J 1 1 if H I i 1 1 1 i! 'J Dakota Comity Herald DAKOTA CITY, NEB. t Publisher.1 JOHN H. REAM, Why tnt make "Wrodmnn, Spare that Trie' the national hyuiut A harp 414 years old has been found (u Jown. Perhaps1 It Is tlie ono tbat nce through Tnru's !mlln. We should like to rebuque those Women of Inihuque who are forcing their husbands to loam to enquo. "I-ndy Subscriber" Is hereby Inform ed thnt uionry which Is carried la a Woman's docking ennnot properly be called elastic currency. The New York Tribune brads a hard times story "Cornet Factory Feels the Finch." Fewer of Its patrons, then, must be feeling the squeeze. A South Norwalk ((Vmi.) man hnS Just returned home from the civil war. His wife certainly Is Justified In sus pecting that ho stopped somewhere oa the way. (J. F.ernord Bhaw sarcastically refers to us as a nation of villagers. If It Is disgraceful to be a villager a good many of us hare hitherto been unaware of Uie fact Miss Mary Money, an American girl, has applied for a Jockey's license In France. If the theory that ' "money makes the mare go" Is correct, Mary should bo a success. Judge Tetlt urges that engaged cou ples should study the law of courtship. Hut that would not decide who Is to get up and light tho fire of a morning six mouths after the wedding. What If the eogle-ou the new $10 gold piece does look, like a turkey? If the turkey wasn't such a big fool about some things, as a national bird ho Would be as appropriate as the eagle. "Why do women cultivate a special Voice for the telephone?" asks the Montgomery Advertiser. Doubtless be cause the one they usa on their hus bands would put the transmitter on the blink. A New York bank teller complains tbat he finds It dldlcult to support a family on nn Income of $1,800 a year. A good many ieople have supposed hitherto thnt only millionaires were In any way connected with New York banks. John D. Rockefeller thinks the op portunities for youug men are a thou sandfold greater In this country than they ever have been in the past. It mtiBt be understood, of course, that Mr. Rockefeller does not include the oppor tunities for getting along without work ing. - ' I 1 ' Reports from the surveyors who have Veen marking the line between Canada and Alaska Indicate that as originally fixed in 1808 it wan six hundred feet too far west The United States is to have a strip six hundred feet wide and many miles long, which, until the pres ent survey, the Canadlaus supposed be longed to them. Tho proper boundary Is the one hundred and forty-first me ridian northward from Mount St Ellas. Not long ago the manager of ft fash ionable London restaurant refused to allow an earl and his countess to eat in the dining-room because they were not attired in the regula tion evening dress. Admission to certain parts of the fashionable London theaters is also denied to .those not in evening clothes. Such rules are In accordance with the snob bish definition of a gentleman as one .who "dresses for dinner;" but most of til know that It takes more than that to make a man, to say nothing of a gentleman. Liberia has lately lost nominal con trol of part of the territory over which the congress of the black republic was aupposeu to exorcise sovereignty. A new treaty with France has been nego tiated, delimiting the boundaries of the republic's country to the advantage of France. The FrencJ Insist that in view of the Ignorance' of tho natives lu the Interior of the existence of any in dependent government on the coast, it is not encroachment on an Independent power for tho French to push their boundaries seaward. As Liberia Is on independent power, the protection of its territory Is a matter for its govern ment, and not for outsiders. American friends of the country may regret that the experiment of siting up a negro re public has not been more successful, but they must face the fucts. Public confidence has been shaken by the excessive exploitation not of the proper business of certuln corporations, but of their stocks and securities to ad ranee the personal schemes of high ofll cluls. "Gentlemen agreements" for doubtful, perhaps sinister, purposes, se curing possession of a chain of banks to further the ends of purely specula tive mxIs and combinations, are among the abuses of "high finance" revealed during the depression from which we are recovering. The real property of the country is intact The mines, the railroads, the mills, the flocks and herds still exist Tho laud Is produc ing, and will produce, at a tremendous ' rate. All the elements of abounding and continuing pronjierlty In office, field and shop are with us. The one thing Heedful Is the elimination of stock wa tering and stock Jobbing directors and other officials to whom the organiza tion of our industries and the conser 'vattsut of the weulth of the country Is to a very great, to a commanding, ex tent committed. We shall have gather ed good from our financial ills if the obligations of trusteeship are more re ligiously observed. In IOCS the game of football cost tho lives of 24 players and injured 200 others. That was the worst record the gauic has ever made lu this country. Ipyuilug after several years of high fa- Ullty lists, It excited a movement for reform, which ended In a general agree ment that If the rules could not be so revised as to eliminate the Increasing perils of life and limb, and If the worst of the commercial evils of the git uie could not le removed, then the game it self would have to be banished from our colleges and high schools. Colum bia I'nlverslty put forth an edict of banishment, but most other Institutions contented themselves with a revision of the rules, from which much Improve ment whs hoped. That there has been nn Improvement in the moral tone of the business management of the game In certain, but tho statistics of casuat-j tics for this year have been the causa of great disappointment over the work-i lug of the new rules of playing. Lnstl your the deaths were . 14 and the W Jured 100, and this year the deaths uumlier 13 and I lie Injured 152. Moan-; time Columbia Is giving the colleges anl object lesson In the possibility of pros-i poring without the game. A committee1 of the faculty Investigated last spring tho effects of the retirement from tho field of sports, and reported that at tendance at the university had grownj that students took more Interest lii their studies and that no loss was oln servable. Recently tho students have" worked up enough interest In a mock' political campaign, wth primaries, con-j ventlons and tho full machinery of gen uine politics, to compensate them fori the loss of the football excitement. It! Is certainly Incumbent on the people; who still believe In the future of foot- bail to meet-the present situation and show that It can be played with reason-j able safety. It Is true that the most fatalities are among high school pupils and other boys not In fit physical con-' dltlon, but the colleges cannot escape! some of the responsibility for these' deaths, since they furnish the Incent-j Ive to tho noncolleglnte players audi sinco their rules are the rules the oth ers follow. 5; SMnvention New naphtha springs and a large naphtha lake have been discovered about eight miles from Nabllskaya' Bay, In the Russian portion of the Isl and of Snghallen. 1 A diamond drill bore hole 0,700 feet' deep was put down in Upper Silesia! In 1900. Another deep hole was putt down on the Rand, South Africa, In, 100(5, the depth belug 0,304 feet j Autogenuous welding is successfully applied by Robert Hopfeldt, a German electrician, to the soldering of alumU num wires, a direct union of aluminum, with aluminum being readily obtained Bricks made of sand and lime and, hardened In the air ar used largely! In districts where there is no clay from TTuivu ua uric cuu do maae, nuij where an abundance of sand can be! found. It Is stated that so much had been learned by the flight of "Null! BecuiH dns" to London that Its use will be' abandoned and that a new ship with,' considerable alterations, based on the experience of the flight, will be imme diately put in hand. According to J. Dybowskl, a progres sive desiccation of the air and soli la manifest in the region of the Sudan, tho underlying cause being the destruc tion of the original forests. Cape Verde Is cited or on example. In the eigh teenth century the botanist, Adanson, described it as covered with a vaat for est, whence its name. Now the forests are gone, the rivers are diminished, sheets of woter have disappeared, and the productiveness of the soil is foil ing, until in many places the region haa become almost sterile. The natives began the destruction of the forests Ig noranUy; white men continue it for im mediate selfish 'ends. At a recent meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, tho apparatus of Dr. Fortln for rendering visible the in ner structure of the human eye was de scribed. A very brilliant mirror la Illu minated with a Cooper Hewitt tube, and the light is reflected into the eye,' after traversing two thicknesses of blue glass and belug concentrated by a largo lens fixed in a screen. The observer places his eye behind the leus at such a distance hat the whole field appears uniformly IllumluataL What he sees is a reflection' of the Interior of his own cyo. The circulation of the blood In the niluuto vcshoIs Is visible. When a screen pierced with a pinhole is pass ed rnpldly to and fro between the eye ond the lens, tho structure of the fovea, the minute spot on the retina which is the most sensitive part of the eye, is revealed. The apparatus is designed to aid investigations by oculists. ' Tbt Wrong Itemed?, The author of "Tho Jungle," Upton Sinclair, whom II. O. Wells has dubbed tho world's "most hopeful Socialist," was discussing In New York the gov ernment's attacks upon law breaking railroads and trusts. "These attacks will do a little, but not much good," said Mr. Sinclair. "They are wrong attempts to set things right They remind me of the Province town dentist. A woman camo to this dentist and said angrily: "'Look here, this $40 set of teeth that you have made for mo Is entirely too big.' The dentist pushed the woman back In the great chair of red plush, opened her Hi, and looked within carefully. "'You are Quite right, madam' ho said, tuklng up a sharp aud glittering Instrument. 'Hut the error Is easily remedied. I will enlarge your mouth a little.'" The rartlnir b Mmym. "Cut out taut crying!" cried the des- perato husband. "We are at tho part ing of the ways. Make your choice. Which shall go In tho ash-barrel your picture post card eollecUoa or jour Teddy bears?" But tho problem being too much for the wife, she promptly faluted.-'-Puck. A man never does Justice to him self as an entertainer, when his wife to around. QUEEN AW AirS M.p..flW.MI.I................... .. I,M...... , II ,1,,.,. '' J ; ! . ' ' ' '. '"'i .v.', ;"r;; -; k:i'vt1i:.,r';I-'-.. ; In the present troubles of Carlos' telngdom It Is now openly declared that tho presence of bis beautiful Queen In England, though ostensibly due to the EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY. X Two-Year-OIl Vlllnee in Calabria Aaraln Dentrored, Calabria, Italy, was visited by n se vere earthquake, which seems to have followed the same rotite as that of two years ago from Catanzaro to Rcgglo the center, of disturbance being the district of Monteleone. By a melan choly coincidence the calamity occurred on the very day of the Inauguration of two new villages built In the district by the charity of Milan ond Turin for the sufferers by the earthquake of 1903. The village of Ferruzzano was com pletely destroyed and 200 people were killed, while 400 were Injured. The village was a little Italian-American settlement, picturesque, and built like nn eagle's nest upon high ledges of sandstone. It was an Irregular vil lage, with streets like staircases and houses built dangerously near the preci pices. Ferruzzano was styled "Itallan Lnierlcan," because many of the peo ple who lived there had been to for jelgn lands, generally to America, where ,they made and hoarded money which they brought back to their native vil lage and bought themselves homes. iMany members of tho families of the 'village were In the distant land mak ing their fortuneSjWhen the earthquake camo. The first shock which visited the sleeping village wa3 slight. But the T11K SUFFERERS aecond was not merciful. It shook the houses from their fastenings and hurl ed them and their occupauts over the cruel precipices. The rocks were split ;ttnd torn asunder and the abysses swal lowing many victims. To Increase, the pnlsery, rain was falling In torrents and the people who survived were bo fren zied that they fled from the scene und 'left the dying to their fate. , China la Flahtlac Oplam. I China has revised and couttolldatud her native opium taxation. It amounts to 115 Peking taels a picul (about 0(1 ceuU a iH)uud) on crude opium aud double that amount on the prepared article, the grower's tax being abol ished. Accorlng to reports from Teklng the 'government is anxious to curtail the use of opium, but Is dependent for (revenue to tho extent of morw than .$4,000,000 a year ou the duties paJd ion imported opium. She caa not, lu ths present state of her national fiuan c, witness without concern the dlsup ;praoc of such an InuwcUut branch ffcUS.' ' " -; Vf5'- ;-:vvlr l:jl;fev- y '&f; r; fw6$ '-'W - HUKhi&' 03" POEXTJOiX. . . A i.J.i marriage of her sister, l'rineess Louise of Orleans, is really to enlist the sym pathy of Kin;? Kdwnrd for her hus band's threatened throne. of revenujr-. The Imports of opium amount to 3,0K) tons, while the nativ article Is produced to the' extent of .'iO.lMH) tons. Moreover, there Is a great development In the use of morphia. The Japanese ship to China large quan tities of cheap hypodermic syringes. The better Chinese are reiwrteil to have a strong feeling against the enor mous extension of the growth of the jxippy throughout tho empire. A Peking correspondent of the London Times in dicates that China will ask India to consent to nn annual reduction In the Import of opium to Chiua, which would have tho" effect of extlngulslilii; the trade In ten years, and as an evidence of good faith will Issue an Imperial edict condemning tho use of opium and forbidding the employment In th: gov ernment service of any opium eater, and order an annual reduction In poppy cultivation lending to Its extinction In ten years. Plants Ilpmcmber, Plant memory Is a problem for the inquisitive botanist. In 1901 a plant allied to the squash and pumpkin was taken to New York from the desert of, Sonorn, In Mexico, and since then It has been kept without water In a strange Vllmate 3,000 miles from home. During the six weeks of rain In the desert tho plant grows its leaves nnd flowers and perfects Its seed. Then It dries up and leaves only n water filled gourd, which a thick, hard shell sealy AMU) THE RUIN'S. against animals and evaporation. The transplanted sik'cIuumi still remembers tho rainy seasou of six weeks. It wakes, sends out rootlets, stems and leaves, and then dries up ogaiu until the fol lowing year Kansas City Journal. Southern Kiiwtirr, Little Charlie U tho bright son of a poor downtown family. lie goes to school every day and Is a model In his studies and conduct, but he la much ashamed that bis clothes are not ns good as those of the other boys. Ills teacher was explulutiw the imlnts of the compass the other day. She said: "Yon have lu front of you the north, on your right the eHt, on yiur left tho sou tit Charlie, tell me what have you behind you." Charlie turned crimxon and, ufter a moment's hesitation, sold: "I've got a patch on uiy puuU; I knew you'd see it. I told mamma you would." Philadelphia Record. It dtHisu't take the average woman one-third as long to mix up s eake aud bake It, as it took her to run next door and borrow the eggs. 4 ; i) f'vrrT Have rl.-tn i.i k11.iI tvst, ti:.ii w.i.v tor" i;V:-'W'. 'I sv:ppo .v:i: :i !.: own rtoc- :.U over t!i: hind':" you Mi'a.i," raid th oi'ier men, who hnd come t. him f.r :i I "a lie friendly advice a!iut fjiriu fever, "Christian I'rlcr: nr.d other i iiit "Not aloiM! thai, but the growing tendcicy to U-v-ji weil insread if li. lr..: cured Is fast relegating ui.'di ino to li:-.' dead arts. We must (.'cp up witli Ui" procession, even li' it .mo.-; us f occu pation, nnd I'll ass. !,' .von. If "Very limn un:le"sti). (1 '-. . If vr'.r be nilgl't n-:;i-li( .....' ii' 1:1 oui i1 icloi-, For Instance, half the wo:''.d dilier has, or claims to have. liver tro:t':-.'M. A spare live minutes can l.c turned '.o os- j eellent account by c;lvi.i your liver ii j lift. Place one hai.d heavily on ;'ii: j right side at the lover border of the , rins nnd run u down Mov.-iy rour or live Inches. 1V thl a lo;;en tl'iic. nnd you will empty this overfull liver K.XHLG New king of Sweden, his son and daughter-in-law, and late ruler. cures heartburn and remedies cramps by removing the acidity from the stom ach as well as relieving the liver. "The food of a dyspeptic remains too long In his stomach, fermenting and causing Inflammation. Try helping the stomach to get rid of Its contents. Place one hand at the extreme edge of the left side immediately under tho ribs and slightly overlapping them. Then work it round to the right by pressing the fingers in as hard as you can, draw ing the hand across to the right with tho other hand, at the same time swing ing the body to the right, then to the left. Practice this daily before meals and reasonable food will never 'set like lead' on rour stomach. Here is a good suggestion for a plethoric, or i full-blooded, man : When waiting for the fellow that doesn't keep his appoint ment, place your hand at the back of your neck where the hair Joins It nnd nib downward. You will thus empty tho glands nnd prevent their turning Into boils. Or put your fingers on tho neck at the angle of the Jaw and draw them firmly downward over the course of the Jugular vein. This will remove the used-up blood from tho brain and make that orgnn feel light and clear, helping you to keep from getting 'hot under your six collars,' like Kipling's engine. "If you have a tendency to varicose veins, when you sit down elevate your feet The blood will flow out of the turgid veins and give you grent relief. By deep friction from the heel upward you can encourage the return of the blood to the heart ns well as give tone to the feeble veins. If you huve a red nose It Is because the blood enters the superficial vessels of the skin nnd does not return from it If you would rem edy this condition, perform regularly this little feat: Grasp the tip of the nose between the thumb aud fingers und niaRsage upward to the root. ThU method empties the vessels of used-up blood and allows fresh blood to' flow. Besides, you ore not half ns likely to be afflicted with cold In the head. One exercise especially designed to prevent a 'bay window below the ribs is tills: Lit flat on your back, raise one foot and leg to Its full height without bend ing the knee, then the other, ulternat lngg the motions, or vary the exercise by putting the toes under the bed clothes, raising tho body to tho sitting posture several times. This exercises the muscles of the abdomen nnd pre vents the accumulation of fat. "Cold feet, so often found among bralu workers, cun he overcome by pro moting a vigorous circulation. Imme diate relief can be bad by standing In about ono Inch of cold water In a bath tub. Stand on one foot and rub It with the other, alternately, a uuuiher of times for not more than three or four minutes. Follow this up by vlgouous rubbing with u crash towel, and the good effects are almost equal to walk ing In dew, recommended by Father Knelpp. A fit of blues Is a habit that growa upon one so rapidly that lu u short time It becomes a disease. When ever I feci an attack coming on I put on stout walking boots and tramp till I can go no further. This effectually dispels li!eluncho!!. An Oriental phi losopher says fast, breathe uud exercise and you will never le ill, so we might as well accept the situation that doc tors are no longer needed." COARSE FISH FOR THE TABLE. Neglected Food Supplies of Britlnh Inland Slreama. Puzzling enough to tho student of nat ural economy must bo the fixed preju dice of the English jieoplo to tho edible Roman snail, the titbit frog, more espe cially, the common "coarse" flan of fresh water strcums, says the Pall Mall Gazette. Fresh water salmon trout, gray Hag and ells are everywhere re of Its Kup(;ral)un.lent content.!. This :.i":3v:: ,.v V,f ifVit . :.?-.tv f : , lj: V ' I( Vk'-,: Jr ft NEW KHT0 RULES SWEDEN,; i what a v - '. - . iff i;:', .-Vs ' .'-'. L M GS s-mt, W ...... 5 i 1 jSi p, mm ! .. a i'rL.TOL'3?J3rLT -' " X.Q agtfBOX-Sa'TfiRWaO garded as edible fish, though until very recent times the grayling or "ouncer" one of the salmonlilie was but little esteemed either by sportsmen or cooks. To-day grayling ranks so closely with such game fish as salmon, trout, char and possibly the rarer vendace, etc., that the angler must not under penalty "feed" Its "Rwlni," and it must not be fished for with maggot or worm except In the depth of winter. The point Is that since our notions about grayling have so utterly changed, why should not our notions about the more sizable pike change, too? For "Esox luclus," the luce of English her aldry, better known as pickerel In America, Is truly a "game" fish, Judg ing from the manner he lights and the great number of denticles in his mouth, which are strong enough to bite off an angler's finger. Yes, our familiar "fresh water wolf Is game enough, and I can say from experience that his many pounds of sound flesh taste ex ceedingly choice about Christmas time when stuffed with veal forcemeat and basted with suvory gravy. Yet very many hundreds of enormous pike are captured on our streams yearly by "trimmers" and other questionable de vices of the river watchers t moreover, they are throughout treated as so much vermin. If exposed for sale on the fish monger's marble slab they could hardly fall to command a good price, little as the world In general cares to make the experiment of cooking a pike. Take the case of the equally abund ant chub. I am told that It take a Jewish tailor or furniture broker's fam ily to appreciate It. SCOOP THAT GTEIQHS. Does Awir with the Necessity of Hntploylaa Cosalar Scales. Every grocer can scoop up sugar or coffee, etc., from tho storage bin and very closely gaugo the correct quantity. INDICATES WEIGHT. Yet he would not be willing to give It to tho customer as the full weight to be purchased without first testing It on the scales, A Texas man has hit uiou the Idea of having the scoop indicate the weight of the contents, eliminating the neeeselty of transferring It to the scales. Ills weighing scoop is shown In tho accomanylng Illustration. The pan for gathering up the article to be weighed la pivoted to the handle and ooeratas $ pointer, which Indicates the "OoiKrn p (6(0 wolgt of the contents on a scale. pound of sugar Is wanted, the grocer dips enough out of the bin to swing th pointer to the pound mark. The sugar is then transferred directly to a bag,1 doing away wlh the necessity of weigh Ing on the scales. a EXCITING RACE OB" TRAINS, j Each Is Broken In Two, but Neither' Enslnen Knows It. The following story was told by Ji D. McNnmara, assistant general pafc senger agent of the Wabush railroad: J "From Clark to Mexico, Mo., our Una runs almost parallel with that of the! Alton, The distance is about twenty miles. It is open country and thei grades are light The 'going' Is good: and trains race with each other aa often as occasion offers. ' "One day two long freight tralnsj one ou eneh road, readied Clark about together. A race, of course, was in or der. Passing Centralla the Wabash en gineer turned partly around In his cab ana noting that the Alton man was. minus a portion of his train gave a! 'broke In two' whistle signal for the' Information of his rival. The Altonl man, hearing the signal, himself turned 4 In his seat and observing that the! Wabash train was considerably shorter! than when the race began he pulled tho' throttle open a notch or two more audi smiled as he looked forward to winning the contest As the speed of tho Wa-i bash train continued to increase tha Alton man in a spirit of banter gave." with his whistle tho 'broke in two' elg- nal. As there was no apparent effort made to stop, the signal was repeated.! "Again and again wag the sisnall given by one or the other of the racing eninemen. "At length Mexico was reached, both trains arriving thero at the same tlmej each engineer laughing at the Joke ha would have on his competitor when th' break would be discovered. As soon aa he stopped at the Mexico water tank; the Alton man called across the right of; way j "How far you goln' without your tall Ughtsr 'The Wabash man, observing for ths first time his own predicament said: i Gosh, but I thought you wai wblstlln' for your own hind end!' "'DUto, Bud I' exclaimed he of th C & A. as he noticed regretfully tba; about two-thirds of bis own train was absent." Kansas City Star. A Fool allarht Bar That the glitter of gold Is better, thaaj the gray garb of brotherly love. That it does not pay to be forgiving In a world which so rarely forgives. That the one to whom ths laurel M given necessarily deserves It That the plaudits of the mob are bet-i tet than the appreciation of those who) see most clearly. Tlvat a million dollars Is more to bel chosen tlian a humble and happy homej Rut what would you expect of a fool J Success Magazine. He Method. Mlsa Gettingon (archly) I bear yon are thinking of matrimony, Mr. McOoya Mr. McCoy Me? Say, what do yoil take me fori Miss Gettingon Oh, Jaekt For bet ter or for worse of course, bat this la so suddiin! Clevtdand Leader. The Heiress. Tie (tenderly) When I woke up thli morning you were my first thought, I She Indeed? Were the creditors aJJ ready standing at four bed I1 Mtrgvsrj idorfer Blatter. ' 4 f 5 4i