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Dakota County Herald DAKOTA CITY, NEB. John H. Ream, - - Fubllshor If yon must criticise your boss, do it inwardly. Time will tell unless the gossips vent it under the wire. Too many men try to build a sky craper on a une-story foundation. . A good Btory Is better than solid farts from a literary point of view. "Get married." pays Senator Do pe. But he doesn't say hov.- often. , An astronomer can advance almost ny theory and the average man has nothing to say. When will automoblllsts learn that reckless Joy ride generally means death to some one? Dr. Eliot's list of best books con tains none of the kind one would care to read In a hammock. Five fat years are coming, says J. Ogden Armour. Let 'em come, with nobody yelling for anil fat. What would be the outcome If the Black Hand operators could bo col onized In Breathitt County. Ky.? Unfortunately the crop of peach bas ket hats has not been In the least spoiled by the frosts of criticism. A man in New York ate ten pounds of beefsteak at a sitting. He omitted potatoes, as the price was too high. There are women in the country who could maintain a husband and get along nicely on an income of $36, 000 a year. Fools in glad rags are often per mitted to rush In whero unlaundered hobos would be knocked down and dragged out. Beware of the people who pat you on the back. They may be looking for an opportunity to kick your feet from under you. The courts often seem more or less cruel. Mrs. Howard Gould will have to struggle alopg on $36,000 a year un til further notice. It Is suspected that a heathen that ticks to his Idols Is more to be trusted than a Chinaman that Is con verted with an eye to worldly things. The weather has again upset some of Walter Wellman's plans for reach ing the North Pole. The weather has always been a groat bother to Arc tic explorers. No two papers seem to agree on the price of radium. One has It quoted at $9,000,000 a pound and another at $5,000 an ounce. The market Is very bewildering to the poor consumer. Highwaymen In Brooklyn who robbed a drunken man of 65 cents got a sentence of seven years. No wonder, with all the modern improve ments In opportunities, that Justice Is disgusted when the majesty of the law Is denied for less than a dollar. A western rniversity professor pre dicts that the population of the United States will Boon overtake the food supply. This fits In nicely with the th.iory of the other professor who ays cannibalism Is the proper thing. Food cm be supplied and the .popu lation k,it down by the simple mode advocated, which will thus kill two birds with one stone. It la not often that the learned experts so neatly dovetail their theories. A resident of New York, who died the other day, founded in 1854 the Holy Name Society of the Roman Catholic Church, having for Its object tb discouragement of profanity. Its membership of more than a million Indicates a general desire among the young men of that church to be clea l Of speech. It also illustrates the fact that to call attention to the wicked ness and foolishness of profanity Is to take a decisive step toward lessen ing It. Prof. Osier Is to be congratu lated on having reached his sixtieth birthday, not only halo and useful, but unconcerned over the weird windings Of the Osier legend, from which there Is for him no escape wherever he may go. Many a good man who has said a less sensible thing than Professor Osier said, and who has had it dls torted in less maddening ways, has gone to pieces under the strain. Wild ly trying to convince the world that lie never said what he was alleged to nave said, and tilting ever at the windmills of a nation's Jesting, he has oured or weakened In the end. Not o with Osier. For him there has not even been an effort at denial; he has laughd with the laughers. When the talk Is about chloroform at 60 he lias appreciated the Joke as much as anybody. If anybody wants to believe that this Is the Osier advice to the world the professor Is willing. Such being the case, this particular six tieth btrthday at any event may safely be said to have been passed In seren !ty and ease. The example la a good one to many a serious young man who ahows less elasticity at 30 or 4ft than Osier does at 60. Secretary Wilson returned from a recent western trip with the convic tion that bis previoui explanation of the upward trend of food prices is sound, lie attributed the troubles of the consumer to the scarcity of farm labor, and be sees no reason to change that view. Thousand of fertile acre:, be says, are lying Idle In the far West bbcause their owners cannot get "band" at any rate of pay. Ameri can boys drift to the cities, while Immigrants, even If from purely agri cultural dUtrlcts, are either unable or unwilling t do farm and fl'dd work, while many of those who try it prove to be incompetent owing to f.no different methods and the im proved machinery employed here. Those wTio regard this theory as In adequate and who think that monop oly Is not without considerable respon sibility for the high prices of food stuffs must admit that the scarcity of arlruHnral labor Is a fact, and as such It at least partially accounts for the phenomenon In question. Hence It Is highly desirable to continue and ex tend the work of the federal Informa tion division of the bureau of Imml crat Ion. which has sought to promote t!i better distribution of Immigration and hai tnk.n particular pains to di rect the aliens to the western states or loci II Ms where the shortage of la bor Is greatest. There has been oppo sition to the activities of this divi sion, and only the other day Secretary Nngel "turned down" a recommenda tion for Its abolition. There Is plenty of room for co-operation between the federal agency and state bureaus of labor and Immigration. Secretary Wil son's explanation nlso emphasizes the need of scientific and practlral teach ing of agriculture in state colleges and special schools. A good deal has been written on the subject of late, and It certainly deserves all the at tention It receives. The drift city ward can be checked by making agri culture profitable and attractive as a career. he liberal professions, we are constantly told, are overcrowded, and the average earnings In them too small to compensate for the time and labor Rpent In preparation and wait ing. Agriculture is very far from be ing overcrowded, and the possibili ties of Intensive cultivation, of econ omy and Improvement, are Infinite in this country. SOME MAHEIED MEDITATIONS. By Clarence L. Cullen. When a woman looks Just right in a bathing suit it's a sign that all the other women call her a bold, brazen creature. The man who can't swim, but whose wife can, has to stand for a lot of patronizing by his spouse during the bathing months. The woman who looks the moRt loll- ful and supercilious in a motor car usually is the woman who Is the least accustomed to such vehicles. Familiar quotation: "Now, I warn you if you go out this evening with out taking me, you won't find me here when you come back. Mark my words, sir!" There are slews of pretty and agree ablo trained nurses, but the only time a married man draws one Is when he gets sick away from home and picks his own nurse. The only way to get even with her for squirming and wriggling when you're hooking up the back Is to pull that squirming number yourself when she's tying your dress tie. The woman who keeps her hair in "kids" nearly all day Sunday can't understand why her husband is so choppy and so anxious to go some whereanywhere on his day of reat. One of those serlo-comls effects Is when a woman, unconscious of an un hooked back placket, haughtily turns her back upon a rival and then looks, stunned and puzzled when she hears the giggles behind her. The woman who harps the most upon the swell matrimonial chances she tossed away to marry the man whose name she bears Is the one who runs around In tantrumlsh circles if her husband even accidentally lets slip the name of pome girl he knew before his marriage. REVIVAL OF STENCILINO. Adaptation of Straw Matting- to Tale Btl of Decoration, Never has Japanese matting been in such popular favor for decorating and house furnishing articles as during the present season, the Boston Post says. Now that stenciling Is the favorite fad in decorating, many and beautiful are the various decorative schemes to which the, matting lends itself to sten ciling. Matting rugs decorated with a stenciled border are very attractive and useful for the porch or summer cottage. Plain white matting Is used for the stencil decorating and the rug ends are finished by raveling out the matting to a depth of four or Ave Inches and knotting the strands In bunches df six or eight, close to the last strand of matting, thus forming a pretty fringe. A conventional bor der for the rugs is the proper style of decoration. Porch floor cushions are equally at tractive made from matting and bocud together with rafia and decorated with a stencil design. Screens filled with stenciled matting always look cool and Inviting. Lamp and candle shades of stenciled matting bound with rafia are also very popu lar for summer use. Utility boxes, chair seats and taHea covered with matting are also reced ing their share ot stencil adornment A screen of green mission filled wltta white matting, decorated with flighU' of brllllatu-hued butterflies and "darn ing needles" the wasplike Insect which our parents often threatened ua would sew up our childish lips for acts of naughtiness was recently the storm renter of admiration in an ex hibit of arts and crafts. The work is fascinating, the effect charming and the cost next to uoth ing. Enough said. A Mollifying- Oraiaalon. "Here Is an eastern humorist who gets off the decrepit old gag about ram lug chickens In the hatchway of a ves sel." "Wow, Is that so? Lemme see it. Oh, well, we'll have to forgive hlrn this time." "Why?" "He's left out the egg scream where the ship "lays to,' you know.". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cap f'utl'a Urlm Toll. On the shore of Cape Cod there were, during a period of twenty year, following lfciil, aa many as a thousand wrecks of vessels carrylug precfous cargoes of human beings and of freight VAST TREASURE i ' 1 " " .r!,.'rV . ... .. . --. - -"-:U .' ;).' 'Vv .'i- r. ; ''T3n,vl-'-r'f'-".'.;, ' .... .JL II v. .-.ivir.M' I - - In twenty years between 1878 and 1898 6,000 vessels were wrecked on the Inland seas, marine records show. The loss of cargo In this period of less than one-fourth of the years of navigation on the lakeu was $8,000,000. From this estimate It Is figured that the total number of vessels wrecked reaches 14,000 and the amount of treas ure at the bottom of the lakes Is $20, 000,000. String these sunken vessels with their hidden treasures over the 1.000 mile course from Buffalo to Duluth. and there would be one every half mllo. The field of romance on the Inland seas Is as great as that of the South EARLY LETTER ON THE UNION. Dr. Ituah Onrril a Too intk Pence nlth Knulniul Woulil lie Harmful. One of the finest specimens of let ters in a recent sale of autographs by Stan V. Henkcls In Philadelphia, was written on April 15, 17S2, by Dr. Ben jamin Rush, a signer of the declara tion of Independence, to MaJ.-Oen. Nathanael Greene, says the New York Times. Dr. Rush was physician-general of the revolutionary army also. He prac ticed his profession In Philadelphia and during the yellow fever epidemic there In 1783 bo treated It success fully and it has been estimated that he saved from death no less thar 6,000 persons. He was a firm supporter of the fed eral constitution and his letter If chiefly about that subject. He says; "It Is true France has done wonder." for us. But may not even this hav a beneficial effect on our country here after. It seems Intended by heaven to teach us the necessity of a pcrpetur-j union and confederation. If the coiv blned force of all the States was u'i equal to the power of Britain, wha can be expected from the spirit or re sources of any one of them? I am so perfectly satisfied that the future peace, safety, freedom of America depend upon our union that I view the debt of our country with pleasure, especially that part of It we owe to ourselves. Our danger at present arises principally from two causes. First, a too speedy peace with Britain, and, second, from Britain's acknowledging our independence. I wish the tlrst may be deferred till a naval war has given us as many fleets and admirals as a land war has given us armies and generals. The last event would un nerve the resentments of America and introduce among us all the conse quence of English habits and manners with English manufactures. To pre vent this and enable us to transmit our feeling to posterity, I wish Brit ain for P.rty yenrs to come may con tinue In all her acts of government to call us 'rebels' and 'deluded .subjects.' Wo stand In need of all the follies and vices of our enemies to give us a national character." On Sept. 23, 1783, the definitive treaty of peace was signed, by which the independence of the thirteen United States was acknowledged by Great Britain. It was not, however, until after Jay's treaty in 1794 that this original treaty of peaco was fully executed by Great Britain. Dr. Rush's letter sold for $50. He Had Seen a Pew. The senior partner of the dry goods establishment was freeing his mind concerning the styles of head gear that had come under his observation. "The fashions in hats this season," ho said, "are absolutely the worst and most un becoming I have ever seen In an ex perience of more than forty years." "Oh, I don't know," said the Junior partner, who was more tolerant. "They have the charm of novelty, at any rate." "The 'charm' of novelty!" exclaimed the other. "Tom, have you Been any thing new In this spring's Btyles that you can honestly say you admire?" "Ye-es, I uilnk I have," hesitatingly tnswered the Junior partner. "I'd like to know what!" "Why, the girls." Tba Woutlera of Selene. It was left for the exhibitor of a phonograph in the streets of Utrecht, according to an American traveler, to put the finishing touch to the wonder ful Invention. There was the sound of a military band In full blast, aud then suddenly the tune stopped aud "Halt!" rana hoarsely out upon the air. "Who's that Interrupting the con cert?" flippantly Inquired the Ameri can, edging close to the ojerator. "That," said the man, surveying him blandly, "was the voice of Napoleon Bonaparto, giving the order at the Battle of Waterloo." Unite So. "New thought will beautify tha plainest girl." "That may be so, but very few girls are going to give up lotions for no tions." Milwaukee Journal. It costs more to avenge a wrong than it does to let it go by default IN WRECKS BENEATH WATERS Rcas. Mnny of these vessels with rich 'aroes d'happrarrd suddenly and mys teriously, as If amtiggled away by an unseen power. Most of those cargoes remain to this "flay for lucky fortune hunters. In the wrecking of 14,000 Khlps thousands of lives were snuffed out and unwritten acts of heroism played. Many fortunes have been re covered from the bottom of the lakes. Not mnny yenrs ago a treasure ship came down from the North, the Wil liam H. Stevens, loaded with $101,880 worth of copper. She went down off Connoaut, O. Unavailing efforts to re cover h"r treasure were made until dipt. Harris W. Baker, Detroit, fitted nut a modern treasure-hunting expedi tion. H recovered $100,000 of the enr-jo. his share of the treasure being $.'.0,000. On the south shore of Lake Krle, between Erie and Dunkirk, the steamer D'-an Richmond lies with $."0, 000 In zinc on board. The Itlc.hmond disappeared between these two ports and the bodies of the crew were washed ashore.. Lake Huron Is called the "Lake of the Sunken Treasure." Near Saginaw bay are more lost ships with valuable cargoes than In any oth er of the great lakes. The steamer City of Detroit, with a $.'.0,000 copper car;;o; It. G. Coburn. $(i0,000 cepper cargo, and the steamer Fay, with $20, 000 In steel billets on board, lie in the bay. The steamer Kent wa3 sunk off Point Price with much, money In her hulk. F.lght men lost their lives on the Kent. Whisky and coal form an Important A CANAL CARRIED ACROSS A CANAL IN A TANK. CTiiVk . . ; 1-TTir - -r r ir tt 1 ,n j imiii m . . . jj.jJ THE BRIDGE WATER CANAL CROSSING MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. The Manchester ship canal, a remarkable feat of engineering, presents, perhaps, no more curious feature thnn the Barton aqueduct, which is here il lustrated. By moans of this the old Bridgewat. r canal Is carried across the more modern ship canal. The aqueduct, which weighs 14,000 tons, has a water-tight gate at either end. These gates are closed when it is necessary to make way for a vessel on the canal below, and the aqueduct is swung aside on a pivot, the water on its top being held, as It were, in a tank, two walls of which nro formed by the water-tight gates. The Manchester ship canal, which gives access for sea going vessels, was begun In 1887 and was opened on the first day of 1S94. It starts at. Kastham, on the left bank of the Mersey estuary, some four miles above Birkenhead. It has a breadth of 1.72 feet at the surface and 120 feet r,t the bottom, and a depth of twenty-si.t feet. That Is being increased by two feet. BIRD CASTLES IN THE ROCKS. Ten Tliouaand lllrda Live I'pon a Hoelt on the Mnitdnlen Ialanda. To see the other rock-dwellers we must go on farther to the nortn. From tho Magdalen3 to the most northern lands one will meet the precipitous islands and headlands tenanted by tho hardy seablrds which delight in sheer heights such as turn most men dizzy. Great Bird Rock, of the Magdalen group, far out in the, turbulent Gulf of St. Lawrence, la the moat accessible from civilization of any of the colonies of this sort, says Herbert K. Job, In Outing. It almost seems like mocker, though, to apply to it the term "accessible." It is a question of degree, for even this is remote and hard to reach at its beat. Yet such a place as Great Bird Rock is one of the seven wonders of the wurld. If any one who truly loves wild nature desires a real and unique thrill, by all means he or she should somehow visit Great Bird Rock. It towers from a stormy, fog-begirt ocean, lonely, buffeted on every side, exposing Its toweling cliffs to the al most unremitted assaults of the ele ments. It has been my good fortune twice to visit this great castle of the birds. The first time we went In a schooner of goodly size, were left on the rock, and called for two days later. The next time, four years after, the vessel failed to keep the appointment, and, lather than give it up, we watched our chance and ran out from the Mag dalens in uu open lobster, boat. We were hurled ashore by the surf on the one bit of rocky beach under the cliff. Hurriedly hitching on the steam-winch tackle, we had the boat hoisted out of danger, and scrambled up the long ladder 110 feet to the summit, where we were loyally cared for by the keep er aud his family, who had received but one visitor since the previous No vember. On the sheer walls of this precipi tous Island, on the many ledges, live some tea thousand sta birds. The OF INLAND SEAS. r " part of the treasure which awaits re covery In the Inland seas. In 184G the Lexington, Capt. Peer, cleared from Cleveland for Port Huron with a car go of 110 barrels of whisky. The ship foundered In midlake with all on board. To-day the whisky Is worth $113 per barrel. The Anthony Wayne sank In Lake Erie with 300 barrels of whisky and wine on board. The West moreland sank with a similar cargo. It Is said that coal worth $.",000,000 awaits recovery. A terrible event on the Inland seas was the loss ot the steamer Atlantic off Long Point, Lake Erie, with 300 lives. Not until a quarter of a cen tury had passed was trace of the ship found. Treasure worth $30,000 was taken from her. The Grlffln, built by La Salle at the foot of Lake Erie In January, 1679. sailed across Lake Erie, up the Detroit river and entered I.ake Michigan. She started on the return trip in the fall of 1680 with $12,000 In furs on board. She was never heard of. Treasure hunters are now seeking the $80,000 copper cargo that went down with the steamer Pewablc in a collision with the Meteor In August, !8C.". The Pewablc went down In Lnke Huron, off Thunder Bay island. Five men have lost their lives In attempts to recover her cargo. The new attempt Is being made by a New York syndi cate, which has perfected a diving rig that they declare will withstand the water pressure at the depth at which the treasure lies. sights are Impressive beyond the pow er of any words adequately to do scribe. From below, as we approach in the boat, we gaze upward with awe at the circling swarm of th birds, note the rows and companies upon the ledges, listen to the screams of the birds and the din of the'surf, which pounds away ceaselessly at the cliff. Our boat la plunging, In every thing there Is motion, the height ot the rocky wall Is appalling, and tha very universe seems to reel and stag ger. And when, either by climbing the ladder or being hoisted up by the steam winch, we gain the summit and look down, the scene Is equally Impressive. From some promontory of the cliff we gaze down upon hosts of birds upon their eggs. Some of the eggs we can see as the owners launch forth and scale swiftly down ward and circle out over the ocean to Join the ever-circling throng. The Force of Haiti v. One of the campers had done some thing peculiarly Idiotic, and the dean said. "Dick reminds me of Thoma.' colt." "What about Thomas' colt?" asked Dick, cheerfully. "Why," the dean responded readily "where I lived In .Maine when I was a boy an old man named Thomas' raised horses. He once put out to pasture a colt, which had been fed from Its birth In a box stall and wa tered at the trough In the yard. "The pasture lay across a small riv er, and in the middle of the day the colt swam the stream to go up to the barnyard for a drink of water." Her "Merry Widow." Hubby What! You paid $'0 for that Easter hat! It's monstrous It's a sin! Wife (sweetly) No matter; the sin will be on my own head! LIpplncott's. What has become of the old-fashioned woman who feared the cat would "take the baby's breath?" Sometimes the nomination seeks the man when the office doea not TOPICS OF THE TIMKS A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER E.3TING ITEMS. f'ommenta mid Crllletama llna.-d I von tlte llMnpeiilns of the liar Illatnrli-al and em Note. Having wen the d r y. there Isn't much more for King Edward to live for. Two cr three of the Va:idcrbllt !oys Jontinue to live w'ih tirir wives lu apparent happiness. London complains of a shortage of Joctors. The diploma mills must be more exacting over there. Among the other terrible disasters that never happened was the Patten rise in the price of bread. An English peeress has written a cookery book. Perhaps the reaction from the suffragette craze is coming. Probably it hasn't occurred to the Young Turks to Introduce the electric chair as a quick method of reform. Seattle's big show Is drawing large crowds and giving them their money's worth. Which is another Innovation. i.fter he has spent about two weeks looking for a Job, Harold ceases to wonder why they called it 'commence ment." It Is not surprising that Roosevelt and Kermlt endure the climate of Af rica so well; they lived a long time In Washington. H. H. Rogers proved conclusively that It is possible to accumulate a for tune of $75,000,000 without making a vociferous noise. The Turkish government announces that only 4,000 Christians were massa cred at Adana. And all that warship coal burned for nothing! An Indiana poet sings: "I want to go back to yesterday." His wife must have been waiting at the front door for him when he got homo. A Canadian writer says Emperor William has signally failed to take ad vantage of his opportunities. English writers generally are afraid he will not keep on doing so. There Is some comfort In tho thought that the people of Mars are superior to our own race. We won't have to take up a collection to send missionaries up there. So long as King Edward and Kaiser Wllhelm are on kissing terms we shall refuse to believe in the probability of any serious trouble between Great Britain and Germany. Mark Twain explains that oversight caused him to use without credit, in his latest work, a book chapter which ft-aa written by another man. Aa a leader In the fight for International copyright provisions Mark ought to be more careful. If the truth were known it would probably be found that , the charge of decadence brought against France is Inspired by the circumstance that the French people are no longer avid of military glory, that they have ceased to be the firebrand of Europe and have become devotees of peace. They can afford to plead guilty to that indict ment. It redounds to their praise. Should enough anarchists be put on a desert island, and have enough to eat, the philosophers say, they wouid soon have either a king or a president at any rato, a government. A class of small boys in a city slum affords an illustration of the principle. They were toiu to araw up some rules, and the code they evolved and kept waa as admlrablo aa that of the authori ties. It began with "Don't sass the teacher," and concluded, "Don't break the rules." Speed traps and unrelenting rural constables are all well enough In their way, but a device has been perfected which promises to be more effective as a solution to the speed-mania, prob lem. It is a kind of siren horn, which begins to scream automatically the Instant the machine exceeds the pre scribed speed limit. Such a horn is already in use, by police regulations, on every public motorbus and taxlcab in London, and private owners are In trepidation lest the authorities insist that all automobiles be similarly equipped. The terror of leprosy seems to be lessening with tho years. Ten per sons who had been residents of the leper colony on Molokai were recently taken to Honolulu and reexamined, at the suggestion of a legislative com mittee. Of those examined, only one was found still to have traces of the disease. The others were discharged as cured, although some had suffered more than twenty years. There have been cur?s at the leper hospital and colony In Louisiana and patients dis charged. Physicians also are now gen erally agreed that leprosy is much less contagious than was formerly sup po:id. and Fome go so far as to say that in temperate climates like that of the northern part of the United Siutes It Is hardly contagious at all. Alter years of patient work, supple ment! d at the last by a tone of firm r.e4t which was unmistakable, the ''.-.'tod fliatos government has finally siMiivii 'he signature of Nicaragua to a protocol In which It is agreed that the Emery claim shall be subm''ed to arbitration. The claim arose from the cancellation by Nicaragua of a conccwfllen for the cutting and export ing or mahogany. It is maintained ly President Ztlaya that his govern ment cancf'cj the concession because the trr.us upon which It was granted w re violated. The Emery Company, on th ether hand, declares that it wai purely an arbitiary act of confis cation or blackmail. The protocol con tain the Interesting proviso that the repreicntativet of Nicaragua may have four months In which to rvacfi ai agreement direct with the company, subject to the approval of the United Sta'ei. Ftillng such agreement, o.:i-tratUi-i wiil bc.T'n between the twj povcrnniont at the ;id of that time. Five oung persons wen drowned in a New Jersey river the other day because they did not know enough to keep their soots In the boat whtn big waves began to rock it. Of course when they pot on their feet the rock ing became daugrroiM, and the boat soon capsized and threw everyone In to the water. Several persons were drowned In Pennsylvania a few days earlier because of n similar failure to use common sense. The moment the boat began o respond to the move ment of the water two or three of the passengers stood up and screamed and lost tholr balance, and threw ev erybody else Into the river. The street railroad companies paint a warning on the seats of the open trolley cars against trying to get off the car be fore it stops. The owner of every small boat might well paint in full view in his boat a command not to stand up except under orders of the. person in charge. Thousands of acci dents would be prevented If such ao order were obeyed. It Is hardly surprising that small boys have at last taken to Black Hand operations. Boys of 15 to 18 have sometimes been successful as hold-ur men, and the Black Hand variety of blackmail is nothing but a long-range, crafty and cowardly form of the hold up. It is a method of obtaining money through the one motive of fear of personal Injury, but gives the crim inal a better opportunity to escape if the Intended victim shows fight. Above all, it looks easy to the novice. In th latest Chicago case one boy of 15 was crarty enough to use another of 14 aa a tool, letting the latter incur all tha physical danger and probably plan ning himself to escape with all of the spoil. The police measures were clev erly taken and would probably have deceived even an adult Black Hand man. The death of one of the bov criminals and the immediate capture of the other will serve sufficiently to deter other youths from lmltatlnir them. It is probable, however, that older criminals of this type will not take tho warning to themselves, but rather will conceitedly think thev would have scented the danger in thia case and avoided it. Blackmailing operations directed against other than Italian citizens will be very speedily suppressed If all threatened men will take steps similar to those taken by the intended victim In this case. To notify the police at once, to irive the police every opportunity to trap the criminals, to assume whatever slight personal risk there U in such a course, is by all means the safest way. Crimes like this breed themselves rap idly when they are successful, and no one can afford to give in to the black mailers. Italian citizens have a hard er problem to face. They know too often that it they notify the nolico they will have to fear not merely some siignt temporary danger but a ven geance that will wait long till it can be taken safely. Nevertheless, even for the Italians the only permanent safety is in resistance. The resistance must be the outgrowth of efforts at mutual aid and support on the nart of all the Italian elements wno are apt to become the victims of sucn criminals. Each successive criminal caught or brought otherwise to grler will mean a forward step toward tne termination of the nuisance, and in no other way can progress tie made. Inanrauce Blnndera. The way In which application forma for insurance are filled up are often more amusing than enlightening In the following excellent selections: , Mother died In Infancy. Father went to bed feeling well and the next morning woke up dead. Grandfather died suddenly at the age of 103. Up to this time bid fair to reach a rlpa old age. Applicant does not know anything about material posterity except that they died at an advanced agt. Applicant does not know cause of mother's death, but states that she fully recovered from her last illness. Applicant has never been fatally sick. Father died suddenly; nothing se rious. Applicant's brother, who was an in fant, died when was a mere child. Grandfather died from gunshot wound caused by an arrow shot by an Indian. Applicant's fraternal parents died when he was a child. Mother's last illness was caused from chronic rheumatism, but she was cured before death. British Medical. Journal. Vaeatlon Ilopea. The toll of the year Is past; the grind of the sordid shop; Now Mame and Mag once more their weary ro'utlne stop. With a trunk or two and a bag or- more And some waists six off, from the Boss's store Two natty gowns and two peachy bats, Two fresh Marcels and two freshened Two pairs of tans and some lace stripe, hose, Two buttoned eklrts nt least two long raws And two parasols, cither green or red, Some safety pins and a spool of thread, A drinking cup and two tennis caps, And two rreat, wide hopes for two handsome chnps, fnme moonlight nights and some bos ky delU Mayhap two rings and some wedding bells! The toll of the year Is past In a fort- night's space, perhaps, Twill end for aye. Who knows? Here' luck to the handsome chaps! New York Times. The woman who plays cards In the morning ts bad enough, but the idle man who stands on the otreet corner and tries to talk to busy men la worse. A woman always thinks it la due to carelessMM when anyone else break a dlah,