Nebraska Newspapers

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Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NEB.
John H. Ream, Publisher
Aeroplanes are quoted at 47.000. but
they will probably.come down.
Bines we have the aeroplane, dirig
ible balloons Interest us about as much
a velocipede.
v The milliners have solved the prob
lem: What shall we do with our ex
astebaskete? The desire to have the battleship
Maine raised may be Inspired by elth
r patriotism or curiosity.
Notwithstanding the many railroads
lie has to look after, Mr. Harrlman
finds time to be an optimist
"Get ruarrJod." vys Senator Dene.
That is ona of the brightest thlng3 he
has thought of In many a day.
Mr. Harrlman says he will resign If
anybody can find a man to take his
place. The man who could do it haa
a Job,
Thieves stole a band stand In a New
Jersey town, In the presence of a
crowd and a policeman. The band
scaped.
Cotrat Zeppelin' airship would not
J .mount to much In war If the oppos
ns; army should happen to plant an
apple tree In Its path.
"With hard work," says Buffalo
Bill," a man should live to be 100
years old." Dut can't you think of
some other way, B111T
"Jack London writes from Sydney
to a medical friend In Honolulu that
be is suffering from five diseases"
Otherwise he la all right
James J. Hill advises the people to
he more economical. Perhaps If wo
were to pay more attention to wh:U
Uncle Jim says we might be able to
buy a railroad or two.
If $40,000 be essential to projer
dressing in Now York, it la wonder
ful how many have managed to get
Jong without essentials. Perhaps the
dictionary needs revising.
An ordinance in Chicago prescribes
that awnings must be ralaed to pro
Tide room for women's hats. Thla chlv
alrlc act should be supplemented by
one to widen the sidewalks.
Rata annually cost the American
people $100,000,000 for gratuitous
board and there is, apparently, no
iray that the Interstate Commerce
Commission can reach them.
Crime has its social degrees and
Its aristocracy si well as virtuous
and law-abiding society. The footpad
nowadays is but a despised worker
by the side of the auto burglar.
George Ado, the humorist. Is back
n bis Indiana farm from a trip
around the world, and remarks that
Good old U. S. A." is good enough for
him. It is for everybody, George.
Hereafter uo placard or pouter
which plctorlally represents the com
mission of crime may be publicly ex
hibited in the District of Columbia.
The District authorities have recently
cromulirated an order to that effect. A
similar order ought to be made and
enforced In every community In tho
country.
Fifty young women have sworn not
to marry men who will not work for
the suffrage. If old Dame Nature
Qas a sense of humor she probably
got a right good chuckle out of that,
for, aa a certain canny Scotsman once
remarked, "The beat laid schemes o'
mice and men," etc. Why not of
maidens alsoT
A California woman who had fallen
In alighting from a street car, wound
ing her person and her pride, sued the
company, and was met by it attorney
with the plea of "contributory negli
gence," which meant that she was
wearing such high-heeled shoes that
the could not step safely. She lost
her suit and had to pay the costs
so it appears that there la at least ono
human agency, the law, which 1 moro
powerful than fashion.
It must be remembered that New
la probably the most strict state In Its
tnarrlage laws. It grants an absolute
divorce for only one reason, and the
chargo must be clearly proved, and
by competent witnesses, whother the
defendant puts in an answer or not
If Justice Dowling' rulings were more
liberal to Mr. Gould's side, the peace
and continued existence of a great
many marital unions would soon be
attacked. The road to a separation
would He through getting one's bus-
band or wife a little tight upon one
or two occasions.
The Income tax as It exists in Great
Britain, and as It ha been proposed
In this country, 1 a small matter
when compared with the same tax In
Japan. Mr. Adachl Klunoiuke, editor
of the Far East, says that tho people
Of his country who have incomes of
$30,000 or more pay 68 per cent of
such Incomes to the government, and
thU rate is graded down so that the
n:un with a yearly Income of f'UO
pays about 17 per cent. The averuge
la about 20 per cent. With such an
exhibition of patriotism and equan
Irulty under great public burdens it
1 small wonder that Japan has made
stupendous Hlrldea , In Its progress
from medieval conditions to clvtli.a
tloa and power.
It la not likely that there ever will
be iv m agreement among military ex
pert tn to the measure of General
Kto-!(l' rc ;'iTHl!',l!ty for the full
of Pert Arthur, I ut the fueling of tlin
X'.unian pt'j;)!t- M.3 n:ado manifest In
the gr?at ovatkn given him when ho
released from prison the other
flay ly order of the Czar. An lm
HithM crowd gathered to do him bon
or, and be wis balled as a national
hero. On the other band, Rear Ad
miral Nebogatoff. who was pardoned
at the same time, was welcomed by
only a few near relatives showing
that the Russians blame the officers,
rather than the system and the bu
reaucracy bohlnd them, for the dls
aster which befell Rozhdcstvenaky's
fleet . - -- -
When King Edward was Prlnca of
Wales he la reputed to have spoken
JeMlngly of a coming time when
thrones would be "put up at competi
tive examination." Throne are not
so numerous In theso days as they
once were, and although not yet open
to public competition, royalty seems
to bo forestalling a possible evil day
by following the nobility Into trade.
Prtnc Henry XXXII of Reuss, one
of the oldest ruling houses of Europe,
has recently finished four terms at
the Cologne Commercial High School,
taken his examinations, and received
the mercantile dljdoma. If, like hla
father who at the time of the young
man's birth was the Oerman ambassa
dor to Turkey he enters the diplo
matic service, his knowledge of com
mercial usages will manifestly be use
ful. If, on the other hand, he ever
come to reign over the little princi
pality at the north of Havana, he
should be able to give it a business
administration.
The problems of the boy criminal
are many and serious. They are ever
present Two entirely different phases
are emphasized by the news ltema of
a day in Chicago. The more sensa
tional was connected with the killing
of a lad of 14 years who was Im'.tatlug
the criminals of the Black Hand type.
The other phase was reflected in the
act of a Municipal court Judge, who
fined two first offenders and then gave
them a chance to reform without hav
ing the prison, stigma attached to
them. The story of the Black Hand
blackmailer has familiar features. It
reveals the Impressionable character
of youth. It tells again the tale of the
lmltatlveness of youth. The sentiment
sometimes prompts boys to run away
from homo in order to go out West to
fight Indians. In the latest cane it
inspired these two with the thought
of deeds of criminal daring and adven
ture at home. The threatening letters,
the arrangement of a meeting with the
victim, and the empty revolver pointed
at his body, all have the spirit of
"Deadshot Dick of Sleepy Hollow."
Evidently the story of alleged Black
Hand plots as outlined In the news-
papers had Influence with these imag
inative boya. The killing of the lad
1b to be regretted. It seems a dreadful
fate for one so young. But It may
serve a useful purpose as a warning
to other boys who are cultivating
criminal Instincts. The Intended vic
tim thought men were in the plot
against him and the peace and quiet
of hla homo. The shadows of dark
ness serve to make he outlines of the
figure indistinct as a criminal runs
away from the sharp hall of the de
tective. The flying form may be that
of a mere boy or it may be that of a
man of 40. It is safer for man and
boy to Ueep out of such situations as
the one in which this boy criminal
placed himself. There are gangs of
bad boys In many of our cities and
villages., They make a dangorous ele
ment In the community. Borne of their
constituent members are hopelessly
bad. They have had their criminal
Instincts too well developed. Others
may be reached by kindness and at
tention. The problem is a great one.
The home Influences must be watched,
the associations guarded, and the ever
present temptations of youth appre
ciated. The Importance, of the work
that is being attempted by various or
ganisation for saving the boys re
ceives fresh emphasis in the untimely
end of a Juvenile blackmailer.
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS.
By Clarence L. Cullen.
The approaching census will not
state how many myriads of married
couples are living together Just out of
the force of habit.
Some women like to make their hus
bands go to church on Sunday morn
ing Juat to show their neighbors that
they can make 'em.
Women are such artistic dissemblers
that a pair of them can waltz together
at a manlesa summer resort hotel and
pretend that they enjoy It
A woman Just knows that a doctor
must be a crackerjack In his profes
sion if he haa flno white tooth and bee-you-tlfully
kept finger nails.
What no man can understand: How
hla wife can hide two sulta of pajamas
In his Bult case bo that he can't over
find them without a search warrant
and a writ of replevtn.
The main reason why a woman does
not like her husband's bachelor friends
Is that she knows that, they know a
heap of thlngj about him that she
doesn't know and that they'll never
tell her.
When a woman wants to make an
other woman feel worried about her
new dresB she ayB: "If qulto pretty
but do you think It's exactly your
color r Or: "It fits real well er In
the back, doesn't It?"
You're In pretty bad when your wlfo
(without your ever knowing It) liras
to her women cronts that sho can
make you do anything she wants sim
ply by opening her tear duct at the
psychological moment.
When women tl.et;ielves write
about women's "mystery", and tholr
"intuition" und their 'other funded
etherealnesae the effect is about as
ridiculous os it vcttld b.i if men were
to bran of their i.iee-,u and the aqui
line contour of their noses.
'I lie HI4I1I Sl.l,..
Patleuce They s:i.y a man's heard
Is generally heavier on fie M;-.'it iile
of hU liuv.
Patrice I .K'ti't see. then, why a
girl aUa;-u tns t'j 0:1 t!..; it irtit
sldt of a niin!
A womun l.;ft ii
cause the hnj the t
. i'i ai iiy gifted be
lli of ,uit.
Every woman Utes ih woid "fe-mala,"
a
'EtjyA2OT"irr2dAcm:so divine ideal.
Oy the Rev. R. F. Campbell.
Humanity progressing toward some
rtat end, cn end higher thun the perfecting
of separate individualities. One generation
fcnes on where another leaves oft, and un
folds the dlvlno Ideas a little more fully.
Some day, we may hope, thla Idea will b
reallzfd in a hv.man society as nearly perfect
as the limitations of earth permit. We may
reasonably hold that those generations which
have passed on have not stood still either, and are still
concerned with the work of evolving humanity, a
mighty Whole, one with and In the glorified Christ
"Then comcth the end." All illusions, all sense of
separateness, will disappear; the material will make
way for the spiritual, the phenomenal for the real, and
the universe of universes, visible and Invisible, attain
to perfect conscious oneness In the eternal life of God.
This is the New Testament view of tho matter seen in
the large perspective of our present-day knowledge of
the vastness of the universal order.
When we come to the question of the survival of In
dividual consciousness after death we can say no more
than that the evidence which would satisfy the ordinary
religious mind might fall with the uninformed by the
religious temperament. Nevertheless the lack may be
in the latter rather than the former. The plane of
spiritual experience Is real and Is felt by most to bo
higher than the purely Intellectual, and It Is in the
plane of spiritual experience that certitude regarding
the Immortality of the soul has hitherto generally been
attained.
There is the mind behind all, and the divine love
that vibrates botween soul and soul In response to the
call of human need, like the ether that carries the elec
tric force from point to point In the visible universe.
I see from the list of Injured In connection with tho
terrible mining disaster of a few days ago that there
ts a possibility that an Interesting correspondent haa
been killed. If so, perhaps he knows more now of the
ways of God with men than I could ever tell him.
Death Is no calamity to those whom It calls higher, but
only to those who mourn their loss. And even that
would be turned to Joy If we could but know how things
really are in the great beyond.
AMERICAN PRODIGALITY MOSTLY MYTHICAL.
By Gugllefmo Ferrero.
In Europe one ts fond of speaking of the
"barbarian extravagance" of the Americans.
Naturally, there are men and women In
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. Just as
there are such men and women in Paris, Lon
don and Berlin, who delight in spending their
money foolishly. It is pevhaps even true that
there are more of that class of men and wom
en In America than there are In Europe. But
it Is equally true that this class of people In America
aa well as In Europe form only an Insignificant minor
ity and their folly could not be taken for a normal phe
nomenon of American life In general.
One rarely sees real palaces In America. One of tho
mansions reputed to be among the largest In New York
is that of Mr. Vanderbilt on Fifth avenue. Yet even
this house la far from attaining the proportions of a
real palace as we understand the, word in Europe.. The
home of Mr. Morgan Is much smaller and does not sur
pass in magnitude or luxury many of the beautiful ho
tels which embellish the elegant quarters of Paris and
THE FINE ART OF MANNERS.
Miss Prindle was a formal and pre
cise old lady who "conducted" so the
phrase ran a very Belect sewing claaa
for young glrla. Besides being an ex
cellent school for learning needle
work, Miss Prlndle'a Thursday after
noon gatherings were Instructed In the
niceties of old-fashioned manners. Miss
Prindle was herself a model of pro
priety, and had her pupils tried only
to Imitate her, their time would not
have been wasted.
One day, down-town. Miss Prindle
saw coming toward her a girl whom
she recognized to be Marlon Knight,
one of her sewing class. The girl was
walking along rapidly, not teeming to
notice her teacher. Aa the two met.
Miss Prindle caught her eye, and
bowed and smiled In her most formal
way. She then passed on. reflecting
that Marlon would doubtless benefit
by the example of her salute, and
some time be herself an example to
Others.
A few rods farther on, to her sur
prise, Miss Prindle again encountered
so she thought Marion Knight Thi
girl was comlrg toward her, as be
fore. Mlsa Prindle stopped.
"Are you " she began, "are you not
Marlon Knight T"
' "Certainly, Mlsa Prindle," said tho
girl.
"And didn't I meet yon. onl7 a mo
t ment ago?" sho asked.
; "No, Mlsa Prindle, I think that was
1 my twin slater, Elsie."
i Miss Prindle looked her confusion.
; "And she Bhe isn't in my sewing
! claas, Is Bhe, Marlon?
"No, Mlsa Prindle; Bho has been
away at Bchotl for a long time"
"O dear! O dear!" exclaimed the old
; lady. "And I don't know her, and I
bowed and smiled to her! Oh Marlon,
dear, will you tell her Just aa soon as
1 you see her Unit I shouldn't have smll-
ed and bowed to her, because I've
i never met her, you see? It wa very
bad form, you understand."
"Hut, .Miss Prindle," protested the
I girl, "I think you met her last year
j when we first came to live here. Don't
i you remember? It was at the church
: fuir."
I "Oh, bo I did!" cried the other, after
' a moment. "So I did. Well, lu that
ease, Marlon, you may tell your Bister
, that I am glad I bowed, but I shouldn't
have smiled. Good-by, dear!"
Kurvr I If IVm Kate.
"You seem to be going homo In a
Vory cheerful manner for a man who
haa been oirt all nliiht."
"Yes. You see, my wife U an ama
teur elocutionist, and she's saving her
voice for an entertainment to-morrow
eight." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mrtrlet'lttil Opixirtuult r,
Thougn Swansea, Wales, la In the
rery heart of the Welsa anthracite
coal fields, Btove suitable for burning
It are conspicuous by their absence.
It there 1 bo much enjoyment in
flirting, why dou't men ttlrt with their
wlvsi?
which are Inhabited by people who have much smaller
fortunes than the great New York banker. Near hla
house Mr. Morgan has built a large library, where h
amasses various collections of books, manuscripts and
relics which ought t coat a great many millions. But
this library Is not a part of hU house; it Is a sort of
public monument.
Mr. Carnegie has built Immense palaces all over
America for libraries, museums and schools. Yet for
himself he has reserved a house in New York which a
European would consider hardly worthy of a man of
such great wealth.
European Journals toll frequently almost unbelievable
tales of American luxury, of fortunes spent on Jewels,
on dresses, on flowers. They tell of fabulous feasts
given, of the caprices of the new Neroes on the other
side of the Atlartlc, Like everybody else, before going
to America I read these reports with implicit faith in
them. Now, however I confess I have become skep
tical and I do not co lslder these Journals as reliable
sources of lnformatlc o regarding American extrava
gance. Briefly, I have not seen any essential difference be
tween American luxury and European luxury. The cry
about American extravagance had Its origin not in
Europe, but In America, and It Is rather proof of Amer
ican democracy. This cry about extravagance haa been
raised by Americans who have been brought up In the?
spirit of puritan lam and democracy and could not look
Indifferently upon any growth of luxury which followed
the growth of riches In the last century.
WHAT UNIVERSAL PEACE REALLY MEANS.
By Baroness Von Suttner.
contempt and whose arguments are now and then re
futed by historians and other learned men. This con
ception of the reace advocate, however, is wrong. The
peace advocate as the public thinks of him is only a
phantom. He is only a caricature created by those who
know nothing whatever about the movement and' agi
tation for universal peace.
War has from time Immemorial been and la at tho
present day the ruling motive and course of human
society. Teaeo 1b an interruption and an accident. What
the advocates of peace want is precisely to turn the
thing around. They want to make peace the ruling
course and motive of human society, and war, in so far
aa It ever could arise, to be only an Illegal Interruption.
In our present society, which resta entirely upon a war
basis, peace is maintained only through expensive war
preparations and through the constructing of fortlflca
ttona. The movement for universal peace has In the last few
yeara developed into a science. Sciences never create,
plead or force phenomena they merely observe them
and recognize them. The movement toward universal
peace accomplishes more and more aa the world be
comes organized aa Its separate units begin to unite
more closely. This is a process in harmony with the
laws of nature. To conclude a universal peace pact be
tween all nations Is the next step In human development.
THEN SHE
Orme I suppose you are one of
own canoe.
Fred Well, I would rather see
Orme And why?
ALPINE ADVENTURE.
In tho northeastern corner of the
Tyrol Is the beat skee-ground in Eu
rope, writes W. A. Balllle-Grohman in
"Tyrol." The region has many lofty
peaks, which makes mountain climb
ing of Interest. The author glvea one
of hla adventurea on a peak near the
village of KItzbuehel.
"On one of these peaks occurred to
me many yeara ago a little adven
ture which gave me an opportunity
of admiring the grand view rather
logger than was pleasant v
"I was out stalking chamois, and
having some unoccupied hours in the
middle of the day, when stalking Is
practically useless, as the beasts are
resting, I thought I would ascend one
of those pinnacles upon which at that
time few human beings, I suppose, had
ever set foot
"The very laat bit waa a smooth
faced rock not more than twelve feet
high, but absolutely uncllmbable If
unaided by rope, or another man, upon
whose shoulders one could get, and
so obtain a hand grip of the top, and
thus draw oneself up. As I was alone,
I had recourse to a short length of
rope I had In my rucl-sark. Mukltig
a sllp-noose, I threw It upward till It
gripped some projection. Then I drew
myself up.
"While looking about me. an unfor
tunate movement of my legs, which
were dangling over the brink as I
dat. caused tho rope to slip and fall
down to the Binall ledge on which I
had atood when flinging it upward.
Thla ledne, or band of rock, was un
comfortably narrow, not wider than
thirty Inches, and the abyss below
was a perpendicular wall four or five
church steeples in depth.
"At first It did not seem such a seri
ous tlx to bo In. By letting myself
drop to the ledge, my extended arms
gripping the top, the distance between
the sole of my feet and the ledge
waa not more than four foet or bo
nothing to speak of If that yawning
gulf had not been there and I had bad
boots on my feet. But having taken
W S glrr
ran
i
The whole object of the peace advocates
consists In turning the people and the gov
ernments to kindness and mutual love. They
strive to show how much pleaaanter, more
comfortable and healthier It Is to live In
peace than it la to quarrel and fight The
public imagines the peace advocates to be a
sort of a wlBhy-washy flock of sheepish men
upon whom our war lords look down with
PADDLED.
those fellows who likes to paddlo their
the girl paddle this one.
theso off and left them below, togethei
with my coat and rifle, I should hav
to drop on to sharp rocks barefooted
and hence would be very apt to los
my balance.
"The moro I considered the position,
the more I funked that drop, and to
make a long story short I stayed on
that pinnacle two nights, until thi
morning of the third day, before hun
ger drove me to risk the drop, which
I dtd in safety.
"How I got down the remainder 0!
that descent, 'shinning down chim
neys and creeping along narrow
ledges, was a mystery to me after
ward, for I was faint with hunger and
my knees trembled and shook under
me. When I reached the first habita
tion where I happened to be known,
the peasant woman at the door hardly
recognized me."
Quick Wit Sve.
"The Btrangest and most thrilling
piece of swordsmanship I ever saw,"
Bald the fencing master, "was in Ver
mont "I was SDendlnff the autumn In a
mountainous part of the state, and
there was a military encampment near
my hotel. One morning an offlcer'a
horse started to bolt with tho man
during parade, and made at breakneck
speed toward a precipice. The officer
tried to stop the horse, tried to turn
Its head no use. On dashed the fran
tic animal straight for abyss.
"We all held our breath. In another
Instant we expected to see horse and
rider go over the cliff. Dut the officer,
when within fifty feet of the edge,
drew hla sword, and plunged it twice
deep Into the horse. The horse stag
gered, slowed, keeled over, dying.
"The man had sacrificed the ani
mal's life to save his own."
Aa lie Itemeiubrrrd It.
"Shadbolt, did you ever have a touch
of anything llkj the appendicitis?"
"Once. Have you forgotten, Din
guns, that when you were operated on
for It you touched me for an even hun
dred?" Chicago Tribune.
Every girl Imagines that, had she
lived lu tho days when knlghta were
bold and bad. Bhe would have oeen
stolen pretty frequently.
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Government experts have discovered a new kind of food. It Is said!
to be palatable, wholesome, nutritious, and ought to be reasonably cheap.
Tho food In question Is furnished by the seeds of the great j-ellow water
Illy, which In Southeastern Oregon have been gathered for many centuries
by the Klamath Indians, who depend uion them to a considerable extent
for their winter provender. They are so delicious, and so obviously avail
able for consumption by civilized people, that It la thought there would be
profit In collecting them on a large scale, preparing them for market by
modern methods and putting them up for sale in neat and attractive pack
agea, aa a new food luxury.
The aborigines In question dwell among the foothills of the great Cas
cado range, In a region remarkable for multltudlnoua springs of Icy-cold
and crystal-clear water, it Is from these sprlnga that two vast water
spacea, known respectively aa Klamath marsh and Klamath lake, are sup
plied. The Klamath marsh, writes Rene Bach in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
contalna 10,000 acrea of the water lilies.
The water llllea are such exceedingly vigorous planta that tlwy prac
tically crowd out all other forma of vegetation over the area they occupy
even to the cat-tails. Thus the 10,000 acres represent that much space ex
cluslvely occupied by the "wokns," aa the Indiana call them. Their seeds
are inclosed in large green pods, which when fully ripe undergo quite sud
denly a curious sort of decomposition, as one might call it, literally melting
md dropping Into the water a m-jcllaglnous fluid In which the seeds are
most eagerly sought, the seeds having obtained a maximum of flavor and
tenderness.
White people in Southeastern Oregon often buy woka3 from the Kla
maths for their own use, paying from 10 to 20 cents a pound for tbem that
ia to say, for the kernels ready prepared and parched. They like them very
much. But the price aeema to be rather high, and It ia suggested by Dr.
F. V. Coville, botanist in chief of the Department of Agriculture, that mod
ern methoda might bo employed to great advantage In placing the crop on
the market. It would hardly be practicable, he says, to gather the poda ln
any other way than that now ndopte-d, but the processes required for sep
arating, cleaning and otherwise preparing the seeds might be performed
inexpensively and advantageously by already familiar milling machines
so as to place the product on the mnrket at a price low enough to enable it
to compete with other breakfast foods.
xdhrkhh
Calcutta la to spend nearly half a
million dollara for a 9,000,000-gallon
tank for lta filtered water supply. The
tank will be elevated 100 feet above
the ground on steel columns.
To facilitate its telephone service,
the British postofllce department Is
experimenting with a slot machine de
vice Into which two pennies are
dropped when a call Is made. If the
line Is busy the money Is returned.
The navy'a submarine boat, Octopus,
holds the record for depth of opera
tions. With a full crew on board the
little vessel was operated for half an
hour In Buzzard'a Bay, Massachusetts,
In water no lesa than 107 feet deep.
The first electric furnace In this
country for annealing, tempering and
hardening meUila has been erected at
Schenectady, N. Y. It consists 01 a
crncible containing metallic salt melt
ed by an alternating currant of low
voltage.
A prize of about $2,400 offered in
Germany In 1804 for the best method
of preventing the pollution of streams
by sulphite liquor rrom oayer mn.,
still remains unawarded. Scorea of
methoda have been tried, but none haa
been notably successful.
v Rtntiha. an English ornithologist,
expresses the opinion that birds habit
ually make use of storms in iraraiug
from one part of their range to anoth
er He points out that if a bird can
not find shelter, it muat be more com
fortable on the wing than on tho
ground during a storm, because in the
fiercest galea the air, as a maaa. la at
rest; that is, the bird la In a moving
supporting medium, like a swimmer in
a strongly flowing river. ,
The advantages of on fuel for sta
tionary and marine boilers are receiv
ing much attention In England. Al
though the total cost ia greater for
oil than coal, oil haa the advantage
of greater convenience, simplicity and
tleanlineas. It ia also more efficient,
ilnee a pound of good oil ia found to
have a calorific value about 35 per
cent greater than that of an equal
weight of coal. It also occupiea much
lesa space, and In that respect la very
suitable for ships. Many improvements
have recently been made in the meth
oda of apraying and burning the oil.
A curious photograph of a croco
dile's nest filled with eggs, from two of
which young crocodiles were Just Issu
ing, la contributed to Nature by G. W.
Grabham. The photograph wa8 made
In the bed of the river Uahad, near the
frontier of Abyssinia. The egga were
about three lnchea long, and tho newly
hatched crocodllea are ten IncheB long.
Thev are nerfeetly formed, and 'utter
a sound resembling the croaking of
froga. Before being uncovered, .the
eggs were burled about three Inches
deep In the Band at the bottom of a
Hole a foot deep. The young croco
diles, Mr. Grabham Bays, were perfect
ly willing to bite, but not strong
enouRh to do any harm.
KISS BY CUSTOM AND FAVOR..
IVriulttia at Ilunwcrrnnl ami l'rlv-llt-Kra
of Newt-Katie's Muyor.
Though klsting la said to go by
favor, yet It sometimes goes by cus
tom, and occasionally by law, says
Tlt-l!its. For Instance, there la a cus
tom connected with Hocktida at llun
gerford, a festival which takes place
every April. A penny tax U collect
ed on that day by two well-known res
idents of Hungorford, who are termed
"tuttymen" and who go from door to
door, each carrying a stave trimmed
.with gay ribbons.
It is not recorded whether this hon
orary post of "tuttyman" U put up to
open coinjtltlon, but It certainly
ought to be, for there Is one very
valuable perquisite attached to the of-tf'.-e
namely, a kl.s from at least od
j lady in each family visited. It la
Uim
NEW KIND
Linn-run irrMv
ixuitiiiwuor
said, moreover, to bo the rule at Hun
gerford to yield graciously to this dia
tom, especially if the "tuttymen" hap
pen to be young and handsome bache
lors. "Beating the bounda" la often asso
ciated with other remarkable customs
and at Maidenhead kissing Is Irarae-"
morially associated with it. Any
lady, old or young, rich or poor, who
13 encountered on the road must have
the fair alternative submixud to her
of being either "bumped" or kissed.
It speaks volumes for the good sense
of Maidenhead maidens that the vast
majority of them prefer the latter al
ternative to the former, although they
might prefer it as a private rather
than as a public function. Neverthe
less, there are cases on record where
ladies have chosen to be "bumped,"
and, as this takes place on tho boun
dary stones, they have probably re
pented, when too late, of their undua
coyness, . .4
Barge day is a festival which ap
pears to be peculiar to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
It seems to be akin to the
practice of boundary beating, for the
mayor and corporation, who doubtless
In olden times used to sail in barges,
now embark upon four beflagged
Bteamors and. followed by two old
Btate barge8, eteam up the river to
claim the soil of the Tyne. But the
piece de resistance la reserved for the
landing. A big crowd is always wait
ing on the landing stage for the ar
rival of the "gravo and reverend selg
nors," and from the assembled m,uitl
tude tho mayor has the very delight
ful but extremely Invidious privilege
of selecting any young lady he pleases
and giving her a kiss. For this ovu
latory performance she rooelvea a gol
den sovereign.
It la said that there has never been
a mayor of Newcastle who has not
deemed this privilege cheap at the
price. Nor is thla all. No sooner haa
the mayor received -hla klaa and pre
sented hla sovereign than the sheriff,
not to be outdone, also chooses a fair
lady, duly kisses her, and presents
her with a sovereign. But tho fair
maid whom the mayor has kissed has.
still another girt to receive, and this
time from the mayoress, who is bound
by cuatom, whatever her feelings on
the matter may be, to present wltl
some useful gift the lady whom her
husband has kissed.
Unconquerable Soula.
The English soldier who sent hla
people the tunic he had worn in a bat
tle at the beginning of the South
African War, and wrote from hospital,.
"You will see that thero are eleven
bullet-holes In It, but I was awfully
lucky; only six of them hit me," has
a rival In an English schoolboy of 10,
whose cheerful acceptance of the'
"bludgeoninga of chance" a writer in
St. James Budget has made public.
"My life haa been a very lucky one "
wrote the 10-year-old. "When I was
3 yeara old I fell downstairs and cut
my head. When I was 5 years old I
was looking at some hens, and a dog
bit my leg.
"When I was 8 I went with my
brother In the trap, and the horse fell
and threw us out of the trap; my
brother lit on his feet and I lit on the
horse's back.
"Last year I waa playing, and ran
Into a lurry and cut my eyebrow, and
It has left a mark.
"One dny I went Into the slaughter
house, and a b!g sheep ran after me
and knocked me down, and broka my
arm.
"I have had a happy life."
AVuat She Doing..
"Didn't you telephone ua that your
wife was ready to go with ua when
wo started?"
"Yes, but she's upstairs now chang
ing her mind."
If we could only cash In our talk
how many millionaires there would
be.
We are never fooled but once on
tor teeth.