Dakota County Herald
DAKOTA CITY, NIB.
JohnH. RiaM,
Publlahef
A setting hen may be a loafer, but
he gets results.
, "We can usually struggle along with
out most of the things we want.
Trutfi la stranger than fiction that
ia to say, more of a stranger.
Well, there's one comfort nobody
is asking, "Is It hot enough for you?"
The ultimate consumer has at lairt
keen located. He Is the dog that ate
Cook's shoes.
It language was given to us to clothe
fcur thoughts, It's too bad there are bo
vaoy misfits.
One of the things a man can't un
derstand Is why his enemies seem to
have so many friends.
Until the earth gets softer aero-
alaning is hardly likely to become as
aafe a sport as croquet.
Every man, of course, Is of some Im
Aortance In this world, but seldom as
much as he thinks he Is.
To cure the Anglo-German war fever
fcfrirenn should take a large done of
International brotherly love.
An Illinois man has worked out a
avutem for living 100 years, but it Is
going to take time to give it a thor
ugh test.
Vice and crime will hide their ugly
beads In due course of time If there
Is anything In a monthly magazine
Vrosade against them.
bothered the officials of athletic ar.
ganlzatlons, and especially those la
authority at colleges and universities.
It has developed bitter controversies,
nd distinctions have been drawn so
fine that most people have had diffi
culty In recognizing them, Broadly
speaking, every one knows that an
amateur, as distinguished from a pro
fessional, does not compete for money.
Rut that Is only the beginning of the
story. In the hope of bringing the
leading governing bodies In the ath
letic, world Into closer agreement, the
Iondon Olympic committee has sent
out a number of questions. Can a man
be an amateur In one sport and a pro
fessional In another? Can a man re
cover amateur standing after once los
ing It? Does a man lose amateur
standing through competing with a
professional? Can an amateur receive
expenses? These are some of the
questions. , There ought to be clearly
defined and universally recognized
rules governing amateurism, and It is
hoped the efforts of the London com
mittee will accomplish something to
ward this end. In this country, how
ever, there Is a feeling that EngMuh
standards of amateurism are based too
much on the idea that only the leisure
class Is free from a taint of profes
sionalism!. This, of course, Is too snob
bish for democratic America, where
It Is held that a boy who works In
a mill or store may nevertheless ho
strictly an amateur when he competes
In games or starts on Saturday after
noon. There have been many reforms
In college athletics In recent years.
but the problem of amateurism Is still
troublesome. There are sharp differ
ences on the subject of summer base
ball, for example, and no doubl; under
the guise of "expenses" there are evils
to be eradicated at many institutions.
Sport for sport's sake Is the athletic
Ideal, but like many ideals. It is ex
ceedingly difficult of attainment.
How much should a man have When
he marries? Detroit News.
About five times as much as he
thinks two can live comfortably on.
Nobody seems as yet to have been
able to devise a punishment that will
it the crime of the person who calls
Jon up on the telephone and asks:
'Who Is this?"
"I've had six husbands and I'm sick
tt matrimony," said a Kansas City
Woman when arraigned on a charge
f bigamy. But has she really given
taatrlmony a fair trial?
A good many people who are dls
feosed to complain because Mrs. Pank
turst,the English suffragette, has come
this country may have forgotten
that Carrie Nation went over to Eng
land, with our consent, not long ago
BURGLARS' TOOLS.
The public drinking cup on trains
la dangerous because of its location,
the questionable character of the Ice- who can do the Job and pays him per
Moat of Thrm Made by ftnpuoaedlr
Itenoeetnble Mechanics.
Every little while, said a detectlv
recently, the police arrest a man with
a sot of burglar's tools in his posses
sion, and one naturally wonders where
they all come from.
It is easy to buy a gun of any de
scription, and the most reputable per
son would not bo ashamed to be seen
purchasing the most wicked-looking
knife ever made. But who would know
where to get a "Jimmy" or a device
for drilling into a safe or any of the
many tools used by the professional
burglar in the pursuit of his calling?
There are places In the large cities
where these things are made and sold
to the users, but such places are ex
ceedingly scarce. It may seem a little
strange to learn that most of the tools
used In burglaries ore made by me
chanics who ore looked upon as re
spectable men In the community.
When a burglar wants any particu
lar tool made he goes to a mechanic
III
IMS
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. j
WHEN SHOULD GIRLS MARRY P
GRANDMOTHEK has undertaken to an
swer the question In the headline In a mag
azine article. Having had experience, she
thinks she knows what she is talking
about. It Is her opinion that no girl
should marry before she Is 25 years old.
There never has been and never can be
any fixed rule for the mating of human beings. Ages
ago parents were the sole arbiters of the marital des
tinies of their daughters. They gave In wedlock when
nnd where and to whom they pleaded, and the daugh
ters had nothing to do with the bargain.
The matter is one In which there Is pretty nearly
Independence of thought and uctlon on the part of
American girls. Parents may try as they will to shape
their daughters' love affairs to conform to their own
Ideas, but It Is a rare case In which they succeed and
even then success on the part of the parents Is not a
guarantee of the girl's happiness. It has been esti
mated that a woman's chances of marriage begin to di
minish at the twenty-fourth year and decline rapidly
to the thirtieth year, when they have almost disap
peared. The period of greatest expectation is from 19
to 23. It is between these periods that the majority
of women must make up their minds, nnd they do it
from the dictates of the heart oftener than from any
other consideration. Savannah News.
T
Hi
water that Is purveyed and the use
f the cup by all sorts of people. The
jnost baleful and the most loathsome
diseases' may be transmitted by a
drinking cup. 1
haps Ave times what it is actually
worth for making the tool and keep-
lng quiet about it. Many detectives
can recall cases of this kind that have
come to light.
One In particular occurred some
I years ago, when an escaped convict
named Williams went to a blacksmith
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
HE Department of Commerce and La' nr
has Just Issued a comprehensive compila
tion of marriage and divorce statistics
from all over the world, which furnishes
much information of interest.
Hungary alone of civilized countries
leads the United States In number of an
nual marriages In proportion to marriageable popula
tion, with 339 weddinga to every 10,000 unmarried
adult's. Saxony follows closely with 350, while Ireland,
laid waste and pitifully poor from British oppression,
Is at the foot of the list with but 12G.
The Unlled States average Is 357. New England and
California rank about 250. Therefore, It appears that
the coast States, as usual, are leaving their burden of
good citizenship to the Mississippi valley.
The Increase of divorce is shown by the fact that in
1870 but one decree was granted for every 1,233 marr
rled persons, while In 1900 there was one divorce to
every 250 married couples. Illinois has been unde
servedly accused in this respect, since the figures show
the States of Washington and Delaware away in the
lead, while Illinois is only twenty-fourth in respect of
the number of divorces granted, and South Dakota Is
but twenty-second. Big cities lead the country dis
tricts by a comparatively small percentage.
The divorce habit in other countries Is also on the in
crease, although religious beliefs and the great expense
of divorce actions keep the ratio behind that in this
country. There Is no Immediate danger of the great
American divorce record being exceeded or even equaled.
Chicago Journal.
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REASON FOR HIGH PRICES.
HEN the Chicago packers raised the price
of No. 1 beef loins from 19 to 21 cents a
pound they gave the shortage of cattle re
ceipts as a reason, and showed that there
had been a falling oft of about 200,000 head
of cattle In the stock yard receipts during
the last year. An Investigation of the
market records showed that the price of the grade of
cattle used for such cuts was from 25 to 35 cents a hun
dred pounds higher than it was on the same day a
year ago, while No. 1 loins were 2i cents lower a year
ago than the new price fixed by the packers. Thus It
will be seen that, while the price of such cattle in
creased from 25 to 35 cents a hundred during the year,
the price of No. 1 loins Increased $2.50 a hundred In
the same interval, so it doesn't seem that the packers'
theory that their Increased prices are due to a decrease
in the cattle receipts Is fully substantiated.
About all the investigations made into the subject
tend to the conclusion that in these days prices are
high because they are high. This merely means that
we are living in an era of high prices, and while it is
doubtless true that some of these prices are the effect
of demand and supply, a good many of them t.re h'gh
purely as a result of sympathetic Influences. Holders
1. e., controllers of commodities have found that by
Judiciously but persistently raising their prices and hold
ing them firm they can get Just about what they want
to ask. Indianapolis News.
DEATH TAKES US BY SURPRISB.
Death takes us by surprise,
And stays our hurrying feetf
The great design unflnlnhed lies, ,
Our lives are Incomplete.
But In the tlnrk unknown
Perfect their 'circles noem,
Even na a bridge's srch of stone
Is rounded In the stream.
Alike are lire and death,
When life In death survives,
And the uninterrupted breath
Inspires a thousand lives.
Were a star quenched on high
For ages would its light
Still traveling downward from the sky,
Shine on our mortal sight.
So when a great man dies.
For years beyond our ken,
The light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the paths of men.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The Elder's
Burnt Sacrifice
WOMEN POLICE.
OMEN police Is the latest panacea for the
attainment of ideal civic conditions.
The idea emanates, of course, from the
facile, not to say erratic, brain of a wom
an reformer, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, pres
ident of the National Woman Suffrage As
sociation, who Informed the students of
the University of Minnesota the other day that all Min
neapolis need3 to become a model city Is 100 women
on Its police force. "One hundred women specialists
put on the police force of a city would make for im
provement in civic conditions."
It will doubtless strike the ordinary observer that
what the average criminal needs most is fathering ad
ministered with a strong hand. The criminal has been
mothered already ad nauseam. States and municipali
ties vie with each other in coddling him. Large sums
are spent to make his cell a boudoir and to save the
poor convict from feeling the shame of his condition.
Kansas City Journal.
Old Elder McEntee, as his friends
affectionately called him, was feeling
very cheerful and at times, was moved
of the spirit to hum a bar or two of
gome especially Quickening revival
melody.
Had he not held a successful revival
at the Towne school house? Was not
the campaign rich in victories over
the hosts of sin? And now to hasten
to a new and fertile field at the call
of souls in need? Right there, over
his heart, lay some of the new kind
of paper money that would help the
wife, tried and true In all the dire prl
vations of pioneer life, now at home
some fifty .miles away.
'Thank God for Hl3 infinite mer
cies!" said the good old Elder, aloud.
The crisp stars Bparkled down on
the snowy road. The old moon hid
behind the horizon's thither verge,
clasping her dead and darkened self
In crescent arms.
It was war times, the great Civil
War, now little more than an echo in
the halls of history. National danger,
J. Plerpont Morgan has tried to buy
a royal castle In Italy and failed, al
though he offered 5,000,000 for it, the and got hlm t0 make a lot 0f drills to
Italian government cluimlng that no
foreigner should be permitted to own
the historic pile. In order to over
come the difficulty Mr. Morgan might
buy Italy and thus cease to be a for
eigner in that country.
Dr. Cook has Bo much trouble over
his trips, that there would seem to
be very little inducement for him to
make another. There Is a story told
of a lawyer who was a bad husband,
bad father, bad neighbor and generally
a bad man morally, though he had
been very successful In his profession
For the funeral a new preacher In the
town was selected so that he would
Dot know just what kind of a man the
lawyer had been. The preacher eulo
glzed him highly. When he had heard
11 he could stand to hear without
unburdening himself to someone pres
ent, the Judge of the court in that
town leaned over to a lawyer who Bat
beside him and remarked, "Well,
there's mighty little inducement for a
really good man to die in Smlthvllle
Vw."
President Lowell, the new head of
Harvard, adopts the current impres
sion of the phase of Shakespoare's
later lite' when he says in one of his
recent addresses, discussing the Inef
fectiveness of mere opportunity
"Shakespeare himself did much of his
writing under the pressure of finish
ing plays tor me stage; ana even
Bhakespeare, when rich enough to re
tire as a country gentleman, wrote
no more." It Is true that opportunity
does not certainly, or even probably,
produce results in any line of effort.
There are thousands or concrete In
stances that could be cited to prove
It. But we do not like to let the view
go undisputed that Shakespeare
ceased to write as soon as the neces
sity of earning money by bis work
was removed. It Is true be produced
no more after his retirement to Strat
lord. But one of his loving biograph
era contends that this was not Shake
speare's intention, lie holds that It
was the Intention of the great bard
of Avon to give bis leisure to a care
ful revision of his hastily written
plays; but that before he could adjust
his affairs and settle down to work he
was carried to an untimely grave by
a sudden Illness. The sanitary condi
tions of the vicinage in Shakespeare's
time were extremely bud, and a glori
ous life was cut down In its prime
by a sharp attack of fever, after only
three days of illness. It Is more sat
isfactory to think of Shakespeare as
preparing to begin Intellectual work
-anew, with better opportunities, than
to think of hlm as planning a life of
ease because a competence had been
won. And it la almost Intoxicating
to Imagine what a rich additional leg
acy the world of letters might have
Inherited from that prodigious Intel
lect had his life been spared for ! el fl
are! y authorship.
be used in safe cracking. He person
ally superintended the tempering of
the steel, but when tile Job was nearly
completed it leaked out, and Williams
was arrested. In this instance the
blacksmith knew nothing of the use
to which the tools were to be put.
Most of the tools used by burglars are
secured in the same way. Philadel
phia Inquirer.
Tbe Cheerful View.
The family horse, which rejoiced
In the eminently proper name of Dob
bin, had earned a rest by long ser
vice, and was accordingly sent away
to the country to spend L's declln
lng years in the broad pastures of a
farmer friend of his owner. The dls
tance being somewhat excessive for
his rheumatic legs, adds a writer in
the Montreal Herald, he was shipped
to his new home by rail.
Edna, the family 4-ycar-old, viewed
the passing of Dobbin with unfeigned
sorrow. She sat for a long time gaz
ing disconsolately out of the window.
At last, after a deep sigh, she turned
with a more cheerful expression, and
said:
Did old Dobbin go In the cars
mamma?"
"Yes, dear," answered her mother.
A broad grin spread over the little
girl's face. "I was just thinking," she
said, "how funny he must look sitting
up on the plush cushions."
The Wladom of Kxperlenea.
Men with improvident friends find
It difficult to escape their Importuni
ties. A Writer in the Chicago Post
tells the story of Biu h a man who was
approached In a hotel oue day by an
old friend, never a very trustworthy
person, and at that moment looking
rather the worse for wear. The new
comer took a chair alongside his
friend.
"I have a tip," he began, "on which
I can make four dollars on the Board
of Trade to-morrow, If I can get ten
dollars to put up. I thought you
might have the ten."
The other man reached Into his
pocket and handed him four dollars
The man took the currency, and
then hesitated.
"This Is only four dollars." he ex
plained. "I need ten."
"You said you expected to make only
four dollars, didn't you? Consider
that a loan, and leave the tip to some
one elpe."
VERY EXACTING BUSINESS.
It Takn I.ota of Time and Trouble
to 1'lKlit llarterln.
If we are to sterilize the mouth
pieces of telephones every day, to kill I
the bacteria and prevent infection, and
must scrub the ' doorknobs every day
for the same reason, why not be con
sistent and go on scrubbing and scrub
bing every thing with which we come
in contact? the Memphis News-Sclm-
etar asks.
If theso bacteria must be cleaned
out once a dny, why not once an hour,
or once a minute? The pestiferous
things are apt to get In any second.
Of course everybody knows that
drinking water must be not only boil
ed but distilled. We have all often
enough been warned that handshaking
Is dangerous and kissing deadly. All
of which warnings we have all duly
observed of course!
Now, after having long; and virtu
ously refrained from water as God
mado It and from the other entice
ments, it is hard to be Informed by
the bacteriologists that we still are
in momentary danger from microbes
unless we scrub, scrub, scrub.
And when we get used to scrubbing
and learn to look upon it as a matter
of course instead of a hardship, may
not the microbes steal another march
upon us through the scrub-brush?
Maybe we shall have to sterilize the
soap and then sterilize the sterilizer.
Bacteriologists are Insatiable. They
never know where to stop.
But their demands, if fully acceded
to, would leave us no time to make a
living. It would be scrub, scrub with
us all the time. The farmer, Instead
of plowing, would have to put in all
the time killing the microbes in his
plow handles; the butcher, Instead of
killing beer, would never cease to
scour his knife and cleaver. There
would be nothing produced to eat, and
while saving ourselves from death
from microbe we would all die of
starvation.
This sort of thing may very easily
be carried too far. The bacteriologists
must learn to draw the line some
where.
We may soon become as ridiculous
as were the Salemitcs In the days of I
witchcraft.
THE TIPPING EVIL IN AMEA
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carnage and death wrought the souls
of men to mighty spiritual throes.
As the old Elder strode sturdily
along the roughly hewn out highway
through pine and hemlocks, he lifted
up his voice In one of the popular war
songs of the period:
"Time with the column and charging
In the storm,
As men go marching on;
Glory, glory, hallelula!
Glory, glory "
Ilia l'lulahrr.
Lawyer What Is your occupation?
Witness I'm a piano finisher.
Lawyer lie a little more definite
Do you polish them or move them?
Boston Transcript.
What coiwiHutes an amateur In
athletics U a problem which baa long
One op (be Other.
The footbull plyuyer from afur
Now Cornell to tuku a chance
On havliiK a triumphal cur
Or Jum an ambuluncs.
Never say fail. Just go ahead and
fail and your creditors will soon hear
of It
I'ulron Nnlnt of A tin ton.
It has been staled that the Vatican
had been approached with the view of
electing a patron saint for aviators
nd that it bad been suggested that
W. D. Howells, who recently returned from England, has given some
freBh information about London's new "no tip" hotel. Mr. Howells found tip
ping in England "pretty near as bad as It Is here." He was interested in
the new hotel and weut there to lunch. The place was so crowded that it
was almost impossible to get In. A single dally charge Is made for a bed
room, with lights, attendance and breakfast. Tipping is prohibited.
This experiment, in the heart of London, Is certainly interesting. The
house Is run by two of Ixmdon's great cheap restaurant syndicates, which
is controlled, by the way, by the British tobacco trust. So there Is plenty
of money behind it. Us success as a "no tip" hotel depends largely, if not
entirely, on the disposition of the public to discountenance the habit of tip
ping. We have been led to believe that the frequent and vociferous denun
ciation of this practice by Englishmen Is more or less insincere. An Eng
lishman wants comfort, and he is willing to pay on extra sixpence or so to
get it, but he objects, naturally, to others doing the same thing. The sup
ply of comfort Is always limited.
Tipping in this country is worse than in England only because the tips
are larger, says the New York Times. The English sixpence tip becomes a
quarter here; the threepenny tip is a dime, and Is generally received with
out thanks. We do not have to tip ho many persons. Shopmen and police
men get tips in London. But undoubtedly the habit of tip giving and tip
taking Is growing in this land of republican Institutions, strangely and In
excusably. It is a deplorable habit for both the giver and the recipient.
(til Sliot to mlm'Pena.
While the process of quieting tbe
troubled waters by scattering oil on
Elijah would be an appropriate per- tne Burfaoo has been known and prac-
on. The originator of the story seems
to have not takeai into account that
Elijah was an Old Testament charac
ter, and as such would be imiln;lhle.
No doubt, going to heaven in a chariot
of lire would have made Elijah an
appropriate patron. A Purls contem
porary suggetits that Salute ('oloin')e
should bo (liost n. Her name alone
has much to recommend her. She suf
fered martyrdom ai Sens under Mar
cus Aurellus. London Globe.
Moi-it lii Time.
"When you do tell u He," remarked
Hamlett Fatt, "tell an elaborate lie."
"I don't luiow about that," said Yor
lck lUmni. "Following that policy
would have lost me tbe job I just got "
"How so?"
"A lUHtiuger wanted to know If I
had ever played Hlchelleu. i never
have, but I said yes. I wus about to
ay tout I originated the part."- Lou
Uvllle Courier-Journal.
tlced for a long time, there are cfln
stautly new means being devised for
the application of the oil. Tho latest
thing of this character is the "bottle
gun," which has been invented by Vice
Admiral Gulinares of the Brazilian
navy, who proposes to scatter oil on
the water ahead or the boat by its
means.
The gun Is a handy little piece,
mounted on a pivot carriage, which
Is bolted down to the deck, so that
there Is no recoil. It la made of
bronze, but the chamber at tbe breech
which contains the propelling charge
is of steel. The charge, in a bras central-fire
cylinder, is loaded into the
gun from the rear, as it is a breech
loading piece, with an interrupted
screw plug to close it
The bore of the gun is of much greater
diameter than the powder chamber, and
the projectile, which Is nothing more
than aa ordinary wine bottle filled
with sawdust steeped In oil, Is entered
at the muzzle and rammed home. The
advantage of this Is obvious, since
there would never be any difficulty in
providing a supply of these fragile pro
jectiles. When the gun Is discharged the bot
tie la, of course, broken, and with its
contents scattered over the water for
a considerable distance. If fired ahead,
to form a smooth pathway for the ad
valuing vessel, it requires to be dis
charged every five minutes, but if th
vessel is gtatlotiary or lying to, one
round every twenty minutes is said to
be sufficient.
Teatluir Her.
"How would you feel, Clarlsse, if
you and I were sailing down the
stream of life together, far away from
here?"
"How far, George?"
"Oh, far, far away."
"I'd be so terribly homesick for
mother."
And from that night this young
ceased his visit. Judge.
Hark! what is that answering cho
rus far down on the road behind .him?
Silence! Maybe it is a belated "tote"
team," hauling supplies to some lum
ber camp. Yes, no doubt that was the
driver's answering song; those "lum
ber Jacks" are ever fond of song.
Cheered by the prospect of a ride
when the team caught, up, the Elder's
mind turned to a review of 'the revi
val clot,ed the night before. Again he
fervently thanked God for His mer
cies as he thought of the dozen pio
neers who came to the "anxious Beat,"
asked for prayers, and, under Divine
conviction, made a profession of faith.
At his return four weeks hence he
would administer baptism to the lit
tle band of saints, his brands pluck
ed from the fires of sin.
Then his mind turned to the urgent
call that came to hlm, a hopeful call
from the unconverted asking him to
begin a revival at the McCall school
house the next Sunday evening.
Mrong ana seu-reiiant at three
score and five, accustomed until -well
yam. i w uuuci mo wean Btorms, a
sailor before the mast, he had sturdily
refused all conveyance through the
twenty miles of forest roads. Now at
midnight, he was still five miles from
Brother Smith's.
Hut this was the last long Btretch
of woods, the last turn In the road
was at hand. A mile farther and he
would come to the first "clearing." Be
yond there the cabins of the pioneers
were frequent all the way.
Then his soul warmed as he re
called the generous collection taken
up for him and put his hand over a
pocket where one of those new and
handsome "greenbacks" kept his heart
aglow with gratitude toward his fel
lowmen.
But, isn't it time the team overtook
him? He turned to listen. Night
Darkness! Silence!
Perhaps he could rouse the driver (
by power of song. He poured forth
the fiercely triumphant challenge of
in old-time revival melody:
"Satan's mad and 1 am glad,
Praise the Lord "
"Ow-wwl" came a long drawn wall
from the road he had so lately trod.
From the road twenty rods ahead
came a shorter reply, to tne ieu i
chorus broke out in wildest fury.
"Wolves!" said the Elder, aghast
The long drawn wall of the leadei
again cnasea me mourniui n-uw
een in forest gloom. No time to lose
The Elder broke from the track, worn
deep by "tote" teams, and hastened
hrough the deep snow to the treef
beside the road. There was but on
tree of climbing size at hand, so far
as he could discern, amidst that murk
and gloom.
This was a pine, possibly six or sev
en Inches through. Some falling giant
of the woods had broken off the top.
perhaps ten feet from the ground.
The Elder paused an instant, then hie
sailor training served him well as ne
climbed the quivering tree, and none
too soon.
It was a mere stub with only one
Imb strong enough to hold up his
weight, and near the top. Even tnis
teemed alarmingly near tho earth, and
of brittle pine. The first wolfs eyes
Slowed in the darkness below as ne
seated himself cautiously and threw
one arm over the broken top of the
friendly tree. Others came loping,
hunger driven; or slinking cautiously
In dread of danger; some high sped
by youthful ignorance and courage.
Soon they rushed, a frantic, grue
some band, leaping high in air. The
Elder drew his feet up on his slender
porch as the lltiie leader sprang high
and closed his jaws with a crash of
gleaming teeth no more than a foot
laid a half from the Elder's feet.
They were now a mass of snarling '
dogs standing up beside the tree to
tear its bark with cruel tangs; or
jumping on each other's backs to get
nearer the coveted feast The Eldor
could think of no comparison more flit
than a revival meeting led by the
evil one with fiends on the "anxious
seat!"
lie was terrified In body and soul,
but soon his resolute spirit calmed the
body's terror as he poured out his
trust, his hope, his faith and resigna
tion, in fervent praver to God.
Tho ravenous beasts beea.aie more
noisy In their fury as immunity to
danger grew apparent. At last it
came to the Elder like a flash of in
spiration, even like a divine answer
to that Heaven-piercing prayer, that
wolves are terrified at the flash of
flame and fire.
He drew from hl3 pocket a match
box, relic and habit of sailor days.
But, what to use for tinder?
Searching his pockets he clasped
his Bible in hand. Ah! the leaves are
Just the thing!
Then his soul shook in strong re
vulsion as he cried aloud:
"Better death than desecration of
Thy Word!"
He reverently returned tbe Bible to
his coat pocket and slipped his be
numbed hand under his coat. Ah!
that vest pocket and the treasured
"greenback."
With fingers slightly warmed he
gathered a bunch of pine "needles"
and carefully placed the crisp ten-dollar
bill within, scratched a match and
.eld it beneath his treasure.
Tiny flame; a glimmer; a hope; a
thrill of keen despair; another tongue
of flame 'from a new match; a burst
of light.
Already some of that coward crew
are skulking shadows, cautiously
breaking off a handful of twigs and
branches he lighted them and dropped
them all aflame among the besiegers,
now retreating toward the outer darkness.
Down the road a rifle shot rang out.
sharp, Imperative command; rousing
the slumbering echoes to insistent re
ply. The wolves vanished like phan
toms In wlerdeat dreams.
"Hello, there! Anyone In trouble?"
rang out a voice in the distance.
"The wolves had me treed!" said
the Elder, "but, thank God, they have
all left."
When the three armed rescuers ar
rived they found the good Eluer down
from the tree, down on his knees in
the snow, pouring forth his thankful
ness in praise to the Great Deliverer,
In fervid words the Inspired psalmist
might have spoken.
For many winters, around the cozy
farmhouse fires, a favorite story was
that of the. burned greenback which
good old Elder McEntee sacrificed.
E. Hollenbeck.
Deer In the Arctic Reslona.
The deer which Commander Peary
found in largo numtsrs on his last ex
pedition were reindeer, or as they are
usually called In Canada, caribou. It
is the only kind of deer that Inhabits
Greenland and the land of the north,
says the Manchester Guardian. It was
formerly very plenthnl in southern
Greenland: as many as twenty-five
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annually to Denmark in the middle of
the nineteenth century. Constant hunt
ing, however, has thinned its numbers,
and now in the districts anywhere
near civilization, though not extermi
nated, it is no longer common.
The reindeer is found near and
within the arctic circle, both in the
old world and new, and though more
or less well marked differences are
found in the deer inhabiting different
countries, naturalists seem to agree in
regarding all the geographical races as
varieties of one species. There are
half a dozen of these In all, three of
which are found In British America
and a fourth In Greenland. As may
be expected in animals living In such
a cold climate, the pelage Is extremely
dense and compact, qualities which
make the skins invaluable for keeping
out the cold. They are used not only
for clothes and bed covering, but also
as lining and carpets in the winter
bouses. No real attempt seems to
have been made to domesticate any
variety of reindeer except the Europ
ean. These latter have been intro
duced into Alaska, and for some yean
have been used as draft animals.
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A Derided Difference.
Naggsby What are eome of
most decided differences between
and life insurance?
Waggaby In the latter there la n
hesitancy in Injuring the risk for an
amount far above lu actual value
Baltimore American.
A widow's plea of popularity U tt
hve the men call her "Irrealatlble."