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Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NIB.
John H. Riam,
Publish!
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Now Htovnlne shows symptoms of
developing a Peary-Cook controversy.
A Boston paper stales that food Is
abundant. That, however, makes no
difference In the pi-Ire.
A lioard of health In Tennessee has
frrbldden kissing. Well, who want? to
kins a board of health?
When shoes advance materially In
price It Is good form to make them
last longer by judicious cobbling.
Pattl earned $4,000,000 with, her
voice. This appears to be a magnlfl
rent vindication of the farewell tour.
If Christopher Columbus could dis
cover America again now, lie would
be almost as much astonished as he
was before.
contractors hnVe completed the work
on which, they are engaged there will
be a thousand miles of railroad In th
Islands. A water and sewer system
baa been built for Manila, and thai
Ity Is now the only one In the Orient
which has modern sanitary Improve
ments generally Installed throughout
its limits. Free schools are maintain
ed, In which half a million children
receive instruction In the English Inn
guage and In other subjects. It l?
said that more native Filipinos now
speak English than Spanish, Although
Spanish was the official language ror
two hundred and fifty years. The new
Payne-Aldrlch tariff law permits the
free entry Into the United States of
large quantities of sugar, cigars and
manufactured tobacco, and on rice only
requires the payment of duty on the
full amount of Imports. The law was
intended to Improve -the business ol
the Islands, and will probably be suc
cessful in Its purpose. The government
is evidently attempting In good faith
to do Its duty toward the dependent
races that have como under Its care
in the Orient
Little Evelyn recently went up to
the asylum and quarreled with Harry,
after which she gracefully returned to
the obscurity that becomes her so
welL
An Atlanta young man has been
fined j.75 for stealing a kiss. The
Jury no doubt had reason to believe
that the kiss which was stolen had
keen marked down from $5.
Congress is again In session, but the
people of this country have no imme
diate cauxe for fear. It is generally
Understood that Congress will not do
aiuch during the present session.
A New York heiress has publicly de
pled that ehe Is to be married to King
(lanuel of Portugal. The King will
ioubtless be glad to be thus relieved
f the necessity of doing any denying.
Figures compiled at West Point
how that it takes 110,000 to make a
lecond lieutenant. But how could we
have inaugural processions without the
future second lieutenants from West
Point?
A Poughkeepsle, N. Y., man drown
d himself because the lady who kept
tils favorite boarding-house went out
of business. He probably felt sure
that he could never find another place
where prunes would not be served
very evening.
Nearly every catastrophe shows forth
Jnevr the capacity for heroism that ex
sts in plain, every-day men. After
the terrible mine disaster In Cherry,
111., the first six bodies taken out were
those of volunteer rescuers, many of
Whom were not even employed In the
mines.
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If there is any. doubt of the pendulum-like
movement of educational
theory, listen to Doctor Shanklln, the
newly Inaugurated president of Wes
leyad, as he refers to the advanced
elective system as a "scrap-heap edu
cational fad." A few years ago would
any college president have ventured to
put It eo strongly?
Voting. Is getting to be more and
more generally regarded as a very se
rious business. The citizen who neg
lects to discharge his entire duty in
the matter of attendance upon the
primary and the general elections de
ceives frequent and Insistent reminder
from his friends or from his party or
ganization as to what Is expected of
him. An election is getting to be loss
and less the chief concern of a "gang,"
and more and more a matter for the
conscience and intelligent initiative of
the Individual voter.
To be lost overboard on a dark
night, hundreds of miles south of the
Cape of flood Hope, with a Btrong wind
blowing, and to live to tell the tale,
does not happen to pany sailors. Wil
liam Galloway, of the crew of the Brit
ish ship Kllbrannan, hud such an ex
perience several years ago, und told
his story to a reporter of a San Fran
cisco newspaper of the time, from
which the following uccount is taken:
Galloway Is a brown-faced Scotch
ladle who says "mither" for mother,
and everything about him, from the
frayed bottoms of his Juan trousers to
the wiry-looking tufts of hair which
peep from beneath the front beak of
his little fore-and-aft cap, betoken the
rollicking, happy-go-lucky deep-sea
sailor boy. Of his adventure, FJrst
Mate William Coalfleet said.
"It was 8 o'clock in he evening. We
were fifty-five days out from Philadel
phia, bound for 1 1 logo, Japan, and
near latitude forty-four one south,
longitude fourteen forty-four east. A
strong, easterly wind was blowing. It
was dark and bitter cold, and the wji
was running very high.
"Galloway was half-way up the rat
lines, unhooking a Mock from the
main sheet, when the ship gave a
lurch and he fell Into the sea.
"The captain threw him a life buoy.
Tho ship was brought up In the wind
as quickly as possible and a boat low
ered and manned. I took, command of
her. i
"We heard the boy shout as we were
lowering the boat, but he had yelled
himself hoarse, and we had nothing to
guide as as we pulled aimlessly about
In the heavy sea.
"We pulled round for over an hour,
and as we lost sight of the ship aev
eral times, and the night was getting
rougher and thicker, I was about to
give up the search In despair, when we
beard a feeble moan, and straining our
eyes saw Galloway clinging to the life
buoy, almost under our bow.
"We soon had him on lioaru, but It
took some slapping and rubbing to put
warmth Into his rigid limbs."
Galloway said to the reporter, "I am
a good swimmer and managed to ride
BEWARE OF THE MAN WHO TELLS.
liy Dart Kennedy.
If you have a brick handy, present It with
out ceremony to the man who Is always tell
ing you what other people say about you.
You will Injure him with the brick, and you
will doubtless be locked up for assault; but
you-will gain In the end. For you will have
rid yourself of a friend who is more danger
ous than the most dangerous foe.
Gossip in Itself Is not a bad thing at all.
And even scandal Is shorn in a vast measure of Its
power to injure when the person about whom it is cir
culated knows nothing of it. If you don't know what
people are saying about you, the tiling largely Is, in ef
fect, not said. And, even If you do know what Is said,
absolutely the best way of dealing with it Is to wear
a bold, unconscious front. If you do this you will al
ways find people to take your part- This Is as true of
human nature as It is true that It loves gossip and
scandal.
It Is the one who tells who really causes the trouble.
This dealer In the truth that Is necessarily in part a lie
causes more mischief than any other kind of criminal.
I say criminal advisedly, for the man or the woman
who is In the habit of telling people what others say
about them creates far more mischief and causes far
more misery than the more honest and bolder type of
criminal who Is sent into penal servitude. The law is
unable to touch them, I know; but their crimes are
thoBe that the law Is unable to punish.
truly human, good and great. The truest, love, the finest
sense for truth, open righteousness, magnanimity, and
gentleness In a word, brotherhood all this secures a
victory in which the vanquished share In the triumph!
COMPETITION AND BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.
liy Prof. George D. Foster.
How does it come mat weauer man nas
maintained his place upon the earth, while
much stronger animals of the primeval world
succumbed to their fate long ago? Only
through social life, only through the bond of
common, if so be, primitive order, the first
traces of civilization! And the higher hu
manity has ascended the ladder of develop
ment, the clearer is it to be seen that the
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of life, thus to till the law of social progress, consists
In increased capacity to serve the interests of other
men. to understand the problems of other men, and to
serve other men's lives.
In fair competition man sees all the foolish schem
ing and striving which goes on around him and makes
him sorry for the people; he tries to be strong bo that
he may Dot be upset by the general confusion of moral
Ideas; he feels that he must be better, even if he stands
alone, than all his so-called competitors. If he re
mains strong, he will become ever stronger, ever freer,
a fountain of life, a stirring example for others, show
ing them new paths of life. It Is ours, then, to seek
the best, to excel all who lag behind in that which Is
POWER OF MORAL COURAGE IN WAR.
liy Lieut. Gen. Reginald C. Hart.
It Is instructive to study the moral forces
that contributed so largely to the Japanese
victories. It is sufficient to say that re
ligion, call It any other name you like, en
ters into the daily private and public life of
the whole nation. Hoys und girls alike are
brought up to treat their parents with honor,
respect and unselfish devotion, and to revere
past generations to whom all living men are so
much indebted. In Japan the young men and women
of the nobility and wealthy classes would think It dis
honorable to devote the best years of their lives to
idleness and the result of selfish pleasure, because they
are ta.'ght that it is wrong not to work.
The causes of courage are mostly moral. There is
some mysterious working in the minds of ordinary men
that gives a force of character that determines them
to ignore or control the strong natural Instinct of self
preservation and to accept self-sac rifice more or less
completely.
Religious feeling Is a moral cause that produces an
almost Irresistible moral force. We need only recall the
religious enthusiasm of the followers of Moses,
Joshua, Mohammed, Cromwell and scores of others. In
deed, the greatest things have been done by amules of
God fearing men.
FATHER THE BEST ADVISER OF THE BOY.
By John A. How land.
As a matter of stern, hard common souse
truth, most of the advice which to-day i3
given to the young man in person, long before
ought to have been impressed upon the fa
ther, in order that the growing boy and young
man might have been made open to all elsa
that may come .to him In spoken advice and
personal experience.
it isn't easy to train the normal boy, who Is
overfull of high spirits and lightness of heart and feet and
filll of high spirits and lightness of heart and feet and
hands. But when it is brought home to him that some
of his heedless actions Just a little later in life may "put
him out cf business" the application Is direct and in
disputable. Hold that boy to his accountabilities s you
would hold the stranger boy. If you won't do this,
don't ask that son to do anything. Open, Irresponsible
Idleness is the better for him by far. He will have a
better show, wholly without training, than If lazily and
indifferently half trained.
ILcydi
The mere affixing of a price to each
jushel of a crop contracted to be
thrashed Is held, in Johnson vs. Fehse
feldt. 10G Minn. 202. 118 N. W. 797,
20 L. U. A. (N. S.) 1069, not to be
sufficient to make the contract sever
able.
The owner of a horse left by his
jervant unhitched and unattended In
public street is held, in Corona Coal
and Iron Company vs. White (Ala.)
48 So. 362, 20 L. R. A. (N. S.) 958,
to be liable for injury done to others
by its running away.
Taking notes and collateral security
I for the purchase price of chattels Is
held, in Monitor Drill Company vs.
Mercer (C. C. A.) . 163 Fed. 943, 20
L. R. A. (N. S.) 1005, not to destroy
features of the contract constituting
the transaction a conditional sale.
That forfeiture of the license of an
auctioneer cannot be Imposed as a
penalty in a civil suit brought by a
i neighboring merchant Is held in Gilly
vs. Hirsh, 122 La. 966, 48 So. 422, 20
L. R. A. (N. S.) 972; and it is also
held that the latter cannot be permit
ted to put tho auctioneer out of busi
ness by signs or publications reflecting
upon the character of his business.
The mere fact that the marks upon
the logs placed in a river to be floated
to market, and which sink and become
Imbedded In the soil, have become ob
literated, Is held, In Whitman vs. Mus
kegon Log Lifting and Operating Com
pany, 152 Mich. 645, 116 N. W. 614.
20 L. R. A. (N. S.) 984. not to destroy
the title of their original owners, or
prevent an assignment of the property
to a salvage company.
A statute providing that the owners
ot adjacent lands shall build and
maintain the partition fences between
them in equal shares, unless other
wise agreed upon, and that, If any
party neglects to build or repair a par
tition fence, or the portion thereof
which he ought to build, the aggrieved
party may complain to the township
trustees, who, If upon notice he falls
to construct, may order It built, and
the costs collected as other taxes, is
held, in Alma Coal Co. vs. Cozad, 79
Ohio St. 348, 87 N. E. 172, 20 L. R. A.
(N. S.) 1092, not to be so construed
and administered as to charge the
owner of lands which are, and are to
remain, uninclosed, with any part of
the expense of constructing and main
taining such a line fence for the sole
benefit of the adjoining proprietor.
I THE SPEED OF THE PIGEON.
Racing pigeons are the fleetest of all
creatures. They have maintained a
speed of a mile and a half a minute
for a huudrcd miles, according to a
writer in Collier's, and they have
flown seven hundred mlle3 between
' the rising and the Retting of the sun.
I Pigeons have flown a thousand hiiles
I back to the home loft. In 1904 a bird
covered that distance In five days, two
hours and ill teen minutes, proving uow
unerring Is the mysterious homing In
stinct that will drive them across the
continent without Bwervlng. But Mis
test Is not true sport. The birds sim-
rr'tlnat Hni find
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tne Dig seas mat came uiong, m .i m ar(j j fl mU Ttjey
was terr my com. ana my .egs ocgan neyer m.e ln
to reel UKe leau. n was a gooa jod , The racer rlsesl ,nto the alr wlth
for me that the water was so black, or 1 . i... intia nn.
I novor could have seen the white life I llo,8e(1' over ,ie BtarUng point, there
Duoy as ii came iu mo uu me cresi oi
ANY BRIGHT BOY WITH TOOLS CAN NOW MAKI2
AN UP-TO-DATE AEROPLANE ALL BY HIMSELF.
COWS IN THE LAP OF LUXURY.
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The president of Bryn Mawr College
or Women upsets some opinions gen
erally, although It Is to be hoped er
roneously, entertained concerning col
lege women and marriage. She denies
that the college girl knows too much
to be willing to do housework, or that
her training unfits her in any way
to be mistress of a home. On the con
trary, she says, the college girl grad
uate makes the best wife in the world;
tier average health Is better, her wages
when she works are higher, and the
average number of children born of
mothers who are college graduates Is
slightly greater than the number born
of non-college mothers. Finally, she
declares, they are somewhat taller in
stature, and marry stronger men, and,
as a rule, choose their husbands more
wisely.
a wave.
"I got it under my arms and stopped
paddling. 1 was tired out. I shouted
as long as I could, but my voice grew
husky.
"The albatrosses and mollyhawks
swooped down on me, and I kept wuv
lng my arms, thinking every moment
that one of them would drive Its beak
through my skull.
"I lost all hope, and thought of
mother and my sisters in Glasgow.
Then I saw the white hull of the
mate's boat. I tried hard to Bhout.
They heard me and I was soon hauled
on board.
"The captain gave me medicine, and
with plenty of warm blankets and hot
coffee, I soon began fo feel myself
again."
The KorraU of the Nicer.
The Insects of Africa are expert dis
ease carriers, and they como In such
numbers on the Niger that one hardly
dares to use one's lamp or go too near
a light of any sort at night. These
forests on tho Niger are deadly places
for all their haunting attraction and
take a big toll both of European and
native life. Yet the first three days on
the Niger, with all Its mud und Its
smell and Its mangrove flies und its
frogs und its crickets, are enough to
is a swifter, shorter beat, and the time
is "hit up" to the third and permanent
wing rhythm, rapid and steady as a
pulse beat, which carries them honi9.
They fly three hundred feet high
over land, but low over water. Their
enemies as they fly are wind, rain, gun
ners und hawks. They do all their fly
ing between sunrise and Biinset. if
caught out overnight, they fend for
themselves till dawn.
The homing Instinct Is lifelong.
During the Franco-Prussian War the
Germans caught a homing pigeon
which wns on its way Into beleaguered
Paris. The bird was kept prisoner for
ten years, it was then released. It
Immediately returned to its old home.
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t-.xrardlnnr- Tain Taken in Pro
vide Pure Milk fur Hableii.
The milk which is furnished in tho
seven depots of the New York mill:
committee to the babies of the tene
ments is what all country milk could
and should be. The cows on the farm
supplying the committee are taken
care of as If a cow were the rarest of
animals, and likely soon to join the
dodo and disappear entirely.
They live In a St. Regis sort of
larn, the concrete floors and Iron and
;las3 walls of which are kept as clean
as a parlor, Twice dally the cow stalls
are sterilized with live steam. As a
precaution against dust they keep no
hay or other food in the barn, but
minting on th"e Impudent publication,
Bays: "According to our experience
Englishmen and Americans as a rui
either give no tips at all or very mod
erate ones. The German gives exces-.
slve tips and Is mostly served worse
than the American. Things have come
to such a pass In Berlin that In ele
gant restaurants the waiter refuses,
with a lordly wavo of the hand, to
accept 10 per cent of the bill, even if
the bill amounts to $25, and the man
ager declares on being spoken to that
the man has a right to demand 20 per
cent.
Consequent on this publication steps
are being taken to initiate a crusade
against tipping which has assumed
enormous proportions in the Prussian
capital.
MUSKR ATS CAUSE OF PEARLS.
Contain Larvae Which Become Kn
rymtrd in llody ot Clam.
Muskrats cause pearls, according to
Charles B. Wilson, an Investigator or
the United States Bureau of Fisheries.
Without muskrats, he says, there
would be no baroque pearls, a Spring
field (Mass.) dispatch to the New York
World says. Wilson asserts pearls are
merely cysts in shellfish, which have
formed around a microscopic larva or
worm that is Indigenous to the musk
rat. The curious life cycle seems to
be that from the muskrat there are
adult dlstoniid worms. The eggs are
discharged in such a manner as to t
reach the water, where they get U'-o "
ment in e shellfish. Hatching into
larva, they pass through the substance
of the mullosk and find themselves a
new home In the muscle of the back.
Here some of them produce the Irri
tation of the diseuse of which cysts
are the symptom, and some of these
cysts become the centers of pearls.
What the shellfish do -s in covering
the cysts is purely :.i : 1 ..r.;..al, its or
dinary net when ::'. : -btanco gets
into a position hurtful or annoying
to the creature. Little fislthat swim
Into the shelves of bivalves or bits
of dirt that get between the soft body
of the animal and its shell, or articles
Introduced intentionally by man, are
covered with pearly shell, but all such
objects are usually attached to the.
shell Itself, and are not valuable.
The round pearls, which are more ,
com mere 1 ally valuable than thw,
baroques, Wilson says, are caused. 'V
a second species of the same family
of worms that, in their larval form,
make their home in the mantle of the
mollusk In the thin part of the shell
fish that surrounds the body, and
which in the case of the oyster frills
so nicely when the mollusk is cooked
in a stew. The round pearls are made
In the midst of the mantle, where
here is softness on every side and an
organ capable of . secreting pearls In
Its every part. With the worm cyst
established, the protecting material is
built around it with the greatest reg;
larlty, resulting In the pearl. The
pearl larva; spend only their childhood
in the clam. In their adult form they
live in some species of duck, but
whether the domestic or wild duck
has not yet been decided by the gov
ernment investigators. They feel sure,
though, that ducks cause the -valuable
pearls.
SMALL MEN OF LONDON.
SlatUIIrn Show That the Cockney U
Dccrcnxliiir In Stature,
A colonial visitor to London lately
exnressed surmise to see the comfort-.
send it In as It Is needed, by means of al)le way ln Wht,.h Londoners can
a trolley system. themselves away in the tram cars and
Every day the cows are inspected
.RUBBER BAim
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' BZTWEEH FANDQ
by a physician, and any cow not in
perfect condition is immediately re
moved from the herd. Twice a month
chemists analyze the milk to make
sure that It is fully up to the standard
of richness and purity.
Before being milked each cow Is
groomed and sprayed with pure spring Jtne colonies.
omnibus seats, which he found very
awkward and narrow after those pro
vided by the tram car companies ot
his home city. The result of his sur
prise has been a discussion ln the pa
pers as to whether or not the n
doner Is becoming smaller than his
fellows in other parts of England and
GREAT NORWEGIAN POET.
Tests by members of the United
States Geological Survey have demon
strated the fact (hut a gallon of de
natured alcohol ran be made to do the
same amount of work ln an engine as
a gallon of gasoline. The alcohol,
moreover, makes no smoke, and Is less give the newcomer an Inkling of the
likely to yield disagreeable odors; but drawing iower, the fascination, of
the lower cost of gasoline niaks It at whut is probably the most unhealthy
present the cheaper fuel. The tests country In the world. W. B. Thomp-
are Interesting chiefly because the
time will probably come before long
when Improved processes both of agri
culture and of manufacture will great
ly lower the price of alcohol. One
reason why Germany ubas alcohol so
extensively as a motor fuel 1 the
ability of the Germans to make ulco
hoi cheaply from potatoes, and the
fact that they can raise four hundred
bushels of potatoes to the acre.
son in Blackwood's.
William Cameron Forbes,, who was
appointed governor ' general of the
Phlllppln-.'s recently. Is the fifth to oc
cupy the post since the organization of
civil government ln 1901. The first
was Mr. Taft, and his successors were
Luke E. Wright, Henry C. Ide, und
James F. Smith, who lutely retired.
The new governor general bus been a
member of the Philippine commission
Since 1904, and has been occupied with
public Improvements and with th
preservailon of order. The Islands are
orderly now, save for an occasional
outbreak of one of the savage tribes;
end public Improvements are uuder
way that will elevate the social and
industrial condition of the people.
Highways have been built whers there
were merely trails, and wImq all the
Didn't Hecogulse It.
Excited Nutufalilst Are you aware,
my dear sir, that this gate post of
yours Is the femur of an Ornlthose-llda?"
Fanner (apologetically) I always
thought It was something odd like
It don't match the other post nohow.
Punch.
RrepluK I p Apuvaraacea.
FannyWhy in the world do you
send away for so many catalogues and
then never buy anything?
Suzette To keep the postman corn
lug hers. I don't want those women
across the street to know that Jack
and I don't correspond any more.
Detroit Free Press.
Why HaaleaT
Mr. Brown I had a queer dreatc
luat night: ' I thought I buw another
man running off with you.
Mrs. Brown And what did you say
to htm?
Mr. biown I asked him what he
was running for? Stray Stories.
We don't believe uiucn In good luck,
but we bellevt tbsis is such a thing
las bad luck.
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Hoys, If you follow these plans, you can make an aeroplane that will
fly: First, buy a bamboo llshpole. Study the plan and cut pieces of the
proper length. Split the pole to get pieces a quarter of an inch wide. This
gives very stout and light rods. v
Make three box forms, according to the scale In the plans. Don't drill
holes in the bamboo, but bind the ends together with heavy linen thread,
moistened with gluts. Cover the tops und ends of these boxes with a light
linen cloth, tightly stretched. Glue the cloth to the framework and then
paint the cloth with a mixture which you obtain by shaving a paraffin
candle Into a pint ot benzine, allowing the mixture to dissolve over night.
Now you have three boxes. One is the forward rudder. It is 12 inches
long and inches square. The largest box is the main biplane. It is
24 inches long and 6 inches square. The smaller box is the rear rudder,
which sU.nds upright. The larger box ought to be well braced with six up
rights, three ln front and three In the rear.
Any boy who will study the plans carefully can sec how the boxes are
fastened together ln their proper relations. The forward box, which does
the lifting, ought to bo tilted upward.
Underneath the aeroplane fasten two runners, which will take up the
shock when the flyer alights. The next thing is to carve two propellers.
Fasten on the middle of these, with small tacks, a tin plate and solder
strongly to the plate the wire propeller pin, which Is shown In the drawing.
A glass bead ought to be placed between the propeller and the frame at E
to act as a washer.
Get two long, light rubber bands they ought to be at least eighteen
Inches in length. Attach one end of the rubbers to the propeller pins and
the other to the framework at G and II. Twist the rubbers about 150
times, being careful that both propellers are equally "wound." Release the
aeroplane when holding it ubove your head, holding the propellers with
your thumbs until you are ready to allow the plane to fly. By adjusting
the fore and rear rudders you will finally be able to direct your aeroplane
ln the air as you please. By keeping the rubbers covered with talcum pow
der, they will last longer thun otherwise.
water by a man who has been medical
ly examined and has Just had a bath
and put on a perfectly clean white
suit. A second man dries the cow
with sterilized single service towels,
after which the white-clad milkers, sit
ting on spotless metal stools, perform
their duties. (
The milk is strained through steril
ized cotton pads into sterilized cans
and cooled In a dustproof room, which
no one except the white-clad workers
Is ever permitted to enter. Here the
milk is bottled, sealed and packed for
its Journey to the city. Within I!0
hours after the milk is packed it is de
livered at the doors of the milk com
mittee's .model laboratory in New
York.
Five men work In the laboratory
sterilizing and filling the bottles. In
reality they are filling prescriptions,
for every baby has its food especially
designated by a skilled physician, the
prescriptions varying from week to
week according to the age and condi
tion of the child.
These men in their spotless white
suits and caps work in a speckless
room that Is sterilized with steam
every morning, preparing food after
the most scientific methods and accord
ing to physicians' prescriptions, not
for infant millionaires, but for babie.s
of the tenements. Hampton's Mag-szlne.
All procurable evidence, according
to the London Daily Mirror, goes to
show that the stature of the Londoner
is below the average not only of the
Inhabitants of country districts, but
also of the great provincial towns.
A recruiting sergeant makes the state
ment that London provides the small
est men in England. The rifle regi
ments have a minimum height of 5
feet 3 inches and they are nearly
full of Londoners, though the famous
city regiment, the Seventh Royal Fu
slleers, owing to a special reserve, is
able to keei Its minimum standard at
5 feet 5 Inches. Hussars at 5 feet 4
inches are plentiful in London, but
dragoons at from o feet 5 inches to'
5 feet 7 inches come chiefly from the
country, and guardsmen are relative
ly rare among Iondon recruits.
A professor of eugenics, appealed to
on the question offered the theory that
the tendency among people who live
ln dense centers of population is to
ward a diminution in size. "Activity
is develoned at the exnense of Stature."'
he said; "a little man is, or sTTStilS' V?'"
ue, iiiuic uciivn mail a lh& uiaii, auu
perhaps the Londoner's evolution is
being forced toward activity."
TOO COMPLICATED.
B.I OB X S 1 .1 1 : K N K BJOHNSOX'.
Hloiiist icrne lMoriison, who has beeu
seriously ill In Pai ls, may .be culled
the Grand Old Mini of Norwegian lit
erature and drama. He was born in
18:11'. and In isr7 became director of
the theater at Bergen. From 1SG0 to
1KG2 he lived lu Denmark. Italy and
Germany, and from the latter year to
1872 was director of the Clirlstlania
Theater and editor of the Norska
Folkeblud. In 1874 lie bought a farm
In the heart of Norway, where he has
since generally spent the summer, at
other seasons living much In Paris,
Rome und the Tyrol. Among hla works
thut have been translated into English
are two novels of Norwegian peasant
life. "A Happy Boy" und 'The Fisher
Lass," und among others "The Her
itage of the Kurts," "Paul Laiine" und
"LaboreniuH. He lu the author of nu
merous plays, his lutest having only re
cently been In rehearsal at Dresden.
Bsttsr a blow thun burnt kisses.
The Jeaoa We Say "Viiu" Inatead
of I ftluK " Thou."
The' reason commonly given for the
substitution of the second person
plural for the second person singular,
you" Instead of "thou" that it origi
nated as a fad or courtesy may ex
plain Its origin, but its universal adop
tion is due to a deeper reason name
ly, that the second person singular of
the verb is a complicated and difficult
form, white the second person plural
is simple to the last degree.
With every principal verb ln the
language sud with every auxiliary
except "must" the pronoun "thou" re
quires a special change in the form
of the verb, which is often the only
break in an otherwise uniform series.
Thus in the present tense of every
verb, with the single exception of the
verb "be," the pronoun "you" employs
the unchanged root form of the verb,
as "you love, have, can do, shall, will,"
etn. while "thou" requires a chsnfe
of form, as "thou lovest, hast, canst,
dost, shnlt, wilt," etc.
In every such choice the unchanged
root form has always the right of way.
Thus you has become everywhere
current in the busy activities of life,
while "thou" Is carefully laid up in
the museum of antiquity or the shrine
of religion. James C. Fernaid in Har
per's Magazine.
CAUTION TO HOTEL GUESTS.
-Not (laallUed.
Two men were getting warm over a
simple difference of opinion.
They turned to the third man.
"Isn't a home-made strawberry
shortcake better than a cherry pie?"
demanded one of them.
"Isn't a home made cherry pie bet
ter than any shortcake?" Inquired the
other.
The third man shook his head.
"I don't know," he said. "I board."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Dead men tell
of them leave a
manuscript.
no tales, but soma
lot of unprlntsd
llerlln Hunlfacra' Kxtortionala He
niands Precipitate a Crusade.
The Berliner Fremdenzeitung, which,
according to a resolution passed by the
Society of the Berlin Hotel Proprie
tors, must be handed to all hotel vis
itors, states thut guests would do well
to conform to the customary mode of
"tipping" If they wish to avoid annoy
ance, a Berlin dispatch says. The de
mand made Is so outrageous that it Is
worthy of serious attention.
The visitor is told that he ought to
give the waiter a tip of 10 per cent of
the amount of his bill in the restau
rant. In cafes, where there is a spe
cial "Zahl Kellner" (cash waiter). It
Is the custom to hand an extra dou
ceur to the waiter who attends you.
In hotels, for bills up to $S, percent
age of 25 per cent Is claimed, and
above $8, 20 per cent. Thus for a bill
of (15, a levy of $3 Is made, which is
divided between the boots, the cham
bermaid, the lift boy, the page, the
porter and the waiter.
The Tsegllchs Rundscau, la
Their Heallty.
"Are those two Bisters fine girls
Well, one is a pattern and the other
a model."
"Are they so good as all that?"
"Good ln each one's own way. The
pattern girl Is a dressmaker and the
model one with a clouk manufacturer."
Baltimore American.
Adoption.
"Have , you decided what opiniont
you will adopt?"
"I don't adopt opinions," answered
Senator Sorghum. "I make an effort
to ascertain what opinions are likely
to be associated with success and then
persuade them to adopt me." Wash.
Ington Star.
lie Would .Meter Know.
"Half a pound of tea, please."
"Green or black?"
"Doesn't matter which. It's for
blind person." Bon Vivant.
The government of New Zealand f I
poses to make loans to settlers, woV 'I
men, local bodies and mining com
panies The total advances are not t
exceed $10,125,000 in any one year.
The man who insists he 1b as guod
as anybody bellsves he is better.