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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1906)
Dakota Cecity Herald Dakota, gxtt; xsaa. John H. Beano. - FtibBsher Every man has his price hut few jet It And you always get full measure Khch you acquire a peck of trouble. It will roon take an expert to dintln fulsh between a Russian, crista and a revolution. Paradoxically, a shortage In the Kentish hop field promises a jump In the price. The people of Ilelslngfora Insist that their town Isn't anywhere near as bad M It sounds. A painter has Just died leaving a for tune of 1200,000. Yet some folks insist here's nothing In signs. The small boy of Russia Is not being Inspired, these days, with the illusive Lope that some day he may be Czar. It la getting so that when two battle ships escape collision the circumstance Is worth a paragraph lu the news col umns. There are thousands of people In the country who would have been satisfied bad Russell Sage been a S'J5,000 uncle td them. James J. Corbett boa manoged to get Into the limelight again by licking a milkman. Treating hhn to a milk punch, as It were. The public Is beginning to learn some things about his nephews and nieces that Uncle Russell Sage doubtless knew When he made bis will. William Culleu Bryant once wrote an ode to a mosquito, beginning "Fair Insect" lie must have known that only ibe lady niosqulto lights upon man. Speaking of universal peace, Russia Is preparing to build bigger and heav ier battleships, and Japan Is experi menting with new and deadlier projec tiles. A sea cow, eighteen feet long, and "Which cost f2,000, has been added to tne New York aquurium. We suppose ft Is to furnish milk for the sea urchins there. A woman Is trying to get theatrical tnanagers to refuse to put on pieces which call for the appearance of girls In tights. We have no doubt that the managers will yield to her entreaties the moment such pieces cease to pay. In Denmark there Is a company that lpsures S'rls against becoming old maids. A girl who has to pay an un usually high premium over there may be Justified In refusing to believe the fellows who tell her she is beautiful. An Atlanta, Ga., man was arrested a few days ago for kissing his wife In public. This should be a lesson to mar ried men everywhere. Let the married maa limit bis public demonstration of affection to calling her "Pet" or "Baby." j An Eastern bard begins a poem thus: An anarchist was working Within a garret mean. This shows bow dangerous It Is for bnrds to sing of things concerning which they are Ignorant Anarchists don't work. A Chinese viceroy hns adopted the plan of keeping a group of Christians In Jail to pray for rain. As soon as the climatic conditions are favorable be lets out one lot and takes ou another against the next dry spell. A few weeks of .wet weather ought to be a great Christianizing influence in that prov ince. A woman lecturer at tl University of Wisconsin the other day culd to an audience composed of members of her own sex: "We are never golug to bo free so long as we wear petticoats. Woman must wear a gymnasium-like costume if she wishes to gain ber free dom." Is there to be a renaissance of the bloomer. The spoiling of sous by wealthy fa thers is peculiarly a habit of the newly rich. Where money has longer been In the family, the possession of a few mil lions does not constitute an Irresistible temptation to rush out and make a swine of one's self. But the sudden for tunes of the past few years of blessed prosperity have confessedly (ujmed out a crowd of vapid and worthless and Lelplessly rich young men. One of the construction tlrms engaged In rebuilding San Francisco engaged a large quantity of Portland cement to be delivered this mouth at the rate of a thousand barrels a duy. Delivery at that rate for forty two days would have exhausted the entire production of ce ment In the United States In 18S0. Last year, however, 31,OOi,00 barrels were produced, and only tho other doy a Kansas City company began to build a plant for Its manufacture that will turn out half a million barrels a year. When concrete houses Income popular the de mand for Portland cement will Increase to such an extent that every man who has a bed of argillaceous limestone on bis farm will have a fortune waiting at bis hand. During the fiscal year, ended on June 30, the national government had a surplus of receipts over exjiendlturc amouutlng to more than twenty-live million dollars. During tho preceding year there wus a deficit of nearly tho eume amount. In ltxW-04 there was also a deficit but It would have been less than two millions If the expenditures bad not Included a sum of forty million dollars paid for the Panama CuuaL The United States, unlike most govern ments in this respisi, does not vary Its taxing system from year to year ac cording to tho demands that are to be made on the treasury. There has been bo change in the tariff on Imports since 1S07. Only the tariff of 1S1A which was in force eleven years, has had a longer life than the Dlngley tnrllT. Nor has liny Important nmcndinent hern made In the Internal revenue system since the repeal of the taxes in, posed to pay tho expenses of the Spanish war. The result of having n fixed system of rev enue, the proceeds of which fluctunto as the country Is prosjiernus or other wise, and of making appropriation without knowing bow large tho rwelpts are to be, is that the government has sometimes a large surplus, and again a deficit Immense receipts for customs In consequence of an unprecedented Importation of foreign goods caused the surplus of the past year. Expendi tures were large, bnt the tariff yielded more than three hundred million dol lars, and Internal revenuo receipts also Increased, although not so largely as customs. No longer ago than last De cember a deficit was anticipated, but In the last six months tho revenue poured Into the treasury In unexpected millions. Child labor laws seem to fall because legislators do not distinguish carefully between the thing to be accomplished and the means to accomplish It There Is no doubt whatever that legislatures can fix the minimum age at which chil dren may be allowed to work, but In carrying out the purpose of the laws they make, they must be sure that they treat all children alike. The certifica tion of age must be obtainable by all. Child labor laws, so far as their ex ecutive provisions go, have been fash ioned too much after the laws of Euro pean countries. It Is very easy In those countries to obtain certificates of age, because they all preserve vital statis tics. Every child born Into the world Is properly recorded, and at any time tho date of his birth can le obtained. In this country vital statistics have not been kept until very recent years. Here the States manage these matters to suit themselves. Tho births of some children ore recorded and of others not. Any law that requires a certificate based upon record must necessarily dls criminate ogalnst those whose births are not a matter of record. The Penn sylvania law has been declared uncon stitutional because It so discriminated. Other laws have met similar fate for the same reason. What are needed are provisions that will conform to tho con ditions obtaining In this country. There Is no doubt that a minimum age can be fixed by law. There ought to be some way by which evidence of age can bo established that will apply to all alike. This is the problem to be solved, and its solution may lie In tho general In stitution of vital statistics. The courts have not Indicated such a solution, they being satisfied simply to declare tho de fects In laws enacted. Tho lawmakers must discover bow to" solve this prob lem and no doubt they will. The Ilealln Power or Sunlight. Thero have been sun-worshipers through all the ages, and tho sun has always been recognized as the source of life and light, of health and happi ness on the earth. Yet it Is only re cently that science has found the ex planation of this world-feeling, and has learned how and why the light of tho sun is life-giving and life-saving. It is only within tho last quarter of a cen tury thut the medical profession has discovered that the cause of tho great plagues of mankind consumption, ty phoid fever, pneumonia, cholera, small pox, yellow fever, and all the infec tious and contagious diseases Is duo to the presence within tho human body of micro-organisms. These organisms constitute tho lowest forms of animal or vegetable life single cells, luvlsiblo to tho naked eye, which are reproduced with frightful rapidity when sown on a favorable soli. By Itself the kuowledge of this fact would cause despair if there were noth ing to arrest the Increase of the germs. But fortunately Is was found at the same time that there are forces in man and In nature warring against the mi nute enemies, and that one of the most powerful of such protectors Is the light of tho sun. It la now known that sunlight Is one of the most indent of all the destroyers of disease-germs. It kills them more certainly than do tho strongest disin fectants. The bacteria that cuuso pneu monia, for example, are destroyed with in less than an hour when exposed to the direct rays of tho sun, and live but llttlo longer In the diffused light which fills a room ou a bright day. This knowledge has Doen turned to practical account In tho treatment of many diseases, escclally of tho skin and superficial parts of tho body. In lupus, for example, which Is a form of tuberculosis of the skin, a positive euro may result from exposure of tho dis eased part to tho direct rays of the sun. Tho healing of wounds Is promoted by light; and bolls, erysipelas and va rious lutluminatlons of the skin have been cured by tho same means. The curative effect Is sometimes obtained by simple vxposuro to direct sunlight but the best results me brought about by means of lenses which concentrate the chemical rays and exclude those of heat. Youth's Companion. A l.ullrry, Dr. Plmkcr Take tills prescription; it will either kill or cure you. Patient liut suppose It kills me? Dr. Plmkcr Nothing ventured, noth ing gained.' My motto Is, 'No cure, no pay,' so I'm taking a chance as well nu you." Philadelphia I-edger. Dou't feel complimented when some one tells you that you look comfortable in hot weather; You probably look touchy. Mathematicians come uuUer the cap tloo of figurehead. Every visitor to Tarls Is Interested In the -Bourse de Commerce, or old Corn Exchange, and the fluted Doric column relic of Marie de Medici's palace. From here It Is a step to the Bank of France, with precious cellars stocked with dia monds and bullion carefully guarded. Then comes the garden of the 1'alals RoyaL Where Is the splendor always associated with this romantic name? Here Is revealed a tragedy of departed g!ory. There Is a promenade beneath small shade trees; there Is a basin of water which does service as a foun tain ; there are one or two flower beds. There are sculptures, too, and In the afternoon, when the baud Is playing, the court takes on somewhat of a fes tive air. But by morning light, when nearly deserted, It Is djcary enough. Tic? trinket shops around its borders show cheap and tawdry wares. Tho enff s which occupy the second floor are good for their Inexpensive kind. Here Is the entrance to the old vaudeville theater of the Palais Royal. In the garden are occasional benches. It would be Interesting to stay until noon when the little cannon placed behind the fclatue of Eurydice Is fired automatical ly by means of a burning glass. An essential clement In tho charm of Paris Is the abundance of flowers. The larger flower markets, nt the Madeleine, lu the Place do la Repuhlhjuo and on the Qua! aux Fleurs,. are supplemented by the flower kiosks scattered at Inter vals along tho boulevards, by tho big baskets of blossoms which one sees car ried on the backs of men and women porters, by the bouquet: of flower girls, nnd tho gorgeous window boxes which light up by day tho Avenue do 1'Opera, the Rue Royale, and tho Rue de la Pu!x. I'aquln's windows fairly flume with living color. The maples In the gardens of the city have "put their corals on." The lilacs wave their pur ple plumes. The acacias are all out In bloom, and the chestnut trees along the Avenue des Champs Eiysees have' lit their "mimic chandeliers." Flowers are so cheap that anybody can afford to buy them, and almost everybody does. Many countries havo contributed to the splendor of thot palatial edifice of art and pleasure, tho Opera House. Marbles from Italy, from Spain, from Scotland and from Sweden embellish it, from Finland even, and from far Alge ria. In front of It grent bronze enn delobra stand. Tho facade Is beautiful, nnd there arc Interior glories of red nnd gold, of mirrors, starry ceilings, spark ling with rows of lights that look like strings of Jewels. Many tourists lunch at the restaurant of the Elfel Tower. Tho view is fine and tho ascent easy. Tho visitor can walk up the 729 steps to the second landing, but It costs as much as It does THE FIRST CURIOUS MACHINE INVENTED BY A FRENCHMAN IN 1770. The first automobile offers a wonderful contrast to those In use to-day. Th's first motor was the Invention of a Frenchman, N. J. Cugnot, In 1770, and were It not for the French Revolution, which turned men's minds away from this form of mechanics, Cugnot might have anticipated George Stephenson, the father of the steam locomotive. , Cugnot's machine consisted of a wooden chassis, with three wheels. The boiler, a kettlelike contrivance, was In front, and the single forward wheel was driven by two cylinders.' The steering arrangement was not unlike that of the present day. This curious machine still exists and is now lu one of the museums of Purls. MODERN VENUS OF MILO. I.ndr U-atrlee Polr-Carew, Eg lnnd'a IHual llcitut If ul Woman. Ever since its discovery on the Gre cian Island of Melos, In IS-'O, the statue of the Venus of Mllo has stood for the e m b o d I m e n t of womanly grace and beauty. The face Is Intellectual, the row serene, the fig ure js't-fect It Is tho "perfect woman, i nobly planned." It typifies not only youth and beauty, iadv LAiif.u. hut womanliness, strength nnd repose. Naturally, nny woman would like to have tho grace, dignity, and beauty typlhVd In this statue nnd no higher compliment can be paid to a woman than to say sho resembles the Venus of Mllo. And this Is the compliment paid to Lady Beatrice Pole-On rew, the most beautiful woman in England. Lady I'ole-Oarcw Is called "the modern Venus of Mllo." Her lxauty Is world famous. Her features are almost classically per fect and her likeness to the Grecian statue, now in the louvre, Paris, Is ap parent when the two faces are com pared. Oh, Vault? of Vnalllpil "Wo carry lots of women dear to the top floor or at least several floors up and then they take the next ele vator dowu without going three steps away from the elevator," declared tho j operator of one of tho "lifts" iu a big 1 ollice building yesterday, I "No, it isn't because they like to rtde In the elevator particularly. Why do they do it? To get the use of the mir m i 44 to take the elevate:, which Is of Ameri can moke. The upper half of the way Iim elevators of a French company. It Is the highest monument lu the world, nia'-ly twice as high as the Washington eo'nmn at our own capital, but little is said about the magnificent reaches of Its base. Underneath It Is a good sized park, with fine trees In It and a lake. Versailles seems stupid after Purls. Dull houses in a deadly town, n heavy palace, and a garden most solemn throi gh the evidences of Its frivolity. The show places of Versailles oppress by their artificiality. Horrible to find geography, geometry, astronomy work ed out laboriously In hedges, to see tree dliitorted out of all their beauty lu u degenerate effort at a new effect of opulent magnificence, and all of It glaring In the noonday sun. This Is the impression which Versailles makes, un til the tourist has visited the palace and is lost In Imaging mentally all the splendor of Its long ago, the formal cer emony of the reigns of Louis XIV. and XV., tho courts of Malntenon and Du burry, of Marie Antoinette and her friv olous ladles, who knew no better than to dauce and sing and play at living while the people starved. Then the cu riously elaborate surroundings seem more reasonable, more In keeping. And when the visitor enters Into tho deep recesses of the wood and hear tho nightingale singing tho nightingale which they say slugs not of sadness but of joy in a newborn consciousness of love where Is found n statue hidden in a dell, or a silent fountain which, could It speak, could tell such Interest ing stories of the past, then it is real ized that old Versailles Is quaint and lovable. Leaving Paris for Rouen, a tunnel Is traversed, cut right through the old fortifications of Paris. Cllchy is pass ed, and Colombes, tho Malsons La fitte, where many of the wealthy finan ciers of Paris live. Next conies Paissy, tho birthplace of St. Louis. The train dashes through many little towns along the Seine, with alluring vistas through tho foliage. At Vernon Is seen the ruin ed castle which Philip Augustus built. Fiur.lly, near Rouen, on a bill rising from the Seine, la tho pilgrimage ehurcb of Bon-Secours, where stands tho well-known statue of Jeanne d'Arc, which depicts her in armor, with hands folded, posed beneath the vaults of a pavilion. There Is little of Interest between Rouen and Dieppe. Tho road traverses a cheerful nnd pretty district, where factcries are scattered over tho nearer view. In the Journey tha river Seine Is crossed twenty-two times liy actual count. There follows tho night voyage on the channel, and next morning the tourist reaches the hospitable shores of "Merry England." AUTOMOBILE, rors, of course. See those mirrors on either side of the elevator? That's what attracts them. A bit of wind will strike them as they turn the cor ner by the big building nnd then they Imagine that their hair Is badly disar ranged and make for the nearest mir ror, which Is lu the elevator." Cleve land Plain Dealer. Ilia "WurklriK Clolhea." "I want to get a suit of working clothes," said a man iu a clothing store to the salesman who came forward. "Step tills way, sir," politely rescind ed the salesman, and the prospective customer went to the rear of the store, where there were huge piles of jeans and blouses and suits varying in price from three to ten dollars. "Tbiso won't do," the customer de clared. "I want n dress suit." "I thought you said you wanted working clothes," ventured the sales man. "So I dlil." the customer calmly iv siHHidcd. "That's the kind of clothes I work In. I'm a musician at the the ater." JuMt Yauii). "What tt funny smile she has : What makes her mouth twist around to one side? Some sort of facial paralysis, I suppose." , "No, she's got n gold tooth on that side, that's all." Philadelphia Press. People have had so many unfortun ate and disagreeable exitcrleuccs with agents that it's a wonder they don't watch themselves every time a new one appears. When a woman bluffs she seldom has anything Ix-tter than u lnb tall flush, but It takes a mighty brave mau to "call" ber. Mm J - a 10. on In ten years there will hardly be enough big game In the West to tempt a hunter to take down bis rifle pro vided the present rate of slaughter 1 maintained. From the Western States that have long been famed as the haunts of big game of all descriptions come stories of flagrant disregard of laws. Hunting Is carried on out of season by ranchmen, and, If a game warden makes an ar rest It Is almost Impossible to And a jury that will convict. An occasional outsider Is fined, but the "native" gen erally gets off scot-free, even If he has been caught with a wagon load of Ille gally slaughtered game In his posses sion. In the last haunt of the elk, south of Yellowstone I'urk, In the Jackson Hole country, those noblo animals, are fast disappearing. Even the game of Yel lowstone National Park Is not exempt, If stories from Wyoming nnd Montana ! arc correct ns It Is claimed that poach ers carry ou a campaign of wholesale slaughter In the long winter months, , when tho park Is snowbound nnd when It Is practically Impossible for soldiers j to guard tho great game preserve of the nation. In the Northwest little or no atten tion is paid to laws protecting those rare animals, mountain (fonts; while In Colorado and other Rocky Mountain States, whose peaks are the grazing ground of tho mountain sheep, those beautiful animals an being killed off In spite of a farcical "perpetual closed season." "N Less than a decade ago a man could get all kinds of deer bunting in Colo- ; rudo ; and u score of years ago the buf falo were still rooming the plains east of the Rockies. But to-day the deer is getting almost as rare as the buffalo. The elk long ago left Colorado's moun tains tfud drifted north Into Wyoming, where bands of them are still to be fcund In Jackson's Hole. But the laws j of Wyoming, while "making It hot" for ' any outsider w ho kills elk out of sen- i onn nra InnfYnnnnfa n'hnn mif t atlon ngolust the native hunter. It Is the Western ranchman who Is doing most of the illegal killing. It Is Im possible to convince the average ranch er that ho Is not privileged to go out anC get "fresh meat" whenever be wants It, regardless of game laws. The deer or elk como down to his very fences In winter, and there Is littlo chance of discovery if one of the ani mals is killed. Even If a stray gaino warden happens along and puts him un der arrest, there Is little to fear, as a Jury Is pretty sure to be made up of ranchmen who are all tarred with the same stick. So the game hog gets off free and goes on with his work of slaughter In season and out Even the setting aside of government forest reserves and parks bus done lit tle to stop tho slaughter of game. In the summer, when the reserves are pa tiolcd by rangers, and when Yellow stone Park Is guarded by soldiers, there is little or no Illegal killing done. But . in the winter, when there are no ran gers In the reserves, and when tho snowbound roads make It Impossible t foi the soldiers to patrol the big park on. There are two big forest reserves j adjoining Yellowstone Park the Teton , resorve and the Yellowstone reserve. I Both are alive with game, as Is the park Itself. A limited amount of game can be killed In the reserves, In season, In conformity with the game laws of Wyoming, but the season In the park la always closed. No firearms are ad mitted Into the park, save those car ried by the soldiers. If one insists on carrying n gun Into the park he must have It sealed. But all these rules and regulations cut little figure In the eyes of the skill ed and experienced poachers who llvo in the vicinity of the park. These men do no killing In summer or autumn. They make their $" a day as guides for hunting parties of Easterners. But in the winter, when the snows are deep and tho tremendous winter of the Yel lowstone country has set In, they get v ry busy. On snowshoes these poach ers find It easy to enter tho forest re serves and the park, nnd to kill all the gr.nie they want. Magnificent elk, deer and other game fall before their rifles. If a lonely soldier sights the poachers lit work, the chances are he pays no at tention, for the reasou that it would only result In his own death. In addition to the work of the white game hog, many of the Western States have troubles with wandering bauds of Indians, that carry on Indiscriminate slaughter of game These Indians have no business olf their reservations, but many of the agents tlnd it !niiossihic to keep their Wards within the lioun darles prescribed by the government. Tbe Uintah Ute Indians, who have a ( reservation In Utah, make pilgrimages j to the devr country In Northwestern I Colorado, and they spare nothing in their long hunt. Bucks, docs and fawns all fall before tho rifles of the red men, , and by the time the State authorities or uoiorudo arrive on the scene, the In dians are back In Utah, with their 'Jerked meat" and tuelr loads of buck akin. Apparently, the forest reserves are the only hope for partial preservation QAn 111 Erv Kill of wild game. With the reserves der heavy patrol, winter as well Un as siiinmer, and with stringent govern ment laws for the punishment of of fenders, there would be some hope of saving America's wild game heritage from the gnme bog. But as matters stand to-day the outlook Is discourag ing, and the hunting country tlint was once regarded ns the finest In the world promises to hold nothing but memories foi the huntsman. St. Louis Globe Democrat ONCE NEARLY STARVED. Now Oka, llrro of Nanahaa, la at Head of Japaaeae Army. Baron Oku, w ho succeeded Geu. Ko dama as the head of tbe Japanese army, Is C2 years old. After receiving a collegiate educntlon be entered the army at the age of 27. and In 1S77, when a major, he found himself In com mand of the Emperor's forces In Kania moto Castle, In southern Japan, during the Satsumn rebellion. After being nearly starved he' led a desperate sortie, cut his way through the rebels and joined the Imperial relieving forces. For this act of valor he was promoted nnd decorated. After the declaration of war against Russia in 1904 Japan hurled four great armies against tho enemy In Man churia. One of these, under Gen. Nogl, 1 GEN. BARON OKU. besieged and took Port Arthur. Of the other three, which repeatedly engaged Kuropatkin to tho north, Oku com auded the one which landed near Dalay and swept up the Llaotung pen insula. Another, which landed In Korea, cleared the enemy from the Yalu river and united with Oku nt Lio ynng, wns commanded by Gen. Tanie moto Kurokl, whose desperate attempt to flank Kuropatkin forced the Rus sians back ou Mukden but failed to bag the enemy. The fourth commander was Gen. Miiiiitsura Nodzu, a hero of the China war, who swung his army north ward from Takushan, west of tho Yalu. These four generals operated In har mony under the direction of Field Mar shal Marquis Oyaina and Ills great chief of staff. Gen. Baron Kodama, who superseded him as supreme head of tho army on April 1 of this year, and whose death recently made way for the pro motion of Gen. Oku to the head of the general staff. Gen. Oku, who before the nrrival of Oyania and Kodama, operated alone, won a series of half a dozen brilliant i'-torles, beginning with the bloody tile of Nnnshnn Hill, steadily beating Kuropatkin back for 250 miles, until joined by the other three armies. He never lost a fight. At Nanshan, Kai plng, Tehllsz, Tashiachou and Hatching he whipped the Russians out of the trenches. Humor na a Study. Can the sense of humor be cultivat ed? I think If a boy with the literal di rectness of a small Briton, the despair of his humorous father. A systematic course was begun. In the hope that the child's life might be broadened and brightened. Each week one or two even ings were devoted to a careful explana tion of the Jokes as they appeared In three of the humorous weeklies of tho better class. Tuns were avoided, as ' 1 i'-CaUcafo Tribune. they were more easily deie.'ted and, often enjoyed, while the fattier had no, desire for a punster son. At first the evenings were strenuous, disliked by; 1k)11i; to the humorous side, fo potent to the onlooker, father and son nllke' were oblivious. But nt 25, while be lf( not an original Joker, none can excel this young man In the case and quick ness with which he detects a hiddenv meaning. The initiative seems not d he granted him, but a fund of enJoy! ment Is his which undoubtedly wouli have been lost but for bis consistent training. Good Housekeeping. BRILLIANT WOMAN AUTHOR. Mra. Pearl Tragic Waa One of th Moat Popular Novellata. The sudden death of Mrs. Tearl' Cralgie, better known under the pen' nameof John Oliver Hobbes, In LondoV recently removed one of the brilllanf novelists of the day.! Her demise was to-! tally unexpected,' she having been flp parently iu the best of health when sh retired the evenlnj previous. Sho was found dead in bed,' having evidently passed away while UBS. PEARL CBAIOIE asleep. Heart dls-; b wus me cuuse. i Mrs. Cralgie was an American, al though she had resided for a g-p many years In England. She wns th daughter of John Morean Richards and was born in Boston 38 years ago. Shi' was a near relative of the famous Flel family. Her father was wealthy am i. i . . . . i i ub was giveii ev;ry euucaiiouni huvuu tage. She traveled extensively abroad and -took courses In classics and philo sophy In London. When 19 she was married to Reginald Walpole Craigfe, an Englishman of good family who waa a clerk In the Bank of England. Their' married life was unhappy. In 1S95 sha' brought suit for divorce in a London court, alleging shocking brutality oil his part, and procured a decree, wlta the custody of her son. The name of John Oliver Hobbes flrsl; Appeared appended to a short novel called "Some Emotions nnd a Moral,' In 1891. The sharp cynicism nnd high flavor of the book gained Instant recog nition for the writer. It wns nt first supposed that the author was a man., Not until some time afterwards did Mrs. Cralgie reveal her Identity. "Thej Sinner's Comedy," a second story along the same lines, and "A Bundle of LIfe"i followed, gaining wide favor. 'The Gods, Some Mortals and Lord Wicker sham" attracted much attention, as did another of her popular successes, "The School for Saints," brought out In 1897.J Her last novel, published In 1905, was "The Flute of Tan." Mrs. Cralgie was! also the author of several plays, the most successful being "The Ambassa dor." She likewise wrote many bril liant essnys for different periodicals. Mrs. Cralgie was a woman of most engaging personality. She wns hand some, slight In physique and always Impressed the visitor as a woman ot grent mentality. Her literary style wai distinctly masculine. She was a fre quent visitor to this country nnd al ways took a deep interest In affairs per taining to her native laud. Her home in London was a center for the literary lights of the day and she was a leading spirit among them. ACTIVE AT 100. Ilvv. Wllllnni Howe, One of New Kiiulniitl'a Oldeat ( li'rit) men. One of the oldest uctlve clergymen la the United States is Rev. William Howe, of Boston, who recently rounded out his one hun dredth year. Born In Worcester, he early determined on entering the minis try, u n d chiefly through his own ef forts he secured his education. After his theological course he entered the Bap tist ministry nnd iiev. wm. howe. for nearly three-; quarters of n century has been active ly at work. He founded In Boston the Union Baptist ' Church, now Tremont Temple Church, one of the most noted of that persuasion In New England., He also founded In Cambridge the Broadway Baptist Church. Dr. Howe has been a forcible and convincing speaker, nnd even now, In spite of the handicap of advanced years, be gives evidence of his early ability ns an ora-t tor, for he still preaches on occasions. It Is the easiest thing hi the world to puncture n pneumatic ldimv-all. A J - . i , . J