Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY. NEB.
John H. Ream,
Publisher
Every decent young man la entitled
to one June bride.
Plenty of people can stand adversi
ty, but only a fow can stand pros
perity. To regain his liberty, no doubt Har
ry Thaw would promise not to go la
sane again.
The huntsman who shoots at a bal
loon will never make any effort to
skin his game.
Count Zeppelin was flying beautiful
ly until he struck a tree that had
grown up In front of htm.
"Everything conies to him who
waits" out It Is much better to go out
and meet It at least half way.
Evidently one of President Tart's
policies is to write no more messages
than are necessary to save the coun
try. Notwithstanding Mehemed V. Is do
ing a lot of praying, the Young Turks
are telling him what to do to be
saved.
June is always a severe test of the
ticking powers of the healthy young
man who has made up his mind to be
a bachelor.
New York tailors say that trousers
for women will be popular. They- have
long been figuratively ppoular Is
many families.
When it comes to finding novel rea
sons for asking for divorces the score
between the men and the women Is a
tie In the ninth Inning.
Turkey has no national hymn, and
a French composer has been asked to
write one. Look out for another mu
tiny and counter-revolution.
There have been few better hus
bands than Uncle Russell Sage. He
spent a lifetime accumulating money,
that his wife might have a good time
giving It away.
No doubt, when some Chicago or
Wall street financier has perfected a
way to corner the oxygen In the at
mosphere we shall be permitted the
luxury of protesting, at least
It would seem as If a husband In
the smart circles of New York were
only an adjunct to a well-regulated
household, even when It comes to the
Important matter of obtaining a di
vorce with expedition.
An English critic says Americans
are only playing at music, but an
American opera, "Pola," on an Indian
theme Is to be produced by the Royal
Opera at Berlin. We hope this differ
ence will not lead to the building of
an additional Dreadnought.
George Meredith, the aged novelist,
who died recently, was the last of the
remarkable group of literary men and
women of "the Victorian age." The
group Includes the great names er
Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson, Brown
ing, George Eliot and Swinburne; and
bo greater tribute could be paid to the
memory of Meredith than the general
admission that he was not the least
of the distinguished company.
In connection with the golden wed
ding of Earl and Lady Roberts, which
was recently celebrated. It is noted
that fifty years ago the famous British
soldier was recalled from his honey
moon 10 receive the victoria cross.
which he had won In the Indian mu
tiny, Almost any American bride
.-would be willing to have her wedding
Journey Interrupt on condition of
gaining sucn a present. I
How culpably ignorant of the early
history of our country the children
are being kept is freshly Illustrated
by some examination papers Died at a
recent college examination, to which
it was' stated that Gen. Grant and
Admiral Farragut commanded in the
British army and navy during the rev
olution. Apparently good work will
be found for every post In detailing
comrades to Inspect the duties of the
children In the schools.
Pheldippldes goes to Join William
Tell and Poeahoutas, suspected of se
curing hia reputation under falBe pre
tenses. No less an authority than
Prof. Goodwin, long at the head of
Harvard's Greek department, believes
that the first Marathon run occurred
not B. C. 490. but A. D. 1890. There
is no contemporary mention whatever
of the run by I'heidlpplde-s from Mar
athon to Athens, and not until about
600 years after was the first allusion
raaae to it uy l.ui :an, who was a
professional humorist. The jvldence
is clearly defective, but it will be a
pity If eo stirring a story, has to be
labeled "Action" instead of "history."
The Supreme Court has said that
one Marlus Hanson is a proper person
to be made a citizen of the State ot
Minnesota and, Incidentally, of the
United States. Hanson liis lived In
the State twenty-four years, yet does
not know who the State's Governor is
or what city Is Its 'capital, or who Is
the. President of the United States or
the name of the nation's capital city.
Moreover, he didn't know what polyg
amy was, what It meant to take the
oath of allegiance; didn't know what
was meant by the constitution of the
United States or who makes tho laws
When election day rolls around in
J810 he will go to the polls and cast
Ms vote. He will not know who or
what he is voting for, but he will ret
some one to mark hU ballot and it
will count for as much In the returns
s.1 the ballot cast by the Chief Justice
of the Bupreme Court or the President
ot th United States. The Supreme
Court dewmA a leather mUl for 1U
decision In this cs. Warrta Regis-tef.
Everything, It has been said, comet
to him who waits. Even liberal edu
cation, according to Senator Depew,
will come to the waiting husband, pro
vided he reads while his wife Is get
ting ready to accompany him, and pro
vided he acquires sufficient philosophy
to absorb knowledge calmly under
somewhat trying conditions. Mr. De
pew la old-fashioned in his view of
woman If he really thinks that she
cannot acquire the habit of punctuali
ty. His experience Is limited to wom
en of certain sets and circles. Profes
sional women, working women, co-eds
and others manage to acquire punctu
ality In many cases, although, alas,
not a few of them fall from grace
after marriage and relax greatly to
the disappointment of the undisci
plined husbands. The latter should
thank Senator Depew for his happy
Idea. Instead of fretting and fuming,
of Indulging In sarcastic remarks or
In protestations not loud but deep, the
waiting husbands should obtain up-to-'
date llsta of the best books and em
ploy their time profitably. The en
forced leisure will thus be a blessing
In disguise. After a while the wives
will seom too prompt and will be apt
to receive compliments which, even If
undeserved, will make for peace and
good will in the home. To be sure,
the waiting and reading husbands will
still miss the first half of various acta
of dramas and comedies, various oper
atic overtures and first numbers on
concert programs. These things will
represent deductions from the possi
ble annual total of culture, but the
balance will still be on the right side.
Enterprising literary advisers will
doubtless hasten to prepare appropri
ate libraries for the married man who
waits.
The opinion once held by too many
State jnd municipal officials hat pub
lic office Is chiefly an opportunity for
illicit profit at tho public expense Is
meeting nharp rebuke through the con
stantly rising standard of political
morals. The conviction of men Impli
cated in the dishonesties which at
tended the building of the Pennsyl
vania Statchouso, the punishment of
the Pittsburg councllmen wbo cou
spired to defraud the city for the ben
efit of themselves and certain favored
banks, and the sensational trials and
convictions which have followed the
disclosure of municipal corruption In
San Francisco are all cases In point.
In Boston, too, there have been trials
and convictions growing out of the In
vestigation Into public affairs made
by the recent finance commission In
that city. In this case the pllferlngs
were small the three men who were
found guilty got only $500 between
them but that merely Indicates that
the public conscience Is becoming sen
sitive even to minor crimes. The
pleas urged by counsel In mitigation
of the offenses In Boston well illus
trate the distorted point ot view which
unfaithful servants hold. First It waa
maintained that robbing the city Is
by no means bo serious or censurable
a thing as stealing from Individuals.
To this the Judge replied that It Is
worse, tor It involves not only larceny,
but breech of trust as well. Then one
of the lawyers begged for leniency on
tno ground tnat his client had no
doubt followed the example of officials
who had gon unpunished, and had
acted upon the belief, widely accepted
among public servants, that such pick'
Ings were part of the perquisites of
his office. There was some truth In
the statement Itself, but as an argu
ment against the Infliction of punish
ment it needs no refutation. A prompt
Jail sentence was the Judge's reply.
NOISELESS CAB WHEELS.
Nw Stol Varletr Haa a lift leir.
Ice of 140,000 Milan.
The order for 30,000 steel car wr-oels
placed with the Carnegie Steel Com
pany at Pittsburg by the Chicago City
Railway Company and
the Chicago
Railways Company has a double signifl-
cance. u is runner evwenco ui .
railroads of the United States are
reaching their limit at to the with-
holding for financial reasons or or
ders for equipment, and it is also
gratifying assurance that for Chlcago-
ant at least the "flat" street car wneei
with its pounding nnnoyance is to be
come a thing of the past.
The steel wheels which have been
adopted for Chicago are known as the
nolsoless wheels, becauHe they will
last three and, a half tjmea as long as
the old style rtir wheels and are guar
anteed not to wear flat. The limit ot
endurance of a solid steel forged
wheel Is 140.000 miles, while the max
imum limit of usefulness of the cast
steel wheel Is loss than 40,000 miles.
The new wheels are not only stronger,
but they are lighter than the old
wheels by 800 pounds per car.
The adoption of the solid steel
forged and rolled car wheels by the
Chicago traction systems foreshadows
a general adoption of the more dur
able wheel by city traction corpora
tions and by railroads generally. It
there be economy In the use of the
new wheel, its adaption will tie com
pelled as a matter of course; but if it
were merely safer and less noisy, it
would be used without regard for
economy.
While a wheel that can be trusted
for service of 140.000 miles on rails ot
the improved texture Riich as hv
been adopted by the Pennsylvania sys
tem after severe tent, travel wlU be
nafer on railroads generally, especial
ly during the winter months, when
frost puts a severe strain upon brittle
metal which, when subjected to heavy
additional stresses id liable to snap
ai i i ii Kill incrmenis. .Milwaukee Wlt-
r on bin.
nut It's Alnara Thna.
I know a young maideu with boautiful
hair,
No rational person could doubt ft!
Yet Mouintlnu-ti I lei,r tlmt my datiMi4
fuir
I a Utile too puffed up about It,
Yale Record.
lauallr It la.
She Marriag9 Is potteryl He Lo
teryv fou mean. She Noj It's a, wa!
of K&aldnf family Jars I
PAINTOG'S APPEAL TO THE DILETTANT.
By Mrcl Prtvntt.
Painting, I believe. Is getting to be the
most tempting art for the dilettant, more
tempting even than music. There are more
painters than there are musicians, writers,
than everything else, almost There are in
finite numbers of them. The moat modest
banquet of painters reunites hundreds of
guests. At every exposition modern paint
ings cover a large area of space. And what
does honor to these volunteers of art is the fact that
do financial bait Induces the greater part of these paint
ers to follow this vocation.
In Justice to these dilettanti of the brush It must be
said that many of them do not pretend that they will
3&ln either glory or fortune by their paintings. Less
preenmptuous than poets, less chimerical than musi
cians, many men of talent who bang up their pictures
in salons from time to time admit that they paint for
the pleasure of painting only.
The pleasure of painting is complex. While giving
an occupation for the painter's fingers, painting is not
exactly thing to stir the soul of the amateur. The
amateur la not required to undertake a number of com
positions and to pick out the most difficult A faithful
reproduction of a house at the edge of a stream, and the
amateur has gained the name of an artist Painting
within the limits in which the dilettant exercises It Is
one of those arts where invention and originality have
been greatly reduced. A successful copy of a picture
"of a great master with them passes for a work of art
Tae most mediocre painting has a thousand times more
of a chance to be seen than a literary masterpiece has
the chance to be read. It is for these reasons that can
vas and brush stand in no danger of remaining idle.
But will art gain by it? That is another question.
"OLD MAN" PROBLEM TOIL YOUNO MAN.
By John A. Howland.
Young men, middle-aged men and old men
have been Interested alike In the problem of
the "old man" !n business. That specific com
plaint of the old man Is that he Is not want
ed. Modern business admits the fact. But
young men and men in the prime of their
lives must grow, old. What are the young
men and the men of middle age going to do
about it? It is not likely that in anv near
future the methods of modern business will so change
that the old man, per se, will be more In demand than
he Is now. Economic philosophies are to the effect
that In general the man who has grown old ought to
have a competence upon which to retire. Cold, hard
tacts that are Indisputable how how impossible this Is.
Probably in the vast majority of cases where earnest,
honest men have worked at ' a chosen work that old
age problem is met if, until the end, the worker is
privileged to work. To die in the harness is by thou
sands considered an ideal ending of an ideal life. Ac
cumulated money and Idle ease have shortened thou
sands of lives at the expense of contentment For this
'7W
. Faror.
A clinical thermometer is probably
as matter-of-course a household con
venlence In most families as Is a step-
ladder or a broom; and it is well that
its use and the general significance
of Its disclosures should be under
stood by those in authority; but fussl
ness and constant resort to It and con
tinual discussion of temperatures are
to be deplored.
The old-fashioned way of placing the
hand upon the child's body and an
nouncing tnat it "leit feverish" or
"had a fever," without any regard to
mathematical accuracy as to degrees
and fractions, worked Just as well and
perhaps better than the new-fashioned
way, carried to a nervous extreme.
At the same time a rise ot tempera
ture always means something, and it
most decidedly means the calling in of
a physician It it does not go down ot
Itself or yield to simple remedies.
When the temperature is taken by
the mouth the thermometer should
register about ninety-eight and seven
tenths degrees, although this may vary
at different times during the day In
perfectly well people. When it reg
isters ninety-nine degrees, or ninety
nine and five-tenths degrees, the per
son la said to be feverish. Anything
below ninety-eight degrees is subnor
mal, and anything over one hundred
and five degrees is railed hyperpy
rexia, or high fever.
Id many cases a fever Is a sort
of blessing in disguise. These are the
fevers caused by the toxins of bac
teria, of which typhoid is a type. The
whole syBtem is then engaged In a
fight against the germs, and the battle
Is wtged to more advantage, apparent
ly, when "the blood is fighting hot"
This Is why, although the fever can
be beaten down by the application of
cold and the administration of drugs,
It U often poor practice to suppress it
fn this way. Getting the fever down
may be a momentary satisfaction, but
it does nothing to help euro the un
derlying cause. It .la as it a general
should insist upon silencing his own
guns.
At the same time the fever must be
watched and kept in check, because
this tort of fight Is calling for an Im
mense outlay from the system, and
a raging fever not only busns up bae
terla, but It feeds upon tissue and
blood and all It ran find, as any one
con testify who has watched or lived
through a convalescence from one.
What Is true of the fever of a germ
disease Is false altogether in the fever
of sunstroke. In this case the fewer
is the disease. It is not a regiment
of infantry, but a conflagration, and
It must be put out as quickly at pos
sible, and by all the means at one's
disposal cold baths, lee-packs, ice
water, anything that will beat It
down.
The character ot a fever is a great
assistance to diagnosis in many cases.
and this is why a physic-tan should
always be asked to tit In Judgment
on if,
type of man It is a .certainty that ability and oppor
tunity to work until the end must satisfy. What then,
shall the young man choose If he can promising him
that longest Independent usefulness?
Every day In the great cities no keen observer is
needed to see thousands of young men risking their
whole future In actions that can be only ruinous to
them. Not all these actions are positive. The negative
stand may be as menacing in a hundred ways. This
working capital la working capital, not Idling, careless,
time-serving routine, with dissipation sandwiched be
tween in the off hours from duty. But even work it
self may be blind work. It may be honest work, with
only the next pay day In the mind of the worker. Or It
may be clear-eyed, conscientious work that Involves a
future more than it contemplates the results of yester
day or of last year.
"Am I a better worker than I, was last year?" Is the
specific question. "Why am I not better?" is the fur
ther question which may need following up and forcing
a definite answer. Your working capital has been Im
paired if you are forced to answer this second query.
What has done the mischief? Your employer, making
such a discovery as to his working capital, probably
would employ an expert accountant firm to show him
the source of such damage. What are you going to do
about your own case?
MAN'S MIND FAET
verse exists which is entirely unconnected with this of
outs. We know that the fruit of our slightest act goes
thundering down the ages, that nothing is ever effaced,
that everything Is of infinite and eternal consequence.
And If It leaves a permanent mark on the material
universe it will affect also all Invisible universes. This
reflection may give a new zest to our present form of
existence. To pierce into the innermost recesses of
nature, to mold natural forces to our will, to make life
happy and glorious for ourselves and our kind, to as
sert our supremacy over disease and death, to conquer
and rule this universe in virtue of the Infinite power
within us, such is our task here and now.
The individual is withdrawn towards that center of
sentient life where all souls are Cne with the great over
soul. What this future fate may be we need not now
Inquire. Should It ever become necessary to enter upon
and pursue such, inquiry we may be sure that a full
acquaintance with the laws of our present visible uni
verse will form the best preparation for it. And these
laws we shall apply with the greater confidence when
we know that they suffice to Interpret not only our own
universe, but the other worlds Just discernible on the
horizon of our present faculties.
Daaiecated Water.
Some years ago the water in Phila
delphia used to become unfit to bathe
in, let alone to drink, after even the
mildest kind of storm. Everybody com
plained, says a writer in the Washing
ton Star. One gentleman complained
to Peter Burness, an incorrigible op-
tlmlBt. But he received little encour
agement.
"Actually," I said to Peter one
morning after a storm, "I couldn't
take a bath to-day on account of the
muddy water. It was like brown
paste."
"Oh, I took a good long bath," said
Peter. "When the Schuylkill water is
like that It Is tho best thing in the
world to bathe in. So medicinal, you
know. Better than Homburg or Ma
rlenbad 6r any ot those places."
"But it's so muddy," sayt I.
"That'a Just the point" said Peter.
"It's medicinal mud. full of all sorts of
phosphates and things. To-night when
you get home fill your bath. Jump In
and splash about; but afterward don't
use any towels."
"No towels?" I objected.
"There's a much better way than
towels," said Peter. "Stand before the
radiator and let the water dry on your
body. Then br.ush it off with a whlsk
broom." BULL CHARGES AN AUTO.
An automobile running along the
turnpike near Mill City Pa., was
charged and damaged by a plucky
Guernsey bull which had broken from
his pasture and was browsing by the
roaujsicie. in the machine were ins
trlctjj Attorney O. Smith Klnner of
Wyoming County, James Dershelmer
of Tunkhannock. William Skinner of
Washington, N. J., and Leon D. Dock
er of Blnghamton, N. Y. They saw
the bull, but never suspected Its bel
ligerent Intentions. It watched the
motor caj" curiously as it approached,
and when it was thirty or forty feet
away the bull hollowed, lowered its
head and charged. The driver put on
the brakes, but the bull and the ma
chine met with a shock. The bull was
sent sprawling backward. He picked
himself up with a surprised air, limp
ed to one side and gave the car un
disputed right ot way. Tsn front ot
the radiator was eomtfwhat damaged,
but the machine was not put out ot
commission.
She Daftaod It.
They were discussing men. One
lady asked Aunt Sophia If she knew
the meaning of the expression ''At)
average man."
"Of course I do," ho promptly re
plied. "An average man Is one who
smiles and looks pleasant all day at
the efflce, and when he comes home
acts at cross at a bear w-lth a sore
head In ovdiT to keep up tho avtfr-
aga,"
OP UNIVERSAL MIND.
By B. E. Fournler TAlb.
We are gradually and Inevitably drawn to
the conclusion that mind is everything and
matter but an expression of the universal
mind. A table, a house or a machine is the
embodiment of some human mind. A stone
is the embodiment ot some mind at present
inaccessible to us, of some will at present
Inscrutable.
Of one thing we may be certain no uni
How much the vacuum-cleaner has
done to destroy the comedy of spring
cleaning Is indicated by an account ot
the old-time methods printed in the
Boston Transcript One cannot help
suspecting that the vividness of recol
lection has helped to brighten the col
ors a bit here and there.
Laying a carpet sounds as simple as
wrltfhg a poem paper, pens and ink;
hammer, tacks and carpet. But the
divine afflatus is necessary for each.
My cousin, Julian Cleghorn, thought
he had it the carpet-laying afflatus
and as his adventures are fairly repre
sentative, they may serve as the type.
Cousin Julian happened to be visiting
us at the time, and hearing that the
library carpet awaited the tack-ham
mer, announced blithely:
"Just leave that to me. Aunt Anne.
I lay carpets blindfold with one hand
tied behind me."
"The library floor Is very difficult to
fit, Julian," faltered mother; but she
was secretly rejoiced, for father had
balked that morning.
"Shucks I If nobody bothers me I'll
have that carpet down in twenty min
utes from the time I begin."
After dinner he unrolled the car
pet and took a mouthful of tacks.
Sarah held the lamp there was no
place to put it down and I wag sup
posed to hand htm the tack-hammer.
We admired him openly as ho made
one corner fast with a few deft strokes.
Then he signaled us In dumb show.
We tried to fit the edges to the hearth,
the bay window, the radiator, the base
of the pier glass, but nothing suited
him. He continued to make horrible
grimaces, with semaphoring arms.
"You blithering Idiots!" he cried at
lasti spouting a shower of tacks. "Can't
you see I want It stretched?" and he
fell to tugging until be was black in
the face.
"Perhaps It would stretch more If
you got oft It," suggested Aunt Caro
line, and left the room abruptly.
Julian tacked In silent wrath. Then
he found he had tacked the hearth" rlra
undor tho radiator, and It all had to
come up
A little later he drove us all
out. Some hours after midnight when
things bad quieted a little, he came
out and remarked that In stretching
the carpet he must have upset the
lamp. At any rate, the town fire bell
began to ring, and while the family
we're all at the upstairs windows try
ing to locate the glow, th6 hose cart
arrived on our front lawn.
Cousin Julian was then seen cram
ming yards of smoldering Axminster
out of the French window. The neigh
bors Impulsively moved us out into the
side yards, then went home to bed.
We spent the rest df the night movtng
In again.
The ne day Cousin Julian left on
an early train.
F.nglUh flea fur ritlra beautiful.
What England wants Just nowfu
man, or several, of Infinite ability
and ample means, wo, purely for the
sake of their art alone, will prepare
Imaginary schemes showing how and
in what way our cities ought to grow
If they are to be healthy dwelling
places and beauty spots Instead of
bluts upon our land. English Build
ing News.
When a woman loses anything she
nearly always believes someone stole
1U
Ijgfention
The lammageler, or bearded vulture
of southern Europe, Is known by the
natives of the countries it inhabits as
the "bone-bresker," from Its habit of
dropping bones upon rocks from great
heights to crack them, enabling it to
get at the mar-rw.
One of the results of the recent ex
ploration of the Antarctle Continent Is
the discovery that that lone and dis
tant land, with Its burden of snow
and Ire, Is able to furniBh minerals
of value to the civilized world. Among
the minerals Is a very good variety of
coal. Professor David, one of Lieu
tenant Shackleton's companions, who
climbed Mount Erebus, expresses the
opinion that there are many minerals
on the Antarctic Continent that could
be profitably worked from Australia.
The recent experience of Count Zep
pelin's huge airship in beating about
Munich, unable to land because of the
storm which was raging, emphasizes
the need of harbors for such vessels,
and the German government has of
fered a competition for plans for har-
OLD COLONIAL
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LANDING OF THE HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA REPRODUCED.
Two hundred and twenty-one years ago a little band of Huguenots came
to a new land and anchored their vessel close to a rocky spit off what is
now New Rochelle, and a short time ago the descendants of these men and
women celebrated the anniversary ot their ancestors' arrival with elaborate
pageantry. Suddenly from their hidden rendezvous twenty canoes, each
manned by two men attired like Indians, shot into view and pulled with
racing speed towards the lower bay. A shout went up, and, there moved
majestically to meet the Indians a strange craft white, standing high out
of the water, and with queer sails bulging fore and aft In the light breeze.
The Indians surrounded the caravel, and their war whoops were answered
by similar yells from a band of about fifty Indiana on shore.
bors of that kind, In the form of sheds
of re-enforced concrete, fitted with
doors at the ends large enough to open
out the entire frontage for the re
ception ot an airship In distress. It
Is recognized that chains of such
refuges must be erected across the
country in order to make navigation
with the Zeppelin type of dirigible bal
loons a success.
Chief Engineer Burgess of the Hon
duras National Railway, giving advice
to engineers working In the tropics,
says emphatically, "Don't get lost!"
He adds that a man should no more
think of going Into a tropical forest
without a compass than of going alono
to sea without one. Without a com
pass one has no way of getting his di
rection. In a few minutes he Is
turned round. The sun can only be
seen, If at all, when directly over
head. There Is no moss on the trees
to serve for a guide. Dtetant eleva
tions, or mountains, if any exist can
not be seen on account of the density
of the forest. Even on the treeless
llanos of South America, where i.ie
mountains are too c'lstant to be Ben,
the compass Is the only guide. On?
can tell the direction of east and v.-est
at sunrise and sunset, but ir the mid
dle of the day the sun Is useless as a
guide, because it Is almost directly
overhead, and often one may stand In
the Bhadow of his own hat
Dr. G. C. Simpson proposes a new
theory of t'ae origin of the electricity
ot rain In thunderstorms. In such
storms ascending air-currents carry
up large amounts of moisture which
accumulates at the top of the currents.
There It grows into drops, which grad
ually become large enough to break.
Every breakage causes a separation of
electricity, the water receiving a posi
tive and the air a negative chargn.
A given amount of water may be
broken many times before it falls, an.
thus may obtain a high positive
Charge, and when It reaches thu
ground as rain It retains this charge.
In the meantime the negative ions
left In the air are nbsortx-d by me
clouds, which become highly charged
natively- The rain falling from
these clouds will be positively charged.
A quantitative analysis knows, Doctor
81rapeon says, that the electrical t,ep-
aratlon accompanying the breaking of
the drops is sufficient to account for
the electrical effects of the most vio
lent thunder etorins.
Moukry and tiual.
Monkeys are more renowned for
mischief than for kindness, but even
monkeys can be beuevolent. M. Mou
toti records the doin;s of one In Guade
loupe that surely seemed to merit that
reputation. The moukey had a friend
In a goat that went dally to the pas
ture. Every night the monkey woufd
pick out the burs and thorns, some
times to the number of 2.000 or 3,000,
from that gott's fleece. In order that
the animal might lie down in peace.
On coming in from the posture the
goat regularly went In search of his
light handed friend and submitted
himself to the operation. 8trange to
say, the tricky instincts of the mon
key reasserted themselves after the
pricks were removed. He would tease
the poor goat unmercifully, plucking
his beard, poking him in the eyes and
pulling out his hairs. The goat bore
It all with patience, perhaps regarding
It as only a fair price to be paid for
the removal of the thorns. London
Standard.
KALAMAZOO IS NOW CLEAN.
Mr. Crane the- Improvement Laaarae
That Effected Reformatio.
Kalamazoo Is a city of only about
30,000 inhabitants, yet in many re
spects It has attained to such correct
civic deportment as Indicates careful
bringing up by hand by the Improve
ment League that the Rev. Caroline
Bartlett Crane organized. It is the vi
tal needs of the heart and lives of the
community that are reached.
The league looked on the streets ot
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Kalamazoo and saw that they were not
hyglenically swept How should men
know how to sweep, anyway? The
men of the city government said that
they were cleaning the streets as the
streets always had been cleaned and It
must be right But the women said
"No; we will show them." The city
council was asked to give over to the
league six blocks of the main street
for a period of three months, together
with the appropriation usually ex
pended on this strip of pavement
The plan was agreed to. Then it be
came nolaed abroad that the women
of Kalamazoo were going to conduit
this demonstration of right street'
cleaning. And the yellowest Journals
of Chicago, the nearby metropolis, be
gan to focus the trained machinery of
their all-searching staffs on the littlo
town.
The women grew nervous In this
glare of the limelight of publicity, but
under Mrs. Crane's direction the ar
rangements progressed. It was Col.
Waring's New York system that was
to be introduced. The "white wings"
were uniformed and all equipped with
new brooms and little carts." Then, at
the eleventh hour, the women who had
een assigned In squads of two to act
as inspectors of the work, one after
another rang the Rev. Mrs. Crane's
front-door bell. With one accord they
began to make excuses. There were
sick babies and unexpected guests and
the ever-useful husband who refused to
allow It, says the Delineator.
So Uxat the league that really clean
ed the streets was mostly Mrs. Crane.
At first appalled by the prospect, she
nevertheless Btood by her guns when
all but one of her faithful lieutenants
had fled, ne yellow cameras got her,
but at the end of th ree months she
had her reward. The city adopted the
system, for she had done for $5 what
had previously cost $S.39 a day, and
she had proved that sweeping by hand
waa better than the machine sweeping
that sent clouds of dust and disease
into the houses. To complete this
demonstration of neatness in munici
pal housekeeping methods the leatfue
purchased and placed on the street cor
ners galvanized iron cans for the re
ception of waste paper and refuse. And
they enMsted the efforts of the chil
dren to keep the streets free from 11U
ter by organlzmg in the schools Junior
civic Improvement leagues, with a
badge declaring, "I will help.
Sociologist Do you have muen trou
bio keeping down expenses? The Toll
erNot so much as keeping up the
revenue. Milwaukee Journal.
Even a very tall mau may not come
near up, to your expectation
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