Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NEB.
John H. Roam, Publisher
The Slgel case .hows that ths Uhl
aanian's name is still Ah 8ln.
No, the average citizen would not
object to a tax on all Income of mora
than $5,000 a year.
It may be set down as a general
rule that the alum are not safe locali
ties for the Elsie Slgels.
Mra. Gould say a she Ib very happy.
What! Has she already learned to
dress on less than $40,000 a year?
Now It la claimed that only 10,000
Christians were killed in the rerent
massacres in Asia Minor. "Only!"
Robbers have held up the wrong
train. The law In punishing them
will hold up the right men, neverthe
less. Abdul Humid has become a, farmer.
Look out for the seeds he is planting;
be may be preparing whirlwinds for
the constitutional Ista.
It seems that Count Bonl was not
alone In being marked by destiny to
keep the Gould millions from swelling
to dangerous proportions.
Mr. Roosevelt should understand
that when he encounters an African
Wild animal Dr. Long's sympathies
axe with the wild animal every time.
Cremation la declared unorthodox
by Russian church authorities. To
cremation of living constitutionalists
there la no objection on the score of
orthodoxy.
The new sultan of Turkey, Meh
Bed V., has but two wives. At the
present price of Paris hats this
Change at the palace Is an Immense
stroke of Imperial economy.
U seems that Howard Gould will
UU have to settle a few outstanding
debts contracted by bis former wife.
She oquldn't possibly be expected to
meet them" on her meager income.
A Ean Francisco astronomer an
nounces that the moon is not a de
tached portion of the earth, but is a
captured planet. If this Is true, it
was a lucky capture for the earth.
"We have It from a reliable den
tist," avers the Nebraska State Jour
nal, "that some girls fall to get mar
ried because their teeth need fixing."
We have It from an equal trustworthy
barber that some men fail to marry
because they don't get shaved often
ftongh.
It ought not to be necessary for a
Ban to cease to be religious while on
a vacation, no matter how far he may
wander from church or priest The
(roves were God's flrat temples. The
man with worship In his heart needs
no pile of brick or stone in which to
express It
Six sections of the boundary between
the United States and Canada are to
be resurveyed and remarked this sum
mer. The work will be under the di
rection of an astronomer, who will
represent Canada, and an attache of
the Coast and Geodetio Survey, repre
senting the United States. The young
men attached to the surveying parties
will pass a pleasant and profitable sea
son In the open.
The rapid decrease In the numbers
of the elder duck has caused a fear
of it total extinction within a few
years. The reservation of Old Man
Island, off the Maine coast, for the
breeding and protection of these ducks,
With other wild life, will therefore be
greeted with pleasure by all bird lov
trs. The warden who. by the author
ity of the Audubon Society, has charge
Of the Island estlmatea that the col
ony of elders Included thirty pairs last
summer, which raised aeventy-flve
young ones during the season.
It Is, however, a plain fact that In
this country women are more cultured
than men: on the average nm Wf..-
sducated. The boys quit achool earlier
to go to work and the unpleasant fact
Is that they too often cease Btudylng
u buou as ineir doors are closed.
Now there are many hlahlv Mm..t.4
and cultured men and women In this
country who have never attended col
lege. There are nanv nnnnrtunui
open for those who desire to improve
xnemseives. me unpleasant faot Is
that so few use the opportunities open
10 mens.
Times are not dull: there la ihnn.
dance of news, and yet there creeps
into ths papers a rumor of Impending
crinoline. It comes from London. from
Paris, from Chicago, from Plttsburr
that Is, the rumor comes, but crinoline
doesn't, and won't. The evil doers who
lavent fashions would be clad to dis
tribute any new fashion that made
women s clothes cost more and require
more material, and that made all
owns now In use or In stock look
hopslessly out of date. Fashions are
enangea in order to sell goods. Thev
are changed Just as much and Just as
Often as the traffic will bear. The fash
Ion mongers would doubtless be glad to
Impose crinoline on the Christian ns.
tlons (the other nations don't bother
much with fashions), but It can not
so done.
People in these days apeak and
writs very patronlslngly of the old
ages of superstition, rejoicing that
they have passed, and that the world
baa entered on a wiser and saner
era. But, If the truth be told, every
ago has bad Its pet superstitions, and
If some have vanished, they have been
replaced by others quite as Irrational
In old pagan days, the Greeks and Ro-
Biaos before entering on any Imports
ant bualnesa, consulted the Delphlo
oracle, the Cumean Sybil or VIrgllUa
Lota. Now many persona consult the
clairvoyants and the psychic mediums.
Ib those old times certain days and
numbers were supposed to be melevi
Is at- The Idea that Friday 1 a da
of evB omen, comes from the fact that
Christ was crucified on that day, and
the superstition tr.at thlrter.n is a
malevolent number arises from the
Incident that at the I-ast Supper thir
teen sat down at the table, and one
of them was the arch-traitor, Judas.
To-day many wise people decline to
start on a Journey or enter into any
business enterprise on Friday. Our
own President McKlnley would never
Inaugurate any public affair or sign
any Important document on a Friday
There are kings and emperors who
still cherish the same superstition
Great rulers have been noted for an
absurd faith In omens. Napcleon re
garded the breaking of a looking glass
ns a presage of death or dire calamity
The kalwr Is not devoid of superstl
tlons, which to people in general seem
absurd. The czar possesses a ring
set with a bit of the True Crons,
which he always wears as a talisman
against evil. Queen Victoria had an
uncanny horror of cats; so also had
Lord Roberts. The black cnt Is an
object of morbid terror to many peo
ple both great and small. Bismarck
had a superstitious reverence for the
numeral three as bis lucky number.
The ancient regard for seven as n
sacred 'and symbolic, ntin.her still en
dures, and we see this Idea carried out
In church architecture and decora
tions. Many men, sailors and theatri
cal people are noted for their super
stitions. Kipling Is always careful to
avoid seeing the new moon over bis
left shoulder. Zola was a victim of
many petty superstitions. 'The use
of the horseshoe as an emblem of
good luck dates from that remote time
when a device of this shape traced in
blood was placed on the doors of the
Israelites to ward off the murderous
attacks upon their first born. Bust
nens men who believe Friday to be a
day of evil omen still cite Jay Gould's
"Black Friday" as a Justification of
their belief. Many other superstitions
cherished not only by the Ignorant
masses but by the wisest people might
be mentioned. Many poets, remanc
ers and even scientists and philosoph
ers have been addicted to absurd su
perstitions. People still see visions
and dream dreams, and attempt to pry
Into matters not given unto men to
know. Rut the great mysteries of life
and denth, and the hereafter, remain
as unsolvable to-day Is In the first
dflys of roan's existence upon tha
earth. :. rZftvi .
WHAT WILD ANIMALS COST.
Can't Hell it It hlnocero Any Horn
In the Day,
The prices of wild animals naturally
fluctuate with the demand. An ex
cessive supply of rhlnoceri would soon
reduce the market value. Five for sale
at any time in the world would glut
the market, for one can not sell a rhi
noceros every day. The maintenance
of wild animals Is costly and they
soon eat their value in food; so that
every day they are on the hunter's or
the dealer's hands he is losing money.
After the animals are captured they
have to be transported to the coast.
This adds greatly to the coat Deliv
ered at Nairobi or Ft. Florence, which
are inland and practically on the Afri
can hunting field, a baby rhinoceros of
the prehensile lipped species will
bring from 75 to 100 sterling, a gl
raffe from 50 to 100 sterling, and a
baby hippopotamus from 50 to 90
sterling; slands and most of the large
antelope from 25 to 40 Bterllng; ba
boons from 5 to 20 BhllUngs; monkeys
about the same; crocodiles from 6 to
25 shillings; elephants from 75 to
175 starling, llona and leopards, with
the exception of the big black epeclea
of the latter, from 20 to 35, accord
ing to size and condition. The gorilla
and the aquare-muxzled (or so-called
white) rhinoceros can be sold at auc
tlou by telegraph. Their value might
run from 1,000 to 6,000, according
to the bidding. The square-muzzled
rhinoceros la fast becoming external
nated, owing to the fact that It is a
veld animal and foods In the open,
where It Is easily seen and shot
The above prices are doubled by the
time the animals reach the coast.
Then there Is the cost of transport
from Africa to Antwerp, Hamburg or
London, with the cost of food and care
added as well as the additional ex
pense of keeping the animals until a
buyer appears on the scene.
Prices In New York, of course, are
naturally higher. William T. Horna
day, head of the Bronx Zoological
Park, gives the following quotations;
Ordinary black rhinoceros, $4,000;
hippopotamus one year old. $2,t00;
elephant, two or three years, $2,500;
giraffe, two to three years, $3,000;
lion cub, $500 leopard, $100; xebra,
$500 to $800; gorilla, type of monkey,
$1,500; gnu, $800; antelope, from $100
to $700, according to species; camel,
$300; a python, $10 per foot of length.
The longer the animals are In America
the better acclimatized they become,
the higher go their valuations from
two to three times the above figures.
WrKlui liar la Read.
Speaking about handwriting which
Is hard to read an old-time conductor
on the Louisville a Nashville rail
road tells a story about James Guth
rie, aays the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mr. Guthrie, besides being Sec
retary of the Treasury under James
Buchanan, was also president of the
Louisville a Nashville railroad and a
resident of Louisville.
In the early days of railroading
there were no printed passes as at
present and Mr. Guthrie would fre
quently write a pass for a friend on
a scrap of paper. The conductors on
the road would honor these, of course,
but ons farmer carried a piece of pa
per purporting to be a pass for a
friend on a scrap of paper. The con
ductor honored It, but later grew sun
Dlclous and one day took it uu. iu
carried It to the office of President
Guthrie and said:
"A fanner has been rldlnir on thi.
pass for about a year. Do you want
Dim to continue to use It 7
President Guthrie put on his
glasses, looked the paper over and
saldr
"Why this la not a paas. It Is a
receipt I gave a fellow for a load ol
wood about a year ago.
Some people Imagine that aa soon as
they get married, they must kiss Id
pubus.
I
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Opinions of
TKIEVE3 AND MELON3.
LAYTON T. ZIMMERMAN, an employe of
tf I an express company,
I cor f es.ed to hi crime,
ill line 'inline i I juniur, itrrciTC a prmriici:
rommenpurate with his act. He Is a thief,
and it Is for the good of society that he Is
made to sufler the penalty. Hut the mat
ter has another phase. Zimmerman handled, approxi
mately, a million a day. He worked eleven hours, 36.
days In the year. For this time and responsibility he
received the monumental salary of $5.1 a month.
The corporation for which he worked Is one of tho
wealthiest. With a capitalization of $12,000,000, It has
paid regular dividends of from 4 to 8 per cent. There
have been rumerom extra dividends during the last
twelve years, and among these extra dividends there
have been what Is known In the vernacular of Wall
street as "melon cuttings." Those "melon cuttings"
have taken the form of bonds Issued gratuitously to
stockholders. The bonds are secured by s. deposit of
securities with a trustee, the securities having been
purchased with the excess of earnings over dividends.
In 1898 $12,000,000 of thesn bonds were Issued to stock
holders, and this was so satisfactory that the company
gave an encore in 1907 to the tune of $24,000,000. In
other words, in addition to regular dividends and
small extra dividends, this company, in nine years, di
vided $36,000,000 among its stockholders.
These facts offer a violent contrast the difference
between $55 a month and $36,000,000 In nine years. Is
there any relation between the two? Did the corpora
tion acquire this vast amount by putting a premium on
dishonesty in the form of Inadequate salaries? From
a moral viewpoint, honesty cannot be bought, but in an
economic sense It Is n commodity Just as much as an
article of merchandise. Zimmerman was paid to be
honest, and possibly be rendered services In proportion
to his wage. If the stockholders had been content with
a few thousands less, and the corporation had paid Its
servant a little more out of the millions he handled.
It might Kill have a faithful employe. Instead of losing
a man, with the brand of crime on his brow. It Is
the old battle between greed and morals. Cincinnati
Poat. s.1
CRITICIZING OUR SCHOOL
HE widespread dissatisfaction with some
of the aspects of our vaunted educational
I I system, and the attitude
noul ilia ill la i iittv i.j int. juunv. lunaiu lb,
are encouraging symptoms presaging Its
reformation. No one who ponders the ab
stracts of the various papers read at Den
ver before the National Educational Association, can
fall to be struck with the note of discontent that per
vades them. The teachers, no less than the parents,
recognize the fact that the American school system,
while sound In principle, is not altogether sound In
practice.
One educator at Denver put the thing in a neat epi
gram when he said that a preparatory course to the
presidency Is not the object of the public school sys
tem. Some of the boys are going to be laborers, me
chanics, artisans and what. not. Not all of them can
become presidents. It seems reasonable, therefore, that
we should give these boys in school the things that will
"You'd ought to seen the swell time
we put in at the masquerade last
night," said Florence to Mabel. "You
know, the lust time I seen you I said
Annie and me was goln' as Mary
Queen of Scots or M'ree Ant'nette or
some of those swell dameB, but when
we found that we'd have to rend up
to loam how they acted we decided
we'd Just fix up like a couple of picka
ninnies. Fun! I nearly died."
"Did you black up?" asked Mabel.
"Black up!" echood Florence. "Like
the ace o' spades. Honest, you'd died
laugliln If you d seen us. We got a
couple of wigs ofT a real wlgmaker
anil we did our hair up In little tight
bunches all over our heads, bo's we
could get the wigs on. Then we wore
little short skirts and black shirt
waists. Charlie and Jim Jim's An
nie's beau fixed up for two tramps,
and If thev wasn't the limit!
"Hut the most fun," continued Flor
ence, "was when they lined us up to
five the prizes. They give a prize for
the most comical-dressed couple and
the most unlquest-dressed couple and
the most artistic-dressed couple and
they made the folks march around the
bull In front of the Judges. The
Judges was slttln' up on a kind of plat
form at one end.
"Well, Annie and me marched to
gether and then Charlie and Jim come
behind us. Well, Just before we got
to the Judges' stand Charlie reached
over and yanked my wig off my head
and Jim done the same to Annie's.
There we stood with all them little
knobs of hair stlckln" up all over our
he-ids. Well, honest, I thought the
folks'd die laughing. You know An
nie's real kind o' blonde and her
head's awful pink under her hair and
she was blacked up to Just where the
wig come to, and she sure was as good
as a show. I guess I looked pretty
near as comical as Bhe did.
"Well, I give one look at Annie and
let out a holler. Annie yelled, 'Beat
It, girlie!' and we grabbed hold of
each other's hands and started for the
dressln' room, tight as we could run.
We didn't get no more'n half-way
down the room, though, before every
body was ketchln' hold of us and be
fore we knew It they hustled us up on
the platform where the Judges was
slttln'."
"My!" gasped the listener. "Wasn't
you awful embarrassed?"
"For a minute we was," confessed
Florence. "Then I seen how scared
Annie looked and I leaned over and
whispered, 'Do a cake walk. We ain't
goln' to let 'em put It over us like
this.' 80 there we cake-walked 'round
there, feelin' perfectly crazy, and all
the folks hollered, 'Do It again!' every
time we stopped, till we was bo out of
breath they Just had to let us get
down."
"Wouldn't I have liked to be there!"
aid Mabel.
"You'd have had the time of your
life," Florence assured her. "When
the Judges annouueed the prizes (or
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
lie useful to them In after-life, Instead of trying to
make possible presidents out of them all.
The Intense practicality of mi age, the utilitarian
tendencies of our civilization strongly demand that less
emphasis be put on the merely cultural studies. His
torically speaking, our grade schools have developed
as jeices where youth may prepare for the high school,
while that Institution In turn has been closely articu
lated with the college cr university. This is all well
enough for those fortunate enough to be able to com
plete the entire cour.e. But the fact has been more
or less Ignored that the great mass of school children
finish their schooling without either high school or uni
versity courses. These young adventurers Into real life
should be as well equipped as possible for their erh
pri.se. They now waste many precious moments in
merely cultural study, when they might be devoting
their time to studies that will help them along the
thorny path of real life.
Common school education needs reformation in prac
tical directions. It I- a happy circumstance that those
who study education most deeply, and those who mere
ly come In contact with its manifestations through
their children, are coming to agree on that point.
Minneapolis Journal.
stole $10,000, then
and will doubtless,
"GET
ET a
growing folks; that the spirit of the West is whole
some, its air Inspiring, and Its educational apparatus
easily adequate to giVe to energetic minds the neces
sary tools to work with. Even so far East as Oberlin,
O., it is noted that they raise some inquiring chaps
whose inquisltlveness is persistent and brings interest
ing results. That is a wonderful nursery of human
life that stretches from the Alleghenles to the Rockies,
abounding in space and nourishment for body, mind
and soul. There are coming out of that great nursery
great children, whose thoughts and discoveries and
deeds will do for human life, wherever it exists, greater,
far greater, services than any prophet dare predict.
Harper's Weekly. , ,
SYSTEM.
of severe crlti-
WHY
HERE
ion, but which were enacted and have
been retained on the statute book through the indif
ference of a public opinion which is at heart hostile
to them, or through its neglect or its Inability to assert
itself with effective expression. The reproach has often
been uttered that we are not a law-abiding nation. At
least we must plead guilty to too light a regard Tor
law and to too little Insistence upon its uniformly be
ing what in theory It Is and what in fact it should be
the formal expression of enlightened public opinion.
New York Tribune.
the most comical-dressed couple, me
and Annie got them! The prizes were
a pair of umbrellas. Charlie and Jim
got the prizes for the most unlquest
dressed couple."
"Who got the other prizes?" queried
Mabel.
"Oh. the Judges di,n't show much
taste the way they give the other
prizes. The girl that got the prize
for the most artistic-dressed couple
had on a kind of long-trallln' white
dress, with a lot of spangles on It,
and she had a star In her hair. She
called herself Aurora. I don't know
what for, unless Aurora was hei home
town. The fellow that was with her
had on tights and a kind of cape thing
and a cap. They was all black and
he had spangles sewed on him and
half moons and things. He looked
kind of swell, but the girl was sloppy.
Ills prize was a brush and comb In
a case and hers was a diamond (may
be) terrier like the duchesses wear In
their hair. Say, you'd ought to seen
that stuck-up thing goln' round after
ward! I nearly died laughln' and
Charlie said If that was the way the
girls In Aurora looked he guessed he'd
stay right In Chicago.
"Come up to the house some evenln'
and I'M how you my prize. And say,
Charlie calls me his pickaninny now."
Chicago Dally News.
DEAD HAS NO GRAVE.
Itmiarltnlile I'.inlinlniliiur I'rwrii
Prfrvr lludr f lieoritc
l.niM-rllra.
A process of embalming a body so
that it will be preserved in as good
condition as were the mummies of the
ancient Egyptians has been discovered
by an undertaker of this city, who
more than three years ago prepared
the body of George Lascclles, known
as Lord Walter Charles Beresford, for
shipment to England, in the belief
that he was of the famous Beresford
family, a dispatch to the New York
Herald from Ashevllle. N. C, says:
The body never was burled and Is
standing in the rear rorfm of the un
dertakerV place of business, a grim
reminder of his nktll.
Lascclles, who was the son of a
gamekeeper on the estates of the duke
of Devonshire, had a checkered career
in this country as well aa In Europe.
He assumed the Beresford name and
title and had no more difficulty In
passing himself off as a titled Eng
lishman in New York and Newport
than he did in the small southern
cities where he lived for a consider
able time.
He met Miss Maude Llllienthal.
daughter of a wealthy tobacco manu
facturers London and, following her
to this country, married her In spit of
the protest of her mother. He later
married Mlsa IVlky, daughter of a
wealthy lumberman of Georgia, and
afterward served a term In prison.
On his release he assumed the title,
but he had contracted consumption,
and came to this city to seek relief.
No one doubted that he was a member
of the Beresford family and when he
died the peopie of Ashevllle spared no
expense In preparing his body for
Bhlptuent to Englund, for all believed
A WESTERN MAN."
Western man" la rptHnir tn h a
G common cry In the East. It was heard a
I good deal lately when Harvard had a
I V. I . 1 . rr. 1 . , .
tnuito iu uiKuts i ut're is a suspicion
abroad that "the West" Is a good place
to raise men; that the physical and men
tal conditions are favorable out there for
LAWS ARE BROKEN.
are some laws which at the time nr
I their enactment were accurate expressions
I I o public opinion. But public opinion has
a 1 . .1 .1 t 1 . 1 , . ...
ciiiLiiru, uuu una ufgitfuieu 10 matte lag
laws change with it. There are other
laws which never did express public opin
the family would ask that It be sent
at once.
An undertaker here has prepared an
embalming fluid which he had de
clared was n every way as efficacious
ns that used to preserve the mummies
of Egypt. As the body was to go, as
he supposed, a long distance, he em
balmed It with special care and a fine
motalltc coffin was provided. Then
the cablegram was sent to the Beres
ford family in England, but no reply
came. This was believed at first to
be an oversight, but as the time passed
the neople of this city began to be
lieve the stories that came to them of
the man being an Impostor. The un
dertaker did not remove the body
from the coffin, however, and it wai
kept in a rear room.
A short time ago a man was look
ing for a coffin of a particular kind
and this undertaker did not have any
that suited. Finally he was shown
the one which hnd held the body of
Lnscelles for three years, and he said
it was exactly what he was looking
for. The undertaker was thoroughly
convinced by this time that the body
of Lascelles would never be claimed
and rather than lose the sale of the
coffin dispossessed It from Its home
for three years.
When the body wns removed It was
found to be In a perfect state of
preservation, the skin like leather
and resembling in that respect the old
Egyptian mummies. The body was
placed in an erect position in a corner
of the room and has been visited by
mnny persona who knew Lascelles In
his lifetime and who have commented
on the way his body has been pre
served. The body Is said to be a perfect
barometer. In warm and sunny
weather the akin becomes clear and
more lifelike in appearance, while In
cloudy and stormy weather It assumes
a mottled appearance, and those who
have watched It carefully declare that
at these times It has the look of an
angy man.
The undertaker has been offered
$2,000 for the body by showmen, who
wish to place It on exhibition. There
is a state law which makes It a crime
punishable by imprisonment for a per
son to exhibit a dead body or be a
party to auch exhibition for imy.
Hundreds of persons have visited the
undertaking room and it is the inten
tion of the undertaker to keep the
body indefinitely.
What lie Waatrd.
The old man turned from his desk
as his son-in-law entered the office.
"Well, what Is it now?" he asked.
"I er have been thinking," an
swered the new member of the family,
"that you ought to give me a pension."
"A pension!" exclaimed the old man.
"What In thunder do you mean, air?"
"Well, It's '.Ike this," explained the
other. "Ever since I did your daugh
ter the honor to marry her I have been
dependent on you for support, and I
want to be independent. See?"
At the union depot, everytime a
train arrives, a lot of women rush
into each other's arms, ltrakcmts
call these affairs head end collisions.
MR. ROCKEFELLER'S GIFTS.
$53,000,000 fc
L I wattthtot A Crtrn
Jmm f if
"in. -i 1 iij nmiiHnimi miia I M SO
iJiiii if 11 1 nMi.ujJB.' t
Amount He Has Given to One Institution Equals Cost of Five Battle
Ships.
OHN D. ROCKEFELLER celebrated his seventieth birthday by
giving $10,000,000 to the General Education Bonrd. making the
total of his gifts to that philanthropy the stupendous sum
of $53,000,000 and bringing the grand total of his known ben
efactions to the aggregate of $120,000,000. Add his unknown
gifts to innumerable institutions, objects and individuals, and
the final figures are probably In excess of $13.1,000,000 a sum
if I 4 1 1 Ys J
of money so huge that its magnitude Is difficult to estimate.
Take alone the gift of $10,000,000 officially announced by Frederick T.
Gates, chairman of the General Education Board. Some Idea of what $10,
000,000 amounts to can be had In this way: A comfortable home, capable
of adequately housing a family of average circumstances, can be bought in
Brooklyn for $5,000. Mr. Rockefeller's gift would buy 2,000 such homes for
2,000 families. His total gifts of $53,000,000 to the General Education Board
would buy 10,000 such homes. The total of all of his gifts, $135,000,000,
would buy 27,000 such homes. Five persons is the average of a family.
Twenty-seven thousand such homes would mean a city of 135,000 persons.
There nre many pretentious cities in the United States where all of the
homes of Its citizens do not represent an outlay of half the money given
awky by Mr. Rockefeller.
Report has given Mr. Rockefeller $400,000,000, but men with some means
of estimating his wealth say that is an exaggeration. If his fortune be $300,
000,000, his Income at 5 per cent would be $15,000,000. If $400,000,000, It
would be $20,000,000. This $53,000,000 he has given the General Education
Board Is for a single purpose to multiply and widen educational facilities
for American boys and girls, irrespective of creed or anything else. Col
leges all over the country, particularly In those sections where the need is
greatest, are the beneficiaries of the fund. They receive $5,000, $10,000,
$50,000, $100,000 or $200,000. or whatever sum the trustees of the fund be
lleve they are entitled to. New York World.
MATRIMONIAL DIARY.
Within recent months we have
noted that more and more frequently
diaries have been lntroduuced into
divorce trials kept by one or both
parties to the suit. Sometimes these
diaries were begun long previous to
any open disagreement between man
and wife, when one or the other may
have ben unconscious of any infelicity
between them. In such a case the un
suspecting one, all unguarded in ni's
or her innocence, has been daily re
cording In the accusing book, everyact
that would be prejudiced In the eyes
of court or Jury set down In black
and white and In cold blood. There Is
no distinction In law between divorce
sought In a hot temper and divorce
with malice aforethought.
We sincerely trust that the "holy
bonds of matrimony" will not become
generally vitiated by the practice of
keeping a dlaiy dating from the wed
ding day, and that bride and groom
ROAD TO DISSOLUTION.
will not feel that reasonable precau
tions should be taken against emer
gencies. A diary In the possession of
either one of the "happy wedded pair"
may bo regarded with suspicion and
may Introduce the first serpent Into
their Eden. It is carrying concealed
weapons into the connubial state, and
'diary toting of this sort Is as repre
hensible as gun toting.
The distrust of humanity that is
often so marked in the ordinary rela
tions between man and woman ap
pears to have extended Itself to the
relations between man and woman.
It Is not only when poverty coiaes In
at the door that love files out at the
window; when doubt comes In at the
window, love slips out of the door.
Modern marriages with their "mental
reservations" and their diaries may
give the grieving contenders against
"the divorce evil," another phase of
the question to ponder over. St. Louis
ilobe-Democrat.
TONGS OF CHINATOWN.
Eleven Seeret tlrnanliattons Com.
paaed of Criminal Orientals.
The tongs of San Francisco's Chi
natown are made up of "highbinders."
or bad men, says the Bohemian, and
their names are as follows: Plug Kong,
Suey Sing, Hop Sing, lio On, Bo
Leung, Suey On, Quong Tuck, Hip
Ylng. Hip Sing Suey Ylng and Jok
Lin.
If these eleven tongs have any quar
ters In the new Chinatown It Is not
known where they are. They are se
cret bodies and move In darkness. Tne
Six Companies five months ago ap
pealed to the Chinese consul general
to stop a war between several of the
tongs. The best he could do was to
get thm to declare a truce, which
lasted until the Chinese New Year.
Dut as these lines are being written
the New Year festivals have ended
and the tong war has again begun.
It must not be Inferred, however,
that the tongs typify the mass of the
Chinese, who are generally peaceable.
The tongs seem to be bands of crimi
nals working something like the
"black hand" among the Italian popu
latlon of New York. To show how
they work, the Hop Sing Tong has of
fered a reward of $1,000 for the death
of any officer of the Suey Sing Tong
These rewards are not printed in th
American or Chinese newspapers, bul
are placed on the walls of Chinatown
There Is no special animosity against
the particular individual,
NOTHING GOES TO WASTE.
t
n--Frodacta of Petroleum Ar
Sources of Profit.
Paraffin wax, so long an unconslo.
ered by-product of the Eastern petro
leum, grows In Importance each year
The big oil company manufacturei
ruore than 300,000,000 candles of 70
sizes and klndji yearly. Tallow ant!
wax (beeswax) candles have dlsap
peared and 12,000,000 pounds of para
ffln wax Is sold yearly to candlemak
ers. It is used for making waterproo;
paper for wrapping, for preservini
stone surfaces from weathering and
crumbling, for making colored cray
ons, for blanching linens and cotton
cloth, for chewing gum, for sealinj
canned fruits and as a substitute, foi
beeswax, for sealing wax and as insu
latlon for wires.
New uses are discovered every day
The last available figures for the I'nlt
ed States' production of paraffin wai
are those of the United States censui
for 1905. In that year the total out
put was 258,072,100 pounds.
Petrolatum, a product not general,
ly known under that title, Is disposed
of to the extent of 12,000,000 pounds
a year. It serves as the basis for vas
eline, ointments, shoe polish and
so on. v
Asphaltum, the basis of heavlet
oils, is another most important thing
In roadmaking. Coke, the final resid
uum of the distillation of petroleum,
has proved valuable. It sells for $7
a ton, and Is used for fuel as well
as for making the carbon points ol
arc lamps. Cleveland Leader.
Small Farmer In Alaska.
There are fully 30.000 square mllei
of Alaska suited for grazing or agri
culturean area equal to three-quarters
of the State of Ohio, a writer in
the American Review of Reviews says.
Make this accessible and develop local
markets and the farmer will come If
not from the States, then from north
ern Europe, a region which has al
ready furnished many good citizens to
Alaska. Finland supports 3,000,000
people and exports agricultural prod
ucts. Yet the Finnish colonist will
find in Alaska a better climate and
eoil than In his native land. Be it re
membered, however, that Alaska Is far
from an Ideal farming region. The
growing season is short and the win
ters long and severe. It will probably
never furnish agricultural products ex
cept for local consumption, but that
such a market will prove a lucrative
one is shown by the success of th
many small farms and gardens al
ready under cultivation.
Suited to the Place.
"Well, this Is certainly crazy man
agement!" cried the chairman of the
commlttee investigating the State In
stitution. "But you must remember," pleaded
the superintendent, "that this Is ar
insane asylum." Baltimore American.
Tact aud Talent.
Talent feels its weight, tact finds Its
way; talent commands, tact is obeyed;
taleut Is honored with approbation,
and tact is blessed by preferment
London Atlas.
Said l ucle kllasi
"It takes a woman longer to get
Into her duds to go down town shop,
ping than it does a man to pack up
for a six months' vacation trip." Los
Angeles Express.
When the wife's away the badly
trained husband will play If he caa
find a few cougeulal spirits wUllng ts
take a hasd.