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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1908)
f &8te Opinions of FOR AN UP-TO-DATE CHURCH. 1 ; HE un-to-dute twentieth U '4 I equipped with canned sermons and canned 1 I music, will only need to lay In some praying iiiBi uini a uiiru it 1 1 ii 1 1 reach u state of imtomatle have the preacher fully consequences which might Tatlon that they have so llght-henrtodly taken up? It Is all very well to bare an automatic substitute through the hot months. But suppose the machine should prove more eloquent than the man? Why sheuld a church pay $3,000 a year for excellent but wooden sermons when It can listen to the great pulpit orators for a trifling sum? irVe nay yet see the preaching for the whole country done by a half dozen silver-tongued speakers, constltut tt the canned sermon trust, and undertaking to supply any brand of doctrine that may be called for, with a lie line in funeral and wedding services. Any deacon can turn the handle, and the line of goods can be ex changed If net satisfactory. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. THE "HEREDITY" HUMBUG. WO eminent Dutch scientists, with the co onerntion of more thnn 8.000 Dutch Dhv- II slclans, have been making a statistical CTIUUJ UL II 1. i t II 1 1 J t uuu 1.1. T vi juoi jiuviinucu their report, In which they declare that, while mental and physical qualities are largely Inherited, generally from the fa ther, the moral tendencies are not communicated at all. They find little transmission of nervous troubles or any ther diseases: More nlllrlng lies and self-delusions have been nuns n that exejiso "heredity" than on any other perhaps In all the lexicon of specious sophistry. Heredity Is bo easy a way of accounting for wroug tendencies that It appeals as Irresistibly to certain classes of "scientific experts" as It does to criminals, drunkards nud loafers. Quacks gain repute for profundity by holding forth n "the laws of heredity," as If they were mysterious Ukases Issued from behind nature's veil, which few can' understand and none resist Nine-tenths of It all, ac cording to the Dutch doctors, Is mere tommyrot. Every man, If he Is at a man at all, Is master of his own conduct Yes, he Is master, too, of his own thoughts, purposes, Ideals, and everything of high Importance in the make-up of hla character and the control of his life. To one of America's greatest actors was transmit ted by his father a double tendency, one for the stage and' the other for the bottle. The son and repressed the second, and achieved world-wide fame. According to the commonly-accepted notions concerning heredity, he should have reversed the order and gone to the glitter. The man who gets ahead In life Is f To PihU Yon Friend. : Though you probably have no desire annoy your friends, we still believe that you should try them with this puzzle. This is enough to reduce a person to a state of absolute frenzy, and still the trick Is simple enough when you know how. All you have to HOW TO FIX THE STRAWS. Co is to give your friend five straws, little sticks, two pieces of cardboard, kbout three and one-half inches long, 4nd a penny, and ask him to lift the Whole by holding the tip end of one bf the straws. Most people try to balance the penny on one straw and pile the other four straws on top of tie penny, but they never succeed. The rick is explained In the picture. You an easily do it If you try. Sharpener of SeUeora. Sharpening a pair of scissors has always been considered to properly be long to an expert An Indiana inventor decldod that a de vice could be read ily made by which the sharpening could be readily accomplished by anyone. He, ac cordingly, designed the device by which scissors can be sharpened wlth- SHA&rENs scissors out entailing the employment of skilled labor. It com prises a base, which Is clamped to a table or other support. On the base Is a sharpening stone or other suitable abrasive nidterlal, while at the opposite and Is au upright arm from which de pends a movable chimp. The scissors are held In correct po sition over the stone by means of the Clamp. The latter Is then moved back and forth across the arm, thus moving the blade of the scissors across the Sharpcnlug stone. Where scissors are employed t a great extent this simple menus of sharpening the dull blades should prove both valuable aud econom ical. Cnrkpoller loarenlon One. ' Everyone will undoubtedly welcome the swvcssful effort of a Philadelphia Inventor to Improve the old fashioned corkscrew which has been In use for ages and still re talus Its original form. Attempts to pull a cork with the ordinary cork screw in many cases ends disas trously to the per se u inaklrg the at- i okk p; 1 1 i n. tpmpr. especially when the cork tits t!;:'.iiry In the neck of the bottle nnd refuse to be reipoved until the bottle Ins Iwi placed between th -Luc. Rod th. cj;Us rew tued at 5 r .l aa. sw li iw t mpfc, a .la Great Papers on Important Subjects. take the credit to himself, nut the man who goes to the devil always accuses somebody else of having greased the way. Thin la not denying that there Is some fore In heredity, and more In early environment and train ing, but It la a force that except in rare instances may be overcomo or rightly directed. And out of inherited faults often bloom great virtues. The belief that you have a weak spot Is reason to especially guard yourself there a reason that the man with the right stuff In him will obey. There la aothlng In the world that la more tyrannical, yet mere tractable, than the human will. Tour will la either your best friend or your worst enemy. By cultivation yon can make It whichever you choose Dea Moines News. centurr church. a ii it. uiMiMi n v v perfection. But considered the follow this luno- N OTHER the continuity and relation of events, an awakened in terest In daily happenings will arouse a desire to trace them back through preceding stages. It Is the break in continuity between the past and the Immediate present that deadens enthusiasm. By studying history back ward from the Immediate present this chasm would be bridged and the passlou for tracing effect to cause stim ulated. Boston Transcript A her own labor, she lives n simple, retired life, she la totally blind, and yet we question whether there are many who In present peaco of mind, and exalted vision of faith, have attained unto all that Is desirable In life so nearly as Fanny Crosby, the hymn writer, who at 88 years of age reigns queen of human happiness. Univer sale Leader. cultivated the first usually content to for several minutes. Then It Invariably comes out with a sudden Jerk, throwing the contents In all directions. After the corkscrew proper has been Inserted In the cork, the upright arm forming a wedge is placed on the neck of the bottle. Using the handle as a lever, the most obstinate cork can be readily extracted without endangering the clothes of the operator. When not in use, the corkscrew and wedge can be folded within the outer end of the han dle, which is hollowed out to form a housing. Protection for All Shoes. It Is well known that the ordinary shoe is not of sufficient strength to warrant use by miners, laborers on railways and other places where shovels and spades are em ployed. An Arkansas man, therefore, has designed a shoe pro tector for the pur pose of protecting the shoe.especlally at the shank and Instep. shoe pBOTECTon. The protector con sists of a metal plate, which flta be neath the shank of the shoe. A piece of leather or other flexible material ex tends from tlio metal plate around the heel, with the other end over the in step, both connecting by buckles and straps to a piece of leather extending from the opposite of the metal plate. It will be obvious that a shoe provided with this protection braces the shank and ankle of the foot of the wearer. Moreover, a shovel can be readily pushed Into the ground without injury to the shoe. The protector Is quickly attached to or detached from the shoe. The Art of Food. ' I suppose none of us recognizes the great part that Is played In life by eat ing nnl drinking. The appetite is so imperious thnt we can stomach the least Interesting viands and pass off a dinner hour thankfully enough on bread nnd water Just as there are men who must read something, if it were only "lirudshaw's Guide." But there is roninne" about the matter, after all. Probably the fible has more devo tees than love, and I am sure that food Is much more generally entertaining than scenery. lo yon give In, as Walt Whitman would say, that you are any the less Immortal for that? The true materialism Is to be ashamed of what wo ure. To detect the flavor of an olive is no less a piece of human er fcctlou than to find beauty in the col ors of the sunset. Robert Louis Stev enson. We have lived a great many years, and have never yet seen any time, need or occasion, for eating off a kitchen floor, yet It has always been the stand ard of neatness if a woman's kitchen floor Is so clean "anyone could eat off It." 0 nsloiiolly n woman buys a hut that tutu,!!!? lwL like uie W.Vr ... S3 AS HISTORY MIGHT BE TAUGHT. way of teaching history - which . I the schools might adopt haa apparently I not yet appealed to them. A good news- puper, ii us iracuer tuowi now lo inter pret its dally record, may stimulate an in terest in history even more than the formal history itself. If the pupil can be tangbt SUCCESSFUL LIFE. SUCCESSFUL life Is rather hard to define, for the definition varies at different times and under different conditions. The spirit of the present defines In material terms, and yet in the midst of this material age there has dwelt a. successful woman. She has not large means, she is-dependent upon "HORNSWOQQLED." OKNSWOGGLED" is ono of the most ex pressive of all words in the vernacular of the American citizen. There is a world of meaning in It, and, although not found In any one of the dictionaries of the day rec ognized as authoritative, It Is a word that fits. Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. CALL OF AFRICA. There I an Allurement tn Hn Jangle for the Ranter. There Is one profession and only one that a man can't be trained Into or kicked Into or driven Into unless he's born into it as well, says Berkeley Hutton In Everybody's. By this I mean that unless he has a natural love for It he'll be worse than useless in it. for he will never be able to stand the grueling he'a hound to get in It That Is my-profession Ivory hunting. You can make a lawyer or a merchant or a banker or even a doctor or a Bailor out of almost any man of average in tc'llgence, but you can't make a hunter out of him unless he . was born hunter. Many a time I've come back from a trip leaving half my men nnd all my Ivory rotting in some deadly African swamp, half dead with fever, swearing that I'm done with the business for good. And some bright day,' In- six months, or even In three, the smell of the Jungle gets Into my nostrils through all the roar of the street traf fic 1 hear the squeal of an elephant or the coughing roar of the llon't chal lenge and that settles the business. Back I go again, knowing precisely what Is coming the sweating days ami the chilling nights, the torments of In sects nnd of thirst, the risks and hard ships fl the privations. For once Africa has laid her spell upon a man hes hers forever. He'll dream of her of the black tangle of forests he's broken through, hot on the trail of a wounded bull tusker; of the parched and blistered veldts he's crossed under the blazing sunlight; of the nights, those moonlit, haunted nights, when he's watched beside a runway, waiting for the game to come down to drink and listened to the ripple of the water on the flats, the splash of a crocodile, the stealthy snapping of branches all around him, the scurry of monkeys overhead ; listened to the vast black silence, Into which nil smaller sounds are cast as pebbles are dropped into a pool. The Ilaiitie roaa Home Fir. Flies cause, lu New York City alone, about C.V) deaths from typhoid fever and about 7,000 deaths yearly from oth er diseases. Last year a fly was cap tured on South street. In New York (not far from one of the city's biggest meat and fish markets), that was found to bo carrying lu his mouth and on bla legs more than one hundred thousand disease bacteria. Flies walk over de caying and fetid matter, for which they have a natural affinity, and then, enter ing meat markets and homes, travel over the food, explore the milk pitcher, and also light directly on the skin of the householders. Success Magazine, The Troth About Serpents. It lias been discovered that our snake sense Increases with snake knowledge, As a matter of fact, the creatures do not sting with their tongues, nor do they charm birds or people. They do not chase and attack persons without provocation, for the reason that they do not seek man as food and have ab solutely no use for him In any way, except that of asking to be let alone. Of course snakes have been known to attack Innooent persons, but even then It Is said that fear of the aggressor makes the reptile take the defensive, Chl'dren take the place of a fad with women. A woman who has no children UH i? have a fad of some kind, ?. A BUDDHIST FRAYING WHEEL. 1" rjsv ,'-v 1 V I !' I "i - - if &t viv nv; vi v V 1 . m r BUDDHIST ritlEST USES A gUEKIt MACHINE TO FACILITATE DE VOTIONS. A praying wheel used by Buddhists coiisibts of n cylinder In which are arranged, one on top of the other, sheets of paicr on which the formula, "Om manl pndme hum," Is printed In flno characters. The sheets must be wound on the axis from left to right, and the wheel when set In motion must revolve in the opposite way, so that the writing passes In front of the person turning the wheel in the way in which it Is rend that Is, from left to right If made to revolve from right to left It Is held to be sacrilegious. London Sphere. I A teacher in a New York public school where the pupils are meetly for dmera never tok much notice Of the boy until she discovered that there was a lot of fun hidden behind his quiet demure face. What happened then she tells in the Sun i In tba English work I often give my pupils half of a story, and ask them to finish It in their own way. I did that yesterday. I told them about a little girl named Elizabeth, who started out one morn ing with the resolve that she was going to be as good all day long as If it were Sunday. Her Sunday school teacher bad told her that little girls should he have as if every day were Suuday, not pat on their kind and polite manners only when they put on their Suuday dresses. So when Elizabeth put on her school dress, she resolved that she was going to be very good all day. She had not gone very far only to the first corner when sho saw another little girl standing there, crying. That Is where I left the story for them to finish. They were to tell what piliabeth did. This is the way the most serious boy in school completed the plot : "Elizabeth saw the little girl crying, so she went up to her and asked her Ivhat was the matter. 14 'I had two quartera,' sobbed the lit tle girl, 'and a big boy took one of them away !' " 'Oh, that Is too bad!' said Elizabeth. What did you do?' '"Oh, I cried, "Help! Help V Just like that said the little girl. " 'Why, is that all the loud you called itr exclaimed Elizabeth. " Tea,' replied the little girl. 'I have a bad cold, and can't call any louder than that' "So Elizabeth took the other quarter away from her." SUH PUZZLES ASTRONOMERS. forever Hidden from View What We lee la a Shell. The great ball of fire which wt call the sun Is not really the sun. No'oue has ever seen tba sun. A series of con centric shells envelop a nucleus of which we know absolutely nottilng ex cept that It must be almost Infinitely hotter than the fiercest furnace, and that it must amount to more than nine tenths of the solar mass, according to a writer in Harper's Magazine. That nucleus is the real sun, forever hidden from us. The outermost of the envel oping shells Is about 3,000 miles thick, and Is called the "chromosphere." It is a gaseous flood, tinted with the scar let glare of hydrogen, and so furiously active that it spurts up great tongues of glowing gas ("prominences") to a height of thousands of miles. Time was when this agitated sea of crimson fire could be seen to advantage only during an eclipse; now special Instruments are used which enable astronomers to study it In the full glare of the sun. Beyond the chromosphere, far beyond the prom inences even, lies the nebulous pallid "corona," visible only during tbo van ishing moments of a total eclipse, aggre gating not more than seven days In a century. No ono has ever satisfactorily explained how the highly attenuated matter composing both the prominences and the corona Is supported without falling back into the sun under tho pull of solar gravitation. Now that Arr- henlus has cosmlcnlly applied the ef foots of light pressure a solution Is presented. How difficult It Is to account for such delicate streamers as the "prominences" on the sun is better comprehended when we fully understand bow relentlessly powerful Is the grip of solar gravlta tlon. If the sun were a habitable globe and you could transport yourself to Its surface, you would find yourself pulled down so forcibly by gravitation that you would weigh two tons, assuming that you are an ordinary human being. Your clothing alone would weigh more than one hundred pounds. Baseball govli be !sjcd lu a juiar. irawU JT . -i I a h k - Vfci "' room, for there would be some difficulty In throwing a ball more than thirty reet. Tennis would be degraded to a form of outdoor nlnar-nonc. From these considerations it Is plain that gravita tion on the sun would tend to prevent the formation of any lambent stream ers and to pull down to Its surface masses of any size. APPARENT CONTRADICTION. Drlarht Coloring, Bold Pattern, Make Wild Thlaar Inooaaplcnoan. Whence came that old erroneous as sumption that bright-colored creatures and those with bold, sharp patterns, are of course conspicuous lu tholr homes? Did people Judge the outdoor world by colorless collecting boxes, or the pos tered walls of a museum? The real out-door world Is a boundless varied pageant of ever-shifting lights and forms and colore, cut up Into Innumer able bolder or dimmer patterns of all kinds and sizes, dancing and altering In endless kaleidoscopic show with the play of wind and sun nnd clouds, says a writer In the Century Magazine. This vivid changefulness of Beenery has, like everything else, Its maximum and min imum, and, as we have seen in connec tion with tropical forests, the extremes are In this case rather wide apart But we are to consider It as a general prln clple, with special regard to Its max! mum development Against one of these brilliantly and minutely patchy backgrounds bow ought an animal be colored and marked In order to ho as inconspicuous as possible? Plainly and dully, as naturalists have said? By no means; brightly and patchlly, to the highest possible degree. The bolder, brighter and more arbitrary such a creature's patterns ore the more they will cut up his own peculiar and char acteristic form and dissolve him Into his background, as It were. Conversely, the only coloration which could make such an animal conspicuous is a dull monochrome, without counter-shading or pattern" This would make his solid form apparent by Its light nnd shade, or his peculiar outline by its unbroken, dingy color. Monochrome alone niakes a solid object Intrinsically conspicuous against a normal landscape. Patterns, contrary to the common opinion, have an intrinsic power to destroy the con splcuousness of the object on which they are placed. The stronger the pat tern appears tho dimmer appear the forms and outlines of Its wearer. Ink. Ink Is a substance used to conceal thought. In color It Is often brilliant; in effect, dull. It Is extensively used to spread rumors, convey scandals to distant jMiluts, and to statu careers. A little of It therefore goes n long way. Ink comes in all shapes and sizes. II may be thick or thin, but, though It Ii sticky, It never sticks to any one long. Without It there would be no best sell ers. It has hurt real literature nion than nny other product. It has been said that Truth lies at the bottom of 1 well but this was not an Ink-well. There Is no cure for ink. It has been locked up lu dark closets. It has been sent to Jail. It has been confined to hard labor in tho works of professional humorists and penned In countless ways. It has served many a Henry James sentence, nnd slept In a congres sional speech. But In new shapes It always reappears. It cannot be blotted out. It makes its royal way, with un numbered pages to wait on It, down tho column rules of time; and though cast aside nnd forgotten, it always has plen ty of margin to spare. Success Maga zine. t o to Date. "Step up, gents!" cried the street faker with the big telescope, "an take a view o' the big comet." "Here!" Indignantly cried a man who had paid his nickel and hud a peep, "that's only a star; it has no tall to it at all." "(Vrtalnly not." said the fnkcr; "this la a modern tallies comet." Philadel phia Press. There ought to be a law against thi fool who has 110 merit except that be pi cans Tvull ooooooooooooooooooooeoo r a sr f a tv t w in tr - r- AuvtiuKWUr' g LITTLE WILLIE, g O o He Tire of His School Bookt o Run Away from Home in aag Attempt to Become famous, o 80OOO0O0O0O0OOO00OOOO08 MONDAY. Oee it betes the dlken how a feller has ter go ter school all the time. I wlsht that I was big like Flten bob evens an kud go off on battle ships to pin sea an kud see sites. I bet the girls wudent laf at me then an titter when 1 kim bak with models an things. this gografy lessen Is awfel hard an the teacher Is cros today to me tu bekauz I dldent know my other lessens for I set up late las nlte rendln robefton kruo. but this Is to be my las day In skule "THIS I-ESK.t IS AWrtX nABD. anyhow. 1 gea they wll wlsht they had ben respecktfel ter me when they here how I her got up In the world after awhycl an am rich an own lots of houzez. 1 am off termorrer fer nevadu tu get rich dlgen gold. 1 hev bin watch eu a car bcln lodcd to go to slrtzona an I kin walk the rest of the way. TUESDAY1. I must her kum an awfel ways last nlte in this car for it bumped around al nlte. its kold in here but there Is some straw around the boxes so 1 ges 1 kan keie warm for 1 her my mind maid up tu stick it out but etln' cold sauseg an' bred ain't "ETIlt' COLD BAUSSQ AH' BUD.'' what It's kracked up tu bee. 1 wud glv wun of my fore quarters fer a drink of water but I ges 1 kin stand it awbyel yet 1 got to thlnken that if I hhud die for want of water the kids st skule wud fele purty bad an' maybe susen Evens wud put the wrethe I glv, ler for Krlstmes on my grav an' maybe they wud fire off a salut over my grav thlnkln' that 1 dlde gnme an' with my butes on ss the feller who kot killed by Dik of Egle Pas did. It must be an awfel long ways tu slrlzona. . T ani niltey tired setln down tu. WEDNESDAY. If I bed knowd that the car waz bein bumped al round the raleroad yards i wud not hev gone thursty al day an nlte. when I got out at last I found that 1 uz rite here at home al- "I YIXO I WUZ CBAZEY." most only way oft in enother end of town. uiy sauseg an bredu bed glv out, so 1 went out begun an kum tu a nice hous. the ladey who kum tu the dure sod she pltyed me nn tuU mo inside an glv me lots tu etc. she kept talken tu me an sed 1 waz much Ilk her boy who growd up an had gone off. she glr mo pie an kake an say It waz pudin tu goln tu sUute. but after awhyel I herd some one talken to some body else lu the next rum. then the ladey went out nn I herd her say Yes ollislr be luks like the plkshur of the boy In the paper who run off. when the cop Uiiin in I reuibered what tho Ole slutli did wunst an 1 ye! I waz crir.ey from a !tfg usyluiu an pertcrided tu hav a fit an the ladey fan ted an the cop run tu 1st nn I es kaped. TliritSIUY. I walkt ill Lite but from what the peplc sea I ain't no wher nere nlrizoim. I kum tu n mllkmar.vs hous this morn ing nn imUt for wurk, he i,kt what I klu do an i wx tiny kind uf honest toll that nr.; 10--Maliel an I10 put lue ot wurk fedin kowz. I i'ver did lik kowz much, they are al rltt In summer tu luk at. but I nev- ' WTV that I ernel my tfaley bred today, f wurked had ennf. the milkman has a nice dauter. 1! tola her wuast today that I expect to! be a King or soniethin' some day. 1 tolej her I expected to go al round the wurldl some day an she buged out her eyes. 1 found a button In ono nnbet that! fcusen glv me las weko an beleren her flkel tu my lore glT It to this girl. tole her that she Is a dreme an thafj "I EXMCCT TO BR A KI?tO BOMS DAT." she wud luk wel In a manshun Ilk mine). is tu he an arter super she glv me two doughnuts. 1 ete wun. the other Is for my plller tu slepe on. tho boss drove me to bed at T oklocfc. the life of some wurken men Is hard. FRIDAY, the boss made me gtt up way In tha nlte We had got to town with tha wagon I was on before Owl cars wbj runen, it was cold nn krepy. 1 kinder wlsht that I kud go tu skule agen bui I dident let on tho. I know Egle Pet always kept a stiff upper Up. the milkman stopt often at places wher he went Inside. Wunst a bumv kum up tu the wagon an askt for mllkl I tole him that 1 waz a brave man altho small an he la fed but he was bluft al rite but I was skared al rite, flnelly we kum nere our hous. buf "l Dsn THE DOQ TO THE WAQUW." we dont take milk of the man 1 wurked for so 1 wasent much skared. but we kum tu Susen evens hous and! 1 tole the boss be, waz cold an 1 wud tak the milk In. 1 waz In hopes Susen mite know It was me. 1 homered tha bak dore. I maid a big raket flnelly i herd sum wun say now git him Towser. I run. 1 beta the do$ to the wagon, the. boss was aslepe: the horses got skared at the dog ancj run. the boss fell out the horses run a long ways, when they stopt 1 crawl ed from under the wrek an run thru a park. j .. SATURDAY. ,": m its purty bard to bar the pollse on yer trak. al morning i dodged them, one big cop got me. but 1 tole him that; i wurked rite around the corner an kud, prove it the bluf worked, but my. heart was In my mouth. j I tried for wurk at several plases HS WASNT EZET.' 1 kudent get a ob. every thing lukt! dark tu me. finally 1 destded to walk past our hous In the alley. 1 figured the kuk; mite se roe. I Jist wanted her tu let the folks know i kud live without there vlttels. I walkt past the hous twice, nobody, seuied to notes me. 1 was Just goln around the korner to grosery when I run rite Into pa. he wasn't ezey be kaus we wuz In the strete. he was wurse than olo everet True ever will get. when I got In th hous 1 was put In the bath tub an wtisht thre tunes wuna with hot water an twice with cold.; even the dog growld at me. at the, supper tahel the folks were quiet I felt like an outknst. but after I hed' gone tu bed mother kum up an put her nrmz around mo an we talkt It over an I ges everything Is square now an I tun goln tu church tomorrer. Cincinnati Post. Very Saararlooa. A farmer had a very sagacious dog which ho had trained to count his sheep as they passed through a partic ular ofened gate, ugatnst which a pile of stones were placed for the dog's use. As each sheep passed through tho dog placed one of the stones aside. One day, much to the farmer's surprise, be found the dog trying to break a stone In half, and on himself counting the flock he found there had been an ad dition In tho night of a lamb. 311 VyA ' The OcvaKloa for It. ' "lie says he uever prayed in all bis 1 life." " "What a monotonous existence! Ap- j pnrently he bus never been in a tight I place." The Catholic Standard and i 4 TluiCi ' J