Dakota Comity HeraM&2''j-
IU nrani In TeiM. At about th .
DAKOTA CITY, NEB.
4Min H. Rtm Publish!
Calling a man a liar won't always
Settle an argument
If there's one thing worse than be
tmt poor, It's having poor relations.
VI r. Harrlman's was a rare case
Ale was richer than generally sup
posed.
Alaska wants a legislature. And
If sihe ever pets one she'll probably
fash she hadn't.
A magazine writer Is wasting his
I line In telling how to spoil a boy.
M. Grandma do It.
When European monarchs meet they
4on't seem to take any stock In the
kissing germ theory.
Anyway, the next minister deslg-
to Pekln will know what not to
do at the Tcry outset.
The man who knows it all will tell
ft if be ran get somebody to listen to
Wm for Ave or ten minutes.
If the farms will only produce big
ff crops, J. J. Hill will furnish the
freight cars to haul them to market.
"Wilbur Wright says the 60-mlles-an-hour
aeroplane Is practically hero,
od there are no telephone polej
head.
A 12-year-old Baltimore girl stole
for the purpose of going to a moving
Wot u re show. Could depravity Blnlc to
lower deptht
A man who has reached the age of
tO says a steady diet of pie did It.
What a splendid tribute to the woman
wo made the plee!
A SL Louis man Is advocating the
Shortening of the months. That might
is all right If all the extra days could
be added to October.
: Jt now appears that the Harrlman
Crtrlotlsm was more amply rewarded
an we had supposed. The testate
totals about $30,000,000.
A Connecticut mother spanked her
daughter and the young man with
whom she eloped. That Is one way of
spoiling a beautiful romance.
Not every boy can become a foot
ball hero, but there seems to be no
Mason why he should not wear his
hair long during the season It he
wants to.
And now Explorer Baldwin wants to
reach the pole. So long as there Is a
choice apple which bears that name,
wfcy cannot the Baldwin family be
fcatlsfied without seeking further
fame?
A Boston publisher of schoolbooks
bars decided to contribute $1,000,000 to
the cause of peace. People who have
complained because of the high prices
they were compelled to pay for school
books may be comforted by the
bought that at least some of their
money is to be well Bpent.
A Columbus, Ohio, lady has written
a tetter of complaint to the newspapers
because she was compelled when she
rent to church last Sunday to sit be
side s woman who had so thoroughly
ea to rated herself with perfume as to
ps, disgustingly odoriferous. It will
fttver be possible to make church-going
pleasant for some people.
An Important suggestion, and one
weli worthy of consideration, was made
by a formal resolution of the Grand
Army of the Republlo at Its last na
tional encampment. It was urged that
jtato school under the Jurisdiction of
very local board of education In the
country should be named the Lincoln
School , In commemoration of the great
President.
Service in the medical corps of the
army does not appeal to young physi
cians, or they are not aware of the at
tractive pay offered and of the number
Of vacanolea. At an examination re
cently, to test the qualifications of can
didates for one hundred and four va
cancies, only forty-two passed. The
successful candidates begin with the
tank of first lieutenant, at a cash sal
ary of two thousand dollars a year, and
with quarters, furniture, horse, fuel
and other allowances, which make the
iay equivalent to thirty-four hundred
dollars. This Increases with length of
service and promotion; and after the
retiring age the officer receives about
two-thirds pay for the rest of his life.
It Is now less than four years since
the issue by a London publisher of
the first volumes In a series of re
prints of the works of standard au
thors, which marked an Interesting
experiment In providing the public
with the worlds best literature In
handy and inexpensive form. The
books were clsarly printed and taste
fully bound and sold for a shilling.
On the recent addition of the four
hundredth volume to the list the au-
nounctment was made that more than
1,000,000 separate copies had been dls
posed of. That Is, fully five times
the number of books in the Library
of Congress, more than double the
numb r of volumes in the Blbllotheiiue
Nattonale of Paris, the world's largest
library books ail of a substantial
character have been absorbed within
this brief time by a reading public
whose Intelligence Is too often meas
ured by the sales of "popular" fiction.
The proof given that the world's great
matters ot literature are still the
"best otllcrs." that works published
In Athens and Rome before the Chris
tian era or In Weimar or Florence
centuries bfi are to-day In lively de
mand. It fn agreeable tribute to the
quality m a correctness ot modern
popular taste in literature.
Tw j, years ago the cotton-bolt
atsevU. tuir.ng completely wiped out
same time fruitgrowers In Californls
awoke to the fact (hat a minute scale
like Insect was threatening to destroy
their apple, peach, pear and plum or
chards. In spite of every effort, these
two pests spread rapidly. Only th
cotton fields of the Atlantic coast have
so far escaped the weevil's attack; th
San Jose scale Is domesticated In al
most every State In the Union. Some
persons predicted the complete de
struction of both cotton-fields and or
chards, and It Is certain that a good
many planters and fruit growers were
ruined. But the Intelligence and In
genuity of man are proving equal to
the emergency; and incidentally there
are appearing certain of the blessings
which always follow adversity cour
ageously met. The Southern farmer
has learned the benefits of a proper
crop rotation, and a close and careful
cultivation of his fields. In the boll
weevil country the old system of mort
gaging the ungrown cotton crop to
get the money with which to raise
it has gone. There may not be any
crop at all unless the planter Is vigi
lant and Industrious. There is more
and harder work to be done, but there
are the rewards of hard work to be
had. Texas raises about as much cot
ton as ever, and more general crops.
The banks show increased deposits
In one community the farm mortgages
have fallen from twenty-eight hundred
to four hundred. The orchardist has
found that he can save his trees by
thorough spraying. The scale Is de
stroyed, and with It other pests, which
were not dangerous enough to per
suade the grower to the practice of
spraying, but the destruction of which
greatly improves the quantity and
quality of the yield. The experience
has been alarming and costly, but It
has left both Industries on a sounder
basis, and has taught their practi
tioners much that will be of lasting
value to them
TIE BOTHY fef T0K
A New Antiseptic. Vltralln, a new
German pigment. Is applied like ordi
nary paints with a basis of white lead
or sine white. Bacilli of tuberculous
are killed by the painted surface In
three days, of diphtheria in live
hours, and of typhoid In eight hours.
Cider for Typhoid. A French chem
ist has recently proclaimed that cider
Is an antidote for typhoid fever.
The malic acid In It Is the agent as It
destroys the germs. Cider In Europe
Is more generally used as a beverage
than id this country. Germans ap
pear to prefer cider after It becomes
sour, but our people usually drink it
while it Is sweet.
Adenoids. These are growths ot
various sizes which appear in the up
per part of the throat When large
they may fill the back passage of the
nose into the throat so that a child
will breathe with the mouth open and
snore at night. They may also close
the openings ot the little tubes which
give rise to deafness cr some other
form ot ear trouble. Children with
adenoids have a vacant expression
and are apt to be dull at school. The
growths should be removed as soon
as the symptoms become prominent.
Cough Remedy. It is not the cough
that we doctor so say the physicians
but the disease that is the cause of
the cough. The cough simply an
nounces the fact that a certain mem
ber Is diseased and the remedy should
be applied accordingly. The follow
ing remedy for irritated lungs, which
are so often manifested by a hacking
cough, cannot be excelled. Two
ounces of gum arabto soaked In a cup
of cold water over night. In the
morning set upon the stove until It
comes to a boll, add the strained
juice of four lemons and one pound of
loaf sugar. Give a tablespoonful
about once In two hours.
Art Well Your Part."
But there is one great, striking dlf
ference between the theatrical stage
and the great drama ot human life.
On the former, as a rule, the leading
lights the star actors and actresses
get most of the applause; those who
are forced to play the lessor rules
often get but scant notice. But on
the great, wide stage where the
Author of our being Is both judge and
audience. It matters not what part we
play whether It be prominent or ob
scure provided we play It well. The
hod carrier and the poor washwoman,
who perform conscientiously and ex
actly the duties of their lowly state,
may be far more pleasing to their
Maker than the professional man, tho
monarch or 'the genius certainly a
consoling reflection. i
Mat brinatlcall jr Impossible.
The farmer who spent half a day
getting two fence posts In line with
each other has a kindred Bplrlt In the
newly enlisted man who, not long ago,
says the Argonaut, was ordered to the
range for his first target drill. Out
of his twenty-one chances, ho made
not a single hit. .
"You've missed that target every
time!" said Bn officer. "What on earth
Is the matterT" I
"Well, tfir," answered the new man,
"the only reason I can think of Is
that the person who set up my target
hasn't placed it In a straight line
from here."
Mrurra ihm Trouble I .a jr.
"You look sick, old sport. Is your
trouble catching?"
"No it Isn't," said the young recruit
from the minor leagues. "My trouble
Is pitching." 6t. Louis Star.
The roller skating fad, which be
camo popular In England last winter,
promises to continue this season as
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HILI IILIIL LI,
Occupations of Well-Known Men
of To-Day at Time of Their
Majority.
TACT WAS A YALE GRADUATE
Beginning of Careers ot Belmont,
Maxim, Corey, Ryan, Choate,
Sc'jwab and Others.
At the age of 21 William Howard
Taft was graduated from Yale, and
second In a largo class, Bays the New
York Times. He was salutatorlan, re
reived Phi Beta Kappa honors and di
vided tho first prize on his graduation
In law. His plans for the future study
of law were undertaken the same year.
In his twenty-first year the future
Itcar Admiral Evans was serving as
lieutenant In the United States navy.
He became a lieutenant commander in
his twenty-second year.
I At 21 William Dean Howells was an
itcuve newnpauer man in a small Ohio
community. He entered his father's
SAMUEL I.. CLEMENS.
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JOHN D. BOCKK1ELLES.
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newspaper office, working first as a
compositor, later occupying an edi
torial position. He was appointed news
editor ot the local paper In his twenty-second
year. His appointment as
consul to Venice followed two years
later.
After graduating from the English
high school of Boston J. P. Morgan
went abroad to study higher mathe
matics at the University of Oottingen.
He returned to New York end began
his business career Just before reach
ing his twenty-first year.
In his twenty-first year August Bel
mont was graduated from Harvard.
He spent several months thereafter In
a trip abroad, when he returned to
New York and entered hi father's
banking house.
Following an academic education
Nelson W. Aldrlcb plunged Into mer
cantile pursuits. He was an ardent
Republican from his first vote, aud
early took an active part in locjl poll
tics. He became president of the com
mon council of Providence shortly af
ter reaching bis majority.
Joseph G. Cannon wus busily en
gaged In studying law in his twenty
first year, and for Beveral years there
after. Following an education In the
common schools anJ In law, he was
admitted to the Illinois bar.
Long before his twenty-first year,
John D. Rockefeller was well estab
lished In business, and bad given evi
dence of his genius for organization.
He went to Cleveland when 15 years
old and obtained his first position.
Two years later he was engaged la aa
Oil commission house. At SI hs was
partner In the commission house of
Clarke A Rockefeller, where he had
been established for mors than two
years.
James J. Hill was educated with the
Idea of becoming a physician. His fath
er's death compelled him to enter busi
ness, when he obtained a position In
a country store at the age of IS. Later
he moved to St. Taul, and In his twenty-first
year was engaged as shipping
clerk In that city, with the Mississippi
Packet Company.
First as a school teacher, then a
printer, Hudson Maxim fought his way
against unusual odds. By the time
he had reached his twenty-first year
he had become a printer and publisher
of subscription books, and In selling
these he traveled about the country,
ills spare moments at this period were
spent in experimenting with high ex
plosives. From his first job, at $1 a day,
William E. Corey advanced rapidly In
the "great Carnegie steel works at
Pltlsburg. His twenty-first year was
spent in perfecting the famous Car
negie re-enforced armor-plate. Shortly
afterward he was appointed superin
tendent of the plate mills.
Charles M. Schwab started to earn
his living as a farm hand. Next he
became the driver of a coach, and
later a clerk In a grocery store. At
19 he became a civil engineer's assist-
MEN WHO STARTED
JOSEPH S.
cimaxa u.
"V V ft V t fH $"S"fr 4
ant at $1 a day. At 21 young Schwab
was working hard In the field with
an engineer corps. Five years later
ho was appointed chief assistant of tne
dlvUlon engineer, and under his direc
tion the famous plant at Homestead
was built.
An orpnan at the oge of S, Thomas
F. Ryan was cared for by bis grand
mother, and at an early age sought
employment. His first position was
with a dry goods commission house
in Baltimore. He had saved enough
money by his nineteenth year to come
to New York. He entered business
actively and became a member of the
stock exchange in his twenty-fourth
year.
The study of law was engaging the
time of Joseph II. Choate In his twenty-first
year and for several years
thereafter. He was graduated at 21
from Harvard, with Phi Beta Kappa
honors, and entered the law school at
Harvard. He was graduated with the
dchiie of LL. B. at 22.
A variety of occupations had been
followed by Samuel L. Clemens befor
he bad reached his twenty -first year.
The greater part of his time had been
spent In a printing oillco. where he
became an expert compositor. At th
age of 21 he was threading tho dlfl
cult channels of the Mississippi river
as a regularly licensed pilot. His
newspaper career followed.
At 21 the future Senator Tillman
was living on a farm with no ambi
tions for a political career. He had
entered the Confederate army when
bat 17 years old and had been retired
Hi ('
after Injuries which caused the loss
of his eye.
ODD COLLECTING: FADS.
rrople Who Drltsht la Gatherlaa;
Slippers, Ink Wella aad Clock.
The solon who coined the trite but
expressive phrase, "There is no ac
counting for tastes," might have ap
plied his statement to fads with equal
appropriateness. New fads are com
ing to light all the time, the Philadel
phia Record says. "There Is a young
woman In Tioga who makes a spe
cialty of saving slippers. She has a
collection that certainly cannot be
equaled la Philadelphia, and probably
not anywhere. She has two trunks
and three bureau drawers full of slip
pers silk, leather, suede, black, tan,
red, blue, gold, pumps, Oxford ties,
sandals; In short, every conceivable
kind. A Germantown man has a col
lection of plain and fancy Inkwell
covers that he says he would not take
$2,000 for. He has been collecting for
fifteen years. A doctor on Cedar ave
nue, West Philadelphia, has a collec
tion of clocks, foreign and domestic,
numbering over 800, including four
teen different kinds of Tyrolese. An
other West Philadelphia man, who Is
a student at the University of Penn
sylvania, has a collection of campaign
buttons. He has two very rare ones,
AT THE BOTTOM.
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showing the faces of Harrison and
Morton and Cleveland and Thurman
In 1888, the first buttons in America.
I)lltical buttons were still rare at the
time of the second Harrison-Cleveland
campaign In 1892, but by '96 the craze
was fairly on, and there were a dozen
different photograpts of both McKln
ley and Bryan In that year. If this
young man's collection is any crl
terion, 1904 was the greatest year,
ooin ror volume and variety, in cam
palgn buttons. Since then they Beem
to have declined somewhat.
Clyde Kltrh's Had Taate.
Clyde Fitch manicured and was as
careful of his hands as a prima donna
Once he amused several rows In a
theater by expressing horror at the
discovery of a black smudge from the
program on the tip of a finger. He
had his spike-tailed coat decorated
with black braid like gold lace on a
court uniform. He crossed his front
when in full regalia, too. with a heavy
gold watch chain, with big diamond
fctuck between the links. Fitch was
notorious for his bad taste. It was
told that he crammed his town home
full of junk which he had bought at
fabulous prices for art treasures, and
that finally a friend who knew some
thing about art values cleared out the
place, altered the wall decorations,
gave a harmonious whole, and made
the house look presentable. The
stable cf Fitch's country home Is full
of near-art objects picked up In
Kurope. The playwright was an easy
mark for the picture men and tbs
antique dealers, and, oddly enough la
this respect, he was Imposed upon in
the same way as Richard Mansfield.
A Kearleea Woman.
Sollman, the dreaded Turkish sul
tan. In 1521 was going to besiege Bel
grade, the capital of Servla, his most
hostile neighbor. While slowly pro
ceeding with hrs military train on the
dusty highroad a woman stopped his
unapproachable majesty. Bitterly she
complained about the soldiers, who,
during her sleep, had carried off her
cattle, the sole fortune she had. "You
must have fallen Into a most profound
sleep not to have heard the thieves
at their work," said the sultan laugh
lngly. "Yes, I Blept well. I slept in
confidence that your majesty Is watch
lng over the safety of your people,"
replied the woman.
This answer, which might have cost
the woman's head, pleased the sultan
Decause or me reariess way it was
said. He restored all the cattle stolen
by the soldiers.
A Itemarknble Chapel.
The most remarkable mortuary
chapel In America Is located In Cal
vary Cemetery, Long Island City, N.
Y., and cost $180,000. The crypts or
catacombs are for the burial of priests
of the diocese of New York, under
the charge of which the cemetery Is
maintained, says Popular Mechanics.
aOBLKT D. EVANS.
W. AXDRICH.
. FIEBPONT MOSOAJT.
At present, but one section of the
catacombs has been completed with ac
commodations for 24 bodies In the con
crete niches. But the section can be
extended underground in four direc
tions, and at any time an addition for
72 more bodies can be made. For a
cryptal burial there is a lift set into
the floor of the chapel to lower the
body to the level of the crypts. The
record for burials at Calvary indicates
that the mortuary chapel will be in
almost constant use. The burials aver
age 70 a day and often run as high
as 120.
;! Out and 1I.
An English specialist in nerve dis
eases has been recommending all who
suffer from any kind of mind disturb
ance to take to digging, for he says
there Is something about mother earth
that gives steadiness and balance. If
every woman who Is a victim of neu
ralgia, nervous headache or Irritability
would take a spade and dig a little
patch In her garden every morning
before breakfast and then Interest her
self In this little patoh so far as to see
what can be grown In it he is of the
opinion that she would soon forget her
troubles. The remedy la a simple cue
and worthy of a trial by those who
find it wjthin their reach, it hi cheap.
er and more agreeable than traveling
to a distance for baJhs and other cures
and If used with discretion can do the
patient no barm.
A woman's ambition is not only t
have both ends meet, but to Las tm
and have enough for her kin.
GIRLS HARVESTING CROPS.
tfaar of Them Earn Good Wa-ea la
Wheat Flelda of North went.
The small grain harvest that was
recently being finished throughout
Southern and Central Nebraska sup
plies convincing proof that the women
of the West are rapidly crowding the
men out of the fields of labor and are
candidates for positions In all ot the
respectable avocations. When the Ne
braska small grain harvest opened
there was a great shortage of male
help. Even $3 a day, with board, lodg
ing and washing, did not attract the
city man. A large number of college
students went to the rescue of the
ripening grain, but the supply was far
less than the demand. Farmers be
came desperate. The price ot wheat
kept on soaring and they could not
afford to let the grain go back into
the ground. Out in Beatrice one day
Henry Wilson, a farmer living nine
miles south of town, needed four men
for gathering and shocking wheat, ifb
offered Idle park loungers $3.25 a day,
but they declined to go to work. Stop
ping at a lunch 'counter before going
home, Mr. Wilson told of his trouble
to Miss Jeannette Allison, a waitress.
"Why don't you hire girls?" he
asked.
They would not go Into the harvest
field and they would not do the work
If they could," responded the farmer.
"Try them," ventured the girl.
"Give me the same wages as you
would a man and I will go. Besides,
if I do not do the work of a man I
will not charge you a cent."
Not only did Miss Allison ride homo
with Farmer Wilson that night, but
four of her girl friends went along.
The next evening Farmer Wilson told ,
his wife that he had never had harvest
hands that did better work than tho
five girls. The second day farmers
came from miles about, saw the girls
at work, and that night many of them
went to Beatrice and other neighbor
ing towns, where they hired fifteen
young women to work in the graia
Holds.
Word was passed down to Omaha
that young women could have employ
ment In the harvest fields of Gage
County. An employment r.gency pub
lished this ad:
"Wanted One hundred young wom
en to work in the harvest fields.
Wages $3 per day. Board and wash
ing." The next day that employment agent
did business. He was swamped with
applicants, all young women, school
teachers, stenographers, college girls
and girls who had been working iu
factories at from $6 to $7 per week.
All they wanted was to be given a
trial. The farmers cavn thnm ih
trial,-and they made good. They re
mained with the formers until the
harvest was finished, and many of
them will continue during the stack
ing and haying, receiving from $1.7
to $2 per day and board. Omaha.
(Neb.) Dispatch to Boston Transcript,
HE BOUGHT AW AIRSHIP.
A Wealthy Rnaalaa Wanted a Mle.
riot Monoplane and Got It.
A good story is being told In Paris
of how M. Delagrar.ge, pilot of one
of the Bleriot monopianes at Rhelms,
disposed of the monoplane with which
he made his record flights last year.
He was at his shed when a wealthy
Russian, fresh from St. Petersburg.
was Introduced to him, the New York
Morning Telegram says.
Is your aeroplane for sale?" asked
the stranger.
"Yes, If you like."
"Would you mind taking it out ot
the shed to let me see it?"
"Certainly not," replied M. Dela-
grange.
The Russian examined it all over.
then asked the price and was told
$2,400.
"I will take it," said the Russian.
drawing out his pocket book and hand
ing over the money.
"All right."
"Then the machine is mine?"
"Yes," replied the aviator; "it Is."
Thereupon the Russian got into the
pilot's seat and, looking up at M. Dela
grange, said to him:
"Turn on the motor, please. I want
to see how the thing goes."
There was laughter and astonish
ment all around among the persons
present M. Delagrange In vain tried
to explain to the Russian through an
interpreter that a good deal of prelim
inary practice is required before one
can fly.
The Russian Insisted.
At last M. Delagrange did turn the
handle. The motor started purring.
The aeroplane ran along over the grass
for some yards, rose a few feet into
the nlr and then came down with a
smash. The Russian was extricated
from the wreck considerably scratched
and bruised, but he seemed to be de
lighted at having had any sort of a
flight for his money.
"I shall have the machine repaired;
then I will try again," was all he said.
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