Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA. GOT, WEO.
90XIS IL ItEAM,
rvbllotier1
The way England Is building irnttle
hips surely beats the Dutch.
The kaiser Is not satisfied with hia
salary, but ho has not gone bo far as
to declare a strike.
E. II. Harrlnian weighs only 141
pounds, but th( re Is litllo waste mat
ter In his make up.
A Baltimore man has erected a mon
ument to Adam. No let's start a
lund to bring hia bones back home.
Canillle Flammarion's hoat-produc-Ins
well is a mighty fine Idea, but tiie
chesty coal men still decline to be
stampeded.
Ask a small boy to do something
and usually he will say: "Jut wait
a minute." A man would put you oft
till next week.
A local critic claims that Poo wrote
"Tim Haven" backward., Spinning
With the las-t Kianzi. It ifl a splendid
may to read it, too.
The average American consumes
82 V6 pounds of sugar a year. And yet
one occasionally meets a man who acts
as If he had never tasted sugar.
Caruso Is said to have hurt his
voice by sinking Into the phonographs.
The voice usually comes back out ol
the phonograph with a sprain In It.
Now t hat a fertilizer trust Is being
organized, of course something ought
to be e id about Buch an organization
probably being In bad odor tmt let It
pass.
Count Hon! Is coming to America to
bunt grizzly bears. Perhaps he has
In Bonie way absorbed the Idea that
the grizzly bear and the Teddy bear
re Identical.
Army enlistments have been Buffi
clent of late to bring that branch of
the service up to Its full capacity, but
It Is understood that Mr. Ilobson Is
not quite satisfied with the navy.
"Twenty years from now," declares
one of the scientists, "we'll all be fly
ing." He may be right, but It will be
prudent to go right on In our efforts
to have cheaper shoe leather. Just the
same.
In the ages to come, when all the
coal mines have been exhausted, the
rich cargoes on the bottom of the Ohio
river from Pittsburg down will havo
to be drawn upon to supply the needs
of mankind.
Camilla Flatnmarlon declare that
signaling to Mars Is possible. Still,
nobody can positively assure us that
anybody on Mars Is going to know
what we mean when we get our sig
nals to reach that planet.
Professor Arlo Bates says, says he,
that a book which Is not worth read
ing twice, Is not worth reading once.
Perhaps the professor will explain how
one 1b to determine, without reading
a book the first time, whether It will
boar a second perusal.
The United States Circuit Court has
handed dowa a decision In Philadel
phia that tha driver of an automobile
is bound not only to follow the ordi
nary rule of "stop, look and listen"
when he reaches a railroad crossing.
but If necessary must get out and
waia to the track, as does the con
ductor of a street car. Thla decision
la based upon the emlnontly sensible
ground tbut "when the nasslna: vehicle
Is a ponderous steel structure, It
threatens not only the safety of Its
- own occupants, but also those on the
colliding train." i
Yellow Journalism Is now a thing
or me paBt or has faded to a mild
ecru shade beside the saffron hue of
many books and magazines. The
Jaundiced magazlnlst spatters bis
color with a reckless abandon. You
can almost feel the chrome tints spat,
ter on your face as you scan hU mmr.
antlne effusion. You cannot got by
him. Epithet, metaphor and annlmrr
are mixed into one chromatic mass on
bis palette and then slammed against
ins canvas with the snluree nf
barker at a circus sideshow. To sav
be indulges in exaggeration is to
Bieak tamely. He piles Pellona nf
hyperbole on Ossas of turgeseence. If
bis colors do not scream loud enough
to arrest your attention he bludgeons
you with his figurative mahlutlck into
noticing tneir prismatic effects.
Seldom has the birth of a child been
of bo much national and International
Importance as the recent birth of a
princess of the Netherlands. The pres
ent queen herself was the only child
of King Wlllem III.; was born when
ber father was sixty-three years old
and had reigned thirty-one years; and
if King Wlllem had died without dl
rect Issue, the crown would have ln-en
worn by a German prince. The same
result would have followed If Queen
Wllhelnilna haj died childless, and
thut would have been to the Dutch
people a great national calamity. Not
only would their beloved House of Or
aiie, with Its long line of sovereigns,
have become extinct, but the stranger
who would conio to rule over them
would be a prince of an alien race,
and of that wry race from which the
Dutch people believe they have the
most to fear. A glance at the map o:
Europe will show tlu.i who ure inos
unfamiliar with European polities why
tbit Is The little kingdom of the
Netho; lands biiuu oif t'.ie German Em
plre fieri all but a short nt!p or the
North Sta eoi t. vi (lie resistance
which the kin -(lo.n can off r the only
obstacle, no iiii' doubts thut Germany
woulJ soon titi'l a pretext for absorb
ing It. Hut titer,.- i;ro other powers,
and particularly Great Ilrltain, which
would oppose xtK'h a move, and the
German Emperor Is not one to pro
a treat war to obtain that which
to doubt every German covets. Bit
If the throne of the Netherlani'l
should bo occupied, by a German
prince, the Internal opposition to an
nexation would be weakened, and that
might ultimately be accomplished
without war which st present Is Im
possible. So the little princess has
been wvleomd lwause the Dutch peo
ple love their royal house and their
charming queen, and localise they see
in the helpless Infant a security for
their national Independence,
To wreck a home Is a serloiM
offense. To lead n wife and mother
at. tray Is a black-hearted crime, and
the criminal deserves severe puntsh
inent. Hut suspicion and gossip bm
not proof. Even the confession of one
of the parties Is not. conclusive as
against the other, for confessions are
sometimes obtained by terrorism or
promise of forgiveness, which confesn
to more than the truth. If otw of the
nccused parties Is shot down In hi.i
tracks 'vilhout an opiortunlty of dec
fence or explanation, the murderer is
not entitled to the benefit which might
necrue to him if the guilt of the vic
tim were absolutely proved. The dan
ger of admitting the so-called "unwrit
ten law" as a defense In murder cases
Is not only that It substitutes private
vengeance for the proper ministration
of the law, but that It oimtib tiie way
for trumped up cases of wrong-doing
to excuse murder. It is conceivable
that a husband and wife might con
spire to put an enemy of either or
!oth out of the way by bringing
against him a false; accusation. It
may bo said that a womnn would not
sacrifice her good name to please her
husband or save another lover. Such
cases are very rare, but they have been
known. The whole principle of our
criminal law Is that an accused per
son has a right to be confronted with
his accuser and with the evidence, and
given an opportunity to make his de
fence. The private executioner af
fords him no such opimrtunlty. The
unwritten law us an excuse for ier
sotinl vengeance Is a relic of barbarism
that should not be tolerated In a
civilized country. The Sicilian brlg
ands hold the principle that it
s more honorable to revenge Injuries
iy assassination than to resort to the
courts. The American Juryman who
icrmlts the doctrine of the "unwritten
law" to sway his verdict Is nutting
lfmself on the moral plane of the
Sicilian brigand.
Pure butter will not melt under a
tomierature of 35 degrees, when it
will leave a sweet and wholesome
liquid, but adulterated butter melts at
8$ into a liquid with a repulsive
odor.
A pressed Bteel boat, into perfora
tions of which is forced under hy
draulic pressure granulated cork until
the entire surface is covered, a recent
Invention, is claimed to be unslnk
able. What promises to be one of th
greatest competitions of light agricul
tural motors that ever has taken place
in North America will be held at the
Winnipeg Industrial exhibition in
July.
The Argentine government has be
gun the development of a new petrol
eum field on the east coast of Pata
gonia on its own account, and is se
curing a good grade of fuel oil from
a depth of 1770 feet.
By using two highly sensitive
pendulums suspended In a well a Ger
man scientist has found that the stir
face of the earth rises and falls about
8 inches every twenty-four hours, hav
ing tides similar to the oceans.
Experiments by the United States
Forest Service have demonstrated that
thoroughly alr-drled timber has about
doublo the strength of green timber.
Moreover, in order effectively to ap
ply preservative agents to timber 11
must first be sensoned, because it la
very difficult to Inject antiseptics in
green wood. The loss of weight by
seasoned timber Is quite surprising.
Western pine loses half its weight
after three to five months' seasoning.
The railway tunnel which Is being
constructed under the Detroit Rivet
possesses some novel features. It will
consist of two steel tubes, running
side by side 42 feet below the rrver
surface. Each tule has a diameter
of 16Vd feet. To receive the tulws, a
trench, 48 feet wide at the bottom, Is
dug In the clay of the river bottom,
and bedded with a grillage of steel
and concrete. On this the tulies are
laid. The tubes are made In lengths
of 26 feet, and are Joined by sleeves 17
Inches In length, When completed
the tubes will be embedded In con
crete all round. Trains are to le run
through the tunnel by electricity.
The traditional mountain of the ark
always charms the Imagination, as it
It were the culminating point of the
globe. And It Is Indeed a noble-look-Ing
mom, tain, as shown In a photo
graph recently made by E. A. Martel,
the French geologist and explorer.
Mount Ararat is becoming better
known because of the growth of In
terest In the eastern shore of the
lllaek Sea, which Monsieur Martel
calls Russia's Riviera. Pleasure re
sorts, which may rival Bltirrlts and
Monte Carlo, are springing up there
along the foot of the Caucasus. Ara
rat Is not visible from this coast, but
one must go far up through rough,
picturesque valleys In order to reach
the lofty plain over which It domin
ates. A lln)'a of I'nr i.
Not long ago n clat.s of boys In ur,
elementary scbool bad nn essay set,
the subject being "Clergymen."
Tliis Is what one youngster wrote:
"There me 3 kinds of clergymen,
Bishups, renters find curats. the blsh
ups tells the reefers to work, ami the
cuntts hae to do It. A curat Is a thlti
married man. but when he Is a leeter
be gets fuller and can preach longer
sermons and bennna a good num."
London Kemps.
If we didn't have to work
would be no fun In loafing.
thert
Opinions of
SCHOOL CARD EH WORK.
HE sthool garden work of the past few
yearj has not only given the school build
ings tlMunselvcs more attractive mirround
Ings, but It has bi-en the nu:aris of do
veloplng In the children a sense of pro
prlotorshlp In kite grovjng things, and of
Inspiring an embryon civic spirit that
promises well for the Washington of a few years hence.
It Is Impossible to estimnie the benefits which the city
has gained from this work, modestly started, and for a
season or two conducted under discouraging difficulties,
but loyally persisted in by the teachers until it has came
to be recognised as one of the important brandies of
school work. The direction of the children's attention
on a certain dajr to the Importance of the vine aa a
means of improvement Is In the line of wholesome edu
cation, and every adult In the district should cinuLTte
the example whkh the youngsters will set day after to
morrow. Washington Star.
THE ART OF JURY-IIAKING.
HE ArnrU an art of Jury-making was a Jeet
Anil A Brcirirl.-il 0vi,n lmfnro ,,rTVift ritl.lwl
II Age" depicted Its technique, thirty-six
1 -V ' . - .1 , . . . I -
ivui imi ti u;iy mucu uve hh-u
out of court tseased lau Thing at or bewail
ing its Imbecilities, or men In court ben
able to restrain their anger over the do-
lays and Injustlee corned by the search tor talesmen
"without prejudice." Yet judges are still faread to per
mit attorneys to toll along in the name old rut, as
though It were a sacred way. A week was spent
bunting Jurors for the H.itns trial. Five wore chesen,
after 177 citizens had been tediously cross-examined, and
to secure two more 150 additional talesmen had to bo
called. Ab Boon as they expressed any knowledge a'oont
anything they were forthwith bundled off again. The
dreary old procedure should le made to yield to a meth
od that geta a Jury together as expeditiously as In
Europe or New Jersey. New York Evening Post.
THE FAR-SEEING SULTAN.
BDUL HAM ID must surely live after he
I shall have been hastened
r&L I abdication in the minds
uicu an lit-: uiJiriiLt-uous ul cuuuillg. lie Vitus
been tiie John D. Rockefeller of Turkey,
playing not. only the bold game for power
and wealth, but arranging for a safe and
easy cushion upon which to light in case of miahan.
The pillagers of the Imperial palace at Ylldlz have
mado several Interesting discoveries In the late Sultan's
private affairs. One of them Is that it was Abdul
Hamld's custom to keep large Bums of money In banks
abroad, using a confidential agent to make the depotdta,
German banks held no less than $10,000,000. Great Britain
and France have been his bunkers, and a short time
ago the old fox placed his confidence in certain instl
tutlons in New York.
The Eastern desjiot has, in common with Presidents
of Latin America, a purely selfish interest In ruling.
G0ENQ OUT TO DINNER.
Mrs. Coburn bad decided at the last
minute to go to town In tbe morning
with her htiBband. ne fretted while
she got ready, and together they
rushed for the eight-fifteen, only to
find themselves, much to Coburn's un
acknowledged discomfiture, in plenty
of tlmo. His impatience lie expressed
In a tirade agalnet the slowness of
women in dressing, and the unneces
sary fuss they made about their
clothes. A writer in tl Chicago News
tells the story.
"My dress suit oones home from the
tailor to-day," lie said to hte wife as
they parted. "Ill get there at flTe
thlrty, bo we can mart for that dinner
in plenty of time. And, Bose, do start
to dress before the hurt mlnirte!"
At twenty-five minutes to six Coburn
mug the bell furiously and lone. The
maid and Mrs. Coburn artrvsd at the
door simultaneously.
"Thought you'd never come," he
said, as he flung himself out of hia
overcoat and dropped it da tlte etaire.
"I must have lost ray latch key. Did
the tailor send my sultT oh, there's
the box. Looks all right but yon
never can tall. Wliere on earth are
my dress shirts? I haven't one In
Bight"
He panned as his wife took hhi
hands out of the bureau dsawer, which
he was frantically pawing from ttfp
to bottom.
"Not in there," Bite pafcl. "That's
the drawer your sot Its and handker
chiefs are kept in. Here they are!"
"Oh!" he exclaimed, slightly molli
fied. "Aren't yon dresned yet. Hes
I wish you'd put in the links and
buttons for me. Aial any, will yoi
bunt up my ties?
"AhR Mary to see if the imtent
leather polish is down-stairs, will you,
and telephone BUI not to nte out
this evening. I forgot to tell' hlni we
wouldn't be home!"
Mrs. Coburn, In ber klmouo, and
with her hairpins In her hambi, flew
one wny and Mary flew th other. The
roar of running water nnd mighty
splash Ings came from the bath-room.
"You've got those buttons In
wrong!" lie cried, presently, "Still
In thnt kimono? You'll he late, sure
as fate!"
He emptied the tailor's box and pro
ceeded to don hrs new clothes. A
groan brought Mrs. Coburn to find him
twisting his head round perilously and
staring Into tlte mirror with an an
guished face.
"Awful!" lie moaned. "Clve. tbein
away burn them up -they den t fit!"
"Now, Harold," wild bis wife, re
Btrulningly, "what Is the trouble? Of
course that coat wrinkles when you
twist yourself up like that?"
"Can't you see?" he stormed, "the
roat's ruined! It's cut too low In the
neck! Tbe shoulder hunches! Ixiok at
the sag here! And the trousers are too
tight! That mau a tailor? lie ought
to be breaking stones!"
"I-ct me hold tbe mirror ami you
stand still and tako a look," command
Id his wife.
He did so, and then coughed.
"It'll have to do for to-nlgbt." he
said. "Where's my hat? Ill bet it's
till packed away in moth ball, Oh,
Great Papers on Important Subjects
He Is a patriot only when It is absolutely convenient
for political purpows. The power, the luxnry, the Ori
ental love for oonoent rated and anemployrd wealth
r.loas make the throne attractive. The fultan did no
little to improve Ue Ate of bis oocntry, but travelers
Insist that he did tble reluctantly. He undertook rail
road building because it kept the soldier who did the
building busy and pUmed In parts ef tbe empire where
they could plot to little advantage. Weetern ideas en
tered tiie country slowly and It Is preof of the Sultan's
cnnnlug Uiat he long oppneed them, for when European
thought did beooxne widespread In Turkey it brought
alwut the fall of Abdul Hamld. Toledo Blade.
o
mi
in the 'United States, wae a tad. Certain writers and
teachers over the country became (or a time greatly in
terested in tbe subject, and the mittter reached the
beU'ht of its popularity when Preeldeut Rooeevelt in
dorsed it, and It was at that time that Andrrw Carnegie
was moved to invant some excels money In the progress
of this much needed reform.
And now the fad kue paesed. Such newspapers and
Journals or, adopted a portion ot tbe changes advised
by the Simplified Spelling Board have dropped the most
of them, and were ft not for the oooecintitious efforts
of the board to oar salaries and tbe oontimtal flooding
of newrpapere end tenchers with the IKerture setting
forth the chanpea which they allege are desirable in
the spelling of English words, the whole matter of sim
plified spelling would be as forgotten as the Interest
once felt In the me, ot Ann. Fort Worth Record.
ujKin his final
ot his oountry-
er, the Infant death rets Jumps up, and there Is a hue
and cry to "save the babies." But the babies in greatest
need of core have been lout before the summer work Is
undw way. The new plaa is to give them proper care
from the week of their arrrval, so that they may be
fortified aguinjtt tbe first descent of hot weather.
It is a beautiful and thorough-going scheme and high
ly to be commended for Its practical good Bense. But
It leaves an old-faahloued man rather gasping to know
what has become of the duties of parenthood, and Just
why they should end with a birth cerUficale. It Is,
however, a clear economic waste to allow children to die
because the homes into which they come are unable,
from ignorance or poverty, to bring them to healthful'
maturity. Brooklyn EagVe,
did yon get it down? It smells like a
drug Bhop. Aren't yon dressed yet?
I'll go down-etalra. and please hurry
up. Wonder where my overcoat la
ugh!"
Coburn tell over the overcoat at the
bottom of the stairs, and promptly
examined his new suit and shirt-front
for possible damages. His eye caught
tbe clock.
"Bees," lie yelled, "it's quarter of
seven! We've Just fifteen minutes to
drive four miles! You've had the
whole afternoon to dress "
"My dear boy," said his wife, sweet
ly, "you sit down and be quiet. Now
that I've got yon dressed, I'm going
to finish myself. That clock Is half an
hour fast. I set H ahead, and the one
up here, too, for I knew Just how
It would be when you started getting
ready."
Coburn sat down to wait without
a word. i'
LURE OF THE SOUTH POLE.
Aon(tth (ivocmpMral tUtclrj Fit.
tlmr Oat Aiitk Exiltton.
Dr. William B.uoe ot the Scottish
Oeeanographlcal society has given
further details of tbe new antarctic ex
pedition which be Is organizing, the
New York Evening Post says. Ha says:
"Seeing that Ross, Scott and
Shackleton have given us a good idea
of that part of the antarctic continent
facing New Zealand, it seems appro
priate that some one should attempt to
penetrate southward on the opposite,
or Atlantic, side, and this Is what I
propose to do. I fully realise the diffi
culties ahead, but the effort mnst be
made to reach the antarctic continent
in these longitudes and set up a sta
tion. This done, my base will be abou,t
300 miles farther from the pole than
Shockleton's or Scott's base. But once
we cross 74 degrees south, every Inch
of ground we cover is new, absolutely
untrodden by the foot of man. My be
liefs are:
"1. That there is an antarctic con
tinent twice the sine of Australia, scat
tered parts of the coast line of which
we know, notably Edward. Victoria,
Wilkes, Wllhelm, Enderby, Coats and
(i i aha in Itnds.
"2. That the greatest mass of the
antarctic continent lies on the Atlan
tic ocean side.
"3. That the backbone of antarctic
runs from Victoria to Graham Land,
with possibly a subsidiary range, the
leginnlnK of which Is the Alexandra
range, discovered by Shackleton, and
t lie end of which terminates at Ender
by Land, or a little east or west of it
"4. That there are three great lee
fields, one facing the I'ucltk" ocean, one
faring tbe Indian ocean and one fas
lug the Atlantic ocean.
"5. That the Pacific is the narrowest
and steepest ice Held, and that the
Atlantic b-e field is the broadest, mofit
gently sloping one.
"6. That the south pole Is fcftuated
en the Atlantic ice sheet on the Pa
cific sldo of which Shackleton traveled.
Tills attempt to cross tiie antarctic
continent, even If only partly buocvss
f nl. cannot fall to add more to our
knowledge of antarvtlea than any other
route."
People manage to keep all other fam
ily gossip private except wheu they
have been married more than once.
I This little history always leaks ouL
THE SIMPLIFIED SPEIXIJfC FAD.
NE of the silliest things that Andrew Car
nefle erer did with a portion of 'those
surplus million, upon tbe disbursement of
which ' depends his happy and peaceful
deathbed, waa to permanently endow a
simplified spelling beerd. Simplified spell
ing, lllae many another reform attempted
PARENTAL DCTIES FORGOTTEN.
HE doctors say that most of the babies of
B I at birth as any, but that the Bummer mor
a I ...it,., u , j.. , i . .
uj m.iumi& ukuu u uuo u improper ieeo
Ing and inadequate oft re. The babies born
In the spring, who thus become frail, buc
oumb to the first weeks of very hot weath
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WORTH TRYIKCI. X
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The terrible question, "Where shall
we siend the summer?" Is again ramp
ant. Xone the lees terrible to the de
ciding member of the family, perhaps,
are the numerous "beet places in the
world" which are freely and sincerely
recommended. The man in the fol
lowing story had a good answer, ac
cording to a writer in the Philadelphia
Record.
"I see the railroads have been rais
ing rates again," remarked a commu
ter to bis companion as they came
into the city on a Reading trnla.
"Ten," replied hia city frleud, "but
luckily for me. It is not goig to
affect my holidays any more than last
year, so I cannot complain."
"Oil. I haftrd you speaking about
your vacation last year gTet place,
I believer
"Yea. it was." ,
"Good table T
TJeet In the world. Wasn't a thing
I wanted I did not hove."
"Pleasant people?"
"Delightful, and the best of It was,
It was so lnfsrmal. We could do Jus'
an we pleased."
-Rentfuir
"I should say bo. Never was in a
pfooe I could rest better."
"Beda good?"
"Great! Private bath, too."
TT1 bet ft was expensive, though?"
"On the oontrnfr, It was the cheap
est holiday I ever bad."
"Goodnaes me. man, tell me where
It is!"
The ftsrtnsiate man drew a card from
his case, wrote the name on it and
handed It to his friend, who read,
"Home."
Tfce EafflUh Three R'a.
We are constantly being misunder
stood by tbe foreigners, says Clarence
Rook, and tbe Frenchmen of whom
the following story le told contrived to
do us something lees than Justice.
He had beea on a visit to this conn
try In order te study at first hand the
social manners of tbe English people.
On returning to bis native land he
was asked by a friend whether he had
discovered the meaning of tbe myste
rious "three R's."
"Oh. I found ont wba they were on
the first day of my visit!" said he.
"And what are they, then?"
ntlppln", rotten and rlght-o!" replied
the triumphant Frenchman. London
Marl.
A Short, 9a4 fMorp,
My cne went to the faotlty,
Ttwre was som small dhixeuiiienw
So first I waited In raspc-nse
Ttw-n wuited in mis pension.
YtiUi IbMVrd.
llu-d to rtoom,
Whom would yon rather entertain T'
at$ka the philosopher of roily, "a per
fectly stupid bore or a clever fellow
who has Just been abroad for the first
time?"
Twist priru ring anil piilrlicbl
The difference la fair
Tlx; mie in which men biff ail bang
And Bpar utid feint U jrirw.
Kaoimi City Tiiu.
Some marriages are eye-openers, and
some others are eye-cloeers.
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STRIKING FOR COMPANY.
A strike for higher wages or shorter
hours or more and better food Is com
prehensible, but one has to go to Mexi
co, writes C. M. Flandrau, In "Viva,
Mexico!" for a strike that Involves nei
ther a question of material advantage
nor of abstract principle. One after
noon, during the busiest season of the
year on a coffee-ranch, all the coffee
pickers, w ith the exception of one fam
ily, suddenly struck. When asked what
the trouble was, the spokesman, In a
florid and pompous address, declared
that tbey were "all brothers, and must
pick together, or not at all."
It came out during the Interview
that the father of the family who had
not struck had received permission for
himself, his wife and six small chil
dren to pick in a block of coffee by
themselves, and to this the others bad
been Induced to object.
Why they objected they could not
say, because they did not know. It
was explained to them that the man
had wished his family to work apart
for the sole and sensible reason that,
first, he and his wife could take bet
ter care of the children when they
were not scattered among the crowd;
and secondly, that as the trees of the
particular block he had asked to be
allowed to pick in were younger and
smaller than the others, the children
had less difficulty in reaching the
branches.
He had not only derived no financial
advantage fiom the change, he was
voluntarily making some sacrifice by
going to pick where the coffee, owing
to tlje youth of the trees, was less
abundant.
"Don't you see that this Is the truth
and all there Is to It?" the strikers
were asked.
"Tes."
"And now that It has been explain
ed, won't you go back to work?"
"No."
"But why not?"
"Because."
"Because what?"
"Because we must all pick togetb
sr. ALMA-TADEMA'S COMMISSION.
Some of Ilia Brat-Known Work la
Inc1nled In a Ilralrr'a Order.
"In 18G4," says the well-known ar
tist, Alma-Tadema, In the Strand, "I
received a visit from the English plo
ture dealer, Gambart II prlnclpe Gam
bartl, as they used to call him In Italy.
He was the picture dealer par excel
lence of this day and was naturally
held In great respect by artists. I re
member him on that first visit to me,
standing before my easel, on which I
had posed my 'Coming Out of Church,
and Instantly exclaiming:
" 'Did you paint that picture for the
Yanderdonkts?'
"I assured him of the fact. He
asked me If they had seen it and what
was the price. I told him that they
bad not seen It as yet. 'Well, then,
said Gambart, 'I'll take It, nnd let me
have a couple of dozen of that kind at
progressive prices each half-dozen.' It
was really as If he had been buying
bales of cotton. Of course, I thought
and not without reason, that my for
tune was as good as made. Moreover
11 prlnclpe Gambartl agreed that I
might deal with the antique rjrIod
I loved, instead of the middle ages
where I had latterly been seeking my
subjects. And so It came about that
some of the pictures by which I am
perhaps, best known as a painter were
included In this first singular bargain.
"Four years did It take me to carry
out Gambart's first commission and the
day arrived when Gambart again paid
me a visit. 'I want you,' he 6ald, 'tc
paint me another four dozen pictures
on the same condition of rising value.
I consented and I did my best not to
disappoint him. "The Vintage'was paint
ed as one of them and when the deal
er saw It, perceiving that it was a far
more Important canvas than any of Rs
predecessors a work, too, that had
cost me far more time and labor he
at once insisted upon paying for It the
figure which was to have been given
'or the last half-dozen."
IT'S A COUNTRY OF SMELLS.
A Traveler Itrcnlla a Striking ( hnr
acterlatlo of I-:aat Africa.
Discussing Col. RooseveU's trip In
Africa, Young H. Carllng of Toronto,
Canada, who Is at the Arlington, Bald
recently that when Mr. Roosevelt re
turns from Africa and recalls vividly
to mind his experiences, or relates
them to his friends, that which will be
pre-eminent will be the atmosphere cf
smells In which he lived when there,
the Washington Herald says.
"I traversed the country which Mr.
Roosevelt Intends visiting. While I
heard of lions, black panthers, rhino
ceroses, antelopes and gazelles, I was
not hunting and did not see any of
them. I held an impression which,
while not as startling as an encounter
with a wild beast, will be remembered
as long ns that would have been. I
cannot express it better than to say
that I smelled Afrlra.
"One meets the real smell Just after
landing. It may bo at one port or
another. Of all first Impressions, none
is more plain, and it comes upon yon
with a distinctiveness which is almost
startling.
"The traveler hardly knows enough
of native life to enter with any full
ness Into the multitude of causes
which produce this familiar result, but
some of them do not lie very far
below the surface.
"Take as a typical example any Af
rican city, large town or sizable ta
tlon." added Mr. Carllng. "Let it be
in the seaport or in the Inland town,
it makes little difference. Leave out
tbe many scented plants and trees that
add their aroma to the general fund
of smells. First, there Is the fuel used
by the natives, which Is scraped from
the roads, and made Into round, flat
cakes and sundrWd on the walls of the
houses for burning. Next, there Is the
wood and charcoal used by the better
classes for cooking fires, coal being an
ucnitalnable luxury. Then, at night
fall, the sweepings of the Btnbles are
carefully burned to be accompanied by
an odor. Then there are the cooking
oils and other things. Yea, air; CoL
. .
Roosevelt's story of Africa will not be
complete without its chapjer on
smells."
PROFIT IN GROWING WEEDS. ,
Thrne "Plnnta On of fUrt" IlavyeTj
I lira Aiimn Riar.
Money In weeds? To be sure. The
national department of agriculture
has been for many years telling the
farmers of the large money value go
ing to waste each year In this coun
try In the shape of pernicious weeds,
and has been Issuing bulletins with,
directions for collecting, curing and
Belling weeds. A quarter of a century
ago Dr. George B. Lorlng, the commis
sioner of agriculture, called attention
to the fact that In Germany many of
the commonest and most pernicious
weeds that the American farmer has.
to contend with were successfully and I
profitably cultivated, says the Kansas
City Star. Burdock, dandelion, witch
grass, foxglove, mullein, horehound,.
Jlmpson, mustard and water hemlock
are among our commonest weeds and
grow In great profusion almost every
where in the United States. Ordinar
ily they are regarded merely as trou
blesome weeds. The trouble, of cour.se,.
la In the lazy habit of attempting to.
grow weeds and cultivated crops on
the same land at the same time. Sa
lt often happens that the wltchgrass.
between the potato rows Is more val
uable than the tubers In the hills.
When you raise weeds you must make,
a business of it Land that will raise
nothing else will raiee weeds. The
jlmpson grows in rank profusion about
the feed lot, the front yard is yellj
wlth dandelion flowers and the flowers, if
oi me inuiieiu uexieca me .pastures.
The burdock grows In the roadside
fence corners, and the waste lot pro
duces an abundance of wltchgrass and
comfrey, yet a majority of the drug
weeds used in medicine in this coun
try are still imported, and paid for
at a high rate.
Without counting wormwood, tansy
or rhubarb, all of which are weeds In
favored places, and without Including
catnip or pennyroyal or any of the
mints, the American people are paying
out more than $300,000 a year in hard
earned money for imported weeds,
which are growing wild In nearly ev
ery part of the country. The Imports,
for the year 1907-1908 were as follows:
Pounds. Price. Total
Name imported. lb. value.
Burdock C0.000 7c $ 1,'JtMr
Dandelion .. .. 7&Z1 fc 5.770
Dock .t 12.VKK) lie .:m
Witcligrnss .. .. 2,"0,00 Cc I'mmm
Foxglove uo.OoO 7c 3,S."0
Mullein 5,000 00c 3,000
Ilorebouud .. .. 30,000 (5c 1.S00
Jimpson weed .. 100,000 5c 7,."iOO
Water hemlock . . 20,000 5c 1.O00
Mustard 5,000,000 5c 250,000
The knowledge that there 13 money
In the very common and much de
spised weeds is spreading every year
and a very considerable Industry in
medicinal weeds has arisen, but it is
rar snort or wnat re snouia ne. rnok
average farmer cannot bring himself f
to regard as other than a heresy the
declaration that a weed is simply a '
useful plant out of place. )
The prices paid by big jobbing
drug houses for leaves, flowers or ' j
roots of the commoner weeds which j
afflict the farmer with their presence
when he lets them get out of place are
as follows: Dandelion roots, dried;
Jlmpson weed, leaves and seeds; poi
son hemlock, freshly plucked and
dried flowers and leaves, dried and
cleaned; seed of black and white mus
tard, 5 cents a pound; burdock root.
sliced and dried, 7 cents a pound;
dried leaves and blossoms of hore
nouna ana wild foxglove, C to 7 cents
a pound; dried bloseoms of the tall
pasture mullein, 60 cents a pound, If
sealed In tight Jare. In addition to
the above standard drugs the dried
leaves of poUeweed and trllllum, gold
thread and Jack-in-the-pulplt, are mar
keted, as well as the leaves and flow
ers of tansy, lobelia, boneset, catnip
and a dozen other very common
plants, all of which are in demand at
the market prices.
Alphabetical Tlmr.
One of the discouraging things about
advertising Is that the investor can
rarely be certain when he gets a re
turn and when lie does not. A writer
in T. P.'s Weekly tells a tale of an
English firm, Higglns & Dodd, who,
finding that there were twelve letters
in th-Mr name, placed a great clock
over their door with the. letters on it
face Instead of numerals.
They waited anxiously for days,,
weeks, hoping for some return; but
not a soul took notice of the clock.
At lost, amid excitement behind the
office window, a man was seen to halt
In the street and gaze at the clock,
puzzled.
Slowly he came to the door, entered,
and drawled, "Say. Is It half past Hig
glns or a quarter to Dodd?"
lie Followed ltrcttona.
Red tape leads one to curious,
lengths. A writer in the Columbuv
Dispatch tells of a street railway car "
that picked up a young heifer on its
fender and carried it some distance
through the street.
In making out the required report
to the superintendent, the employe
wrote, in answer to the query on the
blank form, "What did the victim
say?" "She was carried along on the
fender and then rolled off and ra
away without saying a word."
Oat of SlKht.
Though the play was a farce,
It left him uuite blue,
For a terrible hat
Obstructed his view.
New York Telegram.
Many people are curious to know
about peculiar things. For instance,
the writer Is curious to know if a
barber gives his wife the fee he col
lects for shaving a dead man.
Suited to the Cane.
Antbor What did you think of my
mystic Jewel story?
Friend It was a gem! Baltimore
American.
Every oiK-e in a while w-e meet some
man on tla btrU who says he Is
"renting" that He knew never wwkod.
Muffled voices must be unecaafort
able In warm weather.
