m jH5fH; Jhm t?m?ktf fe 4-. ? - 71 j '" X yyiWf:P lUIBISTABEL PANK1IUB8T. MRS. MARY PANKHURST. Being treated as ordinary criminals and forced to adhere closely to the prison routine has not diminished the enthusiasm of Miss Chrlstabel Pank hurst and her mother, sentenced to ten weeks and three months, respectively, for participation as leaders in the suffrage demonstration In the British House of Iyords. Educated and refined, they bear the prison drudgery with a forti tude that has astonished the officials. Never do they complain or in any manner Indicate that they suffer or are humiliated by their Imprisonment. They declare that upon their release they will be more effective than ever In their crusade because of their martyrdom. phone the various magazine ofllccs where he is known personally and asks If they need any "fillers" or could they use a sonnet or a stanra on this or mat timely subject? This sounds like an eagy way to dispose of poetry and It Is, but only for the man who Invented the method. That peculiarly American Institu tion, professional baseball, has long suffered from a reputation for bad manners. The following, quoted by the (Vmgregatlonallst from a letter written by an American League official to a player who wanted to get Into the league from the ranks of the ama teurs, is worthy of wide perusal. The letter shows that the standards de manded In the higher levela of the business world are getting to bo de manded lu tills, the national sport Since you have naked me what ob stacles stand In the way of your be coming a professional baso-hall player, I will frankly reply : You are charged with frequently be ing ungentlemanly In your conduct. It Is said that you are rude und rough with rival players, that you use coarse language, sud that you have been sus pected of efforts to spike buse-runners. If there charges nre true, there is uo sport in which you should be allowed to appeur, and If they are untrue, you should do everything in your power to prove their falsity. It Is absolutely essential lu the sporfs of to-day that a player should I' as much of a gwi tlemsn as the average business man la. You are charged with bad habits, practiced wheu you are not on the dla mond. No player can be trusted In Important games whose habits are bad He needs to keep his Ik sly and his mind lu the prime of condition for the work ahead of htm. If lie does not, his nine will certainly be the sufferer In the end. Not all tho players with. bad habits have yet been eliminated from the national leagues, but their numbers are growing smaller every year. Lastly, I am Informed that you ahow an unwillingness to obey orders. It this Is true, you would not make a good soldier, and a player la as much, of a soldier, so far as orders are con cerned, as a man In uniform Is. Obe dience to orders Is one of the highest essentials of a player's character. Her Carreetloa. "Father, I wish I knew why they laughed at my corrected sentence In English class to-day!" exclaimed a high school girl recently. Her father looked up from hla evening paper and asked what the sentence was. "Well, Miss West gave us each a sen tence to correct, and mine was, 'I west to the tonsorlal parlora to get a hair cut.' " "And bow did you correct it?" asked the father. "Why, I corrected It the only way you could correct It, of courses and Miss West just doubled up laughing when she read It, and then she read It aloud, and everyone In the class shout ed. They didn't know It was my sen tence, but I did." "But what did you writer' "Why, father! What would anyone write? I wrote, 'I went to the ton sorlal parlors to get my tonsils cut,' at course !" Th Ideal School. If you want to make a nation of "bookies," by all means cram the boys and girls In your schools with plenty of arithmetic, but If you would rather have a nation of good men and women, then train your children to love all that Is beautiful In nature and In art, all that Is noble In life or In death. The school of the future will be a beautiful building In a beautiful gar den. Clarion. The girl who smacks of freshneas gets a geod many smaeka.