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DAKOTA CITY IIKKAM) OWES HER Women Inventors Praised for Great Many Useful Articles OMN H. M. Pi r.r N C T R A C ' A . THE BOY AND THE GUN. Each season brings tt own sport or pastimes, game or fatf for the boye. The autumn and winter are the sea cons when many boys hunt or shoot a great deal, says the Omaha Bee. This should be the time, then, for tbe reit eration of that old warning about the "Id Id nt-know-ltwas load ed" accident Boys should be careful with their shooting Irons, and never fall to know Whether they are loaded or not. Two boys were out shooting a few days tigo and one, thinking his gun was sunpty, aimed It at the other and pulled the trigger. The other dropped Bead. "I didn't know It was loaded." walled the one who killed him, echo ing the wall of scores of others who bad at sometime been as criminally Negligent as himself. No boy or man fcas a right to aim a firearm at an iDther person, and when he does It, whether harm comes of It or cot, ha jshould be made to feel that he has tfotie something he should not Par Ifcnts can well afford to deny guns and pUUAa to their boys until they hate reached such ages as will make them capable of realising their dangers. If they must have guns, they should be (cautioned against careless use of them. It sometimes seems trite to peak of warning boys against such things, but If they were warned often enough such distressing accidents Would be fewer. Pittsburg Is growing at a fairly rapid rate, but wants to Increase still more swiftly. That smoky town has an ambition to reach the 1,000,000 mark In population, and Is bending every effort In that direction. For one thing, Pittsburg Is pushing the project for a ship canal from that city to Lake Erie, by which it Is hoped to increase still further the already great Industrial activity of that district Other schemes Include a big rapid' transit system, with subway attach aents, bringing various points Into easier reach; educational and other expansion, and numerous Improve ments designed to increase the at tractlvenesa and convenience of the city and Its environs. And Pittsburg seems to have sufficient public spirit to carry out the great work suggested. The census figures continue to give Interesting results. Mention has been made of the fact that there are now in tne United States 60 cities with a population of 100,000 or more, a not .able gain In ten years, as there were but 88 such cities in 1900. Now the censua bureau, having compiled the returns, announces that there are In this country 19 cities with a popula tion reaching or exceeding 250,000. In 1900 there were 15 towns Included in that class. From this it appears that, while there has been marked gain in many cities, large and small, the proportion has been greatest among municipalities of moderate Ire. , Also they do some things better in Germany. A reckless chauffeur who killed an American woman when he ran into a crowd of theatergoers has been sent to the penitentiary for 16 xnonths. It is said that one of the prominent female colleges is going to Insist on .proficiency in spelling and writing In the students. This looks as If the higher education were meditating a return to the simple life. Some New York undertakers are said to be In league with preachers and sextons. It might be worse, aa there is no evidence offered that un dertakers are in league with doctors. It Is reported that there has been a revival of poetry In England. If tbe poets can manage to get through this "winter there may be a chanoe for some of them, after all. A New York boy Is to have a legacj of $10,000 provided he does not enter tbe ministry. Isn't that an awful pros peot for the average small boy to con template T The Massachusetts man who saws wood dally at the age of 100 finds that tie doesn't need any gymnasium ex crcise. That Chicago philosopher who ad vocates the eating of four meals a day srovides a long-awaited antidote to Brother Fletcher. A man In Maryland wants a divoroe Itecause he Is adfrald of his wife. Ap parently be considers his condition unique. A Frenchman, having taken th world's altitude record away from America, that nation is entitled to tbe honor of being the flightier. Poverty does nearly everything to a man except to take away his ap petite. A boy running to work in Philadel phia dropped dead. Infrequent cases til precipitancy la that town are usual ly fatal A French army aeronaut flew 100 xnlles in 70 minutes. There can be do question of tbe possible value of such speed and range to an army scout Many a brave man never get a chance to prove It, but is Just as well atisfled By JOHN D. TOTAL number of patents approximating 6,500 have Ixfn issued directly to women. Of these a bare dozen would come under the caption of "freak" inventions, and there is not a single product of the perpetual motion crank. Dearth of whimsicalities show that practicability is a characteristic of the woman inventor. Harriet Hosmer, famed as a sculptor, has invented the permanent magnet as a motive power. This is used in lifting large masses of metal. She also has discovered a method of transmuting limestone into marble. A A process of producing artificial tillet. Mme. Foppova has invented a authorities pronounce a success. It has from its peculiar construction. Mme. Do Condray was the inventor or. tne manikin, useful in the teaching of anatomy. The familiar ice-cream freezer was patented in 1813 by Mrs. Nancy M. Johnson. The model in the patent office shows that it has remained practically unchanged. Jeanette Towers invented the aquarium, and the Coston light so useful in maritime signaling at night, is named from its inventor, a Washington woman. Lady Amherst's patent spring collapsible muff has had quite a vogue among the ultra fashionables. Miss Madeline Edison,' who assists her famous father in his laboratory, has invented and marketed an automo bile map. Mary E. Walton's noise deadener, adaptable to elevated railways, and her smoke consumer, are both successful. The apiarist is indebted to Frances Dunham for the comb foundation for her bee hives, which so increases the saccharine crop. The essential feature of this invention is that all the cells are "worker" size. Sally Rosenthal's pocket sewing machine; Betsy J. Martin's asbestos suit; and Augusta Roger's engine, that dumps its clinkers from the rear on to the track; Maggie Knight's device for making satchel bottom bags, and the Burden hortt.ihoe machine shows a wide divergence in creative ideas. But they are all practicable. Syllabic types, a slate and also a typewriter for the blind, a process for concentrating ores, a machine for producing ozone, a car coupler and a car wheel, contrivance for heating cars, a beehive, the self-fastening but ton, a collapsible collar button, a life raft, a machine for making folding bags, and uuderglaze painting on potter', are a few of the inventions cred jted to women, each of which has contributed its mite to the progress of the race. The honor of a few epoch-making inventions has been conferred wrongly on men, if certain historians be correct. Notably is this true cf the cotton gin. These dissenters say that the honor of that great discovery Wife's Duty to Follow Her Husband By SAMUEL R. RICE rf Dearer suit was filed could not see the plaintiff's side and refused to grant a de cree. Instead he read the woman a lecture, saying it was a wife's duty to follow her husband and make her homo with him. The plaintiff instead of being deserted, had herself committed de sertion and hnd no real basis for bringing the action. Loud Church Bells Annoy Many Sick By OLIVER CLARENCE MALROSE "synagogue caller" has been dispensed with, as every Hebrew knows the exact hours when services are held. Why not dispenso with the tolling of stupendous bells which fre quently annoy tho unfortunate 6itk in their immediate vicinity and let thoso who wish to attend services advert to the clock or watch? Some Felines Not Disease Carriers the By MRS. S. S. KELLOGG They never see the outside of homes unless in harness or carefully guarded; must they, perforce, be banished from the face of the earth because the prowlers are dangerous? Will the learned doctor be a little fairer and discriminate between those that are dangerous and those that are not? It would seem, were these family pets to bo entirely eliminated, as if there would be a lack of the home environment of which poets have for so many years sung. Leave us a few just a little longer, doctor, for there an mmy among ns who love dogs aud cats und need tbem for friend WHITE marble was invented by Mme. Du- rudderless airship which competent been called the "annulatcd dragon" really belongs to Mrs. Catherine Greene, widow of Gen. Nathaniel Greene of revolutionary fame. They say that dread of the world's adverse comment and consequent loss of social caste induced her to assume the name of Mrs. Miller, which was used in connec tion with the patent. These same historins say that in 1817 Mrs. Ann II. Manning perfected a mower and reaper, thus anticipating McCormick's and Hus Bey's inventions by 17 years. Should a woman balk at the idea of living with her mother-in-law and carry her objection so far as to part with her husband on that account? She cannot in our community, at least, maintain a valid divorce suit on the ground of being deserted by her husband. Recently a Denver wife asked for a legal separation on the ground that her husband insisted that they make their home at his mother's. To this she would not agree, and the pair went their several ways. One of our judges before whom the The church bells whose tolling we .re so much accustomed to hear seem indis pensable for announcing the time of meet ings and church services. Among the Mohammedans, instead of tho bell, a man, a priest, stands on top of the temple to announce the time of service. Among tho Hebrews in little Kussian towns they formerly had "synagogue call ers" stentors whose main duty was to walk from street to street to call the people to the synagogue. Hut in modern times a clock or watch is found in every house and hovel, and the It is nothing new for any intelligent and thinking person to be told that the average prowling tlog and cat is not a safe compan ion for children .or a proper inmate of our homes, but the writer begs most emphat ically to take exception to the opinion of the learned specialist who places all of these faithful fireside companions under ban. Take, for instance, the beautiful Per sian and other fine breeds of cats which adorn so many homes these days and also are to bo found in many of the fine cat teries of the city. (III ST" Mr. William A. ludford will mmwer HiioBtlons and arlve advli'fl I'"HlCi OK COST on all subjects prrtalnlna; to the iitpct of building for the readers of tills paper. On account of hlR wide expe rience aa Kditnr, Author and Manufac turer, he In, without doubt, the hlirheit authority on all these subjects. Addrena all Inquiries to William A. Radford. No. 194 Fifth Avi., Chicago, 111., and only en close two-cent stamp 'or reply. The perspective and floor plan shown herewith illustrate a very ar tistic cottage designed In the western bungalow style. Five good sized rooms are provided, each one very well lighted. The arrangement pro vides for that convenience which has become typical of the weBtern bunga low style of houses. Many practical builders have said that the bungalow is a fad, no doubt good enough, It Is true, for southern California, or southern states, such as Florida and Louisiana, but in the main not suitable for practical build ing throughout the country at large. It has been affirmed that the coBt of the bungalow style dwelling is far in excess of that for the ordinary type two-story house, providing the same accommodations. The criticism against the bungalow have been due, not so much to the real characteristics of the style Itself, as to the overenthusinsm of its de votees who have advocated it for buildings for which it was never in tended. Designed originally for summer cot tage work and for spacious building sites, preferably of a hilly nature, there have been too many instances where this type of dwelling has been squeezed Into narrow city lots and put in between high two or three "4 1 t. 'i ... ;i a .M x ! .- .7 " . ,j -ml ft . .. t. . ,. :: t,-.rn-.u. ....vxA,..,. i X... . ...i,s .-v ' ? t story dwellings, mucb to tlie detri ment of the typical bungalow style. Much very peculiar art has been perpetrated In the name of the bunga low and it has to account for many freakish dwellings for which it is not In any way to blame. We have never happened to see a bungalow style office building nor do we remember of having heard of one; still, what is almost as bad, tbe bun galow style church is quite a com mon thing in many of our cities and suburbs. TheBe are uses never con templated by the originators of the bungalow in this country and should not be charged up against the style. The bungalow, rightly understood, is an artistically designed cottage, and within that sphere has some exceed- Floor Plan ingly creditable features of work to show. Simplicity and directness are the keynotes of this style as Illustrated in tho accompanying design. At a cost no greater than for the plain, unor nainented cottage with the same ac commodations, a real home-like, cozy and attractive dwelling is aecurod. The co hi is estimated at $2,000, aud without doubt in a good many loca tions it would not run as much as that. In any typical bungalow design the porch is sure to have a prominent place. This one is eight by twenty feet in size, forming not only the main decorative feature of the front of the building, but serving the ex tremely practical end cf being the outdoor living room for the family In summer weather. Entering the house, we lind a living room, 11 by 12 feet iu sl.e, connecting with a broad cased opening into the dining room which is 14 feet 6 Inches by 12 feet. Doth of these rooms are nicely lighted and provide the accommodations for the necessary furniture for convenient housekeeping. Tbe broad space In the dining room near the kitchen door Is Just the location which a built-in sideboard or buffet should have to be most convenient and ornamentally lo cated. Tbero are numerous stock de signs for built-in sideboards, as well as for other pieces of built-in furni ture which ran to had at very small cost. Ask your building supply deal er or building contractor to show you Kitchen & $xVooa I O.OJ.BT I fa irlVARADFORD - EDITOR the designs that can be furnished along this line at moderate cost The kitchen connects with the din ing room through the pantry, well supplied with built-in cases. This Is an arrangement that has been tested out in a great many houses and has been found to be very convenient and satisfactory. It serves to separate the kitchen from the balance of tbe house and so keeps out all the cook ing odorB, and at the same time the service between the kitchen and din ing room is Just as near as possible. The bedrooms in this cottage are very well placed. The front bedroom opens off the living room and is 10 by 12 feet in size. The large closet open ing off from this, lighted and venti lated by a good sized window. Is a feature that will be much appreciated by the housewife. The second bed room is In the rear of the house open ing off the dining room. It la 9 by 14 feet in size and has a good Bleed clothes closet. The exterior material for this bun galow cottage is rough boards stained with creoBote oil, which is a very ap propriate, economical and substantial material for this type of house. An artistic touch is given the gable end by means of cement plaster with board paneling. The attic space is large and is well lighted and venti lated by means of four good sized windows. Prospective builders will gain many good Ideas by the careful study of this perspective and floor plan. Drug Causes User to Sleep Standing. A mysterious eastern drug, the anal ysis of which has baffled the chem ists of this state and city for weeks. 4 Y i I , kw fa - M nas been discovered in large quant! ties in Boston by the New England Watch and Ward society, writes a Bos ton correspondent A chemist, who has studied Oriental drugs, is to undertake an analysis aft er Inoculating cats with the drug solu tion. ' The drug, which Is said to have been discovered at a number of places In this city, is believed to be the same as mentioned In the "Arabian Nights," and frequently referred to In the "Ve das" and In the "Zend-Avesta" and "Upanlchads." Agents o fthe society found the drug when on the lookout for the Illegal sale of the drugs. It Is of a brown ish tinge and not unlike a plug of to bacco In appearance. It Is said to be used both in smoking and by injec tion or internally in solution. Opium tests on animals make them lie down and go to sleep, but this drug causes the animal experimented upon to go to sleep standing up. The Tomblgbee. Kverv school child knows of the Tmj.itrii river, and yet hew few know from whence sprang the name or why. It la of Choctaw origin, but greatly changed from Its original t nritrinnllv it was known as 1 v l ill. -w iho "Tnm-bi Ik-bi:" this at the time when the tribe of Choctaws Inhabit- on th territory now embraced wun in the states of Alabama and Mlssis- cf.i a eentnrv and more ago a car nr.rt drifter that way, making his home among the Indians, and among other things he made rude boxes for burial purposes. Before he came the Indians were in the habit of plac ing the bodies of their dead on an ar bor supported by roles, but they grad ually adopted the white man's ways, and the carpenter made the boxes for them "Tom-bl." with the Indians, meant a box, and "Ik-bi" the maker, and the Indians added the word bok. which means a river, so that the lit eral meaning of the phrase Is The river where lives the man that makes boxes." The Anglo-Saxon disposition - - j m-nmiTirlfitlnn Rnon to rounu corner mi ihvu anglicized "Tom-bl IK-nr mro i blgbee." Mrs. Carnegie Is Charitable. Thm-itablB? Thu t hundreds. perhaps thousands, of charlUole acts uerformod by Mrs. Carnegie every vear of which her most Intimate friends have no nuuu8. young men ana u. '"7, harvest of tae wu.-u has bestowed upon them." "What are her hobbles her chlel interests?" waB the question asked by a reporter. "I believe," was a friend's thought ful reply, "that Mrs. Carnegie's hobby, If she has any, Is mnking people hap py. I think that nothing pleases her more than to be the means of doing some one some real good. That is Mrs. Carnegie as I, know her really a wonderful woman, as wife, mother, friend and a representative of the highest and noblest type of American womanhood." New York Evening Tel egram. First Newspaper Advertisements. Newspaper advertisements made their earliest appearance in 1652. MAYORS OF GERMAN CITIES Position Is Considered One of Honor, and Graft Is Rarely Heard of There. A public trust iu Germany, accord ing to Heinrich Theurer of Frankfort, is a public honor, and there are but few cases of graft known In the fa therland. "One of the principal requirements of a mayor in Germany." said Herr Theurer, who is a banker, "is unquali fied honesty, for in the municipal ad ministration of Germany graft in any form Is not tolerated; In fact, It Is un known. To become the mayor of a city like Berlin, the applicant must have established his reputation for ef ficiency by governing other German cities. His career is carefully scru tinized by tbe members of the town council, who select him, for not only must he be competent, and be able to perform successfully the duties of his high office, but also he must be young enough to remain competent for many years, for a mayor in Prussia is elect ed for a term of 12 years, and, if not re-elected after that period, Is entitled to a life pension of half the amount of his salary. After a service of six years his pension is one-fourth of his salary, and after serving 20 years, two- thirds. He need not be a resident of Berlin at the time of his appointment; In fact, the mayor is usually chosen from the residents of other cities. "The mayor is appointed by the town council, subject to the confirma tion of the king of Prussia," continued Mr. Theurer. "When it becomes known that the office of mayor is to be vacant applications for the position are considered by a corrmittee of the town council, and If municipal officers have made especially good records in other cities they may be requested to apply, If they have not already done so. After a thorough discussion of the merits of the various applicants, the appointments are made. "We regard the administration of a city from a strictly business stand point, the same as any other big en terprise. If industrial, financial and commercial concerns are anxious to secure the best managers to be had to take charge of their interests, Why should not a municipality do the same thing, when It is considered that the interests involved are so great and im portant and concern every citizen and tax-payer? The less politics in the public administration and more busi ness principles the better. Why don't you apply the same principles in America." Washington Herald. HEALTH MOVEMENT IN CITY Washington School Children Given Circulars Telling How to Pre vent Disease. s An elaborate health movement will be started in Washington, D. C, in the near future when more than fifty thousand children of the grade and high schools will be given circulars telling in simple language how to take care of themselves and prevent diseases to which, it has been found by investigation, school children are peculiarly subject. The movement will aim primarily to prevent diseases which are due mainly to neglect and bad habits. Co-operation between parents, chil dren, teachers, school officials and family physicians will be assured in this way, it Is hoped, with the result of a better physical juvenile Wash Ington. Furthermore, In endeavoring to obtain the co-operation of the fam ily physician, copies of the circular have been sent to more than one thousand members of the medical fra ternity of the district, with personal letters asking their aid in the move ment. The circulars, printed as they are In simple language, entirely free from technicalities, will form easy reading matter for the children. Because of the simplicity of the circulars. It is hoped by those who are interested in the movement that they will be "taiKea over, paragraph by para graph, and word by word, In sixty thousand homes. In spite of the fact that the keynote of the pamphlet is simplicity, the lat est scientific discoveries and data com piled on the prevention of disease have been embodied in the four pages of the circular. Combined Beauty and Utility. Paris, which knows how to charge travelers who are rich, and yet bring to Itself those who wish to live pleas antly and economically, has shown also how to maintain the most beau tiful park In the world and yet have It a source of revenue rather than ex pense, says Franklin Clarkln in Suc cess Magazine. It costs $142,000 year ly to maintain the Bols de Boulogne, a park of 1,530 acres. But it brings to the city treasury annually $180,000 in rents and concessions. There are better ways than this one of making public revenue from a city people like to go to, or live in. "Excess condem nation" is one of these and it is spreading. It means taking some what more land than Is required for a park'ur public-building site, uud al lowing the community generally to receive the benefit of the increased vtUue of abutting lnud. Cynical Florida Buck. Mr. B. Ueachham, .who recently re turned from the forest, among other trophies of tbe hunt brought back a pair of buck horns, and upon the ex treme poliit of each prong was the perfect, formation of a dog's bead. Mr. Beachnm's only reasonable conclusion Is that it la the result of a former ex citing chase. After having it exquis itely mounted he may present it to the Smithsonian institution at Wash ington. Orlando Reporter. The Nimble Penny. It Is estimated that on an average each penny in circulation changes hands eleven time a week. HEALTH To Lydla E. Plnkhairf Vegetable Compbund Rcottville. Mich." I want to tell yea how much good LydlaE.Pinkhnm's . ', '..-... .i Vegetable Com pound and isanauve Wash have done met I live on a farm and have worked very hard. I am forty five years old, and am the mother of thirteen children. Many people think it strange that I am not broken down with hard work and the care of my fam ily, but I tell them of my good friend, your Vegetable Compound, and that there will be no backacV) and bearing down paina for them ir they will taka it as i nave, i am scarcely ever wun out It in the house. "I Will saT also that I think there ia no better medicine to be found for young- glrla to build them up and make them strong and well. Mv eldest daughter has taken Lydla . link ham's Vegetable Compound for pain ful periods and irregularity, and it has m ways neipea ner. "I fem always ready and willing to cpoak a good word for the Lydia E. llnkham s Remedies. I tell every ona I meet that I owe my health and hap pImbs to these wonderful medicines' Mrs, J.O. JoHNBON,Scottville,lIlch., Lydia E.rinkhams Vegetable Corn- round, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotics or harm ful drags, and to-day holds the record for the largest number of actual cures of female diseases. OPINION NOT ALWAYS FINAL Pretty Safe to Say That Doctor's Diagnosis Was "Away Off" In This Case, The pretty daughter of a physician is engaged to a college student of whom her father does not altogether approve. His daughter Is too young to think of marriage, the doctor as serts; the college student is too young te think of it, likewise. It Is out of the question. She explained all this to her lover the other night. "Father says," she summed it up; father says, dear, that I will have to give you up." The young man sighed. "Then It's all over?" he murmured, with gloomy interrogation. And the girl laughed and blushed. "Well," she said, "well, you you know that when the doctor gives you up that's just the time for you to take mere hope. Isn't it sometimes that way?" Reboboth Sunday Herald. BLAME PHYSICIANS FOR GROWTH OF DOPE HABIT Druggists Say Prescriptions and Not Patent Medicines the Cause. New York. Blame for the prev alence and growth of the morphine habit was placed on the shoulders of physicians, who prescribed the drug, at a meeting of druggists here to night to protest against the recently enacted city ordinance prohibiting the ale at retail of any preparation con taining morphine or Its salts except upon a doctor's prescription. The ordinance is aimed primarily at paregoric and at stomach remedies, according to members of the board of health who were Instrumental in ob taining Its passage. Caswell Mayo, one of the druggists. Bald he had made a canvass by mall of several sanitariums and the replies convinced him 90 per cent, of the victims of drugs formed the habit as a result of using prescriptions given by physi cians and only 8 per cent, from using proprietary medicines. Careless and Cappy. We have undertaken to blend In one the best of the two proverbial conditions to be careless and happy, hairless and cappy. We are now hap py and cappy, and frequently careless as well. A pretty figure may be con jured up a figure in leaf-green satin veiled with rose and silver shot gauze. The dark hair Is covered by a sai lor's cap, point and all, worn flatly over the whole head, the point falling at the back. Instead of being made of scarlet cashmere, It is of the gauze, over silver tissue, and etudded with pink and yellow topaz, while it is bor dered with great gray pear shaned pearls, these, of course, hanging around the back of the neck and over the soft hair In front. We have taken to cap;! Careful Man. "Pretty careful, is he?" "Pretty careful. He left a partly smoked .cigar in my office the other day, and a little later sent his clerk around after it." RIIEWISQ Muuyou'i UbrumatlHm Remedy relieve pului lu tho leg, nua, bark, utter or twollea joints. 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