Dakota County Herald DAKOTA CITY, KEB. 90TTS H. RSAM. - Patttflba The bear thnt li always In season la fee clnuauion bear. .The woman who wears the widest Ut Isn't necessarily broad minded. A southern professor says Mark Ewain writes "rot.' The professor Is Atlas rubbish. this world, don't waste time on lltt wind falls. The apple that falls at your feet hat ft worm at Its core and m brulsa on It face. Both will develop In the eat ing. To patiently mt them out takes more time and trouble than to climb the tree and get apples that are sound. True, there la a lot of talk about luck, but It Is all talk and no luek. He who only picks up the wlndfsTsof HfeneTcr knowa lurk, and he who climbs the tree never needs luck. There It no lazy way to true achievement In any line of endeavor. Another pressing problem: What ball we do with nil our cx-candldates far the presidency? A sclcnttat tells us that "metals get tare." Now you know why the gold lave out before It got to you. They're going to hnvn a "Indies' day' tn a Now York ttolico court. Fines narked down to $r.rtt and costs? Certain magazine publishers think ty have found a satisfactory answer the conumdrum : "What shall we do Vlti out tx-presidouts?" "Wttnem plunge three stoTles Into re anna ef a ollceinan." We know certain cook who can make It In a much shorter jump than that. Suck persistence as that shown by the British suffragettes seldom falls. jVItbia a few years we are likely to hear them discussing the fall styles In aota. "British Columbia never felt better," ays a banker. At the same time, we tre inclined to believe tho report that fbe mountains out there are feeling a UtUe Rocky. The postal authorities have ruled tfcat registered letters may be delivered nly U the addressees. This does not tar-tart husbands who leave letters In Ike Backets of their old coats. A Kansas school teacher pasted a trip of court plnster over the mouth 6f a hoy te keep hltn from whispering. It would take a lot of court plaster to taut off the mouths of the politicians. A great fortune has been held, per s to be conclusive of double-dealing ana fraud. To be oppressive and dishonest has been declared the only way to at tain great financial success. This wi claim to bo untrue as a statement ol fact, says Ixslle's Weekly, and at tbi same time a dangerous doctrine by i plain law of psychology. Young me want success spelled with a big a, and tho ambitious are not satisfied short of a fair degree of material re ward. For this there Is no moral blame. But already the harm has been done In making tho fnlse suggestion that In order to be successful one has only to be "slick," overshrewd. dlshon est. In the far-reaching Influence of slmnlo suecestlon we have one of the most valuable contributions of modern psychology. The smallest word of sug gestion can reshape a career. Thus the erroneons preaching of many a sincere moral leader has worked we know not how much harm. With a true concep tion of what constitutes the highest aim of life, there has been coupled ft false suggestion of how to obtain what may be called a lower form of success the material. On the contrary, the lea- son always to be driven home la that real success moral. Intellectual, or economic comes only as the reward of honest effort on the part of every man. No other thought should ever be sug gested. The surest way to any lasting pre-eminence, even though It be flnan dnl, Is the way of old fashioned hon esty and Integrity. These qualities were never more valued than to-day, and now, as always, they pave the road to fortune. Hundreds of thousands of men are j tit of work In England, but the Lon don newspapers have been unable to find any evidence tending to show that Kmneror William of Germany Is to blame. Jehn D. Rockefeller says that In his arllcr years he was always a great borrower. Is he willing to encourage young men who go to him explaining that they would like to becoue great borrowers? The fact that the afreet railways of Chicago are trying to prevent women getting off the cars backwards should rouse a protest from every thinking member of the sex. It Is an infringe ment of a pettlcoated right that has been acknowledged ever since street cars were. ' It baa been said that there are no baldbended men In the asylums for the Insane. We suspect this Is true ; at least save for rare and unimportant ex ceptions. This Is an Important thing (or the antl-baldhends to speculate on ; ft maT well furnish them food for serious and earnest thought EABirarQ $15,000 A YEAR- AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN Earning $15,000 a year, and In re ceipt of an offer that would give him 830,000 a year, If he accepted It rather unusual for a boy 13 years old. Isn't It? The boy Is Frnnk Wootton, an Eng Ush Jockey. Frank now stands third on the list of England's winning riders for this season being surpassed only by Danny Mnher, tho wonderful Amer ican Jockey, and a British rider nmed Hlggs. Before the season euds he may lead them both. Frnnk wears short trousers when not In riding breeches, and Is known as the "knlckerbocker Jockey." ne Is the youngest boy riding on the English turf. Ills weight In the saddle Is less than 00 rBANKLlN TAVERN PRESERVED. Hoatrlrr at llartuvllle, r., Waer- Patriot Wa Oflen a f.aeat. An ancient tavern Is srill standing In Ilartsville, which Is of spechl In terest to history student, liccat.so ot Its association with Benjamin Frank lin's connection with the postal sor vl.e of colonial days. It was known as the "Old Cross Roads Hotel" In the long ngo, when Ilirtsvllle wns called "Hart'- Cross roads," because the Bristol road and tV York road here Intersect, says a Hartsvllle special to the St I-outs Re publlc. The Hart family were among the earliest settlers In tire vicinity and gave the name to the place. One ot the most fumous proprietors of the old tavern belonged to the Hart family, I'ol. William Hart, who came from Pluuistend to the Ilartsville hotel about 1780 and kept It until 1S17. He Is noted as having been a man of fine appearance and great physical strength, and while In I'lumstcad hi had been prominent In the capture of the IVinns, who during the revolution, took advantage of the troublous tlmon to rob and murder many of the citi zens of the region and even to plun der the county treasury nt Newton of several thousand dollars. , The early tftages carrying the United States tnnll from Philadelphia to New York ran on the Y'ork road, and nlwny I stopped nt this old hostelry. Here they I took a relay of horses, and it Is a tra- dltlon that on their way from tlni , north, when the driver reached the top ; of Kerr's hill, a mile distant, he gavu a long blast to his horn, a signal thnt the fresh horses at the hotel should Im brought out of the stable ready to bo attached to the coach. It wns many years previous to this, about 1755, that Benjamin Franklin wns postmaster general of the united colonies. He used to go up and down the York road between New Y'ork nrnl Philadelphia In a (mo-horse chaise, looking after the Interests of the pos tal service, and the Cross Bonds hos telry wns his favorite stopping place along the way. The rambling old Inn, standing with Its end to the York road, has been out wardly altered by shingle roof and plaster cast walls, but It Is claimed that the Interior of the building Is practically unchanged since the days when the old mall coaches stopped here for 'their relay of horses and noted guests from the distant cities patronized the ancient tavern. yVALLBY f MYSTERY" The great gorge In the granite peak of the Sierra Nevada Mountains known ns the Yoaeniite Valley was set apart by act of Congress In 1SH4 "for public use, resort and recreation for all time." The Valley has slow been taken over by the Government and made a part of the nation's domain, and Is now one of the four national parks. The name Yo-sem-l-te means grizzly bear, nn.l was probably the name of an Indian chief. The troughlike valley, walled with sheer cliffs of enormous height, and presenting to view within n com paratively limited area the moat aston ishing features of scenery known In the world, excites feelings In tho mind of the observer which nre a mixture of awe and admiration. The Yosemlte !s renernlly regarded by foreign visitors to this country among our greatest natural wonders. The reservation, as now officially out lined. Is thirty-two miles in width, from east to west, and forty miles long from north to south. But the valley itself Is only six miles long by half a mile In Width. It Is sunk Just about one niKo vertically below the genernl level of the adjacent region, resembling a gi gantic trough of Irregular shape, hol lowed out In the mountains. Nearly In the center of the State of California, the Yosemlte Is 153 miles from fl.-.n Francisco, as the crow files a little south of east. In early days the whtt?s in that pnrt of California had a good deal of trou ble with the Indians, settlers being murdered occasionally, and various out rages committed. It wns learned that the savages had some sort of retreat far up In the mountains a natural stronghold. In which they deemed them selves safe from pursuit or attack and, curiosity on the subject lelng ex ited, a military expedition was orgnn- The president of tho first interna tional congress to discuss moral educa tion In the schools, which was held In London recently, said that the world was deeply Indebted to the educational thought and experiment of the United States. It has been a national boast that the American schools strive to teach good morals as well as correct history and arithmetic, and It Is pleas ant to have their efforts thus recog nized. JOCKEY FBANK WOOTTON. ' The .bouse In Verona which the guides In that city have pointed out to tourists as tho homo of Juliet s par ents aud the place where Romeo wooed ber waa burned recently. Although the bouve was marked with a tablet setting forth its relation to the famous story Which Shakespeare has Immortalized, choiara have long doubted the Vero nese legend. About all that could CD aid of It Is that the building belong h1 to the right period. Now that t'io bouse has disappeared curious travel rs will have to be content with look ing at the reputed grave of Juliet In the Franciscan monastery. Many estimates have been made of What tho population of the United States will be lu 1050. They vary all the way from one hundred und seventy five millions to two hundred millions. The latest person to muke an estimate, however, takes quite a different view. In the Atlantic Monthly, W. S. Rossl- ter, census expert, shows that t rate of Increase lu populutlou Is stead ily declining. From 1S70 to 1SS0 tho increase was thirty one per cent. From 1880 to 1H), twenty-four per cent, and from that date to 1!KK), twenty-one per cent In view of this steady decrease In the rate, Mr. Rosslter estimates that the population In 11)50 will not be over one hundred and thirty millions, and after that date will tend to become stationary. pounds. This fact naturally puts hlin In great demand. The offer which would have netted the boy $LX),000 next year, came from a French owner, M. E. Veliplcard. It carried a retaining fee of $10,000. Wootton's father refused it, ns he would not let the boy go to France without him, and In order to go he would have to sell out his stable and break up his home. "Besides," says Wootton, Sr., "I really think Frank Is too young to have such a large retaining fee." MODERN PLAINS CRAFT, f, full Its potent charm, you find yourself wondering whether there Is. or ever was, such a thing as a city, or rach a thins ns a bustling, busy business world. The things about yu, these grand piles of rock, the sl"glng river, thn grent Invlgorntlng piTiC trees, the cloudless sky nnd the brilllnnt morning sun. these are the only things that art i real. Look above asd see the majesty of lh: huge plies of rocks, the two great domes gmri'iiiug either sides of the bend of the valley; see the sky with Its fleecy, fleeting clouds, and the woods, and all that there Is to complete an en chanting picture, and then glance Into the limpid depths of the waters aud there nee again the same picture so stnrtllngly reflected that It seems that It Is the first world turned topsy-turvy. Entering the valley from the lower end, the two distinct valley types may be seen, the V-shaped nnd the U-shaped. It has the characteristics of a gorge and nlso of n canon. It Is nearly en cloned by walls of granite from 3,000 to nearly 5,000 feet In height. On the north side Is a huge block of granite called El Cnpltan. It projects Into the valley so that two of Its smooth, al most perpendicular faces are visible; the height Is 3,.!00 feet. Opposite El Capitnn are Cathedral Bocks and Brld nl Vail Book. The bottom of the val ley widens from El Capitan up to the so-called "meadows." Other conspicu ous blocks of the unbroken wall are called the Three Brothers, 4.0(X) feet the Spires. Cap of Liberty, and Sentinel Bock. Alvout fifteen miles above Is the source of the Merced river, which flows through the valley. There are two falls nnd about half a mile of rapids In tie Merced river. Nevada Fall, the upprr one, is about fl(X) feet high, nnd Verr.al Full Is about 400 feet. The Bridal Veil Fall Is on the side of Cathedral Rock which faces the entrance. Bridal Veil creek hero fulls over a precipice G30 feet high., and flows over an irregular bed which forms a series of cascades that combined, make a descent of about :?()0 feet. The total fall is 000 feet Just below El Cnpltan Is a fall called Virgin's Tears, which is over 1,000 feet high. The waters flow over this preci pice only for a few months after the summer heat hns melted the mountain trees are the pine, flr. cedar and oak. : In the vicinity are great masses of dome-shaped rocks, and the famous big trees of California art near by. Among the prominent elevations are North Dome, Sentinel Dome, Half Dome and Glacier Point From Sentinel Dome may be obtained a good view of the Yosemlto Valley and the surrounding country. Glacier Point, 4,740 feet, also affords a magnificent view. Half Dome Is an Imposing mass, 4.700 feet high. tlon and experience. The Jnly after noons were long and the work at timet very slack, so In one of these Interval of half-Idleness the young men deter mined to turn to and give the labors tory In which they worked a thorough cleaning. "It was at this Ji.neturt, says a writer In Harper's Weekly, "that the Janitor happened along. "He was an old retainer whose year of usefulness had long since passed, but who still made a feeble, shiftless pro I it W p 3 V? t hs. VEUJJMj FALLS. The apples that are the easier to pick are the ones that lie on the ground. You have only to gather them up, without taking tho time or trouble to climb the tree. Uuless you are fa culllnr with perfect apples, those on the around seem as sweet and sound as those which are harder to get Y'ou can quickly fill your pockets with them cud Imagine you have struck something easy and so you have. But you baven't got good apples. Bite luto one of them, aud you uiuy find that your teeth hive cut s worm In two. Put them awny lor the winter, and In a week they will be rotten. What you have pit by merely stooping aud pick ing It up wasn't worth the mere stoop big. Am) all this Is true of many other tilings t.eaidrs apples. It la true of almost everything in life. If you would til your mi Ucts with the good things of A CoDiinrruf ol Circumstance. Matthew 11. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, who entered the Senate In 1800, was a bard student, but never Indulged In des ultory reading. When Investigating a subject, writes II. G. Howard In "Civil War Echoes," ho would never aban d'n the work until It was thoroughly mastered. It was this habit that gave hlin such fluency of speech. Ills skill In grouping facts before a Jury, before a court or lu the Senate, he always maintained, was due to bis study of tho style of Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion." A friend who knew hlin Intimately and who finished the study of law with him, says: "IIo was a wild, rollicking boy, full of good humor and practical Jokes, but of the kind which nro harmless. He was npiKilnted a cadet at West Point, but after a year or two be could stand the discipline and restraint no longer. He obtained a furlough, and never re turned. "lie bad a most determined charac ter concealed under a very Jovial, free, and easy exterior. After he beenn the ttudy of luw be became totally blind, and for two years and a half did not nee the light of day. "Although it was believed that b wns hopelessly blind, he never faltered In his determination to master the great principles or tne law. ne mm a su premo contempt for a mere case lawyer, und would never read a second tlun nny case that was not decided upon principle." Sitowvd the KUrvla. "Where were ye lust night, Casey?" "Shure, Ol pllugcd luto the sosbal swim at McCarthy's." "Ol know the wather la nlver very dupe there, an' Judgln' frim jure faci ye must have hit hot tttoin." Puck. On Judgment Day, when we heat everyone's record read, we shall pr teud to bt shocked, but we won't be. After reading Mark Twain's remarks on Cooper, young people mny think thnt Indian craft, the ability to follow the f;ilntest trail, and to deduce from the signs nnd tokens the motive and pur pose of the maker of the trail, belongs only to the old-fashioned story books. A true story, which would please both i Mark Twain and Cooper, relates the i feat of "Yesterday," an Apnche Indian In Arizona, who followed the trail of ! a lawbreaker for miles across the dry. ; flinty desert detailed every action of the suspected man, both before and after the commission of the crime, and i absolutely disproved a plausible story ; which Implicated two tramps In the wrong-doing. Yesterday Is a middle-aged man, and has never been what Is termed a "hos tile." He has no knowledge of English. but Is deeply versed In tho ancient ' ernft of his race. The tracks left by the man upon the desert were so slight that tho white men could not see them a all, even by bending over until their eyes were not more than three feet from the ground; but Yesterday follow ed tho tracks at a rapid trot. Where the man had stopped, the Indian ex plained tho purpose and what had hap pened. Here he had wavered nnd thought to turn to another point; there he hnd formed a new resolution nml pressed on all of which proved to be true. In court, the Indian's testimony was tho most dramatic and realistic ever henrd In thnt region. The Apnche spoke largely In pantomime, and although tin Jury could not understand a word be uttered, they knew his meaning per fectly before the Interpreter could make the translation. Asked who committed the deed, be stood up and pointed an accusing arm at the man on trial. The testimony of an actual eyewitness would not have been more convincing, and a verdict of guilty was promptly returned. i mimmmi ws : X. V .1 ttB" t . : W i.'& I. , T' n 1 r. ' V' 'ft V- . tat f irm r-iTf-ifffi-fc- EL CAPITAN. "MONARCH OF THE VALLEY." On Trouble After Another, "I have Just found out nlamt the woman opposite me after two years or mystery and anxiety," said the fhn dweller. "She Is a pretty, fat. roly poly woman with a white complexion, who sits at her window half of her lime doing nothing. She has a boy of about ten. Her life seemed so simple, and still I didn't see how she lived Evidently she didn't suport a husband, but who supported her. The thlna wor ried me, but last night I found how it was. Her husband Is a violin player, who plays ull night long nt some con cert hall and sleeps the livelong day I'd rather work for a living than keep the house quiet for a husband who has to sleep all day, then gets up Just at the time when you wunt to go out for a little rollicking aud plays the violin scmewhere. New Y'ork Press. iinit Heaalt. "Hello, old man! Haven't seeu you for years! How nre you?" "Health Is good, but I am always broke." "Just like you used to be ! My ! My ! The times I have advised you to stop playing poker." . "I did stop, but I'm married now." Houston Post Thcal "Do you consider thut Louise falls In love easily?" "Well, as a rule she succumbs after about a hundred dollars' worth of the ater tickets." Life. A father will never admit his daugh ter was given the outlandish name sua calls herself, but a mother sometimes Will. Ized to explore the region and drlv-j out the Indians. Under the guidance of an old chief, Tenaya, whose name Is perpetuated In ' a beautiful lake between Mount Hoff mann and Cathedral peak, the party finally reached the valley, whose won ders they were first of civilized human beings to behold. They kHled some of the Indians and made peace. Never ! theless, not long afterward, in 1S52, a ' party of miners was attacked by red ' skins in the valley, two of them being slain near Bridal Veil meadow. An other expedition followed, more Indi ans were killed and the rest were driven out, being compelled to take refuge with a tribe of Monos on the east sldo of the Sierra. But trouble followed: the fugitives stole horses ' from tho Monos, fled to the Yosemlte, were overtaken, and In a battle were almost entirely exterminated. In 1850 tho first pleasure travel to tho Yosemlto began, and a trull enter ing the valley from tho south side wus pened. The first house was built In that year, opposite Yosemlte fall. The whole region wos originally part of the public domain belonging to the govern ment of the United States, but the gov ernment gave the valley to California,, though retaining possession of an cx tensive surrounding area, which, t - gether with the valley, has beea known for many years ns the Yosemlte park Meanwhile n few squatters hud lo cated homesteads within the boundaries of the park, and there were signs that certain enterprising persons, more In terested In money-getting than In nat ural scenery, were disposed to monop olize all the privileges and organize a system for swindling tourists, eeord lngly, as the best means of protecting the Yosemlte from such a fate, the State of California arranged to hand over the whole affair to the uatlonal government, which has reen aeooni plluhed. Wonder ol Katare All About As the crisp, pure mouutalu air Oils the iungs and the glory of a sunrise In one of the most grand and picturesque canyons In the world exercises to tht snows. The Yosemlte Falls, nearly op posite Sentinel Rock, Is made by the losemlte creek. The first vertical fall is 1,500 feet; then the water descends, In a series of cascades, about 025 feet, and npnln flows over a precipice 400 feet high. In the "Meadows" are variety of flowers and grasses In the early summer months. The principal It is no exaggeration to say that In eleven miles of mountain trail there -8 ut least 5,000 miles of unsurpassed scenery. At every one of the many turns in the trail there are new vistas which are entirely different from those which have Just been enjoyed. Across yonder Is the "Eagle Rock," and nenr by It are the Yosemlte falls, glistening In the full light of a vlvld midday sun. Across the chasm are the "Royal Arches," which only a few hours ago were huge holes lu the face of the rocks, but which are now mere out lines, mere pencil scratches on the great natural slate of rock. Farther up the canyon to the right Is a tiny splotch of light. It proves to be Mirror Lake, now shorn of its enchantments by majesty itself. Its neglected waters lies scarce ly discernible, way below the fractured face of the south dome, whose resplend ent helmet Is towering above you. Turning the eye about the horizon It meets the grand pile of rocks known is "Cloud's Rest," so cnlled because Its peak is almost entirely burled In the billowy veil of the heavens. Next In the procession appears "Liberty Cap. Mount Lyell, Mount Starr King. Mount Clark and the Obelisk, nnd In the mldrt of all this graudeur are the Vernal and Nevada Falls, whose waters spnrkle In the dark green of the far distant can yons. From one spot, cnlled Sierra Point, can be seen five of the grent waterfalls of the Yosemlte, the Upper and Lower Yosemlte, the Vernal, the Nevada nnd the Illlllouett. This Is a spot where the view is one of supreme beauty In this region of glorious vlev s. From Glacier Point the sunrise and sunset views are among the most im pressive to be had anywhere. To see, as the sun either sinks behind the'west crn mountains or as it creeps in the early morn up the eastern facade of tl:e rocks, the play of the lights and shad ows, of tints nnd colors on the canyon's mossy depths, on the greatest of water falls; to see the many-hued lights as they steal along and up the faces of the rocks, and then neatter themselves over the floor of the valley, Is a picture which the richest cannot buy, but which the poorest and humblest mny enjoy. tense of keeping busy, and was Indnr gently carried along on the payroll of the company. "Catching sight of the young men in dustriously scouring the grimy win dowswork which the old fellow him self systematically avoided doing when ever he could he stopped to watch) them approvingly. "'That's right, boys!' he exclaimed at last, nodding his head encouragingly. 'That's the way I got my start.' " FATAL POLITICAL FEUD. It ted to the Traffic Death ot ri Senator Carinack, of Ten n ounce. Like a page from the history of th old South, with Its pride of race nnil name nnd its quickness to avenge an insult with death, was th: r.U.i ting of former United States Senator Edward Carmnck In Nashville, Tenn. The man who killed Carmack Is Robin Cooper son of Duncan C. Cooper, a prominent newspaper publisher. The trouble which culminated In the shooting of ex-Senator Carmack result ed from the Democratic gubernatorial primary, In which Carmnck wns defeat ed. For some time the ex-Senator had been editor of the Tennesseean nnd bad III Start. Two young college men were spending their summer vacation in the testing' room of a large electric manufacturing works, where they were able to supple ment their studies by practical applica ; t""1 . .- ' f "... ' w. m :. '-e-? : m J'f i I t ii-tr w.. ,,.,., . a.a, y. 1, t HE TUHEfl BROTHER 3. f: !' W' I "x it f" Y EX-SENATOB EUWAHO CARMACK. beeu very caustic, editorially, lu criti cising what he called the Democrtlc machine. In this conuetlon he printed several editorials In which he named Duncan C. Cooper, flaying the latter unmercifully. Recently Cooper warned Carmack that these editorial criticisms of himself must cease. Carmack. how ever, made nnothcr bitter attack on Cooper and the shooting wus. the result L'dward Carmack was born near Cas- tlllau Springs, Tenn., Nov. 5, 1858. After an academic education he studied law and practiced In Columbia, Tenn., ind was a member of the Legislature la 1SS4. He was a delegate to the Demo cratic National convention of lS'Jil and" a member of Congress, 1S!)7-1'.)01, from tlto 'Ci.iaHi Tun jl!fi...fr ITa artfv , lit A V IIIU .IV ... utnuii i, 11C . ed in the United States Senate for six years, being defeated for re-election In the primary n little over a year ago by former Governor Robert Love Taylor. Senator Carmack then resumed tht practice of law In Memphis, which was :lien his home, but within a few months removed to Nashville. He opposed Gov ernor Patterson for the Democratlt gubernatorial nomination, championing he cause of State-wide prohibition. 'arniack was defeated. Shortly after his defeat, Mr. Carinack accepted tht tlitorship of the Nashville Tenuesseean. Not Far to I'uIIo.t. The choice of favorite character of Ictlon Is generally determined by sen timent, but Harry Lord, who Is in bis lirst year at high school, Is too practi cal to let sentiment rule him. "Had an F.ugllsh test to-day," he re marked Incidentally at the supper ta ble. "Had to name ten characters In 'Ivanhoe,' and follow our favorite char acter through the story." "Who was your favorite?" asked Mr. l 11,-lOKllJV . "Athelstane!" repeated the father, la amazement. "Why?" "Because he died In the middle of the book.". Lots of bad people are found In JaU) and some worse ones are found out