Dakota Cranty Herald
DAKOTA 0TZ. ITCH.
Few Amerlians have ri.icn
thau the Wiiglit brothers.
higher
Castro has discovered the vanity of
MuITlng when tho other fellow knows
your hand.
The late Henry H. Rogers was only
about half as wealthy as yo" thought
tittn and probably not half so bad.
A poet has Just died In Denmark
leaving $1,000,000. We presume he
dallied with the Muses as a side Issue.
Let Jt be Bald for the preachers that
they have not as yet begun performing
inarrlnge ceruiionles with Jokers con
cealed In them.
When the Sultan of Turkey dies
twenty-three guns will be lired. Amer
ican slang must have penetrated the
Moslem Empire.
Evolution which slowly removes all
physical members or organs that are
outgrown ought to get busy with the
Vermiform appendix.
"Does the world owe tho poet a liv
ing?" asks the Literary Digest. Let
m see. It was either a living or a
killing, we have forgotten which.
Orvllle Wright says that an airship
la as safe a mile up as it Is ten feet
up. Safer, doubtless. The air Is much
purer and there ,are fewer disease
terms.
The Hon. Mehmed V. Is beginning to
talk as If he were laboring under the
Impression that he ought to do some
thing for the purpose of earning his
alary.
An Atlanta paper prints a recipe
half a column long for happiness. We
caa give an effective recipe that can
be put Into one line: "Let her have
all the clothes she wants."
It Is alleged that an Ohio man re
cently coughed up three carpet tacks.
He must have gwallowed them. Even
the most careless surgeon would hard
ly sew carpet tacks Inside of a man.
Whlttler, down to date, la the only
man who expressed unalloyed pleasure
At being snowbound. But Whlttler
Vaa not Bhut up In an accommodation
train with only one sandwich between
him and Omaha.
The dispatches state that Colonel
ftoosevelt's rhinoceros was "bagged" on
Sunday. Of course, If a rhino comes
into the yard on Sunday and tries to
get a chicken or something, It la not
Wrong to shoot at It
One of the doctors announces that
nobody can hope to be healthy with
out eating plenty of hard food and
though meat that requires much cheer
ing. Sometimes it seems as It mny
et the doctors ought to be writing hu
morous stuff deliberately Instead of
merely unconscously.
Farmers no longer have excuse for
sot knowing their business that Is,
those few farmers who are Ignorant
at It for a "Cyclopedia of American
Agriculture" In four volumes has late
ly been published, which. It Is an
nounced, "tells both what to do on a
(arm and how to do It"
The truth la that the natural boy Is
a born player. He plays to grow, and
plays with all his heart. He minds
his Instincts at the time when they
are strongest, and he Is less likely to
overplay In his earliest days than he
Is yearB afterward. It will be time
enough to steer htm away from base-
ball when some other game arrives
with at least an equal call to mental
and bodily agility.
Neither In scholarship nor In fitness
for the business of life does the prod-
act of the great colleges of the pres
ent: day compare with the graduates
turned out from the little colleges of
a generation ago. Then, It Is true, the
boy with the diploma was often too
Huffed with Latin and Greek and
philosophy to be much of a practical
man; now he knows a little about
manners, more about clothes, some
thing about "grinds," "peache" and
"profs," but the sumum bonum of his
knowledge relates to drop kicks and
line bucking. The old type was bet
ter, because, though Impractical, he
bad a trained mind and was Inured
to discipline, whereas the new prod
uct has gotten most of his training In
the ways of a good time.
in a recent, epeecn inr. Tart pro
voked a laugh by suggesting Ironically
that his audience read the Congres
sional Record. It Is unfortunate that,
owing to Its bulk and cost, the Record
Is not a popular magazine, for only
through the Record can the Intelligent
citizen understand fully the acts of
Congress and the beliefs and abilities
of Individual Congressmen. Our news
papers. In this day of tabloid report
Ing and picturesque summaries, would
do well to give more spuco to reprints
of important passages from the Rec
ord, or cite to require thetr own re
porters to bend exact reproductions of
tho more (significant debates. The Eng
liih papers give a much betttr accouut
of the proceedings of Parliament than
our papT3 give of the deliberations
of Conpress. The English papers "re
port" Parliament ; our papers talk
aVout Congiess and strive to give orig
inal news, much of which, like orig
inal (.polling, has only Its originality
to reco:iiiuend It.
Lord llosebery. ex-premier, inudo a
jtrave, eloquent titid alarmist speeck to
j a Lcotloa roi;;res of Journalists a
ihorl time sb'j. The outlook In Eu
ropf, be declared, was ouliious and
even appalling. 'Tlu preparations for
var ee:y'. l.t'io v. era on a tremendous
erj'.j, an J Utile L'ugiand was being
.re.:se-J liasd to defend her liberties as
vi il as t!8 ll.U'rt'es of her colonies
iictoji tho seas. She would go on
building war snips as long as she had
a shilling to spend, but would that be
enough? Would that avert the dan
ger of resctlotiT Kurope is 'rattling
herself into barbarism," and tho gre.it
question Is how that calamity can be
avoided. Theie are few observers In
Kurope who will Indorse this disheart
ening view of the situation or outlook.
The frenzied naval competition spells
terrific waste, but It iloc3 not spell
barbarian). Even the Dost 'militant
champions or blg-n.ivyl.sni loudly dir.-
pov aggiesslve designs. Peace and
protection of commerce aro every
where the deriaiert objects of the ele
ments opposed to limitations of arma
ments or budgets, (iermany fears
British control of pll foreign trade.
but every one of her responsible states
men denies thnt she Is pi (-paring for
war. France Is determined to keep
tho peace and has given up all notion
of "revanche." It Is deeply to be re
gretted that tho powers cannot agr9
cn a sensible plan of armament limi
tation, but nothing will be gained In
tho end by exaggeration and pessim
ism.. Barbarism? Old-age pensions,
insurance against unemployment and
sickness and accident, the progress of
education, science and industry., the
of constitutionalism and democracy,
popularization of the arts, the marcu
of constitutionalism and democracy,
the growing power of public opinion
me increasing influence or woman
these arid other features of our age
are hardly to be regarded as fore
runners of barbarism. In fact, It Is
the pressure of the great lower anl
middle classes for social and political
reforms that will eventually force the
governments of Kurope to take up In
earnest the question of economy In
military and defense expenditures.
Panics come and panics go, but the
movement for economic amelioration,
for the prevention of misery and dis
eases, for the equalization of oppor
tunity, proceeds unchecked. The
forces of civilization are too strong
In any part of Europe to make re
barbarlzatlon even a remote possibll-ity-
THE SOUL OF MUSIC.
Tho literary man was unhappy. He
was not a great and successful literary
man, who could afford a whole house,
and within the limits of his flat quiet
was nioro than a matter of comfort;
It was a matter of bread and butter.
Over his head was a studio that had
been occupied be a Quiet painter. But
now the painter had gone to Europe
There was a now neighbor In the stu
dio. And the day before, with a hor
ror that amounted almost to illness,
the literary man had beard the tuning
of a piano.
He sat at his desk and looked at a
blank sheet of paper. Try as he might,
there were no thoughts in him; he
was waiting nervously for the piano to
begin operations.
Presently there came a knock at his
door. He laid down his Impotent pen
and admitted a visitor.
She was a pleasant-looking young
woman, and her nrst words startled
him.
"I have come about my piano," sh
said, hesitatingly. "I am your new
neighbor, you know."
Yea," said the literary man. "Won t
you sit down?"
I understand," she continued, "that
you do a lot of writing down here, and
I thought, 1 was afraid my piano "
"I heard it being tuned," he replied
gravely. .
"And these ceilings are so low, too,"
she went on. "That is why I cams. I
thought perhaps we could make some
arrangement about houra, don't you
know. I expect to be painting during
the mornings."
"That is me time l write." be re
plied. "It Is the time when er
muslo Is moHt distracting."
"Then if I promise not to play till
afternoon?"
"You will lift a ton off my soul."
he said, smiling. "A real ton. I am
always out In the afternoon. And In
the evening "
The young woman ioouea at him a
little mischievously.
"Do you think you can stand it In
the evening, sometimes?" she asked,
her hand on the doorknob.
"I shall enjoy it, he nodded. "It
will remind me of the only person I
ever met who applied the ethics of
Christianity to life In an apartment
house."
"But what is the use of the ethics
of Christianity," said his new neigh
bor, "If one doesn't apply them?" And
the door closed behind her.
The literary man went back to his
desk, and now he had thoughts to put
on his blank paper. But U was not
until evening, when he Bat before his
fire with a book and heard his neigh
bor settle herself at the piano, that the
look of worry entirely vanished with
the first few notes that came down to
him.
"I suspected as mucn, he mur
mured. "She knows how to play."
Ilia Kfforla Watd.
Lecturer on Art Before I sit down
t shall be happy to answer any ques
tions that any of you may wish to
ask.
Gentleman (In audience) I have
enjoyed the lecture much, sir, and
have understood It all except a few
technical terms. Will you please tell
me what you mean by the words per
spective, fresco and inlckle-anjelo?
(Lecturer sits down discouraged.)
Chicago Tribune.
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Milk. a liutltlnif Kluld.
Milk wua highly prised as a bath
ing fluid by the oxidants. The women
of Nero's household performed their
ablutions In usses' milk, and this val
ued promoter of beautiful complexions
was always used by the lovely Em-
pre! Popaca. Nowadays milk Is too
expensive to wasto In file bath-tub, aud
modern beauties content themselves
with a teacupful in a bauln wherein
their faces may be laved.
Among other high rollers we have
the elevated tialns.
Men wno Know themselves are
olVtM. suspicious of others.
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MONEY TO BURN.
ROM every speculative pit in the country
coiner, the report that money la easy.
Money Is easy, of course, when It U abun
dant, and when the big gamblers can bor
row It at cheap rates of interest While
tho use of niony may be had at nominal
cost in the centers of speculation, it is
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noticeable that most commodities are high and that le
Kltlmnte business Is not wholly satisfactory. Men In
terested In productive enterprises do not always find
iroticy enry. If mony and credit were as cheap to them
h.i they ore to the manipulators of stocks, grain and cot
ton, there would he no regular weekly report of the
Increasing movement of currency from the Interior to
New York.
Money accumulates here because there Is a demand
for It In rpccuUition and 1 ecause, In theory at least it
cannot be improved to advantage In business. To what
exien'. country blinker:- opeiily discriminate against pro
ductive enterprise, pnylPK high rates of interest in favor
of a betting j-.atiio in which tho returns for the use of
money are only nominal can be Imagined, but not ex
actly determined. It mut.t be large. Under these con
ditions li may be well for those who are Inclined to
look Into the nature of things to Inquire whether the
prosperity which all are necking and many signs of
which nre vlt-iMe has bten sought In the right place.
There Is nothing substantial In speculation. In compari
son with the genuine activities of labor and capital It
Is as a bubble to a battleship. If prosperity Orst shows
Itself crazy In speculation, with the financial resources
ef the country largely devoted to the game, some one
Ehould make an Inspection of Its foundational New
York World.
THE GOULD DIVORCE
HE Gould divorce caBe,
rafiloui: nrffflvnirnnnjl
B I luhlrates the exceeding
a B , , f. r- . i .. j
(limine me, duihj 11 wua m aiuipie iilu
she led a Ufa whose one aim was doing
as she pleased, without reason and by
mere animal Instinct. We can concelvo of
nothing simpler than the essential facta of this exist
ence. The details of money-spending may gild them
t certain eyes.' But they cannot conceal Jthem.
In order to experience the most elementary of human
emotions there was necessary an annual expenditure
which seems a fortune to tho average man. Not only
that. The appetite grew by what it fed on. Each year
Mrs. Gould's doing what tshe pleased became more cost
ly. The thought was father to the purchase dress,
Jewels, lind. whatever caprice suggested.
This reckless Indulgence becomes almost grotesque
when one thinks of Mrs. Howard Gould's early circum
stances. There was a time when a couple of thousand
a year would have been affluence for her. Now she finds
berself unable to exist on less than 9120,000 a year.
SInalo Eaar Find.
Have you ever tried to find a favor
ite song among 1C0 or 200 sheets of
ether music? If you have you know
that the mythical pas
time of locating a needle
In a haystack Is a com
parative task. Now
comes a New York man
with a sheet music cabi
net that solves the diffi
culty. This cabinet la a
three-sided affair, re-
MU8ic cake, volvlng on a stationary
stand. The compartments for tho mu
sic are arranged In the form of steps
and hold the sheets In a vertical posi
tion with the titles of each showing
above the titles of those below. In
such a stand several hundred pieces of
music may be kept without confusion
and any one can be found at a glance.
To facilitate matters the sheets may
be kept In alphabetical order or the
vocal and Instrumental music can be
separated or both methods may be
used In conjunction. Such a cablet
is convenient for uso both nt home
ind In music stores or conservatories,
Aid for Nemiiatreaae.
One of the most difficult feats to per
form on a sewing machine Is to sew a
ttralght line. Ordinarily any little
deviation Is not no
ticeable, but In the
caso of a hem or
tuck the slightest
Irregularity Is ap
parent. At this
point a Philadel
phia man comes to
machine OAUtiK. the rescue with a
device for gauging the width of a hem
or tuck to a nicety and assuring two
perfectly straight lines. This device
consists of a scale attachment which
projects atross the bed plate of a sew
FATE OF SOME PINS.
rii IMaapprrniie of at I. mat m Kfw
TUonaanda Accounted I'or.
"It's au old question, What becomes
of all the pins? and I wouldn't under
take to tell what becomeii of all of
them: but," said a young woman who
had Just had her new spring coat fit
ted, "1 can toll you what becomes of
some of them.
"Tho litter uses many pins In pin
ning up seams. She may carry about
with her a big cushion stuck full of
pins, handy to get at, or she may
have a paper of pins hanging down
from her belt, and when she fits she
flndu use for many pins.
"he plus aud pins and pins, and
sometimes In reaching fer a pin or In
pinning or In taking pins ulie drops
on.. But she doesn't stoop to pick
that pin up, for that would be a waste
of time aud effort; she simply lets
that plu He where it fell and reaches
te her cushion or the paper of ptas
that she carries for another, aud ae
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
She thus Illustrates tho truth of the old adage: "Pat
a beggar on horseback and he will ride to the devil."
It requires apparently a clear head for one who sud
denly acquires the knowledge of extravagance to ra
fraln from exercising It. The sudden millionaire Rr.rl
tho sudden millionairess are exposed to the temptation
of their own weakness, and often succumb. The Individ
ual who has mode the fortune, with toll nnd trouble und
bloody sweat, Is usually of a different type. The danger
Is he mny go too far In the opposite direction.
But Mrs. Gould's plenteous caprices point a broader
moral. They are In a sense symptomatic. Her passion
for extravagance after the season of nioderate means,
the growth of ber desires with their temporary gratifi
cation, Illustrate a national as well as an Individual
tendency. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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4-year-old son requires not less than $15,750 a year to
live on.
The youthful James E. Martin Is to be commiserated.
The greatest Inherited good fortune that could have
ceme to him would have been the obligation to earn
his living In the sweat of his brow like the vast ma
jority of mankind. As It is, he grows up in the knowl
edge that he need not work unless he wants to. Few
boys have the spiritual stamina to withstand the ener
vating tendencies of having so much money to spend.
If the enjoyment of an Income entirely dispropor
tionate to the actual need of the youngster should be
deferred until the attainment of his majority, It would
be a different matter, though even then the wisdom of
giving a young man a sum many times larger than he
would probably be earning is more than questionable.
But to put $15,000 a year In the hands of a mere baby
is downright folly. Philadelphia Public Ledger.
CASH
with Its details of
anrl A immi no t 1.M1 II.
costliness of the
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really serious. It has passed beyond tho realm of the
nerve specialists, and must now be handled by the great
and patient practitioners who understand acute mental
disorders. Germanophobla cannot be laughed away or
pooh-pooed. It can be eradicated only by persevering '
and cautious treatment and by giving It time to run tta
course. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
lng machine and In the line of feed.
This attachment, which la in the form
of a thin bar divided Into Inches and
fractions thereof, has openings along
it for screws, by which it Is fastened
to the plate. When a half-Inch hem
Is needed the bar Is set to that dis
tance from the needle and by keeping
the edge of the material to the mark
on the scale, 4he width of the hem can
be kept consistent with the accuracy
which ouly a mechanical device as
sures. No Need to I.lfk Btainpa.
The moistening of stamps with the
tongue is not only an unpleasant prac
tice. In cases where a great many
stamps are to be
affixed, it Is an un
healthy one. Ev
ery clerk who has
many letters to
stamp has a wet
sponge on his or
her desk for that
purpose, but a Cal
ifornia man has
licks' the stamp recentiy de8lgned
a big improvement on this simple ex
pedient. This dovlce Is a combined
stamp-sticker and envelepe-sealer
which moistens the stamps, feeds them
out as they are needed, pastes them to
the envelope and seals it. The con
trivance consists of a long handle
member with- a trough in which a
atrip of stamps is placed. Near the
lower end Is tho moistening pad, sup
plied from a water chamber below It
At the end is a roller which by Us
rotation feeds the stamps out and
pastes them fast after they have pass
ed over the molstener and come out
beyond the handle. Reaching out from
the side of the handle Is an extension
of the roller, which Is used to seal the
envelopes.
In the course of a day the floor or a
fitting room gets littered with pins.
"And then does somebody at the
end of the duy when they straighten
things cut pick up these pins aud save
them? No. It wouldn't pay. It would
take time to pick them up, and time,
labor, costs money. It is cheaper to
buy H9W pins than It would be to
pick and save those pliw that have
been dropped.
"So these dropped pins are not pick
ed up. they are simply swept out with
the rest of the litter, and that Is the
lost of them: There must be hun
dreds of fitting rooms, and they would
account for the disappearance of at
least a few thousands of pins dally."
The Heallnr of I'uema.
"It Isn't out of pUico to speak of a
girl us a 'poem' these days."
"Just so."
"Providing she is wearing one of
those waste-bKaket hats." Birming
ham Age-Herald.
How a nice old fashioned woman
does love te see children eatl
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HOW MUCH DOES A BOY NEEDP
HE young people about to marry who write
to the papers In their anxiety to know
whether a thousand a year is enough for
two to live on will read with Interest the
announcement that the referee on a peti
tion of a New York widow for "support
and maintenance" has decided that her
QUIETING ENGLAND'S NERVES.
NGLAND has stopped her hysterical shriek
ing, and now look3 out upon the world
with the unreasoning, terrific stare of a
mad woman. She has, half In fun, made a
bugaboo, and, now that It is built, she is'
frightened out of her five senses by tho
horror of her own creating. The case is
TREMENDOUS OIL WELL PUSH.
California. Gainer Dreaka Through
K.lwkt-Foot Cap of Cement.
The breaking out of the great
Palmer well in Cat canyon, San'.a
Maria, after being shut In for some
two weeks while the great sumpholes
and' tanks were being emptied again
draws attention to that great wonder
of California, the Los Angeles Times
says.
So big Is this gusher that the east
ern oil man's mind seems Incapable of
grasping It. The well was capped by
an enormous block of solid cement
eight feet In height, placed right over
the top of the pipe. The pressure upon
this was reckoned at some 400 pounds
to the inch.
The well broke loose on Friday
evening, according to the dispatches.
That it should have lifted the huge
block seems incredible. It was an
ticipated on Thursday that this would
be removed In a day or two, and prep
arations were then on for that event,
which was looked forward to with au
tlcipatlon all over the vast field. Quite
a few in the older district and In town
were keeping posted with a view to
going in automobiles eighteen to twen
ty miles to sea it start again.
The Oil City Derrick, the organ of
Pennsylvania oil, that lays claim to
being a special authority on the In
dustry but which never reaches be
yond Oklahoma, recently declared flat
ly that It was impossible for state
ments published about this well to be
true, as, for instance. It insists that
a flow of 4.000 barrels dally through a
four-Inch pipe Is beyond belief. Tho
Derrick's statement simply arouses de
rision among those who know the
facts, for what It declares Impossible
is known to all to be actually short
of literal truth.
The Palmer has earthen sumpholes
for some 40,000 barrels, two completed
steel tanks of 10,000 capacity each and
two others of like size nearly finished
The quantity of sand that comes with
the oil Alls the storage In a few
months to depths of ten to twelve feet,
The shut-down was to get an opportu
nity of cleaning the sumpholes, so
they could be utilized as well as to
get rid of the oil.
The ttreateat Wealth.
is there airy compensation In monej
for a starved, stunted, dwarfed mind?
Can lauds and houses, stocks and
bonds, pay a man for living a nar
row, rutty, sordid life? How much
money would match the wealth of a
trained mind, of unfolded posslblll
ties? la the capacity for the appre
ciation of the meaning of life, of the
lessons 41 f civilization, worth no more
than orle'8 bread and butter and roof
Can any one conceive of greater pos
sessions than an Intellect well t Kilned
and disciplined, than a booad, deep
full orbed aiid responsive to all
beauty, all good? Orisou Swett Mar-
den In Success Magailne.
Plret Thought.
"I see by the papers." said the head
of the family to his wife, "that Mr,
Roosevelt has Just shot In Africa I
hitherto unknown animal, half like i
giraffe and half like something els
"I know what it is." shoutod little
Tommy: "It's one of them nature
fakers." Ilaltlmore American.
We have noticed that statements
the effect that work Is always butter
than Idleness, usually retur te awn
IMMIGRANTS LANDING AT ELLIS ISLAND.
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Immigrants landing at Ellis Island
ing examination, and during their compulsory Btay at the government sta
tion are ticketed like convicts; in prison. Many pitiful aights are witnessed'
at the Immigration station. Transferred to government ferries from the.
ocean steamships, each man and woman carries his baggage tied up li
bundles. Those who pass the examination and are admitted are ha,ppy lit
the thought that all their cares have been left behind. Others, dishearfc
ened, are turned back to Europe. .
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k Legal Information
The United States Circuit Court In
Allen-West Commission Company vs.
Grumbles, 161 Federal Reporter, 46f,
In deciding on the liability of a hnar
rled woman to garnishment by' her
husband's creditors, where the origin
al action was Instituted under section
379 of Kirby's Digest against the hus
band says the decisive question is
whether a personal Judgment can be
rendered against her, and decides that
it cannot be and that the proceedings
should not be maintained.
Defendants left some large gas
pipes lying In a position to be easily
moved by children. In an action to
recover for the death of a child killed
by one of the pipes rolling over him,
the cause of the accident was held to
be the act of leaving the gas pipes In
tho street and was referred to by the
St. Louis Court of Appeals in O'Hara
vs. Laclede Gaslight Co., 110 South
western Reporter, 642, as a "death
trap for children playing upon the
street," In rendering Judgment for
plaintiff.
In Conner vs. Skaggs, 111 South
western Reporter, 1132, wherein one
daughter had been discriminated
against by a parent because her mar
riage did not please him, the Missouri
Supreme Court, speaking by Judge
Lamm, finds from the evidence that
there was no undue Influence or lack
of testamentary capacity, and there
fore affirms the Judgment of the lower
court against the contestant hut adds
this Interesting bit of advice to the
other heirs: "There is inferential
evidence, as we see it, that the mother,
when the hand of death rested heavily
on her, left an injunction that the
more fortunate children and grand
children of Joseph Skaggs may find
lasting happiness in remembering and
obeying an injunction meaning that
they should see to It that the unbend
ing rigor of their father's will should
be tempered with equity and mercy.
The enforcement of that tender and
solemn Injunction lies far beyond the
Jurisdiction and domain of earthly
courts, but, peradventure, it Is none
the less a proper subject of judicial
comment and Judicial hope."
EUROPE AS A WOMAN SEES IT.
It la Like m Department Store at
Which Ilai-tf aln Day Xevtr Kada.
Europe represents to the American
woman a great shoplpng center, a de
partment store, at which It 1s always
bargain day. Armed with the neces
sary funds, however much she may
have steeled herself against yielding to
temptation, she is soon Indulging in
a perfect orgy of delightful shopping.
"For things were so cheap, my dear,"
she confesses to a friend after return
lnm home, "it would have been a sin
to leave them!"
If the traveler sails on a Mediter
ranean steamer, a route proving popu
lar for spring traffic, her shopping be
gins beforo she Is even landed at Na
ples; for most of the large liners touch
at Gibraltar, which picturesque little
Beaport, as everyone knows, Is a cos
mopolltan town where one can "pick
up" all sorts of fascinating souvenirs
in the byways that resamble the streets
of Cairo at our fairs.
Then somes Naples Naples of flow
ers and songs, Naples of the blue wa
ters and the pink coral. Every littls
window Is filled with coral, from the
cold white beads or the palest blush
tints to the rose and deep reds of pend
ants and chains. Veil pins, hatpins
and brooches are offered at every. Btreet
corner aud every church door. The
shopper begins her first bargaining
when she finds that the longer she
hesltatnj the lower will be the price.
Rome is the magazine of antiquities
antiquities ancient and modern, an
tiquities dug up from among tho old
ruins, or antiquities manufactured
around the corner. And what does it
matter, so long as your purchase Is
beautiful, and the caressing voice of
the shopkeeper assures madame that
she Is getting one of the few real old
1
are compelled to undergo a search
treasures aud for a price holy Ma
donna! he could never part with it.
were it not for tho little ones at home..
The Roman cameos are very lovely,,
and no one leaves Rome without a
string of Roman pearls, puro and.
creamy In color and defying the un
skilled eye to tell theirl from the real
pearls. The Roman scarves and silk
reflect the Italian skle3 and flowers in
their hues and will brighten the whlto
lawn next summer and let people know
"we've been to Italy." The Delin
eator. SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE.
Merchanta In the United Stn- Full
to Vnderatand the Condition.
Some writers on commercial sub
jects assert that our merchants and
manufacturers do not wish to build up
trade In Spanish-American countries.
It Is argued that they have more busi
ness than they can attend to, or that
they prefer to expand trade that has
been already established in other quar
ters. We do not quite believe this,
but it is undoubtedly true that Ameri
cans have not so far been willing to
take the trouble to enter Into new re
lations, especially when they involve
a departure from our time-honored
customs.
In order to sell our wares to the
Central and South American republics
It is necessary to adjust ourselves to.
their demands, says the New York
Sun. In the first place we have- to
agree' to the system of annual settle
ments; next we must send them the
kind of goods they want; finally we
must use Just such packages as they
require. Almost everybody from Mex
ico to Patagonia does business on the
basis of annual settlements. This is a
necessity created by their environment
and cannot be changed by our dictum.
The vast distances between the port
of entry and the Inland towns and vil
lages among which the goods are ulti
mately distributed, the dearth of rapid
communication, and other causes, have
consplred to fortify the system until1
it has become a part of the people's:
life and cannot be uprooted. It is as
good a system as any other when one
has grown accustomed to It, and It is.
idle in this day and generation to talk
of any other. The small merchants,
cannot settle with the Importers until
they collect the money due them, an
this is practicable only when their
customers have realized usual crops
and produce. The annual settlement,
therefore, Is a permanent institution,
and any trade we establish in those
lands must be primarily based upon It
Should Rank aa a Science.
M. Alfred Binet, of Paris, the fa
mous professor of psychology, admits,
that, after devoting himself for a long
period to the study of palmistry, he
has come to the conclusion that it
ought in the future to rank aa a sci
ence. M. Binet has made several re
markable experiments and now has.
no hesitancy iu saying that bands,
most decidedly speak. The professor
has adopted the following views:
Hands, by their shape, size and for
mation, reveal the qualities of the
lntelllgence and the character.
The harmony between the' fingers,
and the palm Indicates the balance ot
mind.
Heavy, Ill-shaped fingers, slow in
tellect. Very long fingers, mania, vague and
restless mind.
Short, thick fingers, violence. Im
pulsiveness, lack of reflection.
Pointed fingers, idealism, dreami
ness (if the palm is long), conceit,
selfishness (if the palm is square).
Fingers rather square at the end.
vivacity, activity, temper, great Intel
lect (ir nana is on the whole
formed).
veil
One Work the Other.
"Do you think the lawyer for tho
dfTense can pump that witness?"
"Yes, If he knows how to handle
her." Baltimore American.
It la our h'.ea that wives worry too
mini.; very few husbands are stelen.
nn.l tlico that aro seciii hardly worth
worry.
If you want to make a man very
angry, get some one to pray for him.