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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1908)
Dakota County Herald DAKOTA CITT, KEB. JOHN U. REAM, ... pnbllatier Isn't It about time for another change fhl the style of our 2-eent poatago tamp On trsnble with a universal lan guage Is that no many men could not Stay at borne leng enough to learn It A Bootoa woman Is suing for divorce McanM her husband threw a pie In her fact. It must not have hit the right The people of France arc drifting around te the point where thoy are In favsr ef more babies for other people. TradltUa seems to have sustained a hard jolt through the fact thnt It was tot the German empress who talked too Much. now the Oar of Russia must despise the Emperor of Germany for permlt ting a legislative body to lay down roles of conduct for him 1 A Kansas man who married a school pa'am complains that his wlfo always a "nme a dictatorial attitude whenever the bears the school bell ringing. Now who would ever nave suspected that such a kindly disponed old soul as Uncle Edward of England would have "taken the troublo to pester anybody? We caa see no reason why anybody 'Aoiild seek t kill the Kaiser by wreck ing the royal train, or in any other way. lie Is a good and obedient mon arch. A fella w doesn't always know where to place his sympathy. A Massachu setts man with fifty children was ar rested for aon-atipport of recently ar rived twins. John D. Rockefeller's testimonials to bis Bon-coerslve- methods In arqulrlng rival companies as the "kind I have al ways used j I have used no other' will sound familiar to the readers of soap Advertisements. Prince voa Buclow refers to Germany as n parvenu among the nations. There are many people who will And It diffi cult ta tmdersnnd how Germnny can feel hurt owing to the fact thnt she Is blamed for being young. Sometimes a man proves that he is great through his ability to recognize greatness In others. It is In this way thnt ItoRwell won JiJs fame. The city of Litchfield,-England, the blrthpluco of Johnson, bus lately erected a statue of , Boswell near that of Johnson himself. t Boswuirs "Life of Johnson" Is still re garded as the greatest biography In history. China can never go back into the dark. It has been brought too far into contact with th world of Ideas and ctlosi now to rovert to the ancient type. It may be several generations before western Ideas are firmly planted In tlie Chinese soil, but, nevertheless, there has been a great work of preparation there to Insure an eventual rooting of ClvlUsatloa as the West conceives the term. Cooking schools are an old story, and apeclal courses in domestic science have een la operation for soma years In Juore than one city. Probably the first Institution, already established for gen eral culture, to undertake household economics for women Is King's College, London. The university housewife will receive her degree for three years' Work in all that a mlBtress of a home Seeds to know, from laboratory prao ;ce In acmbblng to the theory of home jdecoratlon and the law of landlord a:.d tenant When George Grey Barnard's statues were exhibited recently n the Boston Art Museum, one piece, The Hewer," was set up outdoors on a plot of green. This Is said to be the first case of a temporary exhibit of statuary In a pub lic square, and It establishes a sug gestive precedent. Will not more people ee a work of art If It is placed on a thoroughfare than in a museum, and may not the tinio coino when exhibits of statues will pass fr.ira one public Bark to another throughout the coun try? ' What can be done with Intensive farming and irrigation is shown In circular recently Issued by the Commer cial Club of,' North Yakima, Wash. One farmer received tun thousund dol lars for the apples from his fifteen ere orchard. Apples sell for a dolliir and a quarter a box. and the yield runs from five hundred to two thousand boxes an acre. The man who raised the ten-tbouHund-dollar npple crop sold fhe yield from fifteen cherry trees for two hundred and forty dollars. Another received forty-five hundred dollars for the peaches which he raised on three and a hulf acres; a third sold his nlno cre pear crop for the km me amount, and atlll another got eleven hundred nd fifty-five dollars from tlireo acres f potatoes. The Yakima valley la ic cullarly adapted to frult-ralslng, but there Is no reason why Tinners else where may not Increase the yield of their land by adopting some of the tnethods successfully used there. They have a "banker's row" at Jo!l"t prison, and It has leen Chicago's fnr one to furnish most of lis Inmates, jfkeusland is there. Van Vlisslngcn Is How there. In Van . Vllssiiigen's raso fh machinery of the law had no ol.sta ftem. No high priced lawyers fought to gave the culprit from punishment on flimsy technicalities. The guilty man's ConaMciio saved the stHte Hie time mid expense of a long trial. These trage dies in the business world, read their wn lesson. A curecr of crime can only b prolonged to a tcrtalu limit. It is fortunate when the crush come before Innocent victim have widespread hard ship and misery Inflicted on iliein. Hut jtbe crabb will come soouvr or later. Like others of his class, Van Tllsstn gen'e first wrong step led htm to take others. His "endless chain" of Irregu larities was not endless, after all. In his esse the losers are fortunately not small bank depositors. But a man of his type Is as demoralizing to the bnsl ness world as the robber of bank sav ings or the swindler of widows oud orphans. It Is a high tribute to the general Integrity of the financial world that moral lapses, as In Van Vllsnln gen's case, evoke no maudlin sympathy. Swift and stern justice Is the only safe deterrent for others with a tendency toward dalliance with temptation. A felon's cell must be made a grim reality for crimes of this nature. The higher the former estate, and the greater the fall, the more certainly Is the adage that "The wages of sla Is death" proved true. At the rate scientists are discovering tho germ causes of various diseases In pretty much every kind of food of hu man consumption It Is likely to become a serious question how a man may eat at all and maintain a healthy body. The vegetarians havtl done their best to de pict tho terrors of a meat diet and now tho vegetarians are confronted by a Buffalo pliyslelan who has It all worked out that vegetables cause cancer. Can cer, off and on, has been laid to to mntoes, oysters and lager beer. Now this physician, In a paper read to the Buffalo Academy of Medicine, lays It to cabbage, celery, onions, lettuce and the like. Ills contention Is that the com mon garden worm Is the source of the parasite which produces cancer. The worm crawls over the vegetable, Infect ing the plant Even boiling, It Is de clared, will not kill the parasite. Beset on every hand by some terror. It seems to le a problem In this poor, old, germ Infected world whether to starve to death or take one of the parasite or bacilli routes. There certainly Is rea son In nature, If we must accept all the theories and "discoveries," for the new school of psychological dicta rlans which holds that the cravings of appetite and tho Inner man may be satisfied In the main without any tangible, physical form of food. Once the psychological theory Is established on a practical basis, however, watch bt for somebody to discover the germs of measles, diph theria, apjiendicltls and a lot more nll ments In the psychic waves that operate to appease hunger. Ilooplnv Cough. A great many popular errors have .fathered round this little disorder. To begin, the name may be written "whooping" or "hooping" at choice. It Is based on tho peculiar nolso made by the sufferer when drawing In his brenth after each paroxysm of coughing. The "hooping". Is not always present In fants under 12 mouths seldom make this noise. The essentials are violent fits of coughing, carried out until the sufferer appears almost choking, and al ternating with periods of complete free dom. Iu an ordinary cold In the throat in bronchitis, and In consumption the cough is sometimes quite short, but in hooping cough it Is never short. Hooping cough Is always infectious, and, while It Is perfectly true that the germs become less virulent in the open air, they never cease to be Infectious even when a patient Is treated alto gether by the open-air cure. Undoubted ly fresh air does the sufferer good, but keen winds and damp do harm. Henco ono should send a child out only on clear, calm and otherwise pleasnnt days. It Is better for a child to be up than in bed.' Hooping congh may at tack persons of any age, although most frequent In childhood. There Is a belief that hooping cough can occur only once in life. This is an error. Not any Infectious disease con fers absolute immunity from further attacks. Some persons mnke light of this disorder, thinking that It never turna out fatally, but it does. It mny start bronchitis or rupture a blood ves sel. A child suffering from this disor der should be put Into a sunny room, s high In the house and as Isolated from the rooms of the other children as may be possible. The best tempera ture 1b 00 degrees Fahrenheit, day and night. Milk diet Is iM-st. f'auaea of llaldnvaa. In some canes It Is because, mental strain robs the scalp of the nervous in fluence necessary for nutrition; In oth ers, because the scalp Is poisoned by the things ruhlied In, by decomposing secretions on Its purface, and by keep ing in the perspiration thnt should bs nl! .wed to evaporate. This last takes place when hats, false hair howeVer railed and other things prevent free ventilation. The electric light Is In jurious to some scalps, causing a rnpld fall of hair. The poisons in the system that bring about gout and rheumatism will cause loss of hair. All these cases" are marked at the first by slight thin ning over the entire scalp, most mark ed as a rule u tlio temples and tho cnwn. Apart from Internal tonics and other medicines intended to benefit the gen eral health, all such cases can be cured when taken early, by the cuse of com mon t'leau'Juess. free ventilation, hair foists iiikI stimulants. Hut there Is quite another class In which the falling Is not general. It Is llmlli'd to one or more spots. These Income quite Wild, and they enlurge. .Sometimes they Increase In number and merge Into one another. In bad cases every hair ou the Iwdy may fall out.. This Is patchy baldness, and will not yield to the measures outlined. It de mands the persevering use of some powerful 'germicide." like carbolic add In solution. Tint stronger the solution In, short of causing a sure spot, the bet ter will be the result . . . . . SKIBO'3 LOVABLE HOSTESS. Mm. Anilre.fr Carnla-le Koprrtlin F.rrrf Detail of llr Home. One of tho happiest women and most Meal wives In the world Is Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, If one may believe the friends In this country and In Scot land who pay homage to her many lov able qua 1 Hies. She Is essentially a womanly woman, but for all that she follows a regimen as rigid as any sol dier's In her home life at Fklbo, as In New York and Pittsburg. There are many servants at Rklbo and In the Fifth avenue mansion, but every detail of the home conies under the direct supervision of the mistress. She has hours as rigidly kept as a fashionable practitioner's when she re ceives the butler, "the house mother," a sweet Highland way of talking of the prosnlc office of housekeeper, and other heads of domestic departments, the groom nnd the gardeners and the stewards. Mrs. Carnegie Is fond of outdoor life nnd Intensely Interested In all that means better health for rich nnd poor. But she has never gone In for athletics nor anything- which might be called fads. She Is devoted to music and, like her husband, she prefers organ music to any other variety. It has been observed that recently a large por tion of Mr. Carnegie's benefactions are taking the shape ofN One pipe organs for poor churches. Mrs. Carneglo wns his Inspiration. She frequently dwells on the divine property of music In soothing sorrow nnd uplifting the soul, and she has often remnrked that she pities a congregation which Is suffer ing from a wheezy organ from the bot tom of her heart. Whenever she hears of nn afflicted organ, she takes the mat ter In hand. She Investigates In a quiet, systematic way the resources of tho congregation, nnd when she finds that a good musical instrument entails Yp-ti- ;, ... o it Wfi too heavy a demand, she Influences Mr. Carnegie In the matter of supplying the deficiency at least In part. ON THE LOOKOUT. Fraldoat Anionic Tlioav Who Inhabit the Ilea; low of Tornatlnra. In tho region where tornadoes are common, which Is a pretty large terri tory, nearly every family has ono mem ber who has a highly developed fear of storms, says a western newspaper writer. When warm weather nnd the cyclone put In their appearance the senry one begins the preparation of a safe retreat, probably in the cellar un der 'the house; or If he happens to be a XUl degree member of the Amalgamat ed Order of Fraldcats he has u cave lined with re-enforced concrete con structed somewhere In the back yard. In bis cave or cellar retreat the cow ard puts a bed, and If he has It bud he Is apt to lay In a stock of provisions and a barrel of water. I luring the day the other members of the family have a good deal of fun chaffing tho coward ; but he gets even at night by disturbing their slH-p. Among other peculiarities of the cy clone coward Is an c:tleul Illusion which potiMcsaea him about the time the bass begin to bite. From then until harvest time every cloud be sees as sumes a funnel shape and he Is sure we are going to have a twister. And ho'uever misses a cloud. When ho sees one he gets up, gathers up his clothes and the Insurance pajHTi and proceeds to try to herd the fumlly to safety. If the coward happens to be the man of the house he sometimes sumt'ds In dragging the sleeping wife and children to the cellar while he looks out the door until a gentle summer shower be gins to fall. But If the coward Is the wife she never has much suit-ess with the old man beyond getting htm angry, and boeaiwo of her duty to the children she takes theul to the 'fratd dole, aban doning the husband to Itls fate and sleep. About ouca In 2,000,000 times the ef cione cowara nmies a good net, and then his name Is numbered with the survivors. But it costs him a lot of good sleep. FIGHTING TUB EB.CULOSIS. The Modern Frrnh-AIr Pavilion an What It Arcomallnhes. It may be said thnt to-day the cura tive treatment of tutnreulosls finds It self little departed from the principles of Hippocrates, who 400 years before Christ advlacd patients to "go Into the hills and drink goats' mllsV' Modern methods with tulereuloslB are still largely advisory and are regulated by the four essentials: Air, food, rest con trol, says the American Bevlew of Re views. And, although this regimen Is filled out by certnln measures tending to alleviate and aid, without these four essentials the physician of to-day la able to do little. The International con gress on tuberculosis, which meets at Washington this fall, will have nothing beyond to offer. The single specific for tuberculosis Is yet to be found. Of course, "new cures" are evolved constantly. We have had the '.'vege-table-julce" cure, the "stuffing" treat ment nnd various "Inhalations." But one nnd nil prove, upon real trial, to be either worthless or else of only su perficial value. However, It must not be con jectured that the curative treatment of tuberculosis has not advanced. The principles are as ever, but they are be ing more thoroughly applied and their effectiveness furthered. An unremit ting study Is being made for a better understanding nnd appreciation of the fresh air nnd proper food, the rest, the careful supervision. Fresh air maintains Its position as first among the requirements In the treatment of tuberculosis. Thnt the fresh air may be unimpeded nnd ab solutely incapable of contamination the outdoor pavilion is assuming the per- fect type. The tent Is losing ground, not even the most radical styles can be fully ventilated at all hours of all seasons with the precision of the mod ernly constructed pavilion. The, tent Is hotter than the pavilion, colder than tho pavilion and damper than the pa vilion. The pavilion Is also being ac corded precedence over the cottage plan. Hard to llrlleve. More than half the surface of the globe Is hidden beneath water two miles deep; 7,(HK),(HK) senate miles Ho at a deptii of 1S.00O feet or more. Many places have heeu found live miles und more in depth. The greatest depth yet sounded Is 31,'00 feet, near tho Island of (iuam. If Mt. Everest, tho world's highest mountain, were plucked from Its seat aud dropped Into this spot tho waves would tstlll roll I'.OOO feet above Its crest. Into this terrible abyss the waters press down with a force of more thau lO.tHK) iKiunds to the square li.ch. The NtuunchcHt ship ever built would bo crumbled under this uwful pressure like an egg shVll under a steam roller. A pine beam 13 feet long, which held open the mouth of a trawl used lu. making a cast at a depth of more than, lS.(MK) feet was crushed flat, as if H had bicn passed between rollers. The IsKly of the man wlv should attempt to venture to such depths would be compressed until the tleli wus forced Into tho Interstices of the bones aud his trunk was no larger than a rolllng-piu. Still, the body would reach the bottom, for anything that will sink in a tub of water will bluk ty the uttermost depths of tho (tulla tha Contrary. The Sympathetic Friend It must be very hard to lose money at the races. Smith (a plunger) Hard! Hang It old chap, It's tlu easiest thing lu the world! Ixindon Opinion. A wan Is only deceiving himself when he thinks he la deceiving hla wife. DAMKOSCH SAYS MUSIC TAKES THOUGHTS AWAY FROM THE LITTLE THINGS. A eood-by kiss is a little thing. With your hand on the door to go. But it takes the venom out of the sting Of a thoughtless word of a cruel fling That you made nn hour ago. A kiss of greeting is sweet and rare After the toil of the day; And it smooths the furrows plowed by care, The lines on tho forehead you once called fair In the years that have flown away. Tis a little tiling to say, "You are kind; I love you, my dear," each -night ; But it sends a thrill through the heart, I find For I)vo is tender and Love is blind As we climb life's rugged height. We starve each other for love's caress; We take, but we do not give; It seems so easy some soul to bless, But we dole the love grudgingly, loss and less, Till 'tis bitter and hard to live. Andrew I-ang. 1 TELLING FORTUNES The girl broke the silence that had fallen upon tho two persons in the rather formnl room known as the "par lor." "I want so much to read your palm," she said. "I've been studying palm istry for nearly a week und I know Just lots. Of course I'm not like n pro fessional, but. anyhow, I think It's fun You won't mind, will you?" Tho young man, who seemed rather anxious than otherwise to submit his fate to her Judgment, ylelditl his palm. "My, what a nice big hand!" she cried admiringly. "It's better to hnve big hands than little or Is It little than big? Anyhow, you have a splendid line of life. It looks as though you might live to be 00. Aren't you glad?" "Thntf depends," the young man said "Is yours a long one?" "You'll be very successful In the law," she went on. "And even make money in It" "Look here!" broke In the young man.. "You're reading from what you know. I've bfen a lawyer for a long while." "Yes, but look at this line!" she cried triumphantly. "That means the law." "That Isn't a line. That's where I cut myself on the sardine can last month at the picnic," ho said. "I near ly had blood poisoning and nobody paid any attention to It. Wasn't there a lovely moon, though?" "Looks as If you were going to have lots of trouble," she murmured. "Here's a line of Influence that's awfully strong, but I don't see any divorce or any thing." "I don't see any wife yet." he said, gloomily. "How's anybody to get a divorce If ho hasn't even got a wife?" "Oh, but you're going to get mar ried," she assured him. "But, of course, i i i.i 1 in 1 wt can't tell what she's like." "If you can't nobody can." "Please don't Interrupt. You hnve a ollow hand and that means dlsapiolnt meut, but you have a perfectly lovely fate Hue, and that means you're uever going to be disappointed. You'll never be a social sikikk." "I am crushed to learn It," he said dnlefully. "C'au't I take a course of correspondence sihool lessons on 'How to Be Liked? Ikm't you have to bold my hand to read It?" "It lau't necessary." "It keej8 slipping off the chair arm," he said. "Besides, when you take It the psychic circuit or something like that seems more complete, more satis factory." "You have lots of humus In your band," aha went on. unheeding. "It MUSIC AS A EIV0SCE CURE. THli FIT looks as if those that ought to be large arc small and those that ought to be small are large, but I'm not sure. You are going abroad." "Ask fate to. make It the wedding trip," he said. "Go on." "Ono journey ends in a disappoint ment' nnd on pne you are oing to be 111." "I'm always seasick. Go on." "You've always been strong, but your nails seem to Indicate heart trouble and nervousness." "That's right," he confessed. "One. causes the other, but neither is Incur nble If given proper care." "You've had lots of flirtations." , "There you know you're wrong." "Well," sho hesitated, "I'm not sure whether they're flirtations or only wor ries, but, anyhow, there they are." "A flirtation Is a worry." "How do you know?" she asked. "Here's a thing that looks like a feath er duster. I wonder what that means?" "A clean sweep," he said. "The world Is mine." "Well, maybe," she wont on. "Jupi ter, Mercury and the sun are all nice and big." "I seem to possess all the planets. I suppose you think I want the earth?" "You can make speeches nnd you are going to die a long way from your birthplace." "And all nlono? Is there no one who will throw out the life line to me?" "Don't be foolish, for this Is serious. I wish I could remember whether or not It Is a good thing to have sticking out lines on the line of head." "Give me the benefit of the doubt. Now, tell me more nlKiut tho heart." "I never go back," she said definite ly. "I've finished with your heart." "Ileally?" he asked, drawing away his hand. "Wrlat are you going to do with it chuck It?" "I'lease give me your hand again." "No, I'd rather have yours," he said "I know I could read you a first-rate fortune. Let's see it." Reluctantly she held her palm out and he took It In his own. "These wlggly lines under your mid dle finger show you are going to marry a lawyer," he said. "Ajid your fate line says there's no use your squirm ing, for I'm going to keep this hand, no matter what you do. May I?" "I I don't seem able to help it" she faltered. "I can't get It away." "And don't want tor "Not not awfully much." "Come on, let's go out on tho porch," he said softly. "I can tell fortunes better out there." Chicago News, Is i v' lx "give me your uanu again." , ALL RjOVT - ILL CO Out and hake ITVPI Ton PRICE OF BACOU AND EGGS. A SLEEPER, BUT NO SLEEP. Ouaprvntloim of a Man AVho Went to Ileil In a Ilallrimd Station. "You can take the midnight train, you know," they told him, "and as they make up the berths early you enn go to sleep while the train is in the yard and probably you'll be f t home by the time you wake up." That seemed a fine plan, and the young man was very willing to get down to the train about 10 o'clock. Half an hour later he turned In, says I he New York Sun. Just ns he snuggled down Into the bed clothing a train rolled into the t.ta tlon on the track next to the one on; which the sleeper stood The bell on; the engine clanged monotonously, fill ing every corner of the overarching roof of the station with clamor. The long, rolling din of the bell, suddenly ceasing, gave way to a hissing of steam from the locomotive as the engineer performed goodness knows what nec essary operation with the boiler. The would-be sleeper turned over restlessly. The hissing stenm was not a bit less Insistent thnn the clanging of the bell had been nnd he wns heart l'y glad when It stopped. Over on n track two or three re moves from his train another locomo tive appeared to be waking up. Some miserable local train was making ready to leave. The puff, puff, puff of th curly strides of the locomotive wa followed by a louder crashing noise. Once more the man who was trj-lna to get to sleep turned over. He hauled up the blind nnd looked out. The loi cal was pulling out, but be could see; n light that showed another train com lng In. For the hour nnd half that the train had to stay In the station he sat up with his eyes glued to the window and; watch lu hand, Just counting hovr many Reconds of noiseless time he got Finally when they did rumble nnd roll out of the station n theatrical company on board the sleeper made so much, noise that he didn't have a chance to got to sleep until nearly, 1 o'clock. As he Is one of the unfortunates whe never can get to sleep on a sleeper when it Is moving you may imagine how grateful he felt to the railroad for opening up the berths early In a yard Jammed with nil sorts of aolsy traffic. , A Subatttute. Irish wit is as excellent as It is pro. verblal. A writer In the Mariner's Ad vocate tells the story of n ship doctor on an English liner who notified the death watch steward, a Hlbernlnn, that a man had died In stateroom 45. The usual Instructions to bury tho body were given. Some hours later the doc tor peeped into the room nnd found' that the body wns still there. Ha called the matter to the attention, of the Irishman, who replied : "I thought you said room -PI. I wlnt In ther and seen wan of thlm In a bunk. 'Are ye dead?' says I. 'No,' says he, 'but I'm pretty near dead." So 1 was getting ready to bury him." A l.nion ol Defeat. Oh, the way won't be so gloomy when you've learned to say good-by To take your leave of buged hopes with clear, undaunted eye ; To stand beside the grave of dreams where sorrow laid your heart, determined, though the heavens fall, to- make another start! Birmingham Age-Herald. laconalatencr, "Pa, what Is the meaning of incon sistency?" asked Freddy. "Inconsistency, my son," exclaimed pa, "means a man who growls all day and then goes home and kicks the dog for burking at night." Said IbU, Sli picked herself from the debris. And said to her friends: "Look at inla f And her friend merely said, Ai she twisted ber haid And looked at her dress: "Hull glsl" Houston Post. COFFf IS MI " TO DRINK