Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NIB.
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Pubilahol
New York's bonded debt la 11,0'tO,
000,000. Greatl
Tha country beara some of It states
men lrltb. remarkable fortitude.
Every big storm on land or n
Kotm that the race of American he
roes la by no mean exuucu
A banker's eon who gallantly caught
i fainting woman lost $28,000 there
by. There are faints and feints.
The New York Tribune calls th
Houston Post a sollpslst. What d.)
fan know about that without looking
it tjpf
No wonder Columbia University Is
willing to spend 12,000,000 for an ag
ricultural school when foodstuffs are
so htjh.
Total resources of all the banks In
the United States reach $21,100,000,
600. Industry and sobriety are gra.-.d
tittle tools, are they not?
Great thoughts are noble guests
Which do not enter the home of our In
tellect unbidden, nor do they remain
lopg whore they are not properly en
tertained. Briefly stated, the high cost of liv
ing Is principally due to the fact that
we are all so busy trying to make
oney that we have no time to pro
duce foods.
"The custom of waving the handker
chief vigorously In the air Is a dan
gerous one," says Dr. Hading. Yes,
the handkerchief flirtation has led to
serious results.
"In five years from now,' says an
emlnont physician, " It will not be re
sectable to be 111." Does he think
all the vermiform appendices will have
been removed In the meantime?
A young woman has been attempt
ing to commit suicide because she
could not become an actross. Luckily
most of the women who never can be
actresses go bravely ahead making a
bluff at It.
A sarcastic writer has suggested
that the 250 Krupp guns which Chile
recently ordered must be Intended to
protect the peace statue placed by that
country and Argentina on the summit
of the Andes.
Sometimes when a girl marries a
farmer In order that she may pick
roses wet with dew, she learns that
he has a hog aviary near the house.
This we glean from the perennial flre
lide philosopher of Atchison, Kan.
More sermons ought to be preached
on "perspective." Because he failed
to pass an examination, a Brooklyn
schoolboy hanged himself with a book
Btrap. Elder persons .make the same
mistake. Too great value is set on
the various goals aimed at and the
proper sense of life's perspective 1
lost
So successful la Maine as a potato
growing state that it Is held up aa an
ixample to other states. The president
Of the New York Central Railroad has
lately made the statement that It the
New York farmers were to pursue the
method of cultivation that is used In
Maine they would increase their In
torn fifty-two million dollars a year.
Gumption schools is the name which
la being used in London to describe
a rerles of manual training school
that the county council la about to
open. The originator of the plan said
that the schools would "develop gump
tion In a child." He may be right.
but in America gumption ia a quality
which is commonly supposed to be in
born, with the power to develop itself
If It has half a chance.
Last year about four million boxes
of grapefruit were consumed In this
country, although no longer than fif
teen years ago this popular breakfast
table delicacy was without commercial
value and bad no place upon ths
American bill of fare. Florida and
California are the sources of a large
part or ths supply, and It Is also cul
llvated to a great extent In Jamaica
and the Isle of Tines. The grapefruit
er pomelo, with other members of the
Citrua family, was brought to Florida
by the Spaniards about four centuries
ago. It grows in great yellow bunches
upon trees that attain a height of
Jilrty feet.
The "little fellers" who are barred
from the college football teams because
of underweight or other physical In
adequacy may And comfort In the dec
laration of a prominent medical jour
nal that they are the ones who live
the loreat. and not only that, but
they are as a whole the best brain
workers and make the best record of
scholarship. There should be some
compensation lu this for the failure
to become gridiron heroes and the ad
mired of the fair sex, which Is so cap
tivating to young manhood, nut we
have no doubt that almost any one
of them would willingly forego the
chance of greater longevity and future
scholastic distinction for present ath
letic glory, However, If what the
medical paper says is true, there is a
powerful suggestion In it for tho adop
tion of milder athletics. Th foot hall
selections take the strongest and
soundest and relegate to the bleachers
the men who are most In need of train
ing to develop their feeble physiques.
Now if the statistics show thnt on the
average the latter outlive those who
are subjected to the aevure football
training, the Inference Is clear. The
men who are strongest In youth and
whose organs are perfect snould nut
urally live longer than the feeble an. I
defective. Does the severe training
and the strain of combat exhaust the
vitality of the giants and make them
less fit for the grind of everyday ex
istence than the pygmies? The trend
of modern athletic teaching Is towards
aalldar exercise. The idea ia to develop
a reasonable degree of muscular!
strength and bodily activity without
putting the heart out of commission.
But In football as now played In Amer
ican Institutions of learning there can
be no mild, or even middle course. It
demands that human strength and en
durance bo keyed up to Its utmost
limit.
Visitors to this country are often
struck by a fact which not many
Americans appreciate the frequency
of holidays which have national and
patriotic significance. The birthdays
of Washington and Lincoln, annually
celebrated, recall the lives of two great
Americans. Independence Day and
Memorial Day are continual reminders
of the greatest crises in the country's
history. The anniversaries of Lexing
ton, Bunker Hill, Bennington and New
Orleans, and the birthdays of General
Lee and Jefferson Davis are celebrated
In parts of the country. To Americans
there Is nothing surprising in this; It
Is. however, unusual. In many coun
tries the people's holidays are the
saints' dnys of the church. In Eng-
lnnd Easter Monday, Whltmonday and
the Christmas holidays are supple
mented by certain "bank holidays,"
which have no national associations
whatever, no deeper meaning than a
week-end release from the .routine of
labor. An attempt is being made to
establish "Empire Day," on the anni
versary of Queen Victoria's birth, but
the movement makes more headway
In the colonies than in England It
self. France celebrates the fall of the
Bastille, but no other holiday recalls
to the people the great moments of
their dramatic history. Americans,
however, Instinctively make much of
anniversaries. Suppose we had In our
history such mighty figures as Alfred,
the Great or Cromwell, Henry IV or
Napoleon. Suppose we had such stir
ring events as the signing of Magna
Charta or the defeat of the Armada,
Joan of Arc's relief of Orleans or the
battle of Austerllta to commemorate.
Should we neglect the obvious oppor
tunity? Not we. Of course too many
holidays are a nuisance.' But it is
a fortunate thing when those that are
observed are not mere breathing spaces
in the drudging year, but by their
annual recurrence teach the child and
remind the citizen of the course and
meaning of the nation's history.
BEING CONSIDERATE.
The Kierolae - of 1'oIUeneaa Ilealla
Should Have It Limitation.
Katherlne Jessup and her cousin
ConBtance had been devoted friends
from childhood, but there was one
matter upon which they differed per
sistently, and that was Katherlne's
conception of conslderatene'ss.
"When people are doing everything
to give you pleasure, you should be
pleased with whatever they give you,"
was Katherlne's dictum.
"Certainly," Constance agreed, "when
the thing la done, or when it would
be an Inconvenience to give you what
you would really like. But to eat hot
rolls mornings when you prefer cold
rira rtnm Ya a A anil lr nnt 4Yiafr 4ka
Is plenty In the pantry, or to go to
art galleries your friends have seen
scores of times when you would really
rather go through the shops I don't
call that consideration at all. How
would you feel If you knew that a
gueBt of yours was martyrizing her
self for you? Why not, where It Is
possible, frankly say what you want?"
"Because," Katherlne retorted, "that
Isn't my Idea of being considerate."
I should say it wasn't," Constance
would reply, in exasperation.
But there came a time at last when
Katherlne's views underwent a radical 1
change. A few weeks before her wed
ding one of her aunta returned from
a year In Japan.
"I've brought you something which
you may not lrke, Katherlne," she said,
and if you don't, I want you to say
so. I nave plenty of the ordinary stuff
silks and Ivories and vases and you
may take your choice. But this was
a genuine 'find,' and I wanted you to
have It if you'd like it. Professor
Griffin aays It Is worthy a place in a
museum," and she carefully unwrapped
and displayed a very old and to un-'
initiated eyes extremely ugly JaDa-,
ncse print.
For a moment even Katherlne wav-
aratl than urtA railing and ntnAil hv
her guns. "Thank you so much. Auijt
m... II -1. I . . . . .
cjvb, iua Bum, warmiy. i woman i
cnange u tor anytmng. l snail ne so ,
proud to be the possessor of it. No
one of the girls haa a genuine old
print like this. They'll be wild with J
envy."
Of course the girls all saw the print, '
and apparently the same Inspiration
occurred to half a dozen of them. At
any rate, no less than seven Japanese
prints appeared among Katherlne's
wedding gifts. Katherlne's father
looked at his daughter quizzically.
"Fond of Japanese prints?" he asked.
"Ye-es," Katherlne replied. "Oh,
yes."
"There used to be a Btory in the
reader when I was a
boy," her father
said, remtnlscently
of a man who
went out to dinner and was asked If
he liked codfish. He had always de-
tested It. but he said be liked It. So
everywhere he went he was served
with codfish. Of course there isn't any
application. I don't know why It oc -
curred to me."
Constance refrained from glancing
at her cousin. It was her turn to bflnn(' on t'10 other hand, a most unat
considerate. Youth's Companion.
Km rln ir Children.
There are plenty of debatable polnti
about how to bring up a child. Shall
he use right and left hand equally?
Shall he toddle to kindergarten at
four, or run wild, uutaueht. till seven?
Shall he ever under any circumstances
bi- spanked? Tho world is not agreed
But on one subject enlightened opin
ion Is unanimous. Children must not
be scared.
A shock Is never justifiable. There
fore, when there is screaming at tho
sea dtp we temper the ordeul to swim
ming liuths. For that fear of the
'irk that comes sometimes, no one
knows from whence, to children free
f rem all bogy lore, there is '.he humane
night light and the comforting society
of a plush bear as bedfelluw. Every
thing should he , delightfully and
imoothly ordered, in fact, for a nor
mal rising generation. If only parent!
will restrain themselves and keep tbaij
nervss out of the nursery.
BETTER 10 IM OUT
Atari Who Retires With Ample For
tune and Allows Himself to
Rust Out.
ENTERS A LUTE OF MISERY.
Loses Ills IIo pon the Social and
Business World and Eapldly
Goes Down H11L
The average young man makes up
his mind that at CO or CO years of ago
he will retire and take things easy for
the rest of his days, says a writer In
the Dundee Courier. The average
young man makes a great mistake. It
is far beier to wear out than to ru:t
out. To the young man work is a
drudge, a necessity to keep hlin alive.
In middle ngo work Is an accepted
thing, and we ore used to It, and feel
rather the better for having occupa
tion. In old age work is a necessity
to keep the mind and body young.
There Is scarcely a more miserable
spectacle than the man of 50 or CO
who has retired with ample fortune.
He loafs around the house. Goes from
one club to another. Gets lonely.
Feels blue. He tiles to kill time in
the dny looking forward to the meet
ing of his cronies lu the evening. The
cronies are busy In the daytime and
they have engagements and pleasures
In the evening, bo that our retired
friend seems to be In the way. He
finds that the anticipation of retire
ment was a pleasure, und that the
realizations Is a keen disappointment.
"There is nothing," says Carnegie,
"al)solutely nothing In money beyond
a competience." When one has enough
money to buy things for the home,
for his family comfort and enjoyment,
when he has sufficient income to take
care of himself and family, surplus
dollars do not mean much.
The business man should prepare
for his future so that if ill health
overtakes him he may have the where
with to surround himself with com
forts, travel and the best of care. The
man who enjoys pleasures of the home
and friends, who trains up young
blood to take hold of the business.
who travels and enjoys himself as he
goes along has tho right Idea. We
must learn to enjoy life now instead
of waiting for to-morrow, for to-mor
row may never come. The man who
cashes in, puts his money In bonds
and retires from all work goes down
hill quickly and feels be is of no use
in the world.
The farmer who moves in town to
live on his income is a sorry Individ
ual unless he has a garden and chick
ens, or buys and sells farms, or occu
pies his time with work of some kind.
The retired, non-working farmer who
has moved to town gets up in the
morning, goes to Bee the train come
In, whittles a stick, loafs at the hotel
or store, goes to the next train, talks
of his rheumatism, goes to bed at 8
o'clock, and the next day goes through
the same rigmarole. Occupation is
the plan of nature to keep man happy,
so when you have all the money you
need have some occupation or hobby
to occupy your time. The man who
retires from any active work is mere
ly counting the days until he dies.
When old nge comes, and your body
or brain won't let you do or care for
much as you could in your younger
days, then get lighter work or lighter
cares.
Keep busy. If it Is only raising
chickens or gardening, or studying
astronomy or botany. Keep at it as
long as you can. Die In the harness
Instead of fading slowly away. Cul
tivate the reading habit In your
younger days that It may be a pleas
ant occupation when your legs and
hands grow feeble with age. When
you quit work or occupation of some
sort then life has no beauty for you.
VOICE OF ENGLISH WOMAN BEST.
"Catbird" Tone of Americana Dae
to lliiale In Speaking.
,m u" " u" nl8 lu,ver''
v . . w . -
An arrow for the heart like a sweet
voice.
Byron.
Surely the women whn nx. ..
their conversations in a high catbird
voice have never been brought to a
realization of how excellent a thing is
a soft voice In a woman, the Denver
Republican says.
The English women are conceded to
have much lovelier voloes than the
American women, and it is only be
cause the English women take time to
enunciate clearly, speak gently. In soft,
low tones.
The American women have Just as
musical voices as their English slaters.
ut the American woman seems to be
,n ucn mad baste to get It said anil
8Wid frst that no thought is given as
1,0 how It is being said. Children al-
wny8 wave neautirul voices A child's
vo'('e never gets on one's nerves. It is
onIy later in life that tho voice loses
1 na sweetness.
I now often a pretty face loses Its
! charm the moment the owner speaks,
tractive woman will, when speaking
ho irresistible owing to tho beauty of
her voice. A certain gentleman gives
as ins opinion that women as they
glow ol(l'r hecemie victims of the nag
Klng ,mnlt an(i t,le Querulous tones de
Vl'l0' ln consequeneo. If this is true.
11 " t,n'e woman cultivated the banoy
i nuljlt Instead and thereby add to her
charms the wondrous fascination of a
voice "ever soft, gentle anil low
WHAT IS THE ANSWER f
I hero .r I'uur lleaauna for Oppoal-
llou lu I'arcr la l'oat.
wnat is me answer? There isn t
any one answer; but Uie parcels post
Is oue oi several answers. Collier"
gays. Everybody Knows uow tho old
story. When John Wunamaker was
postmaster-general, some oue asked
him why he didn't have a parcels post
like every other civilized country? He
said there are four reasons: The first
is the Wells Fargo Express Company,
the tecond la the American Express
Company, the third is the Adams K't
press Company, the fourth is Uie tint
ed States Express Company. Ever)
once ln a while our consuls in Europe
write to our government telling how
the parcels post works In Europe. Ir
Senator Piatt's day (Senator Piatt was
once the president cf the United State;
Express Company) he ur.od to hnv
such reports withdrawn from the pub
lie. Here is a recent one from H. S
Culver, United States consul at Cork
Ireland. Thla report was printed il
the "Rural New Yorker":
"Farmers, merchants and manufac
turers patronize extensively these
means of communication between the
markets and the Isolated Individual
customer. The rates by parcels-post
are 6 rents for one pound or less, f;
cents from one to two pounds, and i
cents additional for each pound up tc
eleven the weight limit of parcels
Tho length of parcel allowed Is three
feet six inches, and the greatest length
and girth combined Is six feet. Foi
example, a parcel measuring three feet
six Inches in its longest dimension
may measure two feet six Inches in
girth. Eggs, fish, meat, fruit, vege
tables, glass, croekery, liquids, butter
cheese, etc., may ho transported by
pc reels-post."
If we had the parcels-nost in this
country the farmer could ship one ot
nve or ten pounds of butter, or a few
oozen eggs, or a peck of potatoes, ot
a basket of apples, to his individual
customer In the city, and avoid the
middleman. Fishermen in the north
of Scotland send fresh fish to the Lon
don marked this way. Al.se), if we had
tho parcels-post system in this eoun
try, the express companies woule
etuickly reduce their rates and stoi
paying 800 per cent dividends.
The third municipal census ol
Buenos Ayres, now being complied, Is
expected to give that city a populatlor
of at least 1,285,000.
Brass may be given a color resent
bllng pewter by boiling it In a crean
of tartar solution containing a snial1
amount of chloride ot tin.
New York Is experimenting witr
street cars driven by electric motors
which get their power from gas en
glnes mounted below the floors of the
cars. ;
Though blessed with the most fer
tile soil and most favorable climate lr.
the world, the United States produce!
less wheat per acre planted than Eng
land, Germany, or Holland.
A model electric engine, built bj
Thomas Davenport, a poor blacksmitl
of Brandon, Vt., and operated on I
small circular track ln 1834, probablj
was the first electric railway in tin
world.
A bit of primeval yew forest about
half a mile square is carefuly pre
served ln the Bavarian highlands oi
Germany, the tree, once widely dis
trlbuted, having become almost extinct
in Europe.
The amount ot . fertilizing mattei
brought down by the River Nile from
its source every year is estimated a:
100,000,000 tons enough to cover 8
road from the earth to the najon six
teen feet wide by two and one-hali
inches deep.
The Bell Telephone Company Is te
adopt In New York the plan developed
by independent companies in Buffalc
of attaching pay-station telephone-box
es to street poles, nfter the model o!
pollee call-boxes. It is said that little
Inconvenience is caused by the roar o:
traffic in the street, because the head
of the operator can be Introduced Intc
the box so as practically to shut oul
the extraneous noises.
During 1908 Peru and Panama ofB
dally adopted the world system oi
standard time based on the meridian
of Greenwich, and it Is expected thai
in eonsonane-e with a resolution of the
Pan-American Scientific Congress the
Latin-American countries generally
will adopt this system. It was the
expressed wish of the congress that
the new system should become effect
lve from Jan. 1, 1010. Time signals
upon this system are now sent out
without cost by cable and wireless;
telegrnphy throughout tho America!
continent. The whole globo Is divided
into hourly belts, starling from the
meridian of Greenwich.
The chairman of the chemistry sec
tion of the American Association lot
tho Advancement of Science, Professoi
Louis Kahlenberg, dwelt, at the recent
Boston meeting, on the importance ol
recognizing that solutions are really
chemical in character, and that there Is
no wide gulf separating the act ol
solution from other chemical phenom
ena. Benjamin Sllllman. Sr., ln 1837,
regarded solutions as chemical cam
pounds, and the chemical view pre
dominated until 1S87. Professor Kah
lenberg thinks that the renewed study
of solutions from tho chemical point
of view will greatly aid in getting a
broader and more correct conception
of the nature of chemical action itself,
it will be of particular service in un
raveling questions ln physiology.
llokTo and tho narber.
When Victor Hugo lived in Paris ln
the Palais Royal he used to be shaved
by a barber uamed Brassier. A friend
of the peiet asked the barber one day
If he was busy. "I hardly know which
way to turn," was the reply. "We
havo to dress the hair of thirty ladies
for soirees and balls." And M. Bras
sier showed the list to his friend. A
few days after the friend returned and
Inquired about the thirty ladies. "Ah.
monsieur," said the barber, sadly, "I
was nut able to attend half the num
ber, and I have lost ninny good cus
tomers through M. Victor Hugo." It
appears that the poet when aliont to
be shaved was suddenly inspired and
seized the first piece of paper he could
find to writo a poem. Hugo hastily
left the shop with his unfinished
verses, on the back of which were the
names and addresses of the thirty la
dles, many of whom walte'd in vain
for their coiffeur.
When a boy wears a pair of new
hoes without protest. It la an Indica
tion that he la going away on tha
cvra
yj. Science
rfnVention
INDUSTRIALISM NEEDED AS TEACHER.
By C Edward Fuller.
Industrial education promise better living,
and Improved chances of earning a living,
through employment in manufacturing in
dustries mostly, for, although the land turns
out raw materials from mine, farm and for
est, and transportation and commerce relate
to both finished and unfinished products, yet
complete Industrial activity Is dependent
upon factories In operation, so that It Is
reany me factory which opens or
modern business.
Small, exchangeable traveling exhibits, with simple
descriptive matter, nre tiie elements of a system pro
posed, such as can be fitted up at light expense by spe
cific Industries, as required, to show what each kind
of factory needs, and to direct teaehers and students
alike into locally profitable channels, In accord with
fashion, demand, expediency.
Permanent museums and Ubrnrlea do much for the
intellectual life, but the contention herein is that little
exhibits of industrial crude and finished products, which
could be passed around from school to school, would do
more to fit boys for wage-earning, an this is what in
dustrial education proposes to do for boys.
No amount of argument can disprove the facts of
evolution which show the dependence of a sound mind
upon a sound body, and we have accumulated statistics
enough during fifty years past to prove that healthful,
continuous occupation Is a means of salvation for young
and old, poor or rich.
"The world is always tormented with difficulties wait
ing to be solved." and a list of small improvements and
inventions, to say nothing of the greater ones, needed in
American factories would serve to humble the jingo
patriot some.
MIND AS AN AGENT OF HEALING.
By Robert M. Qault.
Everybody Is interested in the idea that
the mind is an agent of healing. Some em
brace it, other laugh It to scorn. It has in
spired the practice of shameful quackery upon
credulous subjects so that the history of the
application of mental influence to healing
would be a good account of the credulity of
men's minds throughout many centuries.
It is easy enough for a physician to admin
ister medicine in a spoon, or a stimulant through a hy
podermic needle. But how can he dispense the mental
Influence of which we are thinking? He must put his
confidence in some fundamental laws which govern the
action of the human mind.
The law which I want to mention first Is that which
Is expressed ln the tendency of every Idea, thought, emo
MOONSHINE BUTTER.
ermine etv Indnatry Coalliiic Uncle
Sam Million of Dollar.
"Moonshine butter" is making a good
deal of trouble for the government in
these days, says the Ohio State Jour
nal. The reason is simply that there Is a
tax of 10 cents a pound on oleomar
garine that is colored to imitate but
ter, whereas on the uncolored article
It Is only one-fourth of a cent a pound.
Of course, this offers an invitation
to fraud. A man rents a house or a
cellar, buys a few hundred barrels of
"oleo" from a meat paeker, puts it
Into a big vat, heats it, adds the requi
site amount of "anatto" to give the
desired tint, mixes it thoroughly and
sells the stuff as "fresh dairy butter."
This sort of thing is being done at
the present time on a considerable
scale in most of the large cities of the
East and Middle West. It gives the
government more annoyance, ten times
over, than all the distilling of illicit
Whisky.
Oleomargarine is composed of ani
mal fats and cotton seed oil. It is
perfectly wholesome and a good deal
of it is used for cooking. Instead of
butter. Its first cost, at wholesale. Is
10 or 11 cents a pound. All right so
far. But when hundreds of tons of It
are sold without paying the tax of 10
cents a pound the extra and illegiti
mate profit to the "moonshiner" being
0 cents the los3 to Uncle Sam is
great.
In fact, "moonshine butter" is cost
ing the government a great deal more
than unlawful whisky. The process
of manufacture Is much easier and far
cheaper than that of whisky and the
producing plants are often very diffl
jult to locate. Those who conduct them
are In many instances desperate char
acters, and every now and then a rev
enue officer is killed In making a raid
upon one of the counterfeit butter fac
tories. When ln fall you lay it up, the win
ter's store of coal.
Your heart beats hlnh with cheerful
hope and peace rests on your
soul;
And you survey the jet black hoard.
and as you look you smile.
For, lo! It towers till there seems
abundance ln that pile:
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A month has passed; -the days were.
chill, and freely you fed fires,
For, of all things, your family a good
warm bouse admires,.
But when your store of coal you
chance one morning to survey,
Vou find the heap is much reduced
reduced to this, we'll say:
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lloreas nets his work in well-lie
keeps yeiu slioveliiiij mal
(Boreas, once he's started in, can bo
confounded cruel),
And panic grips your heart as you taki
unxioua note once more
And rind there's only a modest stock
left on tho cellar Hour:
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IV.
A thaw or two brings joy to you, then
sero comes in turn;
The groundhog uIbo fails to halt de
mands for cotil to burn;
Till on one futal day In March you
bid farewell to bltsa
When, seeking coal to warm the bouse,
you find there's only this:
THE PILE OF COAL.
closes the circuit of
THE NEW ERA
'AGermanArmy
IIR near Rtrpncth Ctf
1 I past year to 620,000 men
i
nuniDer oi reservists called out for training during the year
has risen to 436,3118. excluding officers, or an increase of more
than 110,000 over the figures for 1906. The German plan ia
to train each soldier twice for fourteen days while in the re
serve and once for fourteen days while in the Landwehr. The
number of reservists recalled during the year for training has risen of late
at the rate of 30,000 a year and will continue to rise until the plan 13 in full
operation. Thus there are and hereafter will be more than a million men
under arms at one time or another each year.
The year 1907 is the last for which complete statistics of recruiting
have been published. The recruits examined numbered 1,189,845, among
whom there were 532,000 of the age of 20 who were examined for the first
time. In all "435,933 were incorporated in the armed forces, including 212,
0G1 in the active army and 10,374 In the navy. About one-half of the army
recruits were 20 and the remainder 21 or 22. There were only two one-hun-dredths
of 1 per cent of Illiterates. Voluntary engagements numbered 53,
900 for tho army and 3,839 for the navy.
"Germany leads the world in aeronautics," says a writer, "and the
last year has only confirmed her supremacy ln the air. Her aerial fleet
consists of twelve dirigibles, systems Zeppelin, Parseval and Gross, while
there are fifteen other dirigibles in private hands susceptible of being re
quisitioned. The German plan is to act by methods of registration and
isubsidy; to prepare, as for the navy, the establishments and the means for
rapid construction and to aim in particular at increased speed so as to
obtain relative Independence of the weather. The successful trial of tho
Gross III., which made over 37 miles an hour on her trial trip on Dec. 31,
is a case In point.
"In many other directions there has been steady progress ln prepar
ing the army for war. The officers at the war school have been Increased
from 400 to 480. A. census of motor carriages has shown that there aro
41,727 of all classes available for requisition, and during the maneuvers
of last year great use was made of them and also of motor cyclists, who
will probably be formed Into special corps. Mobile field kitchens havo
given good results and will soon be in general use. Wireless stations are
being erected at various place?. The latest census of horses shows that
Germany possesses 4,345,000 horses of all sorts, Including 3,500,000 four-year-olds
and upward.
"It will be with young and highly trained men, aged from 21 to 27,
that the first great blow will be struck in case of war, and all attention
has been concentrated upon making the first echelon of the army as per
fect as human effort can compass. The record of the last year shows that
from almost every point of view the German army continues to receive
constant accessions of material and moral strength."
FAMILY APARTMENT HOTEL
Hluhl on the Job When the Hoard
Iiik Ilonae Went Into Decline.
When the boarding house died
What's that? You didn't know the
boarding house was dead? Oh, didn't
you? Well, you know, at any rate,
that It had gone Into a decline. Didn't
your landlady often tell you that the
boarding house business was not what
It used to be? Didn't she explain that
the reason she had to keep asking
you for the money you owed her was
that she didn't seem able to rent the
parlor suite and the see'ond-floor front,
and she didn't know bow she ever was
going to pay her next month's rent?
Such u nice gentleman, too, it was fh.it
had had the parlor suite last! lie had
been there for six years and
Well, anyhow, the boarding house
business is tlead, In the big eltles at
least. It died a lingering, painful
death, says William Juhnson in Har
per's Weekly, but it left an heir, n
vigorous, flourishing heir the family
apartment hotel.
lie not deceived by t he Imposing
array of taxlcabs that stands In front
of the boarding house's tuu-iessor. Be
not over Impressed by the hoy in but
tons who opens the door for you in
place of the slattern maid who u-ed
to come drying her hands to answer
the boarding house bell. Be- not be
guiled by the welcoming 'smile of the
courteous elerk who stands behlr.I
the near-mahogany desk, one artificial
potted plant three paces to the left,
and two pieces of imitation armor
overhead. Get a week behind with
your hotel bill and he will be as re
lentlessly on your trail aa your last
landlady was.
The family apartment hotel li the
tion, etc., to express itself ln some form of movement.
Do you know that you cannot think of a word without
starting to say it? A great many people cannot hear 'a
voeal solo without themselves lnclplently Blnglng with
the actual performer. That is why so many people have
a tired feeling in the throat after listening for several
hours to a chorus. Then again many a person on tho
bleachers finds himself preparing to strike the ball when
he Is especially eager lor a three bagger.
When we have a pleasurable feeling It Is not our toes
but the corners of our mouths that turn up. At tha
thought of food It Is not tears but saliva that begln9 to
How; it Is not perspiration but gastiio-julce that Is
formed In Incrensed quantities. This is a principle that
can be absolutely depended upon; every thought and
feeling Is expressed by some kind of movment, and ap
propriate movement at that.
IN ANCIENT CHINA.
By Eleanor P. Egan.
The power of the prince regent of China,
Tsai Feng, Is almost, if not quite, as aboslute
as was that of the great empress dowager.
In a set of laws governing the regency, issued
by the grand secretariat, appears the follow
ing: "The ordinances and ceremonies of the
regent are of the most august character,
and an Imperial edict should be requested
setting a time and designating officials to
make the announcement at the temple of ancestors. The
prince regent, also, should reverently receive his com
mission and seal before the sacrificial table of the great
empress dowager. The government of the na
tion, military and civil, the dismissal and appointment
of officials and their promotion and degradation are all
left to the determination and decision of the prince re
gent." The power of the new empress dowager of China,
widow of Kuang Hsu, will probably prove to be a neg
ligible quantity. She is not an empress mother, and
could therefore never hope to take the place left vacant
by her predecessor, even if she had the personal
strength and mentality of that great woman.
The only mention that has been made of her since
the,death of the emperor was In one of the laws gov
erning the regency, in which the regent is given per
mission to consult with her if be should ever have oc
casion to do so. But it is added: "Others shall not
arrogate this privilege to themselves and ask instruc
tions of the empress dowager, nor shall they presume
to transmit the same on their own authority." This
effectually annuls any power she might have hoped to
wield and makes of her a mere relict living out her
useless life in the narrow confines of the palace and
awaiting her turn to "take the fairy ride and aswend
to the far country." Everybody's Magazine.
"4000.000 Ready
tho fJprmnn nrmv lina 'jan rlui-inr
of all ranks and 111,820 horses. The
boarding-house heir. It has come into
its inheritance in Chicago, In Pitts
burg, in Denver, in New York, in Seat
tle, in San Francisco, in all the larger
cities. Hotel life is now the fashion.
Everybody who can afford It, and most
of those who cannot, lives in "hotels."
Those who don't dare live in them yet
because of the increased expense
want to.
X'aetl the Wrong Gender.
A Frenebman with an Imperfect
knowledge of English was once called
upon for an after dinner speech. He
struggled along manfully for a few
minutes, managing to turn one nr ti
good phrases. Finally he excused him-
seir rrom further effort by saying: "I
will no longer cockroach on your
time."
An Englishman sittine next to him
at the table remarked: "Your speech
was elooced clever, bah Jove But you
used the wrong word at the rlnm
don't you know? You should have
aid: "I will no longer hencroach un-
on your time.' "
"1 see," said the Frenchman. "I
used the wrong gender."
I'roof.
"What makes you so sure that they
are lrieuds of yours?"
"! once visited tlu-m without notice
fln.l found a framed portrait of my
f(if on their parlor table." Houston
Post.
MttniiluK Varaa.
"I started farming on a capital ot
II."
"I started on a package of free seeds
sent me by a Congressman." Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
A wise workman lets the boss hava
bis own may.