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Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CUT, NEB.
VOnX IL REAM, Pnbllaher
rMlosoplilztng Is a padding to sr.-ft-n
the world's hard knocks.
An energetic man makes lazy people
tinromfortable, which la often the only
basis for their criticism.
"Conversation Is a lost art," says a
Kew York essayist. Yes, the best we
jet now la common talk.
What has become of the old-fashioned
open faced apple butter pie that
ttstd to wear galluses made of dough?
Patten has reached that stage where
Je shudders every time he sees shred
ded wheat biscuits on the bill of fare.
New York waiters are thinking of re
fusing t Ipa. Tncy are perhaps think
ing of taking what a man has with
Urn.
Chickens may come home to roost,
but their conduct would be despicable,
If, they should lay eggs during their
Visit.
A Boston woman' Is said "to have
embraced 23 different religions," but
It 1? not known how many of them
ehe has practiced.
Perhaps it should be explained that
the order to remove tho figureheads
from the battleships does not apply to
the merely ornameutal officers.
Kidnaper Doyle complains that ho Is
not getting a square deal. He should
consider himself mighty lucky to be
allowed to sit In the game at all.
There is a man hunt on In Sulu. If
they's looking for the Sultan, we
would recall the fact that George Ade
Imported him Into this country some
rears ago.
Mrs. Carrie Nation has purchased a
farm and Is going to raise "poultry,
pigs, pigeons and peas." That will be
quits a change from what Aunt Carrie
has been raising.
A girl In a New York town, whom a
young man of the place Jilted, lost
her speech too late for the false lover
to realize I'hat he had missed in
chances for a happy marriage.
It would be annoying if, after we
people of the earth had spent $10,000,
(00 on apparatus with which to signal
Mars, the highly cultured Inhabitants
of that planet should decline to apeak
to ms without an Introduction.
Antonir Henri Bacquerel, the French
physlclol, report "that seeds which he
dried in a vacuum at a temperature of
253 below zero retained their germin
ating force." We don't know how you
feel about it, but we are glad to know
this.
A correspondent (male and married)
writes to complain that in all the fuss
made made over "Mother's Day" noth
ing is said about Father' Day. It Isn't
necessary. Every day is Father' Day,
and there Is an awful kick is he occa
sionally wants a night out.
Two Italians, Ignorant of what was
Inside, pasted a target on a dynamite
and nitroglycerine magazine at Wash
ington, Pa., and shot at it with their
revolvers. Houses a mile and a half
away shook. One of the shooters may
recover. There are many people, lit
erary and otherwise, who do not know
what they are shooting into.
If Diogenes had attended a suit Id
ft New York court recently, he would
have gasped with amazement, fainted
with delight and then doused the glim
of his lantern for all time, for that
suit developed an honest man, the
kind for whom Diogenes looked in
vain and who. Shakespeare declared,
was one picked out of 10,000. He was
a, plumber, who testltled that after
riving an estimate on work he cut
down the bill because he found the
work less than the estimate called
for.
Ardent reformers sometime act as
u they think the use of all conceiva
ble means to secure their ends is Jus
tifiable. When they disregard the
rights for which men hava fmirh
the courts usually remind thm Jt
their error. This happened the other
nay, wnen, in an attempt to enforco
a state law, officers Invaded the
nouses ana business places of citizen
in searcn or lorbldden articles. The
coun ioia mem that no such Invasion
could be permitted until reasonable
evidence had been obtained to show
that the forbidden property was con
cealed In the house, and until a
search-warrant had been Issued de-
bi. vll.l n n i ......... A f . .
niiiMitB " wun some de
gree of accuracy. This decision i.
based on the Sixth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, and
applies to ah the States and territ
rles. The amendment fa an att,riii.t
,
to embody in tbA fundamental law tho
old English theory that every man's
bouse Is his castle.
Health officers do well at this sea
son to draw public Attention to the im
portance of protection against flies.
The nrrful housewife was always In
litibvl to tHi-s. but she regarded them
as i aicioyame rather than a peril,
Just as v.e used to think the mosquito
uiiplcvant but not dangerous. We
have Itemed much In recent years of
the "ai t played by some nioa-juitoes in
the Tijaveyp.iu o of disease, so that the
war i.giiimt tliti pest has become a
matter of Mir.itary fcncern nj well as
cf comfort anil repn.--.. We need to b;
reinhuie'i tiutt tl.o common bouse fly
lo In not a mere lilMurber of the
r.ioniliiK list, biit ii often the cerrli'.'
of cn.'it.i; ion. It has i:r.t ht'fi :;liown
tl.at the by, i;:e tho fever bearing
DKiMiulto hir'jor s t Iii;-ij ! para
rites. Hi mm!" of opei:itov i-i more
fclijipk-. !;' ti ji j 1 y.U i-.f up dlino
germs on r!s Iv.r.y fc:-f ,vl transfers
tl'.eni to our food. HI; lial.lt are
naty, end the places he fie-pienta may
be lnfw.ted witu vro 1 new not what.
Bo when the fly remes buzzing frora
the nearest stablo to wander over the
meat and vegetibtes and fruit spread
out in the market, or upon the kitch
en table, he Is to bo looked upon ns asj
enemy. It Is established by observa
lim that epidemics of typhoid fever
l:i c.impa for example, have been duo
to the Infection of food by files, and
while Hi In particular danger may not
bo frequently present In town, it is
Olio to bo rc membcred- at least BS a
rein'-ulrr that the warfare against files
Is a serious matter. The careful
si-eei,lni of windows and doors Is
probably the most effective means of
Immediate protection, but the same
pcrtiitent care against whatever will
attract or harbor Insect lifo; of any
kind !e called for by this most persist
ent visitor. The summer Is his sea
son, ami this Is the time to put up the
bars on him.
Life Imprisonment for the man,
twenty-five years besides a fine for
the woman such, penalties will be
universally regarded as none too
heavy for tho kidnapers of Willie
Whltla, or, indeed, for any kidnap
ers who try to gain money in this
cruelest of ways. The woman tries
to gain sympathy by pointing to the
withering of her youth in tho grim
walls of the prison. No withering ol
strong life !s pleasant to contemplate,
but it Is better that thl.-i woman with
er In confinement than that mothers
and fathers, deprived of tliHr chil
dren, should suffer worse pains, and
the children themselves should be ex
posed to the evils which too often fol
low such crimes. The man tries to
gain sympathy by pointing to an in
stigator of the crime In the very fam
ily of tho victim. He only succeeds
In making one fact sure, and that is
that he himself was a blackmailer be
fore he became a kidnaper. He puts
himself In all the worse light. If
some other person was accessory or
principal In this crime the full pen
alty for him Is also ' desirable, but
that does not affect the Justice of the
present convictions. The effective
work of tho police In tatchlna the
criminals and the speedy administra
tion of Justice by the Pennsylvania
courts are both deserving of praise.
The police are the more to be praised
because they acted not In co-operation
with but against the efforts of a
father whose love for his bov emlalna
but does not excuse his disregard for
the interests of all other children In
his haste to compound with crime.
The resujt of the Whltla case should
be not an incentive to other crimes of
the sort, as appeared probable before
the criirflnais were captured, but a
distinct discouragement to would-be
emulators. In bo far It has been i
social benefit
WANTED A 2-CENT PIECE.
Ilnndr Col Millions of Which Are
Snld to Ho C'lrcnlatlnic.
A correspondent asks whv the Unit.
ed States currency does not include a
2-cent piece. Probably It will surprise
the inquirer to know that there are
28,634.054 2-cent nieces now "In elr.
culation" in the United 8tates, says
the National Grange. According to
the treasury records there wore 45,
000,000 of these coins minted between
April 22, 1864, when the 2-cent piece
was first authorized, and Feh 12
1873, when the issue was discontin
ued. Only 16,966,446 of ths coins has
been retired and melted for recolnage
into cent up to July last.
When the colnasa of tha 9.n
piece was discontinued in 1873 there
wa.no particular mission for it as
there Lb now. An extra cent had to
be added to buy a letter postage
tarap. The 2-cent newspaper had
hardly arrived. The 3-cent piece was
the handy coin, fitted for these dally
mciueqiai purchases of the people.
This 1 Indicated by the fart that the
coinage of nickel 3-cent pieces was
continuod until 18SJ0. By that time the
price standard had changed. Two-cent
letter postage was In vogue; newspa
pers had been reduced to the 2-cent
rate. Bargain counters had inaugu
rated the 2-cent basis of cut prices.
The 3-cent pleco no longer had a mis
sion. But Instead of resuming the
coinage of 2-cent pieces to fit the con
venience of the times the people have
been compelled to use two coins for
the most oommon and frequent inci
dent of exchange, for which a single
coin should have been provided.
The United States U the ouly large
nation which does not have a coin In
Its national currency system compara
ble to the 2-cent pieoo. Great Britain
has Us penny; France has Its 10-cen-tlme
piece; Germany haa a 10-pfennlg
and Austria a 10-lieller coin; Italy
has a coin of JO-centejiseml and Portu
gal a 20-rels piece; Mexico has a 6
ccntavo piece and Japan a 6-son coin.
It Is somewhat singular that the Unit
ed States, recognising a 2 -cent stand
ard In its postage rates and ascepUnf
as fixed and standard a 2-cent piece
for purchases recurring with daily
regularity, Bbould leave the gap in it
currency between the nickel and the
cent and fall to serve the convenience
of the public by an Intermediate coin.
u may not be desirable that the old
2-ceut piece be restored In size and
bulk, but in more convenient form a
2-cent piece would be a welcome addi
tion to our subsidiary coinage. There
would be plenty of use for It no.
feriilliiixT. I'll run Snlnf.
Why v.-as SL Andrew chosen as the
patron bnlnt of Scotland? This ques
tion baa been asked many tinitm. but
t lie archdeacon of whom !ean llolo
tell niny be considered ta have discov
ered th- most ttitb'.factory solution of
the problem. "Cetitlcmi n," suit! ho
(he wa spunking at a St. Andrew
jy bnmmi at (ho time), "I have
given thU dlffice't luibject my thougut
fill consideration, nr.d 1 have come to
the conclusion that St Andrew was
chosen to be the patron iiaint of Secit
Kind Wm i.iu-u he discovert d tho lad
who had the leaved and'tUties." Dun
dee Advertiser.
on lil n'l V. liUifr,
"I never whispered roll nothings to
my wife."
"What, never?"
"No. She was ii bit d af. even when
I first 'inut her," Kaunas City "TUum.
CONCERNING
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EQUAL SUITE
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IS A I' I In I'lighitid In the nine tec nth century. lawsuits were brought
g I '' women who claimed that they hnd the riu'lit to parliamentary
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riiiii;i,v, iMiimnu' n tin ji: me citiiy o;i wiicTi pit t iitiinciii tirjr
Itorouclm were lielng clcaltd women were recognized as bur
giHM iind hnil the riybt to vote. The Jmlue held that the non-
use or n privilege: tor a lni! time was in Itseir an argument
against Its existence, and all the world knows that the Dngllsli woman of the
nineteenth century who brought the case was not given the parliamentary or
Mitlonal HiifTrage.
Severn 1 States have recently seriously consltlenxl inonsur-w extending tho
sphere of woman's (Mimical rights. The active work and substantial accom
plishment, of woman suffragists In other Slates, notably Australia, New Zea
land, Norway, Finland ami Tasmania, where women have full suffrage rights,
as they have In the four States of Colorado, I't ili, Idaho and Wyomliig, have
undoubtedly spurred the workers for the cause in this country to stronger
endeavor.
For many years they were few In number, though unwearying In spirit.
The. first woman's rights convention, called In IHls by Mrs. i:il..ibelh Cady
Stanton to meet In Setieen, N. Y., was attended by herself, I.ucretia .Mott and
n few Quaker women. The nbolltior movement and tho civil war diverted
to the cause of the slave the energy that might otherwise Imve b on -devoted "
to the woman's cause which Mrs. Stanton then espoused. It was not until
the close of the war that the movement for Miff rage was really organized.
The great civil contest, calling upon women to combine in societies anil con
ventions, taught them the vnluu of organized effort, and the arguments pre
sented for the liberation of the s!nv.. and for bis right to the suffrage cer
tainly led to the Interrogation, "If the. suffrage bo a good and desiralilo thing
for the Ignorant negro, wbflt about wonicuV"
At the presidential and congressional election In 1S72 SusanB.Anthonyand
several other women, claiming the right to vote among the privileges and
immunities secured to them os citizens by the fourteenth amendment, offered
their vote to the Insiiectors of election In liochi'ster. The Inspectors received
mid deposited the hnllota. For this act the women, fourteen In number, were
nrrested and neveral of them were Indicted under an act of Congress which
makes It nn offense to "knowingly vote without having the right to vote."
Tho iiiHKVtorn were indicted under the same statute for "having knowingly
and willfully recvlvcd tho votes of jiersons not entitled to vote."
Recently there has been n significant change in the attitude of women
of the leisurely and wealthy classes' toward tho movement, liryiv, in his
chapter on "Woman Suffrage," from which Dr. Abbott ijuotes, comments:
"It is remarkable that the movement has in America found little support
among what may be culled the "upper classes.' Woman suffrage has been
though perhaps less so now than formerly, thought 'bad form' nml supposed
to W'token n want of culture and refinement. The same reproach attached
forty years ago to nlmlltlonism."
Were he writing now, the ambassador would have to qualify tho state
ment mensuralily. The movement has passed the sbige where it would at
tract only those whom the more conservative members of the community re
gard as radical and visionary. The labor organizations indorse woman suf
frage In the belief that with the br.llot n their hands the woman lal-orer
would strengthen the cause of labor. So ull classep, professional, worUIic
wealthy, are enrolled iu the movement, based on the belief that to woman
educational, Industrial, social and civic work of every nature should be open
Dlaorilera of the Stomach.
The stomach, like all the other or
gans of the body, la subject not only
to various forms of organic trouble,
but also to many kinds of functional
disorder, or neuroses.
In these nervous disturbances of the
Btomach, pain may bo Just as severe
and the list of symptoms Just as long
and as trying as in true organic dis
ease, and It Is ofton Impossible to con
vince tho victim that he Is not suffer
ing from some terrible local disorder
calling for immediate operation.
The Btomach Is usually a somewhat
abused organ. It works hard, gen
erally overtime, and often nt tasks
extremely distasteful to It. Small
wonder, then, that it sometimes goes
3n strike.
When it decides to do this, the
weapons it controls with which to boy
cott and intimidate the rest of the
system are most efficient. In times of
normal health we are no more con
scious of, the tremendous commotion
and toll going en in the stomach than
the passengers on a sunny deck are
conscious of the trials of tho engine
room below them; but when the
stomach has stood all It is going to
for tho present, it telephones the
brain to that effect, with the imme
diate result that the whole conscious
ness is flooded with the misery re-
Gulling from its relKilllon.
The visible signs of this rebellion
are myriad. Among the most usual
of them may be mentioned nausea
and vomiting, eructations that are
Bometlmea bo acid that the very
throat la scalded, disagreeable sensa
tions after eoting. that range from
discomfort to agony; and naturally In
time a general "run-down condition"
of the system.
When It can lie proved that this
state of affairs Is traceable to abuse
of tho stomach, the treatment be
comes a comimratlvely simple matter;
but In many cases of so-called "nerv
ous dysiicpsia" the trouble will be
found to be a fault of the nervous sys
tem, the stomach Itself showing no
sign of disease, but simply suffering
from faulty nervous control, Jimt as
any other organ of the body may.
This diagnosis, however, will le of
little comfort to the patient so long
us his stomach Is made the vicarious
culinit for the guilty nervous system.
When the trouble arise from causes
that, can lw cosily controlled, such as
Improiior food, hasty eating, irregular
ineuls, Insufficient niasticutbm, the
cine Ilea largely In the hands of tho
patient himself.
The Ftnull boy who heard his father
pronounce a eulogy on a statesman,
raid. "Father taya Mr. Blank lias In
tcllliii nee. t.ut and honesty, end al ;o
abdominal rourar.e." Tills Is a form
of valor far too prevulent. and Is the
kind that should be i iri;n'U"l with
discretion.
Ilrr I.oi'UiiiiI.
"I must till JOII Ilul joke en me."
said a biitiiuesj woman who "hetps
bach" In a cunning little apartment.
"l.at-t week I Invited two fi lends for
MOVEMENT fob
mm.
woman foiffrairo liciran to crow stroiie
luncheon. As I have Just an hour at
noon I got everything ready before I
left in the morning that could be pre
pared and set on the ice. I made a
lovely salad, a dessert, prepared for
toasted muffins and tea and set my
tiblo in nil Its glory, even buying
some flowers for a centerpiece. My
guests met me at the office and we
went to. the apartment. What do you
think I had done? Left my keys in
side and locked the door!
'There was absolutely no way for
us to get In! The Janitor had a pass
key, but he wag away. All the win
dows on the fire escapes were locked,
and no other key in the building fitted!
There was nothing to do but take my
guest to a restaurant. Then I found
that I had not even brought my purse
from the office, never dreaming that
I should need It. I had to ask my
guests for money to pay for the
luncheon, and, as it happened, they
only had a quarter each above their
carfare. We went to the cheapest
place we could find and had sand
wiches and coffee. Wasn't that funny?"
Philadelphia Ledger.
rinver aa a Kuriurr'a Ally,
Of all our birds the plover Is abso
lutely the most useful on the land,
and we have the authority of the
board of agriculture for saying that
"the multiplication of Insects injuri
ous to crops" Is the direct consequence
of the fashion for plovers' eggs, the
London Dally Mail says.
The bird destroys snails, wireworms,
beetles and all sorts of noxious Insects
that damage crops. As It feeds large
ly at night it. destroys many Insects
that other birds do not touch, and it
has alao a peculiar virtue in killing a
water snail which Indirectly Is the
cause of liver rot, a deadly disease in
sheep.
Plover have been more than usually
numerous this year, and no doubt if
tholr eggs were protected, as in Scot
land, they would multiply yet more
and savo many thousands of pounds
that are now spent on the fattening of
the wlreworin. It Is becoming also a
more popular practice to keep plovers
as a garden pet. They do Incalculable
good and are very Interesting to watch,
especially at this season.
A eH in iiMMltt 1 1 n at.
"Some years ago," says a Boston law
yer, "a man in Nantucket was tried
for a petty offense and sentenced to
four months la jail. A few days after
the trial the judge who hnd Imposed
sentence. In company with the sheriff,
was on his way to the Boston boat,
when they passed a man busily en
gaged In sawing wood.
' "The man stopped his work, touch
ed his hat Klitily and said, 'Good
morning, your honor.'
"The judge, after a careful survey
of the man's face, asked:
'Isn't that the man I sentenced to
Jail a few days ngo?"
" 'Yes.' replied the sheriff, with some
hesitation, that's the man. The fact
is, jutU'i!, we--er we don't happen to
have an hotly elin In Jail Just now,
so we thought it would bo a sort of
uteless expense to hire some one to
keep be Jail four months just for this
ono man. So I gave him the jail key
ami told him It would be ull right If
he'd sleep the re o' nights.' "Harper's
Bazaar.
i; i-r uiic- lit
"The folks in that, motor car bxik
uwf illy stin k up and disdainful of
the coinnion herd."
"Th-n probably they are taking
their last ride in some friend's car."
Kaunas City Times.
SOME OF IIUI
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Cincinnati Post.
RECOLLECTIONS.
How can it be that I forget
The way he phrased my doom.
When I recall the arabesques
That carpeted the room?
How can It be that I forget
His look and mien that hour
When I recall I wore a rose
And still can smell the flower?
How can it be that I forget
Those words that were the last,
When I recall the tune a man
Was whistling as he passed?
These things are what we keep from
life's
Bupremest joy or pain ;
Yot memory locks her chaff in bins,
And throws away the grain.
Annie Reeve Aldrich.
Once Around the Axis
Business on the Big Wheel was
rather slack that afternoon, and she
sat In solitary dignity In her saloon
compartment until, Just as the official
was about to close the door, a young
man darted In. He was good-looking
and well-dressed, hut when she saw
him she Btarted up and rushed to
ward the door.
"Let me out I've changed my
mind," she cried, but the man out
aide shook his head.
"Very sorry, Miss, - but it can't be
done. You must wait till the Wheel
goes round; only twenty minutes,
Miss."
"If It is my presence that distresses
you," said the young man who had
eonie In, "let me assure you I shall
in no way molest you."
"Your presence is itself molesta
tion," she returned. Sho was very
pretty, very young, and evidently
knew what became her.
"I beg your pardon; perhaps you
wcro not aware these are public cars,"
he said, with elaborate politeness.
"Under the circumstances I should
have thought even you would have
had good taste enough to refrain
from Intruding on me."
"Intruding? A mere accident has
brought us together. We shall part
In twenty minutes. Let us hope Fate
may not again be so Indiscreet."
She made no answer, but was ap
parently absorbed in the view, as their
car slowly rose higher and higher.
The strains of the band, the whirring
rush ,of the switchback, and the
shrieks of the passengers, became
fainter and fainter, the elephants and
camels In the court below receded to
the size of dogs, and the men running
briskly about appeared like some fan
tastic kind of toys. The car was
nearly at the greatest height when
the pause made by the wheel to allow
passengers In the bottom ones to get
In and out grew strangely longer.
She looked over the edge, checked
herself on the verge of an exclama
tion, looked again, hesitated, and final
ly said, anxiously:
"What Is the matter? What are we
Btopplng so long for?"
"I presume the Wheel has stuck,
he said, calmly.
"Stuck! Do you mean we can't get
down?"
"Apparently so. I myself am not an
acrobat, and I fear you would find the
task of clirnblug down beyond your
powers."
"But but It's 5 o'clock. I have to
catch the train at half past 6. I must
get down."
lio was silent, but the shrug of his
shoulders said much.
"Oh! why don't they get ladders or
something? It is shameful! 1 believe
they have done it on purpose."
"All! 1 hadn't thought of thut," he
returned.
Site flashed upon him u look half, In
dignant, half reproachful, ami evident
ly kept silence only by an effort.
He lighted a clgareite, and settled
himself in an easy chair, not even
troubling to look out of the window.
She, ou tho contrary, bent eagerly
outwards. Below she could see peo
ple gathered in groups, every eye
turned up to the Wheel, and out of ev
a r a Tsr ri'l 1 bl w iu us
T2t2LE WHO MAKE THE CIRCUS
mmfe, y 7UH Know WHO THAT
IH 1 KICK. rvujLE ; WE.LL HES OhE
UFTrt REG-'LrNR. PERFORMERS,
THEY CAKTF00L YER LITTLE WILLY.
ery carriage window eager heads were
thrust.
She bore her anxiety in silence for
half an hour, and then once more ad
dressed her companion.
"How long do you think It will be
before they get it to move?"
"I haven't the very slightest idea,"
he returned equably.
She was looking out of the window
again; so she did not observe a slight
6mile of triumph on his countenance,
but at the end of another half an hour
she suddenly burst into tears.
"Oh, perhaps we shall stay here all
night, and they don't know what has
become of me, and Aunt Julia will be
In such a rage."
"Yes, It Is rather awkward," he as
sented. "And you do-don't c-care a bit. but
just s-slt there smoking your horrid
c-cigarette," she sobbed.
"Pardon me, but the last time we
met you distinctly told me your af
fairs were no business of mine, and
that thenceforward we were merely
strangers. I can hardly be supposed
to take much Interest In a stranger,
however charming she may be" this
In a tone of distant politeness.
"Oh, Jack! 1 I I dl didn't think
you'd be so horrid and vindictive."
"And I didn't think you would flirt
so outrageously before my very eyes
with such a presuming fellow as
young Simpson."
"I wasn't flirting."
"Whatever you can see in the fel
low to like beats ma"
"I d don't like him. I hate him."
"Then why wouldn't you see me the
day I called after the dance?"
"Why did you speak to me like that
before Alice Thompson? She said you
weren't waiting till we were married
YOL' 0-IO.N T C'-CAKK A BIT.
till you were master." A long pause,
during which the cigarette went out
of the window, then a small voice
said: ,
v "Jack, aren't you a little bit sorry?"
"Are you, Daisy?"
"A little bit; a very little tiny bit,"
. "So am I. A great big bit."
"Oh, Jack, clear Jack!"
"Oh, Daisy, dear darling Daisy."
Thy were occupying only one of
the many comfortable seat of the car,
whea uhe raised her head and gave a
little exclamation of surprise.
"Why, Jack, the Wheel's moving!"
"By Jov. we're nearly down again!"
lift said, In lmllar act-en ts.
"They nave been very quick about
it to-day."
"Don't you wish they had been
longer?"
"Perhaps, Jack, dear; what a lucky
accident It was you coming Into the
same car. If I had been alone I
should have been dreadfully fright
ened." "Would you, dearest? Well, I'm
awfully glad I came. I had to run It
very fine lest you should get out
again."
"Then It wasn't an accident?'
And he had only just time to an
swer her satisfactorily when their car
stopped. They had completed the cir
cle. Waverly Mazarine,
i hp Spirit of I lie I.KtT.
Judge-You are charged with being
tho leader of nn organized hand of
pickpockets!
Prisoner Well, yeril have to im
pose a Una on de corporation, den, yer
know; yer can't punish me personally.
I'ucK.
People who try to stand prosperity
are foolish. They should sit down and
Uke It easy.
fjiiik!' irtsf I.I?
t- ' jsnj S'
W0ETH WHILE.
"
SIX CIGARS A DAY.
lne(y. Venr-Old Artlwt Who Sill)
Pulnla Picture..
"The King offers you his slncerest
congratulations on attaining your
ninetieth birthday."
This telegram arrived at a house in
the Maida Vale district the other day,
and was handed to a rosy-cheeked old
man with snow-white hair, whose arm
chair was drawn before a blazing fire.
He laid aside the book he was .reading
and scanned the birthday greeting
from the King with a happy smile.
Then he lit a cigar.
The recipient of the telegram, who
could read with ease on his ninetieth
birthday, whose memory was undlmm
ed, and who could still enjoy a good
cigar, was W. P. Frith. R. A., the vet
eral painter, among whose many fa
mous works "Derby Day'' is perhaps
the most famous.
"At 90 one can't expect to have
many recreations left, but I am a
wonderfully lucky old man," he said.
"My sight Is pretty nearly as good a
ever It was. I can read nearly all
day, and when I feel fidgety at night I
take an armful of papers and books
to bed with me and read myself to
sleep.
"And how many old fellows of my
age canreally enjoy a cigar? I can,
though. Nearly always I smoke six
during the day; often I can manage
seven. Sometimes I tell my house
keeper that I must really cut down
my smoking allowance. Fancy an old
man of 90 starting to cure himself of
bad habits!"
Every day, when the weather is fine.
Mr. Frith puts on a warm overcoat,
and Bets off for an hour's walk. "It
does me good," he said. "A walk In
Regent's park is what I like. A fine
recreation for an old man, so long as .
he has the use of his legs, Is walking.
For an hour after dinner I can still
enjoy a quiet game of whist. No
life's no dreary thing to me.
"I don't want more than two meals
a day now one ln the morning and
one at night," he went on.' "But I
can still eat a hearty breakfast, and
then I can manage a nice, simple din
ner at night. In the middle of the
day I enjoy a good plate of soup. In
the afternoon they bring me a glass of
hot milk. After that my cigar seems
good."
Mr. Frith has not even laid his
brush aside. Aided by good spectacles,
he ts painting, when the light is
strong, a study of child-life, which is
to be called "Many Happy Returns."
London Dally Mall.
Woman'. Trnvrl. ln Pernin.
In times of peril in Persia the medi
cal missions have proved to be the
safest pl&ees not only for European,
hut also for the Persians themselves,,
saya the Pall-Mall Gazette. Dr. Em
mellne Ctuart, niece of the veteran
Bishop Btuart, had a remarkable story
to tell of her own experiences when
preparing to leave the country.
The only escort available through
the disturbed country from Ispahan to
Teheran was offered to her by the mili
tary authorities, and she accepted it,,
to find that it entailed traveling on a.
gun carriage harnessed six in hand
and that for ten days double tsagea
were effected at a hard gallop, while
the shelter of the carriage formed her
canopy at night.
Dr. Stuart testified to the unfailing
courtesy and kindliness of the off.eera
to the traveler placed In their charge
and reassured the committee as to the
absolute safety of the missionaries
during this period of unrest by Baying
that the mission compound at Ispahan
was one of the safest places In the
city. In fact members of the families
of officers of the shah have in the last
few months resorted to It as an asy
lum. A girl Is willing for her mother to
wash her other articles of clothing, but
her shirt waists must go to trie laun-
dry.
A mar. admires two kinds of wom
en: (iirU from 1(5 to 2S. and women
like his mother. 1
Some matrimonial alliances are de
fensive and all are expensive.
It's the privilege of a hatter to slzt
a man up.