Dakota County Horaltv
DAKOTA CITY, NIB.
John H. ram,
Publlahe
The defective fine Is mora danger
ous (a an airship than in any other
form of construction.
"Give Mr. Rockefeller credit," urges
Southern newspaper. He doesn't
&eed It; he can pay cash.
A Southern newspaper wants lying
eliminated from the game. Hut
wouldn't that spoil the game?
And many a cigar manufacturer Is
sow thankful that he was in no hurry
to put a Doc Cook cigar on the mar
ket If people are to be judged by their
fruits, the mnn who invented the Ben
Davis apple has something coming to
him.
Zelaya seems to have fully under
stood the folly of being a dictator
when nobody was willing to continue
to be dictated to.
New York Is old fashioned In some
respect. The city still maintains horse
cars, and one of her women is the
mother of twenty children.
As soon as they were caught the
Arbucklcs settled with the govern
ment. Nothing like establishing a
reputation for prompt paying.
If atovaine, the new anesthetic, is
as pleasant to take as they say it Is,
having an arm or a leg amputated
ought to add to the Joy of living.
Looking at the subject calmly, the
woman .doctor who declares that mar
riage Is responsible for tho divorce
vil appears to have struck it about
right.
There were fewer lynchlngs In this
country in 1909 than In 1908. Still, it
will be very easy to establish a better
record for 1910. Now Is the time to
begin to quit lynching.
In old testament times the query
Hare you seen Smith?" was superflu
ous. According to the First Dook of
Samuel, "there was no Smith through
Out the land of Israel."
It Is explained that Dr. Cook ,fled
because ho was afraid somebody
would kill him. With the money he
got for lecturing he ought to have
been able to hire a husky bodyguard.
"The smallest man may do his
part," says Dr. Eliot. He may; but
the trouble with him Is that he gener
ally wants to do a big man's part, and
. makes disagreeable noises because he
can't
A Philadelphia girl Is alleged to
have spurned an offer of marriage
from Prince Christopher of Greece. If
the report is true it may safely be as
sumed that she did her spurning In a
coaxing tone.
Professor Milton Whitney declares
that the increased cost of living is
due simply to the fact that Americans
are ' eating more than they formerly
did. . A good cure for the over-eating
habit would seem to be to eat up the
surplus food.
It is not because the beggar falls to
make money that, be finally lands in
the potter's field. "Any good, Indus
trious beggar," says Mr. Forbes, "can
and does make a great deal more
money than the average worklngman."
But the trend of the beggar Is down
ward, and in the end he Is pretty sure
to become a hopeless wreck and a
derelict.
. Who Is better qualified to Judge of
the needs of the poor than those who
.Virtually live with them and who thus
become fully cognizant of what la best
calculated to relieve tholr distress?
Certainly the best philanthropy la that
which glvea the kind of aid most
needed, which elevates the obiect of
charity to a plane on which charity
no longer Is necessary; that. In short.
which helps the poor to help them
selves.
A Good Cheer Society which is na
tlonal In scope and will eventually be
national, and porhaps international, in
membership, has recently been estab
lished through the efforts of a young
woman from Seattle. The purpose is
to carry good cheer everywhere, but
especially to . convalescents in and
from the hospitals; not the dispensing
of charity, but the exhibition of Inter
ests, friendly feeling and sympathy, is
the aim. The society has been Incor
porated In New York, and lodges al
ready exist in New York, Boston, Chi
cago and Seattle. The membership Is
composed wholly of women, and is un
limited.
So the Princess "Pat" is to marry
King Manuel and be the Queen of Por
tugal! Thus all hope of a princess of
the blood royal breaking the precedent
and marrying for love Is for this gen
eration vanished. For Princess t'atrl
cla of Connaught, the beauty of thd
British court, was also the willful one,
who stood out for an ordinary woman's
privilege of marrying according to her
heart and not according to the tradi
tions of her rank and the policy of the
state. She refused King Alfonso of
Spain, It Is said, and also the Co-ir.t
of Turin, and for years has ben deter
mined to marry a mere commoner,
younger son of a mere noble. The boy
king of Portugal U five or six yeari
her Junior, but is quite good-looklns
in contrast to her former suitor of
Spain. Perhaps Patricia ban yielded i
persuasions of duty, for It is important
dynastlcally to consummate the politi
cal alllanco of Portugal and Britain.
Portugal not only has harbors of use
to the British fleet, but she has vast
possessions in Africa which the Ger
man covets. Nevertheless, what a sac
rifice this marriage Is, If It la to be a
marriage. This one beautiful daughter
of Britain's rofal house, granddaughter
of Victoria and also of the Red Princa
Of Prussia, the genius of the 18'u war,
goes to the throne of a decrepit coun
try, abjures her religion, may be blown
tip by bombs or murdered with the
knife, at least have her nerves broken
as are those of her cousin, the Queen
of Spain. One cannot help being sorry
for Victoria Patricia of Connaught.
A New York Supreme Court Justice
walls that "the age of patriotism has
yielded to the age of commercialism,"
and that "uppermost In the human
mind to-day Is not the Stars and
Stripes, but the dollar mark." We
don't believe it. The distinguished
Jurist must have eaten too much din
ner. The baseless superstition that
commerce a a selfish thing and trade
utterly without bowels of sentiment
Is a survival from the feudalism that
despised any pursuit save murder and
every profit save privilege. The truth
Is that all national patriotisms to-day
rest upon the need of commerce and
Industry for organized order, law and
security, and those countries whose
national power and good are upheld
by the commercial and Industrial
classes, are exactly the ones whose
citizens exhibit most national patriot
ism. Napoleon called England a na
tion of shopkeepers, but the patriot-
Ism of the shopkepers In the course
of thirteen years of war wore the Cor-
slcan down. The South dosplaod the
Yankees as devoted to the almighty
dollar, but the South was conquered
by the sacrifices of blood and treasure
tho Yankees made. Feudalism, chlv
tilry, and that sort of things kept Ger
ninny disrupted and Japan a collection
of warring tribes. National patriotism
Is a quality of modern Germany and
modern Japan. Right here in Amerl
ca at this present hour is more sense
of civic responsibility, of patriotic de
votion, of public Ideality than over
animated the rank and file of any nu
merous people. We need them all, in
order to deal with tho evils that af
flict us, but we are not corrupt to the
core or blind worshipers of Mammon
not by a great deal.
WILL LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES.
In Ten Ynn American Will Ilealde
Where The? Can't Throw Htonea.
"Within ten years people in this
country will be building houses of
glass, which will excel in sanitary
appointments, beauty and durability
and also low cost of maintenance any
type of structure of the present time.
In .other words, the American people
within ten years will be living In glass
houses. They will thenceforth tic un
able to throw stones."
This was the Interesting declaration
made recently by Roger S. Pease, one
of the oldest glassmakers In the
United States, a man who has taken
an active part In all the Improvements
that have set the glass world face to
face with new conditions and placed
it in line for the greatest development
in its long history, the Pittsburg Gazette-Times
says. By glass houses Mr.
Pease said he meant Just what he said.
Foundations ot concrete, which are
now recognized as standard, the walls
ot wired glass, the celling and roofs
of wired glass, and the floors of tile,
covered with a light sheeting of wood.
Such a building will prove practically
indestructible, can be made of any sort
of colors desired and requires no paint
ing, no papering inside, will be sound
proof, moisture-proof and fireproof.
Mr. Pease has planned a house that
will be composed of glass and is go
ing to have it finished In some color
that wll make It attractive and such
colors will be permanent.
The moment this idea is started, Mr.
Pease declared, the public will be
quick to see the value of the material.
Its cheapness and reliability are un
derstood. .Glass, be said, la the most
honest and most easily understood ma
terial in the world. It is not mys
terious and people will not have to
employ experts to see that the quality
is right. The glass for the walls ot
houses need not be transparent, but
dense, like slate or stone. The roofs
can be of the same character of glass.
It withstands heat and cold alike and
whatever patents may Interfere with
the cheapness of the material now are
so nearly expired that It will be but
a short time before these will be elim
inated as a cost factor.
That's All lie Forgot.
The cab containing the absentmlnd
ed man and his family drew up in
front of the Broad street station.
There emerged the absentirtlnded man,
his wife and three children, a bird
cage, a dog on a leash and innumer
able bundles and parcels. Tho absent
minded man paid the driver, gathered
up the bundles, dropped them and
pressed his hand dramatically to his
fevered brow.
"There," he exclaimed, "I Just knew
I had forgotten something."
His wife carefully couuted the three
children, saw that the dog and the
birdcage were Intact and took an In
ventory of the bundles.
"We Beem to be all here," she re
marked. "I am sure we have every-
mmg. What do you think It la you
have forgotten?"
"Why, bless my soul," cried the ab
sentmlnded man. "Now that we are
here I've forgotten where we intended
going!" Philadelphia Ledger.
T I.lKbt u llolmea.
Two old ladles wandering about the
public library building In Boston the
other day entered Bates Hall and gazed
Interestedly at u bust of Oliver Wen
dell Holmes In black bronze.
"Well." one old lady remarked very
audibly to the other one, "I never
knew before that Dr. Holmes was a
negro." Success Magazine.
(Icanlluraa llrfore llole-lnraa.
Walter (to gentleman who Is look
ing at napkin full of holes) ru bring
you another one, sir.
Diner Never mind. The holes seem
to be clean. Boston Transcript.
Tell a man secret, aud he tells It
to his wife, aud when she In turn re
peats It, he has a great deal to say
about a woman not being able to keep
a secret.
Low aboes and high hula may U
fashionable extreme.
DOES TIIE DECALOGUE NEED ENLARGING?
By Austin Blerbower.
Those who most wrong us are the men who
wreck railroads and banks, thereby wiping
out the fortunes of thousands; great corpora
tions which monopolize the necessaries of life,
raising prices and making It harder for tha
poor to live; politicians who levy extravagant
taxes and squander them without public ben
efit; diplomats who plunge nations Into war
without due cause, etc These evils were un
known when the deculogue wns framed and ancient
morality fixed. The people had not thn gone to gov
erning themselves, to voting franchises and undertaking
great public works. Immorality wa private, as also
morality. Only rulers could be Immoral on a large scale,
and they were few and thought to be incapable of wrong,
so that Immorality was practiced und on lined to tho
common people.
Morality Is a larger subject than hithprto. Hence, I
say, the new morality cannot be formulated In the old
precepts and prohibitions. As nien have new forms of
business and conduct them with Injury to their fellows,
they must work out new woys of avoiding this Injury.
Morality Is as varied as the vices operate, and the ways
of doing good as countless as the ways of causing In
Jury. In learning a new method or a. Iilcvc nient we
should learn what new vice Is Involved in it.
WHY OUR PAST LIVES ARE FORGOTTEN.
II v Annie Besant.
No question Is more orteu heard when re
incarnation Is spoken of than: "If I were here
before, why do I "not remember It?" Many
people cannot renfcmber learning to read;
yet the fact that they c..n read proves the
learning. Incidents ot childhood and youth
have faded from our memory, yet they have
left traces on our character. Fever patients
have been known to use in delirium a lan
guage known In childhood and forgotten In maturity.
Much of our subconsciousness consists of these sub
merged experiences, memories thrown into the back
ground but recoverable.
When a philosophy' or a science is quickly grasped
and applied, when an art Is mastered without study,
memory is there In power, though past facts of learning
are forgotten; us Plato said, It Is reminiscence. When
we feel Intimate with a stranger on first meeting, mem
ory is there, the spirit's recognition of a friend of ages
past; when we shrink hack with strong repulsion from
another stranger, memory is there, the spirit's recog
nition of on ancient foe.
Not until pleasure and pain, however, have been seen
in tho light of eternity can the crowding memories of the
past be safely confronted; when they have thus been
seen, then those memories calm the emotions of the
present, and that which would otherwise have crushed
becomes a support and consolation. Goethe rejoiced
that on his return to earth life be would he washed
BARBERS WHO BECAME FAMOUS.
HlKh Hank Attained liy Many
Wleldora of Strop and llamr.
Perhaps the best known of all bar
bers who have attained fame were
Arkwrlght, the Improver of the spin
ning Jenny, who was said to have
turned to mechanics when the wlgmak
lng trade fell off, and Jeremy Taylor,
who was brought up in his father's
shaving shop at Cambridge, says Lon
don Tit-Bits. . Edward Sugden, after
ward made Baron St. Leonard, was
the son of a hair cutter In a shop in
Lincoln's Inn, London. Once when
Sugden was addressing a crowd In the
Interest of his candidacy for parlia
ment a man called out to know what
soap cost and how lather was mad a.
"I am particularly obliged to that gen
tleman," Sir Edward Is reported f.o
have said, "for reminding me of my
lowly origin. It Is true that I am a
barber's aon and that I myself was
once a barber. If the gentleman who
so politely reminded me of these facts
had been a barber he would have con
tinued to remain one till the end of
his life." Charles Abbott, Baron Ten
terden, wns also a barber's son, and
it is related how", when he was made
a peer of England, he took his own
son to a little Westminster shop and
bade him remember It waa there that
his grandfather had been accustomed
to shave others for a penny. William
Falconer, the poet, was a poor barber
In Edinburg "until his poem, "The
Shipwreck," brought hLm renown and
incidentally a commission In the royal
navy. Craggs, associated with the
South sea bubble, was a barber turned
promoter. He became enormously
wealthy, but when the South sea crash
came hla fortune dwindled and In des
pair he committed suicide. Giovanni
Iklzoni of Padua was a barber with a
varied and interesting history. Bel
xonl set up a shop In England, but
Boon found more profit In posing at
Sadler's Wells as the "Patagonian
Samson." Being of thrifty tempera
ment, Belzonl accumulated quite a for
tune. He achieved lasting fame as tho
discoverer of Interesting relics In the
tombs of Egypt and as a traveler.
MACHINE SSIOXES CIGARS.
me curious apparatus
here illustrated Is a cigar
smoking device used at tho
Department of Agriculture
at Washington to test the
burning qualities of cigars.
The smoking Is accom
plished by allowing the
water in the glass vessel at
the left to escape gradually through
tubes. This movement of water creates
a vacuum. Popular Mechanics.
Tryluir to Save Time.
Bacon Is that hen of yours indus
trious? Egbert Well, rather. She tried to
do two days' work in one, to-day.
"How so?"
"She laid a doubleyolked egg."
Yonkers Statesman.
In the race for wealth the iverage
man looms up among those who also
ran.
It takes a child to make a wi uijia
leel like an Ignorant foi.
rr r
clean of his memories, and lesser men may be content
with the wisdom which starts each new rife on Its way,
enriched with the results but unburdened with the rec
ollections of Its past. '
DREAMER ALONE
GIRLS' EXTRAVAGANCE HINDERS MARRIAGE.
By Rev. Dr. Madison C. Peters.
INVENTS A
A vessel designed to operate both on the high seas aud on inland rivers
has been invented and is just now being brought to perfection by John F.
Cahlll. a well-known St. Loulsan, and plans for tho construction of a pioneer
boat after Mr. Cahill's models are expected to mature at an early date. Ex
traordinary light draft, combined with lage tonnage, seaworthiness, safety
and speed, are claimed for the new boat by its inventor, and that it possesses
these qualities Is vouched for by some notable authorities on shipping con
struction. Coming, as it does,' at a time when Inland waterways traffic Is a sub
ject attracting national attention, the invention Is one of exceptional inter
est. With such a. vessel placed In commission, Mr. Cahill rromlses freight
and passenger traffic from St. Louis, or other Inland cities of the larger
streams, to interior points on the great rivers of South America, or else
where, without the necessity ot a transfer of cargo or passengers at deep
water ports. For more than twenty years Mr. Cahill has devoted himself
to the perfection of this type of vessel, and during that time has spent a
small fortune In experimenting. Improving and perfecting his idea St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
RULING A SAVAGE TRIBE. j
The author of "Heroes of Modera
Crusades," the Rev. Edward Gllllat,
M. A., at one time master of Harrow
School, says In hla most Interesting
book that he had a few years ago tho
privilege of meeting the king ot the
Qulah couutry, Tetty Agamasong, at
Harrow. The Qulah king had been
educated at St. Augustine's College,
Canterbury, and was able to lecture
to the Harrovians in good English, u
his lecture he told a quaint story
which brings one nearer to the weird
lives of the Qulaha, a email agricul
tural and trading trlde of Inoffeusivo
character on the west coast of Africa.
"In my country," said the king, "we
have no prisons; therefore if a cul
prit Is brought to me I must chop off
something an ear or two, a hand or
a foot aud he goes home a sadder and
a wiser man. Just before I left for
England a chief came to my hut,
bringing a prisoner
"'What has he done, friend?" I ask
ed. "'He Is a dangerous witch, O king;
he can turn himself into an alliga
tor.' "'Pooh! nonsense! I don't beiieve
that old-fashioned stuff.'
" 'Oh, but we saw him do It, down by
the big river.'
''Indeed! Well, chief, tell .rue all
about It. You saw him yourself?'
"'I did. We were hunting by the
hanks of the river with our rifles when
all at once we saw a big alligator lylnsj
on a rock In the river. The witch man
was lying asleep In a hammock some
fifty yard away. O the dangerous
creature he is!
" 'Well, king, do not laug'j wbh your
eyes like that, for I am speaking the
truth. I put up my rifle to Bhoot the
alligator, but to our great fear, aa soon
as I fired, this fellow rolled out of his
hammock and fell on the ground, ami
nibbed his back, and swore he was
hurt.
"Now, O king, if this witch had not
UNDERSTANDS LIFE.
By Ada May Kreiker.
It Is Bald by travelers that the inert, brut
ish folk of parts uncivilized chant their work
songs in order to dissipate their lethargy.
They find it almost as hard to begin to work
as it Is for us to cease. Yet even at this early
point in their industrial evolution they evi
dently are possessed by the same notion of
the desirability of labor that burdens us and
eggs us on to toilsome and marvelous achieve
ment. It Is hard to furnish evidence for things unseen
to our crass minds. And If anyone can do it, these lotus
eaters can. For them work is a Joke and dreaming a
flue art. The only things they take seriously are
"Arabian Nights" and castles in the air.
We Insist upon being alert, energetic, wide awake to
opportunity, which, we declare grimly, knocks but once
at our door and then leaves us to that sorriest of fates,
Indigent obscurity. And we forget the happy family
where blissfully dreams the ragged slumberer, We say
tho Lord helps those who help themselves. But the
waiter on Providence knows how the manna falls from
heaven on those that are without bread. " All the heart
that Is dried out of our gilded mechanisms of existence
the slumberer and lotus eater keeps breathing and pure.
While we are gaining the whole world he knows that
somehow be Is saving his soul.
The men who made this country 80 per
cent of them Jjegan their married life with
out a dollar. They began in an humble way,
worked together, saved, reached up and grew
up, and If the four millions of women In
America who are now bread-winners became
bread-makers, and married for love of worthy
men, and began their married life aa our fa
thers and mothers began, there would be few
bachelors, and fewer women compelled to work outside,
of their own homes.
Our young women "won't do housework." The ma
jority of men on salaries paid them cannot keep a
servant; besides, there are not servants enough to meet
the demand, and the result Is.tbat we are rapidly be
coming a nation of boarding houses and hotels, crowded
with people who ought to be In modest homes of their
own, and, like our parents, realize the dreams of their
youth by working and rising together.
What we need now Is several million sensible women
who realize that the mightiest institution on earth la
the home, and who, Instead of aping the vulgar rich and
the silly poor, will revive the old-fashioned virtues of
thrift and domestic economy.
NOVEL CRAFT.
been inside the alligator, how could
he have been hurt when I fired?"
"Gentlemen," concluded the king, "I
see you are laughing with your eyes;
but it Is very difficult to rule over a
peoplo untaught and given over to au
perstitlon. "What did I do? Why, if I had left
him free they would have killed him as
soon aa I had gone on my ship, so I
saved his life by chopping off his left
ear."
Camel a Delicate Deaat.
Contrary to the widespread but er
roneous opinion, the camel la a very
delicate animal. A camel that has
worked fifteen days iu succession
needs a month's pasturage to recuper
ate. It is liable to a host of ailments
and accidents. When a caravan
crofcses a sebkha, or dry Bait lake, it
is rare that some of the animals do
not break a leg. If the fracture Is in
the upper part of the limb there is
nothing for it but to slaughter the
animal and retail Its Uesh as butcher's
meat.
If the lower part of the limb has
been Injured the bone is set and held
In position by means of splints made
of palm branches, which are bound
with small cords. If no complications
ensue at the end of a month the frac
ture la reduced. When it Is a case of
simple dislocation the Injured part la
cauterized with a isdhot iron, then
coated with clay and bandaged with a
strip of cloth. Fifteen days afterward
the animal ia generally cured. Vulga
risation Scientiflque.
It Dcprnda!
"How do you pronounce s-ti-n-g-y?'
the teacher asked the young gentle
man nearest the foot of tho class. And
the smart boy stood up and said it de
pended a great deal whether the word
applied to a man or a bee. London
News.
London.
The Romans built Loudon about the
year 50 A D, but London wall waa
not built until 306 A. D.
And when a cigar ia called a "weed"
the reason ia obvious
kS&j$cience
For the Improvement of Blyth har
bor, England, a specially constructed
dredger has been employed which
scoops up rocks of as much aa twenty
to thirty hundredweight each, and dis
charges them through chutes into a
barge. The machine is furnished with
a chain of buckets like an ordinary
dredger, but the buckets are of a spe
cial shape, and the rims are re-enforced
with hard-steel cutting edges.
The boulders are embedded In mud and
sand, and more than 200 tons ot such
rock have been removed In an hour.
The apparatus works with surprising
ease and certainty.
U has recently been discovered that
the rare atmospheric gas neon readily
becomes luminous under the influence
of electric waves, and it ia suggested
that the property may afford a means
of visually reading wireless telegraph
messages. Prof. W. L. Dudley experi
mented with a tube of neon during an
Atlantic voyage In July, and found
that the gas glowed beautifully In re
sponse to the waves sent out from the
w ireless apparatus of the ship, but the
received waves were apparently too
weak to affect It sensibly. Further ex
periment may result in the discovery
of a means of utilizing thla property of
neon as a detector of received signals.
At present It la employed to measure
the length of electric waves sent out.
The length of those tested by Professor
Dudley was about 800 feet.
The Texas town of Rockwall, about
twenty-five miles east of Dallas, de
rives its name from what appear to be
the remains of Immense walls of
ruined masonry surrounding the town,
but extending in many directions. Mr.
Sidney Paige has recently studied
these walls, and his conclusion is that
they are natural formations, consist
ing of sandstone dikes, which under
the influence of the weather and earth
movements have been cracked and
Jointed in such a. way aa to afford, in
many cases, a striking resemblance to
artificial walls. The weathered sands,
stained with Iron oxido) between the
joints have been mistaken for remains
of mortar. The dikes rise out of a
rich, black, waxy soil composed of orig
inal lime muds. They vary in thick
ness from an inch to two feet, and
have been traced to a depth of fifty
feet or more.
Recent experiments by government
experts have revealed an unexpected
source of trouble in the process of ster
ilizing wood by the Injection of pre
servative liquids. It la customary to
remove the bark from a stick of tim
ber before it is subjected to creosotlng,
but it has been supposed that thin lay
ers of the inner bark left unrennved
would do no harm. Now it is found
that such layers, no matter how thin,
almost absolutely prevent the penetra
tion of the liquid. In any case, the
preservative usually fails to penetrate
the center of the stick, but forms an
exterior antiseptic zone, which answers
the purpose If there are no gaps in It.
But if such gaps exist, owing to the
presence of thin layers of bark, the
teredo finds an entrance through them,
and carries on its work of destruction
in the interior of the timber supposed
'o have been protected.
LIGHTS IN STREET CARS.
I'.xplniiRllnii of Why They Are Some
tluiea Dim, by an Expert.
Who has not noticed when riding
on the street cars at night that some
times the lamps which light the cars
burn very dim for a minute and then
seem to burn very bright? Sometimes
they almost go entirely out; then sud
denly come on again. To the ordinary
traveler all this Is very mystifying,
but to the electrical engineer it is
simplicity itself, the Electric News
says.
If a small hole were drilled in a
water pipe just above a faucet, the
water, under pressure, would rush out
at terrific speed, but if you should
open the faucet the pressure would Im
mediately drop down so low that the
water would all but cease to flow out
of the tiny hole. This is exactly what
happens to tho incandescent lamps in
a street car when they suddenly grow
dim, only it is electricity we are deal
ing with, instead of water. To start
a loaded street car requires an enor
mous amount of electricity, the mo
tors fairly eating up the current in
order to get the necessary startine
l)ower or torque, as it is called. . Using
I Dlinh o nliunHtu " , 1 4 - I - J 1 - , .
Dun! ijuauiiij ui ciccuicny relieves
the pressure, or voltage, of the system,
and of course tho lights burn dim until
the car ia under way.
Nearly all street car systems operate
at 550 volts pressure. The lamps in
the car consume current at 110 volts
pressure, and they ore connected In
groups of five in series across the
5.10-volt circuit. When the voltage for
these lamps drops below 110 because
of the large amount of current going
to the motora under the car not
enough electricity ia being forced
through the lamp filament to heat it
to incandescence, and of course the
light is dim. Opening wide the cur
rent conductors to the motors sudden
ly lowers the line pressure, which In
turn reduces the pressure to the lamps.
Once the ear Is under way the motors
do not require so much current and
the pressure returns to the lamps and
they continue to give their rated can
d"e power until the next time the car
Is started.
SHOW NOAH'S GRAVE.
.Natlvea Moul Ararat Connect Many
Sputa lta lllatory of l-'luod.
The region of Mouut Ararat and
the local traditions which still keep
alive the story of the ark having
rented there were described the other
evening In a lecture given In London
before tho Uoyal Geographical Society
by t'upt. Bertram Dickson, who made
a series of Journeys to the neighbor
hood while Brltiah military consul at
Van, a Ixmdon correspondent says.
The country east of the Tigrla. he
said, waa known to the ancient As
tyrlans aa the mountains of Nalrl and
at other times the Niphates and the
mountains nt Urartu, from which
comes the name Ararat. The Bible
historian took the account of the ark
resting on Ararat from the Chaldean
legend, which made it rest on the
mountains of Urartu; while local tra
ditions, Christian, moalem and yezidi
(or devil worshipers) alike make It
resting place Jebel Judl, a striking
sheer rocky wall of 7,000 feet, which
frown over Mesopotamia.
Common sense also suggested that
with a subsiding flood In the plains
a boat would more probably run
aground on the high ridge at the edge
of the plain rather than on a solitary
peak miles from the plains, with
many high ridges intervening. The
lecturer thought himself that the local
tradition had the greater element of
truth.
There is a large ziarat (zijgurat or
sanctuary) nt the top of Jebel Judl,
where every eve In August ia held a
great fete, attended by thousands of
energetic moslems, Christians anil
yezldla, who cilmli the steepest ot
trails for 7,000 feet In the terrific sum
mer's heat to do homage to Noah.
This mountain seems to have been
held sacred at all times, and certainly
it has a wonderful fascination about
it, with its high precipices and Jagged,
tangled crag3 watching over the vast
Mesopotamian plain.
The local villagers can show one
the exact spot where Noah descended,
while in one village, Hassana, they
showed his grave and the vineyard
where he Is reputed to, have indulged
overfreely in the Juice of the grape,
the owner declaring that the vines
have been passed from father to son
ever since.
Capt. Dick3on recounted some curi
ous stories of the inhabitants of these
regions, particularly the Kurds. These
people, he said, claim to be the de
scendants of Solomon by his concu
bines, and though nominally one race
they are split up into numerous hos
tile clans, with little in common but
their religion, their language and their
love of a gun and cartridges.
LAST OF THE JACOBITES.
Tlflrodore ilcr Still Heady to De
fend the Stuart Cnoae,
Here is a stanch supporter of the
Scotch claims to the throne of Britain,
who despite the fact that he la failing
fast in health makes an annual pil
grimage to the tomb of Mary Queen or
Scots.
So firmly does King Edward and his
line seem settled on the British throne
that it ia startling to find an ardent
remnant of Scottish Jacobites declar
ing he is a base usurper.
They still cling to the claims of tho
Stuarts, though over 200 years have
passed since the last of that bad fam
ily of rulers fled from British soil. To
them Mary Queen of Scots Is the "mar
tyr queen," and their contention ia that
the lawful ruler of England la an ob
scure Mary, who, resident abroad, i
all unconscious of her phantom dig
nity. Most fiery of them all ia Theodoio
Napier, a picturesque figure often to
be seen In the streets of Edinburgh,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Every
February, clad in highland garb, he
Journeys to Fortherlngay castle, the
scene of the execution of Mary Queen
of Scots, to lay on the tomb of that
queen of romance a floral offering as
a symbol of his fealty to the Stuarts.
Ridicule or argument breaks upon
him without effect. He proclaims him
self a Jacobite of the Jacobites;
though all else bow the knee to the
English king, still will he refuse.
Many Scotsmen declare there is no
King Edward VII. of Scotland, for
former Edwards did not rule the north
era half of Britain. But their objec
tion Is not pressed hard, and they are
loyal enough to the house of Guelph.
Not so this venerable Jacobite.
Whenever there is a celebration of a
Scottish national event, there he is to
plead for the glorification of Scotland
as distinct from England. At a, recent
dinner in Edinburgh, when the toast of
"The King" was proposed, he refused
to join, and when remonstrances rained
upon him, the hoary Scotsman leaped
to his feet and challenged any "traitor
to the Stuart cause" to meet him "with,
claymore, battle-ax or dirk," at the
same time casting a gauntlet at their
feet, in his best dramatic manner.
Nowadays, when the highlands are
overrun every day by English and
American financial magnates, who
sport themselves in kilt and bonnst,
Scotsmen are loath to wear the garb
of their forefathers. But Theodore
Napier regards It aa "the only wear.'
In no other costume would he consent
to appear lu public, lest he should be
taken for a mere Englishman, so in
ferior, in his opinion, to the men of
brawn and bravery, reared on sound1
oatmeal, north of the Tweed.
PIG LOOSE IN A BALLROOM.
At Stamford, Conn., Bomewhat of a
sensation was caused at un assembly
dance given by Stamford's exclusive
social set, when a little pig was led
into the ballroom by two young men
and turned loose. The pig ran squeal
lug about, and some of the ladies
climbed on chairs, presumably think
ing of rats. When thej discovered
that it waa just a harmless little pig
they joined in the chase about the
ballroom floor. The scared little pork
er waa finally captured and taken out
of doora. The prank waa enjoyed by
every one.
He's a poor lawyer who mistakes .
the will for the deed.