Dakota County HoraU
DAKOTA CITY, KH.
John H. Rem,
Publish!
No man ever yet got aunstroKe from
leeplng the snow off the walks.
After thla atrenuoua winter la over
jtt Medicine Hat be Bent to the clean-
era.
How about pemmlcan? Can't It be
TjMllted for the purpose of reducing
the cost of living?
I)ts of men would go back to the
oil If they had farms to go to and
automobiles to take them.
C!ount Bonl Is asking the Pope to
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grant blm a divorce and l U ypo
mac lie QH8 iuu.iu
Raymond Duncan, the Hopllte, says
rlntben causa Immorality. The bills for
tbem are frequently productive
crimes. '
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Mr. Rockefeller is a source of light
second only to the sun, yet interview-
irs complain that they And Mm any
thing but illuminating.
The restriction of the sale of art!
Acini dlamonda is likely to interfere
,Ith the brlliancy of some of the mu
Meat comedy productions.
Jerseyman won't permit any fly-
Jng over his property. This may go i""" nnaing out. when conditions re
or aviators, but who Is going to make ce&Q from the normal, as In tho case
the mosquitoes observe It 7
Bibles have gone up In price, a New
YnrV nnhllKhlnr house announces. It
will soon be so that we cannot afford
to keep out eigne oi iuo tummuuu
ttenta. A man Is seeking a divorce because
is wife has not spoken to him for flva
rears. Walt Perhaps he nas reason
lp believe ehe Intends to break her
tong silence.
The author of a popular song has
keen compelled to apply for admission
lb a New Jersey poorhouBe. His fate
coud not have been harder if he had
Jtrrltten real poetry.
We are glad to be able to report
that If this country gets into a tariff
'J with Germany It will become more
OifnouT. tnan 11 18 at Presenl 10 secure or
harmonica concertinas.
We should like to k:ow what a
glmoleon Is. Charleston VewB ana
Courier. A lnv7a i9 meg, a plunk,
? n, a case, a bucjt. and you don't
'pow what a slmoleon Is? Suffering
spondulix! What appalling lgnorancei
Everybody XnTws that doctors give
less medicine than they used to. Never
theless, It Is a little surprising to learn
(hat the cost of medicine per patient
n the Massachusetts General Hospital
Is less than one-third what it was fit-
feea years ago, although the price of
Juost drugs bas risen In that time.
, The "biggest" comes along with In
creasing frequency, especially In tho
nglnes of war. The largest and most
powerful gun ever made for the United
States navy was tested the other day
ft Is fifty-three feet long, hat a tour
(ecu-Inch bore, and weighs sixty-three
tons. Each discharge costs $500, and
Its shell, which weighs fourteen hun
Bred pounds, is expected to pierce
battle-ship armor eleven inches thick
, at a distance of fourteen miles.
Scenery Is a crop the value of which
jto the acre no one bas yet figured out
Considering the ease with which the
trop Is harvested, the return Is tre
mendously high. The value of the
summer resort business of New Eng
land has lately been given as between
fifty and sixty million dollars a year,
which Is much greater than the annual
output of all the silver mines In the
country. It Is evident that "scenery'
goes "pay." The trouble Is that not
every soli can produce it, not even with
Irrigation.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbllt has de
cided to drive his coach between Lon
don and Brighton again during the
coming season. "I Intend to drive my
self," Mr. Vanderbllt explains, "except
Suturdays and Mondays, when my
friend Vanderhorst Koch will be the'
whip. We earnestly hope Vanderbllt
Koch will prove an efficient whip. It
would be distressing if Mr. Vander
bllt were compelled to do the driving
every day and thus be robbed of the
week-end rest that gentleman coach-
driving seems to make so necessary.
, For generations America has been
busily seizing upon the opportunities
provided It by nature to increase Us
wealth. Nature has been free-handed
and so has man. Ext.rnvagance has
become the characteristic of the age.
Hut there are clear signs that a
change must come. Economy is neces
sary. The Harvard professor who says
that our trouble with food prices is
not so much that of "the high cost of
living" as "the cost of high living"
peaks the truth. His proposed diet
of mush, cocoa and a few other cheap
and wholesomo foods may not be very
attractive as a permanent thing, but
ven a limited use of it wouM mean
greet saving. The lecturer who talked
St the University of Wlsconslu on "Tho
Grocery Bill, and How to Keep It
Down" was la touc h with the spirit of
the future. Economy is needed In the
preparation of foods as well au in
their selection. In the last two or
three years thefireli-i s coolcr has come
Into t light use, and this is in h way
urpiiuinK. considering the hard fato
which bcfcil Edward Atkinson's Alud
t'in oven when he Introduced It with
high bones f((- the eerr.nmies h!rh
aould result from It. In steam-heated
f.au ixx)i!e mu ito'.i tinny kinds of
food ly merely placing them ou i'm
radiators, hut most people scorn the
cono:ny. All that must be changed.
Economy In consumption Is bound to
proceed as the reverse aids of that
conomy n th product Its us of our
faming rwwirwi which James J. Hill
o persistently and so wisely advo
cate.
"Speaking of the scvero flood to
France, Germany and Switzerland,
said the amateur scientist, "I can tell
you the reason for tlielr occurrence,
It la the succession of terrible earth
quake shocks, beginning several jeari
ago with Mont Pelee In the West In
dies, and Including the destructive
quakes of San Francisco and Italy
These explosions throw up clouds of
dust which reach Into the upper stra
turn of the atmosphere, the fine pa;
tides remaining up for years. These
particles cause congelation of moisture
and Induce heavy rains, which are
liable to fall upon any portion of the
earths surface." Thla theory Is per
haps as good as another. It la certain
that ruin, orwl t. n l
.,. ,IV,ol . .
aJWTTim iu nun Lies in cnany
p.rtg of the wor)(J ,n the flye
. . years Rvpi-o fln. h ,...i
in widely separated localities and at
widely varying Intervals. It will be
found that In our own country the
banks of lakes and river courses have
run unusually full. The stage of water
has averaged higher. It will be re-
luemuerea inai some ten 'years ago
drouth conditions were prevalent and
widespread. The change Is on the
whole beneficial, although considerable
damage has been done by floods. But
the beneficent effect of abundance of
moisture on crops has more than com
pensated. Perhaps this Is an answer to
the question, Why are earthquakes?
TnC wava of nature are mysterious and
-e -v..v.mmu uivuill, BliO uua III UU
something violent to restore the equlll
brlum. And In the perturbations some
body Is bound to get hurt. The same
Is true In all intellectual and moral
and political movements. It seems to
be a law of the universe that no prog
ress can be obtained without some dis
turbance and more or less suffering
The human race is obliged to pay a
certain price for whatever good It gets.
Agitation, whether In the material or
spiritual world. Is symptomatic of
progress, and If we would enjoy ita
benefits we muBt manfully endure its
hard knocks.
DANGEROUS THINGS TO HANDLE
Artlclea of Dally tae Which May Do
Peril to Hainan Life.
Thousands of people are handling
certain artlclea daily without any Idea
tneir dangerous .nature.
Tho ordinary soda water siphon, for
instance, Is a bomb, and an exceeding
ly powerful one to boot, charged, as
Jt frequently fs", up to a pressure of
between' 130 nfl 1?9 pounds.
A child who dropped one, - j these
dangerous contrivance n the street
tho other day 7as almost as shocking
ly mangled by the resultant explosion
as was M. von Plehve, the assassinated
Russian Minister of the interior, by
the dynamite bomb thrown by the
Anarchist Porzonef.
The large celluloid combs, again,
which ladies are so fond nowadays of
wearing In their hair, will, If accl
dentally brought Into contact with a
naked light, burst Into flame of explo
sive violence,
Nor Is this to be greatly wondered
at, seeing that one of the Ingredients
to celluloid Is guncotton, while anoth
er Is camphor, than which la no rnoro
inflammable snbstance known to
chemists.
Iodide of nitrogen, for instance,
hlch Is frequently prescribed In com'
blnatlon with other drugs, Is a highly
explosive chemical, and accidents have
happened over and over again through
Its incautious handling by persons Ig
norant of Its dangerous properties.
Ticture or iron and diluted aqa
regla, again, a mixture often pre
scribed as a tonic, gives off an explcj
slve gas which has been known to
shatter the strongest vessels.
Chloride of potash lozenges are high
ly dangerous if accidentally brought
Into contact with an unllghted phos
phorus match. - Chloral hydrate and
sal volatile, tho favorlto nerve tonic,
become, under certain coudltlons, as
deadly as dynamite.
The- spontaneous explosive coinbus
tlon of a box of oxide of silver pill
has ere now caused fatal Injury to
their unfortunate possessor. Bicar
bonate of potash, a common remedy
for flatulence, will cause a dangerous
explosion If accidentally mixed with
subnltrate of bismuth.
Ordinary spirits of wine Is a sub
stance possessing tremendous perils.
A pint or It if suddenly ignited will
produce the very mime destructive ef
fects as three or four pounds' weight
of gunpowder. This has been proved
on many different occasions.
Once at the Koyal Surrey County
Hospital a clergyman rashly threw a
small quantity on to a "snapdragon"
dish, around which a number of choir
boys were gathered. The resultant
explosion Killed one unfortunate lad
and severely Injured several others.
I'eurson's Weekly.
Amrrli-au Wuiura.
A favorite fling of tho Freueu at the
EngllHh has always been that the lat
ter are a nut Ion of shopkeepers. An
Englishwoman bus called Anieilcuns
"a nation of housekeepers." During
a visit to this country she was Btruck
by the fact that so many American
women of means and rellnement
either "do their own work" or active
ly superintend the doiuentlc arrange
mints, taking a pride In this duty.
Our friend was surprised to learn
that "an American woman will send
the forenoon in cooking or dusting or
cleaning, men arena uerfcir like a
duchess nnd sally forth to the meeting
of a fashionable (lub where she Is to
rend a learned puper, like 119 not. or
eliif call a carriage and m-ike a round
J of social callH. And her standing does
not stem to uo unpaired in the least
by the fait that during part of tho
du klie luia dono the work of a menial
nor bas It affected her own personal
attractiveness."
No omer woman bas done so much
as the American to umphazlse the dig
nity of labor Housekeeper.'
' ,lf a farmer hasn't anything 1m U
kick about, M buys a gold brick.
lit
Opinions of
THE DEADLY JPUBLIC DRINKING CUP.
IVE (Hseaseo are responsible for 400,000
deaths In the United States every year.
They are diphtheria, bronchitis, tubercu
loma, pneumonia and grippe, and each and
every one of them may be acquired and
often Is by the use of the common drink
ing cup. This striking array of figures ap
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pears in a paper by Prof. Alvln Davidson of Lafayette
College, which is given additional weight by being pub
lished in the current bulletin of the Massachusetts
State lioard of Health. It constitutes an unanswer
able argument against the use of public drinking imps
anywhere, but more especially In and about tho public
schools.
An epidemic of diphtheria In Rochester, N. Y., du
Ing which twenty-four people were ill, was traced un
mistakably to a drinking cup which all the sick had
used. Tonsllltls and sore throat are Invariably more
common in schools where common drinking cups are
used than where the Individual cup is required or tho
sanitary drinking fountain has been Installed. The les
son in this la so plain as to need no pointing out. Bos
ton Traveler.
FAKING FOR FORTUNE.
OUNG man, If you would prosper financially
let us be perfectly cold-blooded about It
If you aim to amass wealth, and that quick
ly and by easy means, mark the signs of
the times and start a cult. With the nota
ble example before you of Mr. Dowle, who
did exceedingly well for himself In this
world's goods, or of Brlgham Young and Joseph Smith,
and a host of lesser lights of more recent date In the
realm of prophecy or revelation, who have all waxed fat
of purse, how can you forbear to give rein to your In
ventive genius? Why can't you discover that you are a
reincarnation of the Grand Kalin or Christopher Colum
bus? "Why don't you fake a revelation? Why don't
you promulgate some new food theories? You might,
for Instance, Inaugurate a Nobuchadnczzer cult of walk
ing on all fours and eating grass with a view of ac
quiring wisdom and length of days. Or you might dis
course eloquently of the ethereal rhythmic dissonances
of ancient Babylonian harmonics jargon sounds learned
and makes a good impression and propound an empiric
system for teaching the music of the spheres as a sure
cure for all the evil thoughts and bodily SJUJailes that
i i an in m mrm a nn r ?f iu s
London motor bus drivers are fined
for being ahead of time, but rarely for
being late.
The use of dust from vacuum clean
ers Is In demand for use in dusting
patterns in foundries.
Fish is now one of the chief means
bf subsistence of the German people,
because of its comparative cheapness.
Long balr, It sotms, Is to be the
fashion for men thla year In London.
The flat has gone forth from the halr-
lresslng establishments In Bond street.
Recently there has been a great sale
of hansom cabs and horses in London.
From one establishment alone 120 cab
horses and more than seventy cabs
were sold. There Is no great demand
for them, and the prices realized for
the cabs are very small.
The inhabitants of southern Italy
and Sicily are alarmed by an Invasion
of ravfcns, which are causing serious
damage. At the corresponding period
of last year, preceding the terrible seis
mic oatastroplie "which destroyed Mes-
lna and Rggglo, a similar Invasion
wcourred. Paris Presse.
Mrs. Josephine L. Newcomb, of New
Orleans, Is said to have given a larger
amount to' educational charity during
the Uast'twelve months than any other
womUh'ln'tbls country. She bequeathed
$l,5OO'00,0 to the Sophie memorial
school' of New Orleans. She had pre
viously given $1,000,000 to the school,
whleh'la a' memorial to her daughter,
who dttvTat the age of fifteen.
Arthur Dupin, the "father of tho
Apaches," has Just died in Paris. He
was a feuilletonist, who wrote stories
for the Paris prcBS after the style of
Fenlmore Cooper. One of his early
contributions, entitled "Lea Apaches
des Belleville," made such an Impres
sion on the criminal classes of that
notorious Paris suburb that by com
mon consent they adopted the name of
the redskin tribe.
The German emperor has recently
shown himself to be an excellent bust
ness man by the way In which he has
pushed Uve sale of the manufactures
of the pottery works at Cadlnen, which
belong to him. These pottery works,
where majolica Is the principal article
produced, have been the kaiser's prt
vate property for several years, and
he personally supervises their man
agement. Apart from acting as man
aging director of the enterprise he
also contrives to tlinu!ate the sale
of tbeso manufactures among his
friends and wealthy men.
Attention should be called to the
very abnormal fact that there never be
fore existed in all natural history, out
side of a fattening pen and the'Strass
burger goose, the opportunity for such
luxurious consumption of food with so
little movement as exists for many
here to-day. 'Tls hlnh noi:n of a
greedy, gluttonous golden age! Until
thirty years ago, before up-to-date of
fice work, few Anglo-Suxon men were
ever In the house except to eat or
Bleep, und most were on tlielr feet
yearly all the time when awake. This
great BUdilen change bodes mt well.
S'ew York Press.
MAN WITH A HEART.
(Juerr C Uarllr Shnbby .Man Cuudurla
mt Auction
The auctioneer who was conducting
Itc sule of baiue poor devil's household
goods rpolte with iu:nl;ed respect to
the ihabby littlJ man. "Cot u seat
raved for yuh, sir," he suld. "You.
Jim, brlug out tbat box I put away."
Jim brought out a shaky soapbox,
and the shabby little man sat down
without a smile, lie bad hardly ro
Dllsd to IU icl fact J Salman's greet-
EMTOIMIA
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
aRsail us. Remember P. T. Barnum's remarks about
willing popular gullibility. Just have the courage to be
a fakir, and crowds will flock to you with ecstatic de
votion and heap upon you the blessings of thrlr wealth.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
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wrong. The church does lack influence,
but the right kind of clergymen are beginning to see
why, and the day is not far distant when the church.
Instead of remaining reactionary, will cast In Its lot with
the progress of civilization and wage its share of the
battle.
Economic movemenU will not swallow up the church,
because church leaders will make the church more prac
tical and less theoretic, Its administration more business
and less blundering, and its aims as earnestly to Im
prove conditions on earth as to insure happiness In
heaven. In 1909 the American people gave Just about
$1,000,000 a day to Christian churches. In a nation
where the church receives $100,000,000 more than all
the expenditures of Its States, Christianity is not wan
Ing and the church Is not declining. Chicago Journal.
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statue of AtlaB, but has substituted a
woman for the traditional strong man bearing the world
upon his shoulders. It is woman, not man, he rightly
thinks, who Is carrying the whole world's burdens.
This gives added significance to the latest suffragette
story. It la related that one of these women became
much depressed at the non-success of her labors in re
forming the world. The task seemed hopeless, and In
her despair she communicated her fears to another suf
fragette, who thus consoled her: "Do not be cast down.
There is always One to whom we can take our sorrows.
Pray to God, and She will aid you." Chicago Tribune,
Ing. The moment he had seated him
self his eyes began to rove through
the crowd. Pretty soon, with a sat
isfied grunt, he picked out the owner
of the forlorn chattels that had been
put on the block. A battered derby
hat, a look of illness and half starva
tion and hopeless poverty marked him.
The shabby little man watched his
face, paying no attention to the rusty
bits that had onco furnished forth
a little home. Suddenly he straight
ened up. "A dollar," he said with a
crisp decision.
That bid won for him the little case
of books that the auctioneer had been
offering. He turned them' over
thoughtfully In his hands. Every book
was clean, but each one had been well
thumbed. The backs were limp; the
binding had lost Its gloss. The imi
tation leather caso which had con
tained them had worn until the paste
board of its foundation was staring
through at every angle. Some way,
one felt that those books had been
read by a woman In other days. The
titles were old-fashioned, and as they
fell open under the touch the llus
trations were seen to be hopelessly out
of dale. The shabby little man looked
up, to see the man in the battered der
by watching him. Tears stood In the
battered mans' eyes. The corners of
his weak mouth twitched tremulously.
The shabby little man made his way
out through the crowd, and as he did
so got the other by the elbow. They
went out together.
"He hasn't much money to spare,"
said the auctioneer later, according to
the New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times-Star, "but with what
he has he conducts a queer charity
tbat Is all his own. He was sold up
once, when he was younger, and some
thing that be and hia wife valued
above everything els on earth went
to help satisfy the creditors. Now he
attends auction sales, and the one
thing that the ruined man or woman
cares for more than anything else he
buys It, to give back. You saw that
little case of books? The man's wife
used to read them as fche sat by the
window, waiting for him to come
home."
A DOE'S STRATAGEM.
Threw
thc Don Off the Mrrnt "
Navrd llrr Fawa.
Tho following anecdote is related by
M. X. Raspall. It Is worthy of com
parison with the moat remarkable of
Instances of the same kind.
The author one day perceived a doe
in full flight before two dogs in the
Aisle woods that form a part of the
forest of t'hantllly. The doe was ac
companied by a very young fawn
which appeared quite exhausted and
ready to drop. The mother, doubtless
wi-ll aware of this, slackened her pace
and presently stopped close to some
thick bramble bushes. She remained
some time there with lowered head as
If awaiting the onset of her pursuer
Suddenly nn Idea seemed to strike
her, and with a butt of the head she
tossed her fawn right Into the middle
of the thicket. Then, first advancing
gently as If to make sure It was well
bidden, she toon set off by rapid
bounds In front of the dogs. The lat
ter barkiliK close upon her tiecls, nho
made a sudden bend and thus drew
them far Irom the spot where this
Incident occurred. Tho howling of the
dcirj became fainter and fainter, tho
valiant animal having doubtless I
them two kilometers away into the
t'anardlero peat bogs, where the dogi
often lose the si-cnt.
In fact, later they were rccn icturn
Ing to the village in an exhausted con
ditlon. while the diligent mother
doubtless returned to the bushes to
find the llttlu fawn she had so clever
ly hidden and placed In safety. Vul
garlsatlon Sclentlflque.
A lot of the reform articles you
read are advertisements which manage
to get In without pay. .
IS CHRISTIANITY DECLINING?
LEItGYMEN occasionally bewail the lack of
popular influence which they realize affects
the modern church. Scoffers foresee the
day when churches will be swallowed up
In great economic movements. Both scoff
ers and clergy are partly right and partly
FEMINIZATION OF THE UNIVERSE.
HE feminization of the world Is slowly but
surely being accomplished, the Eternal
Feminine crowding the Transitory Male
off the boards. Gutzon Borglum, the
sculptor, Is the latest to assent to the skirt
ward trend of thought. He has made a
FAMILY MEAL A NICKEL.
lxcellrnt St. I.onU Philanthropy
Marts Nonnt rtrrnxnltlon.
A meal for a family for a nickel.
This Is the sign on the door of the
St.'Ixiuls Souphouse, one of the novel
charitable Institutions of the city that
Is doing much good among the poor
and with little public recognition, the
St. Lou In Republic says.
The place Is nt 818 Walnut street.
The cold weather has driven a steady
stream of hungry and cold humanity
to Its doors.
W. Vincent, tho proprietor, preaches
the gospel on the streets during the
summer and devotes his limited means
to the relief of the poor during the
winter. His wife is his assistant.
Nobody Is turned away if possessed
of a nickel, and even that is not neces
sary where Mr. Vincent is convinced
the party Is deserving. The charge
of 5 cents is made to keep away the
tramps and hobos who would be drawn
to St. Louis by the prospect of free
meals all winter.
For the men, a pint of soup, a pint
of coffee and all the bread that can
be eaten Is furnished, while heads of
families receive a quart of soup, a
quart of coffee and a loaf of bread for
the same price.
All sorts and conditions of men aro
cared for. In cases of drunkards with
out a nickel, Mr. Vincent gives them
a card, with the request that they get
the necessary nickel from the saloon
keeper who sold them the liquor.
"Sometimes they come back, and
8cmetimes tbey don't," he says.
The lleat of Intrutlona.
Competent learning and technical
capacity characterize the true critic,
but native tact and delicacy may oc
casionally be substituted with good ef
fect as In the case of a gardener
known to a contributor to the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The gardener was employed toy a
friend of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
One day, when she was walking in his
garden, Mrs. Stowe came upon him,
working among his roses. She watched
him a while, then entered into con
versation. Curious, as all authors are,
to know the impression her work had
made upon him, Mrs. Stowe suddenly
said:
"My man, did you ever read 'Uncle
Tom's Cabin'?"
The old gardener did not want to
hurt the famous novelist's feelings,
neither did he want to appear Ignorant
under further questioning.
"Well, no, ma'am," he stammered,
"not exactly. Not as you might say
'read it.' but I've tried to, ma'am."
The Partheuoa.
The destruction of that famom
building, the Parthenon, took place in
1637 during the siege of Athens by
the Venetians. The Turks held the
city, and tV.e Parthenon was used for
a powder magazine. One day during
the conflict a Venetian bombshell
dropped Into the building, and the
explo.-iion followed which badly shat
tered the structure. From that date
the renowned building has stood roof
less and exposed to all the Inclemen
cies of the weather. For more than
2,000 years the temple stood entire,
and In Its ruins Is the architectural
wonder of the world. New York
American.
Mioulil He in re fill.
Pliln Guest (excitedly) .Miss Lucj
your-mare's run away. jUS
prp:ed my head over the gute
Miss Lucy t annoyed I Oh! That's
enough to make her. She's bo fright
ened of anything like that. Londou
Opinion. .
Considering how worthless dogs
are, we often wonder why the Lord
Invented so many different kinds.
Wa can't understand why any man
1 shoi Id become excited over baskoV
I ball.
Old Favorites
rant Under the Rod.
I saw a young bride in her beauty and
prklo
Bedecked In her snowy array,
And the bright flush of Joy mantled
high on her cheek
And the future looked blooming and
gay.
And with woman's devotion she laid
her fond heert
At the shrine of idolatrous love,
And she anchored her hopes to this
perishing earth
By the chair which her tenderness
wove;
But I saw when those heartstrings
were bleeding and torn
And the chain had been severed in
two,
She had changed her whlta robes for
the sables of grief
And her bloom for ths paleness of
woe.
But the Healer wns there pouring balm
on her heart,
And wlplns the tears from her eyes.
He strengthened the chain he had
broken in twain
And fastened it firm to the skies.
There had whispered a voice, 'twas the
voice of her God,
"I love thee; I love thee; pass under
the rod."
I saw a young mother In tenderness
bend
O'er the couch of her slumbering boy.
And she kissed the soft Hps as they
murmured her name
While the dreamer lay Smiling in Joy.
Oh, sweot as the rosebud encircled with
dew
Whon its fragrance Is flung on the
air,
So fresh and so bright to that mother
he seemed
As he lay in his Innocence there.
But I saw when she gazed on that same
lovely form,
Pale as marbla and silent and cold.
But paler and colder her beautiful boy
When the tale of her sorrow was
told.
But the Healer was there who had
stricken her heart
And taken her treasure away;
To allure her to heaven he had placed
it on high
And the mourner will sweetly obey.
There had whispered a voice, 'twas the
voice of her God,
"I love thee; I love thee; pass under
the rod."
I saw a fond father and mother who
leaned
On the arms of a dear gifted son,
And the star of the future grew bright
to their gaze
When they saw the proud place he
had won.
Oh! the fast coming evening of life
promised fair
And Its pathway grew smooth to
their feet
And the starlight of love glimmered
bright to the end
And the whispers of fancy were
sweet.
But I saw them"'again, bending low
o'er the grave
Where their hearts' dearest hope ha-J
been laid;
Their star had done down in the dark
ness of night
And the Joy from their bosoms had
fled.
But the Healer was there with his
arms thrown around.
And he led them with tenderest care;
lie showed them a star In that bright
upper world
'Twas their star shining brilliantly
there.
There hud whispered a voice, 'twas the
voice of their God,
"I love thee; I love thee; paas under
the rod."
MAN OF MODERATE MEANS.
fttoajlra Ilia Reg-olar Smoke What
ife Uara When lie' Ferllna; Hlch.
"All things," said the man of mod
erate means, according to the New
York Sun, "impress us by comparison.
If a man had lived all his life in a
palace It would have to be a very grand
sort of a place Indeed that would seem
anything particularly fine to him,
whereas If he had lived always In a
shack a very modest house would seem
to him luxurious.
"If since they first came In we bad
been driving steadily a $10,000 auto
mobile then obviously it would take
quite considerable of a kerosene cart
to give us any added Joy in that line,
while if wo had been accustomed con
stantly to ride in the subway even the
simplest of gasoline gigs might give us
great glee. All things go by compari
son. "Take, for Instance, smoking. My
regular smoke Is a stogie that costs
$1.45 a hundred, but I buy also for spe
cial occasions a special brand of cigars
for which I pay $2 a hundred; I buy
a fifty-box at a time for a dollar. Com
monly I smoke the stogies and I think
they're pretty good, at a little less than
a cent and a half a smoke, but If I
happen to strike a little streak of luck
I blow myself to a couple of those
choice soiokes out of the other box, In
which really I find great pleasure.
"It's all by comparison. Some men
would have to pay $10 for a cigar .o
get any fun out of It. 1 can get a lot
of fun out of a 2-center.
"And speaking of great pleasure, I'm
glad I have not exhausted all my great
pleasures; I've still got them all, or
mostly all, to-enjoy. My capacity for
novelty and enjoyment has never been
much taxed; it is still practically
boundless. I have got life ahead of me,
not behind, and when I do get money,
us I certainly hope to do some day,
everything will be new and charming
to me and I shall enjoy everything
Immensely.
"I've got something to look forward
to anyway and I think there's sevne
hlng In that."
ANIMALS EAT OUR FOOD.
fonaervallon la Thla I. la aa laipor
Ual aa la Other a.
Among the Important subjects dis
cussed at the fourth annual Pennsyl
vania State College Farmers' Week,
recently concluded, was the problem of
supplying the necessary food for man
when the time shall have arrived when
the Increased population will neces
sitate more Intensive husbandry and
greater economy In the rations for cat
Uo. la other words, it Is Ullsvsd by
Dr. H. P. Armshy, head of tho Depart"
ment of Animal Nutrition, that tho
time will come when the demand for
food In this country will be so great
that It will be impossible for man to
live, If we continue to feed to animals
much of the food palatable to human
beings. Thus, complex experiments
are being conducted here under the di
rection of Dr. Armsby. The machlno
employed In the work Is an animal
calorimeter.
Steers are put Into this apparatus,
and by means of minutely accurato
observations cnade every thirty seconds
Is learned the exact disposal of every
bit of the ration of the animal.
Through changes In the diet of tho
bovine subjects knowledge Is acquired
as to the most economic feed, and oy
the supplying of foodstuffs not desir
able to man, but tasteful to cattle, In
formation Is obtained along the line of
conserving the food supply of tho
country. Speaking of the calorimeter
and Its allied Investigation, Dr. Arms
by said:
"A sufficient food supply Is a funda
mental necessity of civilization, and
Its conservation is as important us
that of our mines, forests or water
powers. We are at last beginning to
realize that there is such a thing as
a food problem, and that when, In the
not distant future, our population
reaches half a billion, It may be a.
very serious one. All the available
material will then be needed for hu
man consumption. A large part of
the products of the farm, however, cai
not be consumed directly. About 70
per cent of the wheat crop is contained
In the straw and the milling residues,
while hay and similar forage crops
we can not consume at all. We can,
however, feed them to farm animals,
and thus effect a double saving."
ODDITIES IN GIVEN NAMES.
One Family of Mne Had One Hon
dred and Three Appellatlona.
One can't help sympathizing with;
Lieut. Toolemache, who, after groan
ing for many years under the burden
of seven Christian names containing no
fewer than sixty leters,' has at last de
cided to jettison five of thecn and to
be known for the future as plain "Leo
de Orellana Tollemache," a designa
tion long eonugh surely to satisfy any
reasonable man.
And yet the gallant lieutenant was
an enviable person compared with the
other members of his many-named fam
ily, nine of whom share 103 Christian
names among them, ranging In num
ber from ten to seventeen, the later
number being the baptismal dower of
one of his sisters, who, if ever she
has time to sign her name in full,
must write "Lyona Decima Veronica
Edyth Undine Cyssa Hylda Rowena
Viola Adela Thyra Ursula Ysabel
Blanche Leilas Dysart Plantagenet
Tollemache," Londan Tit Bits says.
After such an autograph as this one
turns with relief to the royal signa
ture of the empress dowager of China,
which contains but a paltry fifty-nine
letters, or to that of a native of Ha
waii, who Is content with fifty-one let
ters, eight of which are k's and fifteen
a's.
That a multiplicity of names is not
the prerogative of the higher class was
proved a few years ago when the in
fant boy of a F.ucklnghamshlre farmer
was presented at the front with twenty-six
Christian names, each beginning
with a different letter of the alphabet,
from Abel to Yariah and Zacharlah,
and when a farm laborer handed a list
of twenty-one names to the vicar of a
church near Tunbr'dge Wells as the
dower of his baby boy.
Fortunately for the child, the father
was Induced to cut down the allowance
to half a dozen. Even thus we can
imagine that in future years that boy
will look with envy on the offspring of
a Mr. Penny, who labeled his children
One Penny, Two Penny, and so on, up
to the full shilling's worth of pennisi,
The absurdities of Christian nameo
are Illustrated In a Sussex Jury list
of the seventeenth century, which may
be seen In the British museum. Among,
the Jurors of the time were Safety-on
High Snast of Uckfleld, Kill-Sin Pem
ble of Westham, Flght-the-Good-Flght-of-Falth
White, Small-Hope Biggs,
Falnt-Xot Hirst and Earth Adams, al
though, after all, the names are no
more remarkable than those given a
few months ago to twin Infants in tho
Midlands, who will go through life as
Faith Hope Charity Rogers and Penta
teuch Rogers.
Napoleon'a Farewell.
It was at Fontalnebleau that Napo
leon received the pope in 1804. It waa
at Fontalnebleau that he imprisoned
the pope the apartment which served
as his prison is still shown in 1812
and 1813. Finally, for Nemesis would
have it so, it was at Fontalnebleau
that Napoleon signed his abdication
and said farewell to hia army In 1814,
at the head of Cour due Cheval Blanc
and placing himself at the head of the
guard as, if for a review.
"For twenty years," he said, "I have
been well coutent with you and you
have always been with ma on the path
of glory. With your help and that of
all the brave men who are still loyal
I could have cnrrled on the war for
three years longer, but France would
h.Ve suffered, and I do not wish that
to happen.
"I might have died that would have
been easy but I would not. I prefer
to follow the path of honor and to
write the history of our exploits.
"I canont embrace you all, but I will
embrace your general. Come, General
Petie. Bring me the eagle! Dear eagle!
May these kisses find their echo la
every brave man's heart!
"Farewell, my children-"
That surely Is the most pathetic as
it is also the most dramatic scene In
the whole history of Kontainebleau.
T. P.'s London Weekly.
Ko loleure iH-eaaary,
"I aubrr.Hed some humorous sketches
here the other day," 'said Jokeley.
"They haven't appeared yet. Did you
kill them?"
"1 pasted upoa them," replied the
editor, "but I dlda't kill them."
-Nor
"No. They just died naturally of ol4
aft." Catholic Standard sad TUaaa.