Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NEB
JOHN H. REAM, Publisher.
fiome ami are tumble to save money
, because they haven't nny to practice
on.
A New York woman caught a burg
lar and bugged hlra until be surren
dered. What a chump he was to sur
render! . Berlin to to have a world's fair In
1013. We get notice In plenty of time
to that we can begin saving our
money.
How many of us, If our Income
amounted to CS cents a second, like
Rockefeller's, would ever forget to
wind tho clock?
Mr. Carnegie wants to know why
millionaires don't laugh. Probably It
Is because they can't sec where there
la any money In It.
There to some satisfaction to the
country la having a man Uko Mr. Car
negie who can tell Wall street what he
thinks of it without swearing.
To the question where the milk came
from In the milky way, It might be ob
aerved that It probably came from the
cow that Jumped over the moon.
It la said that the new portrait of
the President to not like him. Noth
ing but a moving picture of the Presi
dent will tok Batural to most people.
Hereafter when some long-winded
member ef the Don ma gets the floor
his colleagues wMt no doubt cast anx
lous glances at the ceiling from time
to time.
Montreal' fclrth rata la higher than
that of aur other American city. If
tha President finda It out be Is likely
to become a advocate of Canadian an'
uexatlon.
Scteottota claim that when tha tern
pet attire to down to aero there la still
considerable heat present But, of
course, there to no law compelling you
to believe It
A BaJtasnore physician says people
may live to be 100 years old by doing
way with hats. But so many people,
including Baltimore physicians, find
hats convenient to talk through.
"When, yea feel a brainstorm com
Ing on," advises on exchange, "slip the
cartridges out of reur gun." That ad
vice la all right for the man who can
not con One himself to shooting off hla
mouth.
In a Vamdorgrlft (Pa.) akatlng rink
' a 200-pound woman tell on a man and
t rushed hla to, death. Even a man
who to so fooltoh aa to spend hla time
t a akatlng rink ought to know
( enough to steer dear of a 200-pound
woman. '
In America the button and in Scot-
land the "bawbee" have long furnish
ed to parsimonious hypocrites a means
of defrauding the contribution plate.
Now a rival has risen In Edinburgh, In
the form ef imitation coins made from
pasteboard, and silvered or gilded.
They were put out aa souvenirs In
packages of candy toy money for the
children to play store with. Two or
more clergymen have written to the
&wapapers to complain that the prac
tice of false giving by means of the
toy glna to becoming common. In .this
country it la a legal offense to manu
facture imitations of coins.
The spreading of disease by Insects
Is now proving to be much more com'
moo than was believed to be the case
but a year or two ago or even a few
months ago. The greatest attention
has hitherto been given to those dis
eases wherein the Insect acts the part
of a ascondary host In which the para
alto undergoes some kind of change
not possible to man malaria, yellow
fever, fllarla, Texaa fever, etc. It la
interesting to And Increasing attention
being given to the possibility of the me
chanical transmission of Infective or
ganUnns from man to man by means
of the commoner Insects, flies, bedbugs,
roaches and fleas. There la no reason
able doubt that in recent wars flies
were responsible for the transfer of ty
pbold bacilli to foods which were not
screened.
There Is a "Minted money" of the
church and it to the kind that Is whee
dled out of people through their appe
tites and their vanities. Men ore the
worst offenders In this respect Women
will make the little sacrifices that are
really great It was a woman, be It
remembered, who gave the symbolical
mite. But a man who has to have bit
stomach and hla purse appealed to by
the thoughts of a "chicken pie dinner
in the parlor of the church" at a bar
gain, who baa to be cajoled Into lay'
lug his offering oa the altar by a pret
ty girt whose finishing coquetry Is
stage soubrette's apron, has little re
ligion la his soul. It Is the women of
a church who devise wondrous schemes
for making money In which they do
many things which are personally re
pugnant to their gentle and refined
natures. And these schemes are all to
"work" -man when he will not do bis
straightforward duty In the matter of
rollglous contributions.
. In few respects do Americans seem
more extravagant to the average Eu
ropean than la the large use of Ice for
cooling purposes In Summer, and In the
elaborate measures to warm tbel
, houses -lu wluter.V Tbs Engllsbma
complains that the buildings In this
country are overheated. An American
passing a winter In England finds the
houses, both la city and In country, un
cotnfortubly cold. Habits of long
growth, founded oa economic condl
tlons there nnd here, account for thl
difference of view. Many of the na
tlves of Uruguay, in South America
suffer untold discomfort from living up
1 to their belief that the artificial heat
lug ef Louses is Injurious to health, la
damp, chilly- weather they get along
without the relict' that a little Are
might give. Among the desperately
poor In the Northern States of thla
country case have been known where
family would remain In bod during
an extraordinary cold day, If they hod
no fuel, or wished to economize the lit
tle they bud. Good food helps man
as well as domestic animals to resist
the cold. Substantial clothing and Well
built bouses, carefully protected against
the high winds, greatly lessen one's de
pendence on fuel. Brisk bodily activ
ity also contributes to the same end.
Ventilation often becomes a serious
matter. Although cold air Is not nec
essarily pure, nor warm air necessarily
foul, It Is In the main true that fresh,
outside air Is cold. Its Introduction
under any plan that can be devised
lowers the temperature, and to raise
It again Involves the use of more fuel.
Ventilation Is a luxury, but It Is one
that adds so mightily to bodily health
and mental vigor as to be well worth
Its cost
We have assigned different ofllces to
the two hands greeting, hand-shaking,
writing, drawing, painting etc., to
tho right; eating, horse-curbing, card
playing, gun-holding and certain strlct-
"sporting" uses to the left while
ily plano-playlng has offered equal ex
ercise for both hands. The necessity
a new order of t bines has been
emphasised chiefly In the development
or art Instruction In the schools. . In
writing, drawing, painting and model
ing in the German schools the pupils
are said to employ the right and left
hand alternately. The training Is be
lieved to be a great boon to all, espe
cially to the left-banded child, who Is
no longer to be regarded as an ab
normal being, forced to do everything
clumsily with the left hand. Even
with right-banded children the move
ment Is toward well-rounded, symmet
rical development and In the direction
or increased control and usefulness of
the body. It Is a fact that every Dart
of the body which Is not exercised for
many generations becomes., through
disuse, first Inactive, then useless and
nnaiiy superfluous. It stroDhles and
decays. In time, If we persist In the
general disuse of the left band, we
must becomes a one-armed race, at
least scientists say so. Though we
have all the necessary muscles for
moving the ears no one who has not
acquired this charming faculty In early
cnuunooa is able to wiggle them. In
the same manner we have become so
accustomed to using the right band and
neglecting the left that unless modern
pedagogy Interferes, humanity la in
danger of losing Its left hand. Peo
ple who have made a close study Into
mis curious subject declare that the
atrophy of the left arm has aliwadv
made Itself clearly manifest In in-
rants. Kignt-bandedness or left-band-edness
csn be detected Immediately af
ter birth, proving the tendency to be
the result of physiological conditions
and hereditary. Ambidexterity la, of
course, the Ideal attainment for many
more reasons than one. The keenest
mental activity la as necessary to the
skillful use of both hands aa the most
exact knowledge of the smallest de
tails of writing, or drawing, and the
moral of the whole matter la that in
everything that one does, whether with
me ngnt or lert Band, mental exercise,
the observing eye and the tenacloua
purposes are ever the most Important
tilings.
It la estimated that Moxlcn win nrn.
duce BO per cent more copper this' year
man in any previous year.
In the crater of an extinct vnicnnn
in Kentucky a diamond wf tins hn
discovered by some Johannesburg pros
pectors.
The canal serosa Cane Cod will be
constructed under the Joint supervi
sion of the railroad commission and
the harbor and land commission of
Massachusetts. '
Among the new buildlnos ieln erect
ed off Shameen, In Canton, where the
recent fire occurred, are some four-storied
buildings, and the lofty chnrsctpr
of the buildings generally la lu strong
contrast with their surroundings.
1-lgbt green lade Is the favorite rem
of China, and it la difficult to get tho
stone in uncut form even In China.
Sometimes, says Consul Cene.il Wild
er at Hongkong, a rich Chlnaman'a es
tate will couslst In port of a lump of
jndo. Sometimes It can be obtained lu
masses weighing one or two pouuds.
But eveu the leading jewelers of Hong
kong usually obtain it lu cut form.
One of the animal curiosities of
South America Is the "oil-bird," .or gun
charo. It breeds In rocky eaves on the
mainland, and one of Hs favorite
haunts Is the island of Trinidad. It
lays its eggs In a nest made of mud,
and the young birds sre prodlgoualy
fat The nutlves melt the fat down la
clay pots, and produce front It a kind
of butter. The caves Inhabited by the
birds sre usually accessible only from
the sea, and the bnuttng of them is
sometimes an exciting sport
The great cataract In the New River,
formed in the Imperial Valley, Cali
fornia, by the escape of the waters of
the Colorado River, has been likened
to Nigara Falls. It varies frosj 00 to
100 feet In height aud Is from 1,500
to 100 yards brood. It likewise re
semble Niagara In eating backward,
or up-stream, but Its progress In this
direction Is extremely rapid, amount
ing to about one-third of a mile per
day. This srlses from the fact that
the channel of the stream Is cut
through the fragile material deposited
ceuturles ago by the Colorado River at
the head or the Pulf of California. It
Is predicted that If the escape of the
waters of the Colorado Is not arrested
before the cataract has cut back far
t-nough to unite, the New Ulver aud
tui Alamo River, the luiperiil Valley
will be entirely deprived of Its Irriga
tion streams. This caturact may be
culled "man-made," sluce Its existence
is due to his Interference with the wa
ters of the Colorado.
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Imperial Rome, the city of the Cue-
tars, as It appeared at the hoight of
Its magnificence, bas been restored
on paper through the Ingenuity of O.
Oattnecht, a German artist, who has
based his plaualhlo reconstructions
upon the results of Slgnor Bonl's exca
vations In the neighborhood of the For
um. In these pictures of Ilerr Oatt
necht a satisfying vision of ancient
Some may be obtained.
It Is the topography of the great cap
ital, however, that Is presented, being
an architect's renderlug from plans,
fragments and measurements. The life
ef the Imperial City Is, of course, luck
ing. Yet while the restored Stadium
of the Palatine pictures that great
track as deserted. It Is conceivable that
such a place was, even In the pilmlest
days of Rome, solitary, peaceful and
devoid of life.
In the . reconstructed Forum nnd on
Palatine Hill evidence of living Rome
to marked. Artificially, perhaps, hut
till In keeping with the accepted Idea
of Roman life. In the picture showing
the Forum in Its heyday, the great
building In the background I the B.i sil
ica Aemllla, and to the right of It Is
the Temple of the Deified Julius, which
was built by Augustus. Relow It is the
Rostrum Julia, on which were placed
the beaks of the ships taken at Actiuni.
On the left la the Rostrum proper,
where orators addressed th Curies.
A Clt? Not Finished.
As the artist Includes the column of
Phocas, which is the first one toward
the spectator, the view of the Forum
must represent it at a comparatively
late day. At that time A. D. 00 the
glory of Imperial Rocne really bad de
parted. The city had been sacked 02
yearj before, but the barbarians bad
carried away only portable loot. The
ruin of the magnificent buildings, some
of which have been found under 30
feet of rubbish and earth, occurred
later.
Not only Is It a truism to sar that
"Rome was not built In a day," but It
might be added that It Is a city which
never was finished. Recent excavations
by Slgnor Bonl have carried the archae
ologist's spade and pick deeper than
ever they were employed before, and as
a result It has been brought to light
that before tho time of Romulus, Its
reputed founder, the city was old. In
fact, there have been uncovered traces
of Celtic occupancy, probably while
that people were In transit to their
final home In the west of Europe.
Rome's architectural glories, how
ever, were at their height In tho time
of the empire, when the world, as the
countries bordering on the Mediterra
nean collectively were known In Eu
rope, was ruled from "the seven hills"
en the Tiber. Even In the days of Its
triumphs the real city was confined to
the valleys between these bills. The
streets and alleys were narrow; those
which led over the hills appear to have
been Intended only for foot pamengers,
and to have consisted of Immense
. flights of stairs. The one street, which
wound an Irregular course between the
Palatine and the Capltollne, which ex-
Icavatlous have uncovered, was so near
ly like a modern thoroughfare that It
became known as Via Triumphalls and
I Via Sacra. It was fairly broud, coui
I paratlvely straight, and was a com
j mon avenue for men, horses and ve
I hides. Tho gorgeous processions, the
triumphal entries of the Caesars, had
this street for their scene. At the Col
osseum, Via Appla hd out from the
city, a road still rnmlllur to the tour
Wt as the Applan wuy.
Mnjeatr it (ha Forum.
Each emperor strove to leave a lust
ing memorial of his relgu by erecting a
building, a column or au arch. At
traies tho ambitious ruler did uot cure
to Import costly marbles for master
pieces, snd proceeded to tenr down un
other structure for its material.
Excepting for certain costly palaces
which were reared on the Palatine and
Capltollne, much of . tISi memorial
building was carried on lu the Forum,
which, Indeed, Is the center of Interest
in ancleut Home. The Forum was nn
open apace, about (100 feet wide by 1.2(H)
feet long. Durlug tho early republic,
and even In the times of the emperors.
It was appropriated to tho civic bust
net of the Roman people. It was early
decorated with statues of Illustrious clt-
tcens, some of wood and some of stone,
The Coniltlir.li, shown to the left of
the Basilica and In front of the Curia.
In the restoration, was sn open, raised
platform where the putrlcluns held
their meetings, tho Curia being a kind
ef town hall. OpKstte to It stood
the rostrum, or pulpit, from which the
rators addressed the meetings.
Julius Camar Is credited with the
first considerable plans for the res
toration and adornment of the old city,
for even In his day, remote as we view
It Rome was regarded as a very an
dent city. His architectural plans,
although they were uot completed by
hiiu, served to direct the policy of hi
successors. For the next few centuries
the rebuilding aud embellishing of
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The
Koine became a national taste, and to
curry out the ideas money was spent
without stint Augustus, In addition
to turning his attention to restoration
generally, added a few temples of his
own. The most Important of these were
that to Mars Ultor, In the center of the
Forum, which he added to the Julian,
and of Apollo on tha Palatine. He also
built the portico of Octuvla, the Thea
tre of Marcellus and the mausoleum in
the Campus Martlus.
For half a century Augustus built
nnd built. The populations of whole
districts were turned out and their
dwellings razed to muke room for mag
nificent structures. At the close of his
career he said he bod found a city of
brick nnd left It of marble. Nero bad
a taste for grand architecture, even If
lie had other tastes which were Inhar
monious, nnd so extravagant and eccen
tric were his ideas that, after having
partly constructed a temple to Claudius,
he tore It down to build a wing to his
palace. . Rome should remember him
as the father of improved streets. He
had the courage to widen thoroughfares
and the daring to tear down hu'ldlngs
so that new streets could be laid out
Vespasian restored the. national tem
ple, and Domltan, besides his spleudid
additions to the imperial palace, was
so cureless of money that he had the
roof of the temple glided, at a cost of
nearly $15,000,000.
CoantruetlT Aetlrltr Br.da.
With ,the death of Constant'.ne. A. D.
33T. the period of constructive activity
CMine to an end, and about that time
the Importation of beautiful foreign
marbles, much used In Interior decora
tion, ceased. Rome was not finished,
but Interest In building seems to have
terminated, although under Theddorlc
an attempt at revlvul In building was
made. - .
The Caesars wero no more, the East
ern capital became the seat of the em
pire, wars bad Impoverished the coun
try and the recognition of Christianity
THE STADIUM OF TUE
as the state religion naturally caused
the pagMn temples to fall Intd disuse.
From this time the rulu of the ancient
city may be dated. It Is true that upon
the authority of Procopius we are told
that in the sixth century many of the
monuments were uninjured. In the
jeur 008 the erection of the column of
I'iiocns, which probably was composed
of a fragment from some other struct
ure, proves that some of the old taste
for building still survived. So late as
the ninth century It Is known the
Forum that Is, the Forum of the Cie-
sars was still unburled, yet In the
seventeenth century, this famous space,
the scene of much of early Rome's
moving history, wos burled under
thirty feet of rubbish, and Its Hues
were Irregularly ludlcuted by rows of
elm trees. 1
Durlug the Fourteenth. Fifteenth uud
slxteeuth centuries the structures sur
rounding the Forum were destroyed,
not by barbarians, not wantonly or nia
llt.lousl;, but through cupidity. Instead
of bringing in new stone for building
operations, basilicas were torn down
for the available marble they .issayed.
The Forum was turned Into s quarry.
Worse than that, It became the site for
limekilns, and masterpieces of marble
aero thrown Into kilns to become
commercial lime. There were artist
lu those times, and they remonstrated
with the authorities against the de
struction. Among those who made vain
apinmls to save the beautiful structure
of the past were the iioet Petrarch and
the painter Raphael.
But the destruction coutluued. Some
of tho old marble Is to be seeu to-day
lu Roman bulldiugs, but the master
pieces are no more. With the Forum
turned Into a quarry to feed builder
nnd the burners of lime, the place fell
Into disrepute. In the course of a cen
tury It became a mere rubbish heap,
aud by degrees raised a mound-over
the relics of the past. Refore this time,
however, Rome had, owing to various
as it ' x
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reasons, become depopulated, and dur
ing the, seventy years the Popes resided
In Avignon interest In the city almost
ceased.
Work of Excavation.
For two centuries the Forum and
many of the ruined buUdlnga were cov
ered and forgotten. In 1513, under
Pope Leo X., Michael Angelo began the
first modern excavations upon the site
of the ancient structures. For the next
three centuries excavations were car
ried on In a dilatory manner, but lu
1870 the first genuine attempt to un
cover the past was begun, under the
direction of Slgnor Rosa. Since 1808.
when Slgnor Bonl was placed In charge.
the most Important results have been
achieved. While the work Is still In
complete, the addition to the knowledge
of Rome's topography In the distant
past has been of the most Important
and far-reaching character.
TERBIEB OUABCS PRISONERS.
LI I tie Animal Ihom Intelligence n
Aldlna: an Oregon Jailer.
A small black-and-white fox terrier,
called Mike, Is used by Jailer Mitchell
to help blm guard the comity prlsnsi
at Portland, Ore. The Telegram says:
In the winter of 1001, when "Jack"
Wade and J. Dalton, convicted of mur
der and banged in the jail yard Jan.
31, 1902, were prisoners In the jail, a
fellow named Smth. who bad been held
as n witness against them, was also In
the jail. One nlgbt Smith, who was
In cell 1 of corridor 4, having obtained
a saw In some, way, started In to sever
one of the bars of hla cell He bad
been at work but a short time, but bis
saw was a good one. and be had cut
quite n piece of the bar, when Mike
caught the sound of the saw and set
up an alarm.
"The dog not only barked lustily,"
said . Mitchell, "but he camo from bis
box to my door and would give me no
peace until I got up and opened the
PALATINE AS IT WAS.
door. Then he ran direct to the cell
where Smith was at work, looking back
from time to time as If asking me to
follow. I went with him and found
Smith, with the saw in his hand, in
dustriously sawing through the bar."
Mlko had a sense of hearing that Is
phenomenal, even fot a dog. He will
catch the slightest of nomads anywhere
about the jail. No matter how much
nolso there may be lu the courthouse
above, he pays no attention to It, but
tho niiuute '.here Is anything unusual
In the jail, or when any one touches
the plank walk leading to the jail, he
Is awuko and on the alert.
Mike apiK'ars to know that the jail Is
a place of confinement. When the
"trusties" are outside the building he
Is with them and watching them. When
they go down town on an errand be
accompanies them. 'But when a
"trusty" packs bis grip, preparatory to
leaving the place for good, Mike seems
to know that the man bas nerved bis
time and pays uo attention to blm.
The Mew Field I'l.-ce.
The extreme effective range of the
new field piece with which the Ameri
can army is being equipped Is about
four and a half miles, in which we
have a trifling advantage ever the Jap
anese, and target practice has shown
that the degree of aecuruey obtainable
Is nothing less thsn marvelous. In
the initial trials forty-five shots were
fired at targets set at 1,000 snd 2.500
yards, the first fifteen st the shorter
distance, the secoud fifteen at the
longer, and back to the shorter range
for the last fifteen. The average time
of the shots was four seconds apart.
and the percentage of hits was 70-odd,
Experience has proved that the Ameri
can artilleryman Joes as well In action
as in target practice; some experts say
the Japanese does better; but be that
as it may, we are able to bold our
own against the Arlslka gun. Every,
body's Magazine
SUFFERED FOB IRELAND.
Death In Dublin of John O'Learr,
Noted Fenian Leader,
The sole remaining link between
the Ireland of to-day and the Ireland
of O'Oonnell and the "Young Ireland
ers" passed away recently In the death
at Dublin of John O'Leary, the noted
Fenian. In the struggle for Irish free
dom he bad been a conspicuous figure
for more than 00 years, being promi
nently Identified with, the Young Ire
land movement of the 40's and subse
quently being the associate of Thomas
JOHN o'lxabt.
Clarke Luby and Charles Kickbam 4s
edlton of the Irish People, the Fenian
organ of the We, This paper, which
boldly advocated physical force aa the
only effective method of righting Ire
land's wrongs, then more numerous
than now, was suppressed In 1805 by
the government O'Leary was arrest
ed, tried and convicted and was sen
tenced to 20 years' penal servitude.
Five of these years he spent In jail. In
1870 he was released, but for 15 years
was obliged to live In France, being
denied admittance to his own land.
After 20 years of exile he returned to
the country of bis birth and d.votlon
and nent the balance of his days in
Dublin, surrounded by a company of
young nationalist litterateurs, some of
whom have won distinction in the re
public of letters.
O'Leary was born In Tlpperary In
1830 and received his education In
Cork, Dublin and Paris. As a boy he
lolned the Young Ireland movement
and bad to flee the .country because
of a futile attempt to rescue two of the
revolutionists of '48, who. were execut
ed at Clonmel. In Paris, where he
settled for a time, he studied medi
cine and with his diploma returned to
Dublin to practice his profession. He
was then drawn into the Fenian move
ment, with its sequel to him of prison
stripes and suffering.
O'Leary was a deep student of his
tory nnd literature and was an able
and forceful writer. All through his
life the call of Kathleen nl Houlihan
was ever In bis ears and he died as
he lived a devoted lover of his coun
try. While the movement with which
ho was so Intimately connected In the
60's failed In Its specific purpose, It
awakened English statesmen to a real
izing sense that there were radical
wrongs In Ireland which should be cor
rected and we hnve the authority of
Gladstone for It that the Fenian move
ment led to the disestablishment of the
Church of England in Ireland and to a
more critical study of the many sided
Irish question.
To-day the present Liberal adminis
tration stands committed to a home
rule policy for Ireland, with an En
glish king sanctioning the settlement
of the questions which have so long
kept Ireland and England at sword's
point and no fair student of Anglo
Irish history can deny that this situa
tion Is In large measure due to men of
HOUSE CLEANING TIME.
My e.vc and nose are filled with dust,
My face begrimed with smut ;
My linger are sli badly smashed,
My moutb is full of soot,
the O'Leary stamp, who compelled a
study of Ireland's wrongs and forced
a consideration of her case at thu bar
of English public opinion.
Marie, tho "Fairy Prlaceaa."
.. The Crown Princess of Roumania is
King Edward's niece, Marie, daugh
ter of the late Duke of Edinburgh, in
the very great popularity of this love
ly princess lies Prince Ferdluaiid's
principal chance of overcoming oppo
sition In Roumania and succeeding to
the throne. There Is no more beauti
ful woman among continental royal
ties and tha Rnnmnntnna almnlv Irlnl.
-- -
Ize her. When she visited Loudon for
the -coronation her regal loveliness
dazzled society and created a wide
spread sensation. At Lady Lans
downe's great coronation party she
was called the "Fairy Princess" of tli
evening. She is talented, too paints
prettily, plays the violin, has a genius
for designing and embroidering, nnd
Is a vivacious conversationalist. She
Is very fond of turquoises, of which
she has a fine collection. Another of t
her hobbies Is collecting scent botttlc
and vinaigrettes. Always of a lively
disposition, her pranks as a child wore
the subjects of many stories, When
she was on her father's flagship at
Malta ' her great delight wus to
"help" the ship's cook. Her specialty
was the frying of ham and eggs, nnd
on one occasion she fried fifty egc,
and pieces of ham to correspond.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
GREAT PARSEE PHILANTHROPIST
Par see and philanthropy are almost
convertible terms, lu Bombay at least
The late Sir Dinshaw Mnuockjee Petit,
who received the second and last bar
onetcy conferred on any native of In
dia, was the greatest benefactor of his
race and city In bis generation, and
his only surviving son, Mr. Bomnnjee
Dinshaw Petit bas carried on the fam
ily tradition with great credit. The
surname of Petit is derived from the
French. Over a century ago Mr. Bom
anjee's ancestor was agent to a French
firm, and being of short stature receiv
ed tho nickname of "le petit," which
bas been handed down ever since 09
the surname of this family. Mr. Rjin-
fits:;
wmmmris
lit 'jiMM
firs
1IH. BOMAKJEK DINSHAW PETIT.
anjee was born In 1859 and educated at
St Xavler's College. He entered his
father's firm In 1878 and bas been
prominently connected with the com
mercial life of Bombay ever since. Ho
Is not merely the princlpnl mlllowner
In western India, but a leading author
ity on finance and bnnklng. In 18!)0
the goverment appointed blm memlier
of the Bombay Legislative Council, and
he has acted over ten years as a di
rector of the Bank of Bombay.
Sometimes a man wants a thing so
much be forgets tho owner doesn't
want to give It up.
Father usually imagines he is tho
only really effective chaperon.
My knees are both stuck full of lack,
My back is broke with puio.
My temper, too, is rullled up
I'm cleaning house aj;ain.
V.