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Dakota County Herald DAKOTA CUT, NEB. SOUS II. REAM, Fabllaher One firm has sold 14.rno Merry Whl w hats In three months. How many acres decs that make. Fewer women would be so kwn for Universal suffrage If a law were passed compelling them to rote. One mor In the rase of Miss ItlbU. ho stole Jewelry, we hnve proof that titer U nothing In a name. Think you can become accustomed, Without a struggle, to speaking of nav igating the air as "aviation?" Farmers are making enough money Kt of their wheat now to be able to end some of it In Improving the coun ty roads. Mrs. Gunness said she was an ex cellent cook. She was also a pretty fair hand at butchering. If appear ances are net deceitful. A Los Angeles woman was In a (ranee for 81 days. Some women will Mort to anything to arold doing their Ebar of the house-cleaning. If Mrs. Gunnesa Is alive and baa noted that the newspapcra are calling ier aa "ogress" and a "female Blue beard," ber punishment haa alrendy be fan. Persons who are so afraid of the fcight air" that they prefer the air ff doss and unventllated sleeping ftojn should not blame Providence for their morning headache. With all due reapect to the learned (Hoctor we -submit that It Is well for th nation that the Harvard student Lars their hands In their own pockets Instead ef some on else's. - j Young King Manuel of Portugal threaten to marry the daughter of On of his mother's ladles In waiting. shall not expect to hear any very ad protests from the girl's ma. In R slngl block between Thirty second and Thirty-third streets In Chi cago there are 217 children. It Is not, we hasten to add. In what ts generally known as a fashlonablo district Two trains running wild cr""dmany parsons to be Injured in Pennsylvania a few days ago. All trains should be thoroughly tamed before being allowed to use the tracks In a civilized commu nity. ' "A good man obeys his wife and a wf some times gives her husband good advice." says Wu Ting Fang. Wu la Evidently determined not to be under to necessity of making explanations to the ladles. The Ducbess 1 of Marlborough haa bn fined $15 by a London court for tiding faster than the law permitted her automobile. But It will prob ably take nor than that to make her wary of dear old England. atni a magic In those words, "th duke." A paragon of iL the solid qualities could not be destroyed when there was support on every side from the public sentiment that hnd been built up through a aerie of years. That the qualities were possessed by the fluke there can le no douM, and the faith that was reposed In blm wns probably a very good thing for the count ry, but there could be no better .tratlnn of the power and Influ ence that comes from a great rnmiiy collection In uii flrlKtocracy. 'Ih ';: downright honest ways were ad mirable, but they woultl never have enrrlcd him so nenr a premleralilp wKhoiit his title and bis splendid in- lietltiiiKV. Justin McCarthy writes of Mm In The Independent that "he be- L enmo a remarkable figure in political life chiefly because of the abM-nce of any remarkable qualities In him." And to this he adds. "He was not a man of Intellect, he was not In any settse whatever n statesman, and never ap parently nmtlo any effort or showed any nmhltlon to become one." Tbat, of course, was the beauty of Tl all. He didn't have to make an effort on any account He was born to the purple, never had any doubts aa to his posi tion In the world, never waa in the slightest degree concerned nbout whHt other people thought of hlni, had In perfection through his breeding thnt self-polso which others could not at tain after the most sedulous efforts. Mct'nrthy says: "He always appeared to me ns It ho really belonged to tlie order of English country aristocracy its It might have shown Itself somewhere about the days of Fielding and Smol lett, when the culture mid chivalry had passed away and the principle of po-, lltlcnl eqtinllty had not -yet come to bo a recognized faith even with the ma jority of Englishmen." Anyway, ft wos fine to be such a duke, a good fortune thnt we should all of us enjoy, and he certainly was the genuine article. It Is a pity that the American heiress cun- not get that kind Instead of poor little whlppersnappers whose property con sists of debts and whose titles are often worthless. Legal Information A Springfield, Mass., dispatch says I. B. Hamilton, of that place, whllo tigging for angle worms dug up a Ito- fcaan oola worth 11,500. ir ho is Worthy disciple of Izaak Walton, he didn't lei that interfere with his day's fishing. In spit of th declaration of scient ists that dancing makes girls' feet big, mat lo mam makes freckles, and that banging on th front gate produces rheumatism, enough marriage licenses being Issued to prove that love will id a way. Yankee ingenuity la equal to almost ' anything, as was proved the other day when It was found necessary to put fresh boilers In a New England grain elevator. Instead of stopping the ma chinery, a railroad locomotive was run alongside of th building, and a con nection mad between its boiler and th ngtn Inside. Work was continu ed, and no employe lost a day. It was in Germany that the tireless cook-stove was perfected, and now comes news from a special consular agent that the Germans are making a Breiess railroad locomotive. It la quipped with a boiler after the man nr of other locomotives, but the water in it Is heated to the necessary temnerature from a stationary Dlant. Jjjaough power can be stored In it to operate It four hours for switching purposes in a railroad yard, and it does sot take more than fifteen minutes to charge it American hospitality la warm-hearted and sincere, but not alwaya courte ous or Judicious. "I am literally driv en from Chicago, where I came for week's rest, by ovcrsollcltous friends and citizens and newspaper reporters," said Doctor Kech, the noted German bacteriologist The treatment of which he complained haa been Buffered by other distinguished visitors, nor ar public personages the only victims Overattentlvcness ou the part of the hostess In a private house may be ua Irritating to a guest as neglect, and la far harder to escape. The system Which prevails at English bouse part lea or leaving eacn guest to ins own devices for a part of euch day Is fur more considerate. the voyage of bis little ship tijoa Is nppearlug in English, Huaslnn, Ger man, Italian, Swedish and Finnish, be sides the original Norwegian. Ilurper's Bazar, for which Henry James writes on manners, and Bishop Potter writes on morals, and Helen T. Stout on "Embroidered Evening Scarfs," has iersuuded President Eliot, of Harvard, to write on the higher education for women. Houghton, Mifflin A Co. have already received from Clara Louise Burnham, author of "The Opened Shutters," "The Itlght Princess," etc., the manuscript for a large part of her new novel, which, she haa named 'The Leaven of Lov." This will be one of the prom inent publlcatlona of th coming fall. Captain Amundsen's book describing Professor Edward A. Ross, of the University of Wisconsin, whose recent book on "Sin and Society" had the in dorsement of President Roosevelt, has been discussing the future of women L factory workers In America. In the larger centers he declares that 50 per cent of tho young women earn tlielr livelihood under extremely trying eon dltlons. He believes thnt the rapid Phco forced by modern competition con stltutes a grave menace to the health a;d well-being of Boclety. Among the many things of which Tolstoy disapproves Is poetry. "1 count lnnguage," he says in a recent letter to a peasant, "too Important n thing to mix up with It consideration of meter and rhythm and rhyme, and to sacrifice to them clearness and aim pllclty. To do so Is to scoff nt sacred things, nnd tho act of a plowman who danced n Jig as he followed his plow, spoiling thereby the stralghtnca nnd order of the furrow. Poetry making s. In my opinion, even when It Is good, a very silly superstition." "Wo have alwaya supposed thnt Conan Doyle derived his general theory of scientific detection from the read ing of Poe," says a writer In The Book man, "and thnt Poe hnd tnken his no tlons of deduction from the Interesting story In Voltatre'a Zadlg which tells how Zadlz descrllied to the king's chief huntsman all the peculiarities of horse and a dog which he had never himself seen, his description being has e upon tuo aame met not 1 or reason ing which so Interested us in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and In the Sherlock Holmes story cycle. Poe was, of course, familiar with Voltaire, and doubtless got his original sugges tion from the work of that lngenloii author. This theory we still bold to le true so far aa Poe and Conan Doyle are concerned. But the Interesting question arises: whence did Voltaire derive hi hint? This question has lieen very satisfactorily answered by Mr. I.0011 Fraser in a short but Interesting paper which be contributed to "Mod ern Language Notes" more than a year ago. In this pnper he imlnts out that Voltaire's story U not very different In form from one contained In a book by the Chevalier de Mallly, entitled "Voyage et Aveoturea des Trola Prince de Snrendlp," which appeared In 17i:i or twenty-eight years earlier than Zadlg." The Duk of Devonshire was straightforward man of strong common sense, always self-reliant and always possessed of the courage of hi cuiivle tloua. He was not great or brilliant but during the latter part of his lltu he occupied a most enviable position In politics. It became a habit of the Kng llsh press to refer to his every utter anc as if he were a ieron whose Judgment was Infallible. When Jhe duke broke with the conservatives on the turlfl reform Issue It was as If u army bad gone over to the HlwrsU. of course be waa criticised by hi late coin rades, and Mr. Balfour felt a natural Irritation at his conduct but ther was The question whether replevin gainst a bankrupt, lifter adjudication, may be maintained to recover prop erty belonging to a third person, where nothing has been dene to obtain pos session under the bankruptcy proceed- ngs, wns answered affirmatively In the rase of Ayers v. Fnrwell, 82 North western Reporter, 35. The Massachus etts court held that the mere fact of the adjudication was no bar to such action under the facta of this case. Tho validity of the Missouri Statute (Rev. St. 1870, Sec, 0082), which ex hales suletdo as a defense in suits on life Insurance policies unless such snl- lle was contemplated at tho time ap plication was made for the policy, Is upheld by Ihe United Statea Supreme Court In Whitfield v. Hadley, 27 Su premo Court Reporter, C78, 208 U. 8. 4H0, 61 L. Ed. 8115. It was suggested that the statute "merely encourages suicide, and offera a bounty therefor, payable, not out of the public funds of the state, but out of the funds of the insurance eampany." But the court says that nn insurance company is not bound to make a contract which is at tended by the results indicated by the etnrfute. If It does business at all in the ,ate, it must do so subject to such alld regulations as the state may rhoose to adopt In State of Georgia v. Tennessee Cnper Compnny, 27 Supremo Court Reporter, 018, 20l U. 8. 230, 61 L. Ed. JOJiS, the United States Supreme Court lays down the proposition thnt a for eign coi-jHirntlon will lie enjoined at the suit of the state of Georgia from so discharging sulphurous fumes from Its works In Tennessee as to pollute the air over large tracts of territory t Georgia, nnd? to cause and threaten wholesale damnge to foresta and vege table life therein, if not to health. When the statea by t elr union made the forcible abatement of outside nuis ances impossible to each other, they did not thereby agree to submit to whatever might be done. They did not renounce the possibility of making reasonable demands on the ground of their still remaining quasi sovereign Interests, and the alternative to force is a suit in the United States Supreme Court. THE MOTHER- LOVE IN ACTUALS. rotlaa, aa aa uaesnqnerabl Vtera Inattoa t aestov snotess la life and make hlMself werthjr ef youf" 1 am willing t siak a sta at It, Billy," she answered, raising her eyes trustingly t his. Caicag Tribune. X-RAY TJBED AS DETECTIVE. nasarlrra Rspoard In Frearh Caa- tarn Haaaa. The French government has employ ed the Roentgen ray in a peculiar and certainly novel way. It is subjectiag persons who pass through its custom houses to the X-ray in order to de termine whether tbey are smugxllng articles upon which they should pay duty. On one trial mentioned 167 per sons were examined in forty-five (Bio nics and on them were found Jewell nd merchandise hidden for the ex- IK'Hinent A small Jeweled locket wu revealed under a young man's tongue. Several watch chains were found In he cells of a woman's hair. Card cases spread out flat under the feet in the shoes were revea'yl. Articles wrapped in many thleknettaes of pa per and woolen fabrlos were discover ed, and the account of this trial myi these articles lnatead of being ec.oeesa- fully hidden might as well In nearly every ae have shouted out their ex istence and declared themselves on fl manifest. What a fine thing it would be if th Roentgen ray could be successfully ap- lied to proposed legislation and t eglalators, if it could be made to re veal the presence of the little Joker In the bill and the consideration lodged In the pocket of the legislator to In duce him to pursue a certain course of action I The X-ray of publicity Is all right when properly applied, but it ha not yet been developed to as high a degree of efficiency as the Interesting scientific principle of Roentgen ray. Minneapolis Journal. laatancra That Prove Thrre la Real A ff rot ion Among- Them. Dr. Alfred Glrard, of Parts, has been making observations and experiments to determine, if possible, whnt is the exact character of what is called "mother love" In animals, birds and the lower order of creation. Dr. Glrard thinks the maternal love In some of the lower animals is mere Instinct but his conclusions In some respects are much at variance with the observations of many other naturalists. Dr. Jamea Weir, the Kentucky nat uralist, knew a dog which seemed to bo exceedingly proud of her puppies on their advent. She not only brought them one by one to her mistress for admiration but she also brought them In to show them to her maater. She deposited them, one by one, at the feet of the person whose regard she solicit ed, nnd after they had been admired, returned them to their kennel after the fashion of the young human moth er who thinks her bass 1b the hand somest of all human kind. Blrthi defend their young to their ut termost abilities and often vleld up their lives In unequal combat with th rnvacers of their nests. One summer Dr. Wler saw two Jays whip, in a fair fight, a large cat which had attempted to rob their nest. They seemed to have urranged the order of combat with one nnother before they attacked the would-be ravlsher of their home. The father concentrated his attention on the cnt's head while th Brother went at Its back with claw and beak. A small hoy killed a snake which was in the net of robbing a song sparrow's nest. Afterwards whenever he went Into the garden the father sparrow flew to hlmT sometimes alighting on his head and at other tlmea on his shoul der, nil the while pouring out a tu mult nous song of prats and gratitude. The gratitude which would change Hie timid, wild nature of a bird in such l manner must hnve had Us origin in i feeling whoso depths can be fathomed jnly In the psychical labttudes of the jiost refined of human beings. Boston Post. A Dlplomatla Bratem. "To what sir," we naked a middle aged, happily married man mntly, "do you attribute the bikvchs you have made of your married llfelf" " TIa a bit of elementary wisdom, my son," lie replied. "When my wife Is In the wrong, 1 agree with her, and Willlna; to Trr. "Pulsatilla," Bald th young lawyer, Witlrred by an emotion which he made no pretense of concealing, "will you listen to me for a few niluutes?" She nodded. "I am about to ask a great doal of fou the most thnt any man can ask f any woman." Still she did not stop him. Sh listened with downcast eyes. "I am but a beginner," he proceed td, "In law aa well aa In love. While I am confident of ultimate success. realize that there Is no short eut to It The way la rough and thorny. Good heavens, yes! Pulsatilla, do you Know there ar 4.000 lawyers in this towu starving to death T It Is the old contest that has raged from the be ginning of time. To th hexorable law of the survival of the fittest there are no exceptions. I must fight my way up or be trodden under foot. do not deceive myself aa to the atrng gle that lies before nie." Wiping the perspiration from his brow he resumed, but in a different voice : "Dear girl, it wonldb unfair on my part to auk you to unite your destiny with mine without plnclng the rase lie- all Is well. When she Is In the right. I rore yml ,,n a,lJ 'I" J WOoM argue against her; she emerges tri umphantly, proves me foolish, feels good all day and iigaln nil is well. Learn thls.my son,, ere you marry." Cleveland Leader. CIrls chase the boys so hard here lately that the boy are using their mother' parlor wore to cuteruiu theni In. ne unparuouauie to assume mat l am able to supiHirt a wife In luxury with my present income. But I have allow ed myself to dreniu that lov would make all our burdens ltsht I hata Glared to Iiom thnt I would have you by my side to cheer me on ray way. Pulsatilla, dare you assume th risk of marrying a man who ha nothing to offer you but health, strength, do- t ITO1IM Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. 4 11 1 1 A PROPER DAY'3 WORK. OW ninny hours a tiny should a man work? Is a question which It Is easier to nsk than to answer. There are laws fixing eight, or nine, or tin hours ns the lengfli of the working day, but those who passed the laws do not limit '.!ieir hours of work by rule. Tho houses of Congress meet nt noon, and remain In session from thirty minutes to five or six hours; but lsfore the presiding officer takes his plnee and after adjournment. Senators and membera are oc cupied with duties, either In the coiinulttee room or In their oflU-es, In consultation with constituents. Every successful employer of labor has worked long hours for years, until he bus reached the point where ho can dele gate some of the responsibility of business to others. And then It sometimes happens that he has not the Strength lo t njoy the leisure that he has earned. Eight hours for work,' eight hours for play and eight fer Bleep has been sometimes put forward as the Ideal division of the day. It Implies that n man may In eight "hours earn enough to support hl family. But the am bitious man Is not content with mere support, and never will be. He too often works to tho point of ex haustion. When he Is an employer he sometimes thinks that his employes should work ns long ns he. Laws limiting the hours of labor are needed to protect the workmen against such employers ns well as against those who are actuated by sheer greed. Youth's Companion. i The rambler In old France can sel dom undertake a little Journey daring the summer, writes J. A. Hammertoe In his book, "In the Track of R. L, Stevenson," without coming upon soma town where a fair la in progress. Th looker-on is Immediately Impressed by the attractive booths, the good charac ter of the entertainments, and the neat ness of the stalls where food Is dis played. A performance which I enjoyed not a little, writes Mr. Hammerton in de scribing a fair at Orleans, was given by a quack doctor. An enormous car riage, resembling In outline an old stage-coach, but decorated with much carved molding and thickly covered with gilt and crimson, which produced a most bizarre effect stood in an opea space. v. Seated on the roof was a boy, who turned a machine which emitted th only hideous noise to be heard at th fair. In the open for part richly cush ioned, a man stood dressed in a daz zling suit of brass armor, bis glitter ing helmet lying in front of him, and in his hand a bottle of clear liquid. He assured a gaping crowd that his medicine would cure any disease from toothache to tetanus, and be Invited any aufferer to step up. Immediately one did so. The boy ground out th hideous din above, and the doctor sat for a few noisy seconds while hlS patient told him his trouble. Then the racket was stopped with a wave of the quack's hand, and he ex plained for five minutes, In vivid words, tho terrlbl nature of th pa tient's disease, and invited the man to pick any bottle from the stock in front of him. This done, he had to open the man's waistcoat and shirt, foo it was a severe pain in the left Bide from which he suffered, and the quack in armor struck the bottom of the bottle on his knee, thus causing the cork to pop out He now shook the bottle vigorously with his forefinger on the neck, and the fluid changed Into green, brown, and finally black, whereat the simple tons round wondered and marveled, as they were meant to do. The practitioner next thrust the bot tle Into the open shirt-front of his pa tient, and shook the contents of it against the victim's skin, pressing his hand for a few moments on the part. Then he asked the fellow to atep down aa cuved, and go among the crowd telling bis experience." A dozen cases were treated In less than half an hour people with neu ralgia, sprained wrists and ankles, and always the same formula as to consul tatton, explanation, application. Phtloaoyhr of Deacartea. Turning the mental vision Inward as Bacon turned It outward, Descartes watched the operations of the soul as an object In a microscope. Resolved to believe nothing but upon evidence bo convincing that he could not by any effort refuse his assent, he found as ha Inspected his beliefs that he could plaustbly doubt everything but bis own existence. Here at last was th everlasting rock, and this was re vealed In his own consciousness ; hence his famous "Coglto ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am). Consciousness, said he, is the basis of certitude. In terrogate It and Its clear replies will be science, for all clear Ideas are true. Down In the depths of the mind la the Idea of tho Infinite perfection the mart of the workman Impressed upon his work. Therefore God exists. New York American. Strained Helatloua, "You wish me to statt, then, that you are quite at peace with all your relatives?" asked the lutervlewer. "Well." replied John D., "I must ad mit I still have a little grudge against I'ude Sam and Auti Rebates." Kali ans City Tlmea. When the men find a blonde hair on a man's coat, although they a know his wife has black hair, they laugh, and are merry. Instead, they should refuse to speak to the moa until he offers a satisfactory axplaaaV tloa. ( OWNING A KOEE. WRITER expresses the opinion that no A. I man should own his home until he has r" I passed the ago of J years, and not then uiiJtTON ue nan jnujH'itnt. x 11c iui'orjr ja that the desire to own a home causes the poor man to go Into debt while rearing a family; that this burden compels him to deprive his children of ninny things which they need While growing to manhood and womanhood, and that these things count for more than the owning of n home. Then, too, the writer argues, It Is as cheap to rent as to live in one's own property, nnd often after a man hus saved for years and his fnmlly has .made sacrifices for a home It becomes unsalable through unexpected con ditions and environments. It Is a question of never-ending discussion If it Is cheaper to rent than to own n home. On the monetary proposition men do not agree. There are those who as sert that Interest ou investment, taxes, Insurnncc, repairs, etc., aggregate more year after year than does rent. Oth ers are equully positive It Is better for n man, especially n wage-earner or salaried person, to buy a, home and pay for It on the Installment plan rather than pay In rent a sum In the aggregate sufficient to purchase a com fortable properly. However, regardless of which is right, there are oth er considerations which are emphatically in favor of the home owner. The family which is in its own home has that "settled" feeling which is not possessed by others. It may be a long, hard pull to gather together the pur chase price; there may be hardships and privations and the practice of the strictest economy 5 the children may not have s much money spent on them and may have lees spending money of their own, but these economies will hurt neither parents nor children, but will be a dis tinct advantage so all. for It will teach them the value of a dollar. The real home feeling and home association la worth more than mere money. The family in its own home haa elbow room; it can plan for and make changes perma nent in character and which would not and could not b attempted in rented property; it can riant trees and otherwise beautify the premises with the certainty that nothing but death can prevent the members enjoying th Improvements they have mode. The love of home will be all the stronger because of these sacrifices nnd economies and plans, and the mem orial of the children will be sweeter thnn If the father had waited until he had passed 00 before buying a home. Toledo Blade. MISERY OF THE HALF RICH. HERE are reallv onlv two classes of baDDT W "ki I people on earth the people who work hard lor uieir iiii(ut? utrvurt, niiu luc yeojuc v are educated from birth to enjoy their wealth and the leisure which It brings. Th middle class is eternally regretting either the days of happy poverty or the unat talned days of enjoyable leisure. The daughter of a multi-millionaire cannot be happy in the lonely drudgery of a cottage, and the daughter of poor folk, who has struggled all her life and who has never had the ad vantages to fit her for a life of leisure, can never be happy in a gilded parlor where she has nothing to do but fold her bauds. She does not know the game well enough to ever reverse the twirling of her Idle thumbs. There Is nothing more pathetic in all the world thnn the hard-working business man who has retired upon a fortune which he grows to hate because of the Inactivity which it enforces unless It be his wife, who suddenly finds all of ber share of life in the care of servants and has nothing with which to replace it. Seattle Dally Times. THE LEECH A WEATHER PROPHET. LEECH confined in a vial of water will y I prove an excellent weather prophet. If jf I the weather Is to continue Cue the leech lieu uiououiess ui me uonoiu 01 me vial nnd rolled together In a spiral form. If It Is to rain, either before or after noon, it Is found to have crept up to the top of its lodging, nnd there it remains till the weather is settled. If "we are to have wind, the poor prisoner gallops through bis limpid habitation with amazing swiftness and seldom rests till it begins to blow hard. The Scotsman. OO0GO00OOO0CXXX300O00000O0Q 8 MILK IN THE C0C0ANTJT. g MILK IN THE C0C0ANTJT. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXXXX)OOOOOb "Husking a cocoanut Is one of the simplest-looking operations In the world, but I have ,not yet seen the white man who could do it effectively." writes Beatrice Grlmsliaw In her book, In the Strange South Seas." Every native of Tahiti Is apparently born with the trick. A stick Is sharply plnted at both ends, and one end is firmly set In the ground. The nut is then taken in the hands and struck with a hitting und tearing movement combined, on the point of the Btlck, so as to split the thick, Intensely tough covering of dense coir fiber that protects the nut. The nut comes forth white as Ivory, about the same shape und size as the brown old nuts that go by ship to Eng land and America, but much younger and nioro tender, for only the smallest of the old nuts, which are not wanted in the Islands for copra-making, are generally exported. A large knife Is used to crack the top of the nut nil u round, like an egg shell, and the drink Is ready, a draft of pure water, slightly sweet and Just a little aerated. If the nut has been plucked at the right stage. There Is no plensanter or more re freshing drnft In the world, and It has not the least likeness to the "milk" contained In tho cocoanuts of com merce. No native would drink from j old nuts, for fear of illness, ns they are considered both unpleasant and un wholesome. Only the milk of half- grown nuts Is used for drinking, and even these will sometimes hold a couple of pints of liquid. The waler of the young cocoanut Is food and drink In one, having much nourishing matter held In solution. On many a long day of hot and weary travel I had cause to bless the refresh ing and restoring powers of heaven's best gift to man In the tropics, the never-falling cocoanut. COUNT LEO TOLSTOY. LOVES OF MUSIC. AT THE PIANO WITH HIS DAUGHTER. Where It dura. Profoundly Impressive was the state ment of Senator Hale, of Maine, tu de bate In the Culted States senate. "I don't know that the people of the coun try appreciate iQaud I don't know that the seunte doesT' said Mr. Hale, "that two-thirds of the revenues of the coun try to-day are devoted to the payment of the burdens of past wars, like pen sions, and expenditures In view of fu ture wars." Think what that means. Two-thirds of all the federal revenues going to pay for the past ami future killing of fellow men. The wicked old world is very far from practicing the teachings of the meek ami lowly Jesus. Despite all our boasted advance In civ llghtennient, mental nnd moral, gov ei'iuueuts are still thinking wroni; when such things can exist without thought or challenge, or any general attempt to bring about n lietter state of things. It Is, however, to be said that the cause of pence and good will between nations la more talked about and respected to day than ever before. But what a long road we have to traverse! Sprlugti.dd Republican. Every mail who has ever bad the toothache Is secretly convlin-ed that his was tho worst "ase. ' ' Jay' ' -'v k t'mTm Mevm v-5 ij'ifyk'iaia) " " 53 COUNT 1.HO AT TtflJ PAXKO TOUTTOY "hiJ DAUGHTER) 0 4ajb?- 3 Count Ieo Tolstoy, whose years as yet show no sign of wearing down his indomitable energy, is continuing hla work toward Russia's emancipation, and despite undoubted hostility of the bureaucracy comes and goes very much as he pleases. A hard worker throughout the day, Count Tolstoy loves to spend the evenings in simple home enjoyments, and la never happier than when playing the piano with hla daughter. The count is a skilled pianist as is his daughter. CITY MAN AS A "COME-ON." No one wauu you to come ami hint aa much as he pretends he does I.eanun In "UiidW." In Which Rurallte Waan't the Pupil. Lured by the distant appeal of fresh air, quietness, fresli eggs and entire lllerty of action, the city worker pick ed a "Jewel of a place," nestling in the hills, says Outing. Then the smooth ness of n typical green-goods game grew upon htm with each hour and each men I. He could not smoke In the house; he could not have longed-for fresh eggs ; he was fed ou canned sal mon ; he had to sleep ou a husk lied. Then, ns he describes It, he made hla final discovery. lie says: "Out by th barn stood big red fanner's wagon evidently made ready for a trip to town. lis long Uidy glla tonivl In the sun nnd a dlvrv canvaa like a luik'e tent over g.iotis piled hl'h within. Some one was busily grooming a horse In the dark Interior of the burn hard by anil 1 boldly ap proached the wagon nnd lifted the can vas. Shades of Ceres and Pomona! What a Uht 1 Leheld! (ireat square boxes not only tilled the bottom of the wnjioH, but were piled In tiers one llHin the other; full tu the brim they were with carefully arranged row of corn. Jacketed in brightest green, with pea whoc uxl fairly bulgtni In ptuu.'puisK, with lctg of dull carmine aud tomatiM-s of a ravishing crlmaon hue. Finally my eyes rested upon the eggs dozens upon dozens of them and such eggs great buff nnd white miracles that quite filled one of the largest boxes. "I gazed upon this display of fresh garnered treasure with mingled emo tion. At first a consuming rage sent the blood coursing to my temples and I clenched my fists at the hideous mem ory of that canned salmon. "And then I smiled smiled at a mid den nnd heaven-sent conception of the humor of It all. I was the victim of a preconceived Idea. In the argot of the bunko steerers I was the ."come on," the guileless, verdant one who, putting faith In men, leaves his happy home In the vain hope of achieving material happiness at a minimum out lay and meets discomfiture In th quicker wits of those whose easy prey he la. I sought out my landlady and paid my bill, not In anger, but in hu miliation, with that up-ngalnst-lt feel ing which leaves you conscious only of Inferiority and the loser's portion. Then I went back to the city and It restaurants, there to await the arrival of my fresh country eggs, my longed for vegetables and my peace of inlud." Men do not like to be bothered by women selling tickets. However po litely they may receive the woineu, thy will fuss in private. A woman haa no right to work ber friends la th ticket way.